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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-01
(By Margaret Hubbard Ayer.)

N theories of quiet and restful-
ness as aids to youth and
beauty, when 1 saw her in her dressing
room, after watching her in all the
changing moods of the Mind and Paint
Girl"
"Oh. what do you want me to say?-
said Miss Burke, at first, as if the
question were ratehr embarrassing.
With all her girlishness, she i'm
presses you as absolutely sincere. She
wouldn't talk the ordinary beauty talk
even to please a press agent, for she
knows it's flubdub. and so do I. Stiu
1 did want to know how she kept the
fountain of youth a-bubbling.
I don't think I 90 anything espe-
cially. Nothing worth writing about
Let me see Yes, I have it. I think
1 remain well and full of vitality for
my work because get all the rest that
1 need she ventured at last.
Lives Out of Town.
NO one in New York ever gets
rested; ut least, that's what 1 think
and so 1 don't live in New York, but
out of town. little way up the Hud-
son. Out there get quiet, sound sleep
and rest, with no noise to harass the
nerves. There it is not possible that
there should be constant demands made
upon my time.
The first winter that I played in
New YORK lived in the city, but that
was enough Never again. It seems to
ne never stopped; l never had any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
High Production Record

The pig iron production of Mo- vember was 2,634,S02 tons. The pro- duction of the year stood on the opening of the present month at 26,- 543, ,761 tons, and production of 29, 100000 tons in the calendar year is practically assured. The largest previous output in this country was in 1910, when 26,845,314 tons became the record.
 The Alabama production in Novem- ber was 167,610 tons. The present production in this district is at the rate of 2,000,000 tons year, but the years total will not reach that az gregate.
 Until some stacks are built ir Shades valley Alabama will have tc be content, perhaps, to be outranked by Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois ano New York. This puts this district 1T fifth place, and there it will probably stay until Shades valley asserts it. self as an ore and pig iron center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Presbyterians in High office

Both the President-elect and the Vice president-eect are Presbyterians and the governor of New York. who will be the ranking governor from political point of view is Presbyterian" said nan who is not a member of the Presbyterian household.
 ''As Presbyterians are noted for their high intelligence and strength of charac- ter it is but natural that they should be frequently represented in the White House.
 Andrew Jackson was the first Presby- terian President, and since the war the Presbyterians occupying the White House were Cleveland and Harrison. A. E. Stephenson, who was elected vice. presi- dent on the ticket with Cleveland in 1892, was also a Presbyterian. But it has never happened that the President and vice president and the governor of New York at the same time had the same church connection and a similar coincidence will probably not occur again soon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
NOVEL ADVERTISEMENT

From Answers.
 One reads of many ingenious ways or attracting the public attention to any par ticular new feature, but most readers VIII agree that the following is really an un' common advertisement:
 A well known travelling circus visited Colombo some weeks ago, and startled the public at large by stating that, among other prizes to be distributed amongst the audience, would be several fine bull locks.
 On visiting the circus each person was provided with several numbered tickets according to the price of seat At the con- clusion of the performance, quantity of similarly numbered tickets were drawn from a bag each of which, of7course, en- titled the owner of that number to a prize.
 On the first evening of this novel prize distribution, two sailors were the lucky winners of two splendid Indian bulloeks Imagine the excitement as they went forward to claim their animals and event ually led them away, after a series oi tussles, by a piece of rope, through the town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
Dr. Parke's Library Plan

The library in the city hall was at the start a part of the public school system, and the hope is that 1t will be increased until it becomes helpful to the entire population of the city. The children in the public schools must never be lost sight of, but larger library would become useful to all classes and sections of the popula- tion.
 The plan proposed by Dr. T. D. Parke is to place the five libraries of Birmingham in the hands of library board. They are now controlled by the board of education, which has its hands full in conducting the public schools. The proposed library board would be responsible to the commis- sion, would serve without pay and could be dissolved at any time if its work should prove to be weak and in- effective.
 There is no reason why the plan of Dr. Parke should not be given a trial. The library in the city hall is hampered by lack of space, by lack of money and by lack of interest on the part of many citizens. The pro
 II l- add a new outlook to the situation. Il may be able to put each year hand some sum into new books, until it i' seen at last that new building is z necessity. In other words, there is 2 promise of growth in the proposed library board, and at present there is small promise indeed in that direc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
Leaving the Turk in Europe

Greece is to send plenipotentaries to the peace conference and the re- lations between her and the allies are unbroken and unchanged.
 The London conference will, it is surmised, leave the Turk in Europe, simply because it does not know what else to do with Constantinople. It should be remembered that this is not the first time that the Turkish power in Europe has been close to the point of collapse, and it was saved each time by European diplomacy and the green-eyed monster. In 1929 the Rus sians captured Adrianople and diplo- macy saved Constantinople and many provinces to the Turk. Fifty years later Russian army approached Con- stantinople, and the Berlin conference permitted Turkey to remain in Flu rope.
 Thirty more years have elapsed anc . third readjustment is to be planned in the next few days in London. The belief is that again the Turk will b( left in Europe, to be finally driver out, say, 30 years hence when fourth and final readjustment takes place The Turk belongs in Asia, and there he will have to go just as soon a: rival interests can find new occu pant of Constantinople. Bulgaria ha. astonished the world in the present war, and she may become strong enough to drive the Turk out of Flu rope, thus settling at last a time worn problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
From Answers.

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 XVTHEN Sir John Gorst was occupy
 NAk ing an editorial chair in Waika-
 " to half a century ago he found himself, to his dismay, in the center oi the Maori fighting.
 One afternoon" he recalls, "when the Maoris ran short of ammunition for their Ii pound gun, they raided the te hakioi (printing works) and charged their can non with type and stereo-b blocks, which proved very destructive missiles.
 One brave soldier was sent to the hos pital by a patent medicine advertise ment; another lost his leg to a solid leader on the land bill; and I myself narrowly escaped an exit from the world through the medium of one of my own poems.
 No less resourceful was a force of na- tive Indians when besiegng d fort held by the United States troops. Having eap- tured some hundreds of tins of preserved meats, they proceeded to load their weap. ons with them, and poured into the be- leagured fort a perfect deluge of beef mutton and OK tongues.
 In one of the Afghan wars, when an at tack on one of our outposts seemed doomed to failure through lack of am- munition, the Afghans collected the spent cartridge eases and fired them back at the British, who promptly returned the compliment.
 In our own civil war many a small army of rustics marched to battle equipped with scythes and fails, pickaxes, pruning hooks and blacksmith's hammers, unmar- tial weapons with which they did deadly execution. Many Boer in the last war faced British rifle and bayonet with a scythe blade or dagger attached to a broom handle for sole protection.
 Still worse equipped was the Forty fourth Mississippi regiment when they made their historic charge at the battle of Murfreesboro, not a man of them all carrying any other weapon than his bare fists. When at last they emerged from the first there was scarcely a man of the survivors who could not show a Spring. field rifle captured from the enemy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
THE WAYS OF DERVISHES
From Tit-Bits.
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From Tit-Bits.
 nHE religion of the Ottoman empire
 is typical of it's people-barbarous A and fantastic. The Dervishes, the regular religious order in Turkey, recog- pize no authority but that of Allah and, in consequence, have been persecuted not a little by the jealous Sultans. Although the laymen who profess this faith have but to repeat one or two short prayers and wear the sacred cap for a few mill- utes every day, those who take the vows of poverty, abstinence from wine, and celibacy, from time to time perform strange rites in their worship of Allah.
 The Whirling Dervishes, after a few preliminaries, begin to chant the Koran to weird music played on flutes and tar boukas, which seems to intoxicate them. Che by che they close their eyes, stretch their arms horizontally. and begin to twist, slowly at first, but gain speed until they seem, like sleeping top. although there may be a score or more whirling at the same time in the centre of the floor, rever leave the spot where they stand, and never get out of time, always
 
 rntil they fall exhausted, and are covered With a clcalx until they have recovered.
 The ceremonies performed by the Rowling Dervishes, another sect, are quite as strange, and great deal more barbarous even than those just men, tiored, but in neither case are the rites performed secretly; for. unlike other Mo- hammedans, the Dervishes do not object to the Christian dog' attending their places of worship, so long as he removes his shoes before he enters the ''tekieh," or temple
 Round the walls of the hall used by the Rowling Dervishes hang al sorts of cruel looking implemeuts-sharp darts nippers. chains, pincers, and other weapons. lirium. This they do by holding their flesh when they have worked themselves up to a state of religious ecstasy and de- limium This they do by noddng their heads backwards and forwards, keeping tune to q strange, monotonous chant. Faster and faster they move their heads,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
 THE CITY OF THE FUTURE

From Harper's Weekly.
 In an address to an international
 town planning conference abroad, M.
 Eugene Henard. the municipal architect
 of Paris, has given forecast of what
 the ideal city of the future will be
 like.
 According to M. Henard. light and
 energy will be conveyed by electricity. Petrol and oxygen will supply heat Liquid air will maintain refrigeration in every larder. In addition to heat radiators. there will be "cold radia- l tors" which will enable every house to
 be kept at the required temperature in summer.
 | By this power it will be possible to
 provide in each house one or more health chambers closed by close fitting double windows and doors in which the
 over worked occupant on his return from town will find all the hygienic conditions which he can now obtain
 only by taking an annual holiday. Glass verandas of various shapes l joined together and with covered foot paths, according to standard models, will shelter pedestrians against rain,
 and the normal height of buildings will be exactly the width of the street. The
 roofs of houses will be platforms upon which small flower beds and verdant shrubberies can be laid out. as they will be landing stages for aeroplanes.
 When this progress shall have been
 accomplished the physiognomy of towns will be changed. All terraces will have become landing stages for flying | automobiles. Aviators will be able to | fly from one terrace to another, start ing and landing as they please. The natural consequence of this new state of things will be that each building will have to be furnished with big ele- vators capable of raising machines and taking them back to the garage on their return Houses of this description will also be used to house motor cars Finally, the town of the future will be traversed by large radlating thoroughfares occupied partly by raised pla tforms continually moving which will insure rapid communication be- tween the different zones. These plat forms will be terminated by large re- yolving crossways at the intersection of the main roads. Large parks ana flower gardens as residences and pleas
 ure resorts will be laid out in various parts of the town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
HER DREAMS LOST
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Who is Anna Warrington? And why should one care who she is anyway !? Well she was once beautiful woman and her face was made immortal by a greater painter in picture that is one of the most romantic ever painted. It is the DOT trait of kiss. The artist was Carolus Duran and Anna Warrington was the girl receiving the kiss. It is beautiful pie ture
 And Anna Warrington? :.
 She is an old. old woman and lives alone in a little English village, poor and plain and unknown
 But 40 years ago, how different! Yes, it was 40 years ago that the beautiful kiss picture was painted.
 A beautiful woman is reclining in her lovers arms and receiving the kiss full on the mouth. And how ardently does the lover hold her, one strong hand be- heath her head, the other against her waist, clasped over by her own little soft hand and her arm flung about his neck in the abandon of loving, and the two beautiful faces together.
 
 She was in the full glory of her charms when she posed for the famous kiss pie ture, and it is said that the reason Duran painted it with such exquisite ten- derness was that he was at the time pas sionately in love with his beautiful model. The lover in the picture is almost a por- trait of Duran in the days of his youth.
 When she found she was getting too old to pose she went to work as a de- signer at S10 week and life turned pro- saic and colorless. It dazed her a little. Her life a short time ago had been filled with marvellous promises. But that was youth, and somehow life had not made good Why could one not always be like the girl in .'Le Baiser?" she asked herself. Life was so beautiful then, and Anna Warrington never dreamed it would be. could be, anything else.
 And now she is all alone and Duran is ar old man and has forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
 TOAD SYSTEM OF DRINKING

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 A man, who was stranger to the usual throng, stepped up to the mahogany, or dered New orleans fizz, and reaching In his pocket, pulled forth live toad and placed it on the bar.
 For the love of Mike" said the man next to him. Why the toad%'
 That toad plays a star part in the system that 1 have used for many years with great success" replied the man.
 Spring it." shouted the mob.
 well, you see. l take my little friend toad and place him on the mahogany in front of me and order my drink. l take my drink and then l order another and sometimes another and perhaps then an other. l look at my toad and If there IS only one toad there l stay and enjoy a few more rounds. AS soon as there are two toads there instead of one l go home. I have never yet stayed until there were three That's my system. Well, I don't mind if 1 do. A little more of the same, please
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07

l MT. Cleveland made Judge Gresham Secretary of State instead of Richard Olney, who started in the cabinet as Attorney General and who succeeded to the state portfolio upon the death of Gresham I knew that Mir Cleveland had made up his mind to offer Judge Gresham a cabinet position in compli- ment to the large independent vote | that came to Mr Cleveland. But Judge Gresham, thought, would have fitted better at the head of some other de- partment than that of state
 John C.. Carlisle was Mir. Clevelands S Secretary of the Treasury through that entire second term and the public readily approved of the selection for MT. Carlisle was admittedly the great est political economist in the party, or in the country for that matter.
 Another cabinet office that was filled by just the right man and by a man that the entire country approved was the navy, Hilary A. Herbert of Ala bama. Colonel Herbert had been chair man of the naval committee in the House during MT. Cleveland's s first ad- minis traitor.
 "But as able as MT. Clevelands cabi net was in his second administration It was not up, as whole, perhaps to the official family of the first administra- tion, which embraced Thomas F. Boy ard of Delaware, Secretary of State; Daniel Manning of New York, and aft erwards, Charles F. Fairchild of New York, Secretary of the Treasury; Will liam C. Endicott of Massachusetts, Sec retary of War; L. o. C. Lamar of Mis- sissippi, Secretary of the Interior and afterwards William F. Villas, who suc- ceeded to the office when Cleveland appointed Lamar to the supreme bench; William c. Whitney of New York, Sec retary of the Navy Villas, Postmaster General and afterward John M Dickin- son of Michigan, and Augustus H. Gar land of Arkansas, Attorney General. Other cabinet offices had not then been created !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
SOME STRANGE WEAPONS

It is no exaggerations to say that, in the toll of war, thousands of lives have been cut short by bullets fashioned from gold and silver. When Napoleon led his con- quering army into Italy, the plate from 100 church altars was coined into the but lets which moved down the lines of Aus trians and Sardinians.
 The Princess Condo. surrounded in Am adangar by Akbar's hosts, gave orders that every ounce of gold and silver in her capital should be melted to feed her guns Bullets of silver were moulded by the thousand in our civil war, in the hope of ridding the earth of Cromwell; and it is on record that it was such bullet that stilled Claverhouse's heart at Killie- crankie. At the storming of Badajos d gallant British colonel was found dead with silver pencil case embedded in his heart; and a gold signet ring brought death to a Captain Forbes on the same day.
 Bullets of gold, too. were common enough in the palmy days of the Aus tralian and Californian gold fields, when in tavern brawls many digger was shot with bullet moulded from the gold dust that was in every pocket. And scores of old soldiers, fighting in Kashmir, have fallen to bullets whose core was a garnet or other precious stone.
 But there is practically no limit to the incongruous variety of weapons of of- fense. which range from the red hot can non balls with which the Gibraltar garri- son destroyed in flame the Spanish float ing batteries, to the cowhide whips which the federals used on the backs of the staff of a Philadelphia paper, who retorted with muzzleloaders heavily charged with small type.
 On one memorable occasion, when the fakui Indians in revolt found themselves faced by strong body of Mexican sol diers, they advanced to the attack behind a covering line of men earring wet blank cts, against which the enemys bullets were as ineffective as pea shooters, for the bullets, caught in the loose blanket folds, fell impotently
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
Preparatory Hearings This Winter

On Monday next the ways and means committee will, it is reported, plan a series of hearings extending well into February, on the tariff. The hearings will be by schedules, begin ming with that relating to chemicals.
 Chairman Clayton of the judiciary committee will begin in January, aft CT the Archibald trial is completed, a careful consideration of the trust question, and also the terms of an in come tax.
 Congressman Glass of Virginia, at Athe head of the subcommittee of the banking and currency committee of the House, will also in January seek q substitute for the Aldrich central hank plan, and hearings will be be- r,In on January 6. Invitations have been sent to large number of per cons, and list of questions will be Ieent to others.
 All these inquiries have no bearing hatsysr upon the work of the short
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
Governors Condemn Blease

The governors in their annual con- ferences have discussed large ques- | tions in a large way and those who have attended have, as a rule, been | careful to say nothing to reflect in the least on the dignity of the executive heads collectively
 The conference now in session in Richmond, however, has been marred by the speeches of Goevrnor Blease of South Carolina, who has given vio- lent utterance to views that make for lawlessness. He has vehemently up- held the lynching of negroes for a nameless crime; has to all intents and purposes strongly advocated mob law. No one who has been honored with the governorship of any state had ever spoken defiantly of law and order until Governor Blease came upon the scene.
 Many lynchings have occurred in the south but the number has been steadily minimized and lynching is now rare. The governors of southern states have not only been committed to a policy against lynching, but have been prompt and vigorous in their efforts to prevent lynch law. Gov ernor Blease in his craze to be sensa- tional has made inflammatory speeches calculated to harm not only his own state but the whole south. But fortunately the people of this country have become too enlightened and too broad-minded to regard a demagogue like Blease as true rep resentative of section.
 According to the Associated Press, among those who spoke yesterday in plain terms against Blease's utter ances was Governor O'Neal of Ala bama; and a resolution offered by Governor Mann of Virginia repudiat- ing Governor Blease was adopted by practically unanimous vote. The four governors who voted against the resolution stated that it was not be- cause they approved of mob violence but because they thought the con- ference exceeded its rights in the ac- ton which it was taking.
 Governor Blease has been notably successful in vote getting. He has been reelected governor and he has been chosen by democrats to rep resent South Carolina in the United States Senate for the term beginning on the fourth of March, 1915. But he is, withal, cheap politician whose ruling passion is that of keeping in the spotlight. The governors con- ference is to be warmly commended for rising quickly to the occasion and putting themselves squarely on record in opposition to Blease and his brand of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07
QUICK ACTION NEEDED
From the New York Sun.


 Good sense and sound politics indorse Representative Oscar w. Underworld recommendation to his colleagues ia ths Gemocratic party. He believes that tariff revision should be undertaken at once: the hearings should begin in January; the bills should be prepared promptly; the business world should know definitely and exactly by next summer precisely what taxes gre to be levied at the frontiers.
 No tariff schedules that any party re- sponsihle for filling the treasury of the United States will enact can be so harm full to industry as uncertainty and dread. Delay is far more to he feared than i'm mediate action, even though it be drastic. The baseless rumors -ure to circulate during prolonged period of suspense would do more harm than any law that sane men will draft
 An extraordinary session and quick en- actment of new schedules are prescribed by wisdom as the enlightened treatment of the tariff by the democratic statesmen.