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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09

In w AL I'm DSol WIS SllllllS III lAS
- library one day when a tall Highlander,
who had been erecting an inn nearby, en-
tered and said
MAY it please you, Sir Walter, | IN
going to call my place The Flodden Inn
and as we've written a poem on Flodden
Field it struck me and the guide wife that YOU
might gle us a line for motto"
Have you read the poem!" Sir Walter
asked
mo, Sir; I'm nae a reader"
well, should advise you to read the
poem and take a line from it,.
And what'll it be?"
Sir Walter, without a smile, replied
Drink, weary traveller; drink and pray.
But, cried the Highlander, aghast, my
inns no a kirk; and the more prayin' there
is the less drinkin' therell be, and dlnna
want that"
on laughed the poet, Il think can
alter the line. Drink, weary traveller, drink
and pay"
The vera thing" shouted the other IN
delight
FOR Michael Kelly, wine merchant by vo-
cation and amateur musician by avoca,,
ton, Richard BrinSley Sheridan propoSed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09

MARX TWAIN had a device that was
l'I equally inhospitablc; but he would
laughngly explain it away 20 his friends.
Here are the directions he gave To Cass Gill
bert, an architect living in a Connecticut
village not far from his own home at Red
ding:
"Of the high road is a smaller road which
turns of at a tree. On that road is a large
sign which reads, Strangers Are Not Adj
mi,tcd to These Grounds; but don't you
believe tits a ID lie"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
MOTION PICTURE PLAYS

NOTION PICTURE PLAYS WANTED You can
vitr them We teach YOU by mail No experience needed
B. demand and good pay brtaIsfree Associated Motion
Picture schools, o22 Sheridan Road, Chicago
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
BY WILLIAM S. WALSH

BY WILLIAM S. WALSH
tors on the town gates. a Turk, a Jew, or
Atheist may enter here; but not a Catholic. "
\ Jacobi,e Of the forbidden faith took mis-
chicvous revenge by chalking the following
couplct underneath the notice:
Whoever wrote these words. he wrote them
The same are written on the gates Of Hell.
HANNAH MORE quotes with approval
IL the application 20 a sl1vcsmp OF the
inscription that Dante placed over one OF
the gates Of hell, Through me You pass to
the los, people"
\ far more famous motto Is that which
Dante has placed upon the principal gate Of
hell "Nl abandon hope, We who enter here.
Charles Warren Stolilrl was wont 10 say
that ne did not believe these words were 10
DE found on the gates Of hell. The real IN
scription." ne would explain, lis this, lei
on plrlc irlnrais -
TO IN obscure Connecticut minister is at
trbutci a well known line which he is
said % have written on the gatopJ-t o, d
cemetery in his native village. after pcru,lng
the tusom. cpitlpbs on the hcdls,Olcs
within. Here lie the dead, and here the
living lie"
DURING the days when slavery flour
~ ishcl in the Southern States Of Amer
lea. Dryburgh Abbey. where the body Of Sir
Walter Scott lies buried. was forbidden
ground TO them. Countess of Buchau, wife
Of the proprietor, caused board TO be placed
over the gate at the entrance 20 the Abbey
grounds. wh,rcon was written in large let
tiers, Shareholders from America not adj
mttcd.'
Az American magazine recently told the
story of Philadelphia family who
lived in a corner house so easily accessible
from the street that they were constantly
annoyed by persons ringing to ask where
other possible inhabitants of that block were
to be found. Finally the boy Of the house
determined TO stop the nuisance.
IL guess said he complaccntly, there
won't be any more folks asking if the
Browns or the Biddles live in this house
I've fixed thcml"
What have you donc?" asked Mater
familias.
llllllS OAt Il NlSl
And what did YOU put on it,"
Just five words, replied Harold proudly
Nobody lives here but us. "
WHEN William Morris resided at Red
w House. Abbey Wood Station, Just
outside of London, he was fond OF painting
on labels, which he hung about the house,
the motto, "lf can" Dante Gabriel RoS-
sctti paying a visit to Morris, found many
OF these labels still blank. and in his reckless
way filled them up with another motto, As
| can't"
Burnc- Jones, a fellow visitor, who tells
the story, adds that when Morris saw this
pleasantly, 1T would have puzzled the dis
criminator of words to know which of those
two was more eloquent in violent English.
A QUARTER Of 4 century ago Bill Nye
was a resident OF Laramie, Kansas.
The visitor. who went down the main street,
turned a corner, and paused before livery
stable, could find him by this sign:
Laramie Boomerang,
Walk down the Alley.
Twist the Gray Mules Tail
Take the elevator Immediately.
\ few steps aloft, and the visitor entered
a large bare room, where, amid the click of
tvDc and the rattle of press, a tall thin sal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS, PORTRAITS CSC, FRAMES Isc, SHEET
P.turr, &C. >tereosoopes zsc Views &c 90 da,> credit
Samples aud catalog free Consolidated Portrait Co,
Dept 1903, 1927 ". Adams Street, Chicago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09

HANS Won BULOW the pianist at one
- time posted on his door notice that
was quite in the London vein, Before
Noon, Not Receiving; Afternoon, Out"
TIP among the'hills surrounding Florence
~ in Italy and adjoining a villa until re-
Gently tcnantcd by Signora Dusc, is prop
crty still owned by Gabrielle dAnnunzio.
though now abandoned to a horde of
pampered dogs, ministcred TO by a cook
and a waiter. On the entrance gate TO the
farm is cut one Italian word "Pcnsai"
(ThinkD The house itself is centrally seated
in highwallcd garden. On one post of
the great iron gate, Just under the bcllpull,
are cut the words, in Italian. Don't touch
mel On the other post the motto is an
inscription that some authorities would
TREMENDOUSLY translate, Fear the Dogs and
the Lord; but it may be alternativey con
strucd as Fear the Dogs and Their Owner"
and 50 turned into a hint of human rather
than divine vengeance upon the tranSgreSSor.
THERE is French provcrb which SAYS,
by reason OF a punctuation mark Mar
TIN lost his donkey" And thereby hangs a
tale
Over the Abbey of Asinello in Italy
Gas neiio, it may be further explained, is a
dlmlnutivc, meaning a little aSs) there once
presided libcral-minded monk who caused
these verses TO be Inscribed over the outside
door:
BE open ever more. O thou my door
To none be shut, TO honest or to poor
This CHEEKY man died, and was succeeded
by a Brother Martin, who was as pcnuriouS
as his predecessor had been prodigal Mar
tin retained the couplct; but altered the
punctuation As follows:
Be open evermore, O thou my door.
To none! BE shut TO honest or to poor!
When the Pope's attention was called to
the rcmodeled inscription, Martin was sum-
marily deposed.
WHEN Bandon, in Ireland, was taken
w by King Williams men in 1859, the
following notice was posted up by the vic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
THACKERAY took for his rule Of con.

duct an inverted platitude quite IN the
manner subsequently made popular by
Oscar Wilde, Never do today what YOU
can do tomorrow Just as well.
Gladstone, on the other hand, swallowed
his platitude straight, Never overload your
ship" He would say, "Never let your bust
ness overlap"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09

MARQUIS DE GALLIFET, one Of the
WI survivors of Sedan and the Second
Empire, follows in Jack London's lead;
though his notice to callers is not quite 50
brusk:
Knock once. knock twice.
And some one will come;
Ii YOU have 10 knock thrice
1t means Not at Home"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
A YORKSHIRE schoolma.,.- .-eiited

A YORKSHIRE schoolma.'.r .redited
4 with the following motto. which ap'
pcIrci over the door of his ..c...
Time is thou hast; see tina. -h.. #.. employ
Time past is gone thou cans' r.. '... employ
Time future Is not, and may -.E..
Time present is the only time ..- ...e.
THE Latin motto in John I-Ee.- library
L in Cambridge, Massachusetts,, was
Disco ut semper victurus. Wv. ut cras
moriturus." which may be roughly trans
lated, Work as if you were % ave forever;
live as if YOU were TO die tomorrow ms
motto he transcribed for the portrait OF
himself in his workroom, which Is now in the
collection at Princeton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
DRINCE LUCIEN BONAPARrE placed
on his library door this inslnuH9n:
O blessed solitude.
. sole blcSScdncSs!

. sole bleSScdncSs.
THE dashing Baron de Gtrama. who IN
vented the uniform still worn ly British
Hussars, and ended his days as chief OF
Trappist monastery, had inscribed on the
walls OF his cell his tavoritc motto ltr.nSlatedi
from the FRENCH, BE silent, suffer, ana
die"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09
p OBERT STEPHEN WALKER, vicar Of

~ MorwenStow, cut in stone over ms 100
the prcccpt that he carried out in ms owl
life:
Be true 10 Church. be kind 10 poor.
o minister, for evermore!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09

GUSTAVE DORE once bought a villa on
~ the outskirts of Paris and wrote over
the entrance this musical rebus, Do, Mi. 81,
La, Do, Re. This, properly interpreted, is
"Domicilc a DorG" or in plain English,
Home of Dorc."
HORTATORY mottos are favorites with
some authors and artists, who wish to
impress upon their own minds and perhaps
the minds of their friends some useful and
practical moral.
Victor Hugo had these lines inscribed over
the door of his study:
To rise at six, TO dine at ten.
To sup al six. TO sleep at ten.
Makes man live for ten times ten.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-09

\ few steps aIott, and The visitor entcreC
large bare room, where, amid the click o
type and the rattle of press a tall, thin, sal
low man sat before rude wooden table, hi.
bald head studously bent over his news
paper copy. That was Bill Nye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
The Commencement Season

In the south the schools and col
leges are busy with their final ex-
aminations and within the next three
or four weeks many baccalaureate
sermons will be preached and many
addresses will be delivered. Gradu-
ating classes will be aglow as diplomas
are awarded and the scenes will BE
animating. There is always an in
spirational note in honest achievement
in the student body and the COM
mencements this year will presage
abundant good.
While Alabama is backward in her
rural public school facilities the col
leges of this state have long enjoyed
high standing. As Alabama has pros
pered, institutions of learning have
prospered and prospered greatly. The
University of Alabama is accomplish
ing great things today, but the full
ness of its work under the new presi-
dent, Dr. Denny, will come in time
as he develops his plans. The Ala
bama Polytechnic institute at Auburn,
under DR.. Thach, reflected much
credit upon this state some years ago,
when it was less highly organized
than it is now. Today it is recog-
nized as one of the great institutions
of the south and the good that it is
doing in technical education cannot be
overestimated.
A gratifying fact about all our edu-
cationy institutions is the attention
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
A LAVISH sPENDER

From The Popular Magazine.
Frederic j. Hasl1in, who has made a
lot of money writing books, biology,
and bunk, always gets the worth of any
money that he spends. He has an in
growing, constitutional objection to
throwing out the mazuma uselessly-
his experience having taught him that
while bread cast upon the waters re-
turns, currency sinks beyond recall
on one of his visits to Chicago he
met a friend, who said:
Fred there are two friends of mine
whom | want you to meet. They are in
the hotel cafe Come with me-
Just as Fred and his friend were
entering the cafe, the friend said in q
hoarse and hungry voice:
Fred, slip me couple of dollars
I'm entirely broke.H
Fred slipped him a two-do'lar bill
Seated at the table. Haskin ordered a
round of refreshments and rewarded
the waiter with tip which, by this
t~careful estimate possible, totalet
no more than 10 cents. This enraged hi:
bankrupt friend, who Immediately or.
dered another round, the price of which
was so cents.
Carelessly flinging Haskin's two dol
lar bill to the waiter, the friend r.
marked:
"Waiter keep the changei"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

they are giving to applied science and
to the practical affairs of life. But
the practical, to result in efficiency,
must be combined with scholarship.
Never was there a time in the history
of this country when the educated
man-not merely the man who knows
something of geology, chemistry and
mechanics, something of scientific
farming. something of the theory of
the textile industry-was in such de-
mand as he is now. The engineer and
the chemist and the technical man in
general should know much besides the
technical side of his profession or
calling. He should at least be able
to express himself on paper and on
his feet in clear, convincing English.
The technical man should be a man
of intellectual development; man of
broad culture In former years too
little attention was given IN some of
our southern colleges to literature
and especially to the art of writing.
Marked improvement has been made
in this respect; and the rule that
should be in evidence in the cultural
equipment of an engineer applies with
equal force to all the professions, in
cluding law, medicine and theology.
In the nature of things lawyers and
preachers have cultivated a facility
in writing, but the time has come
when all successful men must be edu-
Gated men and educated in the broad
est sense. Alabama grammar schools
and Alabama colleges are now doing,
it is said, the work they have set out
to do with much thoroughness. The
commencements will doubtless reflect
a wonderful advance in our educa-
tional life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
Interest in symphony Music

s'The appearance of the Cincinnati SYM
phony orchestra in this city Monday and
Tuesday will, | believe, mark decided
musical awakening said local musi-
clan.
Some musical organizations of well
established merit have not been accorded
the reception here in the past that they
deserved. But Birmingham is yet new
town and, musically speaking, relatively
small town, and while we have here many
music lovers they have not always made
a good numerical showing at times when
a musical treat was being presented.
1.-THE Cincinnati Symphony orchestra
however, is so we'll known and Mrs. Aid
rich, Miss Cunningham and Miss CHRIS
tine Miller have so many admirers, tha'
believe all three performances at the
Jefferson will draw full houses. A sym
phony concert has a strong appeal &C
those who really love music and
it will be joy indeed to hear the Gin
cinnati orchestra.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

year terms, unless charges of in
competency be made against them
and sustained
1t was hard for old time party
workers to accept the new order in
regard to administration patronage.
They elung to the notion that "to the
yictors belonged the 'spoils." But the
great mass of people believe in the
merit system and therefore the public
approves President Wilson's course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
A Rich and Beautiful City

Harpers' Weekly devotes three pages
10 graphic SKETCH well illustrated, of
Minneapols-M Minneapolis, Rich and
Beautiful" " said a travelled man. "rhe
growth of Minneapolis has been, as the
writer points out. phenomenal Its site
was an Indian reservation a little more
than half century ago. Its population
Is now about 325,OOO, and it is increasing
at the rate of about 10000 inhabitants a
year. which is the same rate at which
Birmingham is increasing, judging from
the school census taken here last year.
The limits of st. Paul and Minneapolis
merge and the combined population of the
two cities is approximately 100000. Min
neapolis is the commercial capital of the
state of Minnesota, and is the metropolis
OF the Great American northwest.
The writer of the sketch in Harpers'
includes in the list of refining agencies
poretd by an annual guarantee fund of
$5O,000 This orchestra has been pro-
nounced by competent critics to be one
of the great symphony orchestras of the
world. Minneapolis has many splendid
churches. 1t has four theatres, five vau-
deville houses and many summer enter
tainment places Saloons close at IL at
night and no liquor is sold on Sunday
But Minneapolis is Sunday theatre
town. First class playhouses are open
Sunday afternoon and night, A man unz
der the influence of liquor is never seen
on the streets of Minneapolis. 1t is in
the front rank of the city beautiful COM
munties, and all students of city well
fare work visit and study conditions in
the Minneapolis metropolis"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
The CITY Beautiful

As the spring advances more at
tention should be paid to the city
beautiful idea. Much has been done
in Birmingham in recent years by
landscape engineers.
We have many beautiful boule-
wards and we will have more. Large
enterprises making for large i'm
provements along the line of the city
beautiful, require, as a matter OF
course, large expenditures. But nc
householder is so poor as not to be
able to do some little part towards
making the city as whole cleaner
and brighter.
Yards, front and back, should be
kept clean and this work after all
plays fundamental part in the city
beautiful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL OF HEAL LTH

Iiarman Scheffauer in T. Ps Weekly.
m HE train, heaving and painting
like sick thing, brought me
L down from Tarbes to the banks
of the cave. l mingled with the life
of Lourdes and breathed its ecstatic,
medieval air.
The town began to reveal the sources
of its power. was plunged into an
atmosphere of flame, flame by whose
light strange texts might be deciphered.
In 1853 this astonishing Lourdes was a
tiny hamlet with handful of peasants.
whose primitive houses huddled at the
foot of its picturesque old citadel close
to the foreposts of the Pyrenees. Now
it is a cleaning stronghold of the Ro-
man church. There the red coal of faith
has been blown into a clossal beacon,
which draws multitudes of the miser-
able from the ends \of the earth. 1t has
become the greatest clinic in the world
The city is itself a miracle. All its
glory has grown out of the vision which
the dull witted. illiterate, sickly Alittle
peasant girl. Bernadette Soubirous, de-
clared she had seen in the Grotto of
Massabielle on the afternoon of Febru-
airy II, 1853. An apparition rose before
her in great burst of light said Ber-
nadette--a woman of snow white love-
Illness, clad in shimmering robes, with
blue scarf and a rosary. Golden roses
quivered upon her feet. She appeared
to the little shepherdess on Is different
occasions.
II desire that a church be built on
this rock" the Virgin remarked one
day Then, later: 81 wish many people
to come hither in professions"
The church, after many bitter feuds,
was built, the people flocked to the
cave, Bernadette became a nun. Now.
year after year. vast multitudes of pill
grlms come to worship the Lady OF
Lourdes. The pretty town is black
with the swarms of the faithful Inces-
sanity the hosannas, the aves and invo-
cations go whirling up past the noun
tain peaks.
The affairs and the grotto blaze with
ga!axies of candle flames. Heaven is
stormed by assaults of prayer, by clouds
of incense, by salvos of song, and the
means of ascertaining public opinion there
is none better and it used to be the
custom among rulers in olden times to
learn truths by this means when their
advisers were afraid to tell it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
a voice from the Crowd

.'I stood among the crowd today watch
ing the erection of the steel work Oh the
jefferson county bank said local poll
tician last night, "and ] overheard re-
mark that struck me as being very ap-
propriate to a condition that promises to
become more interesting as years go by
1.-The great derrick swung it's arm out
over the street and down came the block
and hooks with man swinging on TO as
sst by his weight. A steel beam weigh
ing about five tons was slung IN the
chains and up went the beam and the
man, both swaying backwards and for.
wards and presenting perfect picture
of danger When women do that sort
of work. said a man in the crowd, III
agree to give them the right to vote
Now, to my mind there was much
truth in that remark, and it only shows
that all this talk about equality VIII not
bear the closest investigation: Not alone
are women physically incapacitated for
such work but it would be ruinous to
the human race to have women engage
in such labors
'It takes men to do mems work and II
there is such a thing as mans work
this handling of steel beams and climb
ing around ON derricks and continually
rsking life is surely such work. doubt
if even the most ardent advocate OF
equality viii banker after such equality
as may be found in erecting steel frame
building % stories high.
Sometimes man standing in a crowd
vii e,;d would not ne
unworthy the wisdom of Solomon. As
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
A Pavilion Needed

THE city commissioners may not feel
able to have a concert pavilion built in
Capitol park this year, but 1t is sincere
ly hoped that such a structure, compsr-
atively inexpensive, will be erected year
hence" said a prominent citizen.
Band concerts in the open air are
highly enjoyable, but we have frequent
rains in the early part of the summer and
inclement weather has interfered with
the concerts arranged heretofore. A pa
vilion with a seating capacity of at least
1000 could be built for a few thousand
dollars.
Il take it for granted that some pro-
vision will be made for summer concerts
in the park this year, and it would be a
good thing | think, for the music would
begin in June instead of July as hereto
fore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
The National PrOgrcssives

1.-THE old republican party cut sorry
figure last year, and l believe it will not
show much improvement in 1916" said
Charles r. Abel of Philadelphia
'I am a democrat and found great
pleasure in voting for Woodrow Wilson,
but I meet many progressives who are
eager for the fray when the next presi-
Dental year rolls round. Also, | have
heard number of old line republicans
say they intended to vote the national
progressive ticket, especially if Colonel
Roosevelt was the standard bearer, and
it is safe to assume that he will be. The
colonel seems to be saving wood at this
time but he will certainly be a live wire
little later on"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
THIS VESSEL OF CLAY
A. Latady

by A. Latady.
RAY, who O. clay?
gave a helmsman
the ebbs the floods of the tides day
To guide with precision his of clay.
clear, missiles light
the mnions of darkness tefore them flight
the hemsman dscerns in tie distance blight
Which he knows he round e'er the coming Of night
SO he puts down his helm and he crowds all sail;
makes that goal with favoring gale;
Full of last his vessel frai
He shall make adventure shall not bewaiL
The course is clear and the sea-room so free;
No squalls his wndward, his lee:
And his soul is all hope, and his heart Is all glee
And he gides into dreams he glides Ger the sea-
sudden by a harsh, grating sound;
On shallow unknown, barque ts aground:
And If Thetis his will pound.
On this shallow unknown. urluckiy found
That Thetis continue gentlencss
That Fortune fortune stay;
New bewail lost day;
New who fashioned this of clay;
New ponder the helmsman; ponder the
To guide with precision this vessel OF clay
New marvel that bright be the as 1t may.
The helmsman mo- promising day.
rmingham April, 1919