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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
STEPPING TO A FALL.
HOW TO BUILD UP A LIBRARY

spectfully. but keep mind of your own.
They will have plenty of good sugges-
tions, but you are not to follow them
slavishy.
Do "the classics" bore you? All of
them bore some of us; some of them
bore all of us. The Greek dramatists
are utterly unreadable to you? Well.
have you ever tried the Elizabethans--
the great ones--aside from Shakespeare?
You have, and you don't like them?
Never mind. their authors wrote them
to be played, not to be read. You started
on Browning, and you began with
"Sordello?" The saints forgive you.
Try the Dramatic Lyrics" You know
Tom Jones"--how about "Peregrine
Pickle2o You read Robinson Crusoe"
years ago-have you ever read the
journal of the Plague Year," Have
you ever heard Doctor Johnson wheeze
and curse out the Americans? Boswell
can tell you how he did 1t. The ''Morte
d'Arthur'' seemed gibberish to you? Yes
IL you tried to take 1t seriously People
could do that when it was written. But
you can enjoy It's quaintness today--its
archaic flavor makes IL the greatest fun.
The stiff, set combats between two
knights who rush at each other on sight
are as absurd as the battle between the
Red Knight and White Knight in
Through the Looking Glass"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
WILSON'S ORDERLY MIND

w. G. McAdoo in the Century Magazine.
Thirty years ago only the most discern
ing would have suspected genius in Wood
row Wilson A few did, but to most peo-
pie he appeared as, a man of unusual
ability, but with nothing fiashy or pre-
cocious He talked we'll; all his ideas
were clear and some were profound, but
there was nothing of the impetuousity
and second sight which we associate with
genius. He schooled himself, against his
temperament, to work Systematically and
not wait for the inspiration. He knew
that for the best literary work inspira-
ton is necessary, but he found that he
could compel, or at least invite, the in
spiration by setting himself at his desk
and beginning to work. After many
years of this sort of discipline he was
heard to say laughingly that he had tanned
himself to be a regular mill horse.
Acquaintances have fanced that they
could see the orderly habits of his mind
reflected in the orderly desk at which he
worked. No clutter and confusion of
notes. manuscripts, books and loose pa
pers there, but instead everything as
neatly and methodicaly arranged as a
surgeons instruments. He would take a
book from the shelf, consult it. get what
he wanted, and then carefully return the
book. And when the mornings work
was ended, in ample time to prepare for
luncheon, he would open the drawer of a
desk, take out a piece of chamois skin,
carefully wipe his pen, return the cloth
to the drawer, cover the ink bottle, take
off his spectacles, put them in the case,
put on his eyeglasses, and rise deliberate
ly from his chair, nothing hurried, nothing
confused.
1t is said that Charles Dickens could
not write unless stationery and pen were
of certain sort, and one of Mr.. Wilson'S S
fe,- fastidious indugences has been writ
ing paper, even for his temporary notes,
of excellent quality. The neat handwrit-
ing, now familiar, always so legible that
he might have become a bookkeeper on
the strength of it, has the same indication
OF method and self control
These are the trifles that marked his
literary work; but this orderliness in
everything has marked all the processes
by which he has approached the large
problems with which he has had to deal
In his career as college president and
practical statesman. 1t has been said
that he expresses sudden and radical opin-
ions, but those who have known him long
know that his views had their germs in
thoughts and ideals of early manhood.
Only the methods were novel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
SUMMER NIGHT

BY Alfred Tennyson.
Now sleeps the crimson petal. now the
white;
Nor-wayes the cypress in the palace walk:
Nor winlss the gold fin in the porphyry
font;
The freely wakens; wakens thou with me-
Now droops the milk white peacock like a
ghost.
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Now lies the earth all Danae to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Now slides the silent meteor on. ana
A shining furrow. as thy thoughts in me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom Of the lake.
SO fold thyself, my dearest. thou. and
slip
Into my bosom and be lost IA ma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

From Tit Bits.
Shakespeare, as is we'll known, waa
an inveterate punster, and DR.. Johnson,
In his preface to an edition of the poets
works, severely censures him for play
ing with words on serious occasions. For
example, in answer to King Richard $
question::
What comfort, man?' How 1T with an
cient Gaunt?" the playwright puts into
the mouth of Gaunt the words:
20 how that name BELTS my compost
ton! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in
being old. Within me grief has kept a
tedious fast; and who abstains from meat
that is not gaunt?"
Hamlet is made to pun, too. When the
clown, digging graves in the church yard,
in answer to the question, Whose grave s
this?" says, Mine, SIR" Hamlet replies:
Il think 1t be thine, indeed; for thou
liest int" And later adds:
Thou dost lie int. to be int and say
it is thine; tits for the dead, not for the
quick; therefore thou lest"
The puns of Tom Hood are well known.
In "Faithless Sally Brown "Faithless
Nellie Gray" and 1.-THE Duel,' to men,
ton but few, almost every line con-
tains pun. What could be wttier than
the concluding verse of "Faithless Sally
Brown"
His death, which happened in his berth,
At forty-odd befel;
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton tolled the bell.
Perhaps one of the best known puns is
that put into the mouth of John Gill
PIN by Cowper. 1t will be remembered
that, according to the poem, John Gilpin
borrowed a horse from his friend to ride
to Edmonton to celebrate his wedding
day, but the horse had other plans and
took the jovial Gilpin to the house of his
friend, who, on seeing his ruffled condi-
ton, asked him why he had come.
Gilpin replied:
l came because your horse would come;
And if / well forbode,
My hat and wig will soon be here
They are upon the road.
The poet Wither once ]amented the
decline of his family in the words, "The
very name of Wither shows decay" and
although the following verse, penned by
Lord Lyttleton to Lady Browne. is not
the work of a poet so-called, 1t is well
worth quoting:
When I was young and debonair,
The brownest nymph to me was fair;
But now I'm old and wiser grown
The fairest nynph to me is Browne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
civil service Reform

..The democratic administration is max
ing an excellent record and patriotic peo-
ple. regardless of party, are commend
ing Mr. Wilson for the excellence of his
appointments," said b L. Bonny of Phil
adelphia. II can remember when l was
a Young voter, some 20 years ago, that the
rank and file OF both big parties believed
that TO the victor belonged the spoils.'
But we have outgrown that theory.
believe the great majority of Americans
now believe firmly in the civil service
law.
II was in Washington few days age
ana it was in the air that this was to
be decidedly civil service reform ad-
miuistgation. There will, be comparative
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
An Ideal Appointmcnt

'John Shelton Williams, who is to be
ar assistant secretary of the treasury,
will, l feel sure, prove an ideal man
for the place. said a member of Bir-
minghams Virginia colony. Il have seen
it stated that he would be in charge of
the fiscal bureau.
WILLIAMS is one of those fine combi-
na tions of the practical and the theoret-
ioal He is trained accountant, bus
mess man of vast experience, master
financier and man of statesman-like
makeup. No man that I have ever known
has understood better than he the COM
plexities of large fiscal problems He will
certainly shine in the treasury depart
from any cause, retire from the cabinet
before the end of this administration the
chances are that Williams would be his
successor.
"John Shelton Williams comes from in
tellectual stock. His father, John l.. Will
liams, head of the banking house of Will
liams & Sons, is one of the best classical
scholars in Virginia. Although he has
been a successful business man he has
always Kept up MS Latln ana Ireek. rev
theologians can quote as much of the
Greek testament as the elder Williams
and as for Latin he writes 1t with ease
and. therefore, thinks in it. He has sew
eral sons and all of them are strong men,
mentally and morally.
John SHELTON Williams first came into
prominence from a luminous and forceful
address delivered before the Chamber of
Commerce of Nashville on the natural
resources of the south. 1t was such an
able and instructive paper that the Asso-
ciated Press handled it In full. That was
some time in the latter part of the sos,
when Williams was only 20 years of age
President Wilson and Mr.. McAdoo are to
be congratulated on inducing Williams to
accept an assistant secretaryship.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

The new governor of Kansas considers
the instrumentalities of legislation in his
state antiquated and inefficient. He wants
a commission Of two from each congress
sional district appointed to make laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

President Wilson says he wants no dec
Grated box in theatre. and he wants
no playing of the national airs when he
enters He proposes to go to the theatre
not as President but as plain citizen.
This is almost revolutionary in Washing
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NEPENTHE.

When the storms of life
Above us sweep,
To close our eyes
A while and sleep,
Till the stars come back
And the night is still
And a moonbeam rests
On the window sill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
The Iron Market

The local iron market is somewhat quiet.
The price is down to s13 for No. 2, but
an upward turn is expected shortly. Mat
thew Addy G. Co.'S report says
Ideal conditions in the iron market
would be-from the iron masters stand
point, of course-a continuous buying
movement accompanied by steady ad-
vance in price. But consumers cannot
buy all the time and of late years pig
iron purchasing has been most peculiar
in that IL has to a large extent been
concentrated each year in a few brief
periods. These buying movements resem-
BILE contagious diseases. Something starts
the ball rolling and all at once half the
consumers in the country conclude stimuli
taneously to purchase iron. Then comes
week or two of tremendous activity in
the market At these times demand seems
to be unlimited and the furnaces very
largely have things their own way. Then
follows a period of calm, and since the
beginning of October we have had these
calm periods when the furnaces have
been shipping out the iron they sold
and the foundres have been melting it.,
'All signs point to another heavy buy
ing movement in the near future. In the
first place, the volume of new business
is steadily increasing. More and more
consumers are coming near the time
when their supplies will be exhausted
and they must buy or stop operations.
Practically no iron has yet been bought
for delivery over the last half of the
year and there is also a large quantity
needed for the second quarter.
Business during the week has been
fair and encourag ging in that inquiry is
on the increase A good part of the
storage iron that has been offered at cut
prices has been placed and that is no
longer as menacing as was the case a
few weeks ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Tight trousers are coming back, and so
is the shoe horn. The best information
is to the effect that King Meneik means
70 stay dead this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Wisconsin has passed a bill providing a
closed season between November l and
June for frogs. Many carloads of frogs
are sent out of Wisconsin to supply the
tables of the wealthy in the big cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
A Prominent Capitalist

"James B. Haggin, the well known
capitalist and stock farm man OF Ken
lucky, who has just invested a large
sum of money in Greene county, Alabama,
is Sc years of age, but he is still very
ective,' said member of the Champer
OF Commerce.
According to Who's Who in America
Mr. Haggin was born at Harrisburg Ky,
in 1927 He was educated for dhe legal
profession and practiced law for short
time at st. Joseph, Mo. He removed to
Natchez, Miss, where he practiced until
1919, when he went to California and ac-
quired a fortune in mining enterprises.
He formed the Silver trust with other
large mining capitalists in 1896. He owns
much ranch property and is the largest
individual owner of horses in training in
this country.
"Mr. Haggln bought about 1000 acres
of land in Greene county for the pur-
pose of raising alfalfa to be shipped to
his stock farm near Lexington, Ky. This
purchase will be a splendid advertise
ment for Alabama as alfalfa territory" +"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

In Felix Diaz's first battle In Mexico
City SOC persons were killed, of whom 10
were women, children and 2os nom
combatant men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
ANOTHER ANIMAL.

Il hate to be made the goat
Il should think that would be quite i'm
possible"
why so?"
You bray too much.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

The Newport, r. l., business men are
taking action against the summer resi-
of summer and leave without paying up
their bills. If all the accounts could be
ascertained it is quite probable that the
total sum would be an enormous one. 1t
has been learned, though without any
definiteness. that one family last fall went
away and left bills among different trades
amounting to between $4,000 and sl7,000
the largest portion of which was for en-
tertaining during last season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Secretary of State Bryan has been in
vited to take charge of the young men s
Bible class in the First Presbyterian
church Sunday school of Washington,
and in consequence the membership of the
class is going up by leaps and bounds.
Mr. Bryan has not yet accepted but the
pastor Of the church, the Rev. DR.. DON
aid C. Mcleod. believes he eventually will
undertake the management, even though
he does not teach personally every Sun
day. The Secretary of State has long been
interested in church matters and has a
leaning toward the Sunday school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Big office in Mexico is hunted with can
non and a brigade of reconcentrados.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

The man who eats robin pie has done
something he should be ashamed of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

The 10 members of President Wilson
cabinet have 81 children-a pretty good
average as things are going.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

A corner among western meat packers
is raising the price of meats again. All
meats are advancing, pork the most of
all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
pUNs OF FAMOUS POETS

This is rather more than near spring on
the half shell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

The straw hat is not more than 80 days
away in this choice climate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Water will flow like champagne at the
White House dinner table.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
IN SEASON.

= y : : 7 ? 2
When poets hear
The call of spring
And soulfully
Begin to sing,
'1'is time for more
Prosaic wights,
Who seldom reach
Ecstatic heights,
To buy a hoe
And pay close heed
To various kinds
OF garden seed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
A SEVERE TEST.

"Penwhiller is a. wonderful artist
He has great reputation
And richly deserved. too. Why, Pen
whiller can draw a girl kissing a poodle
and, upon my word, it is still possible to
admire the girl.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15


OH, JOY!
Springs on her way,
I'm all agog;
Today came
Seed catalogue.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
sSpring's on her way,
Take it from me;
Do not delay
The sassafras tea.
Indianapolis Star.
Springs on her way,
But you will cough
If before May
You take 'em off.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Springs on her way,
But what of that?
l do not pay
For Bella's hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Don't pity the coal man. He has pros
porous winters and restful summers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

DR.. W. c. woodward health officer OF
the District of Columbia, has precipitated
a sharp controversy on the question of
cremation which is stirring church circles.
Catholic and Protestant clergymen have
taken up the matter and are denouncing
as pagan such disposition of the dead.
II believe it is the only sanitary way
of disposing of the dead" said Dr. Wood
ward yesterday, "and surely it is the only
poetic way. I hope to see cremation ex-
tended" Monsignor William p. Russell,
pastor of ST. Patricks Catholic church,
declared that cremation was against the
teachings of Christianity" He declared
that it was contrary to the tenets of Ca
tholicism and that such disposition of
the bodies of the departed was reversal
to the days of pagan Rome. Several
Protestant pastors voiced the same view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

The colonel is remarkably silent as the
new administration takes hold, and breaks
all the precedents he set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Grass-eyen Bermuda-is beginning to
aspire upward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
SEE COURT RECORDS.

ohE SOOI1I REBOUNDS.
According to one authority, the moon
does not affect the tide so much as 1t
does the united"
'oh, 1 don't know about that 1t has
often affected the tied who were not tied
to each other'
THE FIELDS ARE CALLING.
The green fields are calling: Leave the
city's strife,
And hear the dew a-falIing, where it gives
the rose its life!
Come, where the woodlands are saying
things to you,
And watch the cloudless morning paint
the skies in blue
So call the green fields,
In the dark and day,
While all the birds above them
Sing your soul away!
We're going to the green felds-we hear
their winsome word
Our souls-they need the sermon in the
sweet song of bird:
The lesson of the simple flowers we're
wanting for to know,
And how a single drop O. dew can make
daisy grow.
Sweet from the green fields
Comes the call each day;
Heaven send the mockingbirds
To sing our souls away
Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
JUST SUITED.
Her name was Caprice.
And nobody blamed her.
But her parents were wise
On the day that they named her.
NOT COMPLEMENTARY.
IT hate to hear the human head re-
ferred to as a noodle
"I don't so much mind about the human
head in general, but hate to hear my
head called noodle"
STEPPING TO A FALL.
ct have just been reading what fellow
wrote about Tripping hand in hand with
Folly"
Hand in hand with Folly is a sure way
to trip" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
ART FOR ARTS SAKE.

Two theatrical stars who were man and
wife and had built up a great following
among patrons of the theatre because Of
the realistic manner In which they made
love to each other on the stage, have re-
Gently separated. 1t seems that wifey
has for some time been rather too fond
of another man. 1t appears now that
this was case in which the acting was
much more skillful and finished than peo-
pie supposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

"Well. a man who habitually rides
bicycle has no business culuvating the
flowing bowl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
FATEFUL LITTLE WORD.

He pleaded with her TO say the one lit
tie word that would make him happy for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

BETTER ADAPTED TO AUTOIsTS.
woodrow Wilson taboos the flowing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

"Tell me quickl Did she say it?"
"She did. It was No.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15

Entered at the Birmingham Ala,
postoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-08
CRUESOME STORY
OF CRIME UNTRUE
Chicago Mans Confession
Mostly Imaginary.

Chicago, Oct. S.-A speedy trial for
the murder OF Mrs. Mildred Allison
Rexroat on Sept. z5 is promised Henry
spencer, whose confessions OF twenty
murders, woven by an opium clouded
brain. dumbfounded the police. The
authorities will continue to invest
gate his fantastic stories I'm the hope
OF establishing further facts.
His admission of the Rexroat crime
In substantiated by evidence and he
is known to have committed many oi
the large number OF burglaries he has
confessed. There also Is possibility
that he may have slain Mrs. Annabel
Wight last December. She was beat
en- TO death with a hammer by a man
who had rented room and robbed.
The remainder of spencer's twenty
murders" are believed TO be the
dreams OF man obsessed by that
form OF insanity known as "stir sim,
Pile" delusion described as peniten'
tiary insanity.
In few days Spencer Will be turned
over TO the authorities OF Du Page
county, where Mrs. Rexroat was killed
Spencer's voice was Identified as the
drawing voice that had called up Mrs
Johnstone. Mrs. Rexroat's landlady
and through her had made the en-.
gagement that led the dancing teach.
or to her death.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-08
REGISTERED POUCHES
STOLEN AND LOOTED
Seventeen Thousand Dollars
Lost In Eight Days.

Spokane, Wash, Oct s.-Seventeen
thousand dollars has been stolen with
in the last eight days in Washington
and Montana from registered mail
pouches, according to information Civ.
en- out here by postoffice inspectors
who admit they have no clue to the
thieves. The first theft occurred at
Hayre, Mont, when a mail sack was
slit open on the station platform and
81, 900 taken out. The second took
place somewhere between Seattle and
Wilbur. Wash, when $4,000 in small
currency was stolen. The third was
committed near Great Falls, Mont,
when $1,000 was taken. The postal
inspectors believe the robberies ate
the work of persons who had knowl-
edge that large sums were being
transmitted by registered mail from
the larger to smaller banks to facili-
tate the movement of crops.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-08
FROM FIREMAN TO COUNT
Young German, Now Sioux City Coal
Heaven, inherits Estate.

Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. S.-From
coal HEAVIER to a German count. with
a fortune of nearly 100000. This IL
the experience of Henry Won Hager.
dorm of Sioux City, fireman on the
Omaha railroad, who received a
cablegram from Germany stating that
by the death Of Count Heinrich Won
Hagerdorn Of Strassburg, Germany,
he received fortune of $45O,OO0
Hagerdorn is twenty-four years old
and has not been in Germany for
sixteen years. His run on the Omaha
railroad was from Sioux City to st.
James, Mimi.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-08
MRS. LECKWOLD INDICTED
William Norman, Womsn's Paramour
Sent TO Prison,

Minneapolis. Oct. S.-Mrs. Ida Leck
void has been indicted by the Hen
nepin county grand jury with a charge
of first degree murder.
William Norman. named in Mrs
Leckwold's confession to the murder
OF Viola. her nine-year-old daughter
was sentenced to saltwater on an in
determinate sentence after pleading
guilty to statutory charges committed
by himself and Mrs. lockwood.
Ole lockwood. husband OF the wo
man. was found guilty of having beat
en- his wife. He probably win be Civ
en- the maximum penalty of ninety
days I'm the workhouse.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-08
TWO BIG TANKS BLOW UP
Heavy Damage Sustained by Stand
ard Oil Company.

San Diego. Cal, Oct. Sire which
started Sunday in the great oil tanks
of the Standard Oil company Is still
burning. Two of the tanks have blown
up and the police are investigating
reports of loss of life.
The side of the 100000 gallon
crude oil tank blew out and wave OF
flame rolled the lenght Of block. A
burning gasoline tank also exploded
sending blazing gasoline into the bay
The Standard company's large ware
house was consumed.