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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
Some Interesting Animals

The Captain Richards jungle shows
seems to have met with the approval of
the public, to judge by the crowds that
daily pay the 10 cents admission fee to
see the animals said a visitor to the ex-
hibitfon. THE shows are the most COM
plete have seen, almost every variety
Of animal being shown.
Perhaps the most interesting of all
the animals to the children are the
monkeys and the little baby bear. The
monkey cage is filed with chattering ami
mails all of which seem to take especial
delight in screamin gat the visitors. Miss
Patsy, a little black monkey. is perhaps
the most friendly of the collection, for
she is ever ready to shake hands with
anyone who desires, and she does not at
tempt to use her teeth.
Teddy the cub bear, is so near like a
human baby that he is really lovable
The attendant feeds him milk and if he
is not given his food before any of the
other animals he sits on his launches,
points his noise in the air and cries In a
most pitiful manner. If this crying does
not soon bring the desired end he will
turn over on his back, pointing all four
of his feet skyward and give the most
realistic exhibition of a bear In distress I
ever saw. He begins his cry with a low
wall. going on up the scale to a high
soprano note and coming down to sniffles.
When he gets what he wants the crying
stops instantly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
Collector of Port of Mobile

1t was more than a matter of state
pride which prompted people of Ala
bama in their effort to secure the APP
pointment of an Alabaman as collec-
tor of the port OF Mobile The position
is one essentially appertaining to and
belonging to Alabama.
But the President because he had
given the position of collector of inter-
nal revenue for the states of Alabama
and Mississippi to an Albanian, con-
ceived the idea of giving the collector
ship Of the port of Mobile to a resident
of Mississippi. Senator Vardaman has
recommended p W. Maer of Colum-
bus. That he will be appointed is taken
for granted.
Mr. Maer is editor of the Columbus
Dispatch He is president of the Maer
Realty company. He is man of fine
address and is considered an orator by
his friends in Mississippi. There seems
10 be no question but that he will give
satisfaction as collector of the port,
and it is fortunate that the President,
in going out of this state to select his
should have chosen a man
of Mr.. Maer's qualifications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS
the Cincinnati Enouirer.

rom tue CINCINNATI
The president of the Cirrhosis of the
Liver club is the lad who says: "Aw,
come on. One more won't hurt you"
Somehow or other a debtor and a
creditor never figure interest the same
way.
A man can do an awful lot of Dragging
about his ancestors, considering the fact
that they are to blame for him.
The reason why man is regarded as the
superior animal is because he'll be
burned if he'll wear clothes that button
up the back.
Clothes make the man, and a lack OF
them make the women.
The more girl looks like a banana
these days, the more stylish she is.
When you are broke in a strange town
pedigree won't get you a nickel or q
square meal.
No. little Bright Eyes. woman
doesn't dress to kill when she goes to a
slaughter sale
Styles is great stuff. A girl can make
six stylish skirts out of the one stylish
skirt that grandma wore.
When you can't bribe a man to do 8
fool thing you can always dare him anc
he II do it for nothing.
Every man believes that if other peo
pie were as charitable as he is, ther,
would be no poor.
/ don't see why Diogenes had to hunt
so long to find an honest man. Just ash
the first man you meet and he'll admit
that he is the party.
1t is always the woman who has raised
poodle and a canary and two goldfish
who kniws all about the proper way to
raise children
Advice is the only thing that is harder
70 take than castor OIL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
SHAW ON CHOOSING A WIFE

do not believe you will ever have any
Improvement in the human race until YOU
gerately widen the area of possible selec-
tion until you make 1t as wide as the
numbers of the community make it,
writes George Bernard Shaw in the Metro
politan Magazine. Just consider that
occurs at the present time I walk down
oxford street, let me say, as a young
man. / see a woman who takes nv
fancy. l fall in love with her. 1t would
seem very sensible in an intelligent com
munity that 1 should take off my hat
and say to this lady: "Will you excuse
me, but you attract me very strongly, and
If you are not already engaged, would
you mind taking my name and address
and considering whether you would care
to marry me?" Now, I have no such
chance at present. Probably when l meet
that woman she is either a eharwoman
and l cannot marry her, or else she is a
duchess and she will not marry me-
L have purposely taken the charwoman
and the duchess; but. we cut matters
class distinctions, all found upon ineoual-
ity VI lHCoHle, so narrow ana so small
that have time and again spoke to Eng
lish audiences of all classes throughout
the Kingdom, and | have said to every
man and woman in the audience: ''You
know perfectly well that when it came to
your turn to be married, you had not, as
a young man or a young woman, the
choice practically of all the unmarried
young people of your own age in our 40 =
100000 population to choose from. You
had at the outside a choice of two or
three, and you did not like any of them
very particularly as compared to the
one you might have chosen If you had had
a larger choice" That is a fact which
you gentlemen with your knowledge of
life cannot deny. The result Is that you
have instead of natural evolutionary
sexual selection, class selection which
is really a money selection. Is it to be
wondered at that you have an inferior
and miserable breed under. such circum-
stances?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
Automobile a Factor in Civilizatio

Automobile Factor in Civilization
Up to the present hour the railroad
has been deemed the greatest factor in
civilization that the world has known.
1t has united the orient and the occi-
dent; it has clasped hands across the
almost impossible desert and con-
verted the barren waste into fair and
prolific garden. 1t has built cities
upon spots that once stood in dreary
isolation; it has supplied the table of
the northerner with the fruits of the
tropics in midwinter and converted
ice into familiar object among the
palms, the fig and the olive in the
heat of summer. 1t has made Moham-
medans of Buddhists and Christians
of Mohammedans; it has subdued the
Rockies and the Andes and driven the
tiger and the lion from the jungle.
All this has it done, and yet it's work
at civilization seems about to be
eclipsed by that of the automobile.
| There is today one car in the United
States for every 81 persons thereof !;
seventeen auto cars for every railroad
locomotive, and twenty-eight such
motors for every passenger coach in
the country.
The last tabulation gave 1,127,94O
registered automobiles in this country,
of which less than half of / per cent
were imported
The number has nearly doubled
since 1911, and it is estimated that
this years construction will total $780,
| 900 new machines, at a value of at
least $1,000 each. The present years
exports of the car will reach the sum
of $35, 100000.
The popularity of the automobile is
attested by the fact that they exist in
greater numbers in the farming COM
munities than they do around either
New York or Chicago, ood - = :, 4So
rural districts that a demand therefor
is springing up which it is difficult
for manufacturers adequately to meet.
But it permeates all walks of life.
From its supplanting of the truck
wagon in regions of peace and plenty,
it has gone to the field of carnage
where it has taken in a measure the
place of the horse in warfare. 1t domi
mates the traffic of such congested
centers as London and Paris and ex-
cepting the airship and water craft it
leads in the channels of transporta-
ton. Not only has it revolutionized
war equipment but in hospital work it
has become the angel of mercy, and to
its expedition many victim of acci-
dent or disease owes his or her life.
What its efficiency and province
will be decade hence human wisdom
dare not presage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29

men would be, as they are now, alas,
free, unhindered again to meet some
wayfarer in the night season and
make murderous attempt on his life.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that
the time has come when Birmingham
can ill afford to rock along with
police department which from want Of
numbers is the object of the derision
of thieves and the heartless ridicule of
would-be murderers. A we'll equipped
force might not prevent tragedy, and
might not capture all criminals. But it
would instill such fear in the breast of
the evildoer that he would obey a
gentle inclination to go elsewhere
when the temptation to steal or shed
innocent blood became a burning pas
sion with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
NO NOISE. NO SIN

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Large was the smile that Illuminated
the features of Congressman Joseph j.
Russell of Missouri, at a recent din
ner. when one of the speakers referred
to the ease with which one may iuggle
his conscientious scruples. He said he
was reminded of the case of Mrs. Smith,
One Sunday morning. just as she was
about to start for church, Mrs. Smith
heard fierce hammering in the back
yard and fastening thither to investi-
gate, she found hubby driving nails into
the kids express wagon with mighty
strenuousness.
"What in the world are you doing
John?" expostulated the good woman.
What will the neighbors say?'
II don't care a continental what the
neighbors say" responded John. as he
continued to ply his hammer. II have
got to fix this express wagon"
ITS wrong of you to break the Sab
bath that way. John, and you know it,
returned wifey, with a severe expression
why don't you use screws?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
Work of Highwaymen

Monday night A. J. Clark, proprie-
tor of restaurant, encountered a
highwayman and as a result of ar
exchange of shots received more OF
less serious wounds.
Tuesday night R. H. 0'Hare, 51I
Twenty first street, encountered q
highwayman, and when he defied the
desperado, received bullet wound ir
his leg. The bone was broken and am
putation may be necessary.
Both occurrences were in Birming'
ham and on successive nights.
1t is possible that had the Birming-
ham police department numbered a
thousand men the outrages would have
occurred. And perhaps the highway
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINAL

From New Hope for the Convict by
Richard Barry, in the February Cen
tury.
We have been shamefully neglecting
our criminals until very recently. After
hunting, convicting and imprisoning them
we have seemed to feel that our whole
duty to them and society was ended We
forgot not only the duty we owed our
selves, which the words of President
Hayes well pointed out, but we forgot the
duty we owed the man from whom we
had taken liberty.
Depriving him of liberty, we FASTENED
to assume, deprived him of all rights. Not
so Even a man condemned to death pos
sesses certain rights. Especially does
the ordinary convict possess rights which
do not belong to the man who has never
been convicted of a crime. For in de-
priving him of his powers of initiative.
we assume those powers. Therefore it is
his right that he should receive from us
the proper exercise of those powers of
which we have deprived him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
Travelling SoI,fh


The tide of northern tourists contln-
ues to flow SOUTH" said a representative
of the Illinois Central and Central OF
Georgia railways in Birmingham
The passenger list is always heavy on
our Seminole limited, which passes
through this city daily from northern
Illinois and as far south as Jackson
vile; and now in anticipation of Febru-
arys dreaded change in temperature
birmingham tourists are joining the
general movement under way toward the
summer resorts of Florida. Our passen-
ger agent here is doing a great busi-
ness now.
Although this district enjoys an ex-
ceptionally mild and healthful climate
many of its citizens like change OF
scene and the pleasure afforded in the
magnificent resorts dotting the coast
of the semi-tropical sea to the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29

Insurance companies are pretty close
estimaters of risks and the state fire
marshal of Minnesota has Just declared
that the working woman runs a great
peril from her tight skirt inasmuch as
in case of fire she could not possibly get
garment. He asserts in all seriousness
that not one girl in ten could get out
alive from the fourth floor of a burning
haste is necessary. If this Is true the
only way out of the dilemma seems to
be in not erecting buildings over three
stories in height.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
SPIRIT VISIONS

a local newspaper man has Just re-
turned from a visit to New Orleans and
gives US such a glowing description OF a
gin f1zz called lone and only" prepared
by one Ramos of that city that our muse
mas been impulsed to burst forth in this
manner:
l have tasted of the nectar
And Hymettus' honey famous
But they cannot be compared
With that rare gin flzz of Ramos.
| have tasted of the kiss.
OF a maiden in her teens.
But that zone and only one"
That is made in New Orleans
The lip of maid surpasses.
And all sweets beneath the sun:
Even sorghum and molasses.
None like "one and only one"
You can hear the bees a humming.
And sense the violets smell;
You can see the fairies coming
From without the elfn dell
You can hear the lark atuning.
And the sweet-voiced nightingale;
The moclxing birds all spooning
With their mates within the dale.
Like the darkeys at a quilting,
Or singing in the patch:
Like the mountain streams soft lifting
Or a fiddle meath the thatch
OF the darkeys' humble shanties,
With Dinah at the tray,
And Abe growing, in jean panties,
Mo like his daddy every day.
You can see the sun asserting
In crib of gold and fire:
You can hear the angels fretting
Strings of seraphic Tyre.
You can see the moonbeams quiver
Where wrath and goblin dance
You can hear the aspens shiver
Like a slver-pointed lance.
You can hear the kettle dancing,
And the spinning wheels soft hum;
The bugle note enhancing
And the roll of kettle drum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
the Houston Chronicle.

From the Houston Chronicle
At recent dinner in suburban dis
trict, where all the guests were amateur
chicken raisers, after a discussion of
the egg problem the conversation turned
to the best breed of hens After the good
points of Orpingtons. Minorcas, Leg
horns and others had all been brought
forth the host said
''Well. the ultimate end of every
chicken is the pot, and you can't tell
the difference when it is on the table.
Let's see how many can tell what kind
of hen we have just eaten.''
All agreed it was a very good kind,
but there were many guesses as to
the breed. The only child at the table
a 12-year-old boy, was the one who
guessed correctly.
The host beamed on him and said
Jimmie. how did you know it was a
Plymouth Rock?"
''Oh, that was easy he replied, Il
found feather in the gravy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29

startle the entire country, is of enormous
thickness and if we find oil at all, as We
are practically sure we will, it will be
in almost unlimited quantities The good
weather of the past few weeks has
had much to do with the progress the
drillers are making. We are approach
ing the crisis when we are about to re-
alize whether or not the scientific propo-
sition we have worked out is to be proven
in fact or not and we admit We are get
ting a little excited as the show down
approaches."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
Two Notable Actresses

'"rhe coming of Mrs. Fiske at the
Jefferson Friday night and followed the
next night by Madame Nazimova, will
eb two notable theatrical events locally,
said a man interested in the theatre yes
terday. Mrs. F'iske is well known and
has large following in Birmingham,
while Nazimova as transplanted for
eign celebrity is of sufficient renown
to command the respectful attention of
theatregoers everywhere.
I'm The High Road Mrs. F'lske brings
to Birmingham one of the strongest of
American dramas. 1t is from the pen
of Edward Sheldon, the young Harvard
graduate. who at the age of 81, has al
ready achieved fame as dramatist
Mr.. Sheldon Is the author of Romance
The Niger Salvation Nell and
The Boss 1t is stated that in THE
High Road Mrs Fiske has untold OPP
portunities for display of temperament
and historic talent. large and Sc
lect audience will greet the noted artist
on her present visit.
although Saturday night is not a
very propitious evening for theatresoers
in Birmingham, it is certain that the
opportunity of seeing Madame Nazimova
in Bella Donna will not be overlooked
Many remember this noted actress in the
Ibsen plays: Hedda Gabler and THE
Doll House. Her work in Bella Donna
dramatization of the novel of the
same name of Robert Hichens, by James
Bernard Fagan, will be watched with
interest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
DANGERS OF VIOLATING A PAROLE


From New Hope for the Convict" by
Richard Barry, in the February Cen
tury.
Most people," concluded CIeghorne,
get the idea that convicts are unlike
other men. They are mistaken Convicts
are human beings. They reason, just
like other people, and they are usually
lot more sensitive to argument than any
one else. I'll gamble my job against a
nickel that if one of those convicts runs
away and we catch him and bring him
back here, the others will just about kill
him. For the first time in the history of
this prison the inmates have been told
they had honor, and it will go hard with
the first man that tries to disprove it,"
Cleghornes prediction was justified. One
of the men ran away from the road gang,
and he got clear of the state of Colo
rado; but about three months afterward
he was caught in Montana. He was
brought back to Canon City, and the first
night he was in the yard with his fellows
the members of the road gang from
which he had escaped beat him very near
ly to death. They would have killed him
had the guards not intervened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29

Because the Going law of Arkansas
provides that petition bearing the sig
natures of majority of the white adult
residents" of community must be pre-
sented before liquor license can be is
sued, the Attorney General of that staue
has declared it unconstitutional as bar
ring negroes from the petition. Arkansas
had either too many or not enough law
yers in her legislature when that law
was enacted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
What the Railroad Will Do for Alaska

The imnortance of the Alaskan rail-
wav. which now seems tolerably well
assured, can hardly be estimated
Alaska is probably the richest possess
sion of the United States and is now
the battle ground between private cor
porations and paternalistic govern
ment.
The Indians of that country are a
hardy and industrious race but are
suffering from too sudden contact
with civilization and their inability to
adjust themselves thereto on such "a
short notice without help: 1t is this
help that the railroad will enable the
government to render them, for much
of the misery of the unfortunate peo-
pie was thrust upon them by the hand
Of the capitalist. The natives refused
to become slaves to monotonous en-
ployment, and they were cast aside by
the employers in favor of white work
ers.
So far our government has assisted
them in earning living by the in
PRODUCTION of the reindeer industry,
stations having been established un-
der the care Of government herders.
Having no cities they need hospitals,
churches and schoolhouses and all
these the railroad will enable the gov
ernment to give them.
Then again owing to lack of employ
ment which cities furnish, the Indians
are prone to migrate to hunting or
fishing grounds and this proclivity our
government has in measure checked
by establishing sawmills operated by
Indians. The railroad will enable the
products of these mills to be readily
placed upon the market and thus in
crease the demand and consequently
the number of laborers SO employed.
All this will emphasize the necessity
for ceasing to follow a nomadic life
and become Injured to the drudgery of
settled vocation.
Just as soon as the railroad is es-
tabished the government will foster
native craft, such as the making Of
baskets, mats, nets and wood carving.
rf In1i n
the carving of metal that silver and
copper articles are manufactured in
the east and sent to Alaska to be
finished by the natives. He is an ex-
pert tanner, but owing to lack OF
transportation deer skins there are
thrown aside as useless. All this the
railroad will correct. During the past
twenty years the government has ap-
propriated $292,0O0 for the reindeer
industry, which now approXimates in
value 81, ,162, 2,060, gain of 298 per
cent. The reindeers number S,476 an
imals, of which 24,068, or 62.5 per
cent, belong to the natives, the rest
being divided between the government,
the missions and the Lapps. The rein
Ndeer are worth $25 per head, so that
the number owned by the natives rep
resent capital of S601, 200, while the
industry for one year exclusive of the
hidac and p1aat uSed hv tho pofiyac
amounted to $44, ,885.04. The railroad
will increase this an hundredfold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
BEGINNING THE DAY. am the

BEGINNING THE DAY. am the
cIny, o Lord; Thou art the potter.
own vondrous will. Thou hast colors
and forms of undreamt of beauty.
Might 1 not desire them of Thee.
whilst Thou nrt making me make
me fnir. mike me yinsomc. D Thou
Infinite Artificer. And / know fha'
Thou wilt. If / can but bend TO the
blowing of Thy pleasure. Amen.-
II. NJ. Il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER

You can hear the lamblzins bleating
And the gently lowing kline;
You can see the poppies beating
Along a wind-swept line.
You surely cannot blame us
For doing as we've done:
You'd do the same if Ramos
Gave you "one and only one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
THE DEMAGOGUE IN ECLIPSE

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The battle is over the truce has been
established; the parties to the contro-
very are in amicable parley; the terms
of permanent peace are to be deter
mined; the main articles have been
agreed upon and now there remain only
the details to be settled and, in the lam
Suage of President Wilson, even the
spirit of antagonism between govern
ment and business has disappeared The
details of the settlement are of value;
they are to be Incorporated in five stat
utes.
Guilt is to be personal hereafter. Guilt
has always been personal II was indl-
vidual and personal when Mr.. Roose-
Welt refused to accept that view from
his own counsel in the case of Paul
Morton and the Santa Fe railroad re-
bates. 1t is personal under the common
law; under every act of Congress and
legislature and also under the crimina.
sections of the Sherman act itself.
Business has become so accustomed
to certain evil practices that when at
length the trust prosecutions began the
general sense of the community revolt
ed at the notion of clapping into prison
the persona who happened to be caught
in the tide of opprobrium directed
against a common habit The Attorney
General under the direction of the Presi-
dent, at any time since the enactment
of the Sherman law, could have visited
prison sentences upon the individuals
who disobeyed the criminal section of
the law. provided public opinion had
sustained that course. The proposed law
merely gives expression to what is now
believed to be the better course; punish
the guilty man and save from disturbance
the inanmate business agency which is
owned by innocent investors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-29
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE TRIAL OF DREYFUS

dered further investigation, and on
July II, 1906, decided that his conviction
had been based on forgery, and that
Dreyfus was innocent. that the agitation
came to a final conclusion. He was then
restored to his rank in the army and pro-
NOTED to major. 1t was one of the great
est conspiracies and one of the most un.
just convictions in history.
Tomorrow-The trial of Danton.