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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
First Venture. in Shakespeare

Many persons seem to be under the
 impression that the Rev Dr. w. E..
 Evans, rector of the Church of the Ad-
 Thespian. but such he never was, al-
 though he has long been close student
 of the drama said an old friend of the popular and greatly esteemed clergyman.
 "One reason why Dr. Evans name nay
 have been associated with the stage Is that his son Edwin is a professional actor, Young Evans is player of marked talent and this from the Ohio State Journal will be read with interest
 Of all the company at the Colonial but one member Is freely and frankly enamoured of Shakespeare, and that one is Edwin Evans He is also the one who did the best work in Twelfth Night" During the past week he gave an interviewer an account of his earliest ventures in that line of work In his interview he said: Prom school days l have been great lover and ardent ad
 mirer of Shakespeare. and when a mere lad of fourteen I decided to become a Shakespearean actor. After seeing the Merchant of Venice I memorized the whole play and gave readings on all oc- casions, initiating the business as I had seen it on the stage. In fact I must have been a nauseating pest to the town fir general-so much so, that, I was finally shipped off to boarding school in tht country away from the theatre and it'
 harmful influences as my friends thought, but once at school 1 de
 voted more time than z ever tt getting up different parts, rambling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

CHEERFUL CHIRPING. Summers on the wane,
 We are glad of that; Soon we'll hear again,
 ''Good-by, old straw hat! There was ice this morn, Frost upon the lea; Winter, sure's you're born, Is the time for me! Saw Christmas ad. Only t'other day; Santa Claus, egad,
 Isn't far awayi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
Cotton Worms At Work in This Stat

AOttOH w VI huc <At FFOIh Dt Iut5 kJt0tc
 The warning against threatened damage to the growing and opening crop of cotton by the cotton worm is not bit overdone. A great state crop is in actual danger of serious loss. Thus far the worm, which has appeared in 56 of the 67 counties of the state has not greatly injured the crop, but if the worms are permitted by negligent farmers to generate "a second crop" the loss in the states cotton fields will be from 20 to 40 per cent-from $2O,OOO,O 900 to s4O,- GOO, ,OOO.
 This would be state disaster and the farmers in every county should be up and doing. The worms can be de. stroyed by the free use of paris green or of arsenate of lead. These poisons should be ordered without days de- lay. Time is everything in this mat ter. The splendid crops of the state can be saved from material harm if every farmer will do his whole duty to himself, to his family and to the state. The alarm should be sounded throughout the state and every farmer called out to the fields where is grow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
How Some Men Will Vote

q have several friends who will vote dry and for dispensary on the same ballot, and l have other friends who will vote dry and for saloons on the same ballot" said a well known citizen who advocates high license and regulations. Tt is a curious state law that provides for double ballot, but come to think of 1t, it's all right There is no doubt. whatever, regarding Jefferson countys vote on the 24th of August as between wet Or dry. The county will go wet by large majority. But I cannot form an estimate as to how 1t will be between sa- loon and dispensary. l think it Is pret- ty safe bet that the saloon side will win, but whether it be by a large majority or small I would not undertake to say.
 Those who tell me that they are going to vote dry and for saloons say that if liquor must be legalzed they think sa-
 looms will result in a much cleaner con dition than if we had dispensaries. one of the stock arguments of the dispen- saryites is that return of the saloon would be accompanied by lawlessness such as Birmingham witnessed in the old days, but men who make that sort of argument seem to lose sight of the ex- else commission. If Birmingham were to have weak or corrupt excise commis- sioners then it would logically follow that conditions would be bad, but high class men have been appointed in Mo- bile and Montgomery and high class men will be appointed here. Public sen- tment is earnestly on the side of good order, and that being so a first class excise commissions will find it all the | easier to enforce the strict regulation | that the law provides for in the Smith enactment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Southern Prosperity

The south is making bumper crops and bumper crops spell presperltNs said Evelyn Harris of Atlanta. ls
 The Georgia cotton and corn crops are in fine condition and cheering crop reports come from all sections of the south
 The business situation in Atlanta has been quite satisfactory this sum mer and we are certain to thaVe orlsk trade in the early fall.
 "I visit Birmingham frequently and to me this city always looks pros porous. II Is pushing right ahead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
The Everlasting Light

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. An! sad are they who know not love,
 But. far from passions tears and smiles,
 Drift down a moonless sea, beyond
 The silvery coasts of fairy isles. And sadder those whose longing lips
 Kiss empty air, and never touch The dear warm mouth of those they
 love
 Waiting, wasting, suffering much! But clear as amber, fine as musk
 Is life to those who. pilgrim-wise, Move hand in hand from dawn to dusk,
 Each morning nearer Paradise. Oh, not for them shall angels pray! They stand in everlasting light; They walk inrAllah's smile by day And nestle in his heart by nightl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
HON. JOHN W. ToML1NsoN
From The commoner.

From The COmmoner.
 Death has. again invaded fthe inner circle Tomitnson of Alabama, whose demise the democracy of the nation is called, updi to mourn, was one of the origin4A Bryan men. Several months before he rpuven- tion of 1896 he began to ufse;Mr. EBryan's nomination, and in the three canpaigns
 in which MT. Bryan was q candidate he had no more loyal or earnest supporter, visits back and forth between er1iies established an intimacy which kterted political ties into personal ones.N It is hard to part with those who thus be- come a part of our lives; their departure diminishes the brightness of the day but leaves a memory that will not fade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
RErsEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Some people couldn't help lying If they know it was going to kill them on the spot.
 The reason politics doesn't spoil more people than 1t does is more don't get into politics.
 Even a man who hasn't cent on earth can always Se afraid of being robbed by burglars.
 Just notice how the fellow whose grand father saved money so he would have plenty doesn't feel the same way about his grandson.
 When a mother reads about a smallpox epidemic away over in Russia, she IS mighty careful not to let the children go out in the street that afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

ing greater crop than the state has ever. known in her whole history of nearly century. Rally to the fields and let the war against the cotton worm be carried on until the crop Is saved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Messrs. Taylor and Underwood, how ever, met all objections. If said the latter, you defeat this bill you lose $15,000 a year in rentals, you lose $250,000 in the additional cost of inn provements and you put an additional charge of s1S,OO0 year in perpetuity on the government
 The bill, in short, calls for dam 63 feet high at lock No. IT, height that would obviate the building of four dams above No. IT, while the contract with power company would save the government, said MT. Taylor, perhaps $400,OO0 inflowage rights.
 The subject was ransacked from all points of view on Wednesday last, and the discussion seemed to be reas- onably fair, The tilt between MT. James and Mir. Underwood was ad- justed by the former withdrawing all he had said. MT. Underwood has his hands full in handling national ques- tions, but he is never so busy that he cannot attend to matters that re- late more particularly to his own dis trict. The bill has been fully dis cussed in the House, and every ques- ton concerning it has been answered, and the presumption is that it will be sent to the Senate before ad- journment. r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Premier Asquith gives King George a .6rst-class recommend" He says his pol itics ahe consistent correct, considerate and constitutional" That recommend is also highly alliteratiye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Appointees in the department of agri- culture are expected not only to swear to obey the constitution. but also to agree to speak respectfully of benzoate of soda.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

THE WORLDS WAY. However hard the world may be Upon a fellow who is down, It smiles with rare benignity As soon as he acquires renown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

"A Minnesota man who had been a hard drinker and great smoker lived to within Il days of century If he had let drink and tobacco alone he might have stayed In this world Il days longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

court in Kansas has undertaken to compel a woman to dress in mans clothes and work in a chain gang with men. judicial discretion cuts a wide swath in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
,taRpowrNG EXPERIENCE.

Shortly after arising this morning First Ward woman let out several shrless that reused the whole neghborhood, ana members of the family ran to her slde ready to sell their lives as dearly as pos sibe in her defense. And here IS "Iat eaused the screams: Yesterday She pought a spool of silk thread and put II III nsr rocket. In some way tie end of the thread got out and caught on a splinter ln the kitchen. When she started Tor tfH front part of the house the line puileo faut and the spool began to turn Ill het pocket, allowing the thread to unWinu' This caused her to think some ravenous heast had hidden in her pocket and was erouching for the fatal spring. Ugh! - Wellington. Kan, News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
A SIMPLE X.

"Oh, dear, I'm afraid I never will learn how to vote when women get the ballot'
 Ut will be easy enough, Seraphita. All you will have to do will be to put kiss mark by the name of the candidatesyoa favor" t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Congress invites Arizona and New Mex leo to come into the union, and surely the President will not block the door by standing in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Hetty Green thinks the newspapers should leave John Jacob Astor alone and hunt for the Arnold girl, and also find a wife for her son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
a,,.. Memorial College

"One of the worthiest institutions m Alabama is the Miles Memorial college coIored, situated here in Birmingham said a member of the Chamber of Com merce.
 ''The Rev. J. A. Bray, president ana financial agent of the college, is well known to many of the leading white cit- izens of Jefferson county, and they are giving him their cordial support, moral and financial in the task he has just un- dertaken to raise 5000 by individual sub scriptions.
 "rhe college owns 30 acres and hand- some central building. The property Is all paid for, the Rev. Bray having re- centiy raised s6O0O to clear the institution of debt Additional buildings are needed and they will cost about sl0,oeo. The gen. eral education board has agreed to ap- propriate 5000 to the building fund on the condition that individuals subscribe an- other S50oO. The Rev. Bray has made a good start in raising this 5000"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

The other 45 states are willing to take in two little sisters, but Mir. Taft may rot be. He knows thing or two about their politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

The Lorimer inquiry goes on until Oc- tober In the meanwhile MT. E. Hines will give his undivided attention to the lumber business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Lydia Pinkham's grandson has eloped, but the well-known family remedy con tinues to do business at the old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Even good trusts roll up immense cam paign contributions. The trust and the campaign subscription should be parted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

The American banquet has upset Togo, something the Russian fleet could not do. Hereafter he will stick to rice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

A movement has been started to sell a pound of beer for nickel-in the wet states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Constantinople is the scene of a build ing boom. Ten thousand houses are to be built this year in the district rav- aged by fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

An aeroplsne has been stolen in St.. Louis. This breaks larceny's records to date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Togo bids fair to finish his tour with
 out being compelled to read English puns cn his Japanese name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
WIVES FOR TOBACCO

The ex-Shah of Persia is simply trying to drop his prefix, that's all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

One town in New Jersey now proposes to provide individual drinking cups for horses. This is progress with a big P.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

When Admiral Togo was welcomed in Hobson apparently joined in the applause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

President Taft eats in his shirtsleeves on the roof of the White House while Mrs. Taft is away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Admiral Rojestvenskys conqueror was made welcome even in a period of peace pacts. Those pacts overlook, however, past events.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

The oyster will have it's regular fal opening after this month is ended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
AN OVERSIGHT.

The chap who cries, How many fools
 This world has, with and without pelf, Aud thus relieved, his anger cools,
 Seems, somehow, to forget himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

"Quite so. Especially for your neigh tors. when you live in a flat and tram soms are open"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
TO USE PH1LosopH1zING.

What do you consider the chief re- qurement of philosopher"
 Plenty of spare time."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
In the State of Texas

Business in Texas is all right, said Henry P. chenoweth of Birmingham who recently returned from month trip through the southwest. Tn some sections of Texas there had been com plaint of drouth, but rains have been suf- ficient of late and prosperity seems to abound from one end of the state to the other"
 When asked about the prohibition light in Texas. MT. Chenoweth said: T was in San Antonio on the day of the elec- t,on--July 22-and the -prohibitionisfs there looked very blue. At night when the returns were coming in the vets thought the state-widers had won. It turned out that the prohibitionists were defeated, but by small majority. From what I could learn the narrow escape or the i-prohibitionists was due to over confidence. They had an idea that Iexas was overwhelmingly against constitution al state wide prohibition and didn't work as hard as they would have worked had they known how strong the other side was. The prohibitionists were thoroughly organized and got out their full vote II
 Texas were to have the election over again the anti-prohibitionists would prob ably win by 5000 majority or more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
THE JOkESMITH,

Although he's on the verge of tears
 And all the world seems flat, He still can use the paste and shears
 To make his column fat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

When nobody is always hraggins about being related to a person who is somebody, we feel sorry for the person who is somebody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

We still insist that writing rhymes Is not among the worst of crimes. He makes the neighbors more forlorn Who practices upon horn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
TWO EXAMPLES

s1 knew a man named Fuller Grubb who was always hungry
 That's nothing. I once knew a man named Breeze who couldn't raise the dust"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

VERY ANNOYING. '.rhere is nothing more tiresome than 2 curtain lecture at o'clock in the morn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

That never set Il squadron in the feld Nor the division of a battle knows More than spinster. -OtheIlo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

In these times the man who doesn't spend more than he makes is looked on as weak-kneed individual who won't take A chance PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
POOR THING.

POOR THING. Whatever fashion doth decree, My lady's bound to do; And if she can not stylish be, Her heart is filled with rue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

1 through the woods and spouting to my hearts content.
 Finally. one bright morning l set out with good stick, my dog and small volume of the bards tragedies in tending to conquer the nearby towns with no less a repertoire than Hamlet, othello, Julius Caesar and the Merchant of Ve- nice. all parts to be read without the | book
 "'"As I tramped along the lonely roads of old Virginia, fancied myself another Garrick, or an Edmund Kean Most of my rehearsing had been done while walk ing in the woods, with my dog for aud fence. Upon arriving at little town l would go immediately to the tavern, announce myself as one of the coming shakespearean actors, put out bills. and in every way possible try to Inspire the rustics with Shakespearean fire. When evening came I gathered the people to- gether in the big room of the hotel, and showered upon them word words, words. After which the hat would be passed around, and a youngster would go to bed with brighter dreams, with hopes of future fame and very little handful of small change. Then there was the moving agarn on the road, tramping to the next town, idling, study ing, and dreaming away the days. This triumphant tour was brought to an in glorious and untimely end by the school authorities who had been hunting the country over for a runaway boy.
 "'s'But so strongly had that spring wandering influenced me that even now with the robins. I feel the tickle Of the road in my feet; and the desire to an swer the call of the road is almost un- bearable Since those days l have played
 in shakespearean repertoirs but In iess pretentious parts.'
 Edwin Evans has been engaged by Henry W. Savage to play in his Excuse Me company in New York, Boston ana Chicago next season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

l It is noticeable nowadays that very few people swagger who haven't any swag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
REPLIES.

Last call for summer sOhlets.
 It is possible to be happy without coat of tan.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-15
LIMA, PERU.
It Is Literary Center With g
 History.

Lima, the picturesque capital of Peru, set facing the sunset on the great Pa cific coast of South America, has cer- tain claims to be considered the fore most city on that continent as regards literary history, says the London Times It was the principal seat of the Spanish viceroys, from which that enormous litoral. extending from Chile to Mexico, was governed. The "Ciudad de los Reyes" or City of the Kings, as it was named by Pizarro, its founder, after Juana and Carlos V. of Spain, was afterward termed Lima" a cor ruption of the Indian name, Rima, of the river flowing through it from the Andes to the coast. The Peruvians have always been of a literary cast of mind, and indeed at times have been accused of verging on the effeminate "a characteristic derived not from the Spanish ancestry so much as from the admixture of native Quechua blood. The Quechuas were, and their de-
 scendants in the Andine highlands still are. a pensive melancholy race, and these qualities were accentuated by the barbarous persecution of their govern
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ing Inca rulers by the Spaniards after the conquest. Thus it is that the ideal istic and romantic character of the Spaniard was allied in the melancholy of the native, and the result is a strong literary tendency. sometimes quiXotic, often neurotic, but capable of thought and aspiration which, in coming times, may be of much value to the great world of Spanish-American life.
 It can scarcely be said that the Peruvians are either producers or read CTS of books at present. No Spanish American people are. Yet their writ ings in the press and in their various magazines and discourses they are ex- tremely eloquent. though to the Anglo Saxon mind perhaps inclined to be
Arizona republican., 1911-04-15

i've mediaevalism of some of Lima's streets to the viceregal influence. There are numerous modern institu- tions in Lima which show the Peruvi- ans to be a thoughtful people. and that furnish evidence of a desire for a sounder character and development. The public library. founded in 1922. was. and still is. among the foremost of such institutions in Spanish Amer lea.
 The ruthless havoc wrought In 1881 by the victorious Chilean army. which used the building as a barracks and permitted the destruction or sale as waste paper of valuable books and priceless manuscripts. was largely rem edied by the work of a Peruvian man
Arizona republican., 1911-04-15
ory and tradition of viceregal days

tory and tradition of viceregal days. Notwithstanding the crushing tendency of the inquisition, the Peruvians were writers and poets and preserved a re- fined and literary character. Printing was first introduced in the new world. it is to be recollected, in Lima, and the first printing press was established by the Jesuits. who arrived in 1867. The famous University of san Marcos. the first university in the new world, was founded in Lima in 1531. The educa
 ton of the people. however. was kept in the hands of the priests. The num- erOus churches and other ecclesiastical institutions bear witness to the strength of the clerical regimen, as do the solid structures and air of attract
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of letters. Ricardo Palma. who reformed the library. Lima possesses a geo graphical society. which does important typographical work in the exploration and description of the enormous terri tories of the republic; a historical in
 stitute, which investigates and records matters concerning the early Inca and Aymara civilizations and societies of industry, engineering, medicine. mining. music. literature. agriculture and kindred subjects. AS regards their language, the Peruvians speak possibly the best and most pleasing Spanish, or Castellano, encountered in Spanish America, in great contrast with the brusque but more virile accent Of their neighbors, the Chileals.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-15

grandiloquent and impractical. Exag geration is one of the failings of the Peruvian writer. and another is the tendency to philosophize upon com mOnplace matters. The Peruvian ora tor indulges in extravagant simile and culls from the ancient classics tO illus trates contentious upon very ordinary matters. Thus glory" is always i'm mortal glory; knowledge" becomes profound knowledge" and so forth. The newspapers and small magazines encountered upon the tables of the clubs in Lima teem with sentimental love verses or with verbose adulations of public personages. Notwithstanding this, a practical side shows itself In the press and business life
Arizona republican., 1911-04-15
The growing desires to be modern"

The growing desires to be modern" is now strongly influencing the Peruvi- ans and is reflected in their press There are several journals in Lima which are of high class. moderate in tone-except as regards party politics with excellent news services and of refined literary character. Tn their way they are as good as many European newspapers, while the ob
 server will miss with a feeling of re-
 freshment the sensationalism of the press of the United States. IL is. how ever, to the 300 years ot Spanish rule (and misrule) rather than to modern times that Lima owes her literary value and traditions. In some respects Lima is a veritable storehouse of his