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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
THE GLOVEMAkER

Eizdpetn '. watson in The Survey.
 Do l make gloves? Just watch me doin' it. There aint any kind ain't been work ing on since way back, when was little girl helpin' my ma sew gloves, down Gloversville way, and I've kept it up pret- ty steady ever since, and now-a-days, with my man out of work, I sew gloves, eat gloves, l sleep gloves
 l can do 20 dozen of these gloves a week-once, not so very long ago. l done 10 dozen pair in less than three days. A rush order came in and the boss sed hed pay extra if I got them back quick.
 l worked late at night and I finished them in two days and two hours over on the next; but, mind you, I had to be- gin at in the morning and run that ma chine like mad right up to 12 oclock at night.
 Well, would you believe it, when my husband took them back to the shop q was just ttoo dead beat to walk over the bridge with them), the boss said: They ain't worth over $1.sO for the lot"
 My man Allowed I sed they was to be $2.5O (25 cents a dozen pairs was the reg ular price, saying nothing about the ex- tra the boss had promised).
 1.-Two fifty says the boss, flor two days work! l guess not. Your woman took them gloves Tuesday mornin and now it's not quite noon Thursday. I guess s1.S0 is pretty good pay for two days work
 don't know what some folks is made of I'd a-given up the whole $1SO then and there, but what, can do? Here l am, been working at gloves off and on, mostly on, since I was Il years old, and that's 22 years ago. I've turned into a init myself, I guess. You see gloves is all I know, and I can't kill off the goose that lays the golden egg-even if the eggs only cop per one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

CTS down to the present era of so-called 'oommerciar' management the Shakespe- rian dramas have continued to create great actors. Garrick, the keans, the Kembles, Mrs Siddons. siacready. the Booths. Irving. Ellen Terry, Barnay. Salvini, Forbes Robertson-not one of these who has not owed to the greatest of dramatists the debt that this Ameri- can actor is proud to acknowledge. In- deed, the worth of a playwright may be estimated by the number and ability of the players whom he develops. For drama gives actors their opportunity. Dialogue. no matter how witty in epigram, does not. The Bernard Shaw wave will pass over us without leaving a single great dramatic artist in its foaming wake
 A Shakespearian revival would do more to revive theatric art than anything tha, can be named.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
PLAYER's DEBIT TO SHAKESPEARE

An actor who is steadily forging ahead in his profession said in a recent inter- view that he owes debt of gratitude to Shakespeare, whose quality he came to know through interpreting him in the smaller towns of the far west, and under great disadvantages. T won't say that I did much for Shakespeare, but he did a heap for me-" Is the tribute that this actor pays the dramatic bard.
 These are wise words. Much has been said about those players who have kept Shakespeare alive, but the truth is that it is Shakespeare who has kept the ac- tors alive. Good plays make good actors and from the days of the strolling play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
A FINANCIAL MIND CURE

| rom the NeW 1OTk WOrlu.
 The history of the cotton loan fund is
 short and highly instructive. When it
 was subscribed last fall the south was
 glutted with it's greatest crop and mo-
 body seemed to want it, even at the
 starvation prices that then prevailed
 There was considerable opposition also
 to the creation of the fund. Conserva-
 tlsm said 1t would esetablish a bad prece-
 dent. Calamity said it would make more
 trouble. Speculation said it would kill
 trade. Manufacturing said it would hurt
 business. Jurisprudence said it was con-
 trary to law.
 Nevertheless the fund was subscribed by bankers and business men to the amount of s134,O00,O00, and arrangements were made to loan the money to holders of cotton on the basis of about 6 cents a pound. When the fact became known. the demand for cotton at home and abroad increased and this was followed by rising prices, and rising prices in their turn were accompanied by easier financial conditions in the cotton belt, SD that to everybody's- surprise the great fund was not needed at all. the total | amount of loans made being only $28.- OO0
 In this episode we may find proof that timidity, mossbacklsm ana greed are sometimes economically as mis- l chevious as famine, pestilence and war | Sc long as there was no money to fi- nance a crop that was as good as gold, cotton routed in the fields and whole states were threatened with ruin. The | moment it was known that money had
 been provided to carry the staple. nobody
 wanted the money and everybody wanted | the cotton.
 1 Most of our other commercial and in 1 dustrial troubles might be cured in the | same simple fashion if we had the will | and the nerve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
MARsE HENRY's CHOICE.

Writing from Cuba, where brunettes abound, Henry Watterson states his pref erence for blondes in characteristic style He says:
 Let me confess at once that brunette is not my preference. The Owen Mere dith type of female-'the jasmine flower in her raven hair and the diamond brooch so bright'-has never been just my style O girl. like the dizzy blondes-not too dizzy-enthusiasm innocence dimples and roses! No mystery in woman for me- Nevertheless as an artist. can admit the effectiveness of the senoritas whether in singles or ranged round the dress circle of a theatre-the wells trifle too pronounced, the eyes too fashing-yet deeply, darkly, beautifully Byronic and seductive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
THE PEsSIMIsTs.

However fair the skies above,
 However bright the day, Howey CT filled the world with love
 And all it's vistas gay, Still you will find complainers who Are never satisfied And moan, What are we coming to? Alas, what woes betide?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
"A noble sentiment.
REVENGE.

REVENGE. She's planning for a party. Her heart is wondrous light, There are so many people That she will not invite. And well she knows that each one Will disappointed be And as she hopes, will fall to I.amenting bitterly, Convinced that they should never Have vexed a stylish dame, Who punishes severely By crossing out name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
REPRODUCTIVE.

Does brain work have a tendency to make a man bald?"
 T wouldn't go so far as to say that, but I've noticed that men who have good heads for business don't always have good heads for hair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

American churches gained 763l000 mem- bers in 1914 It would be interesting to know how many of these new members are credited to Billy" Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

Home Run' Baker may find farming quite as profitable as baseball and far less strenuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

The New York Tribune is fighting fake advertisers through Samuel Hopkins Ad- ans, who is sort of happy medium for that sort of thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

The press dispatches don't even tell us who was the admiral of the latest French and English air fleet to Lombard Ger man positions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist, left an estate valued at saSO, ,0OO, which is con- siderably more than he would have left had he been a mere poet, instead of a story teller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
"DIAMoND JIM, EATS OYSTERS

"DIAMOND JIM" EATS OfSIEhS Washington Dispatch in the New York
 World.
 James Buchanan Brady, wearing pearls and sapphires, pieced out with diamonds, went over to the Gridiron club dinner in Washington on Satur- day. As he alighted from the train he met Colonel Hayward, who is running another friend.
 Come with me-" said Brady, speak ing with the authority of champion two handed journeXman banqueter. These dinners are usually so funny you don't get chance to eat much. so we'll stop by Harvey's and have a few steamed oysters | As it was about 30 minutes before the time set for the gridiron to be- gin. they stopped, and Brady ordered a bushel or two of oysters steamed. While he was waiting he ordered some on the half-shell by way of an appetizer. Old Henry. the opener, was not fast enough l for Brady, who loudly demanded more speed.
 MT. Brady seems to have it on you
 tonight" said Colonel Hayward to
 Henry.
 | "Yessuh,N the old fellow answered:
 "he suhtnly is got me beat tonight, but Ans seen de time when An could "a
 choked him daid--just as daid as if he q
 been bonn daid. and you couldn' be no l daider n dat"
 l Twenty raw and 52 steamed
 was the resplendent ones count before
 he sat down to his regular dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

A cartoonist pictures Uncle Sam saying to the Kaiser. Remember the Maine" It is to be hoped that Uncle Sam will say nothing of the kind to the Kaiser, who probably knows the inside facts of our little brush with Spain, and might laugh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

The Chicago man who Is said to pos sess 57 suits of clothes, 175 vests and 79 oyercoats could become a philanthropist on a large scale by simply sending his cast off clothes to the Befgians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Minstrel Make-Up

'' Honey Boy George Evans, who is now g years old, started his career as a minstrel man with Haverly when he was 21. consequently he has been black ing up for IS years" said a show man. He has averaged 40 weeks of work for each one of his IS years in minstrelsy and vaudeville. It is a simple problem of the multiplication table to arrive at the re- suit that this makes 72O weeks that the little minstrel man has devoted from his young life to entertaining in black face.
 Tt may be of interest to know that the preparation used by the minstrel fokes can be purchased at any drug store where theatrical makeup is sold. It comes in little tin boxes, and each box contains Is ounces of burnt cork and costs 10 cents a box. Honey Boy says that he used two boxes of cork each week, so, in his minstrel and vaudeville career he has expended $10So for 1440 boxes of ebony makeup, a total of LAO pounds. Credit him with an average of 10 performances week, and he has blacked up 72OO times It usually takes him 20 minutes to thor oughly wash up after each performance, and another application of arithmetic shows that this popular little entertainer has spent at least 2400 hours, 100 days, of the past IS years in doing nothing but wash his face"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

A war expert says the aeroplane has never done any serious damage to an enemy. Perhaps not, although 1t has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

A Pennsylvania gravedigger killed him self because he lost his job. He could have found plenty of work in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

That last earthquake in Italy may have been merely seismic wave subsiding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

Huerta cultivated foreign representa- a different plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
Washington bureau. 2o7 Hibbs build

BEGINNING THE DAY-Help me to rest, 0 Lord, if I am tired. heip me to trust Thee to restore my soul. May I wait with Thee until Thou art ready to begin work again. May camp with Thee until Thou art rendy for the march. May l lay me down and sleep until Thou shalt call. For ChrfSt'r sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

Lower radum is promised, but lower wheat would be more acceptable in the present world crisis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

Nine out of ten people in this country will agree with Speaker Clark that a thirteen-hour speech isn't worth listening
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
NO LACK OF ATTRACTIONS

A favorite way of wasting ammunitio in Europe is shooting at aeroplanes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
Broom Making

Birmingham now has an enviable rep utation throughout the United States as an industrial center" said J. R. Pitts of this city, 'and each year it's man ufactured products become more var3d and show greater increase in volume.
 Among the many useful articles now manufactured here is the household neces- sity, the broom. We now have two large broom factories in full operation in Bir- mingham, and the output of one factory serves partly to meet the demand of local
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal.
 An eastern paper predicts that next summer will be a great season for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

Charlton Bates Strayer in Leslies;
 The right of this country to buy the ships of bellgerents has been ably de- I tended in the Senate by Senator walsh of Montana. Citing the sale of some 6oo American ships to neutral citizens dur | ing the civil war; he declared; we lost our merchant marine because when We were at war other nations at peace with us could buy them" A more convincing l ing the transfer of the enemy's ships to neutral flags is found, however, in Ger many's two recent submarine raids on English merchantmen. Five merchant ships have already been destroyed, and l a continuance of such raids would prob ably force the British government to adopt 8 more yielding attitude toward
 the transfer of ships to foreign flags | if they were to be utilized in trade with
 England, thus simplifying for her the
 receipt of supplies from the United States. "The submarine" says the Lon don Daily News, has become in this
 war a serious peril to our food supplies.
 In the unhappy event of future war it
 will dominate our position unless in the
 meantime science discovers an effective weapon of defense. Should it then
 threaten our shipping with destruction
 and ourselves with starvation. it will
 not be an unimportant fact if great
 neutral country possessing mercantile marine of it's own can send its ships
 into our ports unmolested and unafraid. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
Observance of Lent

Tt is really surprising how many peo- pie have the wrong conception of the Lenten period and the purposes of it's observance" said a prominent church. man. ''The idea seems prevalent that by the faithful observance of the rules laid down by the church at this period one can indulge in anything questionable during the balance of the year. To the informed person such a proposition is ridiculous and absurd for the purpose of the observance of Lent is to strengthen the religious convictions of those who observe it.
 ITO assume that by the observance of certain rules for 40 days one would be licenced to stray from the paths of rec titude during the other 325 days is a reflection on the intelligence of church people. The real benefits derived from the keeping of Lent are the broadening of the religious views of those who en- deavor to obey the rules daid down by the church during this period, and to bring about a greater realization of the truths of the gospel and the teachings of Christi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
Automobile Tire Business Good

H. F. Smith, sales manager of the Marathon Tire and Rubber company, of Cuyago Falls, Ill.,, was visitor to Bir- morning for New Orleans, whence he will make for the west.
 "The price of rubber recently has de- ciined' said MT. Smith, ''and reduc- ton on automobile tires, of course, comes with it. As to business now, it Is good. In fact it has never been anything else but good with our organization. When tine beginning of the war things began to look dark for us. However, that em- hargo has been lifted and we arc getting our rubber cheaper than ever.
 '1 have heard a few people who passed through our home city en route from New York and other money centers say that business was bad, but really, l couldn't say 1t is from personal observa- ton. Our sales in 1914 topped the record of 1913 by about 300 per cent. And 1915 has started out to top the 1914 record about 500 per cent In fact the January selling record was the greatest the com pany ever had
 "I am glad to see that Birmingham is getting out of the rut. I was here last fall and noticed that the business people generally seemed to be more or less ] upset. However, they now seem to b, getting back to earth and believe bust
 ness here will move along toward norma in the very near future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
ALL FOR PLEASURE.

When I got married my wife said she would go to the end of the world with me-"
 "A noble sentiment
 But I found out later that she meant the Paris end.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
A TOUGH SUBJECT.

A TOUGH SUBJECT. "Doppel has sunny disposition. He seems to see the good in everybody" How about the footpad who held him "Oh, Doppel says he's sure there was good in that fellow. too, but when Doppel tried to draw him out he got mad ana said, rBeat itv !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
WAR ECHOES

New York World: In one day we nave three expressions by high German au- thorities bearing upon the neutral rights of the United States.
 Ambassador Won Bernstorff at Wash- ington informs the state department that unless we compel Great Britain to keen it's hands off food intended TOT Germany's civil population, his country will begin a naval warfare based upon unprecedented practices. This seems 10 mean that we must become an ally or the Kaiser or take the consequences.
 Without establishing blockade the German admiralty reiterates its warn ing to all neutrals to keep out of Britlsn waters on pain of being torpedoed "ac- cidentally." This amounts to declara- ton of war against the whole world.
 The German foreign office admits that from the American viewpoint certain questions raised by the government as to Germany's proposal to run amucK are quite justified" and yet 1t "ao- heres to it's own viewpoint" which IS that international law Is played out' and 1t can see no reason why this should involve the United States and Germany in difficulties.
 Do nations go crazy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
MAKING STRIDES.

MAKING STRIDES. There was a time when 1t was con sidered improper for women to study botany.
 ."Fancy that! And now they are dab- h,,ng in politics" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
THE HEATED KIND.

You say he's a famous German air. man?''
 "Yes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
Cheer Up and Expand

Cheer Up and Expand
 George Blinn thinks every business man in Birmingham ought to read the following words until he knows them by heart They are obtained in re- cent issue of "Weekly Letter" a pamphlet published weekly by the In- ternationa1 Association of Rotary clubs and are taken from the New Years speech of Secretary Redfield. 'If ev- cry man in Birmingham would preach this doctrine to himself until he fully realizes what 1t really means, there would be an immediate wave of pros- perity sweep the town off it's feet, says MT. Blinn. This is the best time in years to start construction work of any kind; material can be bought for prices that would have seemed ridiculous year ago. I wish every man in Birmingham would read it.''
 The excerpt from the Rotary letter is as follows:
 of you want prosperity, do your share to bring it and do it now. Get that addition on your shop going, it will cost you less today than six months hence. Is trade a bit dull i'll these works? Get those improvements begun. Prices are low and likely to rise. You've been thinking of that con tract work Better start it yourself be- fore things get the start of you.
 "This country slows down bit now and then but it never stops growing and it always moves up and not down. We don't know what 1t means in most of the United States to have real gen. eral distress.
 Think of Belgium and Poland oh, man with a grouch, and slinS into your hole and pull it in after you. Then and come out with your courage in working order
 There are lots of good American ex- amples of pluck. Do you remember San Francisco, Galveston, Chicago Bos- ton, Charleston, Baltimore and Daytoi, and many others like them? Remember Thomas A. Edison and lots of others of your fellow citizens who showed pluck when things were hard
 Nothing is the matter with the mai, with a grouch except an absent heart and missing nerve. Cheer up; go tc work, do your level best; quit talking misery. The war is over yonder-not here. Men are slaughtered yonder- they are living here. It's all clouds there-clear day here.
 Get out and sell some goods. Plant some more acres do more work than you planned. Talk cheerful talk and you will find this country of ours a pretty good place after all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
HOPELESS.

children she doesn't look like a high stopper
 No. And what's more, she doesn't seelr to care whether she does or not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

An aeroplane expert. eh?'' No. He has charge of a publicity bureau"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18
OVER THE DUNES

Norreys Jephson O'Connor, Beside the Blackwater," John Lane. Over sthe dunes the ducks are flying, And the sea breeze brings their gentle
 crying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-18

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-06
sheepmen Mere hammered.

The sheepmen, who were gathered
here last week for the annual wool
growers convention, were banquet
ed Saturday night in the dining rooms
of the Hotel Pendleton by the busi-
ness men Of the city, The banquet
was entirely informal and hosts and
guests enjoyed a merry time A male
quartet, composed OF George Baer,
Brooke Dickson, r. E. Chloupek and
Bert Gerard. gave several selections
and Jock Coleman, the Scotch enter
tainer, pulled off some of his inimit-
able stuff much to the delight of all.
No formal toasts were made but the
sheepmen, one and ALL testified to
their pleasure at meeting with the
Pendleton people again.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-06
Roy Turns Trief Aenln.

Once again Frank Cannon, the IA
year old Freewater boy who stole j.
T. Lambirths canoe several months
ago and started on a trip to Portland
in it, is in the custody of the officers.
Saturday night he is alleged to have
stolen a horse from the barn of Ed
Harper OF F'reewater. Deputy Sheriff
Estes picked him up in Pendleton yes
terday and learned that he had turn
ed the horse loose at the edge of
town. A rifle which he had secured
by burglarizing a Milton store several
weeks ago, he had cached at Athena
and pair of chaps were found just
above town. He was taken back to
Freewater for arraignment today. His
cousin, Jack Vaughan who is alleged
to have been helping him dispose Of
his plunder, is also being given a
hearing