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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
REST

By Abram J. Ryan.
My feet are wearied and my hands are
tired
My soul oppressed
And desire, what | have long desired,
Rest-only rest.
'Tis hard to plant in spring and never
In barren ways
'Tis hard to plant-and never garner
In harvest days.
The burden of my days is hard 20 bear,
But God knows best;
And I have prayed-but vain has beep
my prayer
For rest--sweet rest
'Tis hard to plant in spring and never
reap
The autumn yield;
Tis hard to TILL and when It's titled, to
weep
Ger fruitless field
And SO cry weak and human cry,
So heart oppressed;
And SO l sigh a weak and human sigh,
For rest-for rest.
My way has wound across the desert
years.
And cares infest
My path and through the flowing or
hot tears
/ pine for rest.
Twas always so; when still child
laid
On mothers breast,
My wearied little head; cen when l.
prayed,
As now-for rest.
And I am restless still twill soon be
DER:
Far down the West fW
Life's sun Is setting, and I see the shore
Wkere l shall rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
BETWEEN INNINGS.

Today I take my pen in hand.
Or. shooting at the truth, mean
slip new typewriter band
Within the fold of my machine;
And then / set hectic pace,
Like Honus Wagner up at bat,
To fill my little bunch of space
And let it go at that.
-Grantland Rice. In New York Mail.
Today take my shears in hand
And clip friend Rice's verse and glue
1t down. although, you understand,
The idea is not very new;
And then 1 set hectic pace
To write followup that's pat:
So, filling up no little space,
| let Ii go at that
Mel James, In Johnstown Democrat.
Today, I also take my shears
And clip this welcome "fller" out:
My mood this morn is one of tears,
Upon my path sit Gloom and Doubt.
No pleasure lies in what I do,
This job seems very stale and fiat,
And so I'll add stanza, too,
And let it go at that.
Paul Cook, In Birmingham Age-Herald.
And. in my turn; my shears take
And clip st random some old "chain,"
A measured ending 1t will make;
1t does not greatly tax my brain,
And ginning Grant, and Mel. and Paul,
I see the slap-stick work they're at,
1t isn't worth the space at all
But still. I'll let it go at that.
Dixon Merritt, in Nashville Banner.
Today I take my little knife
And quickly swipe this welcome bunch,
Then hurry out to meet the wife
And have an inexpensive lunch.
To Grant and Mel and Paul and Dix
In gratitude don my hat;
It's one of our games oldest tricks.
But it still goes at that.
Edgar Guest, in Detroit Free Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
PoINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News. s.
Duty is the thing everybody else
ought to do.
Knocking, as a profession. is badly
overcrowded.
The fit pleasures of youth become
misfts in after years.
Few men are prominent enough t.
claim that they were misquotcd.
Some young men would rather love
and lose than never love at all.
Eternal punishment may be the
price of being too poor to buy a di-
voree.
Minds of great men run in the same
channel when the MONDAY whistle
blows.
Not one man in a hundred marries
the girl who first monopolized his af-
fections.
You can't convince a young widow
that lightning won't strike twice in
the same place.
A patient seldom knows any more
about the medicine the doctor gives him
than the doctor does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Vislfau Imnreaaed

NO city in the south is as well adj
vertised or as much talked about in a
favorable way as Birmingham said
Charles f. Charlton of Chicago. "I am
here for the second time. my first visit
having been about six years ago.
Birmingham seems 10 be just twice
as much of a city now as 1t was when
l first saw it. 1t is making phenomenal
strides. 1 meet men from the east and
the west and those of them who have
been to Birmingham speak enthusiastic
eally of it, and those who have not seem
to be familiar with its wonderful record"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
THE CLASSICAL MONUMENTS OF
YAKIMA JONES
From, tho Naur XoPL C,t,,

We hail with an undiminished, with.
IL possible, an Increased affection, sem
ator in Congress from Washington. the
Hon. Wesley Leroy, whom the gods cali
Yakima Jones. A passionate woman suf-
fragist, he would dedicate to the ruling
sex certain pieces Of the capitol grounds
and name nobly the lands and enclosures
so consecrated He would designate as
the Parthenon and reserve as the site of
monuments to women a stretch of ground
near the capitol. The space in front Of
the Union station he would dominate the
Acropolis because, we presume. it is not
the peak of tne town. but fiat. II Sc
lected these ancient Names" quoth the
Hon. Yakima Jones. ''in gratitude to the
Greek poet Euripides, whose play 'Medea'
contains perhaps the earliest extant plea
for woman suffrage" Why. then. not sub
stitute "Euripideion'' for "Acropolis"?
True. the Son Of the Euripus'' was
no friend of women. whatever obserya-
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sued, followed by dense and enveloping
silence. But after the seance was over,
a timid old gentleman sidled up to the
girl and confessed that he, too, felt the
same way, only he had never had the
courage to say so.
These two are typical of sufficiently
large number of people to encourage a
tribute to the late Michael Maybrick. who,
under the name of stephen Adams
wrote such songs as 1.-THE Holy City"
1.-THE Star of Bethlehem" "A Warrior
Bold" by the Blue Aisatian Mountain"
and Nancy Lee" Maybricl had just died
at the age of SO. Despite his sentimental
leanings, he was lifelong Englishman,
and conferred unusual distinction upon a
humdrum office by having served five
terms as mayor of Pyde.
Emboldened by the confessions already
mentioned, we admit an inability to To-
cate Mr.. Maybrick's particular niche in
the temple of Mepomene, or whoever
may be the abbreviated-skirt maiden that
passes as the goddess of song. Also that
stuff, and Chopin an insoluble riddle.
InlS not III prlue, De IL unuerStOOu, Dut
rather by way of relieving an overbur-
dened conscience.
But, by the Blue Alsatan Mountain
-Ha! that's the real thing! In adolescent
days it hit the spot transforming the ash
hopper in the back yard into fountain
of delights by which ligered a blue
eyed maiden clad in gingham pinafore
and wearing a freckled face In which one
eye stood slightly askew. But she hand
ed the weary wanderer drink of cold
water, which he "quaffed to bodily sat
isfaction, while his heart leaped at sight
of the fair vision before him. How many
men are there In the world today who
now shave clean because-hang it!-the
mustache has all gone white, yet who
got their first glimpse of true love from
that song? Rise up, ye william Rileys!
1t may be bad taste. It probably is
But one Alastian strain, one heavenly
chord from the Holy City," a single
What Care I!'' from the warrior Bold
is worth a thousand negro dialect songs
though writ in choicest Broadwayese, in
which he informs her that he's her ala
bama Coon," while she's his "Lu Lu
L-o-ui"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Murray Brown. Fine work

Murray Brown, chairman of the
wholesale trade committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce. who worked up the
movement resulting in the convention of
the merchants of north Alabama, is be-
ing heartily congratulated by everybody
said prominent citizen.
ut was great movement and Mr..
Brown with his vim. enthusiasm and
practical sense was just the man to di-
rect it.
Birmingham is developing a great deal
of public spirit. No city in the south
can do better teamwork and Murray
Brown will always come in for a large
share of credit when large results are
obtained. 1t is safe to say that no en-
terprise undertaken by the Chamber of
Commerce in recent years has been so
successful as the merchants convention"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
TRAITS OF KING OF BEASTS

rope attached to his collar, and so he was
brought in Versailles, the pup trotting
happily by his side.
Unfortunately, however, the climate OF
Europe did not agree with the dog as
with the lion, for he gradually wasted
away and died. to the terrible grief of his
friend. Indeed he was so unhappy that
another dog was put into the cage to
make up for the lost one, but this dog
was not used to lions. and only knew that
they were said to be savage beasts, so
he tried to hide himself.
The lion. whose sorrow, as often hap
pens. only made him irritable and cross,
was provoked by the dogs want of con-
fidence in his kindness, and just gave him
one pat with his paw which killed him
on the spot. But he still continued so
sad that the keepers made another effort.
and this time the dog behaved with more
sense and coaxed the lion into making
friends. The two lived happily together
for many years, and the lion recovered
some of his spirits, but he never forgot
his first companion. or was quite the
same lion again.
Many hundreds of miles south of Sene-
gal a Hottentot who lived in Namaaua-
land was one evening driving down a
herd of his masters cattle, to drink in
a pool of water which was fenced In by
two steep walls OF rock. 1t has been a
particularly hot summer and water was
scarce, so the pool was lower than usual,
and it was not until the whole herd got
close to the brink that the Hottentot no.
ticed a huge lion, lying right in the water
preparing to spring.
The Eottentot, thinking as well as his
fright would let him think at all, that
anything would serve as supper for the
lion, dashed straight through the herd,
and made as fast as ne could for some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

bow myself to my machine
The while the concrete mixer smokes,
And while the noise throbs through m
bean,
And while the stoker gaily stokes:
Oh, Grant and Mel and Paul and Dix
And Ed, know this where you are at,
You've helped me out of a bad fix
Let's let 1t go at that.
Judd Lewis, in the Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
The Army-Navy Game

Only matters of high Importance
are material for cabinet discussions.
Football has gained that distinction.
The directors of the army and navy
athletic associations have not been
able to agree upon a football game
between West Point and Annapolis
this year, and the heads of the army
and navy departments have been
called upon to act as mediators. Here
tofore the annual clash has occurred
during the last days of November on
Franklin field Yearly the event has
grown in interest, and the athletic
ground of the University of Penn
sylvania is no longer able to accom-
modate the vast number of persons
who desire to attend.
West Point has announced that
negotiations with Annapolis are off,
and that it has arranged to play Car
Isle November 20. 1t is hoped that
this is not final. Mr.. Daniels, Sec
retary of the Navy, and Mr.. Brecken-
ridge, assistant secretary of war,
have aiken up the matter, and it is
possible that the embryo soldiers and
sailors will continue to chew ears and
do the tango on each others chests.
Mr.. Breckenridge favors having the
game played in Washington, and this
may be done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
The Park Concerts

The summer season of band con-
certs in the Birmingham paris is over.
All will agree that it has been a great
success. A higher class of music than
ever before was rendered, and the peo-
pie have shown that they appreciate
the grand compositions of the mas
ters. The season embraced 48 con-
certs which were given by Director
Memoli and his band, and Birming-
ham is under obligations to the Music
Study club, under whose auspices the
musicians appeared.
AS Mrs. Hundley said in her ad-
dress the closing night, it was the
purpose of the club to encourage a
desire for the best music to familiar
ize the public with the best music,
and at the same time to please the
public. These objects have been ac-
complished. MUSICAL culture has been
advanced to a degree that is easily
discernible. Especial attention has
been given to artistic music, and the
attendance has demonstrated that the
people do not want ragtime if they
can get something better.
The Music Study club has set a
mark of which it may well feel proud.
Next summer the generous citizens of
Birmingham should and doubtless will
give more freely to the cause than
ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
LUXE M,LukE SAYS

From the Cincinanti Enquirer
As soon as a pair of shoes begin to
feel comfortable TN girl she wants a
new pair.
What has become of the old fash
ioned tomboy. who could beat all tho
boys in the neighborhood at their own
games?
Every knock is free advertisement.
ANY time 4 man isn't afraid of you he
will ignore you.
Father used to start his dinnsr with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

1t has been estimated that it cost 1858 to
kill each man in the Balkan war. Before
we set out to whip Mexico it should be
remembered that the pauper labor of
Europe comes much cheaper than ON
this side the Atlantic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Our Washington correspondent was
that, Certainly Alabama is to be con-
graduated on having such a wealth of
material out of which to mold a United
States senator" What me want is SEN
ator who will keep so busy that he will
have time neither TO mold or mildew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Mu.ician paxid.on,s Smile

Thomas 7. Davidson, leader of the
music at the Hillman, was greeted with
smiles yesterday and was being congratu-
lated by his friends. His wife had pre-
sented him with boy and it will be
chrstened Thomas, Jr.
Mrs. Davidson is in Belmost Mass,
with her mother and the glad tidings We're
conveyed to Mr.. Davidson by wire Sat-
urday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
THE FIRST STEP.

1.-THE man who never takes too much
of anything Is conservative"
quite so, and the first step in conssr-
vatism is not to take too much for
granted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
HE'S WISE
From Judge.

Every seat in an outgoing street car
had been taken. At the next corner sew
eral we'll dressed ladies were let on. AS
the conductor passed through taking fares
he noticed a gentleman on an end seat
who had fallen asleep.
Wake up, here" he shouted to him.
mo sleeping on this CARP
I'm not asleep, sir" said the man.
IF you. wasn't asleep. what did you
have your eyes closed, then, for?"
"Well,'' said the gentleman. you know,
Just hate to see ladies' standing up"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
September to be busy Month

Now that September is nearly here
increased business activity is expected
said an enterprising merchant. I'VE have
had good summer. recall only one
when business was so brisk and in that
summer it was no brisker than it is now.
IT think that fall promises to be an
exceptionally busy time. Birmingham is
the best shopping city in the south. While
the out of town visitors do most of their
fall shopping in October. hundreds of
them attend the September openings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Two Chicago women were arrested
for dancing the tango on the sidewalk.
1t seems they had just come out of q
cafe. where they most likely had some
itself somewhat stimulating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
AN INSPIRATION

The world is a spot
Where many winds blow.
Some cool and some hot
And some fraught with woe.
But no matter how rude,
Nor how soft it may be,
The wind of the wood
Makes music to me
And the voice of the pines,
Like oceans dull roar
o the wind in the pines
Weaves dreams evermore!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
From Bingley's Animal Biography.

From Bingley's Animal Biography.
A LTHOUGH it would not be safe to
~ put ones self into the power of
\ lion. trusting to its generosity to
make friends, there are a great many
stories of the kindness of lions to other
creatures which are perfectly true.
One day, more than 100 years ago,
one of the great forests near the River
Senegal and was brought to a Frenchman
as a gift. The F'renchman, who was fond
of animals, undertook to train 1t, and as
the cub was very gentle and quiet this
was easily done. He soon grew very fond
Of his master, and enjoyed being petted
both by him and his friends, and what
was more strange in a beast whose fore
fathers had passed all their life in SOL
itude. the lion hated being by himself.
The more the merrier was clearly his
motto, and whether the company consisted
of dogs, cats, ducks, sheep, geese or
monkels (Which were his bedfellows), or
men and women, did not matter to him;
and you may imagine his joy when one
night as he went to bed he found two
little new born pups In his straw. He
was quite as pleased as II he had been
their mother; indeed he would hardly let
the mother go near them. and when one
of them died. he showed his grief in every
possible way, and became still more at
tached OF It's brother
After six months the lion, now more
than year old. was sent off to France,
still with the little pup for company. At
first his keepers thought that the strange
ness of everything would make him
frightened and savage, but he took it
quite calmly and was soon allowed TO
roam about the ship as he pleased Even
when he landed at Havre he only had a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Secretary Bryan says: '''I believe that
good sense and judgment on the part of
Mexico will eventually prevail" There's
yet chance for Huerta to realize that he
must give way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
NOT YET CAUGHT

From the Admission Star and Hot Blast.
The matter of catching train robbers
is getting to be a habita with Brmins-
ham officers.-The Age-Herald. But
Lacy and the treasury looters go march-
Ing on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

IF Thaw had been born poor. he might
have been a worthy man. says con-
temporary. If Thaw had been born poor
he would have been electrocuted long ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Regarding Good Words

MANY readers of The Age-Herald were
doubtless interested in DR.. Eaves article
headed, 'Assol,' which appeared few
days ago." said a professional man. In
an article which DIR. Eaves had written
the printer changed the word assoil to as
sail.
AS was explained, the word assoil
means to absolve or forgive-almost the
exact opposite of assail. DR.. Eaves, after
excusing the printer for not making out
his rare or archaic word, says:
/" But 1 write to express once more the
regret that lovers of English feel in the
loss of good words. Expression of the
finer shades of meaning depends on
wealth of words accurately known and
used.
If we would all of us, use more
words, lf we would enlarge our vocabu-
larry, we should save many fine things
from dying and vastly increase our own
intellectual interests.
But, someone says, if assoil means
the same as absove or forgive, why keep
it, since already we have two equiva-
lents? The answer is that assoi is i'm
bedded in our literature and ought to be
kept alive for the sake of it's past. 1t
is more euphonious than 'absolve" and
it means something more than forgive"
implies a sort of official forgiveness 1t
is of French ancestry. belongs to the
time when knighthood was in flower, and
would help educate the children on their
own spiritual and material ancestors.
I know that men say that we must
use economy in speech. But economy is
not parsimony, and even parsimony would
be preferable to our shiftless and squalid
intellectual indigence, and our perpetual
jingling of verbal small change, mostly
brass.
In this connection may venture to
hope that the movement to get the story
of baseball told in English, instead of
jargon may go on and prosper. For L
have difficulty in "assoiing'' story tell
ers whether of fact or fiction, who use
our mother tongue in vocables strongly
reminiscent of thieves argot'
Il ask this reproduction because what
Dr. Eaves says is so worth while and is
said so pungently that it will well bear
re-reading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

A big Indian in a $4,000 motor car
rolled through a Kansas town the 9TH
er day Merely another case of poor Lo
on Easy street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
THE GOOD OLD SONGS

There was once frank-spOken young
miss who informed select gathering of
highbrows that for her part, she couldn't
see anything in Ibsen. CONSERVATION en-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

an appetite. But son starts it with an
appetizer.
/ never could figure out the affection
of a man who kills woman because he
loves her.
When he tells her how unwor.hy he
is Of her he doesn't mean it and she
doesn't believe It,
The meanest cuss in the world is tho
man who will rob his own family to
pay for another mans drink.
The slanderous tongue doesn't do half
as much damage as the credulous ears.
A woman always gets mad when her
husband gets up in a street car and
gives his seat to good-loolSing girl.
Women often try 1t. but man hasn't
nerve enough to marry woman 70 re-
form her.
The man who goes around with a
chip on his shoulder will sooner or
later get his block knocked off.
A man wants vacation every sum-
mer because he came home half dead
from the one he has the previous sum-
mer.
The 1913 brides wouldn't feel so su.
perior If they would take good long
look at the 1910 models.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

: Croquet is said to be again sweeping
over England A game as tame as
croquet can't sweep" 1t either minces
or ambles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

The campaign for president of the city
commission is as soporific as speech by
Lafollette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

The new prime minister of Holland
has seven initials in his name. When
he is called by his full name it sounds
like roll call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Demopolis has let contract for $780,.
900 school house. Good roads and good
school houses are the infallible signs of
true prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Buoyant Kansas is consollng itself with
the thought that there are fewer mos
quitos in times of drought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Alabama militia will get 81 .OOO" That
ought to be enough to pay off the Fourth
infantry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Detroit is expecting to have 100000
better watch out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Fate seems to have destined Will
liams Travers Jerome to be the black
beast" of the Thaw family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Florida newspaper says September
Morn is not ehaste. Chief Bodeker has
CHASED her out of Birmingham at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

A man tried to kill himself by drinking
extract of cinnamon, and then his wife
accused him of merely trying to kill his
breath
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

"oh. don't know. I once thought I'd
wear my hair as long as lived. but
fate decreed otherwise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
THE TRAVELLERS.

They're coming back by boat and train,
A hundred thousand strong;
BY trolley and by auto car,
To town, where they belong,
With grips, and trunks, and golden rod
And shells from oceans shore,
And birch-barl1 souvenirs. and ferns,
And babies by the score.
-Laurana w Sheridan in New York
Times.
They're coming back with faces tanned.
And weary, hopeless looks.
To bitterly complain about
The scarcity of cooks.
They're coming back to brush away
The cobwebs from the doors
And gather up the things their hubs
Have strewn upon the floors
Chicago Reeord-Herald.
They're coming back with strings OF
hearts
And nifty coats of tam
And stories of Dan Cupid's darts
And how they caught each man.
They're coming back to start anew
Loves merry game in town,
And pots of cream will clear the hue
OF skins just now so brown.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
GOOD PLACE TO DIE.


"The doctors have given up poor Pill
kins. He hates to die"
Il don't see why. He lives at Hickory
Station, doesn't he?'
GREAT MORAL STAMINA.
Pm proud of that boy of mine"
'What has hes done?'
HE lived four years in fraternity
house and yet he went to work just as
soon as he got out of college,
A PLEASANT PROSPECT.
My whole life long
I could happy be,
Though | never went
To tango tea
LOST IT.
Don't you think it is ridiculous for
a. man to wear his hair long?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
wEAR1soME.

Bolts tells me he took long trip this
morning"
''where'd he go?''
"He rode two blocks on a street car with
I9ffa1e
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.erHE DRIFTERso

The slogan of Tammany is Economy
and Efficiency" What's in slogan?