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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
Southern Labor Congress

The Southern Labor congress will
hold it's next annual session in Bir-
mingham. This body is composed OF
representatives of unions affiliated
with the American Federation OF
Labor in 12 states of the south. Its
second annual convention has just
been concluded in Nashville. Since its
first meeting, in Atlanta in 1912, a
splendid growth has been recorded,
and this is expected to continue, and
no doubt several hundred delegates
will be named to attend the meeting
to be held here next year.
Delegate Lovinggood led the fight
for Birmingham at the Nashville
gathering, and won by safe margin
over Little Rock and Jacksonville. One
of his best arguments was that Blr-
mingham is going to build commodi-
Gus and convenient auditorium for the
use of large conventions, ana tnat tne
delegates could be assured of accom-
modations that no other city could
surpass.
Thus already is shown the splendid
advertising Birmingham will get from
its auditorium. A place to care for
large conventions will make it GER
tain that many will favor this city as
meeting place. Birmingham's rail
road facilities make it the logical
point for southern gatherings, and
the building of an auditorium will re-
move that handicap under which the
city has labored in the past.
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Typographical Slips

"Col. j. w. DuBose's instructive and
entertaining articles which appear in The
Age-Herald under the general title OF
Eight Governors of Alabama-1s74- 1901,
are being widely read" said professional
man. vThey are regarded as singularly
valuable contributions to Alabama his
tory
The printers sometimes make slips and
am informed by Colonel DuBose him
self that in his article No. 81, which ap-
peared in last Thursdays Age-Herald,
he wrote that the population of Brming-
ham in 1ss4-S5 was 10000. The printer
made it 10000. The fact is that while
Birmingham and its environs had pop
ulation at that time of 1000 or more. the
population inside the city boundary lines
could not have been much over 10000.
In 1880 the federal census credited this
city with little more than 5000. In 1890
the city's population had not reached 30,-
600; in round numbers it Was 26,00O
I'm the same article the paragraph
about Thomas ]. Judge should have read
son of justice of the supreme court OF
that name AS Colonel DuBose in refer
ring to these slips wittiy remarked, Such
is history! "
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when the last pair she bought only cost
81 80.
There isn't anything in the world a
woman won't buy on the installment plan
If she has the first installment.
When girl thinks she has pretty ankles
she knows that long skirts are unhealthy.
A man thinks he is hero il he amuses
a baby for three minutes. But he never
gives a mother credit for amusing 1t "a
hours day.
Some men will touch you for a quarter
and then kick because the coin is a little
smooth.
lair, the white slave and the red lights
have been located and paraded and the
tariff on Egyptian mummies has been re-
duced, but Congress hasn't done darn
thing to discover why the fool killer loafs
% hours per day.
Beauty Is sometimes only enamel deep.
Castles in the air would be fine places
IL you could only hire a fairy hunkey to
get up--and get breakfast in the morn
ing.
After daughter gets to reading high
piOW JuIlR1 anu ipiiiS u new thouSht SdO-
bing society she always wonders why
mother ever married the coarse, uncouth
person who likes to sit around the house
in his undcrshirt and smoke and who an
nounces that no four-fiushing literary
mollycoddle is going to marry his daugh-
ter.
The fool stork is getting giddy in his old
age. He is even dropping in to see how
some of our theatrical stars are enjoying
married life.
49, he wouldn't sell one week. But he
marks them 2.9S and sells dozen every
10 minutes.
it wouldn't hurt any if the men who
have sworn off as buyers would swear
off as drinkers.
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The Purdue Tragedy

The death of young Obenchain puts
an end to the annual "tank scrap" at
Purdue university. The college au-
thorities took quick action following
the tragedy, and the historic campus
battle will be held no more.
The fatality was caused in an un-
usual manner, and was in no way due
to brutality. Obenchain and the rest
of his sophomore classmates wore
leather collars reinforced with metal
to protect their necks in the clash
with the freshmen. Obenchain was
afflicted with a goitre, and during the
exertion attending the fight his neck
swelled to such an extent that he was
choked to death.
No one could be held responsible,
of course. Yet the fact that the tao
tics employed by the contending stu
dents were SO rough that the sopho-
mores deemed it wise to protect their
throats by artificial means is suf-
ficient evidence of the strenuousness
of the "tank scrap" The tragedy un-
fortunately but necessarily will injure
Purdue in the minds of parents who
have sons to educate, and the faculty
wisely decided that there should be
no more encounters of this character
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
IT IS AUTUMN
From the Detroit News.

From the Detroit News.
He who stirs abroad these days is
made conscious of subtle change upon
the road. the field. the wood and the
stream. There is a new sad quality in the
sunlight Nas 1t Hes upon the slopes, or
washes with gold the green of the low
lying woodland. The breeze seems to sigh
with gentle regret. and such birds as may
be heard convey In their dwlndling notes
a sense of something over and gone. 1t
is as though something passed this way.
something greatly loved and long desired,
whose presence was an unbroken divine
festival, and now is gone. leaving its de-
voices to linger awhile in contemplation
and then to close the festive chambers.
cannot utter this sadness which is
yet not sadness, which all things Seem
to utter. 1t is sadness without dejcc-
ton. parting filled with sweet regret
and yet devoid of pain, the solemnity OF
inevitable change without sign OF fear
1t is as when two friends sit and gaze on
each other, knowing each in his heart
that what must come is best Tor both,
and yet softened and silenced by the
sense Of separation. Thus 1t seems to me
the sun and the hills talk together these
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Charming Musical "reminiscences

Recent contributions to reminiscent
literature touching matters musical
include sketch in the Saturday Even
ing Post by Clara Louise Kellog-Stra
kosch, who was the greatest Ameri-
can prima donna 40 years ago and
later, and an article in the August
number of the Fortnightly Review by
Franklin Peterson, entitled "Heine on
Music and Musicians"
Theatre -goers of the 70s will recall
with pleasure Clara Louise kellogg as
Marguerite in Gounod's Faust" She
was well cultured both in music and
in dramatic art and was esteemed as
an ideal Marguerite. She was the
star in grand opera company man.
aged by Max Maretzek. In New York
she was supported by company
which bore her name with an orches-
ira of 40 or so, but on tour she
carried an orchestra of only 81 or %,
which would be considered ridiculously
inadequate now for company in
which great celebrity appeared.
Mrs. sKelloR Strakosch says in hel
pleasantly MiiIl,n and Illuminating
sketch that T. re SO few Ameri
can musicif Mrs.; Ls-e started out
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son, all OF which have been given the
most sober attention. II modestly
makes this suggestion to Mr.. Bryan:
If You will devote your entire time
to the duties of your office and refrain
during your tenure from lectures or
other addresses at which admission
fees are charged, the World will pay
you on behalf of the American people
regularly during your incumbency of
the office of Secretary of State the
sum of $4,000 a year. with no obligation
on your part except TO observe the one
condition herein expressed.
This must be looked upon as a play
to the galleries by the World. Mr..
Bryan could not afford to accept the
offer, of course. To do so would create
scandal compared with which the
present one would be insignificant.
1t is noticeable that the newspapers
which are loudest in their denuncia-
tion are the ones which originally op-
posed his becoming a member of the
cabinet, and which indeed have fought
him bitterly ever since he appeared in
political life. They maintain that the
state department in the hands of John
Bassett Moore and Woodrow Wilson
is safer, saner, soberer and stronger
than when Mr.. Bryan is on the scene.
Then are these newspapers consistent
when they SO severely deprecate his
frequent absences?
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as Marguerite that no one knew or
cared about the music. Neither was
Goethe's poem much read in this
country. 81 had never been allowed" :"
says Mrs. kellogg -Strakosch, ito read
the poem.' Her careful mother did
not permit her to read Goethe until it
had been determined that she would
take up stage career and would
appear as Marguerite. at is doubt
full she said, whether I entered
fully into the emotional or psychologi-
cal grasp of the role. Most
of the Marguerites I have seen make
her too sophisticated, too compli-
Gated. The moment they get off the
beaten path they go to extremes, like
Calve and Farrar. Nilsson
was much the most attractive of all
the Marguerites l have ever seen.
Lucca was an absolute little devil in
the part"
As has been suggested, the opera
Faust" was as much of novelty
in Clara Louise Kellog's day as many
of the productions of extreme moderns
would be now.
In the "Heine" article in the Fort
nightly Review one finds many ex-
amples of the convincing prose poet.
Heine was great poet in verse, but
he was also one of the most brilliant
of prose writer's. His essays were
artistic rhapsodies, "full of poetry and
the richest imagery" But Heine's
critical estimate of master composers
had little or no value. His distinct
charm in writing about great musi-
clans was due to that fine dramatic
quality in the art of personal sketch
ing. This is how he describes
Paganini:
Every eye was directed to the stage.
At last a dark figure appeared as if
from the neither world, the black coat
badly cut, possibly after the fashion
which prevails at the court Of Proserpiua,
and black trousers. loosely hung. nerv-
ously flapped against the thin shanks.
His long arms seemed doubly long, as
with the violin in one hand, and the
lowered bow in the other, he almost
touched the ground in profound obeisance
The contortions of his tody We're very
awkward, and almost provocative of
laughter. but his countenance, which
seemed all the more death-like in the
hard glare of the footlights. had some
thing SO beseeching, almost with the hui
mility of q half-witted creature, that a
shuddering pity repressed all desire to
la ugh.
Persons interested in good music
and literature should look up the two
periodicals here referred to and read
Clara Louise kellogg -Strakosch's
"reminiscences and Franklin Peterson's
"Heine on Music and Musicians"
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To Draw Immigrant.

II noticed in the press dispatches a
few days ago that the Mississippi Vail
ley Immigration association had been
formed to secure immigrants from Ellis
Island for the states of Texas. Louis
lana, Mississippi, Alabama and Ton
nessee, and that this association was
going to ask our commercial bodies
here to aid It," said well known busi-
ness man yesterday.
.Ithink the Alabama State Land con-
,gress has made all arrangements to
go after those classes of immigrants
that Alabama needs most and If our
commercial bodies and business mel
desire to cooperate with any organ-
ization in that field it seems to me that
the land congress should have the pref
erence over all others. AS understand
the policy of that organization, 1t viii,
have the railroads to aid it in going
after those farmers of the northwest
who are leaving the United States for
Canada. These classes are already
American citizens, they have money
with which to buy homes and would
prove from the outset valuable acquisi-
tions to Alabama. while those classes
who come in through Ellis Island arc
generally from most undesirable Sec
tions Of Europe.
I'VE are getting very few Immigrants
from Ireland and practically none from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A man who has been ornery all day
thinks that he can kneel down at night
and get forgiveness. But he isn't going to
get Off that easy.
There is nothing either heroic or pleas
ant about being henpecked. But when
man finds himself wearing zebra Co.'S
tune and engaged in making little ones
out of big ones, It is cinch that he didn't
get there because he took his wife's adj
vice.
A good felloy is guy who doesn't mind
paying 81 25 a round for the drinks. but
who kicks because his wife paid 3l.6o for
= pair Of shoes for one Of the children
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Mr.. Bryan and the Big Tent

William J. Bryan persists in lectur-
Ing wherever and whenever oppor-
tunity and generous check call. Crit
icism of the Secretary of State grows
fiercer and more frequent. He has
given evidence that he is annoyed by
the flood of uncomplimentary COM
ments he is causing, but he has not
indicated that he intends to abandon
the lecture platform.
The Age-Herald has hitherto re-
marked the undignified attitute in
which Mr.. Bryan has placed himself.
Yet it cannot agree that his excur-
sions around the country, even though
he does appear upon the same pro-
gramme with acrobats, jugglers and
yodlers, is a national scandal. Mr..
Bryan himself is no merry andrew.
He takes himself seriously.
He believes intensely that his lec-
lures make for cleaner, nobler life,
and those who have read or hear1
them must admit that he breaches the
doctrine Of higher, broader citizen
ship. He profits financially by their
delivery, and this he has tried to jus
tify by the assertion that his salary
as Secretary Of State is insufficient
to support himself and his family in
the manner to which they have been
accustomed.
In speaking Of the chautauqua en-
tertainment at Staunton, Va, birth
place of President Wilson, dispatch
to an eastern newspaper says:
Bizarre though his surroundings
were, incongruous, cheap, blatant
Bryan by sheer force of his personality
and the apparent sincerity that is a
characteristic of him, lifted the occa-
sion to plane of dignity. He took the
matter seriously. and soon his serious
ness infected his hearers, some OF
whom had come in patronizing spirit
their vanity tickled at the idea of be-
Ing amused by so great dignitary at
the cost of so cents apiece.
The New York World printed the
following in two-column measure with
large black type upon its front page:
William J. Bryan's salary as Secre-
tary of State is $4,000 year. He has
justified his activities as a lecturer by
the statement that to meet his ordi-
nary expenses without encroachine
upon his personal fortune he must have
an income of not less than $4,000 a
year. He is willing to forego accumu-
lation during his period of public ser
vice, but he resents the idea that thers
should be any sacrifice on his paii
while he is honored by high officia
preferment.
The World assumes that the crux O
this question is. therefore. the sum O.
$4,000 year. Mindful OF many things
In the proposition that 1T hereby makes
notably the dignity OF the American
4 government, the circumspect behavior
OF It's principal officers and the success
es the administration OF Woodrow VII.
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NED BRACE WRITES OF'PARIS AND THE :
WONDERFUL WORK OF PARIS DRESSr1AKERSs

these one selects. Then the dress is
made to fit the woman to wear it.
It's the same way with hats.
OF curiosity, and of a family, I have
viewed about. so to speak, and from what
has been told me and I have seen. fully
score of million dollars has been paid
out in Paris within thirty days for fem
mime fancies in the way of dresses and
dross.
Even the New York and Chicago news
papers have their women writer's here
their Sunday fashion supplements, and
some of these clever women writers get
as much for salary and expenses as do
the war correspondents One of them who
wrote society notes for the Augusta
Chronicle when I was a reporter on it.
is writing such clever stuff of fashion
from here for New York publication
that she is not only allowed salary and
expenses at the best hotels but. addi-
tionally, sufficient for a complete outfit
OF Parision gowns for the coming Win
ter. If she had not said. Hello Ed," when
I met her on the Rue de la Paix, I
should have thought her Josephine. re-
surrected.
But must say for her that she is a
genius out of the south, with more hard
common sense than grey Georsia mule,
knowing how to write and how to tell
American women what is best TO wear
at home from the gew gaws of Partisan
ultra fashions presented to them.
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And, after ell. that is as much an art
and a science as is a display of states-
manshir by a politician. Be woman
not well gowfled, neat and trim OF .ar-
ment man does not respect nor consider
her. BE shs we'll groorncc the man CEN
siders her and weighs her words and
she often becomes creative of the
statesman and factor In world gov
ernment But in Mother Hubbard she
seldom rises above the serfdom of the
household
Not that woman cannot do both
for on the Swiss farms have recently
seen the prettiest girls in blue skirts,
white panama hats decorated with blue
ribbon bands and bows raking hay, and
doing it as neatly and looking as clean,
as the girl toying with a flower bed in
Highland avenue garden.
That's why the Swiss are such a splen-
did and clean people. The women by
their appearance and acts command the
respect of the men and inspire in them
an ambition which achieves results.
y y
So the woman who teaches woman
neatness without extravaganza, elegance
without iuxuriousness is doing just as
good work as the man who is teaching
government and though these teachers
as much in salary as the man who writes
and teaches in mans own particular
line?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN.

There used to be a young fellow in my
home town who set the local styles in
socks shirts and ties"
And in what particular department
store is he ribbon clerk now?'
"Ribbon clerk nothingl He's president
of railroad and can borrow fifty mil
lion dollars in just about fifty seconds"
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unsati.factory Fishing season

"The season for fishing. all in all, has
been the most unsatisfactory that I've
known of for many years. said lover of
the rod and reel.
"Of course. there mas been an occasional
good streak of luck, but not of late. 1t is
largely due to the unusual season. In
the spring there was some very fair sport,
but as the summer came on, with the ex-
treme heat and many thunderstorms, the
bass seemd to take to deep water. Then,
the drouth caused falling of streams to
low water mark; particularly did the long
dry weather affect stjll waters, and this
made a dead zone along the edges. When
showers came. the bugs and other fish
food did not. as usual, fall into the ponds,
but in most instances landed in the
dead zone;' the fish did not come to the
banks to feed for this reason. for much
of the cover they seek when feeding was
in the dry, dead zone; flags, logs and
debris are yet we'll out of the water. Two
or three good rainfalls will give fine
sport. and these lonely September days
should enable the creel to be filled with
good catches. Bream will take worms
in deep water now. but they will come to
the shallower waters when the heavy
rainfalls raise them to the old bank lines,
and for the reasons stated"
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afternoons. And thus I seem to see IN
the gathering haze the spirits OF the sum
mer flowers betaking themselves to the
summerland. And the birds, so silent
now, noiselessly winging about the couch
OF the dying season, surely share the
secret. 1t is In the air. All who listen
may hear the whispered warning of
change. No sooner do / swing into the
highway than fallen leaves tell it to me.
the distant shadows report it to the eye.
and as ! take In deep draughts of air
catch the odor of it. 1t is autumn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

Just how Harry Thaw. though insane.
can be guilty of conspiracy is one of the
nice little points of law which che courts
of New Hampshire and the United States
must decide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
FORCED ALooFNEss.

'They were next-door neighbors for
years, and yet they never spoke"
That's the way with people in citiesl''
.'rhere was some excuse in this case.
The prison rules forbade talking
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AR1s. september-This Paris is
r. an odd and queer place of fixed
amusements and pleasures. 1t is
not. however, the Paris of twenty years
ago, when the fun was spontaneous and
absorbing-where wit and grace and
beauty and even naughtiness bubbled ass
from freshly tapped geyser. Now it's
all planned and fixed as per program
leans" who think they are having a good
time when they go to the all night cafes
and pay fabulous prices for sandwiches
and bottles of champagne merely to see
ancient female dancers eavort around in
gaudy costumes and perform antics which
would not bring applause at the Bijou
in Birmingham.
Right now Paris is filled with sight
seeing Americans and American women
in search of clothes The latter are IT.
teresting in that they are both who want
to buy for themselves and those who
are buying and copying for commercial
purposes. Every good dressmaker in
America comes 20 Paris for styles. The
creators of styles have dressmakers day
for exhibiting their models, and require
each one who enters to agree to buy a
dress TO cost $3.50 or more-usually 5000.
Then they are permitted to see the living
models-pretty girls parading about the
great rooms In all manner of gown crea-
tions. Anywhere from one hundred to
five hundred new gowns of all styles and
cuts and decorations are shown, each
worn by living, walking woman. From
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HATES TO GIVE UP.

"old Mr.. Grubbit is not exactly what
would call generous soul"
''Of course not. His. purse strings are
so arranged that the harder you pull on
them the tighter they GET
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

Mrs. Belmont declares that Mrs Pank-
hurst and her daughters made English
statesmen ridiculous. However, 1t all de-
pends on the point of view and IN this
case opinions differ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

From the Chicago Tribune.
Bought $500 Worth of Fine Rugs
Street in Front of House was Oiled Next
Day."
Finds. When on Train, lie Is Wearing
Brown Coat. Purple Vest, and Dark
Green Trousers"
New Cook at Railway Eating House
Loses job: Had Carelessly Put More
Than One Clam in the Chowder.''
Cat Comes Home from Neighbor
House with Shaved Tail; Two Lifelons
Eriends Become Enemies"
col. de Swelie. on Vacation, Acciden-
tally Gets His Cigars Mixed; Is Unable
to Distinguish Twcfers from Twenty-Five
Centers."
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BUILDERS.
fate of the toiler

Sad is the fate OF the toiler
Who has little love for his work,
II he sits in the seats of the mighty,
Or slaves for the hire of a clerk
For the men who are moving the world on
And making its dreams come true
Are those who are putting their hearts in
The work they are called on to do.
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Students of his character say that
Mayor Gaynor was misunderstood. And
no wonder. The classics and particularly
Epictetus are strange gods to the latter
day politicians.
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IMPOSSIBLE.

II fear Boggles is a profound egotist,
as we'll as an unmitigated ass"
You are a triie hard on Boggies.
Still, | dare say it is as hard for him
to see flaw in his character as it is
for blind man to see pebble in a
desert forty miles away
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Human lives are the most precious
things In the world" reads a piacard of
the Pennsylvania railroad. Coroner
Spains statistics will show that they are
not so considered In Jefferson county.
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for United States Senator from California
with the statement MY hat is in the
ring" thereby indicating that he does not
consider the colonel's fate as hard and
fast precedent.