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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
League Gatherings

League gatherings in the Birmingham
district are well attended" said a men,
Der of the Epworth league of the First
Methodist church of this city.
THE churches of all denominations in
the Birmingham district have special or
ganizatons for the younger sets, and L
understand that they are well attended.
However, am more familiar with the ac-
tivities Of the Methodist Epworth league.
Both the county and state headquarters
of the league are in this city. The MEM
bers of the state organization number
about 10000, while those of the county
comprise about one-third of the whole.
The district league, as the county or
ganization is called, meets monthly, while
representatives of leagues throughout the
state come together annually.
League gatherings are not confined to
formal meetings, but socials are often
planned and often afford great pleasure
and amusement to the young men and
women who attend usually in pairs. Here
at the First Methodist we have one of
the strongest league organizations in the
state indeed, | believe it is the largest
in Alabama. Thursday night our gather
ing took the form of musical, and the IS
young people in attendance certainly had
lively time. The programme rendered
proved highly entertaining, and at times
the company was convulsed with mirth
All in all the occasion was voted a great
success"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
The Land Congress Merger

Alabama is to be congratulated on
the merger of the Land congress with the
Southern settlement and Development
organization" said a member of the
Chamber of Commerce on yesterday.
Ala bama wants more farmers, but there
have been such strong agencies pulling
for the west and for Canada that the
south has been at a great disadvantage,
and has not been BILE to obtain her share
of those classes, who were going into
Canada but one of the men at the head
of the Southern Settlement and Devel-
opment organization, w. IL. Manss, vice
president and general manager was for
eight years with the Northern Pacific
railroad under James j. Hill, and he is
familiar with the methods by which
American farmers were taken into Canada
and he should be able to reach these same
classes with stronger arguments and in
fluences in behalf of the south.
81 understand that already colony of
Canadians has been located in Virginia
and there will be a determined effort
made to stop any more American farmers
from leaving the United States and turn
these into the south. With such an or
ganization this should not be difficult,
and Alabama having so large a quantity
to show what these lands will do, this
state should come in for a large share of
these farmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF JONATHAN WILD

/ court of Justice as an effort to in
| fluence a jury.
The trial of Wild lasted for a num-
ber of days and the most damaging
evidence was brought against him,
showing that he was the greatest ras-
cal of the age and one of the greatest
and cleverest that had ever been ap-
pretended. He was found guilty and
the death sentence was imposed upon
him.
The evening before the sentence was
carried out Wild inquired how the no.
bic Greeks and famous Romans, who
slew themselves. came to be so gloriouA
| in history, and if self-murder was Z
crime His jailors gave him no OPP
portunity for self-destruction. At the
place of execution Wild. who had been
till then half delirious by poison, be-
gan to recover. and united with the
other criminals in the public prayers,
las well the tumult and the clamor
which seemed to give them relief.
| 1t is not easy to express with what
| roughness he was treated by the mob
on the way to his execution. well as
when he went to the block. Instead of
tioSt SiSiS VI ply -Nhich lhty SEN
orally show when common criminals
were going to execution, they reviled
and cursed him. and pelted him with
| dirt and stones continually.
| By the time Wild came to the end
| of his journey he was considerably re-
covered from the disorder into which
ne had been thrown. The other male
| factors being ready to be turned off,
and the executioners telling Jonathan
| he might take any reasonable time
to prepare himself. he continued sit
ting in the cart for a little time, but
| the mob grew SO outraged at this in
dulgence that they called out inces-
sanity to the hangman to do his Of
flee. and threatened to knock him on
the head IL he did not instantly perform
| il. He found delays very dangerous
and. therefore. no longer deferred Civ
ing the populace the satisfaction they
demanded. Thus ended the life of
Jonathan Wild on May "a, 1875.
Tomorrow-Trial of Anne Hutchinson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT A GREAT WORK
OF THE NEWSPAPER MEN OF BIRMINGHAM

OrS of praise is awarded to the
twenty, thirty and forty thou
49, sand dollar salaried men in the
birmingham district who have built big
industrial plants and who are conduct
ing them vigorously. These men are
deserving of all manner of praise. They
have done and are doing big work and
big things.
But there are twenty thirty and forty
dollar a week men in Birmingham who
are doing equally big constructive work.
| refer to the newspaper men of Bir-
mingham who have organized, con-
structed and are about to put In op-
Grafton the most artistic. complete and
perfectly appointed Press club in the
world. 1t occupies the two. or prac-
tically three-a mezzanine included
top floors of the tallest office build
ing in the south. Its appointments are
as handsome as any club in New York,
London or Paris Its membership in
cludes some seven hundred or eight hun
dred of the best business and professional
men in Birmingham.
The newspaper boys have brought to-
gether the best representation of every
professional, business and social inter-
est in the Birmingham district They
have picked wisely and well for rep
resentation in their club from all the
constructive. well behaved. energetic
and good elements of the community.
They have a club which will bring
together in social intercourse all the
business interests. and have also added
the additional feature of making a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
LUKE McLUkE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
a man may forget to kiss his wife for
four months, but he always gets very af-
fectionate the nights he comes home full
of limburger. onions and booze.
A horse never refuses to work after you
let him stand out in the cold for an hour
without any covering. That's the reason
the automobiles get all the warm blankets.
Things could be worse. When you see
young man standing on corner chew
ing tobacco you know he isn't wasting his
time dancing the MaXixe.
The reason we have so many divorce
cases nowadays is because most women
would rather have two 25-year-old hus-
bands than one 50-year-old husband.
Aswoman may be as old as she looks,
but She is never as young as she acts.
When woman is raising family she
is alwyas telling her husband that she
hasn't thing to wear. But she gets out
so little that she never gets really mad
until even her aprons have holes in them.
Every now and then a man is Jared by
the discovery that some guy whose credit
isn't worth nickel with him can go to a
bank and get $4,000 on note.
Don't be afraid of the fellow who an
nounces that he is a Bad Man. But look
out for the gink who is always trying to
advertise the fact that he is a Good Man.
The man who lets his wife come down
every day and take his money away from
him may be henpecked, but he seldom
patronzes the loan sharks.
There are lot of brave men in the
world. But it takes a full jeweled hero
to go into a department store and pur-
chase a union suit for his wife.
Any girl can tell you the difference. but
a skin and a complexion look just alike
to a fool man.
Isn't it funny that the woman whose
husband drinks, smokes and CANDLES
never has any more money than the
woman whose husband never drinks,
smokes or CANDLES?
Love may be blind. but it should re-
member that opera glasses are cheap.
There are all sorts of people in the
world, including the man who thinks that
wearing whiskers like poodle makes him
look dignified.
We are living too fast. Some women
have their second husbands selected be-
fore they learn the first husbands mid
die name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

AAJ thieVing trusts in our day, and
| w lstitutions. They have existed
! for centuries and in various forms
More than 200 years ago there was
formed in England what was known
as the thief trust" at the head of
which was Jonathan Wild. Wild was
unique in the business. being a thief
who never stole. business man with
no visible employment, scoundrel who
helped the law and a man of the law
who helped scoundrels. In these va
ried occupations his name became fa-
nous at the time. and has ever since
remained a synonym for villainy.
j Wild was born in 1852. He was a
bucklemaker by trade. but a thief by
profession. He went to London as a
young man and lived a life of dissi-
! patton which quickly landed him in
prison for debt. He remained there
for four years and became acquainted
with a number of the worst characters
Of London.
| When he emerged from JAIL and with
| the knowledge he gained there. he
drew about him a number of crooks
diu Sldi itt III the bdSlhtoS VI tuitNiuS,
employing them to do the work, while
he would receive the stolen goods. He
hit upon a novel scheme. He would
have his men steal the goods, and then
he would hunt up the victims and
promise to recover them for a stupi-
lated sum. This worked admirably for
time. and Wild. as well as the
thieves, found an abundance of profit
in the scheme.
| BY the world at large Wild was
considered a clever detective. who was
especially fortunate in tracing lost
property He managed to get the
thieves wholly in his power. and by
holding a threat over their heads he
made the great army of crooks give
him slavish obedience.
| When robbery became so general
Parliament was forced to pass a law
making it felony for anyone to take
money on pretense Of restoring stolen
goods unless he should also produce
the chief Wild was. by this time, suf-
| ficiently wealthy to have retired, but
the spirit of graft was too strong for
him. At last in 1925 he was arrested,
was tried and was sentenced to be
hanged. He was apprehended at his
house in the old Bailey and was car
ried before Sir John Fryar The
charge against him was "that for many
years, he had been a confederate with
a great number of highwaymen. pick
pockets, housebreakers, shoplifters and
other thieves.
The trial was begun on Saturday.
May 15, the previous day the prisoner
having distributed among the jurymen
a considerable number of printed pa
pers, entitled. "a list of the persons
discovered. apprehended. and convicted
of several robberies on the highway
by Jonthan Wild.
When the jury took their seats, and
the prisoner was brought to the bar,
the counsel for the king took notice
of his extraordinary proceeding in the
distrimbution of these circulars stat
ing that such practices were unwar-
rantable. and not to be suffered in any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
Crowded Streets

Saturdays change of weather brought
even greater crowds than usual to the
shopping district said member of the
Chamber of Commerce
Although during some parts of the
day the sharp wind as it twisted around
the corners seemed enough to discourage
the pedestrian, In the evening the weather
tempered down somewhat and great
crowds began to swarm down town, and
the briskness of the weather seemed to
lend zest to the hurying throngs.
There is nothing like cool weather to
put life into trade. A mans tread be-
comes brisk, and his manner decisive
Wants are made known without waste OF
words, and are supplied with celerity by
the clerks, who put more than the usual
ginger into their movements. All proprie-
tors and managers in the shopping dis
trict look with glee upon a cool weather
change
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

son that it bore the pillars of Her
cules stamped upon it and the legend
plus ultra The old form was ne plus
ultra because it was once supposed
that there was nothing beyond Gibral-
tar, or the Pillars Of Hercules, in the
way of land, but when Columbus dis
covered America, the legend, of
course, had to be changed The Moors
called it the cannon dollar. mistaking
the pillars for pieces of ordnance.
Therefore those who have never
seen Gibraltar may gaze upon its pic
ture by looking at the dollar mark.
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part of it a club likewise for the wives
and families of its membership.
While it will not be practically
thrown open for ten days yet, I was
amazed at its proportions. Its artistic
decorations. and its thorough comforts
when 1 looked it over yesterday
This club will be as big thing for
Birmingham in bringing about the get
together spirit as would be an audi
torlum and a Madison Square garden
combined.
All credit to the newspaper boysl
No other class of professional men come
in touch with so many varieties of
people. and no other class of men could
do that which these. with their en-
thusiasm and good thoughts, have done.
1t has indeed been a pleasure to read
lilt ltlittiS WulCH lldht tOiuG lHlO I1lS
newspaper office and to hear the many
pleasant comments from all classes
alike at the little innovation begun
in The Age-Herald last Sunday of a
religious nature on its editorial page.
Little space is occupied, but this little
space seems to have caught the eye of
many people who didn't know exactly
how to get at and learn such things.
1t will be continued permanently and
while lots of people may not talk about
it as much as about sensational news.
IT is a safe assertion that as many
eyes read it as any other features in
this newspaper.
* x *
1 rather like the way this new crowd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Amateur Wireless In birmingham

Perhaps one of the most interesting
hobbies of America today is amateur wire
less said a well known young citizen
In Birmingham today one may turn in
any direction only to be confronted by
the modest little antenna or aerial wires
of some young amateur, swung haphazard
from poles, trees, chimneys, or in fact
any place which affords an elevation; but
rude as they may seem, wonderful re-
suits are obtained from these little sta
tions.
Messages many hundreds of miles
away. may be heard with ease, and al
most any amateur may boast Of 1900 or
1500-mile range. 1t really is a curious
sensation to hear the clear tone of Key
West, or the faint but musical whistle Of
Colon on the isthmus, thousands of miles
away, but perfectly readable; one can al
most imagine it coming from the instru-
ments themselves. And with the slight
turn of a switch cut out San Antonio
and tune in some liner on the great lakes
or Atlantic.
Practically every amateur in the Bir-
mingham district adjusts his watch by
great station near Washington. Weather
reports and various other data can be
obtained from the same source.
THE coarse, sputterng spark of yes
terday has given place to the silent and
musical whistle of today, making receiv
ing a pleasure. Though separated by
miles of city streets and turmoil of traf-
fic, the amateur spends his spare time
in his wireless room. conversing on tech
speed through the ether.
Birmingham has at least full score
stations of this character, and nearly all
the suburbs are well represented. There
are stations at Fountain Heights, North
side, Woodawn. Elyton, South Highlands
and Southside, ranging from small pow
cred sets to those Of one kilowatt (about
one and one-half horse power, this be-
ing the largest the government allows the
amateur.
People on the streets often look with
amazement at these aerial wires swung
through the air, wondering what it's all
about These wires are what might be
termed the ends of the wires to wire
less Here the current in sending is
given its final push into the air, to he
hurled at the speed of light in all direc-
tions; or in receiving they pick up and
convey the current sent out by some other
station to the receiver where it is trans
formed into sound.
THE local amateurs are organized and
are known to the wireless world as 'Bir-
mingham Wireless association Certain
ly there was never a more innocent and
absorbing hobby indulged in by the red
blooded American boy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

lect the payment of poll tax, for it is
neglect pure and simple in many in
stances, until the very last moment.
This is not confined to the fellow that
lives out of town, for l know several
attaches of the courthouse who secured
their receipt late Saturday night. But
to come back to the cartoon, it certainly
started something doing around in this
office. 1 understand from the tax collec-
tor that the payment of poll tax was
heavier than any last day previous to the
close of the tax books since he has been
connected with the Office
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
H,e.S3,ceQ
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER

CALISTHENICS.
The Hesitation waltz
At Yale is no more seen:
But the recitation dodge
Is still in vogue 1 ween
OUCH
Mary had a little shoe:
1t certainly looked we'll,
But when she went out for a walk
Her corns would give her Hail
Columbia.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mary had little glove:
Now this is on the level;
1t made her hand look small. but oh,
1t pinched her like the mischief
Commercially
Mary had a little waist
The thought my pulse beat quick
ems.
But when she wore twenty-five
1t squeezed her like the get out.
MUSIC HATH CHARMS
Smith: do you believe in the sympa-
thetic influence of music?"
Brown: Sure; whenever l hear an
automobile siren I always start into a
quick STEP
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
YOUTH AND AGE.

BY Julia Neely Finch
So fast 1 flew so swift I sped
Along life's sunny upper slopes;
So blue the skies far overhead;
So smooth the way that stretched be-
FORE,
Amidst their dead and dying hopes!
Like little birds that strive to rise
On wounded wings. their piteous
cries
Ascended fluttering to my feet:
/ heard them family. far and sweet; /;
And ah. their yearning. yearning
yearning eyes,
All filled with love and mother wise !;
All, me! / hearken now. too late,
Each in turn the heights must know
And each the shadow depths below
'Tis, my turn now to call. to watt
To look above with yearning eyes
Along the slopes Of sunny skiea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

which seems TO have control of the
railway, light and power company are
going at things. They seem to be
operating in the open.
And right now they have it in their
power to do Birmingham a great and
glorious service by cheapening the
Price of electric street lighting and
putting in some three or four times
as many street lights as we now have
in the residence sections
The highwayman cannot operate in a
veil lighted street. Street lamns are
almost as important as policemen.
The center of Birmingham, with its
white way and its mercantile iuu-
limitations. is brilliant at night hut
the residence sections in many parts
are as dark as dismal swamp.
Some sections. even in the neighbor-
lighted that I am told that a man
with the clear eye and keen ear of
Breck Musgrove was held up and robbed
of a Waterbury watch and thirty cents
III cash recently Such things are
reflection upon the community.
What chance has the ordinary citizen
when the keen and cute visitor from
Jasper is at the mercy of the dark
ness of Birmingham?
The subject of better street lighting
throughout the residence section is one
which the city commissioners could
well attend to at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

BEGINNING THE DAf-tsrant
me the grace OF gratitude today.
Lord Most High. Make me thank
full for work. Gods elixir: make me
thankful for friends. Gods minis
fers; make me thankful for home'
Gods folds make me thankful Tor
ThyseIf. my souFs life. May hathc
even untOward things in my thanks
giving until they shall become mes
sengers Of Thee. For Jesus sake
Ameu.-H. VI. II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

From Judge.
bell
But didn't answer the call; for we'll
Ye know I've noticed it long before
My company knock at the kitchen
door"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
pom Tax Payers Busy Today

THE very clever and pointed cartoon
by Walter Blackman, which appeared in
the Saturday morning issue of The Age
Herald, had a most decided effect in
chasing the prospective voters into the
courthouse and to the office of the pro-
bate judge and tax collector said
George Whitfield of the probate court.
"Since early this morning we have
been busy looking up the records re-
garding the payment of poll tax and many
a record has been Strengthened out. 1t
is really surprising how many men neg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

The agricultural department has ar
ranged to operate a tract of 1000 acres
Wyo., as a permanent winter refuge
for 25.O00 head of elk. 1t is expected
that the entire herd will be fed upon
the hay raised upon the tract. The
Land ranged in price from SIS to $50
an acre With looking after the rein
Gle Sam win probably decide to include
the bull moose in his fatherly solici-
tude.
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long AGO.
WHISPERED.

Editor: This joke Is not new"
Contributors: "It has never been
printed before"
Editor: But Adam had no printing
PRESS"
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Let me be no assistant for n state.
But keep n farm and carriers.
Hamlet.
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Grand Bay, near Mobile, has sent Sec
retary Bryan two japanese radishes
weighing 2S and % pounds, respect
lively. They are only five months old
and much larger than the ones sent him
from California. 1t is not stated
whether the donor expects the Secre-
bowling balls.
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of conflict and of the victory that is
and is to be. Be too big and too busy
and too confident of God to worry.
H. NJ. EDNONDS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
HER FRENCH.

HER FRENCH.
American Girl Gn Paris: "Depechez
cochier; nous serons gauche deriere"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
AT EUCHRE

At EUCHRE.
Twas thus from childhood's hour
I've seen my fondest hopes decay
I never led an ace or bower,
But that darned joker spoilt the play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

It is generally from increased rates
that corporations expect to reap a sub
stantfal income, but the express COM
panies of the country are hoping to
increase their business by the lower
rates ordered by the interstate COM
rlerce commission which will become
operative February l. These compan-
les have been "hit" by the parcel post
and as the new rates will enable them
to better compete with the govern
nent improved patronage is looked for
Under the new regulations the tariff
VIII be cut almost in half; thus a
five pound package now costing 60
cents for transmission from New York
20 st. Louis may be sent after February
for 81 cents. and a 10-pound package
costing so cents may then be shipped
for Al cents. with other reductions in
proportion. Merchandise will be rated
first class and all other shipments
rs second class. The rate for the sec
ond class articles will be 70 per cent
OF the rate on merchandise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

bill has been introduced in the
Massachusetts, legislature providing g
that no one, Under a penalty of $500
fine and six months in Jail. shall op-
crate an automobile in the town of
Nantucket without a license from the
selectmen, and then only ON such
streets as they shall designate. If
OF Nantucket it will become necessary
for autoing tourists to employ a pilot
upon entering a strange community as
entering a port
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
BY THE LOIRE.

Zingarelle, do you remember
How we loitered by the Loire?
Olden days, love; golden days, love-
Days that now seem so afar.
Zingarelle, do you remember
How | gave my heart to thee?
How my soul was swept with pas
sion
As the wild storm sweeps the sea?
All through life will I remember
And when / cross the golden bar
My wrapt soul will still attend thee
Where we parted by the Loire.
LONG AGO.
We had no coal oil stoves on wheels
In the days of long ago:
We had no wabble. slitted skirts
The ankle bones to show.
But they had modest lassies then
Who didn't joy ride nor flirt.
And in their frocks had calico
Enough to make skirt