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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

THE pLAY-READING HABIT

THE PLAY-READING HABIT
Marguerite Campion in the February
Metropolitan.
There is no subject of the day more
more sincerely believed in by writers
themselves than the possibilities in the
future of the American theatre. Before
1t comes, however, we shall have to get
the plays themselves over the bars into
your library and mine. We shall have
to acquire taste as to the art of the
drama We shall have to know what a
good play is and how to appreciate one
after we get it. we shall havo tie try
out whatever looks to us like piece of
divine possibility as Maurice Browne is
doing at the Little theatre in Chicago
and Winthrop Ames is doing at the Little
theatre in New York. We shall have to
find few more professors of the drama
Hike Professor Baker of Harvard. But
last and most important of all, we shall
have to raise up public that can listen
intelligently to good plays and create.
by it's sympathy and taste, real future
for the American drama anu '"e
lean theatre.
Let us get-for this is the kernel OF
the whole matter-the play reading habit.
The theatre Is not Saturday night af-
fair with a crush of taxicabs at the street
corner. 1t IL in your mind and mine. 1t
is the means to the highest intellectual
endowment. whether 1t Is witnessed by
tha ave of the head or the eye OF the
heart. For the sake of the democratic
upraising of the future possibilities OF
the theatre, let us Introduce ourselves
to the delight of reading the drama as
literature and contributing our judgment
and taste to its later development upon
the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
WHAT HE LEARNED

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
Il am glad to see you home, Johnny"
said the father to his small son. who had
been away at school, but who was now
home on his vacation. How are you get
ting on at school?"
Fine" said Johnny. II have learned
to say Thank you and II you please in
French
"Goodv' said the father. That's more
than you ever learned to say In English" :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
ST. E.

From Africas bejewelled sands,
From Norskland's frozen chambers
l sought a gem as crystal soft.
AS pure as tear-born ambers.
From Valambrosa's storied sweets,
From FL Dorados treasures
sought the diadem of life
Quintessences of pleasures.
From Already, from Sunny Spain,
From lands of golden hue
l sought the precious things of earth
And found them all in you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
"CoME BACK TO THE FRAME
from the Atlanta Constitution.

Somebody stole our New Year resolu-
tion." says a Georgia editor. III the fell
low will make himself known we'll take
pleasure in smashing the frame over his
head and thus make an end Of the whole
melancholy businessf."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
DOUBTFUL.

The most perplexing question,
On which my mind doth harp.
Is can q man who rents a fiat
Ever become a sharp?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
BEFoRE-AND THEM

Strickland Gillian IN the Ladies' Home
Journal.
He used to prove. beyond the last fratl
doubt,
That when life's feeble candle had burnt
out
Taking with it the spirit we had known,
That which remained was but a clods Il
stones
Or any other lsoulless thing we knew ! 4
Eauttiees his logic 10 We deemed It tru =
Years came to him. With love and al It
brines-
wife ana some children. One. on angel
Wings
Fled ere year he'd nestled In tht
OF our wise friend-Today "a
Upon q little. daylong business Il
He hid baby's ''bcuffea" shoe A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Draconic legislation the most imagi-
native vice crusader ever devised. And
when we insure that these same workers
have ample time and opportunity for free
and joyous recreation we shall have done
more to kill the fascination of the white
slave traffic than by endless police reg
uations for the moral supervision of the
young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
Dropping Veterans From Pension Roll

Il have noticed several times in the
press that a number of persons have
been dropped from the Confederate PEN
sion roll" said Maj. n. A. Graham "by
the special examiner who Is investi-
eating the war records of the Confed-
crate pensioners of Alabama.
while | have not the slightest doubt
that the examiner gave his findings
based on official records or other good
authority, yet | am fearful lest some
deserving Confederate veteran might
be dropped who was actually in the
war. 1t Is a matter of common knowl-
edge that during the latter part of the
war the records We're defective; it was
men and guns we wanted and | recall
several instances where boys joined
the army during a three or four day
tight whose names were never recorded
Il am satified that some names should
be dropped but l do not think the fact
that their names do not appear on the
record is sufficient of itself to dis
qualify a person from drawing a pen
sion. | realize to the fullest extent the
difficulty one experiences to prove his
war record by other than papers filed
In Washington. for so many of our for
mer comrades have passed to the great
beyond. In my case, for instance. there
Is in the city only one man besides
myself that belonged to the same regi-
ment | did Nd one is more in favor than
am of dropping the 'cave-dweller' and
the deserter, but | should be sorry to
think that any one deserving had been
dropped"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

''The pennsylvania management re-
CARDS every accident of any kind on its
property as. one too many. Every effort
is being continually directed to the end
that the number of accidents of all
Kinds may be steadily reduced. and if
possible prevented"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

With the Atlantic upon a rampage, the
Pacific beleing its name, Japan wreck
ed by VOLCANOES, Mexico devastated by
revolution Venezuela unable to hold an
election on account of war. Michigan In
the throes of copper strike and the
Rand menaced by Kaffirs it looks as II
sure enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
County On Good behavior

That Birmingham is on its good be-
havior is the opinion of Coroner
Charles L. Spain. who is finding bust
ness rather dull these days. According
to the coroner there have been only
three killings so far this, month, and
these have been of negroes. and were
declared after investigation to have
been justifiab1e homicides.
Jefferson county. and especially Bir-
mingham," said Coroner c. L. Spain
is acting very nicely these day. 1t is
a vast Improvement over last year, for
| remember that the first week | took
office there was a homicide reported
every day and this condition of affairs
lasted practically throughout the re-
mainder of the year.
However, | must state that I am
agreeably surprised these first weeks
of January with as yet not a single
unlawful killing reported. 1t must be
that the year 1913 was a hoodoo and
that 1914 will be more propitious Tor
the lawabiding citizens of this great
city. The record so far this year shows
three negroes having been killed in
circumstance that were found after
proper investigation to have been JUS
tihable. 1t is an excellent record, and
sincerely trust that 1t will be kept
up. Birmingham should make another
record this year. 1t should make
record of having the least homlcides of
any city in the United States in con-
trast to its : record for 1913, which
showed that 1t led the country IN the
statistics for unlawful homicides.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Another grade crossing horror will at
least bring on more tsxk about vaduct
system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Observation of the Mexican refugees
reveals that the women are the best
marchers. Considering that hiking ex-
petitions are In vogue among the suf-
fragettes, the woman's votes movement
should meet with encouragement in that
distracted republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
A REASON.

we don't like the new parsons wife,"
They said with fume and fuss;
For she's as stylish bet your life.
As all the rest of u.s."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
THE TANGO TEA.

Dubbs: That grass widow doesn't
dance gracefully; she hops too much"
Grubbs: Yes; she's something of a
grasshopper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

The voluntary furnishing of "straws
to break one's back with is not regarded
as an evidence of mental brightness, but
this is exactly what Bulgaria is doing
in selling to Turkey 100000 Mauser rifles.
captured from the Turks by her in the
late war. But probably Bulgaria thinks
she will get them back again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Rush Is characteristic of the west, but
wind travelling in oregon at a 92-mile
an hour gait is a little too strenuous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Birmingham's auditorium is having
rough voyage, but she is staunch ship
In which the people have confidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Birmingham made wire fence will soon
stretch from Fairfield to Terro del Fuego.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Inspired merit so by breath Is p"r'"'
II is not so with him that all things
i, knows
"A. ,t,s with us TINT square our guess by
shows;
But most IL is presumption In u.s. "heh
The help of heaven we count the act oi
men.
-slI,s Well That Ends Wen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
RATHER POINTED.

Brown; I see that s5 per cent of the
steel pens are made in N. j.
Jones: "Yes. and 80 per cent of them
are N. G."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

First Stock Broker: Rather strange
ing weather as this"
Second Stock Broker: That's Just IL.
Want to know if the water in my stock
froze last night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Even Huerta and Thaw are becoming
subordinate to the have you paid your
poll tax" question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Chicago is having a hard time settling
upon practical subway plan. Birming-
ham can sympathize because she has her
own viaduct troubles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
IN CHICAGO.

Since they have female deputies
Mans conscience has. a flaw:
He doesn't mind 1t IL he falls
In the arms of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

John Lind, the silent, is a much sought
after man. Magon, the Mexican ex-min-
lister of the interior, and Admiral Won
Hintze the German minister to Mexico
are seeking him for a conference. If
John Is no more voluble in Spanish or
German than he is In English it is doubt
full IL either of his visitors will profit
much from the conference
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

Don't overlook the poultry show this
week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
A NORTH AFRICAN LANDSCAPE

From 'Figuig,' by George Edward Wood
berry, in the February Schribner.
Almost from the first it Is unima ginable,
that landscape. 1t is all rock in ruins,
denuded and shivered, shelving down, dis
integrating; fallen avalancbes of rotten
strata; every kind of fracture; whole hills
in a state of breaking UP into small
pieces, pebbly masses, bitten, slivered. We
traverse broken, burnt fields of it. all
shinge; expanses of II SO, beneath walls
cracked and scarifed; we curve by scat
tered powders of all sizes and positions,
down valleys of stones; new hills open,
sharp edged, jagged-continuous rock. All
outlooks are on the waste wilderness
crumbling in its own abandonment; all
contours are knife edges; the perspectives
are all of angles. In the near open tracts
lie relics and remains, mounds, noun
tains and hills that have melted away;
steep lifts on all curves; and on the sky
horizon, following and crossing one an
other, saw-toothed ranges, obliquely in
dented with sharp re-entries, or else acute
cones and rounded mamelons; the whole
changing landscape ruin of mountains
being crumbled and split and blown
away. 1t is an elemental battlefield,
where the rock is the victim-a suicide Of
nature. In this region of extreme tenn
peratures with sudden changes-burning
Moons and frozen nights torrid summers
and winter SHOWS, downpours of RAINFALL
the fire and frost, wind and cloud
burst, have done their secular work; they
have stripped and pulverixed the softer,
outer rock shell. washed it down. blown
It away. till the supporting granite and
schist are bare to the bone. 1t is
skeletonized,. worn land. all apex ana
debris; near objects have the form and
aspect of ruins, the horizons are serried,
the surfaces calcined. 1t is an upper
world &C the fioored and pinnacled rock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
UNDER THE NEW ERA.

: C<NDI1Is I IfI1 n Il w EftZt.
Police Captain: "I fear that female
police officer Is failure"
Police Superintendent why so?"
Police Captain: "She hasn't arrested q
thing but the mems attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

The diplomatic wedding is supplanting
IN the limelght the eugenic matrimonial
function. Scarcely has the announce
ing marriage died away when comes the
publishing of the bans for the union of
the second secretary OF the American
a colonel of the Coldstream guards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
TOO PERTINENT.

TOO PERTINENT.
Ma, did | come from a monkey"
Asked John, Or is it just a joker"
I do not KNOW" said his ma sadly,
Il never knew your fathers folk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

washington bureau. zo7 Hibps build
Ing.
European bureau, Henrietta street.
Eovent Garden. London.
Eastern business office, Rooms AZ 10
50. inclusive. Tribune building new
York city; Western business OFFICE
Tribune building, Chicago. The .. u
Beckwith Special Agency, agents Ao'
tgn Advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
OUR TRAYELsCoPE.

Milan, January live stopped here on
our way to Lake Marjory. Ma went to
the last supper, but l had mine at the
hotel. She says they call it the Ceno-
cola, but coco-cola is good enough for
me. While Ma went to the cathedral l
attended a moving picture show. 1t was
just grand. We go tomorrow to see.
Raphaers celebrated Sapolio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

A J. Eaton. Jr.. and o. E. Young are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of The Age-Herald in Its cir
culation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

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without its authors name. HeJecteo
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stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
Remittances can be made at current
rate of exchange. The Age-Herald Will
not be responsible for money sent
1hrough the mails. Address.
THE AGE-HERALD.
Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

PERPETUAL MOTION.
Times cannot be so very hard
To provide food and lodging
When every day we harder work
At automobile lodging.
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Entered at the Birmingham. Ala.
postoffice as second class matter nnder
act of Congress Marcn 3, 1879.
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grasshoppeI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-20

votes against 1888 cast for jeremiah
D. Botkin. Two years ago Campbell
received 20.972-just 80 more than in
1910-while 20,142 votes were cast for
Francis NJ. Brady, the Democratic NOM
inee, and 1872 for George d. Brewer.
the Socialist candidate. In 1910, the So
cialists polled but 5,748 votes in the
district and more than doubled their
vote in the election of 1912. In 1910 w.
p. Talbot, Prohibitionist, polled 231
votes.
With five tickets in the field the fight
in the Third district will this year be
made doubly uncertain and the result
decidedly doubtful.
Omitted Buckman's Name.
In the list of candidates for associate
Justice OF the supreme court as pub
lished in the State Journal, the name
of Judge George H. Buckman, Of Win
field, was unintentionally omitted.
Judge Buchanan, who was speaker OF
the house CT representatives in 1911.
announced his candidacy on the nom
partisan judiciary ballot several
months ago.
Seventh District Meetings.
Governor. Hodges, Congressman Geo.
A. Medley and W. L. Brown will make
several speeches in the Seventh dis
trict this week. The governor will
speak in Newton this afternoon and
will talk at a banquet in Great bend
tonight. Tuesday afternoon he will
speak at Plevna, Reno county, and
Tuesday night in Hutchinson. Both
Medley and Brown will speak at the
Great Bend and Hutchinson meetings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-20
SANTA FE NOTES.

Carl Alexander. axle light inspector
at Richland, Cal, and Mrs. Alexander
came here yesterday for visit to
relatives and friends.
Miss Hazel McGirk, daughter OF
William McGirk Of the r0undhouse
force at Argentine, il visiting friends
here for q short time.
Engineer E. e. Smith, Mrs. Smith
and son Kenneth returned yesterday
from Ottawa, where they have been
for the past week.
The biennial convention of the rail-
way employees department OF the
American Federation of Labor was in
session in the Labor temple in Kansas
City, Mo-, the past week. Since the
railroad employees department was
organized more than fifty railway sys-
TENS have signed federated trade
agreements with the shops crafts The
department represents about q half
million railway employees. The fol-
lowing organizations were represent
ed: International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders and
Helpers of america, International
Isi otherhood Of BIZ. cEsnlstl1s and Help
ers, Brotherhood 1t hallway Carmen.
Ama1gamated Sheet Metal Workers
International alliance, United Asso-
citation of Plumbers. Gasfitters. Steam
filters and Helpers of the United
States and Canada, International
Brotherhood OF Electrical Workers,
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks,
Switchmen's Union OF North America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-20
SWITCH 0UTFlELDERS.
Forsythe Goes to Right, TalliOn to
Center, Riggs to Left.

Manager Dale Gear has decided to
shift the outfield by putting Forsythe
in right, Tallion in center and Riggs
in left This was brought about by
the inability OF Taliion to play the
sun field The little youngster from
the Michigan State league attempted
to use sun glasses Sunday and drop
ped one fly and missed another which
went for three bases.
Forsythe played we'll in the sun field
last summer and can do it again.
There is no question about his ability.
The Kaw outfield has not distinguish
ed itself SO far either in the field or
at bat.
According to present plans, Drucke
will work today against the Wichita
club in an effort to win the odd game.
If warmer weather prevails Glaze
will open against the Denver club
Tuesday and Brown will pitch We'd
nesday.
The ranks of the recruits are be-
ginning to thin out Richardson has
left for Waterloo, Ia. to join the Du-
buque club of the Three Eye league
and Pitcher Mccullough has left to
join the Keokuk club of the Central
association Infielder Paul Fisher
will leave Tuesday for Racine, Wis,
where he is going as part payment
for Pepper Clarke.
Manager Gear has a number OF
other pitching recruits which he will
send to other clubs as soon as he can
place them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-20

when he prevented it and said. We
have much use for such active young
men, The supreme test is whether
the man is honest and faithful.
"Of the two great forces, referred
to as conservative and progressive,
Emerson said:
's'And SO whilst we do not go be-
yond general statement, it may be
safely affirmed of these two meta
physical antagonist, that each is a
Each exposes the abuses of the other,
but in a true society, in a true man,
both must combine
His Charge Against Progrcssives.
IT therefore charge that the Pro-
gressive party will be SO only in name.
Members may deludes themselves with
the idea that they have nothing to do
with the conservative, but il the or
ganizatiOn ever becomes force or a
power it will be found that many OF
it's best achievements will be the re-
suit of conservative action by which it
laid hold on the promises and dared
to conserve that which the service and
sacrifice of other men and women had
attained. An illustration Of the folly
constitute the new organization In
Kansas may be fope4& in. theiE man:
agement of the Republican state COM
vent;on that met at I4denendence two
years ago. 1t was ent4rely un0er tnelI
control. They prepared their resOlu-
tons and brought them into the com
vention, and they were. SO jealous OF
their declarations made in these reso-
lutions that they would not submit to
their being debated in courteous
and 1ignified manner. At that time
there was pending in Kansas the
question of whether the women OF
Kansas should be emancipated, and
these gentlemen were too conservative
to say a word about it in their resolu-
tons" ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-20
Candidates for Congress Arc
Plentiful as Berries.
E. C. Sweet Announces for tho
Fifth District.
SIX CANDIDATES FOR FIFTH
Helvering Ought to Have .
Reasonably Lively Time.
And Affairs In Third Are Badly
Mixed, Too.

Chances for q lively row for con-
gressional nominations in the Fifth
district were increased today when E.
C.. Sweet of Minneapolis announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination. Sweet has for a number
OF years been chairman of the OF
tawa county Republican committee
and was a member of the committee
which drafted resolutions at the re-
cent meeting of the state committee
in Topeka.
Three Republican candidates, two
Democratic candidates and Progress
sive candidate, now comprise the list
of congressional aspirants in the Fifth
district. A three cOrnered fight in the
election is assured in the district and
in at least the Republican and DEM
ocratic ranks. contests are certain in
the August primaries. The Sweet an
nouncement today followed the an
nouncement of Judge Sam Kimble of
Manhattan who stated Saturday that
he would seek the Republican nomin-
alton. NJ. o. Reitzel Of Washington
county announced several weeks ago
that he wanted to go to congress
and would be a candidate in the Re-
publican primaries.
The fight in the Fifth district is
the result OF the effort to defeat Con-
Vile. who was elected over r. r.
Rees when the Fifth district turned
upside down for the Democrats in tho
1912 election. Helvering's political
troubles of little more than q year
read like lamentations In the book of
jeremiah. He has encountered trou-
Bile In almost every county in his
district and almost every post office
appointment has meant new sorrow
to the Marshall county man. Now a
very fair proposition Of the Democrats
are looking for He1vering's scalp and
the Republicans are willing to HELM
with the scalping. The certainty OF
a three-cornered fight in the district.
however. may aid Helvering in event
he should win a denomination.
Last week Senator A. B. Carney of
Cloud county announced that he
would be a candidate against Helver-
ing in the August primaries. Carney
will probably poll the Helvering OPP
position In August. But whether that
opposition within the Democratic
party is sufficient to meet HelverinR'a
defeat for denomination. in doubted
by many fifth district leaders. But
Helverfng Is confronted by contests
both In the primaries and general
election and until November he will
be a busy man.
The Republican situation means a
three-cornered fight for the nomina-
ton in the district. while M. O.
Reitzel expects to control a large
vote. He was q member Of the 1918
legislature. The entrance Of Sweet in
the congressional contest will add to
the uncertainty Of the situation. as
the Ottawa county chairman has been