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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-17
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-17

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-17

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

vate the crops that the ely demanded.
According to the Birmingham school
census, taken last year, this city had
grown at the rate of 10000 year
since the last federal census. There
is a school census in Alabama every
two years and next years enumera-
ton of children of school age will
show that Birmingham rate of
growth is still greater than it was
when the last count was made. Bir-
mingham will, it is believed, be cred
tied in the next census with between
$50, 900 and 100000.
The growth Of cities is not so much
at the expense of the rural popula-
ton as it was some years ago. Agri-
culture has progressed in such a
marked degree that the "back-to- the
farm movement has become popular
cry. And it is having wholesome
effect in keeping farmers sons in the
fields. Few occupations in life are
more interesting than that of the
farmer who has been educated along
modern lines.
immigration causes the population
of the United States to increase ran
idly and the cities will grow fast
enough even if they draw less. from the
farm. The telephone and the rural
mail delivery has improved rural con-
ditions wonderfully. All that is needed
in Alabama to make the rural dis
tricts more desirable than they are
is more and better schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

but he possesses the friendship of his
political opponents, who honor him as
a square up and down fighter. Such
a little incident as the following re-
cited in the news items from Wash
ington Wednesday, shows how Mr.. I'm
derwood stands:
minority Leader Mann announced
that he wished to put aside partisan
feeling for a time and talk personally.
He told the AHouse that 81 years ago
one of the ablest men in public life
first saw the light of day. and con-
graduated the democratic party and the
American people that during the 81
years of his life there had grown to
greatness and bigness the gentleman
from Alabama, Mr.. Underwood.
amid roar of applause from both
sides of the chamber, Mr. Underwood
thanked Mr.. Mann for his congratula- :
tions."
Mr.. Underwood appears to be the real
piston rod transmitting the power OF
the democratic party to the machinery
of government, and his work Is as
steady and dependable and as devoid OF
spectacular efforts as that of the Nigh :
ty steel beam which connects some tre-
mendous Corliss engine with the multi
tude of wheels and belts and pulleys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Alaba mas Rural Schools

A decided advance was made ir
Alabama's public school system wher
the county high school plan was
adopted. Nearly every county in the
state now has handsome high schoo
building, costing, as rule, something
like $4,000. Some cost more and some
a little less.
In the few years that these rura
schools have been in existence much
good has been done to the cause oil
education. The results, it is said, arc
fully up to expectations. The four.
year course not only fits boy for the
university but the boys and girls who
graduate have more education than
their parents, in most cases, had
many Of whom enjoyed what was con-
sidered years ago as first rate ad-
vantages.
But Alabama will continue to be
rated very low in this country's table
of illiteracy until there is a school
house at every cross roads with a nine
months session; and this can only be
done after an amendment to the con-
stitution is adopted giving the right
to every school district to tax itself
for school purposes. The present con-
stitution, framed in 1901, is faulty
in many respects. 1t is out of date and
a new constitutional convention will
probably be called before MANY wears
In the meantime, the next legisla-
ture should submit to the people an
amendment proposition in the inter.
est of rural schools. Certain it is thai
Alabama will never come fully into its
own until ignorance on the part of tn,
masses is reduced to a minimum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Ancient and Modern Cities

Before a spade was put in the
ground or stone laid in place the
whole plan of the future capital of the
Australian commonwealth has been
prepared and approved, and an ex-
animation of that plan serves to show
where the European and American
cities are at fault.
In America the rule is to lay off a
city in streets and avenues intersect-
ing at right angles, thereby forming
the parallelograms known as "blocks,' y
while in Europe, at least in the cap
itals and the old cities, there seems
to have been no plan at all at the out
set, everyone buying his house just
where he pleased and facing how he
pleased, and the paths and tracks
which led from house to house
were adopted later on and made the
streets. In these two respects we fine
the best illustrations of the difference
between the modern and the ancient.
The Australian plan is happy com
bination of the old and the new, pre-.
serving many of the graceful sinuosi
ties of the old which relieve the tire.
some monotony of miles and miles ot
straight lines and at the same timt
eliminating those tortuous thorough
fares along which the stranger wan
ders only to find himself after long
and weary walk back at the plac,
from which he started. The block sys
tenn is indicative of busy people whs
want to go quickly to their objective
point and is based upon the geome
tricsl axiom that straight line is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Attractive Kitchen Markets

THE markets for garden 'produce
and tropical fruits are very attractive
just now,' said an enthusiastic house
holder
1.-The season has been backward as to
temperatures, but a dry April and
plenty of work, made everything grow
ing in the garden root well, so that.
with such favorable and seasonable
showers as are peculiar to this valley,
we should have the very best gardens
we have know for years. Strawberries
and radishes are getting plentiful and
the supply of Florida and southern
Georgia garden truck is abundant. and
very fine, too. During all the winter
there has been an abundant supply of
tomatoes, and they have been as goot
as the very best home grown to b.
had here last year. and in fact, in the
common run, far superior to the partly
ripened and immature fruit offered last
season, until many persons began TO
wonder if there were ever to be any
moro rich, ripe, red-to- the-core toma-
toes
THE fruit crop will be short but
of good quality, / am informed by those
well informed. There will be plenty of
fine berries"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
RIrminsham as a city

"Visitors tell of their favorable impress
sions of Birmingham and many of them
who are here for the first time express
wonder that this comparatively young
community has accomplished so much,
said a well known upbuilder
|. "Well, Birmingham has made strides
and it will continue to make them, but
two things must be done bfeore Biz
mingham will be the city it is entitled to
be-we must get rid of the grade cross
ings and we must have better school
facilities; larger accommodations L fee
confident that the city commission will
find some way to give us more school
buildings and to put the old ones that
are in dangerous condition IN good
shape"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

shortest distance between two points,
but the European plan is evidently
based on the maxim that the longest
way round is the shortest way home
The American city is the more
practical, but the European city the
more enjoyable. The American city
does not permit of the erection OF
fountains and statues except In Its
rectangular parks, while the European
city is well provided with vacant
spaces admirably suited for such pur-
poses. In the Australian plan both of
these features have been considered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

tried for murder and escaped, and was
cordially detested by his tenants and the
nearby gentry.
However, he left enough to enable the
new Lord Byron to be sent to the famous
school at Harrow, and later TO cam
bridge, and In the course of his school
ing he began writing verse.
1t is not the least extraordinary thing
about Byron to see how early he began
to fall in love, and how seriously he took
his schooboy heart affairs. When he
was s, he tells us solemnly, he fell In
love with Mary Duff, a Scottish lass, ano
years afterward when Mary was grown
to marriageable age and had meanwhile
become the merest memory to him, he
burst into tears when his mother told
him of the girls marriage. At y he
loved his cousin, Margaret Parker, child
of 13. OF her he says: II recollect scarce
ly anything of my cousin; she looked as
if she had been made out of a rainbow,
all beauty and peace"
At 10 we find him desperately smitten
of his 17-year-old neighbor, Mary Cha
worth, whose father Byron's great uncle
had slain in the duel. There was feud
between the families still Byron and
Mary wrote letters to one another, had
secret meetings at the gate between the
two estates.
"The ardor, however," says Byron,
was all on my side; l was serious, she
was volatile. She liked me as a younger
brother and laughed at me as a boy;
she, however, gave me her picture, and
that was something to make verses
upon"
However, Miss Chaworth declined very
positively to become Lady Byron and
there was an end of the matter.
AT 10 Byron published his first book
of verse, Hours of Idleness.' and the
Edinburgh Review took occasion to jest
at the volume with quiet unnecessary
savagery. Byron was furious, and he
forthwith wrote his satire, "Englsl
Bards and Scotch Reviewers a clever
effort which at once attracted public
attention to him. Shortly after this he
set sail for the continent where he wan
dered the best part of two years, visiting
Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Greece.
Then he returned to England and pub
lished the first two cantos of "Chlds
Harold and Byron was famous. He wa.
also much sought after, and various girls
and matrons with more sentiment thar
sense flung themselves at his head On,
woman pretended to try to stab hersel
at an evening party because Byron
scorned her attentions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
GROWING IN ESTIMATION
8 Mobile lie gistel

Evidences are numerous that Repre-
sentative Oscar w. Underwood who ha 6
been denominated as "Alabama's best
asset Is steadily enhancing in value
and in the estimation of the public at
large. So we'll has Mr.. Underwood con-
Quoted himself since his campaign for
the Presidential nomination at Balti-
more. so modestly and so free from
chcrishing feeling of resentment at
not having succeeded, that the public
which loves good loser, appears in
tent in making him an eventual win
|ner. Not only Is Mr.. Underwood gain-
ing golden opinions from the democracy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Politics and the Tariff

High tariff beneficiaries have not
been asleep Seeing that the demo-
Gratis were able to get revised tariff
measure through the House oil Repre-
sentatives by practically solid demo-
cratic vote they did not make much
serious effort in the way OF opposition.
But the protectionists are now organ
lied and although the Underwood Dill
will pass the Senate with, it IS be-
lieved, little change, the opponents OF
tariff revision will not only make a
noisy protest, but will resort to yarl-
ous tactics to thwart the democrats.
Bluff more than ever will be indulged
in. The republican protectionists are
alarmists and they will be very in
sistent from now until the tariff bill
is finally disposed of.
Many manufacturers are threaten
ing to close down-if the Underwood
bill. in its present form, is enacted. IL
need surprise no one if many mills
suspend operations temporarily and IL
those in charge of operations attribute
their action to the democratic tariff
policy.
All this was to be expected Inc
A A...;o,. ,1oo,,Io aro oonerallv sneak
ing, disposed to take bright view OF
things; make the best OF situation
that confronts them. There are more
optimists than pessimists. And yet
there will always be people who are
ready to listen to the alarmist and be
influenced by his gloomy talk. The
hue and cry, however, that the re-
publican protectionists will keep up
for a little while will not make much
impression upon intelligent men who
believe and have long believed that
the tariff needed revision downward.
The masses have been heavily taxed
by reason of the high tariff and while
some monopolistic interests. will feel
some adverse effect from the Under
wood measure, they will lose no time
in readiusting their business to meet
the new tariff schedule.
Democratic senator's will stand
firm. They certainly will not be swept
off their feet by republican alarmists
or by those'w have fattened on pro-
lection, no matter what their partisan
politics might have been.
Three months after the democratic
tariff law goes into effect business
will, in all probability, be moving
along actively and satisfactorily. If
we have bumper crops this summer
the prosperity that will follow will
mean new high records in many lines
of production. The general trade of
the country was uncommonly active
last summer and last autumn. 1t will
be equally as prosperous this summer
and autumn if we have crops as large
as those of last year.
But beware of the alarmistl Bust
ness conditions are sound today and
they will be no less sound at any rate
after the country has revised tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
The Presbyterian Assemblies

On Thursday next three presbyte-
rian general assemblies will convene
in Joint meeting in Atlanta and will
continue in session 10 days. And a
fourth body, called the Associate Re-
form church, will be represented In
Atlanta by special commission. Al
though not Presbyterian inename the
Reformed is Presbyterian in doctrine
and policy and is, therefore, regarded
as a member of the great Presbyterian
family. More than 1900 Presbyterian
commissioners have been appointed by
presbyteries to the Atlanta assemblies
and several thousand visitors are eX-
pected.
The first joint gathering will be
presided over by the Rev. Richard X.
Finn of Atlanta. Many able ministers
will deliver addresses and William
Jennings Bryan, who is a devoted
Presbyterian, is expected to be one OF
the speakers.
A few years ago the Cumberland
Presbyterians united with the Presby-
terian church of the United States OF
America, popularity known as the
Northern Presbyterian church. Ere
Cuent efforts have been made to bring
about an organic union between the
northern and southern general assem-
blies but the time was not ripe. While
most fraternal relations have existed
between the northern and southern
bodies, especially within recent years,
there were reasons why many of the
Southern Presbyterian leaders OPP
posed organic union. 1t is believed
now, however, that the great Atlanta
joint meeting will probably be the
forerunner to a merger, as they say
in the industrial world.
Presbyterianism is not as strong
numerically in the United States as
some of the other denominations but
it has always had a pronounced in
fluence in the social and moral realm.
1t has a thoroughly educated ministry
and a lay membership of high stand
ing. The total membership of the
Northern Presbyterian church is now
about 1,345,OOO. The southern has not
quite 100000 and the United Presby-
terian church which is to participate
in the joint fellowship gathering, has
a membership of about $4,000.
Atlanta has prepared to entertain
the Presbyterians in royal style and
Christian people of the various de-
nominations throughout the country
will watch the proceedings with more
than usual interest since "epoch max
ing developments" are Anticipated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
MARCH MADNF

MARCt1 MADNESS.
Crazy quits and hatters mad,
Hornets very far from sad,
Golfers eyes that redly CLEAN,
Bleacher fans who wildly dream,
Garden makers bearing seeds,
Tennis scrappers cutting weeds;
Madness in the very air.
Blame 1t on the mad March hare!
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nifty hats in windows shown,
Girlies' skirts by breezes blown,
Sporting page bears fiaring type,
Sporting ed. pulls on his pipe;
Some will smile and others scoff
When you plan to take 'em off,;
Poets pen their lifting rhyme
Gosh! twill soon be fishing time!
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Thank great Zeus it won't be long
Till the poets lifting song
Deals with nicer things than March
clustering month that knocks the starch
Out of all of u.s.. Gee whizi
Aprils almost here, 1t isl
It's a great old month, but sayi
Not so great by half as May.
-Johnstown Democrat.
Here we are knee-deep in May
Amt the weather scrumptious, say,
Network hose and nifty shoes,
Ribbon-bows and peek-a-boos;
Then, first we know, pretty soon
Well go splashin' into June,
With young brides, and tummyache
From the biscuits that they make.
Houston Post.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
THE TRUTH ABOUT VENICE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Iiamlin Garland has refreshing
frahkness that shivers traditions and
puts the hobbies on romance. Hamlin
has seen Venice and talks like the head
Of village pealth board about it. Its
scenery is moldy, its canals navigable
sewers. its stenches unforgivable.
Properly formaldehyded and ch1orid-
ed Venice might be endurable, but al
he present time-if we fully compre-
hend Mr.. Garland--it is one of the lead
ing fourfiushers on the map.
Probably the author is largely cor
rect. The old town on the Adriatic has
been living on its gilded past. Nc
doubt it needs a cleanup day, and ?
lot of wholesome flushing. But If you
modernize the place and put 1t under
sanitary laws, what's to become Of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
WHY THEY CAME
rom Answers London

From Answers, London.
Willie, aged 4. had been invited out to
tea with his mother and. while he was
being dressed for the occasion, the de.
lights in store for him had been do
picted in glowing terms.
While his mother chatted with theil
hostess. Willie sat in solemn silence
and at last the lady of the house rose.
Now l must bring in tea, she an
|nounced, then added; Would Willit
like some tea?"
The child eyed her in astonishment
and, in a deeply hurt tone, responded:
"Why, that's what we came for.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Urban and Rural

According to official and semi
official estimates, nearly all the cities
in this country continue to grow
steadily; some of them at very rapid
rate. Twenty-Five years ago the cities
were drawing population from the
rural districts SO fast as to cause seri-
GUS apprehension lest not enough men
would be left on the farms to culti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
.MONTE CRIsTo,s CELL,

From "Three Weeks in France" by
Jchn U. Higginbotham; Reilly & Brit
ton, publishers
Steamboat excursions run from Mar
seilles out to Isle DIFF where gaping
tourists are shown the Chateau diff and
Monte Cristo's cell. with as much i'm
pressiveness as If he had really existed
1t is a wonderful tribute to the real
ism of Dumas. They even show you the
place where Monte Cristos body struck
the water. 1t is still wet. Monte Cristc
is much more of a reality than Mira
beau, who actually was imprisoned
there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

Says the Knickerbocker Press of Al
bany, N. Y: THE new Underwood tariff
cuts the duty on automobiles and Amor.
lean manufacturers fear foreign compe.
ton will greatly reduce the price of mo.
tor cars. Editors. school teachers and
clergymen may be able to afford auton,o-
bilss next year. Hooray for Mr.. Under
wood?' If editors are able to afford alt-
tomobies next year the millennium is al
hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

When he was 27. Byron was heavily in
debt. Many persons were certain that
was the reason he married Miss Mil
banke, who brought him about $4,000.
Likely enough, however, that was a SLAM
der upon Byron's name; whatever his
other faults, he showed little enough in
clination to be mercenary. Apparently
he married Miss Milbanke because a
number Of his friends urged him to do
so. and his resolution may have been
strengthened by the fact that she re-
fused him the first time he proposed.
At any rate, the marriage was a most
unhappy one. Byron seems to have had
a strange presentiment of misery even
before his marriage; he fancied he saw
ghost which was supposed to appear
to members of the house only before
death or great unhappiness. He has ds-
scribed his own feelings:
| saw him stand
Before the altar with a gentle bride:
Her face was fair, but was not that which
made
The starlight of his boyhood as he stood
Even at the altar DER his brow there
came
The self-same aspect, and the quivering
shock
That in the antique oratory shook
His bosom in its solitude.
The day, the hour the sunshine and the
shade,
All things pertaining to that place and
hour
And she, who was mis- destiny, came back
And thrust themselves between him and
the light.
Extravaganza soon ran through Lady
Byron's money, and separation fol-
lowed. Byron was bitterly condemned
in England, and left the country in 1916,
never to return.
There is small need to describe his
life in Italy that followed. 1t produced
some good poetry. and that is the best
that can be said of it. lie was involved
in more than one iason, the most famous
of which was that with the Countess
Giula Guicchoi, beautiful Italian girl.
She left her husband and came to Byron.
Then each wearied of the other.
| The mans death was superb; almost
enough to palliate his wasted life. He
became deeply interested in the Greek
| struggle Tor independence, went W Mis-
solonghl and there drilled small army
most effectively for three months, en-
during exposure and hardship of every
sort; in 1924 he died there of fever.
There is, indeed a thrill of real heroism
in that death; Byron gave up his life Tor
the one thing in which he believed most
'devotedly; it was splendid end.
/ grand army of tourists and artists and
| the special correspondents of the Jethr0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
Fine feathers make fine hats.

From the Chicago News.
Fine feathers make fine hats.
Even II a man doesn't hesitate he
may be lost anyway.
You cant tell by the load man Is
carrying where he got ii.
Love at first sight Is apt to fade on
its initial trip to the wash
The less man knows of women's
ways the more serene is his mind
1t takes woman TO remember her
daughters birthday and forget her
own.
pretty girl may be the apple OF a
young mans eye and the lemon of his
purse.
The loking glass reveals our defects
TO ourselves. The wine glass discloses
them to others.
When an sirshp chauffeur faIl;
through the skylight of a hospital that
Is not necessarily luck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

From the Detroit Free Press.
A neatly dressed actor called on our
dramatic critic one morning recently.
What do you wish?" asked the edi-
Tor politely.
Il have called to request that you in
sert a line in your paper to the effect
that | have just refused a salary of
500 a week from the opposition"
''l'll make a note of 1T. Lovely day.
Was there anything else you wanted ?'
"Only one other thing-will you lend
nc a auarter?"