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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
HOW TAGORE LIVES

Basanta Koomar Roy, in the Yale Re-
 view.
 About 10 years ago Rabindranath Ta- gore's wife died, and the shock of this bereavement drew him still nearer to God, and so closer to action. He felt tn if there was panacea for all of India s evils, it was education-liberal education full of freedom and love. So he left Calcutta, went to Bolpur. and there in memory of his father he founded with out a single building, but with five or six children gathered together under the mango trees, his model school, now the famous "Bolpur Brahmo Vadyalay."
 Tagore is at the head of the school. Many incorrigible children are sent there. But under the influence of love and free dom they become idea! characters. He loves the children, and the children love him so much that on holidays many of them refuse to go home to their parents, preferring to stay with their beloved 'Guru' deacher). This school is now the principal objeet 0; Tagore's care. He is planning 70 open a department of in dustrial education, and no doubt the No- bel prize money will be utilized for the fruition of this noble project.
 '. Here he lives a life of unalloyed sim- plicity, thinking most exalted thoughts, writing poems and plays, loving the chil- dren in the school and the birds in the woods. Though he is so unassuming that he often cooks his own meals in an 'eco- homie cooker he is always reading in English the latest important books in philosophy and literature.
 Thus he spends his days in this quiet spot, in constant communion with the God-head and radiating calmness all around his modern hermitage. Rich in it's spiritual wealth, resplendent in its ex- alted emotions, the personality of Radin- dranath Tagore is living lyric of the rarest quality; and we are not at all sur prised to see tha, this great genius of the east has at last been welcomed in the west with such a chorus of applause.
 When the west discovers the east. and the east discovers the west, humanity will discover itself automatically. Then the illumination will come to break the walls" and this world will be lone lumi- nous whole" ''one perfect music.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

From the New York Press.
 Please mister Jones can I get off Tues day?" said the young male employe, only more rapidly.
 (Which of your relatives is dead?" ir- quired the boss.
 Not any, sir" replied the lad with a politeness which exists only in fiction.
 (Which of your teetch are you going to have pulled?"
 Not any, sir" replied the lad, etc.
 (Which of your sisters is getting mar ried?"
 Not any, sir" etc.
 The fact is" continued the youth T would like to go to the ball game, and my desire being genuine, l would not hazard my chances by trying to pull rotten old excuse on a foxy business man. Thank ing you, sir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

house and in 1605 purchased the right to collect unpaid taxes. He applied for a grant of coat-of-arms for his father and in 1903 was appointed one of his majesty's servants for theatrical performances. Less than year before his death he executed a will in which he made no mention of library, copyrights or plays. and in an inter- lineation gave his wife his second-best bed.
 This is all of the record, and of the 42 plays accredited to him during his lifetime his editors selected for print but %. The reconciling of the incon- gruity and the immeasurable distance between the books and the man has baffled philosopher, historian, states man and dramatist; Emerson, Carlyle, Richter, Ibsen, Goethe, Holmes and John Bright have baked at the mys- tery and repeated the unanswerable interrogatory.
 But it boots little whether the mar vels of literature came from the pen of one man or from those of band of anonymous writers; whether they were fashioned by the brain of Shake speare or Bacon; their transcendent lustre illumines our English literature and it is the effulgency of the plays, not that of the author or authors, that we honor and celebrate today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
In Favor of Partial Annexation

''The majority of people with whom l talk favor the annexation of the northern states of Mexico to the United States as the final outcome of the war that seems to be upon our hands" said John P. Wade, retired business man of Chicago who visited the unhappy republic a few years ago and who is now returning home from months sojourn in Texas. "Presi- dent Wilson is on record as opposed to az gression, but so long as we are forced to invade Mexico it would be a great mistake not to get a slice of the country l would be opposed to acquiring all of Mexico, but the northern part is rich in minerals and is sparsely settled.
 We would have a hard time in Amerieanizing the Mexican people as a whole, but the two and half millions in the northern states are mostly Indians and because they are com paratively few they could not give us much trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF ALICE LISLE

was accordingly beheaded in the market place of Winchester and her body was re- stored to her friends for burial
 Judge Jeffreys was one of the most od- ous judges who ever administered justice for the law In Alice Lisles case she could not according to the doctrine laid down by the highest authority, be con- victed until after the conviction of the rebels whom she had harbored. But Judge Jeffreys disregarded this law, and [ she was sent to the bar before either Hicks or Nelthrop had been tried
 It was no easy matter to obtain yer dict for the crown, in spite of the fact that the witnesses prevaricated The jury, consisting of the principal gentle men of Hampshire, shrank from the thought of sending a fellow creature to the stake for conduct which seemed de- serving rather of praise than of blame.
 When the trial was over and the fate of the woman was known, this excess of barbarity moved the pity and indignation even of the most devoted to the crown. The clergy of Winchester cathedral re- monstrated with the chief justice, who. brutal as he was, was not mad enough to risk a quarrel on such a subject with a body so much respected by the tory party.
 Not only the clergy and others high in favor at the court, but ladies of high rank interceded for the unfortunate pris- oner. Feversham, whose recent victory had increased his influence at court, and who it is said. had been bribed to takel 1 the compassionate side, spoke in her fa- vor. Cladenron, the Kings brother-in- law, pleaded her cause. But all was vain. The utmost that coud be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheadlng.
 On the scaffold Mrs Lisle gave a paper to the sheriff, denying her guilt. The att tainder was finally reversed by a private act of Parliament in 1889, at the request of Mrs. Lisles two daughters. on the ground that the verdict was injuriously extorted and procured by the menaces and volences and other illegal practices' of Jeffreys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
SCOOP 'EM UP.

A LICE LISLE. an English woman of
 "A gentle birth, was arrested, tried, A convicted and executed for trea- son against the state, and this judicial murder has always been considered as one of the greatest plots on English court records There was no evidence that she was aware that she was harboring trai- tors when John Hicks, a dissenting minis ter, and Dunne and Nelthrop, others of Monmouths s supporters, applied to her for protection.
 Monmouth's rebellion occurred during the middle of 1885. At the time Alice Lisie was in London, but returning to her home at Moyles Court, on July 20, she received a message from Hicks asking her to shell ter him and two companions. Mrs Lisie knew Hicks as a dissenting minister, and at her trial she claimed that she had inn agined that a warrant was out against him for illegal preaching or for some other offense committed in his ministerial capacity.
 A few days later the trio arrived at Moyles court. Their whereabouts was at once disclosed by a spying villager tp
 
 arrived with a body Of troops and placed Mrs. Iisle and her guests under arrest.
 The trial of Mrs. Lisle was begun on August ?, 1885, before Judge Jeffreys at Winchester. No evidence respecting Hicks offenses was admitted, and no proof was forthcoming that Mrs. Lfsle had any ground to suspect Hicks of dis loyalty or that she had displayed any in- terest in the Monmouth insurrection.
 Mrs. Lisle made a telling speech in her own defense. The jury declared them selves reluctant to convict her, but Jef- freys overruled their scruples. and she was found guilty. The sentence pro- nounced upon her was that she be burned alive. Pressure was, however, applied and the day of execution was set for Sep tember 2.
 Lady Lse petitioned James II to grant her further reprieve of four days, and to order the substitution of beheading for burning. The first request was refused but the second was granted. Mrs. Lise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

According to report issued by the ,bu- reau of mines, microscopic diamonds ex- chromiferous ore and while they are too small to be of much commercial value, they are of great scientific interest and in the province. Platinum diamonds and chromium were found in comparatively small specimen of ore, says the report
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
THE IRISH

From the Cincinnati Enquirer. (Private Daniel Aloysius Haggerty, U. S. marines, was one of the first men killed in the present Mexican war.) Sure. you'll always find the Irish where
 there's fightin' to be done, Be 1t fists, or rough-an' tumble, or the
 handlin' of gun. When they sound the charge, you'll al-s
 ways find the Irish in the van, For there's somethin' in his heart that
 makes the Mick fightin' man. Sure, 1t had to be Haggerty to be the
 first to fall. If 1t wasn't for the Irish. sure we'd win
 no wars at all.
 his gallant clan,
 his gallan clan, For there's somethin' in his veins that
 makes tho Mick a nghtin' man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
IN c MINOR

IN c MINOR. She failed to observe the poor gnat. And down on his carcass she gsat,
 Said the gnat; "Hully gee.
 The worlds down on me, III stand gpat. though I'm gflat as a. gmat.' Cincinnati Enquirer She failed to see the poor gnat One day as she stroled through the gzoo, Said the beast in despair,
 T anr sure she would care If she gknew a gnew gnu or gtwo."
 Seattle Post-Inteligeneer. She failed to observe the park sign Upon the new bench made of pigne- Look out for fresh paint;'
 And she cried Holy saint, I've ruined this new dress of migne' The odor gave her the phthisic: doctor prescribed some phthphysic; When he left her bed
 He solemnly said, Dear me, but that woman phthis sick"
 A QUESTION OF TIME. Sonny; Pa, were the minute men of 1776 Americans or English?" Pa: "rhey were our men" sonny: There must have been 50 of them if they were hour men,.
 NOT BIT. Alfonso wants to arbitrate 'TwiXt us and Mexico.
 His motives may be right; But the Spanish potentate We would have truly know
 This isn't bull fight.
 c. F. M. ].
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
ECCENTRIC INN NAMES the London Chronicle.

We are losing most of our eccentric inn names but in Germany they are adding to them. Berlin now boasts the Com fortable Chicken Cold Frog" "stin Dog" Thirsty Plea. Dirty Parior.'' Musical Cats" Boxers Den.' and Lame Louse." Leipzig has "The Old Straw Bag stadtohen an Open Bung- hole." and the vicinity of many ceme- tery in the fatherland is graced Last Tear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
The New Cardin als

Interest felt in the cardinals college Is not confined to members of the Cath ollie church, for all persons who observe world affairs appreciate the influence that the college has on certain important international problems" said layman.
 The Associated Press dispatch from Rome in Mondays Age-Herald announc- ing that Pope Plus would hold a con sistory May 25 was not unexpected by those who had kept up with vatican news. During the past six months sev- eral tentative dates have been published, but May 9 will not be changed except for some grave and unforeseen reason.
 Tt was not expected that any ecclesias- tic of the United States would be in the new list, as three cardinals created this country-Cardinal Farley of New York, Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. and Cardinal Falconio, who was for several years papal delegate at Washington, but who for sometime has lived in Rome.
 There are now three cardinals living in the United States-Cardnal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, and the arch bishops respectively of New York and Boston. Among the new cardinals will be the Most Rev. Louis Nazatro Begin. archbishop of Quebec, and the Abbot Gasquet, the head of the English Bene- dictines Canada has had only one mem- Der of the college-Cardinal Taschereau, who died several years ago. Archbishop Begin will be, therefore. the second car- dinal in Canada.
 'In the list of cardinals designated sev- eral are recognized as preates of excep- tional prominence and ability, but it is safe to say that Abbot Gasquet is the most notable. He is famous at any rate in the English speaking world. He is not only a great scholar in a general way, but he is greatly distinguished in two or three directions. As a master of English style. for instance. he Is un- surpassed. He is regarded as one of the greatest Bible scholars who has lived in modern times. One of his most illumi- mating essays Is The Old English Bible, published in a collection of brilliant pa pares in 1s97 The abbot is now the pres- ident of the international commission ap- pointed by Pope Plus for the revision of the Vulgate.
 Abbot Gasquet recently visited this country, and, although he is monk, he mingled more in general society than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

A federal judge says Wilson and Bryan, being drawn into war with Mex ico in spite of their love of peace, offer a striking example of the grim jests fate plays on helpless men. A jubilant army and navy are not disposed to feel the least bit sorry for the President and his Secretary of State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
Grass Plots should He Protected

Until the pedestrians of Birmingham learn to be more considerate there can be no grass plots around the edges of the parks or along the sidewalks unless the grass is protected" said a citizen who takes an interest in the City Beautiful movement.
 At few homes in the downtown district with only a little sward between the building and the sidewalk the house. holder manages to keep the grass in good condition by using posts and chain. The chain drops into a line of grace be- tween the posts, and while serving as fence does not offend the esthetic sense, but several persons of taste who have tried to keep grass in the spaces between the sidewalks and the curbing have found it impossible, because children, or grown folks who are inconsiderate, trample on the grass as soon as 1t comes up.
 General Louis V. Clark has recently had the earth along the sidewalk at his beautiful building-The Park Tnn-at the corner of Park avenue and Twentieth street, carefully prepared for a luxurious crop of grass. Seed was sown and grass roots were set out, so that matted sward would soon be forthcoming, but already pedestrians and peanut vendors have been trespassing.
 Tt might be well Co have signs put up reading, Please Keep Off the Grass
 but a better way, perhaps, would be to have little sticks driven into the ground and strings stretched from stick to stick serving as reminders to pedestrians. The city does not allow the use of wire, be- cause a walker not looking just where he or she was going or what he or she was coming up against might trip and be thrown down, thereby sustaining serl- ous injuries, which in turn would result in a damage suit. But coming back to the original suggestion, pedestrians should be taught more consideration. Why do not those interested in the City Beautiful
 work try to educate people to keep off the grass without being expressly told?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

BEGINNJNG THE DAY-I thank Thee. O God, that Thou makes' me unhappy when l do wrong. Make me ever more sensitive, that when I sin even in smallest measure my pain may bring me back 10 ihee' May I never grow eaiious enoush .o sin without suffering. In Christ's name, Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

The Pittsburg man who was fined s25 for kissing a woman's hand, got very lit- tie for his money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Now that the navy is dry" will every new battleship be christened with a bot tie of grape juice?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

mode of travel in existence except walk ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
ARKANSAS JURISPRUDENCE.

Silas: Did you win your suit?
 Jonas: es, won it, but my fool op- ponent took 1t to the circus court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
THE TREND OF THE TIMES.

THE TREND OF THE TIMES. Clubwoman: How time does fly. I've been so busy preparing a paper on the diff ference between George Elliott's "Ro- mola' and Mrs. Humphry Wards "El- eanor" that I haven't had time to mend the baby's gown"
 SCOOP FEM UP. He: "So General Wotherspoon may suc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

J. Hamilton Lewis whose whiskers re- semble those of the god of war, says he is ready to go to the front
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Press agents whose jobs depend on their ability to put over" stories are in despair these days when war news crowds out of newspapers the best yarns they can invent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER

She: Tt won't be much of a war 1T. We can whip those Mexicans with d spoon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Mrs. Drummond, militant suffragette lea der, shouted so loud in court where she was being tried that proceedings had to be stopped. The court, it seems didn't dare to stop Mrs. Drummond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Learning how to dance the Argentine tango requires time but time is nothing to people with the tango habit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Christabel Pankhurst was not permitted to speak in Dresden. If she were in Eng land Christabel would speak anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
ONE WAY

Cornwallis-West didn't waste much time in getting married again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
THoUGHT FOR TO-DAY

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 If people never made mistakes there would be no rubber tips on lead pencils.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

The Chicago man who committed sui eide while his wife was giving a bridge party chose a time when he was sure not to be observed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Minnesota fishermen are having a dis pute over the catfish law. It is time for the Ulster crisis and the Mexican imbroglio to take a back seat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Representative Saunders says two bat tleships will be enough to settle Mex ico's hash MT. Saunders Is a rsmall navy man to the vanishing point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
Boston Globe

l love to use the telephone
 And shout myself quite hoarse. It nearly does just me derange To have a voice ask. Which exchange ?'
 When I mean main" of course"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

letter written by Lucretia Borgia brought 5000 in recent sale, although Lucretia's speciality was not letter writ ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

A Chicago newspaper says Coxey is as anarchronistic as "ta-ra-ra -boom-de which puts him almost in the same class with the dodo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Massachusetts will not have a eugenics marriage law after all. As a fad eu- genics never touched the common people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
INDOOR SPORT.
have the telenhone

I love to have the telephone
 Arouse me from sweet slumber, And while l wait with anxious ear These softly spoken words to hear
 Wrong number"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

l love to have the telephone, Oft in the chilly nighttime, Ring out as though someone were mad To tell me this here message sad: "Hold-th' line"
 1aBa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

Entered at the Birmihgham' Ala, ,,,s.offics as second class matter under act of Congress March B. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

l love to have the telephone
 Whirr. till my brain is dizzy; And as l rush to make reply, This is the answer that gets by:
 Lines busy.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
NEXT COMES THE STRAND
New Theatre Will Be World
Largest Motion Picture House

The Strand, the new theatre ~ Broad
way and nth street, will open next Sal
urdsy evening. II probably viii be the
largest motion picture theatre in the
world and certainly much more pretcn-
tous than any other film house in .hs
part OF the country. The building Is OF
the most modern freproof construction
and is equipped with every modern con-
yenience and arrangement for the satis-
factory projection and display OF pictures
The auditorium has seating capacity OF
nearly $500
A continuous performance from noon
until midnight is TO be the policy or inc
Strand One Of the most noteworthy fear
ures will be the showing OF series
known as THE Strand Daily Topics
which will consist Of pictures OF news
events. comics and SCENES. This will be
the first attempt TO offer daily news film
and therefore is deserving Of more than
passing attention. The daily production
will supplement big feature film, which
probably will be changed weekly.
The picture which will be shown at the
opening is the Selig photo drama OF Rex
Beach's widely read novel THE Spoilers
1t was prepared az the Los Angeles stu
dos under the personal direction ot the
author. and at private showing IN chi
cago last week was much commences.
William Farnum and kathlyn Williams
head the cast, which also includes Bessie
Eyton. Thomas Santsch Frank Clark.
Marshall Farnum and Wheeler Oakman.
The picture programme at the Strand
faI its mtstE
elaborate line Of musical entertainment.
Besides two organs there Will be an or
chestra of twenty-five pieces and quar-
let OF singers. Arthhr Depe~ and Her
bert sisson are the orsansts. while the
orchestra is under the direction OF Carl
Edouarde.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
VILLA AS A HERO.

News interest and a dramatic enect
will be combined in THE Life OF Genera
Villa" a picture now being made IN Mex
leo by the Mutual company. The MIN is
not being prepared with the idea OF per
petuating the name OF the rebel leader
but rather because he is an international
figure and therefore makes valuable
subject for the only international Ian
cuage. the motion picture.
The arrangements for the pictures we're
made by Fl. f.. Aitken, president of the
Mutual Film Company. who visited via
at Oiinaga and later at Chihuahua.
A large part of the production will be
devoted to the present campaign. Carl
Won Hoffman. one of the most daring car'
era men i'm the world. has succeeded IN
getting views of actual fighting, being
specially fortunate in the assault on Tor
reon. These will be included i'm the biog-
raphy and will be supplemented by re-
enacted battle OF Ojinaga, which will b.
arranged by Raoul Madero. General Car
rama. Governor Chao of Chihuahua and
General Rodriguez provided OF course.
that these men survive the battles which
are taking place daily.