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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
THEY HAD TO "SMOAK,

fToiH the LOHuOn SIrOnlcle.
Although Lord Methuen finds the habit
of smoking on the increase among women,
it is not SO prevalent among children as
it used to be. According to John Ash
ton, under Charles II, at was not only
usual for the women to join the men in
! smoking, but in Worcestershire the chill
dren were sent % school with pipes in
their sachels. and the schoolmaster called
halt in their studies while they all
smoked-he teaching the neophyte."
Thomas Hearne records that at the time
of the plague of London IN 1865, 'chidren
were obliged to smoak. I heard Tom
Rogers. who was yeoman beadle. say that
when he was that year that the plague
ragged a schoolboy at Eton, all the boys
were obliged to smoak in the school every
morning. and that he was never whipped
SO much in his life as he was one morning
for not smoaking."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
And many man with a weak intellect
is headstrong.
The home woman marries for is hard
ly worth the price.
You can't fail unless you take chances
and you can't succeed.
Isn't it queer how easy 1t is to transform
friends into enemies?
Don't look up to people; 1t encourages
them to look down en- you.
Any man who would jilt a girl deserves
to be married by her successor.
Some young women marry old men Just
because they look we'll In black.
Don't argue with critics: he can think
of more mean things than you can.
If we could look into the future we
would probably find it just as unsatisfac-
tory.
We have heard OF women who love to
tempt men and then abuse them for being
susceptible.
Some people have way OF saying things
to hurt the feelings of others just as II
they were getting pay for It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
FATHERS VIEWPOINT.

The balmy days of spring are here.
With joys and el<e with woes;
Pa has to buy for mother dear
a heap of costly clothes.
Youngstown Telegram
The balmy days of spring are here,
There's lots of things to do;
Pa has to make garden spot,
And lick the carpets too.
Los Angeles Express
The balmy days of spring are here,
And daughter is boaut
In handsome togs: hut Pa must wear.
His last years two-piece suit.
Grand Rapids Press.
The balmy days ~ spring are here
And sons a college grad
Perhaps now, if his luck holds good,
He'll get a job with dad.
GREAT MOMENTS ARE FEW.
A man may rise to heights sublime
And conquer fear and grief and pain,
But only for the shortest time.
And soon slips back to earth again.
His weakness shows, his petty spite,
The fault and foliies of his kind.
'Tis not so strange: no human wight
Can leave his littleness behind
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
CO0d Time 10 Buy

'In reading one of Babsons recent
reports / was impressed with the fact
that he recommended the purchase Of
certain high class stocks at the mar
ket price and especially to invest on
every bad day." said a business man.
while Babson is recognized as
high statistical authority he has never
seemed optimistic until now. A study
Of fundamental conditions suggests
that the average price of certain stocks
will not go as low as in 1907-0S. Bah
son thinks investors are justified In
making purchases on days when affairs
are bearish.
'In my humble Judgment stocks will
go still lower but they will soon start
up again and will reach decidedly
higher levels in midsummer. when
bumper crops are being harvested"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
THE LAST STRAW
rom Answers, London.

From Answers, London.
The small touring company had found
business wretchedly bad, and many dis
contented murmurs went round.
THE advance booking In the next
town is good" had been the managers
words, and it was only this hope that
held the little company together-this
and the promise that all arrears in sal
aries would there be settled.
At last, in the late hours of one Sun
day the company reached the city of
it's hopes
The manager stepped from the train
and gazed over the railway station rail-
ings.
What a glorious sunset" he ex-
claimed, hoping thereby to raise the
waning spirits of his company.
"Garn," yelled a passing youngster,
that's the theayter burnin' darn!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
OLD CUSTOMS STILL PREVAIL

From Harper's Weekly.
The three marks on the back OF n
glove and the clocks ON stocking are
due practically to the same circum-
stance. The glove marks correspond to
the fourchette pieces between the fin-
gers and in other days these piecs were
continued along the back of the hand,
braid being used to conceal the seams.
a somewhat similar origin is as
signed to the ornamental clock on tho
stocking. In the days when stockings
were made of cloth the seams occurred
where the clocks do now, the ornamen-
tation then being used to conceal the
seams.
The useless little bow in the leather
band lining a mans hat is survival
OF the time when a hat was made by
taking piece of leather, boring two
holes through it, and drawing 1t up
with piece of string.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
Salaries of Federal Judges

The resignation of Judge Noyes,
United States. judge for the Second
circuit, occurs because the salary of
$1,000 proves insufficient to support
his family and educate his children.
He proposes to practice corporation
law in New York, where he expects no
doubt to earn at least $4,000 a
year up.
The case simply shows that life in
New York city and in Alabama or
Iowa are two things quite wide apart.
Seven thousand dollars would keep a
man in the country in pretty easy cir
cumstances and he could squeeze a
boy or girl through college on it now
and then. But Judge Noyes lives in
New York, which is a horse of a
wholly different color. What will suf-
flee in the country will not suffice
there.
Judge Noyes probably knows just
about what he can do. He sees in sight
the income he desires, and no one can
blame him for seeking it. But this
raises a question about the salary of
federal judges. Congressman manage
to hump along on $500 a year, and
it will be long time perhaps before
the salaries of district and circuit
judges of the United States are raised
above the pay of congressman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
The Presidents Appointments

President Wilson takes more pains
to find out how the Senate would
regard certain appointments before
sending nominations to the Senate
than did his predecessors. President
Taft would have been spared several
embarrassing incidents had he con-
suited certain senators in certain
cases.
While some Presidents have been
tactful enough to sound senators with
regard to prospective appointments
about which there had been public dis
cussion, as general thing nomina-
tions have been sent to the Senate
without any intimation beforehand.
Presidents have been satisfied to take
the chances on senatorial approval.
But President Wilson has made a rec
ord for setting aside precedent. He
is acquiring the habit of originating
political and official practice. He evil
IDENTIFY means to satisfy himself that
when he sends a name to the Senate
it will be reported favorably. And
that seems business like and calcu-
lated to preserve party harmony.
President Wilson is particularly
careful in selecting diplomatic repre-
sentatives. He is taking his time and
it seems that every name he has con-
sidered has been also considered by
the members of the Senate foreign
relations committee.
In England the prime minister has
the disposal of all preferments. When
an ambassador or minister plenipoten-
tiary is to be appointed the prime
minister nominates to the King and
his nomination is equivalent to an
appointment. The Kings part in the
matter is mere formality. In MAX
ing appointments the prime minister
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
AGATHA.

fired Austin, the Late Poet Laureate of England
@1HE wanders in the April woods
That gsten with the fallen shower;
] She leans her face against the buds.
She stops, she stoops, she plucks flower.
She feels the ferment of the hour:
She broodeih " hen the rngdove broods:
The sun and flying clouds have power
Upon her cheek anc changing mSods.
She cannot think she Is alone
AS DER her senses warmly steal
Floods of unrest she fears to own,
And almost breads to feel
Among the summer woodlands wide
Anew she roan,s, no more alone;
The JOY she fcard Is at her side,
Springs bluslling secret now fs known;
The primrose and it's mates have fiown
The thrush's ringing note hath ded;
But glancIug eye and glowing tone
Fall on her from her god, her guide.
She knows not, asks not, what the goal
She only feels she moves towards bliss.
And Yields her pure unq,estioning soul
To touch and fondling kiss.
And still she haunts those woodlan ways
Though all fond fancy finds there now
To mind Of spring or summer days.
Are sodden trunk and soneless bough.
The past sits widow'd on her brow,
Homeward she wends with wintry gaze,
To walls that house a hollow vow,
To hearth where love hath ceasd to blaze:
Watches the clammy twilight wane.
with grief too nx'd for woe or tear;
And with her forehead. 'gainst the pane
Envies the dying year. 81
4. b. s .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

eA~~S v
Evening Post
<fN L course" said my Berlin
friends, you must see the
~ night life in Belin.
"Of course" I assented.
Very well, then. Well make out a
schedule"
make out a SCHEDULED" I ventured
timetable?"
"Why, to be sure" they replied. as
| tonished that / should think there was
anything spontaneous or nonmechanical
about it. There are certain things 20
| do at certain times
How light and airy" I murmured.
almost as frolicsome as missionary
meeting.'
Now see here said one of my
friends, "you might just as we'll UNDER
stand this thing once for all. When we
decide to have fun in Berlin we have
our fun methodically and in accordance
with the rules and precedents. We go
to certain places at certain times. No
body in Berlin goes batting round, hit
or miss, seeking for adventure. We
know exactly where every adventure is
located before we start out, and ex-
actly what kind of an adventure it is
going to be. That saves time and trou-
ble"
But" I protested-rather feebly, I
admit-''how can any person start out
deliberately on an enterprise of this
kind? The fun of city at night al
ways comes unexpectedly. not for
mally"
"Pish" they said. You do not un-
derstand the Berlin method. We work
by rule. It's all cut and dried.'
/ subsided and they made out the
schedule. When 1t was completed they
handed it over to me, and l looked at
it curiously. 7 was a rigid timetable
for a whole night. 1t was as scientific
as the running card of an express
train. 1t admitted of no transfers and
no delays. This fun train went through
on limited schedule and made only
certain stops. And all tickets were
through tickets and no layovers.
10 xx,1,o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
AND THE WORLD wAGs ON


Peary has been decorated with the rib
bon of the Legion OF Honor Meanwhile
DR.. Cook continues his cheerful rounds as
lyceum lecturer and vaudeville enter
tainer, making a comfortable living, we
dare say, and doubtless finding solace in
the money he gets for the plaudits that
once attended him wherever he went. The
versatile doctor was even in our riitst
SO to speak, only :. short while ago, hav-
ing some lecture engagements to fill in
Alabama. There is something in. the air
of the South pole that seems to make
men more unselfshly brave, although it
is admittedly less dangerous as an chico
tive point for explorers than the North
pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
REMINDERS.


Lives of baseball stars remind us
That the hopes to which we cling
Will bestrew the way behind us
If our bingles cease to bling.
Chicago Record-IIerald.
Lives of tennis stars remind us
That we all might look like beauts
II We only did our loafing
In those spotless, all-white suits
Denver Republican.
Lives of football stars remind US
That we must not harbor fear
Though the years to come may find us
Shy a nose, or eye or ear.
Youngstown Telegram.
Lives of motor fiends remind us,
AS they throw dust in our eyes,
Woes like these we'll leave behind us
When we Journey to the skies.
FOREVER AND FOREVER.
Year by year the ages glide,
Still they're trying Dr. Hyde.
Peoria Herald Transcript.
Still they harrow up our marrow,
Always trying Clarence Darrow.
Houston Post.
And we get our weekly shocks,
Still they're trying George b. Cox.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Worst old world we ever saw,
Always trying Harry Thaw.
TELL WITH TURNIPS,
Have any luck with your garden, Gid
dings?"
moved in next door laughed SO much al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
Great Wheat Crop

1.-THE Tuesday morning Age-Herald was
crowded with live news, but the story
that Interested me most was that headed
Bumper Wheat Crops" " said member
of the Chamber of Commerce.
1.-THE government forecast shows that
the bumper crop will be sufficient to mill
more than 16,5O0,00O barrels of flour and
that it may reach the proportions of the
record wheat years harvest Government
experts estimate this years harvest at
7440O0,O00 bushels, of which 492, 2,000, 900 BUSH
els will be winter wheat and 252, 900, 900
bushels spring wheat. In winter wheat
we will certainly have record break
ing crop.
''The south's cotton crop promises we'll
and it is safe to say that more corr
will be raised in the cotton belt than
ever before. Great crops mean business
activity all over the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
PnrIx Concerts

Now that the city has appropriated
$1,000 for the open air music fund, 1t
should be comparatively easy Tor the
ladies of the Music Study club, under
whose auspices the park concerts are
given, to raise $4,000 all told" SAID
well known citizen.
Last summer and the summer be-
fore the city gave only $500. In doup-
ling the appropriation the concert
committee can but feel gratifed and
heartened Several other large contri-
buttons have already been promised but
in order to bring the total up TO Soooo
an appeal for popular subscriptions Will
doubtless be made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
IMPOSSIBLE
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harper's Magazine.
Inc latest joke On q western railroad,
according to travelling man. is that a
passenger In the dining car had ordered
ham and fried eggs for breakfast.
cant Civ y'u aigs, 'fessor," the negro
waiter Informed him.
why how's that?' asked the passen-
ger.
Well" said the waiter. "de cook sez lie
road is SO ruff lat cbcry time he tries to
fry de aigs dey scramble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
SHE MEANT To

From Harper's. Magazine
The curly haired little sprite of the
house came running to her father in the
study, and, throwing her arms about his
neck, whispered conf1dentially in his ear:
"Oh, papa. it's raining!"
Papa was writing on a subject that oc-
cupied his mind to the exclusion of mat
ters aside. so he said, rather sharply:
"Well, let it rain.'
quick response.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAID
4 the Cincinnati Enquirer.

from the Cincinnati Enquirer
I'VE have buried the corkscrew."-
W. J. Bryan.
Golf hath it's victories."-W. II. Taft.
Don't cheer, boys The yellow devils
are lying. Johnson.
Let ME break the heads of nation
and care not who breaks its hearts, -
Elm. Pankhurst.
L regret that 1 have only 100000
plankety-blashed cuss words to give my
party. bling-dang the blatted- bliggity,
glam-swotted luck."--Joe Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

my plumbers that We are now goo
friends
ANOTHER MARROW ESCAPE.
The young wife makes
A biscuit,
ihinks young hub, well.
I'll riscuit.'
The doctor says,
II knew it,
But later pulls
Him through it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
FAvORITE FICTION

From the Chicago Tribune. 81
"Clean Cash" -
Mammals Good Little Boy"
II Hate to Mention It. but
Il Know You'll Never Tell Living
SOUL ta4s
IF He'd Said Another Word I'd Have
Smashed Him.
Yes. I'll Be at Home Next wednesday
Evening, Mr.. Googly, and Shall Sc
Glad to Have You Call"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
At the Wire Mill

Fairfield is one of Birmingham's show
places and now that the work of COM
pleting the big wire mill is being pushed
the model industrial town Is more pop
ular than ever,' said a prominent up
builder.
Every few days additional worlSmen
are being added to the force at the wire
mill. Fairfield is strikingly beautiful and
by this time next year its population
will have increased four or fivefold."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Maryland is confident no hunger strike
could be successfully started in the pres
ence Of dish Of Maryland fried chicken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
RARE INDIFFERENCE.

A lazy man is Lyman Vance,
Who even thinks it labor
When gossip doth afford a chance
To criticize a neighbor.
No matter what the rumor is
That starts the people rapping,
Old Lyman simply snorts, Gee whi1!
I'd rather far be napping'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Somebody is boarding buffalo nckels
for one Is rarely seen in circulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
MERCENARY.

Here comes Welterdo. He insists on
shaking hands every time we meet"
well, why should you object?"
THAT is not the way I'd prefer to touch
him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Don't complain of the showers. Thinl,
what those showers are worth In the cot
ton and corn fields of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

The extraditioN treaty between the
United States and Paraguay has-been rat
flied. and the crooks are puzzled where
to go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
THE SAME THING.

Il understand you and Dobble had a
falling out?"
well, you might call 1t that. l told him
what | thought of him and he failed TO
acknowledge the truth of my remarks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

There is more publicity in Tom Marshall
than in any other vice president of gen.
Grafton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Secretary Bryan shook the plum tree
in. the Commoner office to good advan-
tase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Just as he was adding new son-in-Iaw
to his family, Chairman Yoakum's salary
was cut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Chicago mad snowstorm on Saturday,
but it is still ready to tune up the electric
fan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

President Wilson, though an ex-schoo,.
master, Is getting along with his party ad-
mirably well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Prof. William II. Taft has an anti-fad
remedy. Here is how the former Presi-
dent has reduced himself 30 pounds since
March 4. He eats no cake, no pie. no
crackers nor bread. He uses no sugar in
his coffee. For breakfast he eats two soft
boiled eggs and some toast. He takes only
a light luncheon. He usually has a steak
for dinner. The professor threatens to
get even thinner. He has been weighing
from 25O to 27O since March L.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

A state senator of New York has been
shifted to Sing Sing. Wehther this is a
promotion or the reverse is not stated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Italy is experimenting with an armored
automobile. When such automobiles be-
come common life will indeed be chean
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Tom Marshall may yet bring out al
epigram that will make him President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Professor Tafts visit to Washington was
without political significance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

President and Mrs. Wilson will celebrate
their twenty-eghth wedding anniversary
in the White House June %. No special
piahs nave been made for the day, but it
is possible that a family dinner party will
be given that night. The President won
his bride in Savannah. According to the
announcement of the marriage in the Sa-
vannah papers at that time, Mrs. Wilson
then rejoiceds in the old fashioned name
of Ellie Lou which has reverted to it's
origonal spelling of Ellen Louise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

That is the German method They
classify and arrange. They make rules
and go by the rules, The burghers
struggle with the problem. Their idea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11

Suffragettes rush in where even the
bravest fear to tread.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
The Latc C. A, Brirrs

1.-The Rev. DR.. c. A. Brigs of 'heresy
fame, who died in his apartments in the
Union Theological seminary, New York,
Sunday, was one of the greatest scholars
this country has produced" said an old
layman.
He was born in the city of New York
in 1S41. He studied at the University of
Virginia three years and at the Union
seminary two years. He graduated from
the University of Berlin in 1869. Several
universities honored him with degrees,
including Edinburgh and Glasgow, which
conferred on him d. D. and Oxford,
which gave him the degree of doctor of
literature.
"On his return from Berlin he became
pastor of the Presbyterian church al
Roselle. He retained that pulpit until
1874 when he resigned to become profess
sor of Hebrew and cognate languages in
the Union Theological seminary. In 1891
he was appointed to the chair of biblical
theology and in 1904 he became professor
of symbolics.
'It was in 1892 that DIR. Briggs was
tried by the Presbytery on a charge of
heresy and acquitted. But an appeal
was taken to the general assembly, and
that body suspended him. The seminary
refused, however, to remove him de-
spite the action of the general assem-
bly,.
"Dr. Briggs entered the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal church, being or
dained as Clergyman in 1899. He wrote
about the church of Rome in a very
friendly spirit and some observers pre-
dicted that he would finally apply for ad-
mission into that church. Among the
charges preferred against him in the
heresy trial were that many of the Old
Testament predictions had been reversed
by history; that Moses was not the au-
thcr of the Pentateouch; that Isaiah was
not the author of half tho book which
bears his name; that the processes of
redemption extend to- the world to come,
and that 'sanctification is not complete at
DEATH
"Dr Briggs was genial man and a
very attractive gentleman in every way.
friend of mine who is in the Pres
byterian ministry studied under Briggs
and he often told me of Briggs charm
Of manner He was authoritative in his
mode of teaching, but there seemed to
be always an absence of that pride of
scholarship and pride of opinion which
characterize so many scholarly men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
MERCURY DEATH NOT PAINLESS
From the Des Moines Register and

from the Oes Moines neeiS'S' Oh"
Leader.
white of eggs Is the best antidote for
poisoning by bichloride of mercury says
DR.. H. L. sayler, city health officer.
"This is a good thing to know. especially
as morose persons might be encouraged to
take this poison because B. Sanders Walk
er of Macon said death from its ef1ects Is
painless. / have never heard OF the use
of bicarbonate OF soda to counteract the
poison, as is said to have been used in
the case Of Thomas McCabe or Detroit'
said Dr. Sayler. "Bicarbonate OF soda Is
common table soda and is weak.
II would suggest that whenever persons
are found to have swallowed bicnloriae OF
mercury, several eggs, or. as many eggs
as can be obtained. be forced down tneir
throats. The albumen in the egg Will form
chemical compound with the mercury
which will be insoluble Then the poison
will pass out through the intestines or pe
xomited by the victim. 1t Is always sooo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-11
TELEPHONE

Bell (private exchange connectinS NJ
departments), No. 1900.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March 5. 1879.