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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
a TREAr1sE OK ACTING.


Although Tim Murphy is chiefly known
to southern theatregoers through his
rather disastrous starving ventures, the
following remarks attributed to him by
the Chicago Record-Herald will be of IL
terest. His friends in this part of the
country love and admire Tim Murphy. 10
matter what part he plays.
One of the best bits of character por-
trayal that have recently been seen in
Chicago is Tim Murphys Father Quinn
in Top o. the Aiornin'." at the Olympic
theatre. One quickly forgets Mr.. Murphy
and sees only the lovable priest Somc-
body recently asked Mr.. Murphy why he
did noe have o new piece written for
himself.
I do not care to have piece written
for myself" he replied. I am an actor,
not a specialist. There are people on the
stage who insist when they consider new
plays that their own personalities must
be portrayed -'he parts they play must
be so written that they will merely have
to exhibit themselves and their own man.
uerisms My ambition does not lie IN that
direction | want TO be able to play part
that has been written with no reference
to me or my personal peculiarities. To be
able to do that successfully is TO act. The
man who cannot play part unless it has
been written to fit him is not an actor,
but specialist in his own personality.
1t will be seen that there still are peo-
pie who regard acting as an art, rather
than as an exploitation of the ego.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
This Years Cotton Crop

The government estimated in De-
cember the present cotton crop at
13,820,0GD bales, and this promises to
prove close guess" For the gin
ming to January 16 was 1901 ,264
bales, and the unginned cotton may be
100000 bales, bringing the total up to
1891, ,264 bales.
1t is true, this is exclusive of lint
ers, but some say the excess weight of
running bales over the government S
500-pound average will offset the
linters, and the commercial crop may
therefore be within 14,000,000 run
ming bales
At ANY rate the estimate of the
department of agrienlture is good
one, and the comms.s @~p That will
be announced next September will not
vary much from 100000 bales. The
previous crop, that of 1911-12, was
16,043,0 900 bales, and middling cotton
in New York went down at one time
to 9.35 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
THREE WOMEN AND G1ssING

From New Lights on GSSing-By
George Middleton in the February
Bookman,
His experience in America are de-
scribed in New Grub street-that re-
markable study of literary life where
real genius is swamped and where
c.everness succeeds. What is most i'm
portant is to discover how he first be-
gan to write fiction. The files of the
Chicago Tribune hold his earliest
stories and they were written because
he was starving and it was the only
thing the paper would accept When
he returned to London, after terrible
hardships he continued his literary
work and eked out a living by tutor
ing. Harold Frederic, however has
supplied us with the details of this. as
he placed his two sons under Gissing's
care He had in the meantime married
the prostitute, who became an habitual
drunkard. 1t is rather ironical the
contrast between his real life moving
from house to house. as they We're
persistently turned out, with his other
life in literary London. Once he was
even<aske ed what his experience in the
management of buffers, and he replied
that he strictly RETAINED from men
servants. His wife died shortly after
ward, much to his relief, yet it was not
long before he married again into fur
tier unhappiness. 1t appears that be-
ing lonely, he went out into the street
and asked the first girl he met to mar
ry him. She was "respectable," yet she
married him, and bore him two child
ren. 1t was but a few weeks after the
ceremony that her tyranical habits be-
gan and only his deep sense of humor
with its strange manifestations
prevented him from leaving her. Ex-
actly what her side of the question
was. we have no way of knowing. He
stood it a number of years and finally
broke away Mr.. Robetrs has given
many intimate details of this period,
which will please the seeker in morbid
matrimonial psychology unless he sus-
poets 1T is dressed up to justify deser-
ton. And then the third woman came,
and with her some happiness for the
first time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
Smoke in Pittshurc

GAS far as the smoke nuisance has been
eliminated in Pittsburg it has been done
through the use of natural gas" stated
manufacturer from that city who was
in Birmingham yesterday at the Hotel
Hillman. He does nor reside in Pitts
burg, but has large factory there and
ment crusade in the Smoky City,
which has been cited as an example to
Birmingham. The manufacturer dis
cussed the anti-smoke campaign as It
was conducted in Pittsburg, but refused
through personal and business reasons to
permit the publication of his name in
connection with what he said.
"The smoke nuisance in Pittsburg, it
is true, has been eliminated to some ex-
tent. but I do not think it was done by
the use of any mechanical device or
smoke consumer he said. Natural gas
has been substituted almost entirely for
coal for domestic purposes and this has
had a remarkable effect on the situation
as a whole
Natural gas has been installed also
by many of the smaller manufacturing
pants WIN tne same success ana as far
as [ know it has proven successful
substitute in these plants. However,
these are only the very smallest manu-
featuring establishments. When the
natural gas was tried in the medium and
larger manufacturing concerns it was
shown to be not practicable 1t simply
did not take the place of coal for power
purposes, although of course, it filled
the bill as far as no smoke was con-
cerned.
Il have had no experience with me-
chanical smoke consumers and I believe
that they are not used in Pittsburg
to any great extent. The coal there is
largely similar to birmingham coal, /
think. Where natural gas can be had it
partially solves the problem, but not al
together. l say / am satisfied Plttsburg
has met with some success in abatins
her smoke nuisance, but L think it is
safe to remark that what has been done
is almost entirely due to the substitu-
tion of gas.
Manufacturing plants and smoke are
synonymous. The disproving of that old
axiom | am inclined to think is going
to be more difficult than is believed by
some.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
Ills WOEFUL FATE.

Ills WOEFUI FATE.
The horns were Llarfng loud and long,
The drum went '.oom-ta-tal''
saw a melancholy man
Stand in the orchestra.
He bowed him Ger his big bass VOL
And sadly saw=d away,
Although a show was on the boards
Twas thought extremely gay.
The chorus kicked so high. so high,
The funny men came out,
The audience roared its applause
With laughter-iaden shout;
Contagious mir.h filed all the air,
Increasing all the WHILE
But he who played the big bass viol
Was never seen to SMILE
He ne'er looked upward to the stage,
Where festive maidens danced,
Though-a at his cold impassive face
The leading lady glanced.
Oblivious to all around
And needless of the crowd,
His eyes scarce wandered from his notes
His head was ever bowed.
oh, what could be the tragedy
Which held this man in thrall
Who seemed so passionless and calm
And yet SO sad withal?
Had some great sorrow ruined his life,
Or scandals tainted breath?
All, no, we rather think that he
Was simply bored to death
How oft he's toiled through scenes like
these
Let no one try TO say:
His soul on such fare surfeited,
He longs to slip away
And doubtless never again be forced
TO earn his daily bread
Where banal Jokes and "ragtine' songs
Roll Ger his hapless head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
A widely Esteemed woman

There have been many beautiful
women and many great bellies in this
country, but no woman was ever so
widely esteemed, perhaps, as Miss Helen
Gould, now Mrs. Shepard said a club
man. 'She has been a real philanthro-
pist. She has not only given largely of
her fortune to worthy causes, but she
has given her personal attention to So
cial service work and to many char
tiles.
Her father Jay Gould, who accumu-
lated vast wealth. was never much of a
giver 1t remained for George Gould and
Miss Gould. especially the latter, to do
something for sweet charity's sake.
II was living In Richmond, Va, some
years ago when Miss Gould visited that
city at frequent intervals to look after
the street railway which was owned by
her family. She came and went quietly
She cared absolutely nothing for show
One of her finest benefactions was the
building of Young Mems Christian as
sociation home in Richmond for railroad
employees. She was also large con-
tributor to the fund for the erection
of a general Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION building.
Miss Gould received on her wedding
day many costly gifts but | can imagine
the presents which touched her most
deeply were those sent by the trainmen
of the United States, the enlisted men
of the army and the enlisted men of the
navy. Sh had taken particular interest
in Young Mems Christian association
work in the army and navy and among
railroad employees in different parts of the
country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

Fort Worth has a clever sensation. Two
burglars fled in alarm from the home of
sam Cotton in fashionable South Side
district when a parrot awakened by them
cried out, Hello there, Hello there. Heip
I.elp,' Cotton and his wife were awak-
cned and found that the burglars had es-
cal ed With several gold rings and pins
valued as family heirlocms but that the
parrot had frightened them off before
they had discovered 5000 worth of dia
ronds in the dresser they We're searching.
Ihc burglars jumped through rear win
dow as Cotton entered the room. Cotton
fac taught the bird to exclaim the few
words it knew without any special pur-
rose. little realizing ii would prove to be
a 5000 vocabulary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

he will think OF nothing at all the state
of mental vacuity will at length be
reached and sleep will follow. To think
of nothing at ali sounds very easy. AS
matter of fact, it Is very difficult let
any one try and he will find a host OF
thoughts fitting in and out of his mind,
clamoring for attention. But he can ex-
clude each and every one from attention
If he sets himself to do So
Another writer who signs himself Bal
timore gives this list of remedies:
Before going to bed at night the VIC
tim of insomnia should bathe with cold
water his head and the back of his
neck, and especially around his throat,
for four or five minutes. Take wet
handkerchief or cloth to bed: if the back
of the neck and head and throat are
more or less heated later, tie this wet
handkerchief around the neck or bathe
the back of the head and neck as be-
fore.
Another good remedy is never to go
to bed hungry always eat something or
drink hot milk. After the food is digested,
naturally the blood goes to the brain.
and this produces s1eeplessness. Never
sleep in warm room. Keep the win
dows openrin order to get fresh air.
Another good remedy is to use a flesh
brush freely all over the body before
going to bed or during the hours of wake
fulness. Another is to breathe fresh air
deeply and after going to bed breathe
hard and as deep as possible. Another
is to get out of bed apd stand up and
read something for ten or fifteen minutes
or longer in a cold room. Another is
to abstain from alcoholic drinks before
going to bed. Another is to make a pill
low of hops and sleep on 1t.
/" Still another is TO buy five cents
worth OF hops, make hop tea and drink
one or two cups before going to bed. or
at any time during sleeplessness. 1t is
harmless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
CAN'T BREAK MONTE CARLO BANK

C. NJ. Williamson in McClure's Magazine.
gained great sums at Monte Carlo was
Charles Wells, adventurer and inventor.
who came to Monte Carlo with the money
cf other people, to win or lose 1t all''
ia testing his great idea. He played also
cn the simple chances, a modification of
he famous method of d'Alembert, the
great mathematician Wells began with
stake of 10 units, decreasing to nine If
he won but increasing to II IL he lost.
PENDULUM, going up one way to 20 units
ana other down to one. For a time he
contriYed to prosper so sensationally that
the tables at which he played had oc-
casonally to stop for few minutes un-
iii more money was brought. This was
breaking the bank" and gained Wells
the honor of becoming the hero of pop
ular music hall song.
Nowadays, however, no successful play
or can have the thrilling joy of break
ihs; the bank. As soon as it is seen that
enc gambler or more may reduce the
funds of Il table, to low ebb, more
money is unostentatiously brought by one
OF the footmen, and play never stops
an instant Charles Wells has recently
figured in the criminal courts of Paris,
where he boasted he had won $4,000 from
the Casino.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
Good Business in January

AS January draws to close I would
say that business has been very salts
factory said Newton r. Herndon Of
Chicago. we had the usual dullness in
the first part of the month, but since
the tenth general trade has been brisk.
Business conditions are sound and look
for continuance of activity throughout
the spring.
Tariff revision is not retarding indus
trial business as much as some people
thought it would. A tariff for revenue
only is the democratic doctrine, and it is
the right doctrine. The many will be
benefited by Mr.. underwood's revision
work The Alabama statesman is re-
garded everywhere as a master in the
economic branch of the government. NO
democrat since John G. Carlisle was IN
public life has displayed such talent IN
solving, economic problems as Mr.. Under
wood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
New Faces i'm the Senate

Up to the beginning Of the present
week the democS<ts had secured 48
senators while the republicans of all
shades of opinion held but AZ seats.
The missing six are to come from Del
aware, Illinois, New Hampshire, West
Virginia and Wyoming. Illinois is to
elect two senator's. The states named
are all deadlocked.
Delaware's legislature is democratic
but four members from Kent county
refuse to vote for Mr.. Salisbury. A
democrat will certainly be elected SEN
ator.
The Illinois Legislature has not been
able to organize, the bull moose hold
ing the balance of power. No one can
say what the outcome will be.
In New Hampshire the democratic
nominee polls the highest vote, and a
handful of bull moose will decide the
contest. This, too, is the case in West
Virginia and Wyoming.
The democrats will secure a SEN
ator in Delaware and probably one in
Illinois, and possibly one in New
Hampshire, while the republicans will
pretty surely fill one seat from Hi
nois and elect senators from West Vir-
9inia and Wyoming. Assuming that
these "guesses" will become fact the
Senate after March A will stand: DEM
aerats. 81; republicans. 45. The DEM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
Good Roads in Alabama


Should an extra session of the leg
islature be called, steps should be
taken in every county of the state to
ask Governor O'Neal to make good
roads amendment a part of the ses-
sion's work. The amendment needed
is one taking every convict out of the
mines of this district and putting them
at work on the roads of the state.
The state of Georgia is securing IN
this way a system of excellent roads,
linking all the counties together, and
Alabama could in like manner revolu-
tionize her road system. At present no
state has poorer roads, and the con-
victs could in ten years transform the
dirt roads of today into modern up
to-date hard roads that would open to
settlement and improvement twenty
millions of acres of good land in this
state. Only one-third of the state is
under cultivation, and good roads
would render the remaining two-thirds
salable and cultivatable. This is a
prize worth contending for, and the
friends of good roads should not lose
hope. They are working for a great
reform, and that reform will surely
be adopted and applied in Alabama as
it has been in Georgia and in about
40 other states.
1t will become a great issue in
Alabama within another decade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
Remedies for sIceplessne.s

II have been interested in a series of
letters appearing in The New York Sun
telling of remedies for insomnia" said
an old citizen.
about 20 years ago I was troubled with
sleeplessness. The malady became acute.
l. went to consult a physician. He gave
me some tonics which cured me in less
than week and since that time | have
not known what it was not to sleep ike
a log
lone of the writer's in The Sun who
signs himself 'Ph. d. says among other
things: Now the person who, wishing
to induce sleep, counts, recites poetry,
etc, may succeed, but he probably will
fail. He may, indeed, exhaust himself
and so sleep. but he is more likely to
keep himself awake. because he is in a
continued condition of attention. But il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
TELEPHONES
Bell Spriyate exchange connecting sal
dcpartments). No. 4poa-
You see. my good wenchcs, how men
of merit, are sought after.
p King Henry ".
Birmingham's Mainstay

Birmingham has varied mercantile
interests, but its mainstay has always
been and must continue to be made
of its industries. This is great
manufacturing center. Coal, iron and
steel are potential factors in Birming-
hams prosperity. The superiority of
the Birmingham districts coal has
been well advertised abroad and many
flourishing industries are here be-
cause of the economic advantage OF
our steam fuel supply.
The enforcement of Mr.. Weatherly's s
anti-smoke ordinance would greatly
retard Birmingham's industrial prog
ress. No matter how desirable sup
preston of the so-called smoke evil
might be from an esthetic point of
view. all citizens should have the up
building spirit, and, from an upbuild-
ing viewpoint, this is no time to put
into effect the smoke ordinance.
Many citizens can recall the long
period of depression in the 90's and
most of our citizens can remember the
industrial depression that followed the
Wall street panic of 1907. In the
spring of 1908 many furnaces were
die. There was no smoke from the
Gloss Sheffield company's ovens on
First avenue; no smoke from the great
;loss stacks. There was depression
It Ensley, there was depression at
Iorth Birmingham, there was depres-
ion in the heart of the city, and
when business began to revive, as it
lid after a few months, everybody
elcomed the smoke. The public
waited eagerly signs for resumption
% work at the Sloss plant, and when
{sae smoky ovens were lighted every
hody felt like cheering. The enforce
ent of the Weatherly ordinance
ould mean idleness at the Sloss-
Sheffield furnaces.
OF late the Chamber of Commerce
has been advertising Birmingham ex-
tensively as manufacturing city; as
a city with pay rolls aggregating
$1,000,000 a week. Men with capital
are invited to come here and engage
in industrial operations, but if they
are to be hampered at this time by
expensive methods for abating
smoke this entire community will feel
the injury almost Immediately. Realty
values will be affected and while the
city might be bit cleaner, prosperity
would be much less in evidence.
A smoke ordinance will be in order
some day-maybe a few years from
now-but Birmingham is yet very
young city, as the age of cities goes,
and the industries must have an OPP
portunity to build up and become
stronger on economic lines made in
viting by our rich, cheap, but smoky
coal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

from the New York Press.
Jail looks good to a man on reform
committee.
The way to teach anybody not to abuse
power is not to let him have any.
1t seems as if no man could have q
bank account when his family has shop
account.
woman's last resort is to be able to
respect her husband because he's the
father of her children.
4 girl doesn't have TO be so very worldly
To be able to make her father think she
q innocent as the day she was born.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

ocratic majority over all shades
publieans will be six, and Vice %
dent Marshall will have the casting
vote. \
There will be 19 new faces in the
Senate, and among the republicans
there will be an even dozen Of pro
gressives, and some of them are out
and-outers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

Fa Revere ride to arouse every
t5ia lage and town between New
1 as = Washington Is new feature of
the suffragist movement The Paul Re-
we're ride will be quite apart from Gen.
Eosalie Jones' army of lskers. who might
ne called the minute men of suffrage out
on the skirmish lines. After the arrival
of the final relay rider in washington She
Will appear in the parade clad in re-
vised colonial costume and carry a Ian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
a SECRET.

Bolts is a mysterious person."
why SOP
.He takes great credit to himself
"Well?"
"And nobody has ever been able to find
out what for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
.Mnraer stalks Ahrandv

rom the Moulton Advertiser.
The worlds population is now estimated
at. 1,70o,oO0000, and there is room for as
many more without ANYBODY being crowd
ed. still. it seems from the way people
arc killing each other and themselves that
this old country is entirely too small
for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

The Baldwin locomotive works in Phil
adelphia are to be doubled, and 10000 men
are to be employed The output of the
Pant is to become 5000 locomotives year.
On the basis of five to each breadwinner
The plant will add 100000 to Philadelphia's
population
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
IT'S the Newspaper Men

From the Andalusa Star.
Birmingham will have all night street
cars. Perhaps the policemen are afraid
to go home in the dark"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

A WEAKNESS.

a W EAIANE1oo
The strongest wight-of this be sure
Cannot withstand the movies lure,
E'en though he says he hates such shows
And to them hardly ever goes.
Just let a startling sign appear,
Adorned with letters bold and clear,
Which tell the passing crowd to see
The most stupendous tragedy
Fer shown upon a picture screen.
Omitting not a single scene,
And soon he joins the pushing crowd
Who in his wav'ring soul has vowed
He ne'er again will money spend
To see how moving pictures end.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
ImpracticabIe Ordinances

The anti-smolse ordinance reminds me
Of the market ordinance said a promi-
nent citizen.
ihe market ordinance may have looked
all right on paper. but it was not popu-
lar It was not. practicable. and like all
such ordinances it quickly fell into dis
use'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

National headquarters of the progress
sve party have been duly opened in New
York and Washington. The Washington
secretary of the party, and are in the
Munsey building. The New York offices
are to be managed by Walter l.. Brown,
progressive national committeeman from
Chic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
A Sacred Duty

+ ON the Luverne Journal.
Don't ask preacher to dHixe 10 miles
to marry you and then tell him you are
much obliged-they have to eat just like
you. Pay him. God only knows you
ought to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
STATE PRESS
A Possible Solution

From the Dothan Eagle
Probably Hon. William Rockefeller could
stand few questions if they were asked
in whisper and in private.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29
rAME PREPARED.

1.-THE other day a waiter in restaurant
offered Mr.. Newcoin bowl Of wooden
toothpicks and Mr.. Newcoin felt highly
insu1ted."
"I presume he wanted it distinctly un-
derstood that he knew what was consid :
cred good form?'
.ewell. not exactly. Mr.. Newcoin indig-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

All the electoral votes have been re-
ceived by the president pro tempore of the
Senate by mail, and all but Arizona's s
by messenger. Either is sufficient evil
dence of the action of a state, and tire
ballots will be opened and counted on Feb
rlary u whether the Arizona messenger
turns up or Is wholly lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-29

The programme stands complete. Presi-
dent Taft and Professor Wilson will ride
to the capital comfortably and friendly
and President Wilson and Professor Tat
will ride back together.