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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
NO HOPE THEN.
HE HELPED TOM SAWYER

board fences. Then, come night, he blew
his whistle or cat meowed to get out
the boys. Told 'em he had good trick
they could play off ON the neignhors.5
let on that people would be awful mad il
any whitewash was put on their fences
they wanted to plant vines and flowers
along their fences, the neighbors did-so
he said, and then explained to us how
lime would surely be terrible hard on the
plants. People would wonder who had
done it; neighbors would be awful mad;
1t would kick up no end of a row.
"Well, that sounded reasonable and all
right. And there we were, us boys Just
a spelling for excitement To worry
folks a lot we thought was most as good
fun as a minstrel show. So that's why
the scheme that Sam Clemens got up
looked so almighty attractive. But |
disremember whether the boys hooked
the lime to make the whitewash with or
whether they come by 1t honorable. Any
how, come night with enough moon to
see with, the boys started in to whitewash
the fences They just flew at it; they
soused it on; they worked and they sweat
ed. burned their hands and faces with the
1lme and let themselves be bossed by
Sam Clemens till the work was plumb
through and done.
"And then what happened? Well. sir,
the next day Sam goes around to the dif-
ferent houses, collects for the jobs. and
gets no end of compliments. People,
reckon, never did have so much whitewash
on their fenses before"
you might as well tell it ALL urged
'.were you one of the boys who assisted
that night in making the neighbors mad?"
"Well" said Mr.. Fry, as he struck a
match to relight his pipe, never mind
about that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
The New Pnstnffice

"The Washington dispatch in The
Age Herald about the new postoffice
seems to settle one thing; that is the
question of site" said a business man.
Il have felt sure since the government
bought $50 feet on Fifth avenue at
the corner of Nineteenth street that
the projected edifice would be erected
there, and now that the government is
to acquire the remainder of the Fifth
avenue front from Eighteenth street
the site will be admirable
THE Washington dispatch made a
mistake in the probable total cost. 1t
said the site and building would cost
$1,O00,00 It will cost not less than
S1,2O0.0OO. The government has al
ready paid 100000 for the Nineteenth
street corner and in the appropriations
bill in the sixty-second Congress was
an item of s10O0,O00 for the postoffice
building at Birmingham and an addi-
tion to the site.
ut will probably be a year before
ground is broken for the new postof-
flee. but when the building is completed
1t will no doubt be a splendid work of
architectural art"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20


Dr. Frank Crane in Woman,s World for,
September.
Piagiarize all you please. provided you
steal from the right sources
For the secret of individuality is fa-
miliarity with the masters.
The great geniuses were meant to he
objects of plagiarism. To be plain. the
more you absorb of a first class mind the
more your own originality is fed.
Plagiarism is only crime when il is a
theft of common places from mediocre
sources.
Let the young musician soak full of
beethoven, Wagner, Mozart and Mendels-
sohn; that is the surest way for him to
find himself. To absorb comic opera mu-
sic is the way to smother, lose and kin
himself.
Let the young preacher preach Bush
nell, Robertson and Brooks; so doing he
will come to preaching himself.
AS for writer's, there is truth in the ad-
vice given by great man that the best
way to acquire a good style is to read Ad-
Olson and exercise ones self in endeavor-
ing to rewrite him.
You cannot plagiarize the Bible nor
Shakespeare, nor Homer, nor Dante nor
Milton. These have ceased to be men;
they are humanity. You can plagiarize
Shaw, or Brete Harte, or the last "best
seller
To isolate ones self from the masters
is not the road to originality; it is the
road to vulgarity.
Few English authors says Hammer
ton, STUDIED past literature more will
ingly than Shelley and Tennyson, and
none are more original"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
THE ANGELUs
II Markham.

BY EdW1n MarKham.
(Suggested by Millets Painting with this
Title.)
Far through the lilac sky the Angelus bell
Brings back again the hail of Gabriel
It's refluent threefold, immemorial rhyme
Follows the fading sun. from cline to
cline
Ripples and lives a moment In the heart
Wherever the dark hours come and the
bright depart.
From land to fading land. the whole world
round jE
1t airly runs, a rosary of sound
Bursts silvery on sainted Palestine:
Lives for a moment on the Apennine:
Filings on the fields of France far re-
frain;
Sends sweet trouble on the bells Of
Spain;
Touches Manhattan; hurrles on to be
4 iaufinur on Saint Francis by the ses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
Schools and Colleges

The advertisements and announce
ments of the various schools and col
leges remind those interested in edu-
cational work that a new scholastic
year will soon begin.
1t is noteworthy fact that most OF
the institutions of learning in Ala
bama are gradually broadening their
scope and improving their methods
and equipment. The University of Ala
bama has been greatly strengthened
within the past IL months. In the
thoroughness of its work it ranks as
one of the leading universities of the
country. Each year it will go forward.
The enrolment for this fall term will
be larger than ever. 1t is believed that
every state in the south will be repre-
sented in the student body. Among its
various departments that of engineer
ing is taking high place and in a
comparatively short time it will be
recognized as one of the greatest of
engineering schools.
In technical MISUNDERSTANDING
in practically all its branches-this
state can boast of one of the best in
stitutions. The Alabama Polytechnic
institute at Auburn has done splendid
work. The great progress that agri-
culture has made in Alabama in recent
years is due in great measure to the
teaching at Auburn and the demon
stration work that has come from that
institution. Auburn's enrolment will
probably reach 1000 or more this year.
Manual training and vocational
teaching is rapidly coming in vogue
and in number of public and private
schools and in several of the colleges
of Alabama the useful arts as well as
book culture are being well taught.
In this connection emphasis may
Justly be laid on the excellent work
that is being done in the girls school
at Montevallo. The faculty at that in
stitution is known to be well qualified.
The discipline is admirable.
Birmingham has two colleges that
attract statewide attention and this
fall the enrolment of each will doubt
less show large increase.
While such excellent work is being
done by high schools and colleges Ala
bama shows bad mark in the scale of
illiteracy. This is due largely to the in
adequate rural public schools. The next
legislature will be induced, it is hoped,
to submit to the voters constitution
al amendment allowing each school
district to tax itself for school pur-
poses. Not until this is done will public
school conditions be satisfactory or
creditable to the state.
In the meatime, it is gratifying to
know that interest in education is in
these and that the movement for i'm
provement is becoming more and more
general and, insistent each year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
No Nearer Solution

Attorney General Carmody of New
York, in an official opinion prepared
for Secretary of State May, holds that
the adoption by the house of impeach-
ment resolutions against Governor
Sulzer automatically removes the ex-
ecutive from office, pending the out
come of the trial before the senate and
court of appeals.
Judge D. Cady. Herrick, chief coun-
sci for Governor Sulzer, and looked
upon as one of the best lawyers at the
New York bar, is just as positive in
his belief that Sulzer is entitled to the
exercise of all prerogatives as gov
ernor until removed by vote of his
judges, should such be the result of
the trial.
Thus the doctors disagree. No set
tlement of the muddle which now per-
plexes the Empire State is in sight.
Confusion will become worse con-
founded as the days go by.
Another factor has developed in the
situation that may or may not have a
bearing of the utmost Importance
James G. Garrison, close friend OF
John A. Hennessy, whom Sulzer APP
pointed to probe all the state depart
ments, has issued statement in which
he says:
81 charge now and positively that
Tammany paid cold cash for che -four
votes it needed to pass this resolution
tthat of impeachment), and it also
used money to keep wayering votes in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
KINDNESS AT THE CIRCUS

And what has been the result? The
circus which once unloaded alta town
noisily, with shouting and swearing,
now slips into the town in the stiffness
of the dawn, unloads and sets up its
transient home. and when the town
awakes 1t finds ready to hand minia-
ture city.
The other day 1 watched the circus
street parade with my 5-year- old boy.
When the king of beasts passed in re-
view | called attention to him by say
ing with an appeal to the child's i'm
agination, Look at the great big fierce
lion" The beautiful beast, washed and
combed, well fed and well cared for,
lay comfortably in his cage and review
ed the crowd with contented look
in its eye. That's not ferocious lion"
said my little boy, hes a collie lion."
And indeed he was. He had been tanned
not with the red iron, but with kind
ness and with care.
All of this means that the circus has
become a new thing. Its bareback
riders tightwire walkers and aerial
lists are all students of the art of
equilibrium. They are scientific GYM
nasts. The brutal elements have been
eliminated in the rings and in the
The greatest show on earth
has become a travelling congress of
Kindness and skill. 1t is the modern
Noah's ark where men and wild beasts
of all lands fraternize, where the uni
|versal brotherhood of Gods living
creatures is best expressed. 1t teaches
more natural history in an hour than
the best school teacher can teach in
month. 1t fascinates, interests and in
structs both old and young. and keeps
the old perennially young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
ELEPHANTS AND THEIR YOUNG

FROM september outing.
Very little is known of the breeding
habits of elephants or their manner OF
caring for their young. A gentleman with
whom we became very well acquainted
while on the Mount Kenia trip was not a
professional elephant hunter, nevertheless
he had killed several elephants on KilH-
manjaro. Once by mistake he shot and
wounded a COW elephant that ran some
distance before falling. On overtaking
her he found that she had fallen in a
kneeling position. A little calf was pinned
under her knee by a leg that was driven
deep into the soft earth. A close exam
ination of the route over which the old
elephant and passed failed to reveal any
of the little ones tracks. This, together
with the fact that the calf was not hither
to seen and the peculiar manner in which
it lay, might be taken as proof that the
mother was carrying it in her trunk, or
perhaps resting it on her tusks, with her
trunk holding it in position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Growth of southern cities

1T is easy TO account for The rapid
growth of new towns with large in
dustrial resources. but it is a note
worthy fact that the old southern cit
les as well as the more modern grow
steadily said J.. T. Chapman of Phil
adelphia.
Roanoke, IN Virginia is one of the
new cities. It is a railroad town, and
is in a rich agricultural section. It
has grown very rapidly in the last few
years, and the next census will probably
find 1t with a population of $4,000,
Old Lynchburg, a rich city. is of slow
growth, but Richmond and Norfolk are
booming. Richmond had a population
in last census of $4,000 and it will
probably have 175.000 in 1920.
81 was in Richmond two weeks ago
for the first, time in 10 years. 1 hardly
recognized the city. so widely had It
developed. Atlanta continues to grow,
and will probably get into the 5000
class in the next census. Birmingham
is outsiripping them all This city will
probably have 100000 by 1920"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
Envy a woman if you would make her
happy.
Handsome is as handsome is photo
graphed, hardly ever.
Better to be criticised for silence than
for the lack of it,
successful author can draw on his i'm
agination for money.
Man wants but little here below-but he
keeps right on wanting
If man doesn't acquire wisdom after
marriage there is is no hope for him.
Before attempting to paddle his own
canoe the wise young man learns to
swim.
In the language of flowers, Alonzo when
girl hands you a bunch it may mean
Fade awayi''
Ananias may have been the champion
liar at one time, but later his rivals be-
gan to write tombstone inscriptions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
Activity at BoyIea

Those who see Boyles only occasion
ally as they sit in a Louisville and
Nashville coach scarcely realize what
great development work is being done
there" said a member of the Chamber
of Commerce. "The Louisville and
Nashville company has already spent a
large sum in constructing its Boyles
yards, but within the next two or three
years much more will be done. Work
there is continuous.
Il understand from good authority
that in the near future a large con-
struction plant will be built and op-
Grated at Boyles. Many employees of
the Louisville and Nashville are build
ing hcmes at or near Boyles This
settlement is near North Birmingham
near the big radiator plant and other
important plants of the North Bjrming-
ham section.
L predict that by the time the next
census is taken the Boyles division will
nave population of 5000 or 10000,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
IT DEFENDS.
A LONE CELEBRIT'
Keene Abbot in Harper.s weekly.

Keene Abbot in Harpers Weekly.
TNHE Hannibal of today, with its
thriving factories, street cars and
i brick pavements, is very diff
ferent place from the languid, yawnins
Missouri village of Mark Twain's boy
hood. In the steamboat era of the sos
the levee was nearly always crowded with
big sidewheelers. There were FIVE packet
lines on the upper river, whereas there
is now but single line. In those pioneer
DAYS pork, beef and lumber We're the ex-
ports: now they are cement stoves ana
car wheels, and there are five lines OF
railway to transport them.
The river has not changed, and With
out the river Samuel Clemens could
scarcely have been Mark Twain. Yet
perhaps it had nc more influence upon him
than had this picturesque old town OF
his boyhood II is still the same sullen'
yellow. soil gorged stream, with its sand
bars; still the refuge of truant school,
boys.
John A. Fry went to school with Mark
Twain. and he knows the truth about the
whitewash story.
samuel Clemens? Yes, l know nm.
Went to school with him, and I'm pouhu
TO say that he did keep up with US pu'
nobody ever knew how he managed 10
learn anything. shiftless. lazy and dau-
blasted tired-born tiredl No study III
him. All the time too busy getting up
some new kind of devilment. And ne
sure was a boy. Sam was, who knew now
to entertain himself.
Ever hear about him and the wnite-
wash? Can't say whether he ever put It
in any of his books or not but II
fact, every word of it. Well sir, one tii'e
he went out over the neighborhood ana
took contracts for whitewashing tght
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
Session Long Drawn Out

Senators and representatives have
given up hope of getting away from
Washington this summer. President
Wilson believes thoroughly that finan-
cial legislation should follow closely
upon the heels of tariff reform, and
he has won a majority of his party to
his way of thinking.
Speaker Clark is said to be writing
his friends that the extra session will
run right up to the regular term which
will begin in December. By then it is
hoped that the tariff and currency
bills will be out of the way. There are
many other questions to be considered
by Congress. Chief among these. per-
haps, is that of the trusts. Mr. Will
son and other leaders of democracy
believe that the gigantic corporations
can best be controlled by insuring an
open market and thus giving stability
to their smaller competitors.
The republicans of the Roosevelt
stripe stand for regulated monopoly.
The "standpatters" believe that things
are all right as they are. The demo-
cratic plan will be given a trial. A
restoration of competition will be at
tempted. This is problem as complex
as that of the currency or the tariff.
The country was pledged solution
by the Baltimore platform. Verify the
Wilson programme so far has only
gotten fair start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
ANGELIC

From the London Bystander.
Customer. But is he a good bird? |
mean, l hope he doesn't use dreadful
language.
Dealer. 'E's a saint. lady; sings
ymns beautiful l 'ad some parrots wot
used to swear something awful, but
if you'll believe me. this ere bird con-
yerted the lot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
FORTUNATE
From the New York Globe.

TUIIf tIIe 1NeW TUT cfIOUt. Y
Secretary Bryan was listening with
an inscrutable smile to the praises Of
financial magnate that a senator was
singing at dinner.
Hes the architect of his own for
the architect of his own fortune"
We'll" said Secretary Bryan. its a
lucky thing for him that the5 building
inspector didn't come round while the
operation was going on"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
Beautiful and Inspiring views

THE many beautiful views of Birming-
ham that may be had from elevations is
one of it's charming characteristics; one
that is unrivaled in certain features any
where in this country said a man with
an eye for beautiful prospects.
"If one stands upon the brow of Red
mountain and sweeps the horizon with his
eye there is spread out remarkable pic
ture of houses, tall buildings, boulevards,
industrial plants, parks and shade trees.
A panorama of several miles from East
Lake to Powderly is presented from the
right viewpoint. 1t is at twilight that one
of the ,prettiest of all the views may be
had. Then the soft haze of the evening
atmosphere screens the thousands of
lights--very like firefies in a gauzy web.
The beautiful electric signs. some of them
appearing as veritable golden crowns over
the city's brow, add regal beauty to the
view
But there are many other views quite
as pleasing from the higher office build
ings. I sat for a half hour the other aft
ernoon in the elegant waiting room of a
large corporation in the Brown-Marx
building, and gazing out the window to
the southeast 1 looked upon sectional
view of Birmingham quite inspiring and
restful The day was hazy, and soft
winds were tanning the houses, hiltops
and valleys. The background was the
green and red of the slope of Red noun
tain That beautiful boulevard, Highland
avenue. stood clear cut as a flowing
stream with silvered surface. There were
no smoking stacks in the picture; all was
a scene of homes and trees; some modest
cottages here and there large structures,
then pretentious residences. In the cen-
ter, like an ornament Of civic pride, shown
ST. Vincent's hospital And in it's walls
there were perhaps many who had found
peace from pain and suffering. Verify it
was a picture for the dreamer and ideal
ist to look upon and rejoice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

Governor Foss insists vigorously that he
has no intention of becoming a bull
moose. He intends to take his republican,
ism straight for while at least
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
abundance of Fine Road Material

The United States governments geo.
logical bulletin of the birmingham quad
rangle' is highly interesting though very
technical in many respects; but one thing
1t emphasized was the unlimited amount
of fine road material. easily mined,' said
good roads enthusiast
There are different kinds of ebert TO
be found here in jefferson; some of them
are better for roads than others on ac-
count of the binding content By this is
meant material which will solidify to a
degree ana hold the surface under the
pounding of horses hoofs, the grinding
of wagon wheels and the suction of au-
tomo5ile tires.
"And yet, there is one great step to
which we must ultimately come in the
matter of permanent, smooth, easily kept
highways. 1t is the construction of brick
center roads, with concrete curbs, and
fianlSing ebert roads for ordinary traffic
horse propelled vehicles in fair weather.
When this work is once undertaken upon
the states main highways, it will, by
practical demonstration, make its way
through all the counties. Expensive at
first, it is economical in the last analysis,
when we count the so or 100 years it may
be cheaply maintained. / hope some day
to see the imperial county of Jefferson
begin this class of road building on the
across-the-county highways; and expect
that one partial solution or the question
as to the best occupation for certain con-
victs will be the establishment of a
county brick yard, making only paving
brick for such work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
Advance in Musical Taste

~Everyone who takes an interest In
music has remarked the decided advance
in musical taste in this country said a
well known music lover.
Five years ago when the Flonzaley
quartet was creating a furore in upper
class musical circles in large cities a
well known local musician said the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

The King and Queen of Spain were
given an ovation when they went shop
ping in Paris. Grateful shopkeepers may
have had something to do with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

Since the talking pictures came to town
a great many people have been talking
wisely of synchronization who didn't
know what it meant before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

The United States sold s1O.ooOOOo worth
of agricultural implements to Russia
last year. Maybe that country is be-
ginning to see the light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

If the United States is involved in war
with Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson will
be one of the direct causes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

Nuremberg has devised a plan to help
the children save. A good way is for
them to hide their change from mama
when the ice man comes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

When any man tries to stand between
Iammany and the public trough he is
mighty apt to be run over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

Miss Milholland says she got married
because she wanted to be kissed. 1t is now
up to Mr.. Inez ATilholland" to deliver
the goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

Madame curie found that even Paris
wouldn't stand for her amour with an
other woman's husband. In her native
Poland she will try 10 forget.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

A slo,oOo,OOO steel company has been
formed in London. This wouldn't con-
sttute good sized subsidiary for our cor
poration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

If the Barons won all the pennanrs
just think how the game would languish
IN the other cities of the circuit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

The grape juice cure seems entirely i'm
potent in the case of Huerta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
A LAY CRITICISM.

do you think there is any music in
saxophone?"
"oh. I dare say there is, but the music
in saxophone is so hard to locate that
the average performer never succeeds in
getting it out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20

The ''eubist steak is being doomed in
Chicago, served, We presume, by res
taurant proprietors who are strictly on
the square.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-20
PLAGIARISM

Giynn would like the job for "Three
Weeks" anyhow.