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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17
SAPIENcE

sAPIENCE.
His common sense
We did not doubt,
Until he went
The toadstool route.
And then we said.
But soft and low,
I'VE might have known
That's how he'd co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

The fact that John Lind doesn't know
how to talk Spanish seems no handicap to
his determination to make Huerta talk it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

ivan Dyke seems most appropriate
name for an envoy to the Netherlands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

Among the missing may be mentioned
Anthony Comstpck and Cipriano Castro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

A Kansas man has won prize for
doing fancy work. A mean paragrapner
suggests that he ought to become an
actress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17
CRUEL TREATMENT.


"a fellow is without the sanctum,g' an
nounced the faeetious assistant, with an
autumn poem, calling attention to the
fact that frost will soon be on the pump
kim"
"Show him in growed the hard-heart-
ed editor "somethin4tells me that frost
will soon be on poet"
PAUL. COOK.
realize that they will need more than
one chair to- go housekeeping.
One reason why politics is popular is
because you can talk it all day and not
know blame thing about it,
girl who is dainty in other respects
will mop her face eff with chamois rag
the color of an old shoe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

Fully eognizant that the temperament
Of the average pedagogue is usually
peaceable and placid, we incline to the
belief that College President Hanley
would not have spanked his father unless
the provoeation was extreme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

The glad days of the persimmon and
the possum are drawing near.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

The revised election returns show that
Clement r. Wood, candidate for presi-
dent of the city commission, came out
second in the race. Mr.. Ward was an
easy winner. having a large majority
of all the votes cast, but Wood beat
Nassar L. Allen by 16 votes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17
OYSTERS MISSING.

How is the oyster stew, siry'
Very good I was just wondering what
gave 1t such a decided oyster flavor.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17
DIED ON THE WAY

As to brevity of fame, consider the case
of Mr. McNab.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17
Bnshful sincerity and comeiy love.
Much Ado About Nothing
Mr.. Watson's Testimony

Mr. w dtSON 1eStlhiUHy
After many false starts and much
preliminary maneuvering, James E.
Watson, former congressman from In
1diana, has appeared before the House
lobby committee to answer charges
made against him by Martin M. Null
hall.
Watson, for six years the repub
lican whip" and a close friend of
Speaker Cannon, is accused by Null
hall of favoring such legislation as
was advocated by the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, and having,
after defeat for reelection, been EN-
ployed by the manufacturers at a
large salary to work ostensibly for
the creation of tariff commission,
his real efforts being to delay as long
as possible any downward REVISION of
the customs.
From the accounts Of his testimony
as carried by the press associations,
Mr.. Watson has not made strong
witness in his own behalf He swore
that he had never been in the pay
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, yet James A. Emery, chief
counsel for the organization, on the
stand identified letters in his own
handwriting showing that he had been
present when Watson was engaged for
the purpose alleged.
Watson denied knowledge of a
'black list" described by Mulhall. This
black list," it is alleged, was made
up of the names of congressman
uarked for defeat by the National AS
nfion of Manufacturers because
ne unfriendly to measures ad-
khe association and srp-
Jon designed tc benefit
y. He admitted that
disclosures
Ia disadvant-
he has been
irator, and
ed in the,
he will
forward
snce than
are II, ,OO0, 900 un-
the United States;
bver Is years of age,
|men over 20 years of
ing wrong, there certain
mat? That's the question.
port from which these figures
ken proceeds to state that "the
6rity Of these men have a whole
6me>> respect and reverence for the
married state, but an enormous num-
ber lack the moral fiber and courage
to marry" What constitutes the
"moral fiber" does not appear to be
very distinctly understood, nor is it
stated how it may be acquired. Due
the absence of this indefinite but
essential quality, IAN army of
single men, the report proceeds to
state, fare lavishing their earnings
and their affections upon themselves,
developing extravagant and often
vicious habits, while an army of young
women are forced to toll in factories
and business houses for the necessa
ries of life"
If it be true, as this report states,
that men are lavishing upon them
selves the affections naturally due to
women it must be that women are los
ing the power to win mems affections.
They are the magnets possessing that
mysterious force which attracts men
like the lodestone does steel, and it is
only when the lodestone loses its
magnetic quality that it ceases to at
tract. Equally open to doubt is the
statement that women are being
forced to find employment in factor
les and business houses. No denial is
made that many women are compelled
to work for living but there are
many who prefer factory and business
work to what they call household
drudgery. In response to the deV,and
made by women themselves every ave-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

The estate of the father of Gen" Ros-
allie Jones is estimated to be worth from
s5,0oo000 to sl0,O00,o00 Those persons who
thought the commander-in-chief of the
suffragette mixers a woman soured by
lack of opportunities to marry will
straightway revise their opinions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

postoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

In promulgating new rules designed to
promote safety in the operation of its
trains General Manager Bardo of the
New Haven says 'The rules are designed
and submitted after a convincing demon-
stration that our existing rules do not
vice" Indubitably the demonstration 'ias
been Convincing" Reform comes late,
but better late, than never.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-17

A J. Eaton. Jr.. and o. e. Young are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives OF The Ase-Herald in ATS
circulation department.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

Her folks wouldn't nave her
for Laurelia for a while. but one
day this mendin' man met her and
her baby. and first we knew they
was married, and he put up the
neatest little house for her you
ever did see.
Sisters All Married.
They've got two boys now Of
their own, but the mendin' man
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
Who Is Independent? Nobody
We Are Never as Foolish as When Trying to Prove How
Independent We Are.
Copyright. 1879

We all have our of imagining ourselves INDIE
PENDENT characters We take pride in independence and
foolish when trying to how independent
W
Every to begin with born absolutely at the mercy
his ancestry. You have not thing in ycu and you
will thing you that you did not inherit from
the thousands and thousands of ancestors all Of whom
dimly stored away in your complex makeup.
You may develop marveousy the faculties which they
you.
But you ARE DEPENDENT those who brought you
into the world, and upon those back of them
The Kafr sober industrious, honest with all the virtues
rolled up within him. has not fragment of chance in
thousand billions of equang the achievements of tenthrate
white whose ancestral start better.
After birth you start with dependence your ancestors
and after youth you dependent your education
Facts your tools and you can work without them
your mind has the right formation, your pro-
vded with the deep convouon and good luck supplied
you with good education in youth the whole thing depend
ent hahon your liver your stomach other
part Of your internal machinery
Very often your is dependent your temper and
tact These depend your digestion Digestion course
depends your cook
You may FEEL absolutely Independent and THINK you
are independent when matter of fact you meraby de-
pendent the mood Of the person who your food
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

thinks all the world of the girl,
too.
II asked him one day, 'How's
your sweetheart and he says
I've two, you know and he meant
the little girl, too.
well, Laurelia's all crippled up
with rheumatism; been so for
four or five years; can't walk a
step. He got her a wheel chair,
tho, and whenever the circus
comes to town, there they both
are big as life. and If anybody
has more peanuts or lemonade
than Laurelia, 1 don't know who
1t Is.
Il saw her the other day riding
around with him in his mendin'
cart. He'd rugged up a seat in
back for her and hoisted her into
1t someway, and she had on a new
pink hat with roses on IT, same as
a girls.
81 spoke to him about 1t just
now and he laughed just like a
boy and said, Yep, amt it purity?
She's got three nice hats, but
like that one best, SO she always
wears that when I take her out
a-ridin'.'
Her three sisters is all mar
ried now-married well, too, far
as money goes. One Of EN- lives
up in the city and has a house
bigger than the hotel, they say;
but saw her once in a store up
there a-shoppin' and she look
ed kind of long faced and peak
ed. They amt no children, and
they say he boards it against
her.
The others husband drinks,
for all he's so we'll off-And the
third ones man ran away with
some circus girl or actress or
other and now she's home herself.
They say Laurelia offered her a
home. but it wasn't good enough
for her.
II never did see a husband like
Laurelia's. He never seems to
think Of a thing outside his work
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
Look at Your Mosquitoes Legs
Studying Those Legs May Save Your Children From Malaa.
Copyright
Copyright. 1917

Fathers and mothers you know that malaria the great
America this country what the bubonc plague
is Asia the sleeping sickness in Africa the yellow fever
in the West Indies.
The germ of malaria in the blood deadens energy stunts
growth injuries brain Millions of American children have
been poisoned and being poisoned with malaria.
You know also of course THAT ONLY MOSQUITOES CAN
GIVE MALARIA
could sleep in socaled malaria swamp for year,
and you would not get malaria no mosquito bit you
Your children could sleep the edge of and ponds
and mosquitoes did bite them they would have malaria
When you select place for your country home in summer,
better STILL FOR YOUR ALL THE ROUND COUNTRY
HOME, the first thing that you should ask yourself is
will my children get malaria here9"
Almost everywhere the United States there mosqui
toes
They could be destroyed but the Government thus far is
too stupid to do the really important work
To find place free from mosquitoes the big cities is
difficult.
But remember that ONLY ONE KIND OF MOSQUITO
GIVES MALARIA. Here is that mosquito Look at him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
The Birth of the Drama
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY

a ESCHYLUS, the Father of
~ the Drama" was born
twenty four hundred and
thirty eight years ago, July II,
B. C. SIS. His birthplace was
the little demos Of Elusia, some
ten miles from the Athens he
was to help make the intellec-
tual glory of the world.
The youth of Aeschylus coin
cided with the most thrilling pc
Rod that the world has ever
known-the uprising of the
Greeks against the attempt of
the Oriental despots to reduce
Greece to the degradation of a
Persian satrapy. While in the
bloom and vigor of his young
manhood Aeschylus, taking his
place as a common soldier in the
ranks, helped to win the immor-
tai victory at Marathon, and,
ten years later. assisted in de-
stroying the mighty armament
of Xerxes at Salamis.
1t was a glorious thing, that
triumph of the little nation of
Greece over the great empire
that tried so hard to enslave
them, and it is not to be won
dered at that the men who had
won the amazing victory were
wondrously elated, lifted up, as
it were, into a new life trimming
with a strange, uncomfortable
sense of gladness and power.
OF that new life, with its
bursts of great heart" and great
h ave n-reaching aspirations,
Aeschylus was the Voice. He
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

wrote because he could not help
1t any more than the bird sing
Ing to the sunrise, and out of his
teeming mind came play after
play. some seventy in all, the
first real plays ever written by
man.
OF these seventy pieces only
six or seven remain, but among
these is the "Persians." the
most unique combination Of
poetry and patriotism to be
found among men," the Prone
theus," considered by many to be
the sublimest production of the
human mind, and the "Agamem-
non," the dramatic power of
which is to this day unsur-
passed.
Aeschylus was a gentleman Of
the old school, a great con-
sentative, a staunch believer in
the ultimate supremacy of the
moral law. He was always very
serious and very much in ear
nest, and had he lived to wiz.
ness the brilliant ribaldrv Of
Aristophanes. or the powerful but
unbiushing skepticism of En-
ripides, he would have been
shocked to the verge of extinc-
ton.
When old, AeschyIus became
completely bald, and legend has
it that one day as he sat ont in
the fields thinking, an easla
flying over him with a tortoise
in her claws and mistaking tba
poets bald head for a stone
dropped the tortoise, with the re-
suit that Aeschylus was killed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
BY wIN1FRED BLACK.

TT HE vegetable woman pulled
up her raggedy old horse
In hurry.
"Whoa!" she cried stentorously.
Whoa there. don't We never want
me TO speak to nobody that amt
a-buyin' from me7"
The man who came to mend the
hoe and fix the garden hose and
see what was the matter with the
back gate looked up.
why, hello, Mary" he said, and
he laid down his tools and went
out to the vegetable woman's
wagon to have a little friendly
chat.
"How's LAurelia?" said the veg
etable woman.
In the Wagon.
Fine" said the man who mends
things. Were all goin' fishin'
some Sunday"
'F1shin'." said the vegetable
woman. How on earth are you
goin' to get Laurelia fishin'?"
Coin to take her in my wag-
on" said the man who fixes
things. I've rugged up kind of
a swing seat that is just as easy
as a cradle and I'm goin' to set
up the umbrella over that and
there she'll be az nice as you
please.
she can sit there on the bank
and see us fish-she's pretty tic
killed. over IT,"
Just then something called me
away from the window and I
didn't hear the rest. but the veg
etable woman told mel almost
asked her-there was something
so particular in the way she
asked after Laurelia that l really
wanted TO know all about II.
It's this way" said the vege-
table woman. "All the neighbors
know the whole story, so I guess
it's no harm telling you. too.
"Laurelia was kind Of a pretty
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
Supporters are Disguised and
Materially Injured, She
Says, by Vandalism and Hys-
terra of the Militants in Their
Efforts to Maintain Interest.
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.

THAT the cause of suffrage
has been materially injured
by the actions of the mill
tants in England seems evident
to almost every observer.
Where ten people spoke with
favor Of Equal Franchise a year
ago (even when not actively in
terested in the work. nine of that
number to-day are too disguised
and disturbed with the vandalism
and hysteria of the militants to
maintain their interest.
And yet 1t is a curious fact that
many people who dwell in the in
ner circles Of English political life
and who claim to know the his
tory Of all progressive movements
there declare there is no way to
gain a point where habit and ira
dltion must be changed save by
brutal and violent methods.
A former member of Parlia-
ment said: You must first knock
your English lawmakers down;
you must kick and beat them on
the head, and then they will rise
up and ask you what you want.
But until you do this they will not
even listen to you"
That is the only way, he de-
clared, that Ireland has ever
gained any point with England.
But the speaker was himself an
Irishman and a violent agitator.
Views of His Daughter.
His daughter was an active
militant. So one must not take
his views too literally.
But many other people have
expressed similar Views regarding
the absolute indifference Of the
English lawmaker to any new pro-
gressive idea, and the necessity
for drastic methods if one wishes
to be heard is quite widely ac-
knowledged.
Several people claim that the
militants are nearer gaining the
goal they seek than ever before,
but to the outside observer 1t
seems far less hopeful than it
was a year ago.
Those who declare any interest
in the cause now hasten to ex-
plain that they are opposed to
militant methods and everywhere
there IS a murmur Of disapproval
and discomfort over recent occur
rences. and in all public places
the suffragists meet with less
consideration and more insults
than previously
It seems Incredible that women
of good birth and good breeding
and with good brains can per-
form such acts as pouring paint
into letter boxes, cutting and
tearing vehicles, and breaking
windows and blowing up houses.
The methods of the American
suffragists seem wonderfully dig
nified and admirable in COM
parison.
When an American refers to
this fact, however, and says the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

Before you buy the lot upon
which you intend to build the
house, look around for a mos
quito resting at his leisure upon
the wall. If you find him with
four legs fastened 10 the wall,
and two legs hanging clear, as
in this piCture-get your lot
and build your house some
where else.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

but how to please her. New
er like to let him go by with
out speaking and askin' after
Laurelia. I kind o like to see
him smile when he speaks her
name"
The vegetable woman has a
story herself, they say; I heard
that afterwards. She knew the
man who mends things when she
was young and her skin wasn't
so tanned from working in her
garden as it is now. But she was
delicate and couldn't ever marry,
the doctors said. so she just
planted flowers and vegetables
and had her little house and took
care of her mother-and now she
stops and asks after Laurelia
ohN 10 AlapPJ " SSS ilOW AduTc-
las husband cherishes her and
loves her.
A Narrow Life.
What a queer, little, narrow
life they lead, the vegetable
woman and Iaurelia. and the
man who mends things, and their
kind! No theaters, no operas, no
books, not much music, never
heard of a good picture, never
ate a really good dinner in their
lives, couldn't do a one-step or a
bunny hug to save their lives,
wouldn't know a cabaret If they
met ii in Broadway.
And yet. somehow, there was
something about the smile in the
eyes Of the man who mends
things that made me feel as I
used to when 1 read about brave
knights who went forth to slay
dragons and came back on horse
back to a fanfare of trumpets.
wish somebody would find
the man who mends things and
pin some kind of a decoration on
his coat; but, suppose, he'd take
IT off and make Laurelia put it on
a new hat for herself, and then
smile all the more sweetly-some
men are SO odd, aren't they?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
LOOK AT HIS LEGS.

Where this mosquito lives children not i've safely His
bite search your chd blood puts the germ of malaria
the blood And then the child is the victim of fight
against that throughout life and may end in early
death.
Brazil the has known enough to fight the
mosquito really big scale And thus hundreds of thousands
saved cultivation and thousands Of lives
saved also.
This picture of the mosquito have taken from in
tensey interesting article by the famous scientist Sir William
Ramsay published in the number of Hearst Magazine
Sir William Ramsays article in the Hearst Magazine
titled Making the MCrobe Work for the Good of All Man
kind This article which intelligent and ought to
read contains extraordinary amount Of useful information
More will be written about it in this column. Get the
Hearst Magazine and read the article yourself Meanwhile
look the mosquitoes your house and watch their hind legs
as they sit the wall
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

girl. blue-eyed and yellow
haired, and kind OF trustful and
easy goin'. She went to town to
work in a milliner's store and she
got into some kind OF trouble some
way and came home carryin' the
prettiest little thing of girl you
ever see.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17
Let No Man Hope. F."

Let no man hope to hinder, let
no man bid them pause;
They are mOUed By a hidden
purpose, they foUolc reSistsss
IGiCs;
And out of the 1orecb and chaos,
of the order that used to be.
A strong nelo race shall take its
place in q loOrId ace are pet to
see.
oh, eUer has man been leader.
yet failed as t0oman's guide.
1t is better that she step tor1oard
and take her place at his side.
For only from greater toomar
@ shall come the greater man:
Thro' Hte's long guest they
should iodH abreast, as soas
meant By the primal plan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

This mosquito, with four
legs fastened to the wall, and
two legs hanging clear, Is the
mosquito which fathers and
mothers should learn TO identi-
fly and AVOID.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-17

cause is gaining ground with US
by the dignified mode of proce-
dure, we are again confronted
with the statement that the
American lawmaker is quite an
other being from the English
man, and that to be heard at all
the English suffragist must be
violent.
Homes are divided and society
agitated over this matter.
A bright and cultured woman
INDUCED in some strong anti
suffragist expressions at a lunch
con one day, and then, almost in
tears, explained that her married
daughter had become suffragist
and a militant.
Wife Utterly Changed.
She was such sweet girl,
and came up believing woman
had only two duties in life." the
AAObANA Se1Ahs ~ We hlI1u anu 10
look pretty. Now, since her mar
rage, she has gone off on this
tangent, and makes speeches in
public, and forgets TO take care
of her appearance, and we are
all quite heart broken. There Is
no pleasure in seeing her any
more"
One could not help feeling sor-
~ for this mother, as one might
feel sorry for the mother hen who
sees the duckling she has Matched
swimming away down the riverl
And the end is not yet.
For cain Is the cry of the Nos
tiers,
And Vafn the pIeo of tho
hearth,
As the ranks of the strange Ne1o
Woman 90 stoeeptng oUer the
earth.
They haze come from hall and
hoUel' they hare pushed thro'
door and gate;
On the 1oorld's highl0dy they are
cro1oded to-day, for the hour is
the hour or fate.