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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

with glowing eyes came toward him with
her arms outstretched. And while Pye-
malion still marveled and rejoiced, she
told him how the goddess had come and
stirred her into life, crying:
Q maiden in mine image madei
O grace that shouldst endure.
While temples fall and empires fade
Immediately pure:
Exchange this endless life of art
For beauty that must die,
And blossom with a beating heart
Into mortality
Change, golden tresses Of her hair
To gold that turns to gray:
Change, silent lips, forever fair,
To lips that have their day.
Oh, perfect arms, grow soft with life.
Wax warm, ere cold ye' wane:
Wake, woman's heart, from peace to
strife,
To love, to joy, to pain.
Thus did the sculptor Pygnalion get
himself a wife, lie who had sworn love
was sorry Jest and had scorned wom-
ankind, and the maids name was Gala
tea, and Venus smiled trlumphantly upon
their nuptials
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Business Continues Active

For some weeks past men who are
more or less in touch with Wall street
have been somewhat pessimistic about
the future Of business. but the major
ity of business men meet are as op-
timistic today as they were six months
ago. said Jacob spaulding of Philadel-
phia.
Il am interested in two or three indus
tries and I can scarcely recall a time
when busines was more satisfactory than
it is today. I can appreciate. of course,
the nervous feeling on the part of some
financiers over the change of admins
tration but the general trade of the coun-
try will continue active, I believe
throughout this year: it certainly will
if we have bumper crops again this
summer.
Yes, business today is active and no
matter what some people may say about
the effect of national politics on the COM
mercial world the chewing of the string
is proof of the pudding"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
THE LITTLE GHOST

Patrick r. Chalmers, in Green Days and
Blue Days"
Broad, high yew hedges flank the flowers
and border
An old, smooth lawn where, fashioned
grimly stiff.
Two knights-in close clipped box-keep
ancient order
Ger shaven dragon, hound and hippo.
grif;
And there,
When the June air
At dusk Is cool and fair,
And the great roses strengthen on their
stalks,
Down the long path, beset
With heaven scented. haunting mignop-
ette,
The gardeners say,
A little gray
Ghost lady walSsI
1 haven't seen her. haven't heard her
legend,
Pale little shade. only the rumor tells
That tits her wont to wander to the hedge
end.
And vanish near the Canterbws balls
Ana SO &
/ do not know
What sends her to and fro
Murder, maybe, or broken heart, or gold.
/ like to fancy most
That she is just some little lady's ghost
Who loved her flowers
And quiet hours - i
All Jtines OF old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

would not have been had their wives
been little more careful
DR.. Crippen, the London dentist who
murdered his wife. went to America
in the disguise of a minister and was
captured on board ship because his
companion, Miss lie Neve, who was
pinned up by safety pins, which a
high wind blowing her coat aside, re-
vealed.
From this it would seem that man
wishing to disappear in a great city is
safer by moving several blocks away
and growing a beard or shaving one
off. A stranger appearing in a small
community Immediately arouses the
thoughts and suspicious of the inhab-
itants
But, leaving all these out of account,
there is still large number of rt.
corded cases where the subjects have
dropped out of sight without apparent
cause or reason and who have left be-
hind them untarnished regulations and
solvent back accounts. OF these a small
percentage are likely to have met with
violence and still others are probable
victims of a suicidal mania. OF those
cases that remain goodly proper
tion have been the victims of amnesia,
sudden and complete loss of MEM
ory
DR.. A. E. Osborn of California re-
cords case of a well known politician
and lawyer. a former congressman. lie
lived in a town suburban to Philadel-
phia One day he got up from his
desk in his office, leaving a law book
open at a page he had been consult
ing. mass of urgent work unfinished
in his desk and number OF uncashed
checks. He walked out of his office
and vanished
After several months passed word
came through official government chan
nels that he was in Australia, where
he had applied to the consul to help
him reach home. He had come to him
self on a steamship nearing an Aus
tralian port, quite penniless and broken
in health.
His passage money was forwarded
and he returned home. After a short
period of recuperaton he returned to
his profession. He has been normal
ever since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

A new and notable record of three hours
and five minutes for a flight from Paris
to London has been made by the French
aviator Marcel G. Brndejono des Mon
linas. lie started in his monoplane at 9.l5
in the morning from Paris, landed at
Calais at 10:50 resumed his fight at noon
and descended in London at 80. The dis.
tance between Paris and London is B7
miles. During his actual flying time of 1S5
minutes the French airman maintained a
speed of 81 miles an hour-more than a
mile and a half minute. He crossed the
channel in a fog
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
English POliteness

The treatment of Mrs. Emmaline
PanlShurst, the intrepid leader of the
militant suffragettes of England at
the hands of the police of London is
far different from the treatment that
an agitator would have received in
the days of Queen Elizabeth or even
in the days of the Georges.
Mrs. Pankhurst is arrested from
time to time, and each time the Off
GERS of the law are more considerate
of her comfort. Recently there was a
bomb explosion in the house which
was being built at Walton Health for
David Lloyd-G George, chancellor of the
exchequer. Mrs. Pankhurst declared
in a speech that she assumed all re.
sponsibility for the outrage A special
cable dispatch to the New York Sun
in which the famous lady's arrest was
reported, says that Home Secretary
Reginald McKenna, after celebrating
for five days over the explosion, "de-
cided to re-enact the dreary farce of
prosecuting Mrs. Pankhurst;' that
5rne first act was staged with marked
F'courtesies preceded by the usual
apologies and warnings
VI No ordinary policeman was sent to
make the arrest, but gentlemanly
detectives were assigned to that duty.
These detectives were the pick Of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
A LITTLE BIr OFF PARADISE

Maurice Barring in the March eMtro-
politan.
Rarotonga gives you a kind of fore
taste of the whole charm and beauty of
the South Seas. 1t is the appetizer, the
hors-d aeuvre. not the whole meal.
Tahiti is the whole thing; the real
thing; the thing one has dreamed about
all ones life; the thing which made
Stevenson leave Europe forever. All
tellers of fairy tales, and all poets
from Homer downward, have always
imagine the existence of certain
islands which were SO full of magic and
charm that they turned man from his
duty and from all tasks, labor or oc-
cupation in which he was engaged
and held him willing captive who
would not sell his captivity for all the
prizes OF the busy world.
Stevenson in one of his books-"The
wrecker,. 1 think-says that If a man
who is toiling in some English town
were to be suddenly transported to one
of the South Sea islands. in the neigh
borhood of Tahiti. and had vision OF
the beauty that is there, and then were
to be transpor ed back again to his
prosaic and ugly surroundings, he
would say, cat any rate I have had
my dream" That is how one feels when
one has seen Tahiti. one feels one has
had ones dream.
The Bay of Papeete curves inward.
AS you sail into 1t you are sure to see
several white schooners at anchor. AT
one side is range of light blue vol
canic hills stretching out into the crys-
talline sea, reminding one of Naples,
Capri and Sorrento. and in the middle
of the bay there is a tiny little island,
consisting of a few cocoa palms. The
sea Is a transparent azure; little white
houses are dotted all along the line of
the beach, nesting in greenery. We
walked along the beach into the little
town and into the suburbs. 1t was
spring in Tahiti. and every kind of
imaginable blossom was Haunting its
reckless and extravagant beauty. Ev-
erything grows wild in Tahiti
The people seemed extraordinarily
contented and invincibly indolent.
was walking along the main street and
| wanted to get to the postoffice, which
| knew was somewhere along that
street. 1 stopped at store and asked
whether L was going the right way The
storekeeper-who was Frenchman-
said, "Yes. you are going right
then asked if it was far The store
keeper said it was very far indeed; 1t
would take me a good quarter of an
hour or 20 minutes to walk there
asked him if could hire conveyance
as 1 was in hurry. He shook his
head and thought it unlikely. | then
went on my way. l thought | would
Just time myself and see how long IT
did take to reach the postoffice. l
walked fast. but l found, to my amaze
mept, that it took me exactly three
minutes to get there. Doubtless 1t
would have taken a native of TAHITI
20 minutes. There is no such thing as
hurry and no such thing as energy in
these islands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
booking Attractions a Year Ahead

Birmingham is now much more i'm
portant city in the musical world than
it was few years ago." said j. e.
Shelby. This is evidenced by the large
number of high class musical artists that
have appeared here this season and that
will appear before the season is over
in other years the audiences that attended
first class concerts were usually small.
Now they are large and discriminating.
Il am told that several musical celebri-
ties have been practically booked here
for the season of 1854. ] understand
that Paderewski's date for Birmingham
in the early spring of 1914 has already
been fixed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
DIyoRCE MEANT LIFE

1.-THE Autobiography of Divorced
Woman is the title of an article in the
new March number of Harper's Bazaar.
The name of the wrter--for it is an actual
life experience--had to be withheld, as the
following will show: Il know that in tell
ing the story of my life l am going to
take the apparently unpopular side of
what is a national question. Almost every
one who writes about divorce speaks of
the divorce evil They say to the mis-
mated who have not the more brutal
causes for separation: My poor people,
yours is indeed a sad lot, but be brave;
nick triumph from your defeat and re-
main together for the greatest good of the
greatest number
II would like to state my belief in the
matter at once. / do not think there is
ANYTHING sacred in bad marriage. l be-
lieve such marriages are often degrading,
and nearly always limiting to all con-
cerned in them. We should be taught to
relnquish bravely any relation that has
ceased to have in it any reality, instead OF
clinging to its empty shell, as l did.
blame myself for not having clearly
thought through my situation and ended
1t sooner do not think that the ever in
creasing divorce rate in this country is
an evil, but sign of a deeply idealistic
attitude toward marriage on the part of
our people, and though a different IDEAL
ism than the old, truer one. Divorce in
this country has been a demand, and one
which is growing all through the civilized
world. for a completsr relation between
sand voiced statement that people not only
refuse to live together on terms of I'M
Happiness, but that they refuse TO live to-
gether unless they find in marriage re-
lation not only tolerablc, but a deep and
real co1npanionship.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
NEVER SATISFIED

Franklin p. Adams in the March Met
ropolitan.
Hark. O We that rail- at the clinging
skirt, TO this, from Peterson's Maga-
zine of January, 1866: "The present
shape of the hoop skirt is detes 1ble-
If the wind blows, the skirt sw.es to
one side, exposing the person. e, Is in
stepping up curbstone the same tsIins
happens. The shape in fashion a year
or two ago was much more modest
Why not return to it?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
Tina Lerner sunday

"a we'll known Birmingham citizen ex-
claimed after hearing the Flonzaleys a
few Sundays ago that he would not have
missed them for s25, and he said it was
just by accident that he attended the
concert" remarked member of the mus
ical set. ''He had read about the Flon-
zalevs, but thought perhaps the press
notices were exaggerated, and it was only
because he had> no other engagement
for that Sunday afternoon that he ven
tured to take in the attraction. Like
everyone else who heard the F'lonzaleys
he was more than grateful for the op-
portunity.
Another great treat is in store Tina
Lerner will appear in a recital at the
jefferson theatre next Sunday. There is
no exasgeration about her charm as a
pianist. Several Birmingham music lovers
have heard her in northern cities and
all of them are wild about her. No mus
ical artist this season has created more
of a furore than Miss Lerner She is a
petite Russian and is wonderfully capti-
waiting in her personality as well as in
her musical achievements. A critic in one
of the Chicago papers said a few weeks
ago, She is not of many inches physically
but artistically she is a giant Many
have been the artists who have played
the TschiSowsky concerto in the last
dozen years, but there is none who could
not earn useful lesson from Miss
Lerner.'
"This little lady made an instant and
striking success in Boston, New York and
Chicago and she may be assured of a
cordial reception in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
Improved Tone in Iron Market

while the pig iron market has been
marking time for some weeks there
is a much better tone now than there
was early in the month" said William
NJ Byrd There is certainly more in
quiry and that of course, means much.
Consumers were able to buy a good
deal of resale iron at $780, but believe
that all such iron is practically off the
market now. The sl4 quotation has
hardened and l am looking for a brisk
buying movement before long
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
Club care Complimented

II have been saying for some time
that the Southern Club cafe was high
credit to Birmingham said clubman.
''and I was glad to hear Mr. Percy. in
his remarks at the meeting Wednesday
night. lay stress on the excellence of
the cafe service. He bore out fully what
have said. I do not think that any
club in the United States serves better
food than is now served at the Southern
club, and I have tried several club cafes
in New York. Baltimore and Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

WHAT'S THE USE?
One way to foster
Discomfort
Is worrying bout
The coin you've spent.
A HAPPY MEDIUM.
These be days of
Sharp delight;
Sleeping's very
Good at night.
Cool enough to
Need bedclothes,
Not enough to
Frost our toes,
IF perchance we
Poke them out,
While in dreams we
Thrash about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

The Inaugural committee has invited
Theodore Roosevelt to attend the inaus,,-
ration of Woodrow Wilson No word of
declaration or acceptance has been re-.
eeived from the big moose of the progress
sive party. Should he accept every effort
will be made to make his stay a pleasant
one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

In case inauguration day is inelement
the blame will be between Willis Moore
and the grounding, and one or the other
will have to shoulder it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

The government troops modified for
service along the Mexican frontier have
the right of way over everything unless
it be the baseball teams hurryng to their
training grounds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

In the suffrage hikes the ladies carried
bottles filled with milk. Men would under
like circumstances have carried bottles,
but there is no telling what their contents
would have been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Mr.. Morgan's spell of Indigestion affect
ed the American markets more than the
war in the Balkans and the war in Mex
leo put together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

The vice presidency in Mexico led, alas,
to death Nobody escapes when bar
barians are in the saddle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Women's colleges are said to be full of
suffragsts. The reform is fast becoming
a fad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Joaquin Miller was born in Indiana.
That fact explains the story of his life
and his literary instinct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

The average wealth of the farmers of
this country is increasing. The adhesion
of Vincent Astor would naturally have
some effect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

In searching for the 20 greatest men in
history the New York sun pcrsistently ig-
nores the Outlook office
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

The weather bureau is still blamed for
the bareback of four years ago, and it
has been warned against repetition of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

The Easter problem relating TO clothes
begins to loom UP for settlement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Seven rulers have been slain in Mexico,
and seven more seem to be willing to take
the risk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
DEARrH OF AMUSEMENT.

$50 the Gabsons are leaving?'
YES
''Why dont> they like this town.
well. the Gabsons are a large fam
lily, you know, and they want to live
in town where there are more pic
ture shows than we have here in Quin-
tusville."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I4NCO4V 11lV IO-NzAl1II If1o.
step lively you old dufferl You're
obstructin'' the transportation system
of more'n 100000 people!p
'Tm not the least bit disappointed
in you as a neighbor, Mrs. Nagsworth;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

everybody told me I'd find you a reg
ular old virago."
Yes. sir, l wrote the story that was
printed about you in the paper this
morning, and il you make any fuss
about it we'll print one SO much worse
that you'll want to crawl off some-
where and die
Nhat are you kicking about. mad
am? That photograph looks exactly
like you. II | should give you a hun
dred sittings I couldn't make. you ap-
pear handsome.
Tommy, when you go home you can
tell your mother 1 kept you in after
school because you are bad boy whose
parents don't seem to know how to
train children.-Chicago Tribune
LONGING.
Nogas. who rides the water wagon.
Looks down on his fellow man:
yet he fain would get jag on
When he sees Boggs rush the can
ANOTHER JOLT
The Waco Morning News adds an
other jingle to the "Jolts of Fate Sc
ries, as follows
Il do not mind the. iolts of fate
said Hogitt at his five-plunlx lunch.
But It's annoying, [ would state.
To mix up with that Pu1o BUNCH"
Waco Morning News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Mr.. Tafts budget message was his fare.
we'll address to his countrymen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

issue of injunctions to suspend state laws
and orders of state administration boards
was passed on Wednesday by the Senate
and now goes to the House. 1t proposes
that all applications for such injunctons
be passed upon by a commission of three
judges. one justice of the supreme court
or circuit court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

n, medicine life may be prolonged; ye
denth
p.,.,, will seize the doctor TOO.
Cymbeline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
IDEAL ARRANeEMENr.

IDEAL ARRANGEMENT.
We once did know a certain dame,
Whose mental vigor caused remark
Her husband was a little man
Who seldom left home after dark.
She papers wrote and read, and spoke
whenever she got half a chance;
lie sat TO rearward of the hall
And looked on with admiring glance.
Her will was law, his to obey
No matter what results might be;
The childlilSe faith he had in her
Was simply wonderful to see.
Wen grant you, a mismated pair,
And yet, the twain most happy were.
Since she always looked down on him
And he always looked up to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
Ills AMBITION

My son, l hope you aspire to leave
name behind you that will go ring
ing down the corridors of time"
well, dad I'm afraid II never be
great man, but | hope some day to
hear bellboy shouting my name in
the corridors of hotel patronized ex-
clusively by millionaires.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Senator Kern says: "The last lingering
doubt has been removed that Colonel
Bryan will be in the Wilson cabinet. He
will be the premier Of the administration.
Stories of friction and i'll feeling be-
tween Governor Wilson and Colonel Bryan
are wholly groundless, and as matter of
enth hour efforts to create i'll feeling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

Alfred Noyes. 80 years old, who makes
a living out of verse, has arrived in New
York to fill a series of lecture engage
ments. He has produced about dozen
volumes of verse and he expects to stage
there a fairy play, Sherwood" already
given in England. Noyes is all of six feet
tall and broad shouldered, but a slight
stoop, the students pallor and eye glasses
betray his vocation. Admitting that he
height and breadth, he explained that he
pulled an oar in the college eight at Ok
ford and does not believe in a wholly
sedentary. life even now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
LONGING.
A HOPE or THE FTTr1rpr

- - ''iA1 Il - 4 1IAI
Strenuous efforts are being made
to do away with seasickness on board
ship"
THE people who are working with
that end in view are true philanthro-
pists."
"seasickness is a terrible afflic-
ton"
"oh, wasn't thinking about that SO
much. but of course If seasickness be-
comes a thing of the past. so Will the
jokes about seasickness"
PLACING THE BLAME.
Who swears his life
Is just blank,
Oft has himself
For that to thank
OF COURSE NOT.
Washington seems to believe Huer-
tas statement that Madero was .ac-
cldentally' killed."
yes. Washington is some distance
from the City of Mexico and of course
our state department couldn't see
Huerta wink when he explained
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
NEW USE FOR ELECTRIC IRON

: There are other butchers in Mexico be
sides Huerta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

A piece of martinez a small line Of two
strands twisted loosely left handed and
used for binding the ends of ropes, which
dropped into the telemotor of the Lusi-
tania's steering gear caused the trouble
which will keep the Cunard liner Lusitania
out Of service for eight months, makes it
necessary TO treblade her turbines at a
cost OF 100000. As the liner was entering
the F'ishguard harbor. Decemeber SO an
order was given to port the helm to avoid
a steamer that was coming out. The tele-
motor had iammed. To avoid an accident
the turbines were sent full speed astern
The blades of one port turbine became
twisted out of proper pitch and some of
the blades on the starboard were dam
aged by the shock In addition to the cost
of 100000 for the reblading of the tur-
bines, the loss to the Cunard company in
the earnings in the passenger season will
approximate the same amount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28
PYGMALION AND GALATEA

From the Kansas City Star.
Wherein is told the story of Pyg-
malion. who created beautiful statue
and felt for it love that stirred it
into life. Which may be only the old
Greek way of voicing the cynical the
ory that man loves not the woman he
takes to wife, but her whom he takes
for the >beautiful ideal of womanhood
he has created in his own soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-28

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