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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Gifts to the Bride

The present of the House of Repre-
sentatives to Miss Jessie Wilson is
diamond pendant-the technical name
escapes us at the moment-but In the
poetic words of the unpoetlcal Mr.
Mann it is something which will ever
be tasteful and which will be cher
ished more and more by the fair reclp-
lent with the recurring years. Mr..
MARITIME. of Miss Wilson's home state
of New Jersey, was named by his COM
peers of the Senate to select the Of
ficial gift of that body. His choice
was a set of silver. Which reminds
one:
When Miss Alice Roosevelt married
Nicholas Longworth, her presents rep
resented in the aggregate sum estl-
mated at a quarter of a million dol
lars. Included were II sets of silver,
10 sets of fancy dishes, two complete
sets of cut glass, one of venetian
glass, 25 handsome clocks, II oriental
rugs, Is dozen-sets of silver spoons,
and knives and forks the number of
which it would require an adding ma
chine to compute.
The stork has often visited the
vicinity of the Longworth home IN
. Cincinnati, but he has never alghted
upon that particular roof. Will the
Longworths ever have use for the
beautiful and costly things lavised
Upon them? 1t is doubtful. Probably
the clocks and the silver and the cut
glass and all are much more burden
than a pleasure. If they are all kept at
home, they are standing invitation
to burglary. If they are placed in safe
deposit vaults, storage must be paid.
Miss Wilson's presents probably
will exceed in number and value those
of Miss Roosevelt's. Mr.. Sayre is by
no means a rich man, and the house
hold of the young couple will not be
maintained upon scale out of keep
ing with his salary. Many gifts show
cred with the best intention upon the
pair will be found of l5tle real SER
vice, perhaps; but after all these
tokens of esteem and good will on the
occasion of a White House wedding
are based chiefly on sentiment and
no one should be disposed to under
value it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Free Night School

The Birmingham board of educa-
ton has shown broad mindedness and
the right sort of civic spirit in open
ing free night school for young men
and young women in the Paul Hayne
building.
The school will begin next week and
will be conducted for the benefit of
"those who from necessity have been
unable to attend the regular day
school, or whose education for what
ever reason is limited and who desire
to further equip themselves in order
to meet the demands made upon them
in life.v
The course which will be offered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

is to consist of reading, writing, spell
| ing, language and arithmetic; and in
addition to classes in these elementary
subjects, there will be classes in book
keeping, mechanical drawing, cooking
and sewing. There will be special
class for foreigners who wish to learn
English.
Birmingham's public school system
has long been noted for its high stand
ard and for its excellent results.
Greatly handicapped as the school
system is because of lack of school
room, efficiency has been the aim and
rule. And now that a night school is
to be opened many worthy boys and
girls who have to work for a living,
but who have aspirations, will be able
to acquire knowledge that will ad-
vance them materially and socially.
If the enrolment next Monday is
as large as expected, night schools
will probably be established in other
public school buildings, and the board
has agreed that whenever a sufficient
demand warrants new classes will be
formed for the study of any school
subject that may be desired.
Vocational school work is proving
popular in all cities, and it is about
to be introduced in the smaller towns
of Alabama. But nothing that has
been done in Birmingham recently has
been of quite so much practical inter
est, perhaps, as the opening of the
free night school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
The widened Sidewalks

''No city that L have visited recently
has shown so much Improvement to say
nothing of increased population, as Bir-
mingham," said r. I. Names of Chicago.
Il had not been here for three years
until this week. There has been a great
deal of big construction work in Birming-
ham. The business district is filing up
with skyscrapers, and the 25-story bank
building is sure to attract the attention of
strangers. Among the smaller improve
ments, but improvements worth while,
think, are the widened sidewalks in the
eongested part of Birmingham. 1t is well
to have wide streets from curb to curb,
but it is more important to have wide
sidewalks.
Il wonder that all our modern cities do
not adopt the street plan that has dis
tinguished Paris. That city, as all trav-
eled people know has elegant paved
streets and very wide concrete sidewalks.
Many of Chicagos sidewalks are of
proper width, but there are many COM
paratively narrow sidewalks, which will
be widened later on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
SWALLOWS HAVE LEFT ENGLAND
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
~ HE swallows are gone from Eng
land now. l do not know where
they are, possibly in southern
Italy or across the Mediterranean, but
they have gone, and the empty nest and
stretch of white sheeting below the box
in my little summer house in which they
made their home alone remains to remind
me of their pleasant visit | remember
how they came in the late springtime To
the open summer house in my garden,
which is my bedroom during the warm
months of the year, how for a time they
sperplexed me by endeavoring to build on
the wooden roof just above my head, how
in the morning | would wake up as they
scraped and tapped at the woodwork with
their small beaks, quite oblivious to the
sleepy giant below, who watched them
silently at their work, while they twit-
tered and spoke to each other in the most
gentle and charming way.
The routine of nest building was fol-
lowed by a period of silence. | could sell
dom see the birds now, but sometimes a
glimpse of two small beads and bright.
reflective eyes greeted me as | raised my
candle aloft in the silent darkness of the
summer nights. At first they objected to
the candle and showed their objection by
a mild, protesting fiutterng, but grad
ually they began to grow accustomed to
the strange light that came so regularly
at nightfall and lasted so brief time.
They grew accustomed to it just as they
had grown accustomed to my presence
on the campbell below their home and to
the bulldog who slept in the chair at my
side.
The family arrived, six of them, a si
lent, sleepy family, who woke at odd mo-
mnts, opened wide mouths for food, and
fell asleep again. They We're curiously
quiet and we'll behaved, a great contrast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

nunciation of English proper names. In
Vulnerable jests, lampoons, puns and
pasquinades have been made and writ
ten on names renowned in English life
and story.
|. There's Gloucester pronounced Clos
ter" Wemys pronounced "Weems,
Glamis pronounced "Glains," Charters
pronounced Charters Nethuen pro-
nouneed "Methyen,p and Duchesne pro-
nounced "Ducane,' The uninitated is lia-
BILE to paralysis of the vocal cords when
he first essays to pronounce Cholmonde-
ley "Chumley," Marjoribanks march
banks.' Brougham Broom" Colquhoun
'Cohoon,' Levison-Gower 'Luson-
Cover" or Bethune "Beeten." Every
body knows that Derby is pronounced
Darby and Cowper Cooper" but who
would expect or suspect ''Coatley'' to
be properly spelled Cololough, or "Sille-
GER st. Leger?
Other eccentric recommendations are
"Mingis" for Menzies, "Sinjun" for st.
John 'Riven" for Ruthven, DE Beever"
for De Belvoir "Beecham" for Beau
champ, 'Air" for Eyres land "Kar' for
Ker. The change of 20 to ''u' is seen
in Ponsonby. pronounced "Punsby" Mon
son pronounced "Munson' and conygham
pronounced Cunningham The name of
Baden-Powell, the hero of Mafelxing and
founder of the Boy Scouts, is "Gaden-
Pole" Sir Alexander Cockburn once
chief justice, statesman and lawyer of
England. was known as Sir Alexander
"Coburn." Sir Edward Coke, jurist and
publicst, is pronounced Sir Edward
"Cuk" Our own American patriot and
fighter, Sam Houston, is called "Hustin
everywhere save in Manhattan, where we
have "Howston.'
Many a Walsh have I known who pro-
nounced his name Welsh" and many
Welsh or Welch who called himself
walsh" street known the world over
is spelled Pail Mall. but pronounced
"Pelmell." The hard and fast rule re-
garding the pronunciation of proper
names" may be all right but It surely
is conducive to an attack of vertigo when
we are told that the Virginia 'nomen'
Enroughty spells DARBY" This remark
able oddity in pronunciation l first heard
SO years ago from a professor of English
who claimed acquaintance with the En-
roughty-Darbys Since then l have met
scores from the "Old Dominion who
tell me the family is not a myth but the
pronunciation is sui generis wit hthis
Sdiosyncratic family of Darby Tha
name Taliaferro, mentioned by your cor
respondent m. r. W." is one well known
in Georgia; in fact, there is place
in that state so named and pronounced
'"Toliver" Louisiana has a distinguished
family of the same name, spelling and
is sui generis with this
on the supreme court bench of Louisiana
previous to and during reconstruction
days.
whats in a name?" 1t would seem
that at times there are more inconsistent
cies and contradictions than are dreamed
of in the philosophy of the philologist the
genealoglst or the photographer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
TO RESCUE LIVE WIRE VICTIM

From THE Boy Scouts of America"
For his own benefit and thet of his
comrades, the scout should know how to
avoid accidents from electricity. The
third rail is always dangerous, so don t
touch it. Swinging wires of any kind
may somewhere in their course be in con-
tact with live wires. so they should not
be touched.
A person in contact with a wire or rail
carrying an electric current will transfer
the current to the rescuer. Therefore he
must not touch the unfortunate victim I'M
less his own body is thoroughly insulated.
The rescuer must act very promptly, for
the danger to the person in contact is
much increased the longer the electric cur
rent is allowed to pass through his body.
If possible, the rescuer should insulate
himself by covering his hands with a
macintosh, rubber sheeting, several
thicknesses of silk or even dry cloth. In
addition he should, if possible, complete
his insulation by standing on a dry board.
a thick piece of paper or even a dry coat.
Rubber gloves and rubber shoes or boots
are still safer, but they cannot usually
be procured quickly.
If live wire is under a person and
the ground is dry, it will be perfectly safe
to stand on the ground and pull him
off the wire with the. bare hands. care be-
ing taken to touch only his clothing, and
this must not be wet
A live wire lying on a patient may
be Tipped off with safety with dry
board or stick In removing the live wire
from the person, or the person from the
wire, do this with one motion, as rocking
him to and fro on the wire will increase
shock and burn.
A live wire may be safely cut with an
ak or hatchet with dry, wooden handle.
The electric current may be short cir
cuited by dropping a crowbar or poker on
the wire. This must be dropped on the
side from which the current is coming
and not on the farther side, as the later
will not short circuit the current before
it has passed through the body of the
person in contact. Drop the metal bar; do
not place it on the wire or you will then
be made a part of the short circuit and
receive the current of electricity through
your body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Brisk Tourist Season

THE tourist season is on in full swing,
said d. t. Blake, city passenger agent
of the Illinois Central. Tourists are now
pouring into Chicago by the hundreds and
all of these visitors take trains for the
south.
More than 200 pleasure or health seek
ers passed through Birmingham one day
this week on the Seminole Limited bound
for Florida points. At this time of the
year the northerner begins TO think of
the balmy southern cline and he looks at
all the time tables. finally selecting a
train that he thinks will get him to Flor
ida as quickly as possible
1t is roughly estimated that more than
100000 people from the middle west make
a trip south during the three winter
months This includes homeseekers as
well as those on pleasure bent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Likes Farming

William Johnston. son of the late sena-
tor Joseph F. Johnston. was here yester-
day. He was formerly a popular and
well known citizen of Birmingham. but
has been engaged in farming in Madison
county for the past two years.
Il am very fond. of farm life" said Mr.
Johnston. Il have 500-aere farm about
five miles from Huntsville. The soil is
of the best [ am encouraged in my agri-
cultural venture, and l think 1 will find
1t decidedly profitable. I am paying espe-
cial attention to the raising of hogs and
cattle 1 have good corn crop. and
clover on my farm is very rich"
Mr. Johnston said that Underwood senti-
ment in Madison county was very strong,
but that Hobson's supporters were also
Underwood will undoubtedly
carry Madison" said he but by what
l cannot now estimate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
CASE IN POINT.

Pa, what is a misnomer"
"A misnomer my son, is the word re-
freshments' applied to the stuff one man
buys another man when they are down
town at night
AN INDISPENSABLE QUANTITY.
In every household there Is found
The self-denial all complete
That carves and passes things around
And watches all the others eat.
-Philander johnson in Washington Star.
In every household there is met
trudging, drudging, patient oaf
Who does the work and doesn't fret,
While all the others shirll and loaf
Dixon Merritt in. Nashville Banner.
In many households may be found
maid who doesn't care a snap
How elumsily she moves around
And spills the hot soup in your lap
-Rody McPhee, Springfield Union.
In many households. cooking hash.
Is found the patient soul who lugs
A broom with which to sweep the ash
Her husband sprinkles ON the rugs
Mel James, in the Johnstown Demo-
ocrat.
In many households you will find
A little man whose eyes are dim
With tears because he tries to mind
His wife and she throws plates at him.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
The Democratic Administration

II voted the progressive ticket a year
ago, and had the republican in other
years, but I am unwilling to admit that
President Wilson is making an uneom-
monty strong President" said N. D..
Chambers of Philadelphia.
"Althougha republican, L was in favor
of tariff revision downward, and the I'm
derwood BILL now law, seems about
right. AS to the currency, l am not well
enough versed in that complex matter to
say how the legislation should be- The
President seems to be taking hand in it,
and his ideas may be wrong; but 1 ap-
prove fully of President Wilson's Mexican
policy. The people do not want war and
our. government is not going to have war
If it can possibly keep out of it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
A Great Musical Work

81 understand that HandeIs great ora
terio, the Messiah will be rendered un-
der the baton of Mr. Rienzi Thomas in the
First Methodist church on the Sunday
afternoon before Christmas" said j. ID.
McGill of the Arion society
1T is the purpose of Mr.. Thomas to
have the Arions unite with the Treble
Clef club and the regular choir of the
First Methodist church in the rendition
of the oratorio. When Mr.. Guckenberger
lived here he gave the Messiah at Christ
mas tide every year, but it has not been
heard in Birmingham for some time. Mr.
Thomas is an experienced and able direc-
tor, and if we have rehearsals enough
the performance should be highly credit
able to all taking part"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Majority Should Be Sweeping

Majority Should Be Sweeping
Oscar Underwood's majority should
be sweeping enough to reflect distinct
credit upon Alabama.
1t is a great thing for any state
to have one of its sons achieve ma
tion-wide fame. Alabama has been
thus honored many times. Before the
| war we had William r. King, states
man and diplomat. He was elected
vice president of the United States on
the ticket with Franklin Pierce. Since
the war no state has sent abler men to
Congress than Alabama. Hilary A.
Herbert, for long years in the House
and finally in President Cleveland's
cabinet, was recognized as one of the
greatest men the south has produced.
John 7. Morgan, the father of the
isthmian canal measure, was re-
garded by the whole country as SEN
ator of transcendent craftsmanship.
Within the past twenty years Ala
bama has had many men in Congress
who have distinguished themselves,
but no Albanian of this generation
has risen to the height of Oscar
Underwood; few American statesmen
of our times, indeed, have quite meas
ured up to him.
AS democratic leader in the House
he maintained harmony at critical
period when dissension threatened. He
has been, in fact, an Incompatible
leader, and now that he has accom-
plshed signal work in the popular
branch of Congress, the democracy
from one end of the country to the
other is looking forward with eager
expectancy to the time when he will
have a seat in the Senate.
The Importance of the national in
terest in Underwood is being appre-
ciated more and more here at home.
His defeat by Hobson would be re-
garded as nothing short of calamity
to the democratic party.
But Underwood will be elected. AS
The Age Herald said the other day,
he will carry every district in the
state; but his supporters should be
satisfied with nothing less than an
overwhelming majority. The bigger
the majority the higher Alabama will
stand in the estimation of the world
at large.
Underwood and Hobson are men of
opposite types, but both attract
crowds whenever they are announced
to address public meetings. That was
great ovation that Underwood had
at Dothan Thursday, but it is just
such an ovation as he will have in
other parts of the state, Alabama's
electorate is made up largely of think
ing men. The majority of men in the
cities think before they vote, and it
is the same way with the farmers. The
democratic party was never stronger
in Alabama than it is today, and
therefore it stands to reason that I'm
derwood should poll a sweeping ma
iority. 1t will be landslide if every
democrat does his duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Secretary Garrison's concentration

Secretary Garrison's concentration
policy.
After the Mexican situation clears
up the Secretary of War will doubtless
proceed to introduce the plan of
abandoning the majority of posts and
stationing brigades at such central
points as would make the army quick
ly available for mobilization and alto
gether more efficient than it has been
even in the recent past, when effici-
ency has been the watch word
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
ENRIcH1NG THE LANGUAGE
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

FTUIH t1Ie OIeVeIdfiu fetIff Dcetfcf'
Bagman: IA commercial traveller. =
Dictionary.
The next edition of this well known and
widely read book will have little more
to say about "bagman There will be,
undoubtedly, third definition, which will
read somewhat like this:
3. A petty extortioner, whose business
is to collect contributions from unwilling
contractors, ostensibly for campaign pur-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
The Free Dispensary

Plans for building and equipping
the University Free Dispensary on a
site owned by the state adjoining the
University's Graduate School of Med
icine call for an expenditure of $125,
600. The public spirited citizens who
formed the canvassing teams to raise
by private subscription the needed
money secured about $4,000 in the
few days allowed for the canvass.
All things considered this was a re-
markably fine achievement.
The university authorities will pro-
ceed at once to erect free dispen-
sary building to take the place of the
temporary wooden building now in
USE 1t has been decided to construct
the dispensary plant in units. AS none
of the money now raised will have to
be used for site, $4,000 will pay
not only for large and substantial
building but will allow a considerable
part of the amount to be expended for
equipment.
The balance of the $125,00 needed
can easily be raised next spring or
next fall, and in the meantime the
free dispensary work will go on for
the relief of the suffering poor. And
when the first unit of the permanent
building is completed this city will be
far better supplied with, free dispen-
saries than many cities of approx
imately Birminghan's size.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

cablegram from London to the
New York Sun a few days ago told Of
a document recently brought to light
which goes to prove that King Charles
facts were gathered from the Unita
Catholica of Rome The story runs
thus: The Kings son presented him
self on April II, 1868, to the chief of
the Jesuits in the vatican under the
name of James de la Cloche of Jersey.
After thorough inquiry it was ascer-
tanned that, in point of fact, the young
man was the natural son of Charles
III and a lady of the English aris-
thentic documents i'm support of this
statement have been found in the ar
chives of the Jesuts at Rome These
are: 1. An autograph letter of Queen
Christina of Sweden. 2. An autograph
letter of Charles II, dated Whitehall
September 81, 1865. in which the King
""iiie - ihs ptteIhllS ana declares that
James Stuart, who up to that time had
been living in France and elsewhere
under false name, had for the fu-
ture taken the name of James de la
Cloche of Jersey. 3. A letter, addressed
two years later under date of Feb
ruary I, 1869, by King Charles II, to
his son, who was then studying in Hol-
land. The King died in communion with
the Roman Catholic church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

Ladies who keep in close touch with
fashionable society say that the tango
can be reformed and made entirely un-
Objectionable. In fact, instances of the
reformed tango are being mentioned.
Emperor William and other personages
who have put the ban on the style of
dance referred to may lift the ban
when they see the latest improvement;
but the Emperor is old-fashioned
enough, doubtless, to prefer the grace
ful waltz that moves rhythmically to
the music of Gungl Johann Strauss and
Waldteufel, and the stately minuet, to
any of the newer dances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
PLEASED WITH ELEpHANr

From the Guntersville Democrat.
Birmingham has new live elephant for
It's zoo, and the people are more pleased
with the new pachyderm than any eless
phant they ever had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

An early severe winter in this neck
of the woods was predicted by the
goosebone prophets bat it is "a safe
guess that we will have Indian
summer with few breaks right UP to
Christmas. But there will be probably
enough chilly temperature to make
overcoats and other winter apparel in
demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

From the Pensacola News.
Birmingham and Montgomery are striv-
ing 20 see which can give Underwood the
biggest majority in proportion to popua-
ton. They are working for Underwood
and letting the hero OF the Merrimac work
against himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

With II district Tammany leaders in
favor of retaining Murphy and 16 either
opposed to him or Indifferent to him, his
seat on the back of the tiger doesn't ap-
pear to be any too safe.