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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
II woman worries over her husband s
health he says she is nagging MIN into
his grave. And If she doesn't worry over
his health he says she will be glad when
he is gone.
Once upon time boy earned Bible
by committing 500 verses to memory. Then
he traded the Bible for two Old Sleuth
dime novels and committed them to men,
ory.
There is a lot of bull in life. The man
who begs your pardon wouldn't take 1t
if you offered it to him.
The plainest things / know of are lin
visible face powder and invisible hair
pins.
Nothing in the world can get out of
date as quickly as woman's hat.
When the first baby comes along the
parents have a hard time trying TO de-
eide whether to call 1t Percival, Charlie
magne or Allyn. When the fifth one
comes along they call it John and let it
go at that.
Men are but grown up babies. If you
don't believe it just watch how naturally
they stick to the bottle.
Any girl of Is is willing to admit that
she is an old maid.
Putting on dog is all right sometimes.
But when a man eats at home he doesn't
want so many forks that he doesn't know
which one to use first.
When woman gets so much money that
she can afford TO buy all the new furni-
ture she wants she spends all her time
trying to dig up second hand junk known
as antiques.
A mule has his place and so has a hog.
But it isn't on a street car.
The farmers are all longing for indoor
jobs and the desk men are all trying to
save up enough to retire to a farm.
The man who thinks 1t is echeaper to
move than pay rent soon thinks it is
cheaper to get a divorce than ITO pay
grocery bills
Dreams always go by contraries, and
almost every woman is a dream.
man who wears a celluloid collar
shouldn't kick about the odor of moth
balls at this timelof year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
WOMEN'S DELIGHT IN FLYING

that they had never had moments S fear
when flying, but | doubt il on a first hight
the courage of everyone does not fail it
only for an instant Miss Trehawke. DAVIS
once told me after stormy channel
flight that she thought the secret of the
Incompatible fascination of flying was the
sensation of danger lurking in every rise
and fan of the machine.
One girl wife, frail figure leaning back
easily in the passengers seat, had a sub
lime confidence in the arman. She had
made three flights in four days, and was
not satisfied until the monoplane had
traced figures In the air on a yrotracted
journey. Her enthusiasm was intense.
Pm not really anxious" her husband
said to me. "but you have no idea what
I'm going through just now"
A London girl who weighed over IS
stene related quite blandly after her flight
that it was only a short time previously
that she had undergone a dangerous oper-
alton. And she went on eestatically to
compare her flying Sensations with her
feelings just before she lost conscious
ness when she was put under an anaes-
thetic, She said it was so glorious
Mr. Salmet himself says he much pre-
fers women passengers. "They give me
more confidence than men," he maintains.
They are more light hearted. They smile
all the time. and wave their arms when
look around. Men are more self-con-
scious. Some of them hold tightly onto
their seats and look as If. they were on
the way to the guilotine'
Within the last few weeks two of the
male passengers made their wills be-
fore flying. One man wrote his will ON
the back of picture postcard. and it was
duly signed by witnesses.
Mr.. Salmet has flown with 80 passengers
since he began this tour in one day at
Margate he took up 16 people, and In one
day at Scarborough IA. Nearly half of
the total number were women. A courtly
airman Is this little Frenchnan who per-
suades the women to leave their hats l.-
hind. winds their scarves securely over
their heads ana nee,Cs. isefps them into
the seat, and gives them charming smile
OF encouragement Just before the ma
chine rises And what feeling of ella
ing relatives and friends crowd round:
married woman who few at one seaside
place held for the rest of the day re-
ception in her home to hosts OF callers
who came to congratulate and wonder
And that is one OF the delightful acconl-
panimcnts of first fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

greater activity displayed by the small
er classes of investors and traders. This
latter has been forcefully demonstrated
by the better demand for bonds. II is
highly significant of the. gradual abb
sorption of seasoned securities that
prices of bonds have risen substantially
in the last few months. Thus COM
pilation of the quotations of 20 repre-
sentative bonds shows an average adj
vance of points from the price level
of the early summer. This renewal of
interest in the market for. securities
suggests how erroneous were the pes
simistic predictions that were heard in
some directions short time ago that
Wall street had had its day and would
never aagin show the same activity
that had been its feature in the past.
Such pessimism is the result of mex
perience. Stock market activity as the
barometer of our national activities
rises and falls in consonance with the
countrys business and energy. 1t must
have its dull times or concededly it
would prove itself inaccurate. While
there is still room for a still wider ex-
fNs'7tOA, Ahc itCtHt III
public interest is nevertheless signif-
cant of the trend and may. l think be
accepted as a responsible forecast of
more active fluctuations in quotations
in the near future within such reason
ably safe limits as to provide an ex-
cellent market for traders who are able
to promptly appraise the value of day
to day happenings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
Organizing the Women

The women of Illinois have been put
in possession of the ballot, and it is
certain that they must be taken into
consideration as political factors in
the future. The Cook county demo-
cratic organization is thoroughly alive
to this fact, and George l.. Mcconnell,
secretary of the county committee, is
lying awake O nights figuring out a
campaign of socio-political activity.
He feels that he is on the right track,
but of course his scheme must have
a practical trial before its utility is
absolutely known.
Democratic ward organizations of
Chicago have been strongly for
dances in the past, and it is Mr.. Nc
Connell's idea that such events in the
future shall be under the control of
democratic women. He would have
big ward dances at intervals, to be
supplemented by precinct card parties,
precinct musicales, receptions and the
like.
"There will be dances every week
during campaign" he says. ''There
will be two or more dances each year
in each ward for the democratic
voters-men and women. Then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
Cuba's New President.

Gen. Mario G. Menocal, president OF
Cuba, had a signed article in a recent
number of The Times of Havana in which
he declared his intention of doing every
thing in his power to cement the friendly
ties binding his country with the United
States. The Cuban President in his article
said ne believed that If the United States
removed the duty from sugar it would be
very detrimental to the trade of his coun-
try The Cuban planters supply about
three-fourths of the sugar consumed in
the United States. President Menocal said
in part:
There are so many things to do mmed-
lately and so many others to be done
later in my programme for governmental
reform and development that would like
to be able to multiply myself in order to
attend to them properly. I will say pri-
mariy that l shall do all in my power
to cement the. friendly ties which bind
Cuba to other nations, particularly the
United States, whose Intervention in 1898
made free Cuba possible. We should cul-
tivate the closest commercial relations
with the United States, as it is the nat
ural and principal market for all our
products, exerting ourselves to make per-
manent the advantages which both coun-
, tries have received through the present
reciprocity treaty. The heartiest support
and encouragement will be given to all
foreign capital that may desire investment
in Cuba, and the greater the volume the
warmer the greeting, especially when the
purpose is to increase the manufacturing
capacity of the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

The suffragette in America never takes a
rolling pin and hammers a total stranger
over the head in order to bring him round
to her point of view; she confines such
operations entirely to her husband and
usually in private
Inc suffrage movement in the states
has made fair progress in some portions
where the men have not yet learned how
TO- say no when the skirts tickle them
unuei the chin and flash their lamps on
them. but If they want a real crimp nut
permanently in the votes for women stuff
in this country, they will fall in behind
sister Pankhurst and start right into
biting every man who won't fall for it.
While the doings of some of the suf-
frasettes in our country have run the
stock of the general average down a lit
tie bit in our estimation we still have
faith in the women of the United States,
and will refuse to believe as long az
reason sits on her throne that they viii
lay aside their winning ways and adop
methods and weapons in their fight for
votes the very use of which only further
demonstrates their incapacityr for the bal
lot.
Mrs. Pankhurst will get o cold reception,
even from those who believe In votes for
women, and If she starts any funny bns.-
ness over on this side she will probably
be confined to dark room soma place
and requested to ponder over the situation
for an indefinite period. In this way she.
will probably pile up more ponder than
any other commodity while she is IN our
midst.
Statesmen IN Washington are inclined 10
view the visit of Mrs. panknurst with
some alarm, and the request that she be
allowed to address Congress did not strike
popular chord in Washington If she
addresses Congress at all Congress would
much prefer that she do so over the long
distance telephone. Congress has a great
weakness for the ladies, but they prefer
the kind who do not require the reserves
to suppress when they become peeved.
On the whole, however, Mrs. Paok-
hurst's visit to the United States will
probably result in more or less of a
slump.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
sHAKEsPnARE A BIBLE STUDENT

From the New York Telegraph.
In contradiction to statement made
by a French writer asserting that Shake
speare had ignored God in his plays, e.
H. Sothern has looked into the subject,
with the result that he finds that the
Deity is mentioned no less than 700 times
in the Shakespearean dramas.
Even in Richard Ill he points out
the supreme being is mentioned 81 times.
Shakespeare makes reverent use of the
word Almighty six times. while the
word 'Redeemer is twice used in Rich
ard HI The Holy Ghost is never men,
toned and the word Savior only once
'That Shakespeare was close Bible
student is instanced by the fact that 43
Bible characters are mentioned in the
plays, some of them as many as 10 times.
Scriptural incidents and places, such as
the Bull of Bashan, the field of Golgotha
and the bosom of Abraham, are referred
to in 90 or more places. There are also
hundreds of Bible phrases used, in most
cases literally strewn throughout the
works. He has also used Scriptural
themes profusely, and the moral educa-
ton of the plays are identical with those
of the teachings of the Bible"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
Our Daily Bread

! Advocates of freak food have been
given solar plexus by the depart
ment of agriculture in the warning
issued to the public on the subject OF
diet. For the last quarter century the
question of food values and dietary
systems has been discussed and de-
bated until many people were almost
driven to insanity or starvation, but
now relief has come at last and we
are told 'sthe truth of the matter is
that mans chances of health are best
when he eats with moderation diet
made up of clean, wholesome, ordinary
foods, well prepared in the ordinary
way"
This statement made by reliable
and practical body of men constitut-
ing one of the most important depart
ments in the government ought to be
welcomed by the nation and made uni
versally known. 1t is high time that
those snide experts and fakirs who
have been fooling the public with
their "brain foods and such like
should be exposed The celebrated
Barnum never would have attempted
such imposition on the people as some
of these caterers to our daily exist
ence have dared to offer, and at prices
which brought millions into the cof-
fers Of the imposters.
And now that the department of
agriculture has rendered such valua-
BILE service in the way of restoring
reason and common sense in the mat
ter of food for the body is it too much
to hope that some other department
/ will do as much in the matter of food
Tor the mind? A clean, wholesome
literature is the mental food which
produces sound, strong moral char
acter, but unfortunately in that line
also the expert and fakir has been
able to dispose of his Shiny slush
while the good, plain food was left un-
lasted. Appetite is mental as well as
physical The daily bread of the mind
is matter of even more Importance
han the daily bread of the body, and
as such it should be protected from
the trash and garbage which forms
SO large part of the food contained
inside the gilt-edges and picture COW
lers that please the eye of the undis-
eliminating consumer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

would have euchre, whist or other
card parties, some of these for women
only. In the precinct graphophone
parties can be utilized to good advant-
age in getting the voters interested
and introducing the candidates"
New tactics are ever needed to
meet new conditions. Yet it is not
necessary that there be complete
overthrow of all precedent in the
highly developed art of campaigning.
Beer and bologna in the past have
proved highly efficacious in convinc-
ing the male voter of the superlative
merits of the ring candidates. Why
shouldn't tea and cake prove equally
so? Mr.. McConnell's experiments will
be watched with intense interest by
other political leaders who find them
selves with female electors on their
hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
A LA MRS. PANKHURST
xVTAsHINGToN. September q.
w Especial )-There is a rumor TO
w the effect that Mrs Panlxhurst
by BILL VINES

VTAsHINGToN. September p.
w Especial )--There is a rumor TO
the effect that Mrs. Pankhurst
is coming to the United States and will
pay visit to Washington in the in
terest of the movement for votes for
women" Mrs. Pankhurst is a perfect
lady who has succeeded in getting her
name on the front page of all the big
papers in the world, and at the same time
successfully keeping Mr. Pankhurst,
whoever ne is. permanently located in
the background. Mrs. Panl1hurst believes
that ladies who desire the ballot ought to
appeal to the men to give them said bal
lot, first in a soft. and gentle tone of
voice, and If that is not effective not to
delay matters any further. but appeal to
them next time with a pile driver or
box of giant powder any violent and
abrupt means which may suggest itself.
Mrs. Pankhurst and her associates over
in England have become so spirited i'll
their campaign for votes, and have put
so much expression in 1t, by disarrang-
ing the landscape and public buildings
with high explosives and other bric-a-
brac that the authorities over there were
compelled to order out the standing army
and confine some of the leaders of the
militants in prison. A great deal or
trouble has grown out of this deterinina-
ton to confne these ladies to the county
jail because OF the fact that as prisoners
they have TO be fed by the state. and they
arc very particular what they eat. The
average English suffrasette when III jail
turns up her pretty nose at anything
shy of prime minister on toast. or menu
ber of the house of lords on the half
shell, and unless her wishes are complied
with she refuses to eat at all, and she be-
comes as Tag a problem in jail as she
is nuisance out of 1t.
There is considerable speculation in the
United States just how we would act in
this country if they were to start the
militant methods Employed in England
over here. With one or two notable ex-
ceptions the ladies of the United States
have resorted to other means of gaining
their ends than those in vogue abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
About seven years ago diamonds were
discovered in Pike county. Arkansas, in
the vicinity of the town of Murfreesboro.
There was some excitement at th~ time,
but it did not last long
Diamonds. however are still found In
Arkansas, and with sufficient frequency
and individuals to engage in mining oper-
atoms of varying magnitude. Lately the
United States Geological Survey has Is
sued n bulletin on the subject, prepared
by a representative of the survey who
personally Investigated the Pike county
diamond field. Since 1906. according to the
bulletin, 1876 stones, aggregating $50 car
ats, have been found. The first discovery
was made near the mouth of Prairie
creek and most OF the diamonds were
found there They occur in rock known
as peridotite and search for further areas
of this rock has been made. This has re-
areas, all smaller than the original field.
and all compressed in space of about
one square mile.
one or the new mining settlements has
been given the name of Kimberley. A
few diamonds have been found on the
surface and mining development to ascer-
tain the extent of the diamond bearing
rock is in progress. From present indi-
cations the Arkansas Kimberley has lit
tie prospect of becoming a rival of the
Cape Colony diamond town from which it
evidently borrowed its name Arkansas
nevertheless. has diamonds-and enough
of them, at least. to justify continued eff
forts to locate the elusive peridotite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

! ing of his victim. II have no regrets
and have no fears. Let them hurry
me to the electric chair They will
find me ready"
Then with all the craft of the
shrewd criminal, he remarks: "They
can never convict me. 1t doesn't make
any difference what | have confessed.
How are they going to prove sAnna
Aumuller is dead? They've got to es-
tablish the corpus deficit, haven't
they? Where's the dead girls head?"
The murderer's mental abnormality
to some eyes seems reflected in his
physical being. Coroner Feinberg
called attention to the peculiar
face of the imposter priest, saying
the right side presented a sanctified
appearance, look such as a priest
might have. But the left side of the
countenance," said the coroner, "is
IOIdlly Inherent. I0efe are Tile marks
of devil on that side of his face. l
noticed that about the mouth on one
side brutal instincts seem marked.
The left eye and cheek have the cum
ming look of fox. | turned suddenly
so | could see the better side of his
countenance and the difference was
remarkable. Even about the eyes one
could see it. One had diabolical leer,
while the other had beatific express
sion"
The public reads the wierd and alb
horrent story of Hans Schmidt with
instructive shuddering; and it feels re-
lief that such an inhuman monster is
behind bars of steel and walls of
stone.
OF course, the church is not to
blame, for such man as Schmidt
might have almost deceived the very
elect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
The Government and the Refugees

The government has very properly
refused the request of the 100 refu-
gees now at Los Angeles to be re-
turned to the Yaqui valley in Mexico.
These people have made themselves
notorious by alleging that they were
stampeded into abandoning 81 1,500,
900 worth of personal property by
United States Consul Vail, stationed
at Guaymas, and Lieutenant Henley
of the United States marine corps.
In a statement issued to the Asso-
ciated Press the refugees claim that
they were in no danger; that they had
not been molested by either faction,
and that the Indians were not threat
enjng. They allege they were not
shown President Wilson's message,
but were given 48 hours in which to
make ready to embark for the United
States. Their arguments by their
own statement are proved fallacious.
"Since about March 1, 1913," says
the statement, 1--WE have been with
out train service or mails and for that
reason could not intelligently judge
for ourselves the necessities of the
case"
Out of their own mouths are they
convicted. President Wilson with of
ficial reports from every section of
the republic of Mexico deemed it nee
essary to urge every~American to de-
part. Now these people who have
been without mails since March /,
more than six months, question his
Judgment. The trouble in Mexico is
not local; it is national and the con-
dition of one isolated valley is not to
be taken as a gauge of the entire re-
public.
In answering the plea of the refu-
gees to be returned to their homes it
was pointed out by state department
authorities that the appropriation had
been made for the purpose of bringing
destitute Americans out of Mexico
and not to return malcontents.
The department officials are pre-
cisely correct in their view. 1t would
be the heighth of absurdity to return
these people to Mexico after the
Presidents action and the emergency
appropriation by Congress, even if
their request was justifiable, which it
is not.
The lower republic is better off
without them. This is the class of peo-
pie who shout for bloody war when
bandits steal horse or two. To this
type is largely to be attributed the
present ill-feeling toward Americans
which prevails in Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
The Strange Case of Hans Schmidt

The psychopathists have new phe-
nomenon to ponder; the criminolog
lists perplexing problem for study
and speculation.
Hans Schmidt, fake priest, thief,
man of medicine, murderer, is a
specimen both to shock society and
startle science. He is subject for the
3eps.pf Poe; an anomaly never con-
.eived in the fertile mind of Robert
louis Stevenson.
Dual personalities are not uncom-
non in literature or life But Schmidt
laims to have triple personality.
10 swindled his way into the priest
hood, yet at times lived apparently as
y j worthy son of the church, perform
s4nR the functions of his office with a
aumility of spirit and earnestness of
>Iaith that won the esteem of real men
a religion. AS a criminal, he robbed
XlU luuI GU. no q oeuhShe VI iiiSui-
#ne he contemplated methods of
lie relief of suffering, and meditated
41thanasia for the incurable of body
Ind mind.
That he is victim of insanity in
bme form seems patent. He told
father Evers, chaplain of the Tombs,
hat he killed Anna Aumuller at the
3eder Of St. Elizabeth as sacrifice
Iach as was rendered by Abraham,
k1d that in order to effect its con-
&ammation he drank of the blood of
Ne victim. These are the words of a
4aniac. Yet William j. Flynn, chief
the United States secret service
Sys he never knew or heard of a
.unterfeiter who was crazy.
Schmidt admits that he tried to ut.
y spurious money. 1t was his in
ntion, he says, to give the entire
stput to the poor, thus bringing q
y Of light into lives that are in
srknsss. Such would be strange
u of philanthropy.
( mufdered her" he says, in speak
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Violation. of Game Inv

The game warden in Jefferson county
needs to get busy right away said a
sportsman. for the game hog and tie
poacher are already killing birds out OF
season.
out in the fields near the almshouse
there are every year several eovegs of
quail. Last year a notorious pot hunter
slipped in there and very nearly wiped
out two coveys before the season opened.
cannot catch him at it, but have
every reason TO believe he was guilty. He
has moved his camp but there are oth-
efs who are already killing the quail
work my dogs on the birds, always with
out gun. | can tell that someone is
killing them. Then, two, one can hear
the firing In the distance. If plans were
laid to make examples of two or three Of
them, with the limit for violating the
law, there would be a stop put 10 it.
Much of the territory alluded to is in the
city limits. though cultivated or in grass
fields''