davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
A SEA LYRIC

By William Hamilton Hayne. There is no music that man has heard Like the voice of the minstrel sea, Whose major and minor chords are
 fraught
 With infinite mystery For the sea Is harp, and the winds of Play over his rhythmic breast. And bear on the sweep of their mighty
 wings
 The song of vast unrest. s There is no passion that man has sung Like the love of the deep-souled sea. Whose tide responds to the moons soft
 light
 With a marvellous melody. A x For the sea Is a harp, and the winds of
 God a- Play over his rhythmic breast And bear on the sweep of their mighty!
 wings AZ The song of vast unrest. There Is no sorrow that man has known Like the grief of the worthless main, Whose Titan bosom forever throbs With an untranslated pain. For the sea is harp, and the winds of
 God E.' Play over his rhythmic breast And bear on the sweep of their mighty
 wings
 The, song of vast unrest. Ti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
White Phosphorus Matches

The last Congress was peculiar. It would not accept evidence that the match trust had cancelled it's patent for the use of sesquisulphide, thus en- abling all match manufacturers to use this harmless substitute instead of the poisonous white phosphorus which creates endless trouble among the works in match factories.
 After the trust had cancelled it's patent Congress was asked to tax the use of white phosphorus out of ex- istence. It would not do this. It called for further investigation in- stead. Congressman Esch has, how ever, reintroduced his bill directed against the use of white phosphorus, and possibly the new Congress will not demand any more legislation, but will be willing to act at once, and affirmatively, on the proposition.
 The Esch bill will not destroy any match factory. The sesquisulphide process is no more expensive than the white phosphorus methods that bring upon two-thirds of the workers in match factories incurable troubles of the jaw. It is simply a question of change, and if legislation of the tariff sort can bring protection to workers in match factories it should be un- hesitatingly applied. Congress need not hesitate in this matter. It is a subject that has been well studied, and the Esch bill will give the need ful protection to all workers in match factories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
ANCIENT MAXIMS

From the New York Telegram.
 Young men are filter to invent than to judge
 A babbler is no better than the serpent that bites.
 If youth but knew what age did crave, many penny would he save.
 Bread of deceit is sweet to man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
 When children are young they tread or your toes; when they are grown up they tread on your heart
 What d pity it Is to see proper gen. tleman have such a crick in his neck that he cannot look backward.
 fool squanders away, without credit or advantage to himself more than a man of sense spends with both.
 There is more exercise in one miles rid ing on horseback than in five in coach; ana more in one miles walking on foot than in five on horseback.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
AS TO THE ETERNAL FEMININE"

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 G5 there any such thing as "the eter-
 nal feminine?'' Are there any im- \ mutable qualities which separate wom- an from man? A writer in La Revue of Paris. M. Jean Finot. answers with an iconoclastic negative. In fact, he con- tends that right under our eyes changes are going on which are making of the woman, who is assuming new political and economic relations, an entirely differ ent character from the sort to which the customs, art and literature of many cen- turies have made us accustomed.
 The theory of ''the eternal feminine" certainly has very little scientific war rant. The powerful influence of environ ment is universally conceded, and if the woman is placed amid circumstances re- quiring steadiness of judgment, initiative. strength and the variety of qualities that are supposed to differentiate man from woman there is no inherent reason to hin- der her development along those lines. M. Pinot declares this process is already no- ticeable and facing life with the gray ity of one delivered from an age-long slavery woman is showing physical beauty giving place to spiritual strength learning to admire thoughtfulness, en- ergy, health, good taste, wit and intelli- gence." Nothing is left of the clinging vine and the uncertain, coy and hard to please woman of tradition except in the environment calculated to produce un- certainty. coyness and adorable depend ence on ''big, strong man."
 Delivers into the dim past tell us there was a time when the social organization was entirely different from what it is now as far as woman was concerned. In that time the mother right" was su- preme, woman ruled the tribe, inheri- tance was through the mother. In view of this it is not at all improbable that the perslsting traditions of a race of Amazons had their birth in the dawn of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

upon a long time. No shortage of iron need be expected, but it is in- deed a question whether England can keep in third place, for France has more tons of iron ore. Germany bids fair to remain second to this country in the production of iron.
 The great commercial metal prom ises to retain it's place at the head of the list The world needs deal of iron, and the furnaces are turning out over fifty million tons of pig iron year to be worn out and to rust out. Production goes on unceasingly, but so does consumption, and iron is consumed in the sense that cotton or food articles are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
SELF-PUFFING AUTHORS n the Bohemian Magazine.

8SsA-A>-
 Authors in "the good old days" were not above writing their own puffs. Charles Reade wrote a long article on himself for Once a Week. In which he said:
 Tt Is impossible to speak too highly of the most scholarlike and learned as The Cloister and the Hearth It is one well as one of the most artistic and beau- tiful works of fiction in any language. Read him. Resign yourself to the magic spell of his genius. The effect of Foul Play is perfectly marvellous. It leaves the stories of every other sensational writer far behind"
 Nor was Balzac in. France above praising his own works. If you have not been born a story-teller," he wrote in review, you will never obtain the popularity of M. de Balxac. And what a story-teler. What nerve and witt How the world is dissected by this man! What passion and coolness!''
 But the height of literary advertise ment fin the first half of the last century was reached in the case of Eugene Sues famous novel, 'sThe Wandering Jew.' Every little while the daily installment in the newspaper in which 1t was appear ing would be missing, and in its place would be an announcement that M. Sue was suffering from slight indisposition and readers would be obliged to wait < hours for new developments of the mar rative. And all the while Sue himself was industriously abetting the publishers by posing overdressed and with spurs in his boots at the Cafe de Paris in an atti tudc of deepest abstraction, as if won- dering what the next installment would be about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

human organization and civilization when the present weaker vessel'' was the stronger of the sexes. If the demands of life then made the woman supreme, what Is to hinder her again becoming domi- nant over, or at least equal to. man un- der conditions of life that require. com petition with the ''lords of creation?'
 Physical culture experts in session the other day in Massachusetts effectively disposed of the assumption that woman Is essentially weaker than man by demon strating her greater powers of endurance, and 1t is a well-known fact that girl babies at birth are stronger and more likely to survive than boys. Inheritance and training give the boy the advantage in lifting and hitting power as maturity comes on, but give the girl the same training through many generations and what's to hinder the development of diff ferent physical characteristics? And if environment and training determine phys ical qualities why may not an entirely different psychology be born also?
 Wenemann. the crazy young German author of Sex and Character revealed
  he attacked the theory of "the eternal feminine with the counter theory that all of us have varying percentage of male and female elements. Mere sex, in his view, meant nothing since it was ob- vious that many ''men' displayed a pre- ponderance of female clements, while lot of deep-voiced, moustached women are preponderatingly male. Anyone can bring to mind cases of husband and wife where the woman is the better man.
 Man has instinctive aversion to change. Being accustomed to what is he unwar- rantedly assumes that it always was and ever shall be, but evolution mocks at puny attempts to check it's course and goes serenely on, working profound changes even while men deny that changes are possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Merger Well Backed

Former Mayor W. M. Drennen, who returned Saturday from New York, said that while business was quiet in the great metropolis he had never seen such a crowd of visitors or more animated life than he did on this trip.
 Business conditions In New York seemed to be waiting on national poll tics.' said MT Drennen yesterday. "l met MT. Grenfell, MT. Hoadley, Harri- son s. Matthews and other men inter- ested in the merger. The Southern Iron and Steel company and the Alabama Con- solidated will be combined under the ti- tie of the Alabama Consolidated Coal. Iron and Steel company It Is a good business-like scheme, and as The Age Herald has already told in it's news col umns high-class financiers are behind this merger movement. There may be a little delay, but when I left New York everything seemed to be in good shape for the consolidation of the two compa- nes named"
 Mir Drennen said that as an evidence of general prosperity and of people hay ing money for pleasure he went with a friend to a theatre one night last week when rain was pouring in torrents and the best ticket he could get was for the last row. All the theatres and all the hotels were crowded, said MT. Drennen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
LIFE IN THE SAHARA
the Kansas City Star.


 Among the ruins of building in Ain Setra, a French settlement of Algeria, wrecked by a flood that poured down from the mountains, manuscript notes of Isabelle Eberhardt were found. This young woman journalist, Russian by race and Mohammedan in religion, has been called ''The most virile and sincere writer of the Algerian country"
 -- These manuscript notes now form a con- siderable part of posthumous volume entitled "Dans rOmbre Chaude de Ills iam." They were unearthed during the excavations which were undertaken with great care by Lieutenant Paris and found to be disconnected and very much dam in the mud. In order to attach the pieces M. Barrucand, her friend and editor of an Algerian newspaper, was obliged to string them together by reflections bor- rowed from her correspondence, from her papers and travel notes. This was the sole method of reconstruction. he says, whereby he could save from definite inter-
 
 which reached his hands.
 | In her young years. when under the charge of an old granduncle at Geneva, she had been brought up absolutely as boy" And now on horseback, alone and disguised as an Arab youth, she | traversed the inner parts of Algeria and Tunisia, from the borders of Morocco to those of Tripoli. These volumes are rec ords of her journeyngs, impressions of scenery interspersed with tales of native life and her own reflections; they un- fold a vast and varied panorama-crum- bling cities through whose narrow streets you stumble in the twilight amid piles of foul refuse, calm Arab convent re- treats, where white-robed marabouts glide about like ghosts, the busy life of the green oasis gardens; anon you are riding under fiery sun through some gorge of scintillating rocks or reposing awhile with the eternal wanderers in their black tents perched on weltering desolation of sand dunes; every aspect of native life fits past your eye-the soldiery, merchants, women folk and humble laborers; they all disclose their joys and hopes and suffer ings; you feel, after reading these pages. as if you had been gazing upon one of those glowing oriental tapestries full of bold tints that yet harmonize in mi- raculous fashion and suggest, rather than reveal, some simple underlying design.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

roine as "a young girl of 20'-a laugh
 able error, since even I knew that &
 young girls age was from to Is. after
 which young ladyhood began, to develop
 about 20 into middle life, and soon ,there-, after, with the first whitening Of hairs,
 about the temples. one was undeniably
 old. MT. Howells novel thus precipi-.
 tated my first definite excursion in age
 ology. The second memorable experience came
 a decade later. I mentioned to friend
 that was that day D. She was only two, years my junior but recall every shade, [ of expression on her face as she realized
 my antiquity. Her look was so full of pity
 was subdued, like the dyers hand, to
 what it worked in. This was lingering the
 reverse of the shield. q.s
 After another decade third person pre- scented the matter from an impersonal, angle. man, my contemporary was to
 marry my friend some years younger "A young girl of 2o,'' learning the fact from my lips, exclaimed incontinently: Marry! But Cousin Lucy, they have one foot in the grave now" My peal of laughter, in contrast with my tragic comedy of 27, was the best assurance to myself that the gathering years bring sanity; that when we actresses on the stage of life grow too, old to play Juliet ourselves we get im- mense satisfaction out of having learned just how the part ought to be played; and that though four Is an angular and com monplace figure it wabbles less on its,
 base than the more graceful three or even two which marks the decades following our salad teens
 Middle age is as roomy as an old shoe and extraordinary elastic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
WHAT IS MIDDLE AGEY
From "rhe Point of View" in

From ''The Point of View" in the
 May Scribner.
 When l was about r. urged by the bright binding and the name of the au- thor, decided to read Mir. Howells then current novel. Was he not a family connection of my own. and did I rot know of his delightful comradery? At the second page, however, I discovered his entire unftncss as 8 guide. however pre- eminent his qualities as philosopher and friend. So singularly ignorant was he of terms that he introduced his he-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
THE GAEKwAR OF BARoDA

THE GAEkWAR OF BAHODA
 From His Highness the Maharja,' by
 Price Collier, in the May Scribner.
 The Maharaja of Baroda, or to give him his official title, His Highness Mahnraja Sir Sayaji Rao Gaekwar of Caroda, G. c. S. l.. governs a state of some $500 square miles, an area slightly larger than Mas sachusetts, with a population of 100000 and revenues of something over $4,O0o0O0. My first meeting with him in his summer palace revealed a man about live rect six in height heavily built. but light on his feet and graceful of movement, and dressed in fine white muslin. He speaks both English and French, has been twice around the world, knows Europe and the United States well, and is educating his sons. one in England, and one at Harvard university. He Is, or assumed that men tai attitude for my benefit, frank ad- mirer of American institutions and the American people, and hinted guardedly that if ever a change came in the govern ment of India 1t might be somewhat along American lines. of a federation of states under a central government.
 Some miles away, geographically, but attitudes away spiritually. was his high ness wrestling school. There I found a group of athletes that opened my eyes to the possibilities of muscular develop ment in this climate. The Indians as whole, except in the northwest, are phys ically a feeble folk, whose working days are over at 50, and whose women are hag- gard and unlovely at 90. These wrestlers went through their exercises for me, and to my surprise I found the medicine ball, the sparring bag, the Indian clubs. ana the catch as ca atch-can bouts of wrestling of my youth. They also showed me wrest- ling in the Japanese fashion, with the leg and arm-breaking holds that we as- sociate with the Japanese, but which, l was assured, were as old as Buddhism, and must therefore have filtered into Japan by way of China. Burma and Korea. When these wrestlers lined up that might photograph them. I though how an American football coachs mouth would water at the sight of such material. If I was surprised, they were surprised too that I could swing clubs, play with the medicine ball and enjoy bout of wrest- ling. How colossally ignorant we all are of one another!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
Park Music

T am being asked every day whether we are to have free park concerts again this summer" said H. E. Snow, who was the director of the excellent band heard last summer. '"The people are ex- pecting the concerts. but the only an swer that I have been able to make is that the musicians are waiting on the Music Study club, which made last year 8 entertainment possible.
 T suppose the ladies of the club will arrange for concerts during the heated term. It would seem a pity after the splendid work of the ladies last season not to have the concerts this summer. It is getting late and what is done must be done soon. The public Is certainly expecting the music and I am sure will be willing to help pay the piper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man may be willing to confess, but If he Is it is not the real thing.
 The more sense some men can have the jess they will use it in their own busi- ness.
 A girl considers it proposal of mar riage when q man asks her if she was named after her mother
 Flowers seem to cost an awful lot more after man gets through being engaged to a girl by marrying her.
 Sometimes 1t seems as if woman can't get any pleasure out of doing things for those she loves unless 1t means sacrific- Ing herself. =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
Underwood's Position

Tt does seem that the United States Steel corporation really shut down their works at Corey as a rebuke to MT. Un- derwood for his attitude on the free list,' said a man of state prominence. 'If it should happen that the Steel corporation could effect the defeat of Mir. Underwood in this iron district. why we would just run him for President of the United States, and while believe that he is in- vincible in his home, I know that he could afford to go to the balance of the country on the platform on which he stands"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Hereafter the prayers of the chaplain of the House are to be printed in the Con- gressional Record. Nothing is too good for that great daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

It would be cheaper to build bullet proof fence along the Texas border than to go to war with Mexico. but the armis- tice has rendered both simply academic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Professor Sargent of Harvard says that woman is more of a barbarian than man. The professor will think she is more war like at any rate before he Is much older.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

One boat brought to Boston 1900 crates of Holsters which were sold at F cents a pound Some of the land species are not worth any more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

New York state asked for loan or s1O.OooO00 and received offers for over s1G0, 0,OOO There is no lack of money in that state for those who are well equipped with credit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Western Kentucky and southwestern Virginia seems.to have harbored the vote- buying mlcrobe in large numbers. The Ohio record may be outdone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

A Connecticut professor rises up to re- mark that hard cider has worse toxic ef- fleets than whisky, and yet it has been lrnbibed in rural Connecticut for genera
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

The schoolmasters are expected to sup port Wilson and Clark in 1s12-two old masters themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
REFORMS FOR THE DRUG CLERK

From the Boston Transcript.
 TT begins to look like revolution The worm has turned Rather, an associa- tion of worms Is turning with a fe- rocity felt all over the union. The corner drug clerk has issued his own proclama- ton of emancipation. He deposes and says that he is not mere public utilities
 machine, but a human being! Unexam-
 pied temerity! Hath not drug clerk eyes, organs, dimensions, senses. affec-
 tions, passions? If you bore us do we
 not yawn? If you grind us down shall
 we not rise in revenge?" This is the way
 the worm Is talking. He says if mov-
 ing picture show is good for you 1t is
 good for him, and he proposes to get off
 and go to it. No more will he seffsyou
 stamps and act as walking directory. first
 13 hours a day seven days in the week.
 Ten hours will he labor and do all his
 work. The rest of the time he proposes
 to play. And he wants a sort of Sunday,
 tool
 Ungrateful worm! What if he has
 worked 1s hours day? Were there no
 social emoluments? Was he not the est-known man in the neighborhood? Did he not cheer him with our choicest
 bon mots while we waited for the theatre car? Did we not ply him with that sim cerest of all forms of fiattery-the ap- | peal for advice? Did we not trust him to prescribe for all the minor ills our flesh | is heir to? And still he Is peevish! Un- reasonable worm
 ] But it Is not the drug clerk alone. Pro- prietors are in revolt. And the uprising of proprietors spells down to that Sum-
 day afternoon clubhouse of the neighbor-
 hood-the open drug store Sunday clos ing? Yes, that's whats afoot among the pestles and mortars. And the con- spiracy has achieved an appalling meas- ure of success Already in 12 states the drug stores go into a species of coma
 between 1 and of a Sunday afternoon. | No cigars, no chocolates, no fuzzy drinks can be wrung from them during these
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Senator Lorimer seems to be the only man who ever had s1oooo raised for him without his knowledge or consent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Until the baseball fans cease to wear overcoats it cannot be truly said that spring has arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Carrie Nation was mild smasher when compared with those In the champagne war in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Congress is inclined to let the President have his own way on the Mexican border, armistice or no armistice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

To be wholly patriotic clean up your back yard. In the city beautiful all back yards are kept like the house itself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Portugal has got along without recog- hilton or ministers abroad, and now 1t proposes to do without either altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

The hottest tamales In Mexico were the insurrectos of Chihuahua and Sonora, but the armistice will endeavor them to cool off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

The colonel comes back from & long tour absolutely talked out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

The D. A. R. at times last week crowd ed Congress off the front page.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Mexico should have been requested long ago to keep her boil weevils as well as bullets out of this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

Money is reported easy but hard to get without ample collateral.