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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
PHILOMELA

Matthew Arnold
i ARK! ah, the Nightingale!
The tawny- -throatedi
1 tfark! from that moonlit hat a burstt
What triumph hark-what pain
o Wanderer a Grecian Shore
Still, after in distant lands,
Still nourshing in thy bewlder'd
That Wild unquenchd deep-sunken. Old World plan
Say, will it heal?
And can this fragrant lawn
With it's cool trees and night.
And the sweet, tranquil Thames
And moonshine and the dew,
To thy rack'd heart and brain
Afford balm?
Dost thou tonight behold
Here, through moonlight this English grass,
The unfriendy palace in the Thracian wild?
Dost thou again peruse
With hot cheeks and seard eyes
The web and thy dumb sisters shame?
thou
Thy flight, thee
Fugitive the feathery change te
NOR resound
love and hate triumph and agony,
Daulis and the high Cephisian vale?
Listen, Eugenia-
thick the bursts crowdng through the leaves.
Again--thou hearest
Eternal Passonl fr1A III et
Eternal Pain!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
Temperance i'm the Navy

II read with much interest statement
of the Rev. Eugene Macdonald, made
in an address at the forty-third annual
convention of the Catholic Total Absti-
nence union in session in Philadelphia
to the effect that the navy is now 81
to so per cent temperate" said a well
known citizen. Father Macdonald is a
chaplain in the navy and has long been
a worker in the temperance cause. He
said that by actual enumeration II per
cent of the men of the navy were now
total abstainers. He said further that
the men in the navy who go ashore take
a glass of beer and go their way. They
will take a pledge against whisky but
want their beer as a safety valve.
I'm these remarks there is food for
thought. l have long recognized the tenn
perance problem as one of the most Sc
rious In this country. If total absti-
nence societies would make an exception
in favor of beer and light wines 1 think
untold good would be accomplished. In
most of the temperance movements the
mistake has been made of placing beer
in the same class with whisky. All the
pledges that l have known about have
coupled spurious and malt liquors. l
believe vast majority of the people of
prohibit the manufacture or sale of any
strong drink provided beer and domes-
tic wines were encouraged"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
sTRATFoRD, ANoIENT AND MoDER,

From Winters "shakespeare's Eng
land
More than 800 years have passed
since the birth of that colossal genius,
Shakespeare, and many changes must
have occurred in his native town within
that period. The Stratford of Shake
speare's time was built principally of
timber, as indeed, 1t is now, and con-
tanned about 1400 inhabitants. Today
its population numbers upwards of 5000,
new dwellings have arisen where once
were fields of wheat. glorious with the
shimmering luster of the scarlet poppy.
The older buildings, for the most part,
have been demolished or altered. Man
ufacture, chiefly of beer and of Shake
spearean relics, has been stimulated
into prosperous activity. The Avon has
been spanned by a new bridge of iron.
The village streets have been leveled,
swept, rolled and garnished till they
look like Flemish drawing of the Mid
die Ages Even the Shakespeare cot
tage, the ancient Tudor House, in High
street, and the two old churches--au-
thentic and splendid memorials of a
distant and storied past-have been re-
stored.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
MAKING FREAK PHOTOGRAPHS

From the Scientific American.
Moonlight effects in photography are
generally gained by trickery. OF course
1t is possible to take photographs by
moonlight, the exposure varying from
30 minutes to two hours; the results
however, are rarely satisfactory. owing
to the movement of the shadows pro-
ducing a blurred effect in the finished
print. To obtain moonlight picture
of the approved sort-a fine cloud effect
with the moon casting a long line OF
brilliant light upon water-special
preparations must be made.
A rather cloudy sunset must be
chosen. Then. when the sun drops low
on the horizon and is partially OBJ
seured by the cloud banks, one seizes
the opportunity to get snapshot (the
lens being well stopped down") right
into the eye of the light. The plate
thus obtained should be slightly un-
der developed. II all has gone we'll
the resulting negative will supply a
picture exactly resembling a moonlight
effect, and by carefully cumming a
small circle of Opaque paper upon the
film, one is able to print out the
moon" into the bargain.
Photographs In which the snow APP
pears to be falling are usually pro-
duced by artificial means. If the sub
ject is to be portrait the sitter should
be garbed appropriately and placed be-
fore a wintry background. When the
negative Is obtained 1t should be dried
and well vanished, then placed flat
upon a table with the film side upper
most. Take a soft toothbrush charged
with rather thick India ink and car
mine mixed up with water, and draw
it over the teeth of a comb, which
should be held some little distance
from the negative. If this operation Ii
carefully managed the result will be
an irregular spattering of the pigment
upon the vanished film, and when this
is dry print will be produced which
looks just as though the negative had
been taken in a snowstorm.
Photographs of the class in which
ghosts or visions appear may be
faxed" in several ways. The first oi
these may be described in the duplicate
exposure method. Suppose, for example
we wish to photograph a man inside d
bottle which will hold no more than a
pint of liquid. To accomplish this ap-
parently impossible feat proceed as fol-
lows First, photograph the bottle
standing upon a dull black support and
with similar background. While focuss-
ing take care to mark out what will be
the bottles boundaries on the plate by
fixing little pieces of bummed paper to
the ground glass screen of the camera.
Then get your man to stand or sit in a
chair upon black cloth. with a smooth
black curtain behind him. Focus upon
him so that he falls within the boun-
daries of the bottle-this being easily
managed by means of the gummed pa
per guides. Finally, expose the plate
which has already been used to photo
graph the bottle; and when this is de-
veloped, your friend will duly appear
inside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
Hester D. Jenkins in the Outlook.

Hester d. Jenkins in the Outlook.
TSURKIKsH anecdotes are very short,
and most of them cluster about
4 worthy who is said to have lived in
the fourteenth century and whose tomb
stone is pointed out in Konia. He was a
teacher or hodja, called Nasr Eddin
aodja He seems to have had two dis
tinct personalities. judging from the
stories; for one set make him appear
shrewd, crafty and even WISE and the
other set stupid and foolish. Let's look
first at some of the stupid stories
One day Nasr Hodja said to his wife.
Tomorrow, if it is pleasant, l shall work
in the garden; but II 1t is unpleasant, l
shall work in the house, His wife added,
piously, mo, Allah has nothing to do
with It, 1t must be either pleasant or un-
pleasant If 1t is pleasant, l will work in
the garden; and If it is unpleasant l will
work in the house" His wife shook her
head at this impiety. but said nothing
more That night party of soldiers came
and took Nasr Eddin Hodja away to work
for them
1t was a pleasant day, but he did not
work in the garden. When he got
through his work he went sadly home,
and, his wife being abed, he knocked at
the door. who's there?" she cried. Its
your husband. 1nshallah " replied meek
voice. mo, my husband never says IN
shallah," she replied, and, turning on her
ear, went to sleep.
Another time Nasr Eddin Hodja cried
to his wife, wife, wife, come here the
moon has fallen into the we'll" She
rushed to the we'll and looked down, and,
sure enough, the moon was floating on
the water. I'VE must get 1t OUT said
the hodja; 'bring me rope and hook"
So she brought them, and they let them
into the well. The hook caught on
stone, and Nasr Eddin and his wife pulled
and pulled. Suddenly the stone gave way
and the two fell fiat on their backs. As
they lay there the hodja cried, See, wife,
we have put it back again." and sure
enough there was the moon once more in
the sky!
All Ottomans, whether Turk Armenian.
or Macedonian, tell these stories with in
finite relish and never seem to tire of
them Here is another popular one:
One day Nasr Eddin Hodja was sitting
on branch of a tree saving off the limb.
A passer-by called to him, Look out,
you'll fall" The hodja paid no attention.
but went on saving and when the limb
feil' ne fell with 1t. Jumping UP, he ran
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
PUZZLED HIM
From the Argonaut.

From the Argonaut.
The Englishman was attending his first
ball game He seemed very uneasy after
the fifth inning and finally said to his
American friend:
II say, old chap. when do they serve the
tea?''
"They don't serve tea at ball game?'
laughed the American.
mo tea between innings" gasped the
Englishman "Then what's the object of
the blooming gamer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

and while there has been some lnll re-
Gently there is every chance of its being
brisk during the fall and winter. There
is a great demand for pig iron and the
price is advancing steadily. The Tennes
see coTnpany's operations continue on a
large scale and the American Steel and
Wire company is pushing to completion
its great mill at Fairfield. Hundreds of
men are employed in the wire mill and
before the spring the town of Fairfield
viii have a population of several thou.
sand.
Speaking of pig iron. some of my
friends engaged in the furnace business
think the price will reach $1s very soon.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
Express Rates

A reduction of $26,OOO,o00, or 16
per cent, in the gross revenues of the
express companies of the country is a
decisive one, to say the least. Either
the express companies will be severely
crippled, or it will be evidence that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

N9ME men are born under an unlucky
star and no matter how hard they
try. they are unable to get the bet
ter of their evil destiny. A West Vir-
ginia man wooed a pretty young woman
She promised to marry him if he would
quit chewing tobacco and would stop
swearing. With light heart he made the
promises and ere long with his BRIDE to-be
he stood before license clerk. That
worthy was deaf
Can you guess what happened. gentle
reader?
The prospective bridegroom gave his
name. The license clerk misunderstood.
There was a rapid cross fire of inter-
rogatories, verbal entanglements and gen.
eral confusion.
'Popv' goes the safety valve.
The man who fain would wed talked rap
idly. His language was superheated.
Years of practice had made him remark
ably proficient in swearing. His fiancee
recoiled from the awful words that rolled
from his lips in torrent and her heart
hardened against him.
Thoroughly aroused at last, the license
clerk got the mans name written down
correctly, but the young woman said she
was going home and she went.
Moral: Learn to speak two languages
and swear in one your Aphrodite does not
understand.
IT'S so IMPOSING.
man must be
Both wise and great,
To use that word,
''Preponderate."
AsTUTE.
81 thought you said Plumly was a live
wire?"
$50 he Is"
II have never seen any evidence of it,"
That's Just the reason why PIumly is
hard man to beat. He is SO carefully in
| sulated that nobody suspects him of be-
ing a live wire until it is too late"
THEY FEEL GREAT THEN.
The proudest moment in some mems
lives is when they order drink at a
bar that the bartender doesn't know how
to make.
EVER NOTICE?
When a things unspeakable people
usually get together and whisper about It,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

From the Iowa Homestead.
A man will work all day in the hot sun
and not mind it much, but to stand idle
for an hour is torture. Farmers should
remember this when they tie their horses
to a post while trading in town. Horses
have feelings as well as persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

A New York woman took poison by mis-
take andt died because she. insisted ON
dressing up before she was taken to the
hospital. Maybe she died martyr. We
don't know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
IndustriaI Actiyitx

Business has been active in the Bir-
mngham district all through this year
and l predicted some weeks ago that il
would be exceptionally active in the fall.
said a member of the Chamber of Com
merce "There are already many signs
of increasing activity.
1.-THE coal business has been very brisk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

'The prize ring wasn't working well, so
we decided to put on the quick shave, the
cannon stunt and the branding test" How
excruciatingly funny these little initia-
tions arel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

stories of gay party at the Point
judith Country club, at which several of
the women guests were. declared to have
danced in pajamas until sunrise, are being
circulated here" says a dispatch from
Narragansett Pier. Well, what will be
pulled off next?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

Secretary Daniels trunks went astray,
so he dressed for dinner by combing his
hair. Even at that he was better off than
Hero Hobson or Ollie James would have
been under like circumstances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
WOMAN VERSUS WOMAN.


After an exasperating session at the tel
ephone Mrs. Hubbson got the number she
wanted, ordered some groceries and then
returned to the living room in a zine
state of mind" While she was still fun
ing Mr.. Hubbson went to the telephone
and gave an order to the head clerk at his
office without any trouble whatever.
"why, my DEAR he said. Il don't un-
derstand how you had so much difficulty
in getting Central to give you number.
She gave me the number 1 wanted in
jlfy"
"Umph!" shifted Mrs Hudson. 81 dare
say the explanation lies in the fact that
my voice is a feminine voice and yours is
a masculine voice"
LAST YEARS MODEL, PERHAPS.
II like to jump into my motor car and
speed away from troubles"
I'D like to do that, too. if something
didn't always happen to my blamed ma
chine. SO that l carry greater troubles
with me than those 1 leave behind"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
THINGS THAT ALMOST HAPPEN

From the New York Sun
ut Is the things that almost happen
which cause gray hairs in this business
rather than the things that actually oc-
cur said veteran captain of an ex-
cursion boat.
when [ was So years old I was running
boat to Coney Island. on one occasion,
in the lower bay. fog settled down thicker
than mush. held compass course and
everything went smoothly enough until
1t was almost time to change the course
and head from the bay toward Coney. l
had heard boat-by its whistle knew it
was towing tug-pass me further, up the
bay.
Even though l could not see the bow
of my boat. I was hanging with my head
out of the pilot house window and strain
ing my eyes to see, when my quartermas-
ter, who was standing on the very peak Of
the bow, called for me to reverse.
rank for full speed astern and threw the
wheel hard to port.
1.-THE fog lifted for an instant and dead
ahead of me L saw a scow with Dynamite
written on its side and red flag floating
above It. l kept the wheel hard over and
it seemed to me the engineer was an
eternity in getting the engine reversed
We just grazed the scow. learned after
ward that it had been In tow of a tug
and that the hawser broke and the tug
crew had lost sight of the scow in the fog
when got home that night my wife
pointed out a gray hair-the first 1 had
ever had.
'In all my experience I've never had a
serious accident. but as you see I have
head full of gray hairs caused by things
that almost happened
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

A Massachusetts pastor. has substituted
drum corps for organ music in his
church. Seems determined to wake up the
brethren at any cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

Pittsburg barber got dressed for his
wedding and then shot himself. Must
have looked on matrimory as life SEN
tence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

Kansas is calling for 25000 harvest
hands. Mr.. Gallinger's panic seems to
have been sidetraclSed somewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

The outlook has been severely called
down for crediting William Allen White
and the Empora Gazette to Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

Professor Marvin seems determined to
find out from actual experiment just how
much heat this old country can stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

Alabama's gubernatorial campaign is
hotter than the weather is, and that's 60
ing some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

While in Mexico John Lind will be
viewed with suspicion, IL not with alarm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
KEEPs HIM GUESSING.
QUITE SO.

A philosopher says perspiration is a by
product of toll, but there are fat men
who can perspire a bucketful in summer
and never lift a finger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

Senator Thornton has sunk again into
the oblivion from whence he sprang.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
WHEN TYING YOUR HORSE

The Chinese trouble seems to have been
more riot than a revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
ENvIous.

I44s NlOlos
Whats seriblet SO cross about?"
He has just been reading a publishers
announcement of the places where promi-
nent authors are spending the SUMNER
TROUBLE MAKER.
"Jobbs will always do his duty. no mat
ter how irksome it may be-"
Yes. No matter how irksome it may be
to other people.
NO PROMISE MAKER.
Does Blobbs keep his word?
Il guess So He never seems to give t.'s
SURE.
What's better than tt
holiday
For working man?
raise in pay.
KEEPS HIM GUESSING.
'I suppose your wife means everything
to your"
mo. Half the time can't imagine what
she means"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
A TROUBLE MAKER.
NO PROMISE MAKER.
SURE.

Does Blobbs keep his word?e
Il guess SO. He never seems to give it,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

EVER NOTICE?
When things unspeakable people
usually get together and whisper about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

THEY FEEL GREAT THEN.
The proudest moment in some mems
lives is when they order a drink at a
bar that the bartender doesn't know how
to make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

II have never seen any evidence of it,"
That's Just the reason why PIumly is
a hard man to beat. He is so carefully in
sulated that nobody suspects him of be-
ing live wire until it is too late"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08

What's better than
A holiday
For a working man?
A raise in pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-08
AsTUTE.

81 thought you said Plumly was live
wire?"
$50 he is"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-07
GRUB WILL TAKE Up
MAJORS CASE TODAY
Suing l.. & N. for Alleged
False Arrest and I'm
prisOnment

The case of william Majors against the
Louisville and Nashville railroad In which
lie Is claiming heavy damages for alleged
false arrest and Imprisonment, Will be
called In the federal court this morning.
The Nabors case is one of the most fam
Gus In the annals of the state and has
been in the state courts for years. Nabors
was charged with train wreclSing In sew
eral cases and was acquitted In each in
stance. lie spent over year In Jail while
awaiting trial, and after his acquittal
ho filed suit for 100000 damages There
are two cases in the federal docket set
for tomorrow. and over 100 witnesses have
been summoned.
Attorneys for Nabors are Goodwin and
Ross of Bcssener and Jere King. coun-
sci for the railroad are 1illman. Bradley
& Morrow. Among those attending the
trial is j. b. Harlan. chief OF detectives
for the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
who, accompanied by a half dozen secret
operatives OF that department, reached
Birmingham yesterday.
Colonel Harlan was In conference with
7. Il. Brooks, superintendent here who IL
also defendant. The chief of detectives
did not have any statement to make about
the cases yesterday. but did say that he
was not witness in the case to be called
this morning
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-07
BRISK OPENING IN
WHOLESALE TRADE
Fish Plentiful After Short
age of Two Weeks-Al-
falfa Hay Scarce

Business on Morris avenue started
off auspiciously yesterday. rhe week
looks promising and merchants say
that the supplies are in keeping with
the brisk demand.
Fish are now plentiful, after having
been very short for more than two
weeks past. The inflated prices are
coming down 10 normal level with
remarkable rapidity Red snapper Is
now quoted at 10 cents a pound and
Spanish mackerel dropped three cents
on the pound yesterday. Merchants say
that there Is a good supply of all sorts
OF fish and that the demand is keeping
well abreast
In the grain market alfalfa hay Is
said to be getting very scarce. Unless
the stringency is relieved the price will
surely advance, say the dealers. and a
rise OF 81 on the ton today would occa-
sion no surprise. No change in corn
quotations was registered yesterday
and the demand continues good
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-07
COTTON RECEIVERS
FROM EARLY BREAK
Selling Active and More or
Less General at the
Start

New York. October Slower cables, the
appearance OF clearing weather in the
southwest over Sunday and a bearish
southern crop estimate appeared to en-
courage bearish or reactionary sentiment
In the cotton market at the opening to-
day, but after an early break of % TO q
points there was n partial rally on cover
ing or bull support, with the close steady
at o net loss of Is or 20 points. Selling
was active and more or less general at
the start. The crop estimate of 1000, coo
bales by a prominent authority was con-
sidered too far out of line with popular
expectations to have been fully accepted.
but doubtless added to the unsettled feel
ing In the market There were quite a
good many over-Sunday buying orders
around the ring, and after starting easy
at decline of 10 TO Is points there was
a slight rally but prices soon eased off
again with December contracts selling at
1889 during the middle of the morning.
or about "A points under the high records
OF last week. After the close of Liverpool
had shut out arbitrage business and the
publication of the western belt forecast
for unsettled weather with lower temper
atures offerings became lighter and tho
market steaded on rumors Of trade buy
ing, covering by recent sellers for turn
and support from local bull souces Sub
sequently APPROPRIATIONS We're more or less
irregular with last prices showing rallies
of from to 10 points, although some SELL
ing was promoted late in the day by re-
ports of easier southern spot markets.
Gables from Russia estimate the Asiatic
crop of the season at 100000 bales in ex-
cess OF last year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-07
LEGAL NOTICES
Mortgaee Foreciosure sale

Default having been made In the pay
ment Of the debt secured by mortgage
executed to the undersigned on the first
day Of July. 1912. by john V Morris ana
Gorilla $. Morris his wife. and recorded
in the probate office OF jefferson county.
Ala. l. the undersigned, will sell under
power In said mortgage on the third day
of November, 1918. at Birmingham, JEFF
ferson county, Ala, at Third avenue,
In front of the courthouse door of said
county. during the legal hours of sale at
public outcry. to the highest bidder for
cash. the following described real prop
erty. situated. lying and being In Jsh
ferson county, Ala, to-wit:
One farm In jefferson county, Ala,
acres. more or less. and being the Sv
Y OF NE u, section 20. township II S.
range w; except about u acre in NE
corner. lying east of the public road:
also that part of the Sc u OF NE y
in said section lying west of public road.
In fee simple This land lies south Of
Irondale and carries vein OF red ore
THE GEORGIA LOAN & TRUST co.
Mortgages.
Joseph T. Collins, Jr. attorney for
moftsagee. so6-7 First National Bank
Bldg. 9-30-st-tu