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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Women Own RnllrOnd stock

"On January 1 there We're $3.50 share
holders in the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany, the largest number in the history
of the company, and showing an increase
of 431 for the calendar year 1913," said
a well known railroad man.
Of this total, 42,514 shareholders were
women, there having been an increase
during the year of 6266 women stockhold-
ers. Women constitute alpost As per cent
of the total number of Pennsylvania rail
road stockholders.
During the year there has been an in
crease of COLO shareholders in the state of
Pennsylvania-the stockholders in this
state now numbering 29,792.
Stockholders abroad now number H.
&c. total of 1917 having been added dur
ing the past year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

to action. Vain faith wishes, sighs,
drivels, but never does.
But the kno4ing-for here is the
crux of the whole matter. Very we'll
then. A man has made his determina-
tion to do the will of God. Perhaps
something has already been presented
as possibly that will. Good. On the
basis of that determination then, he
recognizes it and does it. Or, perhaps
he makes his determination in va
cancy. Nothing has been presented.
But he makes his determination. A
little is then revealed. He does that
little. Then more is shown. But the
man who waits to know before he de-
termines to do will never know. God
will not reveal His will to those who
are not His. But He will to those
who are. And with increasing plain
ness. "The path of the righteous is
as the dawning light, that shineth
more and more unto the perfect day."
"Shall know" Gods will. This were
high place for mortal. To walk with
God and share His Councils. To have
Him as guide, as companion. Yet
man IS never man until this is his
case. This is the end of all our going
communion with God. o thou
vaclllating, little, pathetic man, how
desolate art thou without God. o thou
stable, sovereign, immortal man, with
what a sweep thou walkest across life.
when thou goest and knowest with
God.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
MIRA.

Sand and ruins sphinx and desert; land
of lost papyrus bloom.
Sand and ruins. how the owlet haunts
the temple and the tomb
Faded splendor on the sun disc, chis-
eled glory gone to gloom.
Pschent and kepersh, cruX ansata and
the Bedouin's lusty Min,
Dispute with the fair Hatshepsu, sweet
queen of incestuous sin,
~ all and column of birth chamber with
the purple seeping in.
sand and ruins; pyramidion wrested
from its apex high,
Where its proud crest of electron
burned beneath a FURNISHED sky.
Long has ceased to sing of Pharao;
crucibles can tell us why.
Sphinx and desert: how the iackal
haunts the sonant mastoba;
How the pice-dedizened mummy still
attends its wand'ring ka:
How the largess of Ta-nuter glints
with spectral Ma-ka-ra.
Tears Of Isis; made Nictocris flecked
upon their fitful sheen;
Here / sense thy fascination. An
tonY's and Caesars queen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

" HE Marchioness de Brinvllliers was
one of the greatest female criminals
i in the history of the world. Oc-
casonally in history we find persons who
seem to have been born for a life of
crime This French woman is a most
conspicuous example. She seems to have
been abnormal from childhood. Although
married to a Marquis of Normandy she
forsook her husband to associate with st.
Croix and Exli, two prisoners, who were
hardened criminals.
The trio seem to have formed a part
nership to see how many lives they could
destroy by means of the poison which
thy manufactured and for no apparent
reason other than to see how it would
work. In the year 1910 the father, sister
and two brothers of the Marchioness
were destroyed by poison. 1t was a
strange chance that led to the discovery
of the crime. In the work of distilling
of poisons, st. Croix was obliged to wear
a glass mask so that he should not in
hale the dreadful fumes.
One day the mask dropped to the floor
and the man had full breath OF the
vapors that instantly killed him. The
government confiscated his effects and
made the stupendous discovery of vari-
Gus packages of poison, each bearing a
description of the effect it would produce
before death resulted. as well as many
other evidences Of crime.
The Marchioness of Brinvilliers, realiz-
ing what the discovery meant, escaped to
,el, Jt1t haa that the
ties had traces of her she took refuge
in Iiege but she was found there and
taken to Paris She was brought to the
Conciergerie at Paris where she was in
carcerated. In her examination that fol-
lowed she claimed to be entirely inno-
cent.
NJ Nivelle. celebrated advocate, drew
brief in her defense; and therein treated
the question. Whether a confession
written by a person accused, and ordered
to be revealed to a confessor, can be
brought in evidence against him." He
claimed that it wast st. Croix and not
the Marchioness who did the poisoning
and that he had formed design to make
himself master of all the Brinyilliers
riches. NJ Nivelie laid a special stress
| upon the dying words of La Chausse, an
other of the confederates, who. declared
that st. Croix- had said TO him that the
Marchioness was stranger to their
criminal practices. At her confessional
she had accused herself to her priest of
having poisoned her father, her two
| brothers and had attempted to poison her
sister This confession M. Nivelle af-
firmed should have no weight in a court
of Justice. because the law. which inn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF THE MARCH IoNEss DE BRINvILLIERs

poses inviolable secrecy, as well on the
confessor himself, AS others who may ac-
cidentally come to the knowledge of a
confession, whether delivered by voice or
in writing rendered it entirely useless
to all the purposes of civil life.
In spite of this the court judged that
there was sufficient evidence for con-
demning the accused even distracted
from her confession. The chief reason
why they so decided was that the March,
ioness knew that she would inherit the
estates of her father, her brother and her
sister, and st. Croix reclSoned upon the
disposal of the inherirage of a woman
who was abandoned to him by a blind
passion.
Sufficient evidence had been produced
at this trial to effect her condemnation.
Accordingly sentence was passed upon
her to the following effect:
"Whereas the court has found the
Machioness Brinvilliers duly attainted
and convicted of having been accessory to
the poisoning of her father. her two
brothers and her sister, she is hereby
condemned to be executed before the
principal gate of the Church of Paris.
where she shall be led in a cart, bare
footed, rope about her neck, with a
burning torch in her hands of two-pound
weight, and there upon her knees de-
clare that for wicked revenge, and in
order to be possessed of their estatea
she had caused poison to be given to her
father, her two brothers and attempted
the life of her sister. whereof she re-
pents, and asks pardon of God the Kins
and the judges; which done, she shall be
carried in the same cart to the place or
execution, there to be beheaded upon the
scaffold, her body burnt, and her ashes
scattered to the wind; after she had
been put to the torture ordinary and ex-
traordinary for the discovery of her ac-
completes"
The Marchioness who had hitherto per
sisted in the denial of her crimes, thought
fit to make a confession of them after
the sentence was passed. In the whole
course of the trial not a word WAS men,
toned of her husband though he was still
alive. GlaZer, the apethecary, from whom
St Croix took his drugs. was included in
this indictment and found small diff
ficulty to get himself absolved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
RUNNING AND SKIPPING

From the National Food Magazine
The college boys on the first floor of l,
dormitory were much alarmed one night
by great confusion on the floor above
them. The second night the same dis
turbance was heard, and when, this be-
ing repeated on the third night, a roomer
was sent from the first floor to inquire
the cause, he received the reply:
The doctor gave me some MEDICINE.
and on the bottle it says to take il run
ming two nights. and skip one, and if
you don't believe it just look on the bot
tie and see for yourself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Why Colonel Goethals Accepts

There is sequel to the approaching
appointment Of Colonel Goethals as
the next commissioner of New York
city. While it has been an open secret
that the colonel was not very anxious
to hold the position of governor Of the
canal zone, he in all probability would
have yielded to his sense of patriotism
and accepted the place had it been Of
fered to him, provided the character
of the gubernatorial office had re-
mained as shaped by the law of 1912.
Under this act the executive was
vested with supreme authority, but eff
forts at a substitution of commits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
1T is A BEAUTEOUS EVENING

BY William Wordsworth.
1t is beauteous evening, calm and free.
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with alteration; the broad sun
is sinking down in it's tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven broods DER the
sea;
Lsten the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with His eternel motion make
A sound like thunder-everlastingly
Dear Child, dear girl. that walketh with
me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn
thought
Thy nature is not therefore less divine;
Thou liest In Abraham's bosom all the
year;
And worshipst at the Temples inner
shrine,
God being with thee when we knod it
not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
IN HOTEL LO3BIES
Change In FIfth Avenue

THE biggest physical change in the
appearance of the entire downtown dis
triet in the past year has taken place
right there at Fifth avenue and Twen-
tieth street" said well known business
man yesterday.
Twelve or IS months ago that vas one
of the most rural" looking sections in
the whole business district, and now II
almost ranks with 'skyscraper hoie' at
First and Twentieth 1t has changed the
whole aspect of Fifth avenue. To star q
there and look toward the Terminal sta
ton with the outlines of those two
great buildings In the foreground makes
Fifth avenue Assume a semblance Of wnat
have always coIitended it will some day
be-the main business street of the city.
The two new buildings and the addi-
tions made to the Southern club are re-
sponsble for the change. and 1t all only
shows the tendency of the growth OF the
town. The business district, in my eati-
nation, is going north by east, slowly
working it's way toward the Terminal sta
ton and Fifth avenue. When the new
postoffice gets down there. however an
other attraction will draw business
houses toward the western portion of
Fifth avenue.
IF / were dealing in real estate d
get all the Fifth avenue lots I could
possibly buy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Mr.. Moon and the Diplomatic Service

Mr.. Moon and the Diplomatic Service
When Representative Moon, in his
deunuciation of our diplomatic service,
INDUCES in such Incorporate criticism
as he has recently seen fit to employ,
he robs what might be fashioned into
an argument of every vestige of
speciousness.
The Characterization of the diplo-
matte corps as "a superfluous append
age to the republic" and its members
as "a gang of political reprobates and
society degenerates that we ought to
wipe out of existence" sinks to the
level of an irresponsible and irrational
proclamation that is scarcely worth
considering. Mr.. Moon may be making
play to the galleries or he may be
sincerce in his declaration, but in
either event he seems to be ignorant
of the fact that abuse is never argu
ment.
Some of the ablest statesmen which
America has produced, and whose
memories it is proud to honor, served
as our representatives abroad. Thomas
jefferson, who wrote the Declaration
of independence, and John Adams,
both of whom became Presidents of
4Lo Jrp;+od S+ofoc yuapa mon, hprS of
our diplomatic corps. Would it not be
contemplate to designate them as
reprobates? Benjamin Franklin was
a foreign minister; was he a degen-
crate? Coming later down the line we
find John Hay, Francis T. Bayard
and Bayard Taylor serving as envoys
extraordinary; were they reprobates?
Can such men as Thomas Nelson
Page, Walter S. Page and Hannis
Taylor be designated as degen-
crates? Evidently Mr.. Moons temper
got the better of his judgment and
discretion in the heat of his polemics.
The great trouble with our diplo-
matte service is that the social side
of life enters too much into its func-
tions. To remedy this it has more
than once been suggested that the
diplomatic corps be abrogated and all
international relations be manipulated
by the consular service.
There is some force in the sugges-
!. ton, as the objection to the diplomatic
corps has been, not that it's members
were reprobates or degenrates, but
simply upon account of the expense
attached to the position which re-
quired only men of wealth to be con-
sidered in connection Herewith, and
that as the fees attached to the con-
sulates greatly augmented the income
of the office, business men could af-
ford to occupy the positions.
In many ways this would greatly
benefit us as it is with mercantile in
terests that we as nation are mostly
concerned, but the great trouble here
lies in the fact that international law
is extremely intricate and few bust
ness men are grounded therein or have
the time to master those intricities.
If Mr. Moon desires to command
che serious consideration of the coun-
try and has political confreres upon
this subject he must change his tao
tics most materially
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
I,QJt3ueQ
FATE.
.........-....s..................s

Jane. Kate and Nan three lasses were
James daddy had the sheckels,
While Katie had a face divine:
And Maxwell, she had freckles.
L pondered long about the bold
And affluent condition:
Eut tell the truth, | did not like
James naughty disposition.
| fingered DER the face divine
Perfect beyond contention.
Rut she talked comic sections, Greek,
Tangents and fourth dimension.
And when | thought about poor Nan,
1t seems fate had allotted
That we should wed. for | at last
Took the girl that was spotted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
OUR TRAVELScOPE.

Rothenberg, January 14.-In pro-
rouncing the name of this city the h is
a regular John Lind. We will not stay
here long as Ma says it is a medieval
city, and l don't like bad people. Be-
sides l expect to see enough of it in
Paris. BY the way, when we get TO
Paris I will send you one of those Latin
quarters you were speaking about.
There is nothing striking in Rothenberg
but the clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

From the ArgOnaut.
The accomplished and obliging pianist
had finished several selections il. the
hotel parlor and the guests were dis
cussing other numbers. One turned ID
an elderly lady, and said, Now, for in
stance, there is Mozart's Twelfth Mass.
You remember that, Mrs. Hisconein?''
Remember it? ] should say so. WIZ.
my husband served through the war il
that very regiment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
WEAK UNDERSTANDING.

ding last night, but I understand that
the groom was exceedingly nervous"
Dobson: "EXertmely so. His knees
compelled to push him up the aisle on
a pair of roller skatesn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
HENRY NJ. EDMONDS.

Worse for Huerta than President viii
sons refusal to recognize him; worse for
him than Villas advance is the rising Ct
the Serrano Indians in the state of Pue-
bla, Mexico. whose proud boast is that
they have never been conquered. They
recognize only the ehieftanship of Juan
Lucas, whom Porfirio Diaz made a gen
eral in the regular army and they were
bribed into peace by Diaz, who gaze every
warrior a rifle, a supply of ammunition
and small sum of money. Huerta failed
to continue the contributions of funds
to them and they have gone upon the
warpath under the direction of the ad
herents of Carranza.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
praise for Newspaper Club

''The opening of the Birmingham News
paper club will be an unusual event."
said a well known banker yesterday, ''and
/ look forward to it with much pleasure.
1T is only in progressive city like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

When Representative Moon gets upon
one of his rampages it is questi ~
whether he is not duplicating that phase
of his namesake just after it's first quar-
tar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
WOULDN'T WORK.

a star, young man."
Young Man: 81 tried that, but the
darned cart upset
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS
AND ABOUT BIRMINGHAM'S RE OUIREMENTSI

have a viaduct covering the many rail-
road tracks on First avenue, as one goes
towards Avondale, Woodlawn and East
Lake. This is first and foremost. 1t
doesn't matter who pays for it. That is
up to the city commission to thresh out
who ought to and of a right should pay
for it. The main thing is to build it.
This done, the southside should be pro-
vided for; but don't let the street rail-
roads. or any prospective street railroads
interfere with the Twenty-frst street
bridge which is the only artery owned
by the city and its citizens on which a
man with his horse and buggy. his de-
livery wagon, his ox-cart, his baby car
riage or his automobile is safe at the
present day.
The street railroads have a bridge at
Twenty-second street-a nasty, weak,
frivolous structure it is though 1t is so
patched that few vehicles of pleasure or
business dare use 1t. Let the street rail-
roads and the contemplated ones asking
for franchises put a decent structure
there, but don't let anybody hoodwink
the real people of Birmingham. who live
at home and work at their offices, out of
their rights to be protected in going to
and from their homes and their working
places.
Birmingham is getting to be a big
enough town to protect it's own rights.
Its commission form of government is
a good form if its commissioners will
eliminate politics and do 1or the city that
which each and everyone of the COM
missioners would do as individuals if each
one owned the city himself.
I,eJA ARueQ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

Acting Governor Taylor of New Jer-
sey, who has just quit the executive Of
fee, was the youngest man that ever
occupied the gubernatorial chair in that
state. He is just 81 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
THAT RoTHsCHILD BUG.

Five thousands dollars for a flea
Is a great deal to our mind.
Well search our kitty just to see
If one such we can find.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
COURTEOUS.

Willowby: "Why did you raise your
hat to that young lady. Quimby? You
don't know her"
Quimby: "rhats so; but my brother
knows her. and it's his hat I'm wear
ing today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
STILL AS THE GRAVE.

What's become of the suffragettes?
Is their campaign rescinded?
We don't hear of them now at all;
Or have they all John Linded?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
TOO SUGGESTIVE.

TOO SUGGESTIVE
Brown: 81 wish you would quit hum
ming that 'Tis But a Little Faded
Flower"
Smith: Whats the matter with
that?"
Brown: 1T reminds me so much of
my boarding house bread"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
PRECocIoUS.

Teacher: Now, children, 1 explained
to you yesterday the use of the hy-
phen. [ have written here bird nest :;
what is the hyphen for?"
Little Scholar: please. Miss, it's for
the little birds to roost on"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

The minority report of Senator Bradley
of Kentucky on the Alabama senatorial
appointment was a subject of admiration
on my part. Senator Bradley stood alone
in the original vote, and when he made
stand with him.
1t strikes me that Senator Bradley was
eminently correct and that Mr.. Glass, the
appointee of the governor of Alabama,
should have been seated, pending an cleo
ton under the seventeenth amendment
Alabama is entitled to be represented in
the Senate every day and every hour. and
just because the legislative machinery of
Alabama did not deport with a constitu-
tional amendment voted on by the peo-
pie, is no reason why Alabama should
be deprived of representation in the United
States Senate.
Let the governor call an election as
quickly as possible, and let Alabama be
represented with its full quota of senators.
We need them now.
* 4 y
have not been very strong on commits
sion form of government since I have
observed the politics and alliances be-
tween the commissioners. when two out
of three of them could get together and
out-vote the third man.
There has been almost as much politics
in our commission form of government as
there was in the old mayor and alder
manic form.
OF course. Jim Weatherly-one of the
three commissioners-is a candidate for
reelection. But his statement, as printed
in The Age-Herald of Friday last, about
the viaduct question has a whole lot of
meat and merit in it. He wants to do
one thing at time. He wants first to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

An English chronological collector has
just paid $1,000 for a specimen of a rare
variety of flea. Hereafter one snould oe
careful how he disposes of cats, as that
species of flea may, like the dollar If
1904 turn up occasionally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

BEGINNING THE DAY-"0 Thou.
tender Father of men. follow my
steps this day with n Fathers eye.
Remember my frame md lift me
over the rough places, recall me
when I wander, bear with me when
when l do well; and In the evening
help me 10 give Thee all the glory.
In Jesus name. Amcn."-H. VI. r..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

Joy riders in London give two toots be-
fore they kill a man, while III Chicago
they give but one toot. But either Is far
too short a preparation for eternitN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

~ EGINNING of this Sunday morn
ing The Age-Herald starts new
feature in the newspaperdom OF
this country.
1t is not new feature in fact. 1t is
merely Incorporating in the columns of
a newspaper that which every good citi-
zen--be such man or woman-does in
opening the day of toll
At the top of the editorial page in this
mornings issue of The Age-Herald will
be seen a delicate little prayer applicable
TO the opening of the day. These VIII
appear each day; and on each Sunday will
appear in the editorial columns of The
Age-Herald, as appears today, a sermon
of not exceeding 400 words in length writ
ten by the same person who writes this
today.
Genius is always appreciated. Inde-
pendence of thought and action bears
fruit That one of the yougest yet great
est preachers of the present day should
lend his efforts not only to the pulpit
of a Sunday but to the columns of a
newspaper in doing a work every day
and of a Sunday to those who might not
be able to attend church services-is a
matter which will bring it's own reward.
l like the idea. l merely suggested the
Sunday sermon. The writer of these SER
mons and these prayers of every morning
suggested the daily feature. I think il
capital.
He who would not read them might pass
them over as the man who does not care
for the stock market quotations, or the
man who does not care about the price
of eggs.
But there are a whole lot of people who
want to start out the day well.