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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
Luxe MLUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
The reason girl let's man do all
the talking when they are engaged is
because she knows her turn will come
later on.
Sometimes the marriage tie binds so
tightly that 1t cuts through to the
bones.
The/reason why a girl knows that a
very short skirt is modest is because
she is wearing swell silk stockings,
II When a princess inists upon leaving
her waist unfastened in front so that
she can air her wish bone she should
always make sure that she is wearing
a clean gauze shirt.
ion magazine who had nerve enough IN
to print pictures showing how the fat
women will look in the new styles.
1t takes a nervy man to stare at a
woman when she is standing in street
car and he is sitting.
AS soon as man or a woman get
so old and grouchy that they can't
have any fun they begin to organize
Societies for the Prevention of the
things they can't do.
The old fashioned wife who used to
go through ,her husbands pockets now
has a married daughter who fr1sks the
toes of her husbands shoes, investi-
gates his bat band and searches under
the corners of the rugs in the house.
Here's another text for a sernan:
The bad dye young"
Free advice is always the most cost
y to follow.
We know lot of good judges Of
figures who don't know thing about
mathematics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
NazlmOva In Bella Donna

Whether or not Birmingham people ap-
prove of certain characters, they evil
IDENTIFY like to see them on the stage"
said man who enjoys a good play.
'Nazimova, the Russian actress, at the
Jefferson theatre Saturday night, played
the title role in Bella Donna and she did
it tosthe utter delight of a very crowded
house. There were very few vacant seats.
THE art of Nazimova cannot be doubt
ed. seldom is the seductive, crafty female
seen in more thrilling and terrible
charm than the character portrayed Sat
urday night by the talented Russian. The
entire company was good The leading
characters We're very good.
There are probably few women, If any,
who have over lived as terrible life as
Bella Donna" She was the human ami
NAL and the educated, crafty, sagaeious
intellect combined. Her passion is con-
quest of men and she glories in her pas
sion. No place in the wide world could
better have been chosen for the scene of
a play whose main chara cter is such a
woman than Egypt and the river Nile,
through history immemoral known as a
land of luxurious vice. With the three
principal acts laid on the Nile the home
of Cleopatra, the audience last night with
intense interest watched the woman turn
against the English husband she had
| tricked into marrying her. watched her
make love to an Egyptian with all the
wiles and art of an immoral and beauti-
full woman. watched her everyday her
hand, watched her spurned by both men
| and then pass out onto the Egyptian
desert to atone for ner sin.
Charles Bryant as DIR. Meyer Isaac
SON was the best male member of the
! cast All other parts were well handled.
although outside of Bryant and Nazimova
| there was little other really important
acting. Nazimova on the stage simply
was the woman Bella Donna is pic
tured as being. No higher praise could
be paid her.
THE staging was very effective in the
last three acts. Tie atmosphere of the
about the piece by a dozen and one little
touches such as a r'rohman play usually
displays. The wierd chant OF the Egyp-
tian slaves. desert storm. the furnish
ing OF the castle and the boat, the very
play itsetlf all worked together to
establish the surroundings and conditions
in which one imagines such things TO
take place"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
SOME BRIDGE PLAYERS
BY BILL VINES

bad play excites tie admit ation of all
beholders.
The prize bone of the club. however,
and one who freely admits it, is Frank
t. Morse. who writes the base theatrical
criticisms for the Washington Post and
other publications. Mr.. Morse is almost
as popular with the big leaguers'' as a
case of smallpox; he has about the same
erect upon the nerves of his partner as
the prospects of an application of the
most distressing tortures invented and in
hlcted by the Spanish inquisition He
is the bull in the china shop in bridge
game, but has the ,-redeeming feature of
being the classiest little holder extant.
When luck fails to smile upon him, how
ever, and his shining talent to muss up
perfectly good hands and his intense and
unyielding desire to dance in every set as
serts itself, he is apt to drive his partner
to strong drink or an early grave.
C. S. Watts. correspondent for the Co.
lumbus State Journal, who back in 1865
or thereabouts read ''Bonehead on Whist
is considered the court of last resort in
case of disputes. Mr.. Watts rulings are
never disputed and are final unless re-
voked by himself.
H. c. Stevens, who enlightens the pal
pitating public out in Minneapolis, also
in some remote age read some authority
on the game and has built his play on
the foundation thus obtained. A crowd
has a very bad effect on the playing
of Mr.. Stevens, and under fire he is liable
to blow up at any moment If he ever
stops to give an imitation of thinking.
it's goodnight Irene, and the rubber is
gone to the Yankees
d. Hastings MacAdams of the st. Louis
Republic plays a good game of bridge,
but it greatly troubles his conscience.
Promptly every night about l to 1880 a.
m. Mr.. MacAdams on his way home de-
cides that he win not indulge in bridge
any more. He solemnly asserts that he
could put that time in in writing a good
story for some magazine to better profit,
and no more for him. The next day. how
ever. after his work is over he blows into
the club usual and reluctantly consents
to play "just one rubber
Ex-senator DuBoise of Idaho and Col.
C. E. Breckons are president and chair
man of the board, respectively. of the
Solid Ivory league If either of them sus-
poets his partner, who has bid spade
of holding a queen. and they have two
aces and one jack. they will bid mo
trump" and frequently are not set for
more than 400. doubled. Altogether the
game of auction bridge at the National
Press club might be regarded as "a lost
art, the single bright remaining spot being
the playing of the writer of this story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
What Is Wrong With Road Building ?

In some respects the United States
in its road building seems to be in the
predicament of the old woman who
essayed to sweep the ocean out of her
room with broom. We spent a hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars last
year on highway enterprises and we
have very little in the way of tangible
results to show for it.
The Atlanta Journal says that it is
estimated by the American Highway
association that the annual road eX-
penditures of the United States eX-
ceed by some twenty-four million dol
Jars those of England, France, Ger
many, Italy, Russia, Norway and
Sweden combined.
This is most remarkable, and while
there are some reasons which may
account for the vast difference there
is still large desideratum to be ac-
counted for. The universal prevalence
of graft or rakeoffs is one of these
reasons; the fact that some of our
states are as large as several of the
European countries mentioned is an
other; and a third reason consists in
the situation that the countries of the
continent have been building their
roads for centuries and it costs but
comparatively little to improve them
or keep them in repair.
But it is undeniable that eXorbitant
amounts of money are thrown away
by us in the perfunctory, temporary
manner in which our roads are built.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Change in Poll Tnx Law

In my opinion a change is needed III
the law regarding the payment of poll
tax, said a travelling salesman, and
that is the accumulative feature. FOR
several years past l have been out OF
the state when the poll tax books were
open and more from neglect than other
wise I failed to pay the tax. While Sl5o
is no big sum to pay out at one time
yet in several years it amounts up, in my
own case I paid s12 to qualify this year
as voter
1T occurs to me that the payment of
two years back taxes is all that should
be required. This in my mind would be
ample penalty for failing to pay ths tax
on time.
WI hile the argument can be raised that
man should be willing to pay s1.50
each year for the benefit of the schools
and the privilege of voting, yet it is a
fact that thousands of men in this state
have not done so and are disfranchised,
and each year it becomes more of a bur
den for these men to qualify, in fact
some of them are not financially able
to do so.
II hope this matter will receive some
consideration at the hands of the legis-
lators at the next session and some
action taken to bring about change
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
The Carnegie Hero Commission

The Carnegie Hero fund commission
at its recent annual meeting certified
to thirty additional heroes who are
to receive rewards for their deeds of
valor in behalf of their fellow men
which action swells the total number
to 871.
1t is a most striking feature of the
personnel of such beneficiaries of
these awards that in every instance
theyNare men of quiet, modest, retir-
ing dispositions, displaying to all out
ward appearance total absence of e~-h
qualities of self-sacrifice and abne-
agtion as their isolated deeds show
them to possess. The Carnegie awards
have verified the adage that no man
truly knows himself until he has been
tried, and but for the ofttimes single
opportunity offered for a display of
such self-sacrifice the world and the
individual himself would never have
known the greatness that lay encased
in mortal clay.
1t is true that many applications for
recognition as heroes are annually
filed, but in vast majority of such
cases the application comes not from
the hero himself but from interested
friends and disinterested individuals
who are cognizant of his deed of PROV
ess. Only about per cent of these
applications receive reward.
Where the appeal comes from the
would-be beneficiary many of them
are pure fakes and others an exag-
gerated idea of Importance attached to
the deed. Thus one man who had lost
. set of false teeth while swimming
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
FLOWER OF THE WORLD

BY Robert Buchanan.
Wherever men sinned and wept,
| wandered in my quest;
At last in a Garden of God,
| saw the Flower of the World.
This Flower had human eyes.
Its breath was the breath of the mouth,
Sunlight and starlight came,
And he Flower drank bliss from both.
Whatever was base and unclean,
Whatever was sad and strange,
Was piled around it's roots.
1t drew its strength from the same.
Whatever was formess and base
Passed into fineness and form.
Whatever was lifeless and mean
Grew into beautiful bloom.
Then / thought: 20 Flower of the World
Miraculous Blossom of things,
Light as a faint wreath of snow
Thou tremblest to fail in the wind.
20 beautiful Flower of the World.
Fall not nor wither away
He is coming-he cannot be far
The Lord of the Flow'rs and the Stars
And I cried: 20 Spirit divine.
That walked the Garden unseen.
Come hither and bless, ere it dies.
The beautiful Flower OF the World
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
AN INSIDE JOB
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The report of the interstate commerce
commission on the wreck of the Frisco
railroad marshals facts in such a way
that one who runs may read. Figured
at per cent, more than one third of
the company's total interest charge is
paid upon obligations from which it
has received no benefit Some of these
debts were incurred by purchases from
syndicates made up largely of Frisco
officers of railroad and lumber en-
terprises that are unproductive. 1t is
already known that by unloading cer-
co at a total cost of $26.54S,111, in
siders made profit of ss,4i4,796.
In its role as a borrower to meet its
losses and pay unearned dividends 10
preferred stockholders the company
proceeded with equal recklessness. 1t
sold bonds at 62ls per cent of their
face In fact the increase in its debt
by discount alone was s30,665,749. OF
this sum never received the yearly in
terest charge is $l,226,6s0.
In addition to this discount the COM
pany pdlu TO pdHhtTS VINO LOOK the
securities at two-thirds of their face
the sum of $3,106,11S in commissions
What further profits were realized by
the sale of these bonds at prices high
er than those received by the road may
be imagined. OF course. this was not
railroading. 1t was not respectable
financing. 1t was plain loot The suit
for restitution now under way at St.
Louis will show whether the law is
strong enough to undo inside jobs of
such magnitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
HOW THE x-RAY WAS FOUND
Prof. A. G. Webster. in the Popular
Science Monthly

Prof A. G. Webster, in the Popular
Science Monthly
How did Rontgen come to discover the
X-rays? No doubt there was a certain
element of chance. 1t is told that he
had covered the discharge tube, the So
called Crookes tubes. with black paper,
SO that no light should get out from it,
and that Rontgens attention was at
traeted by the fiuorescence. or faint shin
ing with light. of a piece of paper lying
on the table, the paper being covered
with the salt of barium platinocyanide.
But why did this piece of paper coated
with this uncommon chemical happen to
be lying on the table, and why had Ront-
gen covered the Crookes tube with black
paper? Barium platinocyauide was one
OF the substances that had been investi-
gated by previous investigators as to
Its Huoresence, and that such paper
was commercial article in Germany.
Rontgen must then have suspected that
there was some property of the Crookes
tube that would cause huoresence. so
that the presence of this fluorescent paper
was not accidental at all. Rontgen's dis
covery had set the world on fire. and
had given rise to a renewed interest in
the subject of f1uorescent
Noteworthy among fluorescent sub
stances are the salts of uranium. and
these were examined by Henri Becquer-
ell, the third generation of physicists of
that name. Becquerel placed uranium
salts against a Photographic plate
wrapped up in black paper, and soon
found that the plate was affected, even
through the opaque paper AT first Bee
querel thought that the uranium had
this property only after being exposed
to the suns light, but he soon found that
the same properties were possessed by
uranium salts that had been formed in
the dark, and had never seen the sun.
In short these salts are constantly emit
ting new sort of radiation, now known
as Becquerel rays. Physicists now be-
gan TO look for other substances than
uranium which had these properties, with
the result that it was found that uranium
bearing ores were found to contain other
substances having the properties In
far higher degree, and at last the Curies
We're able to separate a new element,
which was named radium
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
At Request of Travelling Man

For an anonymous travelling man there
were raised in song over 400 voices at the
South Highland Presbyterian church at
the morning service today" said a MEN,
Der of that congregation yesterday.
After the formal programme of music
had been sung the Rev. Henry NJ. Ed
monds announced that a travelling man
who was on a train and who could not
attend divine worship had written him
letter asking that the hymn My Faith
Looks Up to Thee be sung in remem-
brance of him DR. Edmonds explained
the circumstance and asked everyone of
his congregation to join in the song.
1T seemed to many of us that the
congregation never sang with such feel
ing. The wonderful chorus swelled into
a tremendous volume:
Ny faith looks up to thee,
Oh, lamb of calvary,
Saviour divine.
1T was remarkably stirring incident"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
FIRST AID TO ECONoNy

From the Cardiff Western Mail.
Not long ago at meeting of the Welsh
farmer was being generally reproved for
his extravaganza. The lecture seems to
have been taken to heart. That is the
conviction, at any rate, of a gentleman
who was motoring in South Wales the
other day. While he was waiting in a
village farmer drove up, hitehed his
horse to post and carefully muzzled the
animal with feeding bag. The farmer
then went round to the back of his cart
and took out of it a chicken with a piece
of string tied to one leg. With the string
he fastened the chicken to the hitching
post, so that it could pick up the oats
dropped from the horses nosebag
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
THE PERSONALITY OF TREES

Winthrop Packard in the Boston Tran
script.
The most virile of all the pasture per-
sonalities is that of the red cedar. When
the keen autumn winds blow and toss the
plumos of these Indian chieftains they
wrap their olive green blankets but the
closer about them and seem to stalk the
messy reves in dignity or gather in
erect, silent groups to discuss weighty
affairs of the tribe Thus for the larger
ones. tall warriors that in their time have
travelled far, have met many warriors
and learned wisdom from the meeting.
There is solemnity about these, but
there is dignity and a vivid personality
which it is hard to match in any other
tree 1t is hard to think of these of
the vegetable world. 1 suspect them of
standing immobile only at their will and
of being capable of trooping up hill and
over into some other pasture should they
see fit, as readily as the woodchucks
would, or any other four-footed denizens
of the place.
The greater trees of the pasture do not
seem to carry such personality. Many
of them are like structures rather than
people. The pine that spires high is like
a church. From 1t as the winds pass L
hear the sound of organ tones and the
singing of hymns III a language that is
older than man, music whose legend is
that of world before man was. Per-
haps the first pines caught the music of
the morning stars when first they sang
hymns together and have made it a part
of the ritual of their worship ever since.
No notation that man has devised can eN-
press this music nor can any instrument
which man has yet made produce it. It's
hymnal is mesozoic. on the soft brown
carpet of nave and transept of this cath
edral tree ones foot falls in hushed si-
lence and ne who passes without his
head bowed in reverence for the solemnity
of the place goes with soul dulled to the
higher spiritual influences of the woods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE TRIAL OF ANNE HUTCHINSON

indirect reproach which Mrs. Hutchinson
was generally understood to have spoken
against them, were determined to insure
her humiliation. They felt that their
honor, their influence and their claims
to piety were at hazard.
The court sat with open doors, and the
whole case was watched with the most
intense anxiety through the two days
which were spent upon it. such was the
tribunal" says Mrs. Hutchinson's biog.
rapher, before which a female of un.
doubted piety and of high excellence OF
character was held to account for main
tanning certain theological opinions dis
tasteful to those to whom she was in no
wise accountable for her belief
'She was even kept for a time in
lily infirmity obtained for her the priv
ilege of sitting. The examination must
have been extremely. wearisome and even
Mr. Dudley complained that they would
all be sick from fasting
The proceedings began, with q some-
what extended eolloquy between Cover
nor Winthrop and Mrs. Hutchinson, in
which she appears to have sustained her
self with much dignity, and met, with
strong good sense in reply, the charges
which were laid at her door.
The governor opened the disagreeable
business by addressing Mrs. Hutchinson
as a disturber of the peace and of the
church, and then. without specifying any
single offense he heaped upon her an
accumulation of censures.
Mrs. Hutchinson replied that, though
she was called to answer, no distinct
charges were Drought against her. She
desired that some one fault in speech or
in deed might be specified. Several def
mite charges were made, but she refuted
these easily.
The examination finally came to an end
with Governor Winthrop putting the
of the court that, for the troublesome
ness of her spirit. and the danger of her
course she should be banished, and inn
prisoned until she could be sent away.
All but three held up their hand. The
sentence of the court it stands upon
the Massachusetts records was that she
should be banished, and in the meantime
be committed to Joseph Welde until the
court shall dispose of her." Mrs Hutch
inson. her husband and 10 children left
Island, and finally to Connecticut, where
she was cruelty murdered by Indians in
September, 1643.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-02

A MONG the earliest of the historical
~ trials of Americans was that of
y Mistress Anne Hutchinson, whose
fanatical views of religion stirred the
Massachusetts colony to a great excite
ment about the middle of the seventeenth
century. She had brought with her from
England two dangerous errors" said
Governor Winthrop, first, that the per-
son of the Holy Ghost dwells In justi-
fled person; second that no sanctification
can help to evidence to us our justifica-
ton"
Mrs Hutchinson exploioited these views
at a number of public meetings held in
Boston. She violently attacked the Mas
sachusetts cergymen Great excitement
was aroused by her preaching and for a
while Boston was divided into two hostile
theological camps.
The agitation started by Anne Hutchin-
son was fraught with danger to the
infant colony. On the eve of the Pequot
war a company of militia was found un-
willing to march because it's chaplain was
held to be under a covenant of works, y
Anne's designation of the ungodly. When
thought to be high time to put Mrs.
Hutchinson down. She was therefore ar
rested and placed on trial of heresy and
sedition.
The trial of Mrs. Hutchinson before the
court of Massachusetts, was begun in
November, 1857, at Cambridge. 1t is hard
to determine whether the process against
her was civil, judicial or an ecclesias-
tieal one All the magistrates, or assist
ants, the upper house, representing the
judicial and executive authority of the
government took part in the trial. Gov
ernor Winthrop was called. by his office,
to perform the principal work in the pros
ecution. He thoroughly understood the
whole ground of the controversy.
The magistrates, as a whole, used their
influence against Mrs. Hutchinson. They
put questions to her, pronounced censures
upon her, and expiated upon the dissen-
sion and mischief which had attended
her during her residence in Boston. Will
liam Coddington alone, of the magistrates,
sustained the defendant
were probably all present at the court,
with the exception of perhaps two or
three in the more distant settlements. The
ministers were indeed the informers and
witnesses against Mrs. Hutchinson. 1t was
by their evidepce that ground of convic-
ton was to be obtained. Most OF these
ministers, smarting uRder the direct OF