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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
TRIANGLE THEME PASSING

From Munseys Magazine.
 One notable feature of present day drama is the decline in popularity of the triangle theme. which thus bids fair to lose it's identifying adjectve eternal"
 Cast your eyes over the failures of the past few seasons, and you will find tha. plays dealing chiefly with ill mated cou- pies and unhappy love intrgues bulk large in the storehouses. The public has siekened of the unsavory mess.
 By the same token. we are growing tired of plots which call for so called strong emotional work on the partof the hero- inc. This is distinctly material and non sentimental age. Glance over recent sue eesses, and you cannot fail to note the presence in each one Of them c. some thing more substantIal than love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
Modern Hotels

"I have been coming 10 Birmingham mi-annually for the past 12 years.' said travelling salesman whose head quarters are in Cincinnati. and l have wondered in recent years that no palatial, up to date hotel was one of this city s institutions. Nowadays there is hardly city of 75,00O population that hasn't a million dollar hotel. Well, Birmingham is about to become the leader in fine hotels. Ground has been broken for two elegant hostelries, and it will be nip and tuck which building is completed first. Since Birmingham has acquired the new hotel habit 1t is a safe prediction that a third will be built within the next two or three years
 "Of the hotels already here I have had occa sion to try two of them; and l found the service satisfactory. One of them had excellent cafes. But a city of Birminghams size and importance needs hotels measuring up to the highest stand ard To live at such hotels costs. but there are many men who can afford to pay and who expect to pay for the best of everything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 TNROM two different sources come tid-
 ings that more arbitrary measures A are being used to rid the world of that useless commodity, the bachelor. over in Baltimore it appears that the Rev. pr. William Wilberforce Costin. one of the most scholarly divines in the Baa- timore conference or the Methodist I5pis- copal church, has resigned because of ob- stacles put in his way in order to send him into matrimony. Apparently Dr. Cos tim did not want to marry, but he was tcld that the best places in the ministry were for, married men. So he resigned. This action was not very complimentary to the ladies, but probably no man likes to think he is being forced into marriage. It would have been better had the confer ence left the matter to the women of the faith. It might take them some time to succeed, but if woman will she will, depend on it.
 But from Ireland comes news of still harsher measures. A young woman of Dunshaughlin. little village in Meath county. about 20 miles from Dublin, wrote to the ulSlTlcI cOuilcll ultteil9 that all the bachelors thereabouts were so mean that they locked their cottage doors each morning, went to work, and returning home made their own supper and spent the rest of the evening smok- ing their pipes. The young woman said she was going to leave country where a young girl might never expect to get husband From the way you are go- ing on," she said to the councilmen, 'the squall of child will never be heard in the deserted cottages of Dunshaughlin."
 The letter aroused the councilmen, and they recorded in the local statute book that all the bachelors must marry within three months or leave their cottages. This law, passed so quickly and informal ly. might be regarded as confiscatory, but 1t seems to have hit the bulls eye. There are 69 bachelors in the county. but all of them are taking the law philosophically
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
pEREA,s FIREsIDE INDUSTRIES

From Harper's Weekly.
 The offer by students of hand woven bed coverlets as payment for their tui- ton led the president of Berea college to establish the Berea Fireside Industries. Repair that loom' became a slogan which awakened interest in the remotest cabins. A few of the coverlets found their way to Louisville, Cincinnati and New York.
 "They were admired so much,' writes David c. Davis, in The Survey, that or ders soon began to overwhelrn the women weavers In the Kentucky mountains. The energetic action of the president of Berea. who organized 'homespun fairs and awarded premiums for the best coverlets, blankets, etc, and for new designs, checked a threatened decline in quality whicn would have killed in it's infancy the accidentally awakened industry.
 "Ihe Preside industries now include chairs, saddles, axe handles. wooden plates forks spoons and baskets, in ad- dition to blankets, linen towel covers ramie towels and rag rugs of many colors and designs. The mountaineers often come a days journey on horseback to the fairs or to get detailed instruction. An un- looked for source of revenue has been not only created, but, what is better still, saved and regulated.
 Not only around Berea, but in every community, there are people who make in the home useful and artistic articles, the sale of which would furnish them good nro.,t if an organized market could he de- veloped for the products One way to &C., ccmplish this is to establish in each com mnnity a cooperative store for the sale of such goods. By exchange with sim liar stores in other communities, arrange ments could be made for disposing of any oyciSupply."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
JUDAS IN MEXICO

Harriet Qunlby in Leslie's.
 On the afternoon and evening of Good Friday the vendors do a brisk business selling Judases. These are made of fire works. Hundreds of the ugly images rep resenting the betrayer are held high above the heads of the crowd. The vendors tic two or three of them together and hold them up on a long pole. On Saturday morning before Easter the Judases are set off. Every home. however humble, has little Judas to destroy. and many of the shops have life yfzed images before their doors, where they are exploded with great ceremony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
MAKING BACHELORS MARRY

They admit that their only trouble was in making up their minds. Now they feel they will have to decide quickly, and are quite willing to do it.
 Neither of the measures adopted to force bachelors to marry seems, to be wholly adequate They seek to do by in direction what should be done by a more direct method. Laws and outside coercion can make bachelorhood less comfortable, but they cannot make marriage more de- sirable. The task is one for the women themselves. a task more important than winning the ballot. All that is necessary is for woman to study the atr of ap- bearing to be wooed when she herself Is wooing. It's as simple as falling off a log.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
Saturday Is Tag Day

One of Birmingham's fixed institu- tions is tag day for the benefit of the Boys club, and citizens are in the habit of responding literally to the appeals of the children and young ladies who have the tags for sale.
 Next Saturday is the day and it is hoped that in view of the enlarged scope of the club a larger sum than usual will be realized.
 The Boys club is managed by a number of women prominent in Bir- mingham's social and civic life. The club is a clearing house, so to speak, for all child saving effort. It looks after and provides for homeless, de- linouent and neglected children. It pays the salaries for four probation officers and provides finances for the juvenile court and detention home for Jefferson county.
 As city and county appropriations for the club are comparatively small, the management counts largely on tag day for funds with which to carry on the good work. Everybody can help. Money is greatly needed. The work planned for this year calls for an ex- penditure of S5000 more than the club has in sight.
 There are more than 5000 people in Birmingham today who could give S1 to the worthy cause and not miss it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
Most Appalling Loss of Life

What appeared from Monday morn ing's meagre dispatches an accident to the great White Line steamer Titanic in collision with an iceberg without loss of life, proves to be the most appalling disaster in all marine history.
 Not only has the $10,000,000 ship on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York gone to the bottom of the sea, but more than 1900 souls have perished. The most terrible ocean disasters of former years were the wreck of the Atlantic in 1873 when 574 persons were lost and the La Bourgogne in 1898 with loss of 571. Many persons will readily recall the La Bourgogne disaster. It cast a gloom over the world which was not soon forgot. But that wreck fades into insignificance now.
 Used as we are to death destroying catastrophes the heart stands still in contemplation of this latest disaster.
 Wrecks are sometimes caused by carelessness, but humanly speaking the Titanic's collision with the iceberg seems to have been an accident that could not be foreseen.
 On modern steamships the crews are drilled to save life in the event of disaster. Every one of the S6O men who composed the Titanic's crew doubtless did his duty herocially. If it is true, as reported, that nearly all of the saved are women and children the world has an example without parallel of splendid heroism and chiv- airy on the part of men looking death in the face.
 Later information may reduce the Titanic's fatality list, but even at best the number lost will hardly come below 1900.
 Profound sympathy from every part of the globe win go out to families bereft of dear ones. For those need ing material aid relief fund will be soon raised, for the heart of the world is always moved and is quickly responsive in time of great human calamity.
 Oh, the Hateful day which witnessed the sinking of the Titanic and 1900 souls asleep in watery gravesl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
THE FUTURE

With plainness as near, As flashing as Moses felt. When he lay in the night by his flock On the starlt Arabian wastot Can rise and obey
 The beck of the spirit like hinnS This tract which the river of Time Now flows through with us, is the plain Gone is the calm of it's earlier shore, Bordered by cities, and hoarse with a thousand cries is itssstream. And we on it's breast our minds Are confused as the cries which we hear Changing and short as the sights we see. And we say that repose has fled Forever the course of the river Time, That cities will crowd to it's edge IT, 9 hlacker, incessanter line: That the din will be more on it's banks. Eenser the trade on it's stream Platter the plain where it flows, Fiercer the sun overhead; That never will those on it's breast See an ennobling sight, Drink of the feeling of quiet gain. But what was before us we know not. And we know not what shall succeed. Haply, the river of Time As it grows, as the towns on it's maree Fling their wavering lights On wider, statelier stream May, acquire, if not the calm Of it's early mountainous shore, Yet solemn peace of its own. And the width of the waters, the hush Of the gray expanse where he floats Freshening its current and spotted with
 foam.
 As it draws to the ocean, may strike Peace to the soul of the man on it's N breast -arl e.t As the pale waste wfdens around him. As the banks fade dimmer away, As the stars come out. and the night wind Brings up the stream
 Nurmurs and scents of the infinite sea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

But some will contribute 50 cents and some only 25 cents. Men of large means, therefore, are expected to pay more than $1 for a tag in order to bring up the average.
 Remember the day, Saturday, April 20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
THE DOCTORS ORDERS

From the Popular Magazine.
 At one time, when J. Pierpont Morgan was uneasy about his health, his physi- clan ordered him to quit smoking cigars. Three or four days later. his secretary. on entering the private office, was sur prised to see the financier puffing on a voluminous looking thing in his mouth and blowing out thick clouds of smoke.
 Why" exclaimed the secretary. T thought--I thought the doctor said
 I'm not using tobacco" said Morgan testify. This is merely a cigar that Tom Ryan gave me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
ChiId,s Bright Remark

T do not often speak of the bright sayings of my own children" said a resident of the West End, but my little girl. about years old, said some thing real funny Sunday. She was romping as children will and making lots of noise. We were on the front veranda and I reproved her. She did not cease for long, and upon her re- newing the fuss l told her to go into the back yard if she must make noise, but not to make noise on the front porch.
 Well. papa she said, 1t is Sun day in the back yard just the same as it is in the front, isn't it?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
CAUTIOUS
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 A commercial traveier at railway res taurant in one of our southern towns in- cluded in his order for breakfast two boiled eggs. The old darky who served him brought three.
 "Uncle," said the travelling man. why in the world did you bring me three boiled eggs? I only ordered two.''
 ''Yes, sir said the old darky, lowing and smiling. T know you did order two. sir. but l brought three because I Jus naturally felt dat one of dem might fail you, sir"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

week. New York is not so greatly moved by reports from the west of damage to the crop. No doubt The reports are exaggerated, and the wild scenes on the western exchanges may yet be re-enacted on the bear side of the market. At present the bulls have things their own way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
MODEST MEANS

MODEST MEANS. There's Dibbleforth Who still inquiries About the price Of auto tires, When, if the truth Were known, I ween, He couldn't pay For gasoline.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. There's Bunkemall Who's always keen To know the price Of gasoline. He lacks the price (That prince of liars) To buy the wind To fill the tires.
 Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES.
A SUGGESTION.

How should we woo sweet happiness
 To win her latest smile? Drive envy from our hearts, I guess,
 And make this life worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Alabama has many more miles of good roads than 1t had few years ago, of them are none too good and the worst of them are worse than ever. If the demand for good road building was ever pressing 1t is now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
A FRIENDS CRITICISM.

Does Bnfur ever take part in any ann ateur performances?
 Yes. His game of poker is the most anateurish performance I have ever wit nessed.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

If this country should declare war against Mexico. which heaven forbid, Colonel Roosevelt may raise a rough rider regiment and go to the front. If he falls to get the republican nomin- ation he will revel in such a diver sion as war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
TuESE nAYS

DO you believe pride goes before a fall?'
 I'm not so sure that is always the case. but pride frequently goes before a pune tured tire.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

CURES FOR THE BLUES. (But don't try them.) when l wish to be ashen and sober ana bury my soul in thick gloom, l sit by the dim lake of Auber <Aha read b. A. Poe's "Ulalume.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. When my mind 1t is ashen and sober. Aho my thoughts they are palsied and
 scar,
 | haunt not the dim lake of Auber seek not the woodland of Weir; pul olt, when the night is senescent Anu the star dials hint of the morn 1As M .,ie star dials point to the morn, AS the gloom demons swallow the cfes-
 cent,
 Distlnct, with its duplicate horn, ii.o1gh the skies may be ashen and sober A,lo the leaves may be crisped and scar, And the night may be deep in October. Or any old time of the year. or any old where in the year.. heed not the dim lake of Auber. But Journey-I journey down here. where the cheer of the fool is liquescent. And crazy, queer luster is born. And l stand by the bar in the Crescent E I'll the star dials shout of the morn. I'll the star dials howl of the morn, Till the lure of the beaded nepenthe Hath tempted me out of my gloom, Hath conquered my scruples and
 gloom;
 But later l cry, "Who hath sent thee? Thou art worse than a lost Ulalume." Dixon L. Merritt. in the Nashville Ban- ner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
INTERRUPTED.

Oh, harkl Oh. harkl an urgent knock is sounding on my door Perhaps 1t may be Opportunity:
 Alas, alaek, how oft this thing has come to pass beferel
 A bold book agent wants to bother me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
CAPTION.

Walk very softly. brother.
 And don't disturb your neighbor. He may indulge. bethink you, In literary labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
ANOTHER PHASE.

T never hear Dobble bragging about taking cold baths in winter. Maybe he doesn't do that
 'Yes, he does. Dobble is quite modest in that particular, but he brags great deal about never eating any breakfast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
THE FIRST SPRING QUARREL.

 The neighbors were enjoying their first spring quarrel "Confound you, you've been coaxing my hens over into your yardr' Why, you dingblistered chump, it's tho seeds in my garden that do the coaxingm 'Ha, ha, your garden! I like thatr' Not half so well as your hens do!' Pooh, pooh! You coax my hens to crawl under your house and lay" Your hens are cheeky trespassers." "Yes, and your little boy crawls under the house and gets the eggs.''
 'Dces he? It's lucky he's so thin.~ "lf you were square man you'd close up those holes in the foundation"
 If you were a sanitary expert you'd know that ventilation is a prime neces- sity"
 "Confound you, I'll put up a spite fencer" Hang you, I'll have a jollfcation if you do.' Whereupon they separate, without clinching and stalk their several ways Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

All members of the cabinet seem 10 be ready to resign except Tama Jim Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

France and Italy now mark the hours from I to XXIV on all timepeces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Senator Lorimer is trying to look inno- cent of all political guile. He tries to look as if he had never been put over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The colonel should send for his Aber- nethy Kids and proceed to whoop up the remaining states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The convention system is on it's last legs and there will not be much of it in sight in 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
EXPLAINED.

"Dibbs takes hypercrltical view of e,erstn'ng"
 oh, well. That's because he has so much leisure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

President Taft claim5 to be the logical candidate for President, but logic dces not go far in hot primary race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Denver says beef on the hoof has ad- vanced 25 per cent within a few days. This is almost beef on the wing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Captain Amundsen will soon have the
 Chautauqua circuit all to himself with no rival at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The swimming season in Lake Michi- gan has been opened, although the first straw hat has not appeared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

In politics it is sometimes now you see and now you don't. That is the way it looks to republicans just about now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The umpire will now have to serve as the houn dawg of the bleachers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

but the oldest inhabitants can hardly recall one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

It is said that the United States will be the only naval power in the world that will not lay down next year single bat tleship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Twelve millions of freemen will go peacefully to the polls in November to elect new king of patronage for four years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The giving away of campaign cigars should be rendered as illegal as it is in humane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Clara Barton smashed no windows, and yet she did a great deal of good work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Captain Scott need not hurry back, for Captain Amundsen can fill all lecture en. agreements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Senator Cummins still has four unterri- fled progressive delegates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

No one who receives The Story of Edward Hines" can be compelled to read it. The compulsory plan does not extend that far
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The seats of the delegates at Chicago will be contested in nine cases out of ten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
PERHAPS.

'An aviator tells me that he never avi- ates before breakfast"
 Afraid that going up on an empty stomach might make him dizzy?'' Well, no. I rather think he's afraid he might never get chance to eat another breakfast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The socialists of Milwaukee show tha. they increased their vote 15 per cent, al- though defeated by union of the two old parties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The floods in the rivers seem to be big enough to make the Gulf of Mexico slop over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

The political postmaster should be weeded out. He has overstayed his well come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
MOST ANY.

Most any man, Whateer his plan, Will play unto the gallery,
 If. haply, he
 Thereby may see An increase of his salary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
'GENTLEMAN JIM.

J. Corbetts in our burg this week. He used to have a mighty punch; His prowess now is, so to speak,
 Most evident when he's at lunch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Suspicion always hnunts the guilty
 mind; The thief doth fear each bush an of-
 fieer. -3 King Henry XI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
OH. TO BE SIRE.
cUREs FoR rHE RIIrEs.

Are revolutions sign of progress?' usually so when made by a wheel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
TRULY PITEoUs

In fell despair he smote his head, The teardrops stole into his eyes, The while these words he sadly said, 'Ill never win a Nobel prize"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

z. E. Morgan. W. G. Wharton and George McMasters are the only author ized travelling representatives or Ihe Age-Herald in its circulation depart ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
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