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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
Sunday. Concert Audience.

1T is most encouraging to observe
the increasing interest in good music y
said oliver chalifoux yesterday even
ing. "Those of us who attend, all
the concerts have remarked inerea asine
size of the audiences and it is plain
to see that those who attend concerts
are decidedly appreciative and dis
eliminating.
THE Sunday concerts have been
finely attended this season and / was
greatly impressed with the rapt atten-
tion which the large audience assem-
bled in the Jefferson theatre this Sun
day afternoon gave Miss Lerner This
young artist charmed everyone
"A noteworthy fact ABOUT Birming-
hams Sunday audiences is the large
percentage OF men In attendance. At
all week day matinees the audience is
made up mainly of the fair sex, but
at the Sunday afternoon concerts this
season the men have been almost, il
not quite as numerous as the women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

From the London Chronicle.
''It is people who write poetry about
us who prevent us women getting the
vote" The sentence arrested me in read
ing Violet Hunts story of the Celebrity s
Daughter at weekend. with the
smashing of windows, the cutting up of
golf greens, the spelling of letters and
the threats of other horrors in my ears
and eyes. For men persist in writing
poetry about women to their amazement,
and no women are writing poetry about
men.
Man is the poetic sex. He goes about
may tell you-with snippets from tho
papers in his poeketbook. and takes them
now and again as a sort of stimulant
Moreover, the man writes his poetry Sc
cretly, sends it to the newspapers and
they publish it. l could give you the ad-
dress Of bald-headed stockholders and
bearded business men who write verses
And more who cut the poetry from theiI
newspapers and take it as a stimulant.
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will double in population within the
next 10 years and that within 20
years it will be well over the half
million mark; and if Birmingham
population is not ,G00, 900 in 30 years
from now it will not be far from it. In
view of the large increase in Uncle
Sans business and Birmingham S
phenomenally bright future an ex-
penditure in the near future of 81 ,500,-
900 for postoffice on the site
bounded by Fifth avenue and Fifth
alley and Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets should not seem extravagant.
1t is possible that Birmingham,
after all, may not get an appropria-
ton from the Sixty-second Congress.
If it should fail to materialize, how
ever, an especial effort should be
made to increase the amount asked
for in the new Congress.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
is altogether wrong in referring to
such an appropriation as pork" Mr.
Underwood will naturally be glad to
do all in his power for his district
consistent with correct principles OF
economy, but if this Ala
bama statesman is distinguished for
one thing above another it is breadth
of mind and a high sense of duty that
enable him to rise above petty poll
tics and he is absolutely Indifferent
to the so-called pork barrel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
"POrk and Hogs"

The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
of last Friday contained an editorial
article entitled, 'Pork and Hogs"
which betrays bad spirit and dis
torted view of things. The narrow
ness of the man who wrote this article
is strikingly in evidence, while the
tone Of the complaint will have the
effect of making onlookers laugh. The
Evening Telegraph says:
birmingham, Ala, will have a million
dollar federal building. This is good for
Birmingham Does Birmingham need
such building? The southern city has a
population of 10000 and it's federal reve-
nues are comparatively negligible.
''Why does Birmingham get this plum
The answer Isl Oscar Underwood, demo-
cratic floor leader in the House, lives in
Birmingham. And though that distin-
grished statesman does not need mill
lion dollar building in his business, still
this piece of pork helped to grease the
ways for the democratic ship of state in
that Birmingham is long way from the
sea and from any navigable water
"Philadelrhia needs new custom house
and an addition to its postoffice. This
city has a population Of 1,5oo0 900, just Il
times as great as Birmingham. Phladei-
phia contributed last year at least 1C
times as much to the federal revenues as
Birmingham. And Philadelphia has been
in the van in the parcel post race, tc
say nothing of ranking among the first
cities in the land in the amount of profit
able mail matter handled
"Did Philadelphia get a new custom,
house or a grant for the enlargement OF
her postoffioe?
philadelphia did not.
This is the democratic party's reply tt
the modest request of the third largest
city in the union for two absolute necessi
ties not so much for herself as for tn,
conduct of the country's business within
her borders. 1t is typical of how othei
cities, not of the present dominant polit
1cal faith are to fare under democrati,
rule.
"Philadelphia will not change her polit
ical faith for pork Nor viii she chang,
her belief that the democratic party /.
essentially and always one for revenu,
only, in matters other than the tariff
ISSUE
Philadelphia doubtless needs a new
custom house and an addition to it.
postoffice. All large and progressiv,
cities need more room for the trans
action of government business. Th'
United States mail has increased a
rapid rate for the past 10 years ant
now that the parcel post has become
a part of the postoffice business ther,
is not a postoffice building in th,
country that will not be congested.
But no matter what Philadelphi;
needs there is most pressing neet
for a larger postoffice here. In tn,
appropriation bill is $1,000, 900 iten
for the Birmingham postoffice but O.
that amount 100000 is to be uset
for buying additional ground. A
handsome building can be erected fo
$500, 900 but it is felt that before th'
postQffice is completed an additiona
appropriation will have to be made.
Jt is reasonable to say that this cit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
cnAnI1r rHoMrsoN,s FINGER

From the Popular Maeasine.
When Colonel Roosevelt was travelling
over the country in the last presidential
campaign. his private car was always
coupled Immediately behind the Pullman
occupied by the newspaper correspondents
who accompanied him. Charlie Thompson.
one of the writer's, developed on finger
Of his left hand a sore place which gave
him great concern. The colonel asked
his own special physician to treat Charlie
and for two or three days the painful FIN
ger was the only tragedy on the train
One evening Cecil Lyon, the greatest
bull mooser who ever came out OF Texas
was talking to the colonel in the private
car with four or FIVE of the newspaper
men.
Il think I'll go up into the next tscar. :
said Lyon, tiring of the incessant taik
about politics. land see how Cnarhe
Thompsons finger is."
Thereafter at intervals Of every two
or three minutes, the rest OF the company
faded away from the colonel one by one
to go and inquire about Charles finger
When the colonel realized that he was the
only person left in his car he grew lone
some and said to himself:
Il think I'll go up and see how Charlie
Thompson's finger is.'
When he stepped into the newspapers
mems car, he beheld nothing that looked
like hospital. All the newspaper mer
except Charlie We're playing poker. anc
Cecil Lyon was banking the game anc
telling long and dreary story about how
he bluffed Mexican millionaire out Of
$1,000 pot one night.
Colonel Lyon said Colonel Roosevelt
srimly, you have enlarged your pro-
sramme You camee up here to look q
Charlie Thompson's nnger. and now VOL
are loking at a lot of hands,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

"The country said Thomas Fortune
Ryan recently, will have the kind of a
President the people want. and one who,
rights OF all. from the humblest and poor
est to the richest and most powerful,
without fear "You seem to be optimis-
am. Ninety per cent of the pessimists
are republicans, and that seems quite
natural when the condition of that party
is considered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
THE SINGER OFF ONE SONG

BY Henry A. Beers.
He sang one song and died-no more
but that
A single song and carelessly complete,
He would not bind and thrash his chance
grown wheat,
Nor bring his wild fruit to the common
vat
To store the acid rinsings, thin and fiat,
Soueezed from>the press or trodden un
der feet.
A few slow beads, blood red and honey
sweet, "fE
Oozed from the grape. which burst and
split it's fat.
But Time, who soonest drops the heaviest
l--~ things
That weight his pack, will carry dia-
| Y monds long,
So, through the poets orchestra. which
weaves
One music from q thousand stops and
strings,
Pierces the note Of that immortal song:
''I7igh over all the lonely bugle grisveo.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

The fee of Prof. Guseppi Bastianelle, the
eminent Roman specialist who went to
Cairo to see ]. P. Morgan, was paid in
advance by a check on a New York bank
The check called for So
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

solve the film trust. 1t was proven last
week that William Fox of the Greater
New York Film company makes from $780,
600 to $4,000 a year, and yet he does not
belong to the film trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

son in his farewell speech In New Jer-
sey, "ln public life is courage, and the
man who has courage is marked for dis
for extinction and deserves submersion.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Prof William Howard Taft of Yale will
take luncheon with President Woodrow
Wilson at the White House ON March 4.
unforeseen delay between the time Mr..
Wilson is sworn in as President and this
hour set for him to review the inaugural
the w. j. Boardmans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
stock Market ana Busines.

Henry Clews In his Saturday Review
says in part:
Apparently the stock market has
reached turning point for the better.
Doubt is beginning to moderate. Pessim-
ism seems to have been overdone, and all
the known unfavorable conditions would
seem to have been discounted. The late
decline began Just before the election, has
continued with little interruption until
the beginning of the week under review.
During these four months prices declined
from 10 to 25 points. This was equivalen,
to slow panic. Liquidation has been
widespread, and there are few if any
weak spots remaining in the financial
| world.
"There is neither over-cxtension OF
credit nor over-expansion of business. Our
bank reserves have been considerably de-
pleted by gold exports to Europe. but cur
rency is returning freely to interior re-
serve points. and the outward flow OF
gold cannot continue much longer. In the
business field the position, as has fire.
quently been maintained In these advices
| is satisfactory. Consumption of mer-
chandise is going on upon liberal scale
| in all parts of the country. There has
been little or no curtailment of buying
on the part of consumers, who with the
growth of population are making larger
demands upon producers. Wholesale dis
| tributors generally report bare shelves
| and are buying as freely as circumstance
viii. permit In anticipation of a good sprins
trade. Manufacturers. too. are. general,
busy; In some cases excessively SO. II
other words, trade continues large il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

moral birth, physical protection, joy
Gus infancy, a useful education and
the inherited right and ever-increasing
opportunity to be better man than
his father"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
Interest in Racing

There is an effort to revive horse
racing in some states where 1t had
been broken UP by the law. Apropos,
"a New York man. in a letter to the Sun,
says: "By all means let us have racing
again. 1t helps prosperity and affords
a keen sport for diversion and relaxa-
tion. The more pleasures and sports
a people can indulge in the greater
the freedom from crime and unhealthy
pursuits.
IF the old bookmaking system pre-
sents any objections the pari mutuel
system should be adopted. This meth
cd of stimulating interest has long
been in use in Franco and has lately
been adopted by Kentucky"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

No one asks nowadays whether George
Washington was regular or progress
i've. He was a federalist at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

When taxes are too high in Japan the
cabinet minister is stoned. This is one
form of the recall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

In rural district when man fails
at everything else he takes the agency
for washing machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Kansas has 10000 square miles Of salt
800 feet thick and it would like to swap
some of it for coal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

| Washington is organizing an army OF
snow shoyelers. The experience of four
years ago is not forgotten
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

The uphoders of the Sherman antitrust
law feel like offering reward for another
Vickersham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

This is the historic month OF March, the
only month fit for the inaug of a
President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Unsuccessful presidents are shot to
death in the night in Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

The Hague Peace palace should be
turned into an art gall, It has no
mission at all now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Wall street is in the dumps and Tor
Lawson's occupations gone,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

The difference between a bungalow and
a cottage is said to be ssooO in favor of the
latter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Gen. Rosalie Jones is very pretty girl
and walking doesn't hurt her good foolss
a particle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Lay de Juga-a mild Spanish phrase for
lynchihg, an old American offense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

1t Is better to read one language per-
sistently than to know imperfectly seven
oc eight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
THE DICKENS OF VERSE

From the Kansas City Star.
An Englishman wrote this on the death
OF a giraffe:
They say. Got wotl
She died upon the spot;
But then in spots she was SO rich
1 wonder which.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
The same man wrote this:

'Tis awful to behold the midnight stars
They say do rule the destinies OF men,
Gazing upon us from that point of space
Where they were set even from theii
lustrous birth,
With a most sure foreknowledge of our
doom,
Watching its consummation.
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They say. Got wotl
She died upon the spot:
But then in spots she was SO rich
wonder which.
The same man wrote this
'Tis awful to behold the midnight stars
They say do rule the destinies OF men.
Gazing upon us from that point of space
Where they were set even from their
lustrous birth,
doom,
Watching its consummation.
And this
Make no deep scrutiny
Into her mutiny
Rash and undutiful,
Past all dishonor,
Death has left on her
Only the beautiful.
No other English poet has such range
of poetry as Thomas Hood. He has some
pany Such poems as his ruth" and
Fair Inez' ITO Autumn" and the 'Ode
to the Moon are not on the pinnaces
with the songs and odes of Shelley, Keats
and Wordsworth, but they are worthily in
the collections of the best English verse.
Hood touched life at nearly all points.
He was writing at the time when news
papers We're coming into their present
vogue. Like Charles Dickens, Hood
shows in his work the newspaper tone and
the purely literary tone. He had much
in common with his friend, Dickens. ne
characters in his humorous cockney verse
are the characters of the Sketches by
Boz
Between his extreme of humor and his
poems of lyric art are his poems of moral
and social sentiment, as THE Bridge of
Sighs' and 1.-THE Song of the Skirt and
"A Drop of Gin The last mentioned of
these is not in the artistic class with
the two more famous, but it has its lesson.
The first stanza shows its quality:
Gin Gin, a drop of gini
What magnified monsters circle therein,
Ragged and stained with filth and mud,
Some plague spotted and some with
blood.
Shapes of misery, shame and sin; =
Figures that make us loathe and trem-
BILE,
Creatures scarce human, that more re-
semble
Broods of diabolical kin.
Ghoul and vampire, demon and gin.
In his longer sustained efforts Hood
showed the same diversity. Miss Will
mansegg and Her Precious Leg is the
most ambitious attempt in English hu-
morous poetry. 1t is remarkable piece
Of satire and caricature in light vein OF
"The Haunted House Edgar Allan Poe
said that it was one of the finest pieces
of writing In the English language.
The humorist's mastery of words is
shown in the conclusion of the Miss Kill
mansegg:
Gold, Gold. Gold. Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold,
Molten, craven, hammered and rolled;
Heavy to get and light to hold
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold.
Stolen borrowed. squandered, doled;
Spurned by the young, but hugged by the
old
To the very verge of the church yard
mold
Price of many crime untold;
Gold. Gold! Gold! Gold
Good or bad thousand fold
How widely its agencies vary
To save, to ruin, to curse, TO bless,
AS even it's minted coins express,
Now stamped with the image Of good
Queen Bess,
And now of Bloody Mary.
The poets spirit is felt in the lines:
O er all there hung q shadow and fear;
A sense Of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said as plain as whisper in the ear,
The place is haunted.
The sense Of mystery Is as pervasive
In the poem as In the "old, deserted man.
sion" But to get it one must read all
OF that wonderful poem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
MEN WRITE THE POETRY

We want no Zachary Taylor this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

Mrs. Thomas W. Marshall recently said
she was mighty glad her husband had ac-
cepted membership in the Chevy Chase
club, and added that she did not agree
with Mrs. Wilson's idea of dressing on
$1,000 year, although she meant to live
within her husbands vice presidential SAL
AIRY. Mrs. Marshall gave an interesting
description of the President-elect, in which
She said that he impressed her as being
somewhat severe" Mrs. Marshall stayed
in Philadelphia while her husband went
to Trenton to have a talk with Governor
Wilson. This nine hour separation from
her husband is virtually the longest Mr..
and Mrs Marshall ever have been apart
during the II years of their married life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

The remarkable intelligence of a dog
was the cause OF much CONSERVATION DUR
ing the progress of marriage ceremony
In the Baptist church of Eastville. Va.
when the canine dashed wildly into the
edifice while the bride and groom were
marching TO the altar and. springing upon
the back of Arthur Addison. one of the
ushers. grabbed his coat between its
teeth and was making efforts to tear the
garment from his back. The wedding
party was thrown into panic, and the
whole assemblage was in an uproar Many
OF the women hurried from the church,
thinking the animal was suffering from
rabies. The dog assfinally overpowered.
II developed that the dress suit worn by
the victim of the dogs wrath had been
borrowed from its master The animal
had wandered into its masters home and
taking scent of the missing clothing fol-
lowed it into church and made the attack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
TELEPHONES

Bell (priyatc exchange eoanecting AL
departmentsl. No. 4ooS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03

o er all there hung a shadow and fear;
A sense of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said as plain as whisper In the ear,
The place is haunted
The sense Of mystery" is as pervasive
in the poem as In the "old, deserted man.
sion" But to get it one must read all
OF that wonderful poem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
And this:

Make no deep scrutiny
Into her mutiny
Rash and undutiful:
Past all dishonor,
Death has left on her
Only the beautiful.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-07-19
SILK MILL STRIKE
BELIEVED At END
IT is ESTIMATED THAT LABOR
TROUBLES CAUSED A Aoss
OF $3,ooo,o6o.

Peterson, N. j., july 1S.-The break
IN the ranks of the silk mill strikers
lreported yesterday, after announces
ment that Bis Bin" Haywood was
physically unable to continue leader.
ship, is construed by the mill owners
as meaning the end OF their five
months trouble with their factory
hands. 1t is estimated that 50, 1000, 900
IN wages has been fost, while the man
lfaetarers are about $l,00O,000 cut OF
pocket
8Hhe strike began on the Feb. Is
when 7,10O hands were called out. The
first break in the strikers ranks &C
Cured three weeks ago, when the r.o
bon and broad silk branches succeed
led IN operating to full capacity. The
dyers, however, held firm until yes.
terday, when some Of them returned
.ard it was predicted that the entire
body Of $500 would be back at the
watts this week
Manufacturers say that the season
nov lost was the most promising in
orders of any spring and summer
since 1907
I Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the young
woman loader, who is at her fathers
home in New York, has denied that
she has deserted the strikers. Her
fabsence from Paterson since Tues
day she explained by saying a sore
Throat kept her from her work.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-07-19
CHINESE REBELS
NAME PRESIDENT
PEKIN GOVERNMENT SAYS THE
SITUATION is SOMEWHAT
IMPROVED.

Pekin, July 1S.--The situation
brought about by the rebellion in tho
southern provinces Of China has in.
proved somewhat today regarded from
the northern point of view. Fewer
soldiers have deserted the government.
of provisional President Yuan Shi Kai
than had been anticipated by the au-
thorities.
Heavy fighting is expected at <iu-
Kiang in the province OF Siang-Si aft.
er the lull following the recent defeat
of the southern forces at IItt-Chow
in the province Of Che-Kians. u
The southerners have been iotneiI
by the forts at Wu-Sung, a seaport at
Marking the southern captal botlH iii
the province Of Kiang-Si, While the
large force. Of troops occupying them
has also gone over to the rebels
The leadefs Of the southern forces
issued a proclamation today announe-
ing the appointment as president Of
the republic OF Tsen Chnn-fIuan a for
mer yiceroy Of Canton and Yuan shi
Kai's old enemy Wang Chung-wei is
named foreign minister aud IIsusn-
Huai finance minister All three are
considered fanatics in northern clr-
eles. gN
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-07-19
GENERAL HARRIS TO VISIT
TROOPS NOW ON ISLAND
He and Adjutant General VIII BE
Here Next Week.

Brig-Gen Walter A. Harris, Of Ma
con viii pay his official visit to the
camp OF the Second Georgia regiment
on Friday, July 25. Cen Harris viii
be accompanied by Adjt.-Gen. Nash
and other high military officers Of tie
state.
The officials will make an inspec-
tion OF the camp and equipment and
viii probably submit a report to the
war department at Washington. 1t is
probable that Col j.. A. Thomas, who
will be in command of the camp at
st. simons laand will order a dress
parade and review for Gen. Harris
and the other state military officers.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-07-19
EcRETARY DANIELS HoNoREp.

Seattle, july 1S-Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Josephus Daniels viii
be guests of honor at the army and
navy ball, the crowning feature of the
Potlach to be given at the armory to-
night Three thousand invitations
have been issued, which will represent
the supreme effort of Seattle society
folk in behalf of the secretary and
Mrs. Daniels. Admiral Reynolds,
commander-in-chie of the Pacific re-
SERGE fleet, and his staff will also at
tend.