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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
TOMoRRow-TRI OF THE MAFIA

form. 1t is rank demagogy to promise
national measures not even mentioned in
the party's platform. and blind hallucina-
tion on the part of his supporters to i'm
agine that Hobson, or any other man, can
alter the national platform.
Besides. 1t is inexplicable to us, outside
of Alabama, how democrats can suppore
one who stands for so many other things
averse to the democratic creed The cam
ddate who announces for election af
President by the people at large, fire.
spective of state lines. is newfanglea
democrat. He is neither Jeffersonian.
Jacksonian or a Baltimore platform dem
ocrat Strictly he is an advanced feder-
alist. and not a believer in the doe-
trine of local self government or reserved
rights of the states. Such candidate
hts the bull moose platform. Yet, while
the bull moose platform stood for the
referendum and recall as national laws
and for the direct instead of the repre-
sentative system of government, all OF
which Mr. Hobson has declared for. vet
the bull moosers drew the line at destroy
ing all state lines by electing presidents
by the popular vote, regardless of stat
1t would assist Mr.. Hobson to get back
into democratic principles il he would
read the words of Jefferson, the books
of DR.. j. l.. NJ. Curry and the speeches or
Ben FILL. r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
LUKE sI'LUKS SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
There are lot of fool indoor pastimes
But swapping wives is about fhe loom
lest.
The girls can get as mad as they aurn
please. But if they don't want us men
to see how they are built why don't they
wear some clothes?
Every girl has two sets of manners
She takes the home set off when she
doffs the greasy kiInono and starts out.
1t has Just about gotten so that il
mother We're to ask daughter to help her
with the washing daughter would call
up the Humane society.
Woman has it all over man. She never
looks warm in summer and she never
looks colds in winter.
Men wonder why boys would rather
run errands for the neghbors for moth
ing than run errands for their parents
for pennies. And yet these same men
would fall all over themselves to pick up
a package FOR a strange woman when
they would let their own wives do their
own picking up.
Almost every day man sees the pret-
test girl he ever saw in his life.
The reason the average man can af-
ford to pay IS cents round for drinks
when he is out with the boys is because
he viii holler murder when his wife
asks him for a dollar for goods so she
can make herself some house aprons
Marriage will always be popular in
stitution as long as men and women are
born with the fool desire to investigate
something they don't understand
If a wife's kisses contained as much
paprika after marriage as they did be.
fore marriage there would be more mar
ried men stay at home at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17

series of narratives, "Gil Bias" holds
| the readers undivided attention to
the last word and no matter how
familiar the book may be, its fasci-
nation seems undiminished. Begin
ming with his early manhood, Gil
Bias adventures cover a great va
riety of human experiences, some of
them little to his credit, but after
many vicissitudes and many sue
cesses, he reaches safe habor at last
and is as well rewarded by the au-
thor as if he had been most praise
worthy person all his life, instead of
a rather unscrupulous fellow during
part of his career and at first an out
and out rogue. Yet, Gil Bias is in the
main likeable enough and he has a
happy faculty of meeting the most
entertaining companions.
The books tfnfailing interest is due
in great degree to the manner, al
most as much as to the style, of its
composition. The wandering Gil Bias
falls in with a great many different
kinds of people and nearly everyone
he meets proceeds forthwith to tell
the "story of his life" SO that the
reader is constantly being introduced
to new scenes, new characters and
new exploits, seemingly more absorb
ing than those already described. The
authors imagination never fails him.
A countless procession of figures,
given life by his genius, move
through the pages until the mind is
bewildered by their numbers and va
riety Bandits, swashbucklers, gal
liant blades, fair damsels, Spanish
grandees, statesmen and many other
types are included in this company.
A truly great book is "Gil Bias
the masterpiece of Breton whose
knowledge of human nature was pro-
found, whose skill as a story teller
was unsurpassed. And this book, with
a Spanish hero, so faithfully repro
ducing Spanish types and Spanish
scenes, was written by a man who
never saw the land of the dons!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
Possibilities of the Hertzian Wave

Just about ten years ago a clever
writer with vivid imagination
penned an interesting story in which
a tourist whose automobile had
stalled in the ascent of an Alpine
pass, walked to the nearest station
and ordered by wireless that so many
volts of power be sent him, also by
wireless, to push his vehicle up the
incline. The public laughed and the
wsrld said, show foolish"
Ten years later comes the an
nouncement that Marconi has without
the aid of wires lighted an incan-
descent lamp six miles distant. This
achievement is but an inkling of the
possibilities of the Hertzian wave and
opens the way for predictions of a
most Quixotic character, yet which
none will possess the temerity to
challenge.
These waves heat as well as light
in the future the furnace
today will be preserved as relic
the crude manner in which the
esent generation kept their dwell
lngs warm, while the cook stove and
range will provoke a smile in their
contemplation as to the clumsiness of
our domestic methods.
The time will come when from
large power plants upon land the
freight steamers of the ocean will
be propelled across the water by
volts transmitted from those plants;
aeroplanes and airships unhampered
by fuel will be shot, as it were, across
the Atlantic OF Pacific; automobiles
and motorcycles will be propelled by
power furnished from distance
of hundreds and possibly thousands
of miles, for all vehicles of transpor-
tation and traffic will not generate
their motor power but depend upon
supplies furnished in the plants and
transmitted them through space.
The time will come when one in
San Francisco can call up over the
phone and converse with friend in
Hongkong with the same conven-
fence, expedition and economy that
conversation between Washington and
Baltimore is engaged in. Nor is it
chimerical to predict that if Mars is
inhabited and medium of compre-
hension can be acquired that COM
munication between this world and
that planet will be established.
While Verne, Munchausen and
Maundeville may in their vagaries
have builded higher than they knew
it does seem that whatever may ex-
ist in imagination may be converted
into physical fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
HOW KAFFIRs WORK

From the indianapolis News.
What working like nigger'-that is
a negro in South Africa-really means has
been explained by one who has seen this
wonder. He says that the phrase is o.se
of the silliest and most inexact ever
coined. "A gang OF Kaffirs," he said.
were at work. They were loading rails
on a truck and they did 1t as though they
We're burying their dead. At the head of
the gang walked sort of chief chanting
the most lugubrious dirge ever heard. At
crawling pace he led his men to the
rails. Then came long pause This was
to enable the singing head man TO finish
the first wall. When the Kaffirs got tired
of waiting they bent down and picked
up the rail, their movements keeping
time with the funeral march. When at
last the rail was hoisted on the men S
shoulders the singer changed the meas
ure to a chant of triumph. AS a matter
of fact two dock laborers could easily
have done all the work that was done by
these eight negroes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
A Facinating Book

What endless invention and what
fertility of imagination are to be
found in "Gil Bias" that world
famous masterpiece of lie Sage.
Books may come and books may go,
but there are few that will never
be forgotten, priceless heritage to
the ages, books that have dominated
the minds of generation after gener-
alton and are destined to exercise an
equal sway over generations yet un-
bern.
Of all the books that have achieved
Immortality, though the man in the
street may not read them, nor care
about them, perhaps none has enjoyed
greater popularity than the romantic
adventures of Gil Bias, as told in lie
Sage's ininitable style. There is
enough material in this work alone to
furnish forth any number Of latter
day novels of adventure. An amazing
series of incidents follow fast upon
each other until the chroicle is fin
isheG and the hero of many stirring
scenes has settled down tosa respect
able old age.
Although lengthy narrative, or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
Growing Interest in Vaudeville

''There has naturally been a marked
increase in theatre attendance in Br-
mingham within the past few years, ?
said Frank F. Harms, director of music
at the Lyric.
4 can remember when vaudeville was
poorly attended by the fashionable So
ciety people, but now the high merit of
this class Of entertainment is appreciated
and people of uppertendom as well as
the so-called common folks turn out in
large numbers. The fact is that vau-
deville as a show performance is all the
while reaching higher levels Fun and
novelty predomnate, but artists of high
class quality are employed, and many
an act that seems to be. only for passing
diversion costs great big money!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
THE FREAKS OF POLITICS

James Galloway In the Macon Telegraph.
The Japanese problem in California
brought her people to take a decisive
stand for rights of the states They really
defied the administration under Mr..
Roosevelt as well as under President
Wilson. 1t was like a new declaration
of "the reserved rights of the states. In
this the women voters sustained state ac-
tion as against federal interference. 1t
looked as IL the old Bell of Liberty had
been transferred to the Pacific. The south
ern people took courage in the hope that
to shed their Saxonism for the advance
ment of other races.
But it was dream. In the convention
OF the National Woman's Suffrage asso-
ciation recently held in Washington, no
delegates clamored more devoutly for fed
eral in lieu of state action than those
from California. Opposed to Japs. op-
posed 10 Chinese, they politically en-
braced the negro, and that, too. with
out regard to sex.
1t all goes to show that under excite
ment and possessed WIFI ohe iued, al
sense of what is best to preserve home
rule and the principle of state government
is easily lost sight of.
The same hysteria in another form is
now manifesting itself in Alabama poll
ties. Hobson, under the claim that he
stands for national prohibition, has per-
suaded many leading prohibitionlsts to
espouse his candidacy for the Senate
against the man who is recognized as the
leading democrat of America-a man who
is President Wilson's right arm.
This recalls how certain politicians.
aware of the aversion of the southern
people to the Fifteenth amendment, got
into Congress by raising the cry, Send
me to Congress and l will repeal the
fifteenth amendment The unthinking
believed. Hobson has peen in Congress
some time and made no advance or inn
press along the line he has pitched his
present campaign. The House is the very
field for such effort. How would a trans
fer to the Senate increase his efficiency ?
His plan is not even a plank in the party
platform and the President has notified
the party andNthe country that he will
limit his recommendations to policies ON
which Me party has decided in it, plat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17

'Fellowes' Folly" a large brownstone
mansion erected at a cost of 100000 at
liam Fellowes, has been purchased by
housewreckers for $500 and will be torn
down. 'Fellowes' Folly" was erected
fore 1t was finished he met with reverses
in Wall street and shortly after died.
His magnificent home was never COM
quarter of century have been rats and
mice who scampered about the hard
wood floors and overran. the mahogany
decorations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
shoe Men to Meet Here

THE southern shoe retailers will
hold their annual convention in Bir-
mingham March 3, 4. and g." said
Hugh NJ. Brown, the well known man
ufacturers' agent. "It will be an i'm
portant convention. There will be 200
or more delegates and the local shoe
men will do all in their power to make
their stay here pleasant
Last years convention was held in
Chattanooga and that of 1912 was held
in Atlanta. This will be the first cons
vention in Birmingham The head
quarters will be at the Hotel Hill
man"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
HYENAs BITE CAPTAIN HoBsoN

From the New York Sun
While the Hon. Oscar w Underwood is
attending to the public business in Wash
ngton his opponent for the Alabama SEN
atorship is making a campaign that fair
y hoils. To what degree of heat it has
attained the letter written by Forney
Johnston and printed In the Anglo-Saxon.
one of Mr.. Underwood's supporters, tes-
tifies. for he quotes Captain Hobson as
applying to Mr.. Underwood such epi-
thets and phrases as ''dupe. "steeped in
red liquor, sinister interests" "harborer
of criminals Compromising a felony"
idebauching the electorate and our old
friend "buecaneer." Hobson gets a GER
tificate of character from authority no
less qualified than his brother, S. A. Hob
son, who writes in the Advance that:
Despite -the dastardly insinuations of
certain jackals who still skulk around
beautiful old Greensboro. for these human
hyenas will sometimes infest even the
most glorious old garden spots. I only
speak the living truth, and all OF Cap
tain Hobson's acquaintance all over the
earth will bear me out, when I say that
since the death of Christ no man has lived
who had or has greater purity OF per-
sonal character"
This Brother Hobson, called Gus by
his familiars, fortifes his tribute with
the subjoined affirmation:
''T enjoy the phenomena and sensations
of this life; but deliberately say: If this
is not true trust my life may be blasted
before these lines are printed. 1 believe
in the spiritual eternity and can demon
strate it scientifically. 1 believe, further,
in the Immortality OF the soul; and I
weigh every word when I say with all
reverence, that if single line, word, syl-
liable letter is untrue, may God AL
mighty damn my soul through eternity"
The assault on Mr. Underwood for his
part in drawing the tariff bill presents
difficulties. He must be exposed as
villain for some things it contains; he
must be exposed as a villain for not put
ting some other things in it. Hence:
Underwood did not write the tariff bill.
He did not have anything to do with it,
Hobson.
Underwood took the tax off of whisky
and put it ON baggfng and ties ''-Hobson
So, too the attempt to fasten respon-
sbility on Mr.. Underwood for negroes
employed in Washington turns out rather
badly for Mr.. Hobson. The negroes pos
sibly chargeable to Mr.. Underwood are
shown to be old employees, while Mr. Hob
son actually obtained a job as a Iaborer
for negro in 1911. This may seem small
business hereabouts, but in Alabama it
counts for something. and in fact consti-
tutes the serious issue on which the pri-
mary canvass is being fought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17

siderations and the editorial views of
all newspapers are dictated by the
business office.
The majority of dramatic critics are
sincere in their estimates of new
plays. They may be a trifle hard to
please, but when genuine merit falls
within their observation they reveal an
enthusiastic appreciation and enjoy
ment of it that is really surprising,
when we consider that writing about
the stage is business with them and
years devoted to it have made them
somewhat callous.
But there is one criticism theatrical
managers make of dramatic critics
that in a few cases seems to be de-
served, and that is the charge that
there are men connected with metro
politan newspapers who exploit their
own cleverness at the expense of the
hapless playwright and producer. The
dramatic critic who has pretty wit"
likes to show it and at times he is apt
to let desire to be facetious blind him
to the injustice he does a playwright
or a producer Ridicule is an effective
weapon when used by skillful writer
or speaker. An unfavorable dramatic
criticism written in serious vein may
not have the effect intended, but woe
to the hapless playwright who exposes
himself to ridicule! There is frequent
ly more power in a single cutting epi-
gram than there is in a column of de-
nunciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17

remarkable operation for the cure
of paresis was performed by DR.. Wells
p. Eagleton of Newark, N. j., at the
Essex county hospital at Overbrook. N.
j. The new method OF treatment is the
most radical ever applied to the disease.
The operation consisted of injecting a
quantity of salvarsan into the veins of
the patient After an hour 60 cubic CEN
timeters of the patient blood were with
drawn and allowed to stand. The clear
serum was diluted and heated to 1888 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Then it was kept
on ice a day and after being heated to
blood temperature six cubic centimeters
of it were injected into the sub-dural
space in the skull after trephining. The
operation is the second to be performed
in this country. The patient upon whom
the operation was performed was in an
advanced stage of paress Six months
ago he could neither walk nor talk. but
three days after the operation he re-
gained his power of speech and can now
assist himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF DAMIENS

oBERT FRANCIS DAMIENs met
IL with horrible death for having
= made an attempt on the life of
Louis XIV, King of France in 1867. He
was the son of a poor laborer of Artois.
He lived In various menial situations
previous to the year 1866, when he was
taken into the service of a Russian mer-
chant then in Paris. He boarded with a
Mrs. Fortier, and on the 9Th of January,
request to send for a surgeon to bleed
him. The landlady imagining he was jest
ing failed to do so, and when confronted
by her at his trial insisted that had he
been bled, as he desired, he would not
have committed the crime.
On the afternoon of this day the King
went to Versailles to pay visit to the
Princess, and upon leaving her apart
ments accompanied by the dauphin and
the whole court, Damiens, who had been
lurking in a hollow at the bottom of the
stairway, rushed in among the courtiers,
jostled the dauphin, and laying hold Of
his majesty by one shoulder with one
hand, with the other he stabbed him in
the right side.
The would-be murderer was seized by
one of the Kings footmen. He commit
ted him to the care of the guards. Upon
being questioned all he would reply was
Let them take care of my lord the
dauphin; do not let my lord go out for
the rest of the day" These words indi-
Gated that he had aceomplices, and he
was urged to reveal them, but Damiens
answered that they were great way
off by this time These mysterious re-
marks caused the guard to put him to
the torture. Accordingly they placed him
near a great fire in the guard room, and
applied ret hot tongues to his legs, but it
was all in vain. for Damiens. instead of
revealing anything, upbraided the lord
keeper with being in a great measure the
author of the public troubles, and a be-
trayer of the rights of Parliament.
Damens was removed from the jail at
Versailles to the Conciergerie in Paris,
and on Saturday, the 26th of March, he
was examined for the last time by his
judges. A number of questions were put
to him in which he denied intention to-
kill the King. No witnesses We're called
for the attempt at murder was too ap-
parent and the attorney general de-
manded that Damiens should suffer the
same kind of death as Francis Ravailac
Henry ". That the house in which he
was born should be rased TO the ground;
that no other building should ever be on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
Underwood's Strength in Wilcox

Underwood will get two votes to
Hobsons one in Wilcox county," said
DIR. Ross Speir, who is now visiting
Birmingham
"At the beginning of the senatorial
carlpaign Hobson appeared quite strong
in my county, but he has been losing
ground steadily, Forney Johnston's I'm
derwood campaign book has made a
splendid hit.
LAS the farmers got big prices for
their cotton, great prosperity prevails
in Wilcox. Times are better than ever
before"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
paderewski Next Friday

Paderewski, the worlds greatest
pianist. will be heard in recital at
the Jefferson theatre next Friday night.
He had cancelled several of his en-
gagements in other cities and up to
yesterday it was thought that his Bir-
ningham engagement might be called
off. but last night 1t was definitely de-
cided that the recital would take place.
raGerewsl1i comes under the auspices
of the Music Study club, and j. e.
Shelby of the Cable-S Shelby Burton
plano company will look after all de-
tails
my partner, Mr.. Burton, spent yes
terday in Chicago, where he conferred
with Paderewskrs manager said Mr..
Shelby. satisfactory arrangements
have been made and there is no doubt
whatever of the great artists appear
ance here as originally scheduled.
.Paderewski has always commanded
larger pay than any other piano vir-
tuoso who ever lived. 1t has been sew
eraI years since he toured this coun-
Try. and this season he gets almost
double as much as when he was last
in America.
when Paderewski played in Bir-
mingham the first time nearly all the
seats were sold at 50. We had thought
of charging So for his forthcoming APP
pearance, but it has now been settled
tfat SO will be the highest price. with
the exception of the boxes, in which
the seats will be $3.50.
Hundreds of music lovers will come
from Alabama towns and not few
will come from Mississippi. There is
every reason to believe that the Jeffer-
son will be packed Friday night"