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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
WHAT'S IN A TYTLEs
'om the New York World.

TOHl JIG NeW IOIh WOIiu.
 There was a time, when a new novel by William Dean Howells was announced, that readers looked for title borrowed from Shakespeare. Some were opposite and some were not, but MT. Towels ap- parentiy was under the spell of a rule. "A Toregone Conclusion "A Chance Ac- quaintance.' "A Counterfeit Present. inent'' and ''The Undiscovered Country among others, showed how it worked in practice.
 Winston Churchill has also tied himself to system in choosing titles for his looks. He has hitched his literary wagon to the initial letter of his family name. Was 1t a mere whim or pleasing super sLition that made him fasten on the let ter ''C' as his mark, or was it for con- venience in cataloging? Anyhow tho pub fishers are already dinning the ears of his devotees with the news that bis forth- coming novel, like all his others, from Richard Carvel to MT. Crewe's Ca- reer,' will strike the same alphabetical note on the cover It would be amusing to know, if it were possible. how many copies more or less would be sold if he had pitched on another letter.
 As rule the choice of title is a mo- mentous matter with an author. Dickens and Thackeray had habit of letting their leading characters use the cover of their books as doorplates. and theTresult proves trat they never suffered for callers. But this would have been too simple process for Jane Austen. who evidently took keen satisfaction in the apt alliteration of Pride and Prejudice' and Sense and Sensibility.' Still the craze for mystify- irg captions had not reached its height In her time. George Meredith had moi ct had his say, though his method wal directness itself as compared with Mrs Pearl craigie's three-decker title. "Tht Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wicken' ham," or William de Morsan's Tt Never Gan Happen Again." consummation de youtly to be wished.
 The melodramatic title is a modern de yelopment. and no aspiring novelist vii
 make his first bow to the world with out one if he has pushing publisher. 4 picturesque line and a vivid cover seen to be regarded as essentials to literar.
 success in many quarters. But the Cali | fornia race horne owner who used nusica
 terms in nauling his thorougAbFeds prob | ably won as many purses on the strengtl of that trick as fortunes have beel 1 yeaped iu novel-wt1tln where tho tit] was the basie of n<qne5 a'Prospectss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
Good R JadS in the South.

Texas is leading all the other states of the south in the matter of good roads, Since last March 24 counties in that state voted upon bond issues for road building, and 20 voted favorably and I unfavorably. About s5,o0t,000 iu bonds were voted and the bonds have been issued and marketed. All the other southern states are following in the footsteps of Texas except Kentucky, Arkansas and South Carolina. In Ala bama bonds for road building have been issued to the extent of sS50.G00.
 Perhaps one of the most promising efforts toward better roads is found in Senator Bankh eads amendment to the agricultural bill, appropriating s500.000 to be expended by the Secretary of Az riculture and the Postmaster General in improving the condition of the roads on which rural free delivery routes have been established
 The appropriation would carry but about s1o,0o0 to a state, but as the work would be done in cooperation with the states 1t would prove helpful. l. would at any rate be a beginning in federal appropriations for good roads, and would no doubt be increased in subse- quent years. Senator Bankhead will endeavor to have his amendment &C., cepted in the Senate, and this would pretty surely ensure it's enactment into law. It might prove in that case the beginning of a great national move ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
UNHAPPIEST SOVEREIGN.

instead of Russian. She has written a of Russia is scornfully pillored. Again, she is notoriously careless in her dress and used frequently to attend the Red Cross sewing meetings held at the Win ter Palace with her skirt partly undone and her cravat on one side.
 Oh she once exclaimed "how wish could attend court in a. skirt and blouse.''
 Yet the Czarina is as accomplished as any sovereign in Europe. She speaks five languages. and, freed from all fear of censorship, she indulges her pen and pencil in d manner which makes Russian ministers tremble, drawing-another cause of her unpopularity-such caricatures of them as would mean death or Siberia to any other artist. With a grim humor too, she has caricatured the Czar him. self-a solemn, bald, but bearded infant in long clothes tied in an armchair and surrounded by host of Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses, armed with feed ing bottles, all insisting on feeding him in a different way, while the Czar himself is screaming at the top of his voice. A pitiless satire on the political situation
 It is curious to relate that when she was quite little girl she used to hate her spelling lessons, and once spelled Russia with small "r.'
 What would the Czar of Russia say," rebulxed her mistress, If he knew that you had spelt his country with a small "r?'
 'I don't care what he would say." re- piled the future Empress pettishly. 'l shall probably never See him or his coun- try in my life, so what does it matter? Besides. when grow up shall marry a man who can spell for me--though what does it matter about Princess spelling correctly anyhow? People would only say, How charming! if she did spell word wrongp' \
 And today" adds the Empress, when she tells the story. fI spell Russia with a very, very big R and Emperor with a tremendous F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
THE WOMAN OF THE FUTURE.

their travels HOW use unknown Central Africa as playground They are on terms of perfect sportsmanship ("Tll kill you if you don't kill me first old boy"')-- with hippopotani and tigers and wild boers and all other beasts who arc worth hunting, because they can be admirable hunters. There arc at least two Eng hsh women who have travelled abso- lutely alone over China, and the reputa- ton of that country has something par ticularly daunting about 1t. The Celes- ,lal is a mysterious and an uncanny gen. t,eman. His ways are sleek He is gen. tie, silent and smooth as paraffin, but he is also careless with the matches. There are English women holding strange and lonely posts in many harbarlc places. The English miss" with her parapher- nalia of teaching, her blue glasses and short skirts and every prune and prism still intact, is to be found in many an odd corner quietly teaching French and music (and a little German) as though she were within 100 yards of her examination room.
 0Ir. Jones also counted the Jane Austen women among the vanishing types. Eyi- dently MT. Jones never leaves London, or he would know that there is not country town in the land but bristles with Jane Austen women. With a good many excep- tons one would not be sorry to see them go. They are kindly, but small-deadly small.
 The woman of the future is not of this type. She is far too busy to be wonanish, but she will never grow out of being femi- rjne. She is shedding her smallness. Like the genii in the Arabian Nights, now the cork has been removed, she is darkening the whole sky like a pillar of smoke; but pl esently the smoke will settle into "a figure of gigantic size" She will be the Meredith woman softened by reality, as Galatea softened into life. She will not glide about with uplifted finger like Ag- mes, nor drive tired men to distraction with her prattle, like Dora, nor weep eternally when George is unllind, like Amelia No, when she feels hysterical, she will go and sit on a Himalaya till she is Hooler, and, when her husband annoys her out of her usual placidity, sticking a few pigs in Texas or India will soon put her straight And with it all, she will wear her frils as well as ever. Why should not a woman know how to be a lal as well as how to do her hair? Bless ings on the woman of the future; she is going to be perfectly delightful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
----v------------------- -------------------- FilliDg a YacaAcy in Missouri.

The election in the Sixth congressional Aistrict of Missouri over the seat of the lamented DeArmond was the first real test between the parties since the Aldrich tariff bill became law. The democratic majority was overwhelming. although the republicans had boasted that they would carry the district. Never had MT. DeAr- mcnd. popular and strong as he was, been able to command such a majority as Mir. Dickinson did, and the result has given the new tariff a black eye. not only m Missouri, but throughout the remain- Ger of the country.
 The republican party is placed by the 0ovament against the high cost of living eu the defensive. and 1t is reasonably cer- tain that the next House will be demo- ssstic, and that considerable democratic gains will be made in the Senate. The trend is in that direction, and tho Shances are that everything new will lespea that trend. especially in the rnid- lle west. Every state feels tho high cost ~ urins, ana jr every stats-1n svsty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

TSHAT women turn giddy if they
 stand on a chair that the only
 2 time they can run quickly is when they see a mouse, that they faint at the sight of blood and make the libeling of their dearest friends a regular o'clock amusement. that they have no sense Of honor and cannot bear another woman to 10 be admred--these are few of the venerable notions about the female sex which still meet with a certain amount of surface acceptance because the public is too lazy to change what it thinks is it's mind but Is really it's digestion. All re- torm in England springs from indigestion.
 Henry Arthur Jones has been bewailing the fact that the Agnes and Dora types of women are disappearing. It is interest Ing to find that men still exist who like those types-men who would not have gone to the gallows with laugh for the joy of throttling Agnes, or at least ap- peared at Bow street on charges of throw ing the lamp at Dora. Saints are usually edored in proportion to the time that has elapsed since their death. It takes us some centuries to recover from the exer- ton of beheading them. If Agnes could only die we might feel more kindly to her well meaning, priggish soul. As it is MT. Jones weeps alone over her thinning de- scendants. And as to Dora, did not Dick ems himself know that she must die early? His Flora is unforgivable. just as Dora grown to Flora would have been unbear- able.
 These two types are becoming increas- irgly rare. In their places we have women who think and feel. Instead of the women of Dickens we are coming to have the women of Meredith. Dickens was an artist; he painted what he saw Meredith was a seer; he described what vas to be. His large-souled women, with their cspability, their charm, are coming to pass under our eyes. Carinthia Jane, in her time surprise, or even, as MT. Swiveller would have said, a staggerer to every one, now gives way to ladies who call the Alps "hills,' and are only content when they are perched on q Him alayan peak where no one has ever been before. Carinthia Jane's stride is almost toddle now
 Is anyone really very sorry that Amelia Sedley has closed her fearful eyes and Diana has opened her clear ones? The women who used to be escorted from sta ton to station when crossing London on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

beat--in every store and center-will be 1T Instituted an investigation concerning it. ic votes. especially for representatives in Congress.
 Mr. Dickinson was elected by ma- Jority of 500, whereas Mir DeArmond's 5 majority in 1908 was but 2162. The repub- lcans put forward their best man, MT Griffith. and they spent money to elect Linn. The result is 10 them u sore disap- rointment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
sELF-DEPENDENCE

By Matthew Arnold. Weary of myself and sick of asking What am, and what ought to be. At the vessels prow stand Whicf
 bears me Forwards. forwards o'er the star,it seq. And c look of passionate desire Der the sea and to the stars send; "Ye, who from my childhood up havA
 claimed me, Calm me, ah. compose me to the eadi r "Ah. once more" T cried. -ys s"rs. yA, On my heart your mighty charu, renew. Still. still let meh as gave upon you. Feel my soul becoming vast like youi" From the intense. clear. star-sown veuN
 of heaven. Over the lit seas unquiet way, In the rustling night-air came the an-
 swer: "wouidst thou be as these ares Lsys
 as they. "Unaffrishted by the silence round Undistracted by the sights they zee. These demand not that the things with.
 out them Yield them love, amusement, sympathy. And with joy tho stars perform their
 shining, And the sea its long moon- silver'd roll: For, self-poised, they live. nor pinS Nth
 noting All the fever of some differing soul, Bounded by themselves. and urresard. Tn what state God.s other works may
 be, In their own tasks all their powers
 pouring, rhess attain tho mighty life you ses." 0 air-born voice; long since. severely
 clear, A cry like thine In mine own heert I hear; ''fsssoive to De myself; and know. that wae dpds ain,slf. lo;ss hl, ml,srs- :.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
ON TOUR IN PHILADELPHIA

From the New York World.
 It is q show city, like Washington and Boston. The register at Independence Hall shows names from every state.
 Scrapple is the Neapolitan "fritte mis- to- with cornmeal added.
 House slop. boxing down cobble-stoned alleys, freezing, thawing. fostering, damned for month by snow in winter, must curb Biddle's or a Wister's over- weening pride in his city.
 The Penn statue weighs 27 tons.
 Obituary poems now seldom appear in the Public Ledger. But there is a cheer full undertaken shop where concerts are given. Marble-edged furnace wall-regis- ters in old houses look like round-topped gravestones.
 City Hall ventilating machinery draws fresh air through toilet-rooms in the base ment Luckily 1t seldom works.
 The marble house, fair. square, gen. erously good, of the late c. W. Childs. is swimming pool enterprise.
 Philadelphias modern house architec- ture. likeBoston's. beats New York. The Quaker Influence has helped discourage jig-saw gimcrackery. The wholesome houses of Germantown gneiss ara hne. Arr chitects in Philadelphia do not scorn to design houses costing less than s5o0o There is good taste also in suburban houses. Wooden colonial houses about Philadelphia are a distinct type. more resembling tho mansions of tidewAter Virginia than those of New England.
 Tho Home Journal business office looss real sweet and honey with potted plants in the window.
 White marble doorsteps are by careful housekeepsrs cased in wood for the win- ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
From Pearson's s Weekly.

From Pearson's Weekly.
 T9MPRESs over 10000 600 people, who F have no love for her, and for A< whom she herself feels but little affection. That is the position of the Czarina of Russia, today the most pa thetic royal figure in the world.
 For long she has lain almost at death s door in state of nervous prostration. Her life in Russia has been life of darkness and evasion, a life in the shadow of death. And now she has been struck down, obsessed with terror lest the political agitation in the land of the worst-governed power in Europe should result in acts of violence against her hus- band and her children.
 For at heart the Little White Mother is a lover of home and simplicity rather than a Queen. As Empress she sits on a throne of gold, encrusted with 1oO0 rubies and 1000 other precious stones, and wears a crown that glistens with 100 dia- monds. She is mistress of dozen pal aces, while her husbands annual in come exceeds f2.0o0.O00! But her heart IS ever Wltl lltT cHlluICli, diiu tIG dutullll after the birth of her son the young de- butantes who were to be presented to her were kept waiting for no less than two hours. Baby would not stop cry ing." the Empress explained, when she at last appeared, radiant after her efforts to soothe her little boy.
 Somehow, the Czarina has never seemed able to do anything right. apart from the bestowal on the country of this son and heir. Granddaughter of Queen vic- toria, and daughter of Princess Alice, she has been at once too English and too German to win the love of her people, while her very womanliness and scorn of ostentation have alienated the affections of her court.
 She is a square peg in a round hole. Unlike most women of her adopted coun- try, for instance, she has never favored the fashion of smoking and she rigorous ly bars the practice among women in her presence. The lullabies she has sung to her babies have been English lullabies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
wRIGHTs IN PROSE POETRY

From the Pittsburg Sun
 Gabrielle dAnnunzio is nothing if not up to date. Last summer he took q brief ride in Glen Curtiss' aerpolane, a very brief ride of some three and half minutes, but 1t was long enough to give him inspiration for ono of his prose- noetrv romances. That romance, en- titled Maybe Yea and Maybe Nay" is still unpublished, but a chapter from It published in the Paris Figaro, giving us some idea of It's style. Witness this paragraph:
 "Disciples sprang up, gathered to- xether the remnants, rebuilt and dou- bled the engine. and hid their dream in solitary regions. amid deserts of sand. No longer upon Mediterranean breezes. but upon the constant winds of the At lantic, the new hope of conquest over the profundity of heaven sprang up and prospered. One harsh winter day. above the desolate duDes on the shores of q bay open to the ocean, the miracle occurred. Two silent brothers, sons of the placid Ohio. tireless in effort. had succeeded in launching their winged machine by adding to the drive of their propellers tho obstinacy of their two hearts"
 Thus our Wilbur and our orvi'le arc memorially embalmed for all time In dithyrambic Italian prose. Which goes to show once again that tho prophet is not without honor. etc. Nobody has sung a paean of praise to Wilbur and Orville in their own house. So far as VIC know, no one has even written Q sonnet to Wilbur and Oryille. Here we only seek to infringe upon their patent rights. It Is left to the Italian to make heroes of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
Past aud treSell.

Past aLd tFeSslI.
 last year to write prohibition ill the or ganlc law of Alabama brought the "old guard' into action and liberty-loving vot- ters rose in their might and defeated the proposed amendment to the constitution by decisive majority. No political con test anywhere in the United States was watched by the American public with more acute interest than that election, and when the result was known, Alabama was applauded from one end of the country to the other.
 The amendment campaign marked a great crisis in this states affairs-the greatest crisis since reconstruction days.
 inc proposition submitted to the people touched vital points in our body polite. lut the chief question to be settled at the polls on November @ was whether Ala banla vas to be dominated by fanatics, di- rected by cunning politicians, or whether men of patriotic purpose and sane ideas were to be restored to leadership, and the state cured of her racking hysteria. V-i,a otaction was Satt1ed rfght
 Now, in the pending gubernatorial con- test the menace to the cause of personal liberty may not seem to be much in evi- dence The campaign is being conducted for the most part without bitterness, which is as it should be- But the voters must be wary and not lose sight of cer- tain facts.
 MT. Mallory, an estimable gentleman personally, is responsible for having made the obnoxious and costly amendment possible. MT. Mallory has the backing of the ultra prohibition lead CTS. Those leaders have declared that they will not rest until prohibition is in- corporated into the constitution of Ala hama.
 Mir. o'Neal, who made the defeat of the possible by rallying the faint hearted and leading the call for the now historic Montgomery conference. stands as the candidate of broad-minded. high minded democracy. As he was the father of the Montgomery conference, so he is making his contest on the platform of that conference. ONeal, like Mallory, enjoys the reputation of being a good law , er. He is a man of large capacity and stern integrity but above all he is known for a distinctive trait, which too few | ublic men possess-courage of convic- tons. He is absolutely fearless.
 The farmers of Alabama helped to beat the amendment and they will help to elect ONeal. Individuals here and there who opposed the amendment have come out in favor of MT. Mallory for the gov ei norship, but the great body of those who voted on the right side last Novem- Der will be found in the same alignment on May ?, and will, it is hoped, give MT. C'Neal the rousing majority which he so justly merits. If MT. Mallory should be victorious the radical prohibition element would unquestionably get all the credit; and great part of the benefit which Ala bama derived from last years achieve ment would be neutralized, if indeed it were not all but thrown away. The Age- Herald has faith in the people of today, and having faith it can hardly imagine that the majority would blunder in mak- ing the democratic nomination for the ex- alted office of governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
JEALOUSY

From the Springfield Union.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald, In our opinion, deserves sharp rcprimand fos calling MT. Rockefeller's attention to that New York case of hookworm. Tha Springfield case came first, and is en-, titled to precedence when MT. Rockefel,, Ter gets ready to unload another million
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
SoMBwHAT PrEvIsH
Eren, the celumeus KnquIrer-sun

Tfuli tuS teI1iHrIb EuquIfcE-SuH'
 Congress has been in session two months and 1t has no laws to ahow for it." bewaiis the Birmingham Age-Her- aid. If 1t can eEAct no better laws than some it has enacted In the past t will be goed thlsg for the country f t has none to show Fer tho entise sesdens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

classiest productions, "Graustark," play that has scored heavily everywhere, and which packed the Jefferson earlier in the season; "The House Next Door, with J. E. Dodson in the leading role, and a of others just as good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
RARE REPRESSION

From the Mobile Register,
 The Birmingham Age-Herald exer- cises the restraint of q superman when 1t refuses to make an estimate of Greater Birmingham's population basel on the new city directory,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

AIr. Taft is conspiring with Ohio poli- ticians to defeat Governor Harmons re- election. but he has bitten off more than lie can chew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

Halley's comet will be near, compara- lively speaking, to the earth on May Is. and the Man from Elba may drop into New York harbor on that spectacular oc- easion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
HAnD TO BEAT

From the Andalusia Star.
 Montgomery Advertiser, Mobile Regis ter and Birmingham Age -Heraid-thrse good oueu-hsrd to beat ip the game Of politlss, s-N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

Persons who think wine and beer are sinful drink will have cause Q feel distressed when they read about the now high record made for the lmporta- ton of liquors in the United States in isosr-a total of s9s,oOo,ooo. This is more than twice as much as the volume of imported liquors ten years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

The Mardi Gras attendance at New Or jeans was large despite the high cost of living in it's restaurants in the French uuarter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

Next summer we are to have Roosevelt, the Fourth of July and Halley's comet, and several disasters to the peach crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

When the modern man inherits a for tune he buys an autopioble, or a power ts'at, or a steak. or hat for his wife, or an aerepiane. or e&e he goes on to tha hospital to bs opeAetsd on for aD- yenoScitis yA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

Denver uses trolley cars which are half closed car and half open car. The latter is more largely used.