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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
business Rcmnrkably Good

''I found the business men of New York
very optimistic" said II. J. Porter, who
has just returned from the east. 'Tht
people ! met talked prosperity and it was
evident that very brisk fall trade was
expected.
In Birmingham the year 1912 was 9
record breaker and 1918 is going to be
even better year. = The more one sees
of Birmingham the more one should ap-
preciate its Importance as a mercantile
center. The Birmingham district has now
the largest pay rolls in its history and
the best of it is these pay rolls will con-
tinue to increase.
"As a state Alabama was more pros.
porous last year than some of her neigh.
bors. We had better crops than Georgia.
The Georgia cotton crop was distressingly
short and Atlanta, usually SO prosperous
is feeling a touch of hard times. Tho
loss In the Georgia cotton crop has af.
fected the fertilizer business, of course
and on the whole. Georgia towns are
more or less depressed. In South Geor-
gia the situation is particularly bad. We
had a good cotton and good corn yesi
in Alabama. There was some falling off
In the size of the crop, but that has been
more than made up by the higher price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Miss Florence Auld Hayes of New York
has a soprano voice which has been
trained and she's more fond of the stage
than of money. She gave up 100000 by
deciding to become a professional actress.
When Miss Florence, who is 81, went to
Bryn Mawr she took singing lessons and
wrote letters to her maiden aunt about
how some day she hoped to become a
great singer. Two years ago the maiden
aunt died and left the income from $780,
900 to her niece to be paid as long as Miss
Florence did not go on the stage. In that
event it was to be devoted to charity. The
young woman recently appeared as Mar
guerite in the prison scene from Faust
at the Majestic theatre In Brooklyn.
I'm glad the money is going to charity
she said, land I'm glad that I'm going to
follow my ambition"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

of government, to put 1t mildly, Is dis
appointing; a failure to put it emphati-
cally. What the people of a large city
need is representative government
modelled in some respects at least on
the plan of the federal government
like the old ward system because
the alderman representing ward con-
stituency was close to the people of
neighborhood and could, therefore.
represent them better than few COM
missioners serving for the whole city.
II would be Impossible for three com
missioners TO look over Birmingham
in person, covering as 1t does so square
miles, Suppose an additional light is
needed in a certain block in Woodlawn,
Ensley Pratt City, South Highlands,
Norwood or the vicinity of Capitol
park. The commissioner in charge of
street lighting does not know by OBJ
servation whether the light is needed
or not; and in order to be convinced
long petition must be submitted.
Whereas under the aldermanic system
every alderman was familiar with his
neighb orhood and he could usually
convince his colleagues without red
tape that this or that improvement
in the public service was needed. .
when rural citizens wish to have
a postoffice established in a certain
neighborhood they take the matter up
with the congressman representing the
district. That congressman knows his
people and he knows at once whether
the postoffice petitioned for is really
needed The people of the community
asking for a postoffice do not take 1t
up over their representatives. head.
They would not, or should not, bother
senator. In a city government there
should be ward representations so that
the representative would stand in the
same relation to his constituency as the
congressman stands to his.
'These are my views and | believe
many others share them with me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
A RACE THAT HAS STOOD STILL

Y. Stefansson, In Harper's Magazine for
February.
Our first day among the Dolphin and
Union Straits Eslimos was the day OF
all my life to which I had looked for
ward with the most vivid anticipations.
and to which l now look back with equal
ly vivid memories, for it introduced me,
student of mankind and of primitive
rien especially, to a people Of a bygone
age Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
' ent to sleep In the nineteenth century
and woke up in King Arthur's time
among knights who rode in clnling mail
to the rescue of fair ladies'; we. without
going to sleep at all, had walked out Of
the twentieth century into the country of
the intellectual and cultural contempo-
raries of a far earlier age than King
Arthur's. These were not such men as
Caesar found In Gaul or in Britain: they
we're more nearly like the still earlier
hunting tribes of Britain and of Gaul liv-
ing oblivious to the building of the first
pyrimad in Egypt Their existence on tho
same continent with our populous citics
was an anaehronism of 10000 years in in
telligence and material development. They
gathered their food with the weapons of
tie men of the stone age, they thought
their simple, primitive thoughts and lived
their insecure and tense lives. Their lives
were to me the mirrors of the lives of our
far ancestors whose bones and crude han
diwork we now and then discover in river
gcavels or prehistoric caves. Such
archaeological remains found in various
parts of the world, of the men who an
tedated the knowledge of the smelling of
raetals, tell a fascinating story to him
whose scientific imagination can piece
it together and fill in the wide gaps, but
far better than such dreaming was my
present opportunity. had nothing to i'm
anime; l had merely to look and listen;
for here were not remains of the stone
age, but the stone age itself. men and
v vomen very human, entirely friendly.
who welcomed us to their homes and bade
lis STAY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
OUIETING FOOLISH NOISES

tools. She organized the children into
humanitarian brigades and got Mark
Twain to head them.
when this movement in the interest
of the sick naturally led into a more
specific crusade against the customary
noises of our Fourth of July celebra-
tions, and then against the needless sac
rifice of life and limb each year, Mrs.
Rice pursued her usual tactics. She
herself struck at the roots. collected
statistics. prepared Internationally
thousands of them-visited the schools
and talked with the children, planned
substitute celebrations and helped carry
/ them out
'Her working day varies from six to
l16 hours, six days in the week. She
rises at $3.50 and takes a long walk;
| in this she kills two birds with one
stone by getting her exercise and not
| ing the early morning noises, their
character and excesses.
"She even presses her children into
service (for Mrs. Rice is not one of
those present-day women of achieve-
ment who have no time for home or
q family: she has a perfectly MAIN
tanned 12-room home and an exception
ally reared and talented group of six
lehildren). and puts them to tying up
papers or letters for reference or dis
tribution.
"It is impossible to chronicle briefly
what she has done, what she is doing,
or how she does it: she is a marvel OF
systematized energy and enthusiasm.
There are not many women who would
work as hard as she does, and as per-
sistently and consistently, just for the
love of doing it and seeing the results"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

DR.. Foertmeyer of Cincinnati an au-
thority on criminolosy, says: Seven
hours sleep is all that is necessary for
any human being, and il obtained regu-
larly in certain hours nightly will keep
the body and mind in a healthy state"
Much of the disease of today is due to
too much or too little sleep. A person who
sleeps over seven hours has had too much
rest, which makes the mind sluggish and
the muscles lazy. On the other hand, the
person who has not had sufficient sleep is
mentally and physically unfit TO perform
his or her duties with that snap and vim
found in persons who have had the re-
quired rest. Men and women who COM
NIT crime, as a rule, are long sleepers.
Their minds grow weak from too much
sleep, and then they acquire the don't
care habit. which often results in crime.
Make 1t a rule to sleep seven hours, and
you will be better for It, mentally, physi-
cally and financially"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
.JoBBLEs.

With august mien he walked life's way
And seldom had word to say,
Although his look was most profound,
AS one in deep reflection bound.
His gravity impressive was
And other men would often pause
His dignity to contemplate,
Remarldng. This mans truly great"
And thus he lived and thus he died
And still contrived the truth to hide,
That he was after all so dense,
He lacked two grains of common sense,
Equipped with such a feeble brain
He'd scarce come in to 'scape the rain.
Put since ne kept his mouth shut tight,
The rabbe wondered at the sight
And soon opined that he must be
A man of perspicacity,
When all the time he little said
Cause there was little In his head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

London Correspondence in Mems Wear
There seems to be more decided feel
ing for fancy waistcoats this fall than
has been evident for some time past, and
one style in particular seems to monopo-
lie the business that is being done IN
them This is made from dark velvet or
velvet cord. both materials being equally
fancied, and cut single-breasted, with
four pockets, moderately low opening
and rather long points The color is In
variably that black and white mixed eff
feet known as pepper and salt They
look really dressy and seem to be in for
good innings, from the reports I hear
as to the way they are selling at the pres
ent moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Commencing Judge Lanes Act,o.

Judge Lane in reinstating Chief Bod
eker. or in recommending his reinstate-
ment to the commission. which was prac-
ticaiiy the same thing. is being cordially
commended by the people,, said Presi-
dent W. w. Crawford of the American
Trust & Savings bank yesterday after
noon. "An the expressions I have heard
today have been favorable to the chief
OF police and to the Commission
L think 1t Is reasonable TO sav that
fully 70 per cent of the citizens of Biz
mlnghap wanted to see Bodel1er resume
MS position at the head of the police
force The chief has made an efficient
OFFICER /, like others who know him, re-
gard him as competent, absolutely honest
and altogether Trustworthy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Long distance heart examination can
now be made by physicians at Johns Hop
lkins hospital by use of the cardiograph.
or heart recording instrument One Of
the executive physicians Of Johns Hop
kins, when asked to explain the proce-
dure, said: 1T is no longer a theory. It
is true that we can record the condition
OF patient 200 or 500 miles from the hos
pital. The telephone wire has made this
possible. The expense for such an exam
ination would be. of course, great. 1t
would be incurred by obtaining a 20 min
ute lease on direct telephone wire, say
from New York to Baltimore or Wash
ington to Baltimore" Such an examiEa-
tion would cost in the neighborhood of
$500 or even more. Then, too, it would be
necessary for an expert to superintend
the patient and the attachments to the
telephone. A specialist. even though he
be hundreds of miles from the patient,
after examining the heart. coudl advise
the physicians in attendance what steps
to take.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Municipal Forms of Government

81 think our old form of municipal
government with a few changes would
be more satisfactory to the public than
the commission FORM said former
Mayor w. NJ, Drennen.
.When the question of the commits
sion form was submitted to the peo-
pie many voters cast ballots in favor
of the proposed change chiefly because
the city democratic committee was as
suming too many prerogatives. 1t was
encroachpg on some of the functions
OF the city council. Especially objec-
tionable. to many was the committees
plan requiring all applicants for office
to run in a primary election. ! believe
in the party primary as the proper
method of choosing executive and legis-
lative nominees, but in city those Off
cials requiring technical equipment or
reasons, not be made to go into pri-
mary race.
II think Birming CHAM should have a
mayor and board of aldermen--the
mayor to be elected for four years and
vested with the right to appoint all
heads OF departments. subject to con-
firmation by the aldermanic board. The
mayor should have the right to sus-
pend any official He should be in
eligible for reelection. As the repre-
sentative head of the government. and
as the responsible executive he should
have by sound logic. the appointing or
nominating power. With the board
acting in relation TO the mayor as the
United States Senate acts in relation tc
the President there would be no dam
ger of tyranny and comparatively lit
| tie danger of ring rule.
.In my opinion. the commission form
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the Chicago News.
Good Judgment is what you had in mind,
but didn't do
a girl is awfully sly to chase after a
man by keeping running ahead of him.
When IA woman is afraid of getting rat
she can pretend it's of consumption.
Anyhow. women would not go into poll
tics just to spend their money on lot
OF sponges.
The reason man can't help loving a
girl like Il lunatic is she could help hini
not to, only that's the way she wants
him to do il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
anoRIs GODoUNoFFv

f-urt SCHNEIDER. in the February NUMBER
of the North American Review.
With Boris Godounoff," drama or
the Russian people, a new tye of his
torical opera" has been founded. Far from
the stereotyped pattern of Halevy's and
Meyerbeer's ambiguous and artificial Gre
atons, this is a work of the simple and
compelling logic of a master playwright
in which the great emotional forces, the
reyolutonizing sentiments of period are
depicted through the medium of music.
It was this intimate love of his own
people that led Moussorgsky to base his
greatest work, Boris" on a play by
Pushkin, the poet who took Russia
nway from the artiiciality of the eigh-
teenth century and revealed the possibil-
tiles of native material in the native
tongue" And as the intense humanism
of Moussorgsky's art made it a graphic
reflection of mis- own experiences as well
as of the life of his nation. knowledge
CT the man in the artist is essential TO an
understanding OF his work.
In Boris Godounoff' the people are
actually in the foreground of the hap
penings, the great masses are really the
principal actor; at first dumb, oppressed,
easily guided, then stirred up, threaten
ing, finally in open revolt and jubilant
war spirit. The strong veracity of these
folk scenes can be liSened without bias
phemy to such eternal masterpieces as
Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and Julius
Caesar" And in all dramatic music there
is nothing as near to Macbeth as the
specter scene of "Boris."
Since Wagner's death there is no work
that has so stirred the musical world
through its freedom from convention, its
direct truth, and it's compelling sincerity;
and a singular pathos is attached to the
fact that Boris was written 43 years
ago, but only came to the knowledge OF
the international public since the sumpt-
uous performances in Paris in 1908. Since
then the work has been given in italian
IN both Monte Carlo and Milan, and is
shortly to be heard in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Birds and the Cost of Living

John Burroughs and Ernest Thomp-
son Seton, two great naturalists, are
in Washington endeavoring to induce
this Congress to pass an effective law
to preserve bird life in the United
States. They want Congress to pass a
bill that will extend national protec-
ton to migratory birds all over the
United States, by providing for closed
game seasons. Two bills on this SUBJ
ject are pending, one in the House
and one in the Senate.
AS things are going the negroes and
other pot hunters are killing off the
robins and every sort of bird that can
be eaten. And yet these birds often
eat their own weight of pestiferous
insects. Take away the insect-eating
birds, and it becomes a question
whether many crops can be brought
to maturity in this country. The best
authorities say that the crops of this
country are damaged by herbiverous
insects to the extent of eight hundred
millions Of dollars. 1t is an economic
question, not sentimental or humane
one. The preservation of bird life re-
lates to the cost of living to every per-
con in tha cnrnf,.v Cnnnracc ;c oel,aJ
TO stop the slaughter of migratory
birds, and it certainly should perfect
a comprehensive and efficient law on
the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Congressman big Tim" Sullivan, who
has been declared insane, is the owner of
at least 100000 in unincumbered real
estate, hotels and theatres and splendidly
on file in the supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Already people say it is a close race be-
auuguration parade as to which will be
the circus in the main tent and which the
sideshow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

The St Louis Republic says that l2,000
St Louisans have income exceeding s5eoO
and viii be compelled to pay an income
tax. Fifteen hundred of this number are
women. The two heaviest taxpayers at
present in st. Louis are Daniel Catlin,
who pays taxes on s2,1isooo. and James
Campbell. who pays on sl.s42,ooo of prop
ertN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

An ordinance in Montreal forbids wom-
en- to wear tights on the stage. 1t is a
new ordinance, and Rosalind and Viola
should begin 10 get up a supply of hoop
skirts and pantalets against stand of a
week in that city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
ANOTHER MYSTERY SOLVED

The question "Who was Shakespeare? %
has been solved, according to an English
deliver into the mysterious subject Bacon
and Rutherford and all the others have
been cast aside for the man whose name
may be discovered by placing the title
of II of the works in a column and by
reading downward the fourth from the
end letter. The Il letters will spell Ber-
nard Shaw
Macbeth.
Julius ~CaEsar.
Comedy of ERRORS.
Merchant of Venice
Antony and Cleopatra.
Two Gentlemen OF verona.
Merry Wives of Windsor.
Troilus and CresSida.
Timon Of Athens.
Antony and Cleopatra
Airs We'll That Ends Well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Thus far the Contributing Editor has
neglected to discuss the one-term Works
resolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

\ lone bandit looted the Pennsylvania
railroad "stock yards special in the
heart OF Chicago. and he got away with
$4,000 in cash and sse,oDo in checks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

The Boston aviator who started to go
to New York carrying lot of baked
beans has been on the road two weeks
and has not yet arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

The Turk should move south and grow
up with the country. There is ferryboat
waiting to take him over the river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
TO BE INFERRED.

A Missouri legislator has introduced
bill prohibiting women from wearing
dresses that button up the back. unless
the buttons are as large as dollar. We
de6uce as follows:
First The solon is married
Second, He is lazy.
Third, He has grievance.
Fourth, He is taking roundabout way
of getting even. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

And now the hospitals ask that the
tariff on surgical instruments be taken
off Somebody is always ready to take
advantage of tariff rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Athlete Jim Thorpe may be a baseball
player and then again he may be- just
good drawing card for the gate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Illinois begins to feel that times have
changed A democrat is governor of the
state and Uncle Joe and Uncle Shelby
are slated for retirement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

The pickpockets of Illinois lawmakers
are pushed out of all shape by passes and
franks from the various corporations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Ten thousand additional electric lights
are to be turned on Pennsylvania avenue
on Inauguration night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
THE PARTING

It was a silver dollar-o, the last one that
he had,
small but pressing debt Herewith he
was compelled to pay;
Forthwith his soul was sicklied Ger by
thoughts subdued and sad,
A sense of something beautiful forever
passed away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

certain extent by the superior attraction
Of the solar body from which it originally
emanated."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Even ''Who's Who in America does
not explain who many of the SO new I'M
mortals are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

But what's constitutional amendment
among friends like the colonel and PerIN
and saspcndcr jack?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

Chicago claims to be the only city that
has train robberies inside the fire limits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
WASTING HIS BREATH.

Pa, what is meant by idle curiosity?"
"A very good example of idle curiosity,
my son, is a twelve-dollar-a-week shoe
clerk asking the price of automobile tires"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
'TwoULD BE FOOLISH.

"The correct form. believe. is parcel
post +"
That's right. still, I'm not going to
Quarrel with the oIo gentleman who sends
me yard eggs every day, just because he
happens to call it 'passels post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
RETURN or rHla FANCY VEST

The grounding is said to thave shiveree
as he viewed his silhouette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
ToO BAD

Alas. alack for pretty Fan.
Unhappy as can be;
She's married to a legless man
And can't sit on his knee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
HER NEIGHBoR EXPLAINS.

HER NEIGHBOR EXPLAINS.
FULLY many a gem of purest ray serene
is brightly cleaning on her snowy
breast;
Full many day will pass ere you have
seen
A lovely one more sumptuousIy dressed.
Full many a man is glad to sit and look
And praise her beauty and her queenly
grace;
But l have heard her say things to her
And tell her Oldest boy she'd break his
face"
Chicago Record-Herald.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
Is hiding In her sunny golden hair;
Full many man who gazes on that queen
Is driven to the dread brink of despair.
Full many a time she circles in the
dance
And never seems to tire herself at all,
But she would swoon away If by some
chance
She were compelled 10 sweep tiny hail.
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
"Do you believe love makes the world
so round, professor"
'.Aheml OF course not. The earth first
acquired its rotary motion when thrown
off from the sun in a nebulous form, It's
centrifugal force being counteracted to-a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

What are these curious marks ON this
post-card?"
That's new code for kisses. Every
body knows what cross marks mean
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
BLAME FLEAS FOR REBELLION
Science Spots Real Cause of MexI-
cos Pliaht-How Indians Mix PIety
With Booze and Roulette.

Mexico City.-Following a line of
reasoning based upon many years of
experience, scientists announce that
the real cause of the revolutionary
fever In Latin-American republics is
not the desire for glory on the battle
held. but is lodged In the ever-present
hea- 1t is asserted that sleep, undis-
turbed by ravages of parasites, is
practically unknown in Mexico. and
the states further south. For this rea-
son, entomologists contend that the
explosive temperament of the aver
age Latin-American is in part, IL not
wholly. due to the fact that restful
slumber departed from the country
long before the conquest The scien-
lists assert that no nation can be
great whose sleep is broken into fit
full snoozes. The average Mexican is
certain to arise In the morning nur-
sing a spirit of murder in his heart
because his nightly visitants have un-
dermined his chivalry until he is un-
consciously transformed into a fiend