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The Seattle Republican., 1911-08-18

BETRAYED it's confidence Mr.. CRATER in the
United States bobs up SO often and in so
many places that it is hard to say where
he will next appear, and perhaps after all
Reginald H. Thomson has grated himself
and his accomplices immensely rich and
like former South and Central American
presidents, will retire from office and seek
some foreign land in which to spend the
balance of his life in ease and luxury. Let
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
Date of Thanksgiving

There seems to be confusion in the minds of many persons as to the date ol Thangsdiving day. said a citizen.
 According to custom it will be on the on the 30th-the 9th Thursday. As there is no national law touching Thanksgiving the matter is optional with the President He fixes the day by proclamation and the states that have recognized Thanks giving by legislation follow the Presi- dents proclamation. It is a legal holiday in Alabama. AS Thanksgiving has asu- ally been on the 4th Thursday President Taft was asked some weeks ago if he would proclaim November g the day to be observed. He replied that he would follow custom and name the last Thurs. day of November-Noyember 90.
 People often speak of national holi- days, but there are no general holidays by congressional enactment. Labor day is a legal holiday in the District of Column bia, by an act of Congress, and it is a legal holiday in all or nearly all the states'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
The L.innor oucstion


 Drastic state wide prohibition has never been success. II seems" said Louis S. Bland. business man ol Cleveland, Ohio, making trip through the south for the first time.
 Radical prohibition cannot be q success in states containing large cities. I am not surprised, therefore. to find that Alabama, recently a prohibition state of the severest sort, has swung back into the local option column.
 T do not drink at all, but 1 could never make up my mind to be a proht- bitionist. I believe. however. in the strietest sort of regulation.
 "Some years ago one of the indus trial towns just outside of Cleveland -Collinwood-had S5 saloons in pop ulation of a few thousand. Drunken ness prevailed there to such a fright full extent that the better class rose up, agitated and voted out liquor Later on the sale of liquor was voted back under new regime. only four sa- looms were allowed in the community. am told that Collinwood is now noted for it's orderly life. It has recently been brought into the city of Cleve- land, but no changes were made in its liquor traffic restrictions. It suits me best to do without liquor, but prohibi- tion is never the sign of a city ambi- tious to be known as metropolitan"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26

month. The city's income is too
 small, and in no respect will this be felt more than in the efforts to
 minimize the ravages of the white plague in this city. The city simply needs more income.
 Dr. Lull, chief of the medical staff of the Jefferson County Anti-Tuber- culosis society, says that if more money could be had "a trained nurse would be kept who would do visiting, be on hand at the tuberculosis dis pensary in the Chamber of Commerce building when it is open for the ex- aminations of the patients and follow up the cases treated by the medical staff with instructions in hygiene and sanitation in the homes. The Red mountain camp is only side line, as we cannot begin to hope to accommodate all the tubercular patients of the city there, and we prescribe for many at the dispensary who cannot afford to go west. There are any number of cases that we could reach most effectively through visiting nurse, who would guide them in their habits of living and assist them in the interpretation of the best methods of fighting tuber- culosis.'
 Surely money will be forthcoming from the charitable for this all im- portant work The money needed should come from city and county, but when these prove unequal to the task an appeal must be made to the charitable. Nurses that will carry out the follow-up plans of the dis pensary are greatly needed. They are needed more than words can tell in many humble places, and they must be forthcoming if the dread disease is to be conquered and mini mixed in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
orvipe wright's Buzzard Glider

In the teeth of 50 mile gale at Kill Devil Hill, N. C., Orville Wright scared aloft and remained virtually stationary" in his new glider 9 min utes and 45 seconds. This is a great and promising record. His alti- tude was approximately 150 feet.
 This flight was the seventeenth of Tuesday afternoons experiments. Each test of the machine was. longer than the preceding one, until the seventeenth and final flight was made "The success of the experi- ment," says the Associated Press dispatch from Kill Devil Hill, lis un- derstood here to mark long step forward in the science of aviation, and to point the way toward solving the problem of automatically pre- serving the equilibrium of heavier than air machines" Orville Wright declared that the conditions under which the seventeenth flight was made "were unusually severe"
 The skill of the Wrights is all im- portant, and if no accident happens to them they may soon be able to an- nounce results. The hope is that they will be able to render aviation in heavier than air machines safe and satisfactory. It is beyond doubt the century's boldest problem, and if the air can be fully conquered before the century is ended it will stand out no doubt as the century's greatest achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
Official Building Directory

Tt was with pleasure I noted this week a long felt want in our office buildngs,'' said professional man, and that was an office directory on each floor of the First National Bank building.
 Heretofore it has been necessary for people having business at several offices in that building to go up or down In the elevators a half dozen times to consult the directory in the hall but now all a person has to do is to consult the direc- tory on the floor on which he finds hini- self and then go where he wants
 And not alone will these directories add to the convenience of the public but they will save money to the owners of the building in the shape of Tightening the elevator traffic. am told that the average cost of a round trip by the ele- vator is D cents and that these elevators make an average of 150O trips a day. An other peculiar feature in connection with the cost of elevator service is that it costs more to run an empty elevator down than a full loaded elevator up. This seems to be about as paradoxical as the tele- phone, of which it is said the bigger the business the smaller the profits 'I hope to see all the other office build. ings in the city follow the example sci by the First National and when they dc | it will greatly help the busy man to get around"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
HOW WOMEN TAKE CRITICISM

From Chronicle and Comment in the De-
 tober Bookman.
 In The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, edited by her father, John Morgan Rich ards, there is a slashing arraignment of the literary woman in her attitude to- ward those who critcse her work. It is from the pen of Moberly Bell, the famous editor of the London Times. Moberly Bell and Mrs. Craigie were personal friends, and the latter wrote protesting against the treatment that The Flue of Fan had received at the hands of the Times reviewers. In response the editor wrote in part: There is one thing, and only one thing, that the Omnipotent has absolutely failed to create. He has made good women, bad women, clever women, silly women, selfish women, and heroines of self sacrifice, but He had never yet made a woman who could stand T will not say adverse criticism, but one note of deviation from absolute and unqualified praise of any of her literary efforts. This Is not in blame of any one gnless the Creator-it is a law as certain as the law of gravitation, and there is and has never been any exception to 1t from Deborah to George Eliot, and even later Ohe assumption of masculine name cannot alter the facD, there is a pnanimity of proof"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
Music and EducaIiOn

l T was greatly interested in read | ing an interview which Dolly Dal- l rymple had with MT. Oliver Chalifoux on music and musical education." said we'll known organist and teacher.
 "The interview referred to appeared in Tuesdays Age Herald, and it should be read carefully by those who are en- gagged in musical pedagogy, and also by boys and girls studying music seri- ously and by the parents of such stu dents. I have often been struck with the lack of musicianship on the part of many who earned a living by play ing. singing or teaching
 MT. Chalifoux had exceptional ad- vantages in preparing himself for the profession of music. He was several years a student in the Paris Conserva tory; and not only that, he had the rare privilege of hearing Joachim in course of 10 recitals, in which the Bach fugues for violin were played without accompaniment. Fancy a vio- linist, even though he or she had good tone and technique, attempting Bach without accompaniment. But Joachim was king on the king of instru- ments, and with his prodigious tone the fugues. said MT. Chailifoux, were far from dry.
 MT. Chalifoux had the distinction while sojourning in Paris of playing in an orchestra of 300 at the church of St. Eustace, under the baton of Gounod. The occasion was the per formance of Gounod's best known and most heavenly mass-St. Cecilia. The chorus numbered 900."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
His Home Is in Four States

Where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona "corner" lives a stockman, a rancher, whose name is Fred Terron. Recently he sent a herd of cattle to Kansas City, going along himself. When he reached that town he did not know which state he ought to claim as his resi- dence when he went up to the hotel register. His ranch extends into all four states, and his house stands at the official point where the four states meet.
 MT. Terror explained to the hotel clerk that he ate his meals in Colo rado; that he sleeps in Utah; that his "best room" is in New Mexico that his kitchen extends into Arizona. The windmill which pumps water for his stock is in New Mexico, the trough, however, is in Arizona. On these facts the issue went to the hotel clerk for his decision as tc what state he should register from He did not himself know what state he came from. Neither did the hote clerk. He really lives in four states and is subject, perhaps to foul methods of taxation and four sets ot laws in general. He admitted tha at present he is voting in Utah be cause he sleeps in that state, but tn, place where he sleeps may not, in contest, prove controlling and de cisive. He is not a man without
 state. He simply has got too man of them, and he frankly admits tha he does not know what the court would decide were the question C his residence carried before them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26

their own roads, and the sooner we accept the situation the sooner the problem will begin to be solved in this state
 The Selma convention should de- termine the standard of good roads in this state, and it should appeal to the counties to act respectively for themselves. Public sentiment is ripe on the subject, and a plan that the engineer of the state will sanction should be formulated and laid before the several counties for consideration, and at length for acceptance or re- jection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
An Old Engineer Passes Away

"I have just returned from Helena. where I went to attend the funeral of Joseph Squire, one of the pioneer engi- neers of mineral Alabama" said T. H. Aldrich last night. MT. Squire made ihe first map of the Cahaba coal field, and it is map that greatly interests min-
 ing engineers hereabouts.
 The deceased was in his sgd year and had lived in retirement for some time He was the son of an English naval of. ficer; was born November 24. 1920 q, Rochdale, Lancashire, England.
 An interesting autobiographic sketch of MT. Squire is found in Miss Armes book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama In the spring of 1859 while ir St. Louis he met with a company of Ala. bamians who informed him, that there were beds of coal in Alabama of good quality, but stated that the efforts tc mine it failed to be very profitable. H, came to the Montevallo mines in ths fall of 1859. He prepared c valuable ao. count of the early mining operations fir Alabama which takes up two or three pages in Miss Armes' book.
 MT. Squire mined coal for the Con- federate government during the entir, war. In later years he became closet, associated with MT. DeBardeleben .nt | myself in the exploration of the Birming ham district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
GIANT CHEESE

Tie worlds largest cheese feet in d. ameter and feet high, weighing slightly over 12,000 pounds, was recently manufac- tured at Appleton, Wis. the services of more than 40 expert cheesemakers and their experienced helpers being required for the job. The November Popular Me- chanics Magazine says ''The cheese. which was made for exhibition at the National Dairy show at Chicago. com tained exactly 1900 pounds of curd, 3G pounds of salt, and 31 pounds of renent mal.ing the finished product weigh 12,S61 pounds, three times larger than the big gest cheese ever before manufactured. The curd came from S2 different cheese factories, and the milk. 18.0O0 gallons in quantity, from over 12OO farmers and was produced by 5000 pure breed Holstein and Guernsey cows, valued at $1,500,000. The greatest care had to be taken to insure tha curd being uniform"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
THE GLOOMY ENDING

From Why Manuscripts Are Rejected.
 By George Nathan in the october Book
 man.
 "A young writer" said large maga- zine publisher and editor once upon a 1 time, "who wishes to write a strong story always ends it with a suicide"
 This "school," which includes in it's mem- hers a large proportion of the army of the rejected. charge the happy ending tale with being conventional" and com mercial" And accordingly, in it's own submitted manuscripts it gives evidence of what it is pleased to call its revolu- tonary literary tendency in giving to a tale that logically demands a happy end ing a grim powerful close instead or course, the result is neither one or the three f's nor good red herring-and the final result is rejection. With aviation automobile and several of the other classes of short fiction, to which reference is made in the case for the prosecution, il is not the intrinsic subject matter of the story that brings about rejection in tie majority of instances. but rather the imitativeness of the manuscript. One av- iation story brought about by the cur rent interest in flying will give birth to thousand weak brother and sister manu- scripts-and the same thing has held true and still holds true with the automobile tale. Psychological stories are often found upon reading to be such in title only. And descriptive and character stories are often discovered to be nothing of the kind. It is frequently forgotten by the rejected that it is not the species of story that is drowned upon by the various editors, but the manner in which that species of tale has been executed. It does not suffice for practical magazine editorial purposes that, say, the ''psy- chologicar' story just submitted is as good as the story of similar trend pub lished the month previous. The story just submitted must be newer, better Otherwise it would be merely repetition to publish the second manuscript. Im- provement is the order of the table of contents, as far as divers specific classes of tales are concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
Good Roads Convention

The subject of good roads will be discussed and considered this week at Selma, and the hope is that pretty soon a plan will be formulated that will appeal to the citizens of every county in this state. No state has poorer roads than Alabama, and no state needs more modern, up to date hard roads. The problem relates to the method of getting them. All want them. The method of getting them is the sole problem.
 In the advanced states county aid is supplemented by state aid. Ma tional aid is a dream, and no one who desires to see good roads in this state should wait for it. States and counties will be compelled to build
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
ONE OF BoB,s BEST BOOSTS

From the Twice-a-Month Popular Maga. zine.
 Robert Hilliard, the actor, who stars in the role of hero, went to a physician not long ago and was told that he would have to undergo a slight operation.
 All right, doctor.' said Hiliard. There's only one thing I ask of you: Please don't hurt me-"
 Explaining that it would be foolish to administer an anaesthetic for such a slight opeartion, the doctor promised to be as gertle as possible. Hilliard squirmed, and wriggled, and protested in no uncertain torres while the remedial knife was doing it's work.
 After 1t was all over, the doctor asked
 You're an actor, aren't you, MT. Hil. liard."
 "Xes," answered Hilliard
 And you play heroic roles-you act the nero, do you not?"
 'Yes, I do.'
 Well" concluded the doctor. "all I've got to say is that you're good actor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
LEO XIII AND D,ANNUNzIO

From the Index of Prohibited Book 8
 By Calvin Winter in the October Bookman.
 There is rather pretty story, some times told by Roman Catholics when in a genial and expansive mood, anent |d'Annunzio and the Pope Leo XIII pretty in the sense that it reveals in the latter a spirit of broad tolerance and whimsical humor. It Is said that even at that early period the question
 was raised of placing d'Annunzio $ writings upon the Index, and this fact came to the ears of the Pope. What is | this, what is this?" he asked of the sec-
 retary of the Index. You are thinking of prohibiting the works of Signor d d'Anhunzio?" "Yes, your Holiness" an-
 swered the secretary. Don't do it'
 rejoined his holiness, emphatically. q sometimes like to do a little reading
 myself, and Sigpor d'Annunzio is only living author who can write ;, cent ItalianN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
SOUVENIRS, OF AN ACCIDENT
From the Washington Star.


 It is a ghoulish story that comes from Macon telling that when Eugene Ely, aviator. fell to his death people, morbid mad, struggled with each other for pos- sesison of relics of the accident. In the telegraphic account these ghastly relics are called souvenirs. The use of the word souvenir is justified in a way because it means remembrance" or keepsake" but 1t has generally come to mean a keepsake of an event that should make men shudder and women faint.
 It is told in the press accounts that men fought for possession of things worn by the fallen aviator. even before life was extinct. Such displays make one under stand how thin the veneer of civilization is in some cases, and how close to the surface brutish savagery is in many men The mob spirit appears to turk in nearly every crowd and requires only cry or g word oryan act to call 1t into play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
TO A LAD1N THAT FORBADE TIC
 LOVE DEFORE COMPANY

By Sir John Sucking. What! no more favors? Not rippon
 more,
 Not fan nor huff to hold as heretoforef Must all the little blsses then be iett' And what was once loves gift, become
 our theft? May we not look ourselves into trance, Teach our souls barley at our eyes, not ., glance. -A tsMAIeM Not touch the hand. not by soft wiring.
 ing there t' tD! Whisper a love that only eyes can hear? Not free sigh. sigh that's there TOT
 you? - Dear, must T love you. and not love Be wise nice, fair; for sooner shall they
 trace
 The feathered choristers from place to
 place,
 By prints they make in tn air. and
 sooner say By what right line the last star made his n way, sA That fled from heaven to earth. than guess to know M W How our loves first did spring. or how
 they grow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
SENSITIVE RENO

From the New York Times.
 Once more strange moral wave has struck the divorce mill of Reno. A woman who had applied for a divorce was accompanied by man who in- tended to marry her as soon as she was freed from the ties that had proved irksome to her. Her plea was dismissed on that ground. It is said that fully 60 per cent of the feminine applicants for. divorce in Reno are &C., companied thither by the courageous persons intending to love, cherish, and protect them, after they have been re- leased from the love and protection of the defendant in the suit. Marriages following divorce decrees within few hours have been common. This Is said to be. obnoxious to the courts" es Why? The Reno divorce court ex- ists for precisely the purpose it fills.
 The Nevada people voted to maintain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
Anti-TuberculOsis Work

Dr. Wilson, the city health officer, is alert in the matter of quarantin- ing tuberculosis cases in this city and in enforcing needful precautions in such cases. The ordinance pre- pared by Dr. Nelson was adopted by the commission, and it will, no doubt, be enforced as rapidly as circum- tances will permit. It is considered fully up to the best provisions of other cities on this subject.
 The city commissioners appropriate ed but $250 for use in the current
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
THE BOSTON LEGEND
From the New York World.

tTOIn lHe NeW I OTK w OrlQ.
 In Life's current "Boston Number" appeared all the time honored gibes and quips at the city of culture. Little
 waldos" with bulging brows troop placards announce the next meeting of the Little Ones Brewing Club" boy scouts, dowagers, chauffeurs and the public statues alike wear spectacles ; Emerson and the sacred cod are pedes- tailed side by side; the hand organs play Bach and Beethoven, and in the foreground passes the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. Only in Certified Milk Street" is there an improving modern touch.
 Such is the Boston legend as 1t has grown to be. differing from other le- gends in the fact that 1t has been es- tablished by the jests of the joke mak- CTS. But at time when Boston itself is doing so much to explode myths the truth may be permissible regarding one phase of Boston culture.
 | It is painful to compare the Little Waldos of the Hub with the young
 barbarians to play on the praries or in
 the provincial cities of the west. Yet
 in the interest of accuracy it must be
 said that according to the census fig
 ures the pe-ecentage of total illiteracy
 Is smaller in South Dakota than in
 Massachusetts. Only Missouri of the 2
 states of the north central division ex-
 ceeds Massachusetts in the percentage
 of illiterates. and the percentage is
 higher for Boston than for Cincinnati,
 Cleveland. Detroit and Omaha. It is double in Boston what it Is in Denver. :, The fact is disillusionizing, but the l truth requires 1t to be recorded even
 at the expense of the Boston legend.