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AND NOW HE'S ANGRY.

4 YOUNG woman went into local
Store and bought about $40 worth of
goods, stating she was the wife OF
certain young man. having the arti-
cIes charged to him. The young man
Is now angry and the merchant Is out
of his money
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RECRUITS WANTED.

\ limited number of men will be-
enlisted for service in tho West Vir-
ginia National Guard Apply al tho
Armory, over Kershner's Garage.
Thursday, Friday or Saturday even
ings Of this week, between and
O'clock. . Ia st
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ALL. ALIKE.

The Globe says the new anti-spit-
ting ordinance is violated almost ev-
cry hour in Hagerstown. Hagers-
towns experience is the same as some
other towns.
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got in
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Miss raya Laishoro Of Wheeling,
# 10 visited her uncle, MI John Morn
Uestar near Kcarncysville and Mr..
and Mrs. A. Fulk South Raleigh
street, lcft today for home.
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The ANSWERS. az well as the pub.
fishers, Of classified ads profit by them
ret service and satisfaction from
them,
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BUY AN AUTO NOW.
Martinsburg. w. Va
August 22nd, 1872.
NOTICE

To Whom It May Concern:
You, and each OF you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has
applied for a franchise, right and
permission to the Mayor and Couu-
ell Of the City Of Martnsburg, to
construct, maintaiL and operate a
toll-bridee from a point on the
south side Of East Martin street
Immediately opposite the Western
line of the b. & o. property facing
the north side of East Martin
street, across the railroad tracks Of
the g. 4 O. r. r., the Tuscarora
Creek, and coming out at a point
where the Southern limo Of East
Martin street, extended. would N
terscct with the western line of
Center street; said bridge to be
constructed Of iron and steel and
10 have roadway for vehicles 20
feet wide and for foot passengers
feet wide; said application will
be heard by the City Council at a
meeting to be held by it on the
23rd day OF September, 1912, more
than thirty days after the publca-
ton of this notice.
Respectfully submitted,
H. II. EMMERT,
8221m Attorney.
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HAD AN EYE ON THEM.

B. & o. Detective B. l.. Prince is
back from Winchester, where he was
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ROYAL hRCANUM.

The Royal hrcanun VIII meet In the
BlondcI building every first and
thitd Friday IN the month. Every
member Is requested to DO there
promptly at 9 o'clock.
by order of the Regent 9ltf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-21
BY CHARLES K. HARRIS

SCIENCE but, sort of credentials, may submit that
have to credit song hits than any other native
composer of popular ballads that have made great
deal of money out of what will call application to
song writing of what term Science; and that have
composed twenty popular dittes whose sales have
ceeded the hafmilon mark and at least twelve whose
sales have topped three hundred thousand.
The biggest secret of success in the "song writing
science, according to my own method and SYSTEM is
the following out songs of ideas current in the national
brain at the time My biggest song successes have al
ways reflected the favorite emotion Cf may the
phrase) of the people of the day. How do gage this?
Through the drama! The drama moves in irregular
cycles and changes character according to the specific
tastes of the public The yearly mood of the nation
other words, is reflected by the drama and theatrical
entertainment OF the year. At least, figure it out
this way, and compose my songs accordingly.
Let show you how it works Many years ago,
during the vogue of ]. K. Emmett and W. ]. Scanlon,
due in no small degree to the presence in their COM
paes of leading child actor, figured out that the
public loved Emmett and Scanlon not less, but the chill
dren The popularity Of the full grown performers
rested in great measure their youngster coplayers
Why not baby songs? thought I. Accordingly COM
posed couple of baby ballads called aCreep Baby,
Creep" and 3Mudpie Days" They scored wide popu-
larity and made up my mind the spot that my sys
tenn of gaging the popular taste the correct
Following the vogue of 3baby plays, there at
later date the widespread favor of pastoral plays like
"The Old Homestead" and 3In Old Kentucky" l saw
the situation of the national mood and wrote mid the
Green Fields of Virginia and an the Hills of Old Caro-
lima Again my system worked out satisfactorily.
When Augustus Thomas caught the fancy of the
country with Alabama" and AIn Mzzoura," intro
duced the Southern angle in my songs and composed
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AVE you ever stopped
To think when Won

HAVE you ever stopped
I1 to think, when you
whistle the air of a
popular song, that some
where there is a man who is
spending his life over the
problem of making your lips
pucker, and that, in so far
as you are concerned, he has
succeeded? You probably
have heard often of the
creative art of Whistler; but
have you heard even once of
the art of creating whistlers?
Almost every stranger l
have encountered in the lat
ter part Of my twenty-five
years of song writing has
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the distance, unless it is
accompanied by a catchy
lyric.
| do not say that this
is the only way to pursue
in the effort to capitalize
the great US. A. quicker;
but, as far as l am con-
cerned, / believe it is the
best way. Results have
proved this much to me.
One Of the best songs l
ever wrote, in my own
estimation, failed COM
pletely, because l fool
ishly tried to prove to
myself that it was
not necessary always to
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SlASA 1AAAS 0o1AddO C1o i w q
Longing in My Heart for You,
Louise" When "Siberia" and
"The Children of the Ghetto"
were produced and l sensed the
appeal of the Hebrew problem,
direct and indirect, | wrote a
song called @Only a Rabbits
Daughter" Each time / OBJ
tanned fresh proof that my
system was not failing me.
During the extremely wide
vogue of the Woods melo-
dramas, l composed "sad,"
melodramatic songs of the
species represented by "For
Old Times Sake" and @Just
Behind the Times" When
Gillette's war plays. Held by
the Enemy" and @Secret Ser
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follow out what | have indicated in regard to the
drama. That song was aWhat Is Home without
Love-"
had figured it out that the central idea of the lyric
possessed universal appeal but had failed to figure
out that the particular appeal not uppermost in the
nations emotions at the time At the time in question
the national mind bothered about the panic
than it about love. Business had superseded the
finer emotion for the time being. 1t question Of
bread, rather than of kisses.
In my own little Science" realize that there in
Vulnerable flaws. My Science" turns out in
as great proportion as successes IN the song writing pro-
fesson be turned OUT but the flaws also result in
the composition of failures Just dramas fail, do
songs fail People who say to me You re lucky dog!
You always hit it, remember only my successful songs.
They forget all about my failures AS nearly as can
compute, my failures have been failures, first, because
the lyric story not sufficiently dramatic lyrics
of chief Importance in popular songs-remember this
always; secondly because the tune did not apty
out the idea OF the lyric in point and thirdly because
the national taste changed so quickly that could
neither anticipate it catch up with it. The national
taste for various kinds of songs changes over
night. This is not an exaggerat1on.
The six best sellers among the popular songs IN the
last four years in America have been follows: %
Somewhere; ~ "Love Me and the World Is Nine;
(3) Il Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now; az Give
Got Rings on My Fingers; % What Am | Going
to Do to Make You Love Me-; (6) Il Wish Had
had the good fortune to write the first of these songs
None of the Others mne and no two the work
of You will observe that all save the fourth
ian English Importation by the way) deal with senti-
mental COp1CS lneTe is no mlLaIy song III the uSC.
Nor there song dealing with baby subjects poverty
pastoral Subjects humorous subjects. Or in short any
thing but love. This then, obviously, must be an
era of sentiment The song Give Got Rings on My
Fingers l have said, is of foreign origin, and
should therefore not be considered in the argument
from the native viewpoint: That leaves us with five
Amercan-made songs out of five among the five best
sellers that indicate this fact,-the complete dom
of sentiment at present the map of national
emotion.
Is this not an interesting sideight searchght would
be more apt) on the supposedly haphazard FLASHING off"
of popular songs? May there not be something more
exact about the business, when viewed thus in retro
spect, than one might have imagined?
have said that after the of 3After the Ball"
came realize that that might not have been
the accident believed it and that there
the % a Ra s or the
time for the that Eugene Walters dramas,
in times have become the of their
later day.
"After the BALI was the first song written in America
the lyric of which talked
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the lyr1c OF Which talked
the way people talk, !" just as
Mr.. Walter was the first
native dramatist to have his
stage characters talk as their
patterns off the stage would
talk. He was colloquial in
every sense, to be sure; but
the public realized that there
was something it wanted.
The public was wearied of
hearing a stockbroker (for
instance), type it knew well,
come out on the stage and say,
"Ah, Laura, twill never do to
act in this manner!" And
when Mr.. Walter had his
stockbroker speak as the
stockholders the public knows
speak, "See here, Laura,
you've got to cut out doing
this sort of thing!' why, the
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greeted me with, what
an easy time you have
just dashing off catchy
songs and raking in the
money!" Not one has
sensed the actual facts of
the case; for the writing
of popular songs, instead
Of being a @dashing off,
process, is a matter requir-
ing much study, observa-
ton, investigation, and
labor. Indeed, I may even
hazard calling it a science.
The term seems none too
formidable.
l have been called the
pioneer Of popular song
writing in America; SO l
suppose | may pose as
something of a statistical
authority on the subject
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authority on the subject
in hand. Although l have written established
popular songs than any other American it may interest
you to know that never took music lesson of any
sort and that today cannot distinguish note
on the piano from another. say piano, because
always compose on that instrument My ear is and
always has been my only tutor.
When was youngster attending school in Saginaw,
Michigan, in the habit of winding piece of thin
tissue paper round comb and using the makeshft
pseudc-zobo instrument to play tunes One day
humming tune the comb during recess time,
when schooteacher up to where the rest of the
youngsters and congregated, listened to play
for few minutes, and then asked what tune it
l was attempting to render. told her that did not
know. "Its really very pretty, she said As matter
of fact did not know what the tune had
heard it before and was just making it up as went
along" to speak. Of l fattered at the
teachers praise and played the tune subsequently
every possible occasion just to show off.
was in the earliest teens then; but remembered the
air had composed on the comb and years later,
when went Milwaukee to live and take up song writ
ing my ifework, had the notes put down scrap
of paper. did not think about the tune for long time
after that, and probably should have again had
not met youngster who had been at school with
Saginaw and now pretty well grown up visiting in
Milwaukee. what ever became of that tune you used
to jolly the schoolteacher WITH Charle he asked at
luncheon one day. And to my frank surprise he began
to whistle the first two lines of the chorus That set
thinking. If this young fellow could remember the little
tune over five or six years. there certainly must be some
thing more to the tune than had believed. | sought
out the scrap of it may interest you know
that you have undoubtedly whistled the notes on
that scrap of paper long this for the song turned
out to be what is agreed upon the biggest popular
song hit turned out in this country. It's name?
@After the Ball"
One million FIVE hundred and fifty thousand copies of
this song Sold But, hear you say the success of
this particular song accident. Where, you in
sst does the science of popular song writing here1
Let me agree with you that it doesn't 1t was only
after the of "Afer the Ball" that realized that
what seemed accident might really not be anything of
the Sort that there for the wide popularity
OF the song that the rested beyond the
hot
and be applied subsequently toward the foundation and
composition of other popular songs
will not be SO bold to assert that have managed
to get entirely at the heart of the popular song writing
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vice." caught the national
eye, l followed suit and
caught the national ear with
a dying soldier ballad called
@Just Break the News to
Mother. :" When the fanci-
full trend of things made its
way back of the footlights
in response to the national
taste and desire, l followed
such reminiscent plays as
The Road to Yesterday"
with such reminiscent bal
lads as Yesterday" When
Pinero's dramas dealing with
women of the street took
hold of the national pulse,
the beats of which they
echoed, l sat down and
wrote songs like @Cast
Aside, Fallen by the V ay-
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side" and II Love Her Just the Same"
And every time, let me repeat, the rejecting
songs hit the mark, and the lips of the nation
were drawn into whistling pucker The
way to the whistling lips is always through
the heart. Reach the heart through your
lyrics, and the lips will whistle the emotion
via the melody. Where the heart has not been
touched by the lyric, the lips will prove re-
bellious. They may, indeed, whistle the mel
ody once, even twice; but it takes more than
that to make song truly popular. A catchy
tune is not sufficient in itself. A catchy tune
goes far, it is true; but it will not go the entire
distance of popularity, or even two-thirds Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
FIRE LOSS SHOWS
 SMALL INCREASE
In 29S Cities Increased 23 Cents Per Capita for
 Past Year

New York, May 23.-Despite fire pro- tection policies inaugurated in many cities the loss per capita In 29S cities showed an increase last year of 2S cents, while for the whole country 1t decreased but cents per capita, ac- cording to the report of George W. Babb, president of the national board of fire underwriters, which today began here it's forty-sixth annual meeting. The underwriting profit of 1911, MT. Babb' reported, was only 6s per cent of the net written premiums. and he at tributed the small earnings to reduction in premiums and in increase in fire losses.
 Compared with 1910 there was last year an increase in total premiums of S7,41S,415 an increase in losses paid of S15,4S1. .090, and an increase in eX- penses of $5.455,O7O. The business of companies affiliated with the national board of fire underwriters, MT Babb reported, amounted to s294.o71, 1882 from premiums on fire, marine and inland in surance. Fire losses were paid during the year amounting to $15s,S92,620. The increase in liabilities Is estimaed at $16,840,733. Total profits for all the companies during the year were Sl,- 93S, ,136.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
REGISTERED DRUG
 CLERKS IN SESSION
Enjoyable Meeting Held Last Night by the Local Organi-
 Zation

An enjoyable session of the Registered Drug Clerks of Jefferson county was held last night in the rooms of the Cotton Ex- change. Woodward building.
 While the attendance was not as large as was expected it was representative, and included many of the leading drug clerks of the city and county. H. J. Burnham, president of the association, was in the chair and added much to the pleasure of the occasion by the graceful manner in which he performed his duties as master of ceremonies.
 The session was of an informal nature, an elegant buffet luncheon being served to the members present and their invited guests, which was much enjoyed.
 There was no set programme. each member present being called upon to re- late some incident relating to the profess sion. humorous or otherwise, which ordi- narily to the lay-man was as unintelli- gable as the Chinese alphabet, yet afforded much amusement to the compounders of pills and potions.
 The Registered Drug Clerk association has only been in existence a few months but has accomplished much good to the public at large by insisting that the man who fills prescriptions shall be quail fled and skilled in his profession. Its membership included practically every drug clerk in the county that has been licensed by the proper authorities.
 President Burnham announced that the social sessions would be a feature of the meetings and that at each meeting some prominent member would be called upon to make 15-minute talk on subjects ap- propriate to the occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
Four Women Delegates

Chicago, May 23.-Four women will oc- cupy seats as delegates at the republican national convention June IS. Two will come from California and two from other western states.
 "The first woman delegate to sit in a national republican convention was al Minneapolis in 1892. when Wyoming sent one of the fair sex as one of it's dele gates" said Chairman Harry s. New of the subcommittee on arrangements.
 Sergeant-at-arms w. F. Stone has re- ceived sores of applications from women in western states for appointment as as- sistant sergeants-at-arms. doorkeepers and ushers at the convention, but none but men will be named for these positions this year.
 At least 500 assistants will be employed by the sergeant-at-arms. The force will include 100 doorkeepers, 400 assistant ser geants-at-arms and 300 ushers. Already thousands of applications for positions have been received by MT. Stone.
 The first printed briefs relative to con tested delegations were rcevd today fron, tn Ninth congressional district of Ten nessee and of the Fifth district of Louisi- ana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
Interest Shifts in Ohio

Columbus, Ohio, May 23.--With the
 general result of the presidential pri-
 mary in Ohio known, interest today
 shifted today to the outcome of the fights in the republican and democratic
 parties for control of the state con- ventions. The republican convention will take place in Columbus June 3 and
 4, and the democratic in Toledo, June
 and 5.
 Late returns today indicate that
 Roosevelt will have 32 of the delegates to the national convention and Presi- dent Taft 10, as result of the primary. The six delegates at large will be
 named by the convention and they are
 being claimed by both sides. Numer-
 ous county conventions will be held
 Saturday and a vigorous fight will be
 made by Taft and Roosevelt ad- herents
 Although returns are insufficient to show how many delegates to the na- tional convention Governor Harmon has as a result of the primary, it is be- lieved he will have 2S. The Wilson
 men are willing to concede but 25 to him.
 The six delegates at large go to Har-
 mon automatically as result of his winning the direct preferential pri- mary. Although returns indicate that Harmon forces will control the conven- ton and will make an effort to pass a rule making the Ohio delegation to the Baltimore convention a unit for him, Mayor Newton Baker of Cleveland to- day declared that he would lead light against such action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
SPIRIT OF SAN DIEGOANS
 TOWARD l. w. w. STILL MILITANT

Diego chamber of commerce, was made today at the hearing of Porter, the al- legged 'vllante'' leader, who was accused of contempt of court by Attorney Fred H. Moore, who alleged Porter had inter- fered with his work of defending clients implicated in the I. w. w disturbance
 Moore asked spalding If he knew of any meeting of citizens where the formation of committee to prevent industrial workers and sympathizers from further activities had been discussed. He stated his purpose in putting the question was to show a series of illegal actions by the so-called ''vigilantes', but the witness was not permitted to answer after the defense had objected, and had said a reply meant that the witness might commit himself.
 Chief of Police Wilson asserted tonight that six armed industrial workers were in town, having been selected by lot to murder four local officials.
 According to Grief Wilson 10 men were drawn by lot in Los Angeles month ago to murder Mayor Wadhan Capt. John l.. Sehon, superintendent of police; II. S. -I-tley. district attorney and Chief Wilson. One of the 10, the chief said, betrayed the plot telling on what boat the 10 would arrive.
 A later letter in the same handwriting. Hthe chief said, warned him that six moro men had been chosen by lot for the same purpose as the original 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
Juvenile Humor

Flom the New York Evening Sun. DISCOVERY OF IRON. Teacher-Jimmie can you tell how iron was first discovered? simmie-I heard my father say that t:iev smelt it.
 VELOCITY. Teacher-What is velocity, Johnnie? Jchnnie-yelocity is what fellow lets gc of a wasp with.
 SOCIAL SCALE. 'sPapa what is the social scaie?" asked Dolly.
 Usually speaking," replied pa, its a place where they weigh money"
 A SLIM BANQUET. Street Trchin-Where yer goln Mag gie?
 Maggie-Goin ter do de butcher fer fl cSnts wort uv liver. Urchin-chee. Yer gon' ter have com rany fer dinner ain't yer?
 A NATURE STUDENT. Hello. Bobby l hear that the stork las brought you a new baby brother.' "Glt out, De nearest thing to a stork in eese diggin's is sandhill crane
 SILENT HEROES 'To our silent heroes" little Willie read iron ts.e memorial bronze Pa. what aie silent heroes?" Married men," said pa.
 WHEN GREEK MEETS CREEK .When Greek meets Greek-what hap pens?" asked the teacher. Wise little Johnnie promptly replied: "One says to the other, How's de fruit business?
 SOME DIFFERENCE. Did you marry your ideal? asked a new acquaintance of brigh. matron. .Mercy. no! l married my husband
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
WITNESS YOUNG
 ALLEN WITH BULLETS


 Wytheville. Va, May 23.-John Dalton, a Hillsvile farmer, testlfying here today against Claude Swanson Allen, charged with the murder of Judge Massie of the Carroll county court last March, said that just before the enactment of the tragedy he saw the defendant with part of sev- eral handsfull of bullets, which were dis tributed by Wesley Edwards, one of the clansmen still at large.
 Dalton said Edwards also gave some of the bullets to Sidna and Floyd Allen and to Sidna Edwards and two others. whom he did not know. He also testified that he saw Byrd Marion fire twice in the courthouse yard. It was knowledge of this latter evidence that caused the re- arrest of Marion last night after he had been released on 5000 bond.
 J. T. Cochran, one of the common wealth's first witnesses. testified that he sav' voung Allen with a pistol in his pocket after the shooting