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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-23

FEELING PRETTY CLIPPER,
THANK YOU! - 'By George, old
man, you're looking ine!'
Did you ever notice how you perk
up, no matter how poorly you were
feeling before, when some friend
greets you in that way?
According to DR.. S. r. McKelvey,
secretary of the Colorado state
board Of health, the human system
just naturally begins to tone up I'M
der the stimulus of such greetings. .
He declares it's an aid to health
and help in preventing disease and
to that end he advocates a new
movement = a "teIl-your-friends-
how-well-they-look'' movement
Its not only bad taste to talk of
your pains and ailments" says DR..
McKelvey, 'but it is a reflection on
your intelligence and knowledge of
health, sanitation and good health.
We are not far from the time when
the cause of illness will have to be
accounted for personally.
'In other words, nature is no
longer going to be blamed for sick
ness when it is simply the result of
ignorance, Indifference or wrong
ways of living"
Don't you think it worth giving
DR.. McKelvey's idea try?
We do! So here goes:
by George, you're looking fne!"
-O-0-
DI AME 1T ON NNUEMPED
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Washington.
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY---By Allen Griffin Johnson

BOHEAIIA-A LA MANHATTAN.
oh, false Bohemia, once loved thee we'll;
Thy painted cheeks 1 held almost d.
vine
How beautiful they seemed, viewed
through the wine
How ripe thy lips, how soft thy bosom s
swell.
How true thine eye that looked into mine
How soft thy hand that did caress my
cheek,
Until one day when, penniless and weak,
l turned to thee-and found myself alone.
oh. thou art false to all who may not
win
Thy favor with their gold which, spent
undone
Are they-thou turnest then to one
Who loves thee well-thy one true lover.
Sin.
Through wine alone thou makest all seem
The seeming real. and the feigned tho
False lights and soulless music aid
thee, too;
Thou art siren Turing men to hell
Let artists paint thee in what hues they
will
Thou art but painted creature at thy
best
Though oft truths heartbeat seems to
move thy breast, ~
It's feigned and false. as thou art falser
still.
To cowardice as well thou dost incline;
Though seeming bold and merry in thy
way,
Thy moods are transient, and when thou
art gay, = - =. & 1sra = = -
IT'S that thy fear is drowned within the
wine. M <As. &
So hold thee in such contempt ~ this.
Since thou art coward. false and shamed
by day;
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know
Hope-filled by its promise of light.
1t seems, now and then, it would pause
in it's flight,
And bid me lie still til the dawn:
AS if it would rest for one fast-fleeting
But no, it must flee to some far-away
height
And ever it beckons me on.
My will-o' -the-wisp leads me up the
ascent;
To capture it always 1 crave;
Yet, ever elusive, it follows its bent.
But my Will-o- the wisp (snce it's name
Is Content
I'll capture at last IN the grave.
Down at % East Thirtieth street a
bachelors mendng shop has been opened
Here are employed women who do moth
ing but up holes in bachelors clothes
mend rips, etc. All you have to do is
to bundle up your socks and take them
down to the mending shop. The amount
charged is in accordance with the time
required for the mending. Still another
hindrance in the path of metropolitan
matrimony. se
1t was my pleasure on Monday evening
of this week to attend the annual the
atricai entertainment given by the stu
dents of Columbia university in the grand
ballroom OF the Astor hotel but i was
bit surprised to learn that these stu
dents are not taught to believe that the
south has made any progress.
This was illustrated by song. The
members of chorus appeared during this
song in the costumes Of different sections
of the country and also in the costumes
OF other countries. In each case a couple
represented a country. or Z section. The
couple representing New York was. of
course. the hit. appearing In stylish. mod
srn dress. All other couples also ap-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

Poor fools are they who call Bohemia
gay
Thou art but poorest mockery of bliss.
However, Bohemia is not to be found
or modern Broadway except in rare spots.
Broadway is cosmopolitan, but not boz
hemian. 1t is made up of much and
many, but they do not mix on friendly,
or convivial terms. You may go as far
as you like alone or with those of your
party, but it were best to hold aloof or
the aloofness of others will become even
more painfully apparent
Don't ever tell anyone again that New
York people are not thoughtful: A wom-
an recently appeared at sixth story win
dow. saw some children playing Ring
Around a Rosy or some Manhattan
equivalent for that game. on the pave
ment below, and called to them, .'Look
out, children, am going to jump.' They
scattered and she dived head first into
the pavement, killing herself instantly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

While the war ended in April, 1865, by
the South telling the North, that so far as
they weer consumed they was willing. to let
the mattur drop still it took a long time
to get over the hard feelings EVERY
boldly felt soar about it, and citizen of
Connecticut was about as welcum in the
South as case of small pox, while Suth-
erm gentuman north of the Masun and
Dixun line was as populer as the sevven-
yeer itch Peepul weer elected to offise in
the North by majorrities measured by the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

within the narrow confines illumined
by the white lights rays, yet whispers
to them impressively that herein lies
all that is to be found in life and liv-
ing.
What cid the three notable visitors
of the week think of it? Billy Sunday
said, Don't show me your city; take
me cut into the country where l can
see a chicken cross the road and where
there are Just a few people. That is
the life l like, and then L shall feel at
home.''
General Huerta said: II salute you
(which is more than he did for our
flag in Mexico. but declined to give
ont any, early impressions. He located
way up at the Hotel Ansonia, now
ever, which is just about as far re-
moved from the white light section as
any really first class hostelry upon
Manhattan Island
Jess Willard said: 81 am unused to
this popularity and glare of the lime
light and l don't like it, I want TO &C
back home, where l can see the open
country again. This city STILES me-
But you just try to make real New
Yorker believe that and see what hap
pens. II you are from any other place
in the world all you get from the native
of this island is condescension. l don I
know what kind of shake-up Nam
haitian needs, but that 1t needs one is
unreasonable. It's vision Is bounded
by the shores of this Island and /,
has come to believe that a cell-liSe
apartment within reach of the White
light section by subway is about the
nearest thing to heaven that a mortal
can expect while still In the flesh.
Talk to your native about the open
country, the charms of nature and the
broader. freer life. and he smiles toll
erantly. He doesn't think 1t worth
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cleer and comprehensive mannur i'll which
they could cuss out the South, and South
eIn offise holdurs climbed into There jobs
becawse Of the flowery elloquinse they used
III passing encomiums on the North with
the revurse English on them. Shortly
aftur the close of hostillities a Suthern
gentulmen could not meet Northern gen
tulmen in cafey or hotel or the theeater
without dangur of one of them pulling
large peese Of artillery frum his system
sum phase and Shooting the luther in the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

was the march back to Washington, which
was rathur ovverdun; i'll fact, they passed
hurriedly rite on thro' Washington on the
high geer; the sellebrasion was Indefinite
ly postponed, theere being gennerel feel
ing that theere was nuthing in perticuler to
sellebrate about. The the North woke up,
having arrived at the conclusion that the
pink tee effects would have to be cut out.
Both sides then settled down to what the
survivors admit was a perfectly luvly lit
tie scrap, all things considered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

while to argue with one who knows
so little, but he may condescend to
tell you that those things are all very
well in their way. That they are nee
essary. That God put them there for
the benefit of the movie producers who
must have picturesque settings for
thsir pictures and that the ultimate
object of the whole arrangement is
that these pictures maybe shown upon
dear old Broadway"
Some day l am going to light in and
tell you how thoroughly charming New
York is from every standpoint; what
delightful place to live 1t is and how
it shames all other cities. But. even
though | am voter here now, 1 still
have a shl eo or two of conscience left
and l am waiting until can find some
facts to base such a letter on. I have
told you of New York's wonders and
attractions; it's pure delights and
wholesome charms as a habitat L can
not chronicle until, like Columbus.
do little discovering.
WILL-O'-THE-WISP.
I follow a wonderful Will-o' -the-wisp;
I've followed it on through the years
Yet always 1t beckons, no word does II
lisp,
And ever follow my Will-o' -the-wisp,
Through sunlight and shadowy fears.
1t leads me through marts where the
gayly decked throng
Seems restless forever, as l.
Where sin and where sorrow, where righ'
and where wrong
Are mingling their laughter their tears
and their song.
While swiftly the hours speed by.
Yet linger we there but a moment or so
Ere on through the Vale of the Nigh
NV Will-o -the-wisp leads away and go
Nor aught Of the blaoknsss and Loneliness
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

HTEw YORK. April IL - (spe-
IN cial)-This week New York
ISi1S5ssaI city has been invaded by
Gzaz9y Billy Sunday. Jess Willal u
and General Huerta, three of
the most powerful fighters, of modern
times, the advent of any one of whom
would have caused a congested con-
dition in any other city in the United
States. But what happened here?
Billy Sunday spoke to several hun
cred newspaper men who were present
in order to continue to draw their sal
aries; General Huerta was welcomed
by about the same number of the same
crowd, while a few bystanders turned
their heads to gaze upon the Mexican,
snd Jess Willard was met by 200 fight
enthusiasts and his first sparring ex-
hibition drew only about 200 people
Thus we have had the appeal of re-
ligion, war and sport, yet New York
city never flickered. Last night, down
In Times square. I looked at the big
gest electric sign on Broadway; it ad-
vertises certain brand of cigarettes.
The little bulbs kept flaring and GO
ing out, giving the effect of running
around and around the border, and the
progress of the light seemed to express
WEAKNESS, as If II said, "The same old
thing forever sand a day; the same old
restless throDg,' seeking always and
ALWAYS unsatisfied. I am the real at
traction. but they know it not, and
am but a binding, empty glare around
which they flutter vainly, until for
very wearipess, they vanish, one by
one into the unknown darkness OF
eternity" "a ssft tf 4tf
And how the ancient spirit of Broad
way must smile at the dwarfed mental
growths. warped enthusiasm and mar
rowed visions of its devotees. But how
cunning are tho methods of this sat
urnine spirit, which holds its follower
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

peared in modern costumes except the
southern representatives The southern
girl appeared in hoop skirts and the
southern man in the gray uniform of the
Confederacy. Probably Columbia students
are taught to believe that southerners
still dress that way. However, that seems
to be the general New York idea of 1t as
we'll.
Coming out on the subway the other
latto girl get on board at the Ninety
sixth street station. AS soon as she en-
tered the car nice looking, we'll dressed
white man. tipped his hat and offered her
his seat, which she accepted with thanks.
And yet they say men don't give up their
seats to women in New York. have no
comment to make on this occurrence
call 1t news If you like-it happened and
l tell you about it, Pr
Now that baseball is with us once again
the war is going to have much harder
time in it's efforts to paint the first pages
of New York papers black. And par
ticularly will this be the case il the Yam
KEGS and Giants prove winning teams. If
they do not-then the war will hold its
owr in, all probability. as New York
doesn't seem to be able to stand for q
loser In any game.
Jess Willard is showing at Hammer
STEMS this week. His act" IL not an
act. He simply appears and does little
shadow boxing without casualties OF any
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Pleaded self-Defense Against Mule

From the Philadelphia North American.
Christopher Hargraves. Bucks county
farmer, pleaded self-defense when charged
with beating an "onery' mule with an AK
handle and escaped fine. His novel de-
Tense was entered yesterday when he was
arraigned before Magistrate Tomlinson at
Langhorne. ON . charge of cruelty to ami
mails.
That mules got bad streak IIar-
graves told tho magistrate land when
he's emery he's got a kick like 40
centimeter gun. The last time Ifdidn't
handle. It was purely case of self
Defense"
The agent Of, the societF FOR the Pre-
'vention Of Cruelty to Animals, who ar
rested Hargraves, said he would with
draw the charge on that plea, and Mag
istrate Tomlinson dismissed the cass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
That War of Ours
Fifty Years Ago

parquet or fammerly sircul on the spot
But all this has passed away-the present
gennerasion, thanks to the softenning in
flewanse Of time, which is a CRATE fissisian,
can look back calmly aftur this lapse of
90 yeers and veew commun heritage
with equinimmity and judissial poise, pro-
viding he knows what they meen. When
the Spanish war happened along both the
North and the South hoped on the COM
nun ennemy and cheerfully scattured his
remains over the SCENERY with the ut
most sang froid, and when it was over
they wiped the perspirasion off There al
labastur brows and shook hands and sed,
"By Gum, this is a Reunited Country
let's have drink" and they did So Cents
that time gentulman frum Connecticut
can obtain the hospitality of a Suthern
home without the owner thereof feeling
that it would be safur to lock up the silvur-
ware while he is THERE Also a Suthern
eentulman can be the guest of a Northern
friend without trubbling his host to sleep
with ope eye open and a six-shootur under
his piiler. Northern capital has been in
vested in Suthern enterprise the South
being long on enterprise and short on capt.
tai. Suthern womin have married north
eIn men and vlsee verse;, and in sum IN
stanses hostillities weere renewed, but on
the average it worked for closer trend
ship and a moor cleer comprehension.
Now it is not half as much trubble to
borry mummy frum Yankee as it is frum a
rich relasion.
Fifty yeers has dun lott has
smoothed out the ruff phases and softened
the hard bumps. In the meen time the
Uropean countries who weer watching our,
yung and giddy Republick, and proffesy-
ing that it would blow up and sink with
dull thud, felt sertain Of it when we were
at each uther's throat back in the Sixties.
The effect monarkies of the East then gave
us the boss laff and felt chesty ovver what
they would do to us when we had separated
ourselves into fractsional sections on the
half she'll Now we all belong to the Union
and wurk under the Ate-hour law, and they
air bizzily engaged in hopping up the land
skape with each uther.
The country ought to be thankful, Mistur,
F.dditur, for this 80 yeers of inturnal peese,
with nuthing to mar the veew eXsept the
crime at Chicago. We ought to be proud
of the fact that we can settle all our own
disputes with the BALLOT and Of the further
fact that we air most too far away and a lit
tie too hefty with a club for emmy body else
to butt IN. If 80 yeers has wurked such
wunders what will so moor do9 The North
has becum so suthern and the South so
northern that if this feeling keeps growing
in so moor yeers Portlan, Main, will be
summer resort in January and wei have
frost in Jacksonville, Florida, in August,
Let us be thankful.
Yours trooly,
BILL VINES.
Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

E7ISTUR ElDDITUR: About 30 yeers
W. ago saw the close of the greatest
49, war this country ever pertissipat-
ed in, and up to that time it was counted as
sum war 1t lasted neerly fore yeers and
mussed up the SCENERY frum New Orleens
to Bangor, Main, and points north, killing
off quite number Of our leeding citizens,
andquite generously eleeting the remaindur
to Congress or plased them on the pension
roll. 1t was a fammerly row of sum dimen-
sions and cum neerer splitting up the Re
publick than the organnizasion of the Bull
Moose party The Suthern States BEGUN
quite peeved at the Nasional Government
and withdrew frum the Union and started
out in bizness for themselves, but the trub-
bic was they couldn't stay that way. The
Northern States was so ded stuck on the
Suthern States that they got sore when
they wanted diverse and in addison to
informing them that theere was nuthing
doing in the way of allimoney, they insist
ed that they cum rite on back home and be-
nave themselves. lHlS lea 10 d lOt Vi IOuu
talk and hints of hostillities Pretty soon
aftur that the scrap began and it was reel
Interesting frum that momint until the
final curtain on April 9th at Appomattux.
| did not take emmy part in this war; be-
ing prevented frum doing so becawse of a
situason over which had no control, and
not thro' enfy feer Of the consequinses. |
a.
that | was sworn IN as an Amerlcon citizen
too late to appeer on one side or the luther
in this CRATE strife, otherwise the results
mite have been diffurent, and now every
boldly most seys if was all Tor the best.
Still, while | was not IN it, have been abul
to obtain the privilege of talking to quite
a number of prominent citizens who cut
quite good deel Of Use in settling that
CRATE questsion or delaying its settlement,
one or the luther. While few of them go
round Dragging about it, eXsept to those
peepul who have time to listen to them, still
if one is seeking infermasion about the
resent unpleasintness, far be it frum one OF
the grand old fellers who took part IN it to
withhold that information. In fact they
willingly 90 to lot of trubble to get sed
infermasion for you. They will supply in
fermasion and details when theere ant nun
rathur than dssappoint You
The furst CRATE battul OF emmy conse-
quinse was fought at Manassas. It was
called the battul of Bull Rum have new
yer Termed just why they called it this I'M
less it was as one informant told me, that it
was becawse the yankees handed out a
lot Of Bull about what they WIZ going to
do to the rebulls on that occasion and which
sum how did not turn out according to
specifications. The North sent big
army down to Manassas to crush the Con
fedurasy at one fell swoop. >with instruc-
sions to march back to Washington and
pertissipate in the peerade in selebrasion
of the event as soon as it was over The
only successful thing about the programme
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

EW YORK, April II. - (Spe-
cial )-This week New York
city has been invaded by
Billy Sunday. Jess Willa1 d
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21
WHERE ARE THE ROMAN CATH
OLFCS PUTTING ALL THEIR
MISSIONARY STRENGTH
I'm This Country, i'm Obedience
TO tile POpe'S Order,
s. MAKE AMERICA CATHOLIC 3"
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE.)

York Founding Hospital in East Sixty-eighth
street, says the New York World. Forty-four girl
babies and eleven boy babies were sent from the
hospital to the West, where they to be adopted
by childless families.
The fifty-fve children, escorted by four nurses
two Sisters of Charity and Charles P. OHara of
the hospital staff started from the Grand Central
Terminal a special of an express train for
Chicago. In that city the party will break up and
the children will be distributed through different
States.
The youngsters ages range from 1 to 4 years
In honor of the great event in their lives the Sis
tiers had dressed each child in frock and
had provided each with a wardrobe. Twenty
smiling porters helped Mr.. O'Hara and his aids
get the children the car.
The Sister Superior of the hospital said after
ward that she wished there was more of de-
mand for boys
Nine out of every ten persons who wish to
adopt child want GIRL she said. 'They write
telling us Just what kind of little girl they want
describing the kind of hair and eyes they prefer
During the last forty-siX weeks the New York
Founding Hospital has found homes for about
10000 children. AS they usually leave the hos
pital when very young, most of them never know
that the persons who have adopted them are not
their real fathers and mothers.
After child reaches it's home, hospital
agents make regular visits to that the home is
proper one. Some adopted children have inher-
tied fortunes.
AS the hospital is a Catholic institution, the
babies are sent only to homes where they will be
brought up in that faith
Here you see the Pope's system gathering
up the seed-corn.
That hospital is supported by public mon
ey, paid into the treasury of New York City
by jew and Gentle. Protestant and non-be-
levers: but the Catholics take these babies,
nearly all of whom had non Catholic parents
and place them in Catholic homes, to be
reared as Catholics.
Why are girls preferred?
Because they can control her marriage, and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21
F'The 9th Degree Oath of the
knights of Columbus"

TO meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles and have become oath-bound
subjects of foreign power, have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens.
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts for
yourselves. Priced ten cents
This question of Popery is the most import
ant question now facing the people of
America.