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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

Only a.snaaxt mana can make a. liv-
ing running a grocery store, but any
-.dub% could be King of England.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

When young man looks. forward
/ Is never to the time when he will be
= grandfather.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

A good many professions of close
IND Intimate friendship with the de-
eased are actuated by the desire to
ide to. tl1s ee5nstery i'm carriage.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

SgaElS a9sty Z: ga ga II 'appeAfJj to pro-
seed upon the theory THAT he is a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

A desire to avoid work is. often man
Tested q. a dgfeesrnifhed fsgarch for a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

After Won have read his description
Of it the most difficult thing is to
understand why the owner of the
house wishes TO sell it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

when the leading woman is an in
different actress that means the lead
ing fwoman's husband or lover has
money invested in the show
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

The Connecticut naval militia. has
been told that it can take the gun
boat Macl1ias. ordinarily kent at an-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24

shez423id yRRo p ear the thunderstorm
s 10 s there gsv & e5ss:rrrapette
meeting in the next house to mine
Penny Illustrated Paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01

or to develope hydro-electric energy.
It cannot grant right to any one to
do these things, for it has parted with
all proprietary rights. This is law, and
the Register can ascertain that 1t is
from the first lawyer it meets. For
period of ten years the state has
granted to new industries certain ex-
emptions from taxation-where then
does the state come in? The state has
divested itself of water power rights.
1t possesses some navigation rights
subordinate to the navigation rights
of the federal government, but other
wise the state has no interest in our
rivers. All such interest is gone-it
went to meet the forests and the pub
lie lands with fuel on them, as the
Register has truthfully and painfully
told US. This is the truth and the law,
and the Register should go over the
problem again with riparian law
book in one hand and an impartial
pencil in the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
Great Inaugural Parades

The elimination of the inaugural
ball will not lessen the attendance at
the ceremonies of the Inauguration.
Fully 10000 National guardmen and
members Of other organizations have
applied for places in the inaugural
parade, and it promises to be the
greatest event of that nature in the
history of the capital.
Nor should the unique and inter-
esting parade of March be left out
of consideration. 1t is to be rendered
attractive and picturesque. Nothing
resembling it has ever before been
planned in connection with Inaugural
ton ceremonies. 1t will be very large,
we'll organized and very interesting
1t alone will attract a multitude of
people to the capital.
The two parades will give the Presi-
dent-elect boost to begin with, and
Washington is getting ready to well
come host of American citizens.
Granted good weather the coming in
auguration promises TO be the most
popular of a long series, and the best
evidence will be the number of yisi-
tors at the capital in Inauguration
week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
Music Ncm and Old

"a week or two ago some one wrote
in the New York Sun a glowing tribute
to certain old songs and proceeded to
knock modern grand OPERA said a
member of the musical set. "Here is
what one who signs himself "A Lover
of All Good Music wrote to the Sua
in reply to the one who belittled mod
ern music:
"'When a subscriber writes in dis
paragement of The great works Of
Puccini and Richlrd Strauss simply
because he enjoyed Clara Butts sing
ing of the old English ballads 1t is
time for some one to rise in defense
of the present day masters.
".I heard Clara Butt and cheerfully
admit she is all her rapturous mana ge-
ment foretold; but that fact has no
bearing on the merits of such marvels
as Madame Butterfly and 'The Girl
of the Golden Wsst.''
"'''Lover of the Old Heart Music
admits he's an old fogey. I'm not. sir.
appreciate and enjoy all music
worthy the name, whether it be THE
Lost Chord as Clara Butt sings it OF
'.The Pagliacci Prologue as Scott
does. Any one seeking to belittle new
music because he likes the old is talk
ing bosh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
FIourisbins Piano Business

The piano trade Is a very prominent
factor In the mercantile activities of Bir-
mingham. The piAno business has not
only kept pace with the growth of Bir-
mineham, but it has developed on ex-
ceptionally big lines.
Birmingham has several large piano
houses. and in no city of approximately
Birmingham size are SO many pianos,
organs and players sold as here.
Pianos and other musical instruments are
shipped from Birmingham all over the
south
I'VE had fine business last year. .
said Robert l.. Seals, president of the
Seals Piano S Organ company a well
known pioneer in Birmngham's piano
trade "The fact is that last year was
the best we ever had since engaging in
business here. 1t was not only the best,
but it was twice as good with us as any
other year
AS is well known, the Knabe is among
the pianos we sell. This celebrated in
strument is not only as good today as
it was 25 years ago. but 1t is even better.
BY the way, Godowsky. the famous virtu-
oso who is now in this country. is using
Knabe on his concert tour.
Our business in the new year has
started off with a rush. As good as our
holiday trade was, I find that our sales
for this January are $500 in excess of
our December business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
SAINT Kate BARNARD

Herbert Kaufman in Woman's World for
i February.
She weighs about 90 pounds--a mighty
small quantity of woman, but tre-
nendous batch of dynamite.
At first sight she is plain, insignifi-
cant and sallow, but her eyes are Won
cerful-veiled with soft mysticism-fam-
| ing with agerness-challenging compel
ling.
She is Jeanne dare reborn ON the
Ip-airies-Peter the Hermit reincarnated in
ssirts-mother for the multitude-zealot,
crusader, and a human wildcat.
At times, as gentle as saint-again,
implacabe and dangerous as two gun
man.
She has accomplished more within the
span of her 20 odd years than any one
woman of her hour. She comes nearer to
running Oklahoma than all the other
officers in the state.
At present she is commissioner of char
tiles and corrections-a fragile girl in con-
troll of the vice and crime and misfortune
of her commonwealth.
Some politicians don't like her way of
running things, but politicians never did
admire a straight line. When they know
the game half as well as Kate Barnard
rlay it, they may oust her, but just now.
with 10000 votes in the palm of her
hand, and the love of every decent citi-
Ten in the community behind her, she will
remain in office as long as her ambi-
tion is alive, which means as long as she
is alive, and which again doesn't neces-
sarly mean a great many years, for Kate
Iiarnard is ill-sickened with the woes of
her people--a broken, wee, feeble mite,
fighting giants battles for mans better
nont.
Her name is an inspiration to every
woman. She proves how far and how
snlendidIy courage and persistence can
achieve in petticoats.
she came into this world with a second
class spine, but first class backbone.
SHE was i'll as child and she was siclSly
III her maturity. but Kate has been too
tusy worrying about others 10 notice her
own troubles.
Her shoulders are hardly wider than a
laborer's palm. but they are broad enough
TO support thousands of tagging souls.
Wherever men pay the penalty of crime,
they pay her reverence. She has ceansed
American prisons of their Augean VILE
ness. She has brought mercy where
brutality was lord. She has taught the
cltcast to hope and planted faith in many
a broken breast.
She believes in the best of the worst and
she has found gold where society has
looked for brass.
AT the start they laughed at her the
cries, but today she can point to horde
of remade men, triumphant over their
baser selves. rebuilt, revisioned, by her
belief.
Hep record is a staggering blow to the
sociologists and crminologists who have
maintained that a Jail bird must always
remain a bird of prey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
BRETON MARRIAGE sHRINEs

From the New York Telegram
Somebody who has neglected the ad-
vice to see America first has been trav-
cling in Brittany and digging up a lot
of information of interest at least to
young women. Brittany, home of the
picturesque peasant and Mecca of the
traveller who wants a walking tour is
fun of native girls who can give ours
cards and Spades at Halloween schemes
for determining after their fashion who
will be their life partners. The apple
lpeeling over the left shoulder trick,
Ior walking backward at the witching
hour of midnight and suddenly peering
Into a mirror, there to witness the face
of the one of all others, find no place
lin the French province.
1t is very interesting to note the
number of shrines in Brittany dedicated
to marriage. At Ploumanach, a village
on the nothern coast. there is a shrine
most pieturesquely situated amid the
rocks which the sea washes round every
day. Only at low tide can one Chamber
over the rocks to the canopied figures
of st. Guerin.
When Breton girl desires to marry
she sticks a pin in the nose of this
saint: should 1t drop out within the
wear she believes her desire will be full
filled
A peasant woman was asked II she
had ever put pin in the nose of St.
Guerin She smilingly replied. Beau
coup de fois," and then pointed to her
little son to show how efficacious 1t
had been.
on another occasion near Douarnenez,
| in the Finistere district, at small
shrine decorated with orange blossoms
| in a hedgerow, young girl previously
seen tending her fiocks was kneeling in
prayer after which she rose and
dropped pin down the well. Question
ling her. it was learned that it was the
custom there to drop a pin down the
well before the saint and eventually
after the wedding ceremony the bridal
blossoms were brought and hung round
the shrine.
Making pin cushion of the nose of
the good ST. ~Guerin seems peculiar
Iway of learning ones fate, but from
lat least the recorded incident it appears
Ito be efficacious.
Whether that practice has any distant
lconnection with the fact that many men
later on complain they are led by the
nose is matter to be figured out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
MY BOOKS

t,y Austin Dobson
They dwell in the odor of camphor,
They stand in Sheraton shrine.
they are warranted early editions,
These worshipful tones of mine;
In their creamiest 'Oxford vellum.
IN their redolent crushed Leyant.
With their delicate watered Innings,
They are jewels OF price, grant;
Hand fooled and morocco jointed,
They have Bedfords daintest dress.
They are graceful, attenuate, polished
But they gather the dust, no less;
For the row that prize is yonder,
Away on the unglazed shelves,
The bulged and the bruised octavos,
The dear and the dumpy twelves
Nontaigne with his sheepskin bhstered,
And Howell the worse for wear,
and the worm drilled Jesuits' Horace,
And the little old cropped Moliere.
And the Burton bought for a horin,
And the Rabelais foxed and hea'd:
For the others / never have opened,
But these are the books reao.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
TELEPHONES
Bell (private exchange connecting Al
departmental. No. 4ooo-
Boy. what sign is 1t, when a man of
great spirit grows me1oncholys
Loves Labor Lost.
Test of Public Spirit

There is a good prospect of having
a music festival this spring-some
time in April We have had annual
festivals for several years past and
there should be nosquestion about the
desirability or the practicability of
keeping up these festivals.
Symphony orchestras and great
singers are, in the nature of things,
expensive. Boston has the greatest
and most expensive symphony orches-
ira in America. 1t was founded by
one wealthy man and the same man
has paid all the deficits, for with all
the culture of the New England
metropolis there is deficit every
year; and in years past the deficits
were very large. In New York, Phila-
delphia, Chicago and other large cities
the symphony orchestras are endowed
and the only way that high class music
is made possible in this country is for
public spirited individuals to make up
guarantee funds.
1t is proposed to raise $4,000
guarantee fund for the next spring
festival and the festival association
directors should have no difficulty in
securing individual guarantors. No
man will be asked to subscribe for
more than 500 and no money will
be called for unless there is deficit;
and then the amount needed will be
assessed pro rata.
In addition to the public schools,
Birmingham has two colleges, several
seminaries and several schools of
music. These educational institutions
should feel directly interested in Bir-
mingham's musical atmosphere. There
should be more organized zeal in the
Forthcoming music festival than has
been the case in other years. OF
course, many pupils whose parents
spend money for music lessons do
attend all artist-concerts, including
the festival concerts, but still not
more than 10 or 10 per cent of the
boys and girls who go to school in
this city hear real musical artist
from one years end to the other.
If we have a festival in April it is
hoped that the educators will take
hold earnestly and endeavor to make
the attraction financially as we'll as
artistically successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01

and have great respect for all prohioi-
tionists who are total abstainers. but no
respect whatever for those who are pro-
hibi:ionists for the other fellow We
have in this state, or rather 1 should say
We had, many prohibitionists who were
known to be regular 'boozers.' Some OF
the loudest prohibition takers were hard
drinkers The drinking prohibitionist will
not be very much of prohibitionist when
he is not allowed to have liquor shipped
in to him.
sThe Kenyon Sheppard bill If passed
will not practically affect Alabama. It
only affects those states that have
statutory prohibition. Georgia is one Of
them, but in Georgia today prohibition
is virtually a dead letter Under the
name of near-beer, real beer is sold By
license. Atlanta is one of the great beer
towns of the United States. Under an
anti-shipping law Georgia could not got
beer of any sort; not only that, but no
club could get liquor. Uncle Sam always
enforces his laws very strictly The Ken
you-Sheppard bill once enacted into law.
al so-caled prohibition states will be
absolutely dry. Georgia would be dry as
dry could be. ] predict that Immediately
after the passage of the Kenyon-Shep-
pard bill strong local option movement
will be started up in Georgia
s'Local option is the democratic doc
trine, and it is the right doctrine 80
long as Georgians can drink beer freely
and have whisky in the clubs and In
blind tigers they have kept the state In
the prohibition column-on paper. Georgia
is great state, but the pharisees are as
numerous there as in Alabama and other
states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
Welcomes the Smoke

w. 7. Cox has returned from New York,
where he spent two weeks.
Birmingham looks better to me every
time I go away" said Mr.. Cox yester-
day, land I'm always glad to get
home and breathe the smoke. 1 find the
question of smoke about the livest topic
In town, and I want to go on record as
favoring the smoke; the more we have
the better it suits me. We men who
have lived in Birmingham for number
of years and who suffered in periods of
depression and prospered with the COM
munity in the years of prosperity, are
glad to see smoke from her industrial
plants, for smoke means work and good
times for all the district.
THE smoke has never bothered me
and l never heard of anybody's health
being impaired by it.
only a few years ago the lack of
smoke from the industrial plants of the
community bankrupted more than few
business men, and the rest of us along
with every man, woman and child In the
district hailed with delight the first APP
pearance of the smoke
Yes, | am in favor of the smoke.
Every new smokestack means new busi-
ness, and new business means more peo-
pie and more money and bigger and
better city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
Water Power Problems

"The forests are gone" says the
Mobile Register, "and the people are
now made to pay the price. The public
domain is all but gone; the public
lands with fuel and mines on them
are all but gone; and the water pow
er is about all that is left. Let us
learn lesson by the past, and save
this at least for our children and our
children's children"
This reads very prettily, but when
the banks of stream were sold all
but an academic navigation right in
that stream went also. In non-naviga-
bic streams all rights are gone, and
in navigable streams the public right
is all but gone, to use one of the Reg
listers phrases. The riparian owner
holds the proprietary rights in the
latter and the federal government is
master of navigation.
The Register, however, adopts a
suggestion that all power developed
in the rivers of the state be taxed So
per horsepower for the benefit of the
public schools. Such law levied upon
the power used in the proposed lime
nitrate mill at Lock 18 would be a
tax laid on the electric consumer. But
will the Register tell US how it can
induce any one to build a nitrate mill
or any other mill by taxing the power
that they may have spent millions to
create? Who will build dams that are
TO be heavily taxed and that are in any
navigable stream controlled by the
Secretary of War? Development un-
der the Registers programme would
be slow-painfully slow and discour-
aging. Alabama's untitled acres would
not soon be utilized under such pro-
eramme.
The Registers plan has simply moth
ing to rest upon. The state is forbid
ten By its constitution to build dam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
Cost of the Balkan War

The diplomatic resources of Turkey
are almost endless, and it is never
safe to say that hostilities are to be
resumed until orders to the men in the
field have actually been issued.
Should the war, however, be re-
newed it would saddle all concerned
in it with an immense indebtedness,
and all of them had plenty of debt
before the war was begun last fall.
An estimate of the expenditures thus
far is as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
The Iron Market

Matthew Addy & Company's circular
for this week says. Consumption is
keeping up at a record rate. The real
feature of the situation is the tremendous
amount of pig iron that Is being turned
into finished shapes. The country has
never seen anything like it before.
Everywhere there is a demand for faster
and heavier shipments of pig iron and
coke 1t has been fortunate for the trade
that thus far the winter has been un-
precedentedly mild. for had we had the
usual bizzards and snow blockades they
would have meant more trouble and loss
than is the case
The market shows no change one way
or the other. Without doubt nine-tenths
OF all the iron which win be used during
the first half has been bought. The sales
that are being now made for quick ship
ment are to concerns that have exceeded
their requirements. Most of the present
demand is for delivery over the latter part
of the year. There has been more activ-
ty this week than for any previous week
in the month. Quite lot of scattering
foundry iron has been sold and a heavy
tonnage of basic. There is a large in
quiry and no one has any cause to COM
plain of the way In which things are
going"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
Liuu0rs in "Dry" States

The Senate has agreed to vote upon
the Kenyon-S Sheppard bill to prevent
the shipment of liquor, into dry
states on February 10 at o'clock in
the afternoon. This bill does not re-
late to counties in a state but to
whole states alone. The entire state
must be f'dry" in order to come with
in the terms of the bill. Georgia is a
"dry" state, and SO are Mississippi
and Texas, and some northern states.
Alabama is local option state, not a
dry" state in the sense that would
prevent the shipment of liquor in in
terstate commerce under the terms of
the Kenyon-Sheppard bill.
The session has but single month
to run, and a vote will not be taken
on the Kenyon-Sheppard bill until
February 10. The House judiciary
committee will have to act promptly
if the bill is put through the House
before the end of the session. Chair
man Clayton is reported to favor the
bill, as does Mr.. Underwood, and per-
haps all the rest of the Alabama dele
cation. About 20 days will be left
of the present Congress, and there
will have to be action and expedition
if the bill is to be laid before the
President before the hour of final adj
inllrnment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
BERNHARDT EASY TO MANAGE


Robert Grau in the American Magazine.
Bernhardt has often been pictured as
an eccentric woman. Madame is the
easiest star to manage in the world. My
brother, Maurice, who directed the Bern
hardt tours for nearly II years, never
had a contract with her. Moreover. al
though her understanding was that be-
sides her stipulated guarantee she was to
receive a share of the gross receipts. she
had no representative at the count up,
something wholly unusual and truly
amazing for foreign star. Madame ac-
oepted the box office statements as pre-
scented to her with the utmost indiffer-
ence In all the many years that my
brother was her impresario they never had
a quarrel. Madame would lose her temper
occasionally, for few moments land
these were generally intensely interesting
moments). but invariably the cause of her
displeasure would be some flaw in the
stage settings or some discrepancy in the
mise en- scene; but about business de-
tails she never allowed herself to become
disturbed
After my brothers illness made It i'm
Ieratiye for her to change her impresario.
Bsrnhardt came under the direction of
William NJ Connor, an American man.
ager with an ingratiating personality, and
he, too, never had contract with her.
Sarahs affection for her new manager
was everywhere noticeable, and long after
the business arrangements between the
two had come to an end Sarah continued
to correspond with Mr.. Connor, asking
his advice as to her future plans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A coNvERs SION.

A CONVERSION.
Dinwiddie Hurst,
Who feared the worst.
Was never in a cheerful state;
Day after day
We heard him say.
ALAS, I can't abide my fate
"A woeful wight,
Misfortune's blight
Has clouded DER my brief career"
He'd NOPE and mope,
with neer a hope
That better luck would soon appear.
A limousine
Whirled on the scene
And caught Dinwid beneath its wheels,
And crushed his Stats,
A habit that's
Peculiar TO most mobiles
Laid on a cot.
Indeed his lot
Was very far from being bright;
The surgeons worked,
And not one shirked,
Till far into the gloomy night.
They pulled him through,
Hard job to TO-
The vital spark was sinking low;
Dinwiddie woke
And thus he spoke
In terms expressive of his woes
'You'll meier again
Hear me complain
About the way 1 used to be;
I thought life rough,
And that's no bluff,
But now good Lord, just look at me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01

across the Cascade mountains the Great
Northern railway is using daily 20 tons
OF dynamite and blasting powder to cloar
away masses of fallen timber, rocks and
earth from their tracks along the noun
tain side Blasting and crosscut saws
are used where rotary plows canrot
work. A thousand men are working in
day and night shifts between Skykomish
on the west and Leavenworth on the east
Of the slope
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01

From the New York Press
Fine feathers never made one Woman'
but bedrapgled ones nave unmade mil
hons.
When a man threatens to his wife that
he's thinking of resiging for being kept
so late at the office, it's sign she knows
it was the theatre.
Some men just naturally play In sucn
had luck that when there's Z perfectis
good old baby carriage 1t Will never
rlatch the new babys complexion
A man is pretty nearly hopeless. SO rhr
as ever being any use is concerned. wnen
he gets it into his head he's got to stert
= society for reforming something.