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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04
MISMATED.

How on earth did they happen to get married?"
 "Tm sure I can't imagine. She reads Ibsen while he browses in the pages of sporting extra"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04

PIsCATORIAL CELEBRITIEs From the Columbia State. Margaret Anglin. Enrique Creel., Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Bud Fisher. Former Governor Bass. Dr. Fiifney.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04
IMPROVEMENTS.

Things haven't changed much in Pikesville I haven't seen the place in years. but Major Spence is still, wearing the same old Prince Albert coat he used to wear, Dr. Gridley is driving the same old nag to the same old dilapidated buggy and Sam Hoskins occupies the same cracker box at Lem Perkins grocery store"
 I'm afraid you are not a close ob- server. There's new horse trough in the public square. the courthouse has, been repainted and both of the Pikesville po- licemen wear uniforms now.'
 WORTH STRIVING FOR. The ransomed souls in paradise Who quaff no more of sorrows cup, Shall learn with infinite surprise That golden streets are not torn up For laying tracks and sewer mains And pipes for gas and water too; And no one in that place complains Of tax assessments falling due.
 P. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04
THE DIFFER- E.

When man says anything he regrets he can take 1t back
 Quite sos But when he writes anything he regrets he has to buy it back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04

Entered al the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04

r,n.r,x, Freedom. Tyranny Is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry 1t about ,"e
 streets. -Juh"s N"e'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04
CALLINGs.

Our grocer has a cheerful face,
 But 1 like not his grin. His bill he brings with smiling grace
 He is Bill-ikin. -Detrai+ Nau-s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04
TELEPHONE E

Bell (privnte exchange connec'ihe HI departments), Main 49OOs
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A J. Eaton, Jr., and 0. b. Young are the only authorized travelins repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald in us circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04

Our coal man happens in the while;
 His face is merry, quite; But do we like his beaming smile? Not by an anthracitei
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
REORGANIZATION.

It cannot be that He who made
This wondrous world of our delight,
Designed that all its charms should
fade
And pass forever from our sight;
all shall Wither and decay,
And know on earth no life but this,
With only one finite survey
OF all it's beauty and it's bliss.
1t cannot be that all these years
OF toll and care and grief we live
Shall n no recOmpense but tears,
No sweet return that earth can give;
all that leads us to aspire,
And struggle onward to achieve,
And every unattained desire
Were given only to deceive.
1t cannot be that, after all,
The mighty conquests of the mind,
Our thoughts shall pass beyond recall
And leave no record here Behind;
That all u dreams of love and fame
And hopes that time has swept
away
All that enthralled this mortal frame
Shall not return some other day.
1t cannot be that all the ties
OF kindred souls and loving hearts
Are broken when this body dies,
And the immortal mind departs;
That nc serener light shall break
At last upon our mortal eyes,
To guide us as our footsteps make
The pilgrimage to Paradise.
David Hanks Sickels.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
Each Day It's Garden joys.

Walter A. Dyer in The Craftsman:
Cur back yard is small; the garden is
Lilliputian. And yet within it's modest
boundaries l can always find more
joyful surprises in my short perambu-
lation than a day in the whirling city
can offer me. Never a morning, be-
tween frost and frost, that does not
present some new attraction unsus-
pected or only hoped for the day be-
fore. The buds have broken on the
grapevine; or a yellow crocus is In
bloom; or the tender green of the let
-tuce shows in a delicate line on the
brown soil; or our first rose has ap--
peared; or there are tiny pods on the
pea vine; or the corr is in tassel; or
a tomato CLOVIS rich red; or-but the
list is endless.
It Is worth while t plant and tend
and garner. / cannot understand the
man or woman with a back yard who
is blind to these morning surprises
and deaf to the call Of his bit or the
soil. I cannot understand the heart
that will deliberately close it's doors to
these free and God-given joys.
I am one of those who AN go TO
work afoot, and after breakfast I can
prolong my morning chapel, in a man
bner, by glimpses into other yards
Ialong the pleasant way to the shop. L
like to fancy that DR.. Ludlow is re.
joicing over the full blown beauty OF
his symmetrical cherry tree, or tnat
Mrs. Sanders has gazed with aston
ished delight that morning upon her
first pink peonies. I wave a mental
salutation as / pass and feel that we
understand each other.
And then in June there is he square
white house with the supergorgeous
roses. behind it. I mean to get &C
qainted and enter that backyard
some day. I feel that 1t would be
worth while. / know that 1T would
put our humble rosebed to shame
though I am still haunted by the con
yiction that our Killarneys are just a
shade the finest roses ever grown in
open.
GOD bless you, brother back yards
men, May your lettuce never fail to
head nor your hollyhocks to bloom
And at your morning worship know
that I am with you in spirit, ina
our common text is Consider the
L lilieg."
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
Nan send three Words a Second.

New York sun: Theodore r.
Lemke, New York representative OF
the Tuckerton Radio. station, told The
sun recently that not only had Presi-
dent Wilson, Mayor Mitchell, Cong.
Herman A. Metz, and others. exchang-
led measures of con~gratulation with
Emperor William of Germany, py
trans Atlantic wireless through the
Tuckerton station, but that the Ger
sonally visited the company's station
near Hanover to witness the workings
Of the new system.
Emperor William and the empress
were interested in the nan
used. which is the invention OF pr.
Rudolf Goldschmidt. The distinguish
ed features of DR.. Goldschmidt's al
paratus are elimination of h spark
gap and a singing wheel, which en-
ables the receiver to be tuned instant
ly to any wave length. The spark gap
is replaced by a high frequency ma
chine In which the electro magnet ra-
| dio waves are formed. These are sent
out by antennae at the summit OF the
steel masts. The singing wheel makes
the soldschmidt wireless almost in
reference proof. Outsiders must pitch
their instruments to within ,05 per
cent of the wave length being used in
order to get anything understandable
out of the air.
Mr.. Lemke said that messages had
been sent and received at the rate Of
seventy or eighty words a minute.
This is extraordinary speed, but it is
expected that a rate of 200 words a
minute will be achieved eventually.
The men In charge of h Gold
| schmidt system expect ultimately to
send transatlantic messages at a.
rate as low. as s cents q. word.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
SATURDAY. JULY II, 1914.
AN OPPORTUNITY,

THE farmers of North Dakota have
al splendid opportunity to turn an ex-
fra profit this fall by %fattening stock
for market on their field, after h crop
has been taken off. Last fall a num-
her of North Dakota farmers made
good money in this way and the OPP
p~5ortunity this year is greater because
the bountiful supply Of moisture stor-
ed in the ground will keep the fields in
excellent shape for this purpose.
Already in some parts OF the state
that farmers have begun to plan on
getting cattle and sheep from Montana
and western North Dakota to put on
the finishing touches for the market.
There is big money in fat cattle, while
range fed stock can be bought for very
reasonable prices, and the farmer who
uses up the pasturage on his fields
that will otherwise go to waste, is
getting just that much extra profit for
the year.
In addition to pasturage considerable
corn or other grain a be fed and the
stock put in prime condition for mar
Iket. This we'll fatted stock is the kind
that the buyers fight owe when 1t
reaches the markets.
The Forum calls attention to this,
because there will undoubtedly by
hundreds of fields of excellent pastur-
age go to waste this fall, which could
be turned into hard cash with a little
thought and effort. It's a live oppor-
.tIluity.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
THE JUNE FIRE LOSS,

The losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during the month
of June, as compiled by The Journal
of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin,
aggregate 1923, 5000, an increase Of
81, 405, 800 over the figures for June
last year, which was largely due to
the losses by the Salem conflagration.
The losses for the first half Of 1914
reach the unusually large total of
$133,O1S,250, as compared with $11S,-
245,6 $50 for the first six months Of
1918. The following table gives a
comparison of the losses by months
this year with those Of the same
months in 1913, and 1912. together
with the monthly record for the bal
Of those years:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
Daddy; Bedtime
q, Granny Perch
dow Gives a Delightful
Swimming Party.

%WAHB perch family had given a swimming party only a few days before.
and daddy asked Jack and Evelyn il they would like to hear about it
Indeed, W woudr" said Jack. you know, daddy that anything
about swimming peases me"
Eyes" said Evelyn, land I would like to hear about the fish having a good
time instead of being caught"
"These fish certainly did have a good time. They live in a small lake.
which is lot far from here's and, oh, such a time al they did have!" daddy re
piled. 1
ut was Grannie Perchs idea in the first place, you see. She a very
anxious to show that o Of the younger ones could swim faster O with
10 grace than she could, and 30 she suggested the party.
"An the rest o. the perch family were delighted at the idea, though, and
they didn't much care who won the swimming race, which was to be the
great event of the afternoon, so long as they had all the fun of Il.
"Of course they were to have many other races besides swimming aces
There were to be obstacle races. In these races two fishes were tt swim to-
gether and entwine their tails 10 IS to make it harder to get along But the
pair that managed best together we're to get a double prize.
"At last when the afternoon came the fishes were all 10 excited that they
didn't do anything IS well IS they could ordinarily.
"But Grannie Perch raj right in her element She loved showing OF and
was always best 1t everything when she had a audience to watch her.
"The swimming ace vas to be the very first thing m the program.
"Now, as you know, naturally, the perch family don't find it at all hard
Just IS there are a great many people who Cal walk faster than others!
"But, strangely enough, when they had actually started In the race some
Of them felt quite shaky and didn't swim in a really straight line for the goal
members Of the perch family congratulated her, and she felt very proud and
with pride when some Of the cousins and relations came up to her and said:
There never has been a swimmer like you, has there, grann1eT
"Of course grannie vas perfectly delighted at the praise, but she had II
ranged a nice party for them. They had high diving competitions, the obsta-
Gle races and a water polo match, besides the swimming race
$50 altogether they had a glorious time of it, and before the party broke
up they had a supper o. most delicious water weed"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
n POET RETURNS.

The starlight lends me raiment;
(How slowly old songs die!)
A dream l give in payment,
OF my dreams newborn and shy.
A moonbeam lends its burden;
CHOW slowly old songs fail!)
A dream l give as %guerdon;
For all my dreams are pale.
So through the dark I wander;
GLOW sweet the old songs seem!)
All undisturbed I ponder;
All palely still I dream.
Beneath the stately beeches
chow sweet the old songs were!)
1 mouth my silver speeches
To make my own heart stir.
Beside the curious river
Chow strange the old songs are!)
I glide to watch the shiVer
On the water Of a star.
Under the nights grave splendor
Chow far the wise old Songs!)
l murmur words as tender
AS a lovers fancied wrongs.
The strange, strong songs I fashioned
CThose songs grown now so old!l
Seem vaguely fair and FASHIONED,
Now my hot heart is cold.
The starlight lends me raiment;
Ny path a white moonbeam.
A song l give in payment,
For love I add a dream.
Victor B. Neuburg.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
USE OF CHURCH BUILDINGS
IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

Christian Science Monitor: The
church was originally a public build
ing devoted to the interests now rep
resented in museums. art galleries,
and theatres, and in the OPINION OF
c. Delisle Burns, who lectured on The
Uses of Church Buildings in the Mid
die Ages. the churches in big cities
are now losing a percentage of their
usefulness because they no longer
open their doors for the purposes
common to them of old. The ground
plans showed, he said, that the
churches We're not designed mainly as
places in which people might sit down
and listen to sermons. In the earliest
churches there were neither pulpit nor
benches, but when the friars came
and preaching began, the pulpit had to
be put in.
Religion in those times was depen-
dent on what was done, and not on
what was said. The church offered
opportunity for performances of a
civic character within it's walls, in the
smaller villages it was used as the
school, and it was also a place of dra-
matte entertainment, managed by the
city companies or the guilds of the
town. Medieval drama was only re-
ligious in the sense that the material
on which the dramatists worked was
taken from the Bible; it was freely
dealt with, and the lecturer, ~Instanced
a nativity play at Wakefield, in which
the shepherds protested against the
conditions of the wool industry of that
day. Theatrical audiences. he said,
were formed by long tradition of the
middle ages, and unless you under
stand this you could not understand
how the Elizabethan drama grew W,
or how Shakespeare obtained audi
ences cultivated enough to understand
his plays. 1t was an immense loss
that in modern times, by an arbitrary
division, we had separated amusement
from instruction, the secular form
from the sacred. ...,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
A Good Manners Week.

Ohio State Journal: What Cleve-
land needs is a better week."
says The Cleveland Leader. That is
true for other places, too. We need
weeks for the virtues of all kinds. We
need a swat the lie week, a simple life
week, a good language week, a non
profanity week, a help your neighbor
week. a quiet loving week, a closed
muffler week, a non-soliciting week, a
cherry pie week, g. clean movie week,
a 5 o'clock getting up week, a picnic
week, a going a%-flshing week-in fact,
we eed weeks Of all kinds to refresh
the soul and stimulate the intellect.
A commission might be appointed to
divide up the whole year into weeks
devoted to our happiest aspirations.
Why not? What's the sense of grow
cling along in loating and trading and
working? What's the sense IL max
ing things worse than they are? Why
shouldn'te We live UP instead Of down?
In tests a French hydroaeroplane,
| weighing five tons and carrying four
men, has made some successful flights.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
WHO Is TO BLAME?

Judge Fawcett of New York recently
delivered some harsh word from the
bench which might be taken to heart
by parents as well as the younger
generation to whom they were adj
dressed. The little grafton was de-
liyered by the judge as he sentenced
two young men for grand larceny:
I@"You two lads are here because j..
YOU were too fond of the white
lights and dancing nights. You
seem to have started out with the
intention Of living as well as you
could without working for 1t, and
let me tell you that our jails and
penitentiaries are rapidly being
Allied by people with just the same
ideas. You can't expect to dance
all night and then lie in bed half
the day without resorting to
something to keep you in funds.
If your families had sent you out
into the world without a cent to
earn your own way you would
soon have returned with your hats
In your hands begging to be taken
back, but because they gave you
an allowance you have wound up
YOUR careers here. If they had
given you good beatings instead
III would have been better for YOU"
All that can be said of this by way
of comment is, that most of the good
advice addressed to young men and
girls is really meant for their parents
They cannot shirk the responsibility.
they cannot blame the downfall soi
&beir children on bad companions
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
STARTING A NEWSPAPER.

Some other line of endeavor gener-
ally looks roster and easier, than the
one in which one is engaged, and to
people on the outside, the newspaper
game always seems to have a peculiar
and particular fascination. 1t seems to
be an easy matter to get people to put
money into a newspaper enterprise.
But the man who expects to reap a
rich harvest with little effort, makes
the mistake of his life when he invests
in a newspaper plant. The latest ex-
ample of this kind is discussed in Edi-
tor and Publisher as follows:
THE Asbury Park Times, a daily
newspaper established last fall by
q group of business men Of that
city, including the head Of its
largest department store, is to
quit the field. According to the
Statement issued by the board Of
directors the Indebtedness above
E54the assets is not large. but the
tsboard declares that because OF
Athe impossibility of longer finan-
cling the enterprise they advise the
winding up of its affairs.
L4lC SLOSh44O4NClS dlS P4ODdbA9
NOW convinced that while 1t Is
$easy to start a daily newspaper,
it is difficult to make 1t a success
q without plenty Of capital, in a field
that offers favorable opportunity.
, when the promoters of the
Times were discussing the FEAST
bility of starting the paper they
, called into conference several
pertenced New York newspaper
, men who unanimously advised
, them against. the project unless
y they were prepared to put up al
. least $1o9, 900 in cash at the start,
and be ready to put up $4,000
more If it should be needed. They
! said that few daily papers pay ex-
b. penses the first year, even in a
favorable field. In Asbury Park
the daily would have to meet the
competition OF an old and we'll
O. established newspaper, and, there
! fore, time would be required to put
Afit on it's feet.
~ This advice was not taken. The
= merchants who organized the COM
pany believed they knew moro
about the matter than the
Sspaper men and went ahead with
the PROJECT. After having put
~ much less than $4,000 into the
Times they now admit that the
5s paper is a failure and hat they
can no longer supply funds for
a carrying it II.
S& 1.-THE hackers Of the Asbury
Park Times are wiser than they
were, and doubtless when, in the
kfuture, someone comes along
seeking for contributions for the
Ia starting of another daily they will
keep a firm grip on their bank
rolls. Their experience has been
s the same as that of many others
~ who have been anxious to pose
as newspaper publishers"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
Tribune's Fluctuations to Miss Lynn.

The editor of The New York Tri-
bune says that the success of Mar
garet Lynn's A S~tepdaughter of the
Prairie is a matter of personal con-
Germ with him. This would seem to
be the case with a great many Of the
literary critics for only at rare inter
walls is a book published which creates
enthusiasm comparable in degree to
that brought forth by the present vol
ume. LAS sensitive a study of the gol-
den age of childhood as one can wish,
and ~delicately humorous withal," is
The. Tribune's Characterization.
There is much of the settlers life in
these pages" the same writer re-
marks, land to that extent the story
is in a minor way a page of the his
tory of the west; but the children,
their interests and doings dominate
the scenes. The reader is constantly
reminded in whimsical or sentimental
ways of his-or her-own childhood"
The Tribune's conclusion is as fol-
lows: 1.-The book is one long delight.
One wishes it the success of the best
seller for every cory Of it read means
a few sunshiny hours added to the
sum total Of u collected happiness"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11

They have no right to simply cry out
in despair against the black sheep, tell
ing the world that they do not know
how its formerly white wool was
changed. It's their own fault. For it
is in their power to prevent what
makes their children criminals and
outcasts.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11

SIS typical, and their d~istressful time
before the acquisition of the treasure
is the experience of the average Am.
erfcan family which keeps girl.
ITS a good story and very human, as
all Mrs. Norris's stories are" comments
the Philadelphia North American, while
the Wisconsin State Journal remarks
editorially that THE Treasure Is SO
typical of many OF our American homes
that it makes one smile just to read
those everyday incidents that at times
are SO hear tragedy" The conclusion
of the New York Herald's detailed ex-
animation of the novel is that 1T Is
not only good reading, but deals SO
adequately with an important topic of
the day that it ought to be in every
library in the country" while the Los
Angeles Sunday Times's summing up Is
that tits a dandy little story
That william Butler Yeats is no less
a master of the prose tale than OF the
poem or play Is demonstrated once
more in Stories of Red Hanrahan.
Though this book has many friends in
England and the continent, where 1t is
held in quite as high esteem as any, OF
its authors work, it is strangely put
little known here. The version. or II
which was brought out in March was
especially prepared by Mr.. Yeats for
American publication from the latest
English rendering, which he enlarged
and considerably revised.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
The Race ProbIam,

The race question has never doomed
larger on the horizon than at present
and John Moffatt Mecklin in Democ-
racy and Race Friction, further term
ed in the subtitle as A Study in So
cial Ethics, deals with 1t with a most
satisfying and somewhat unusual
frankness and conciseness. Professor
Mecklin does not attempt a solution
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
Surprising Cure of Stomach Trouble.

When you have trouble with your
stomach or chronic constipation, don't
imagine that your case is beyond help
just because your doctor fails to give
you relief. Mrs. G. Stengle, Plainfield,
N. J., writes, For over a month past /
have been troubled with my stomach.
Everything l ate upset it terribly. One
Of Chamberlain's advertising booklets
came to me. After reading a few of
the letters from people who had been
cured by Chamberlain's Tablets. l de-
cided to try them. I have taken nearly
three-fourths of a package of them
and now can a almost everything
that I want" For sale by all dealers.
-AdVt,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
y. 1925, 1920, 900 1924, $50

I 7. .Hll0,0 1U,5UU VII, I23,o0U
There were no less than 262 fires
during the month of June his year.
each causing an estimated property
damage of $4,000 or over. A detailed
list of these fires appears on the in
franc page of this issue, but ar
ranged according to their destruc-
tereSting comparison: