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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
Rel,x,ou ond social service

q notice that social service. is coming to be more and more a feature of church work and a pastor in one of the large cities has progressed so far as to an- nounee election returns in his church on the night of November D." said layman. 'The election news may be social service, inasmuoh as the majority of men and women will be eager to know about the presidential vote, but just what relation it has to religion I cannot make out.
 'Of course. no right minded person will for moment underrate the charity work and what present day church workers call social service and social uplift, but many old fashioned church members like myself will never be willing to see the institu- tional' idea gain a preponderance over the Bible message. We can have both. But if church religion was true in earlier times, 1t is true now. and will be to the end of time.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
THE TOUCH OF LIFE
,ert Louis Stevenson.

By Robert Louis Stevenson.
 I saw a circle in a garden sit Of dainty danes and solemn cavaliers.
 Whereof some shuddered al the bur rowing nit, 4 And at the carrion worm some burst in tears And all, as envying the abhorred estate IOf empty shades and disem bodied elves, Under the laughing stars, early and late Sat shamefaced vt their birth and at themselves. The keeper of the house of life is fear, In the rent lion is the honey found By him that rent 1t; out Of stony ground The toiler, in the morning of the year. Beholds the harvest of his grief abound And the green corn put forth the tsn-
 der ear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
James Francis Cooke in the Ehde.

James Francis Cooke in the EHide.
 ~TARTLING as 1t may seem, one of
 the leading ways in which the o vice of New York communicates with the country as a whole is through the venal proclamation of music and the stage. The few reprehensible New York periodicals that pander to the lower instincts have a very trifling cir culation in our so,O0o,ooo population. Obscene art and literature in New York are quickly scotched but music born and bred in dives, coupled with un- thinkable words, sneaks into the home through the medium of many ques- tionable theatrical performances. The few men who make an open market of nastiness are held in bad odor by the New York managers, publishers and actors, who realize that in the long run their own business interests will be injured by them. Still these men exist. It remains for the American people to unite in a campaign to put them down.
 How does the infamous song come into existence? Harry B. Smith, author of the libretto of Robin Hood and dozens of other pieces, has given us a hint. The composer and the librettfst hand in their completed work to the manager The rehearsals commence and the stage door is besieged by rep resentatives of microscopic publishers, all fighting like vandals to get hear ing for their songs. Sometimes the songs have real merit, sometimes they are absolutely worthless products of the cheapest Kind of untrained intel lects.
 Sometimes they are filled with the venomous virus of the social ulcers CT New York Never does the song have any direct bearing upon the subject of the libretto, or bear any relation to the Icomposers musical scheme. The man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
ECONOMY
From Young's Magazine.

Economy is virtue" admits Taylor Holmes of "The Million" but even virtue can be overworked.' To prove his assertion he relates the following
 Senator Flinn, at a luncheon in Chi Icago, told a story about an able cam |pagn manager
 ":.e is remarkably economical chap" said the senator He can make a dollar go further in a campaign than any man I know. They tell story about him-a story that shows what a manager he is.
 Tt seems he went into cigar store one day to get light. Well. as he was lighting rp. a man entered and bought three 5 cent cigars. As soon as the man left our friend said quickly Those cigars are six for quarter Iain't they?'
 "'Yes, sir,' said the salesman. Our friend laid down a dime. Gimme he said. the other three
 shen.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
SOMETHING DOING ON VENUS

Paris Correspondent New York Times. Life on the Planet Venus" is the little of remarkable article which has ljust appeared in the Paris magazine,
 Lectures Pour Tous. and has attracted widespread attention from the boldness of it's theories.
 According to the writer who, all though anonymous, is believed to. be Camille Flammarion, Venus. which is younger than the earth and older than
 Mercury, is now passing through the equivalent of what is called the sec
 ondary period by geologists. Tt is," he says. "a nightmare planet,
 a nest of reptiles and a swarm of mon
 sters Under the stihing mist of air, saturated with hot water. lies vast
 miry swamp, covered with rotting veg etable matter. From this spring for ests of toadstools and ferns as high as date palms, and forests in which all creeping and slimy creatures that are lvermin here take gigantic proportions Insects are monsters there. Centi- pedes a yard long trail on their soft
 
 vety possess jaws like wolftraps, filled
 with poison"
 Tn the prairies of giant moss grass U
 continues this writer lives the diplo- doccus, as high as a house, always en- deavoring to appease its unsuitable hunger and keeping lookout for a swift onslaught of the carnivorous triceratops, which it cannot hope to escape
 "Everywhere are sinister croakings, lwhistlings, forked tongues and the slaughter of giant saurians, which fight for the supremacy of the world
 There are no flowers among this riot ops fernlike vegetation and no birds,
 but in the fiery air are seen constantly the membraneous wings, 10 yards across, and the snapping jaws of lpterodacty1s.
 "The hot seas, filled with floating weeds. are above all full of innumer-
 able living beings, octopi with livid ltentacles. colossal fish and zoophytes like living flowers, wfAle here and
 there in the maddened whirlpools fear | ful dragons rise from the abyss, rais- ing like niasts over spasm shaken heads and swollen necks surmounted by vipers heads.
 twilight on Venus is blood red The angry sun, as big as a millstone, de- scends to the horizon in the smoke of volcanoes and storm clouds. And black night comes, lighted by no moon and full of clamors and horrors.
 But when the ichthyosaurus rises on the crests of waves to roar in the dark
 ness he reflects in his eyAs, pupilless and hard as glass, a beautiful star, ac-
 companied by little luminous point,
 which is the queen of heaven of Venus. It is our earth and the moon, her satei- lite.
 This writer thinks that owing to the relative warmness of the poles of Venus while this period of evolution is proceeding in the torrid zone, which
 occupies the greater part of the sur face of the planet, it is possible that the poles species are already appear ing which did not come until long aft CT the secondary epoch on the earth,
 such as great .pachyderms covered with
 hair.
 And perhaps near those poles dwells
 already in caves a hairy being with projecting jaws, brutal and savage but within whose thick skull pass some lglmmerings of reason. and who is
 busily engaged in striking sparks from flints to protect his food from great "a rnivorous animals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
WHAT GIRLS WANT

Winifred Gray in Leslie's.
 The average girl wants neau' wants attentions, even before oia Ienough to have them. In one or TWO instances, where exceptionally well situated, she can, if lively enough, nave
 much that is going. But If not well placed. she has, in my opinion, need lto nossess marked magnetism to make her principles go down with the boys. For the beaus she has to compete Tor arc not always through school seldom sent abroad in the country for advant- apes and, if fairly upon their own
 feet often take fast turn. If girl
 wants a fellow home" if she longs
 to be danced with at parties and suf- Hers agonies at being a wallnower, she has to lower her standards, or at least does lower them. For the bugaboo in Ianv spirited girls mind is that she be considered dull" and "poky." None such in our town ever receives so much as an apple or a peach, except in a | iob-lot way So much I can positively vouch for. since I have been one of
 the so-called "poky" girls. Respect, l lots of it. worlds of it; but no fun to lspeak of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

From an Exchange.
 Paddy Doan bought a watch from the local jeweler, with guarantee to keep it in order for F months. About six months later Paddy took 1t back because it had stopped 4f
 You seem to have had an accident with it." said the jeweler two months ago was feeding the pig and it fell into the trough"
 "But, you should have brought 1t be- fore."e
 s.Sure, your honor. I brought it as soon as I could. We only killed the pig yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
German Onicinrc Appreciation

T received a letter from Dr, Theodoi Schuchart, the German engineer connect ed with the diplomatic service, thanking me for the translation of his report or the Birmingham district said Charles Clifton Terrell, Ph. D., who found the original-about two columns-in the Frankfurter zeitung and translated it for The Age-Herald of Sunday, September 1. He spoke in enthusiastic terms of this district and seemed glad indeed that his report had been well received in Bir- mingham, as he was afraid he had been over optimistic.
 pr. Schuchart's report was published ln the Frankfurter newspaper during the past summer. August Hirsch happened to be in Frankfurt at the time and sent a copy of the journal 10 The Age,lier- aid. While Birmingham has many citi- zens who read and speak German com- .parative1y few could translate scientific article from the German into English. But pr. Terrell. who is lingnist of high rank, had no difficulty in putting Dr. schuchart's paper into the best of Eng fish, while preserving at the same time it's technical accuracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
The Iron Market

The Birmingham iron market is firm. but the buying movement which has been very large. is less feverish this week. temporary lull was to be expected. Iron for the second quarter delivery is being sold for sl4.50 on a No. basis. but sli
 is still the price for prompt and first quarter delivery. Rogers, Brown X Co., Cincinnati report just received says:
 The week past is but a. repetition oi the one before with few features more strongly emphasized. Activity continues with both the iron and coke markets and a tightening of the lines indhe willing ness of furnaces to quote after the first half of next year. are in evidence. The bulk of the business offered to furnaces locally during the week for shipment promptly or before the first of February is impossible to accept on account of the filled up condition of the order books
 Some producers in the south have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The arrest of Mayor Lunn of Schenec- tady, a socialist, is proving warm sensa- ton in New York state. He was ar rested because he addressed meeting in street in Little Falls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
Elegant studios

'The Star Piano company. of which MT. J. H. Holcombe is manager, is moving into its new home, handsome four story building on Third avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, just erected by Capt. W. II. Graves said Prof. Fred l.. Grarnbs.
 '''rlie top floor has comfortable and spacious concert hall, and number of elegant studios are also being fitted ur on the same floor. l will have studio there Among others who will have studios are Miss Edgell Adams, Philip Memoli, Prof. Alfonso D'Agostino, the violin artist, who has recently come to Birmingham; Miss Bert Hutchins, Miss Norma Seebode and Mrs. G. P. Dupree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Senator Heyburn of Idaho is dead. He sat in the Senate nine years and every year he fought the civil war over again. He was not old enough to fight when it actually took place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
nrrlECTIoNs OF A BACnELoR

From the New York Press
 Gaining fat scares a woman a lot more ttan losing ideals,
 It takes a woman to stick to her faith even after it is gone.
 Calling man liar IS no proof that the accuser isn't bigger one.
 When girl gets to be an aunt, she grows ambitious to go further.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
THE RISE OF BR'ER 'possuM.

THE RISE OF BEER 'POSSUM.
 Hits my belief,p said Brother Wii-. Hams, dat ole Br'er 'Possum done TJ'ined de Meat Trust kaze I hez never knowed him ter roos' ez high ez he roos now. I look fer him up de sim mon tree, but he ain't dar: sez ter myself: 'Mebbe hit wuz movin day wid him, an rent wuz cheaper in de oak tree,' but he ain't dar; an he wuznt up de hick'ry tree, kaze Mister Gray Squerrel had done took it an wuz rum min fer President of de Hck'rynut Trus'. And whar does you reckon I foun' himf On de furdes up limb of de highes pine on de plantationl An whilst I wuz raise an bon bowleg-bekaze bowlegs is mo better fer cllmbin'-I couldn't make it up ter whar he wuz, an come slidin' down, an limped off home ez hongry ez I come. I makes no doubt but dat he done hear tell bout de rise in meat, an dat meat what he got is so fine an fillin' dat he lowed it orter come higher!'-Atlanta Constitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

J. Ham Lewis was robbed of $l0oeo worth of iewelry in a Chicago hotel, but he has recovered good deal of 1t and his campaign for the Senate will proceed unchecked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Senator Warren of Wyoming will have to face the charges of Golfers Weekly next winter. He may be told to follow in the footsteps of Lormer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The automobiles that block streets in front of office buildings are by no means so dangerous as the ones that are not slackened when they turn dbrners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The steel for the new skyscraper In Twenty first street is to be shaped in Roanoke, Va. It will be the first sky soraper in the south wholly made in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
Alabama Land Congress

The Alabama State Land congress,
 which meets in Mobile on November F, 13 and II, will be largely attended. The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce will
 be we'll represented and as the advantages
 of Alabama as an agricultural state are to be stressed, Jefferson county should have representatives who are especially we'll informed about trucking interests hereabouts.
 In speaking of the programme for the
 congress a Mobile correspondent writes; "The first day will be Land Day., in which will be presented some strong facts from practical farmers in the three d. visions of the state anG land owners will present for the action of the other
 branches of the congress just what they
 think is needed to obtain enhancement of land values based on development. At the first days session also the state department of agriculture, soil experts from the national department of agrieul- ture and the Alabama Polytechnic instl- tute, with an address by pr. Charles
 Thach, president of the latter institution. will feature the proceedings of this ses- sion. The evening of the first days ses- sion will be crowned with an address on
 the all absorbing subject that is agitat- ing at the present time practically the entire civilized world. viz: The High Cost
 of Living and the Remedy by Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson.
 "The second day will be Bankers Day. and four of the most prominent bankers from different portions of the state will open the discussion and consideration of the question as to how the financing of the farmers and land development throughout the state can best be accom- plished A large representation of bank CTS is expected at this session of the congress
 "The real estate men or the state will be given a part of the second days ses- sion, and a state organization of real es- tate men may result from this session. The newspapers, the commercial or ganizations and the railroads will consti- ute the third days session, and from
 these sources it can be gathered that there
 has never before been assembled in Ala bama such potent agencies and factors for the advancement or its material in- terests."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Governor H. Johnson and Center Fielder the last innings of the game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

It is now plain that President Taft will out of stubbornness refuse to revise the tariff downward. His term as a reviser will soon be ended, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

No one is boasting in these last days of the campaign that he is a standpal republican, The standpat democrats are all dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

A democrat nowadays finds it as easy to be an optimist as to slide off log.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The luck of the game favored Jake. Stahl and that was aoout all the diner ence that the eight games disclosed,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Uncle Sam is short 3,ooo,0oO girls. That number is needed to match the male pop ulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The steam pipes have begun hammer ing at a. m. in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The fresh leaves go on gaining new and beautiful coloring wholly regardless of the political campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
THE ovERsHAbowED HUSBAND

II G Ot HUSBAND From Young's Magazine. 'rhe power of personality is a great thing" says Henry Miller of 'The Rain bow"-"and the lack of it makes one think of the poor man In Miss Helen Gould's story. She was discussing mar riage in general apropos of her stinging rebuke to the Colorado parson who wished to banish old maids.
 ." To be the wife of a genius is bad, she said. but to be the husband of one is much worse. At a musicale heard a lady say:
 "'who is that man with the soft-bos- omed shirt and Windsor tie?' |" He is the husband of the wonderful contralto, vivavoce,' her companion art- swered.
 Yes said the other. but who wss he before his marriage?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The Prince of Wales has entered Ok ford He is known there by the nick name, "Pragger Wager
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
TAKING LIFE EASY.

"Rasserby used to have hard time | making both ends meet" That's true. He seems more cheerful now. I wonder why?" He's quit trying to make both ends
 meet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Greece calls for trained soldiers only She wants her reservists to come back, but not her amateurs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES

THE PASSING OF DAME PARTLET. When poor Dame Partlet crossed the
 road,
 A few miles south of town, An auto with a noisy load
 Of people ran her down. As low she lay there in the dust, Her feet turned to the sky, Who never entertained distrust Of any passer-by, Twas. pitiful to think how she Had met so sad a fate. Who rose each morning cheerily. Her simple heart elate, And never dreamed while here and there The festive worm she sought, That she would die, when all was fair. Beneath a juggernaut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

It is now agreed that manuscripts and spectacle cases have their uses in q crisis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
BOOSTING A VULGAR SONG

ager is either moved by the personal of one of his singers, a bribe or his own belief that the song may carry" the piece. In the last point he has good precedent because some pieces have been carried by particularly taking songs. Even Robin Hood" owed lot to "Oh. Promise Me"
 The song gets on. The gallery is packed with whistlers, claquers, etc, all of them Hessian hirelings of the song publisher. The song is greeted with a kind of uproar from the gal lery.- It Is demanded again and again. The people in the lower part of the house have little idea that they are being buncoed into taking part in mak- ing a worthless song a valuable prop erty for some trifling publisher-soon lend themselves to the psychological influence of the mob and find them selves applauding sentiments they would be ashamed to think about in their own homes. The song has run-some publishers report that the run barely survives six months. If the SoHS IS merely Hillerdte, lnedHiHs- less, bathos or sickly sentiment it can do but little harm, but when it is reek- ing with the offensive allusions found in some of the songs of the day, 1t is time that musical board of health be appointed to disinfect the whole nan- seous matter
 We do not believe that the people of this country want songs of the pestil- ential kind. We believe that the so- called hits of this order are entirely artificial We are confident that the offensive musical numbers do not ex- ist, because of genuine demand, but because they are pounded into the peo- pie with theatrical sledge hammers by the panderers that the respectable pub fishers of New York and every other city are all anxious to annihilate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
AWKWARD.

AWKWARD. There was a man in our town Who tried to do his best, But nearly always when he dined He spilled soup on his vest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
WRONG WORD

What does your paw do, Sammy" My paws a veterinarian"
 Shucks! My paw says anybody what won't eat meats a crank"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
A SAD THOUGHT.

A o<AD T If1OON1fiI T. After having been published continu- ously for 1500 years a Chinese paper has suspended publication Many a cub re- porter must have worked on that sheet In the course of 150O years.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

The rest cure is now offered to the base ball fans free of charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Those who do not register will make no history in November
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
FRIGHTFuI. EXAMPLEs.

FRIGHTFUI. EXAMPLES. We freely own this little skit Could not be any worse, But We are merely starting it To see who'll add a verse.
 Peoria Herald Transcript. If that's the case. we'll take the dare, And write one just as bad, And thereby do our little share To make your life more glad
 Springfield Union. We'll kick in one to help kill time, Though readers rave and curse: For when it comes to writing rhyme We never are averse.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. Which merely shows, beyond doubt, Upon it's very face, That all those rhymes were hammered out Like this, to fill up space.
 Chicago Tribune. Oh, well, sometimes chap fails who Has tried with all flis might, And so we'll add a quatrain too,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
HANDICAPPED

A gunman walled his luckless lot
 And said, "I'll never win great fame. Quite soon, alas, I'll be forgot,
 Since I've no picturesque nickname
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
UNIMPoRTANT !

UNIMPORTANT NEWS. A Boston flop is in the seventh heaven of bliss because Lily Langtry gave him a loud necktie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

2 E. Morgan and w. q. Wharton are the only authorized travelling represen- satives of The Age-Heraid In its cireu- lation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

Madero faces almost as many problems as the sublime porte.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19

But there are nearly 20,000,ooo of fanatical Moslems in Asia and they are ready to fight as only Moslems can for the Ottoman government and their religion. No matter how we look at the situation the Moslem Will fight a holy war, and this means that the battles will be even more destruc- tive of life than were those of the Russo-Japanese war. The war Will be waged fiercely and this may lead at an early day to the intervention of the powers. The Greeks, too, are good soldiers, and so are the Montenegrins, and bloody contest seems inevitable
 Turkish misrule is the real issue. The Christians and Turks do not get on well together, and the issue is to be fought over at any rate and it may be fought to a finish. The chances, however, seem to favor the Turks, be- cause they can put more soldiers In the field than can the four allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
A MODERN INSTANCE.

The mother of a New York baseball player tainted when she learned that her son had muffed fly. Is that what is
 called the Spartan spirt?" We wot not.