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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
Paving the Penalty

The mayor Of Terre Haute, Ind,
has been sentenced to a term in the
federal penitentiary for alleged par
ticipation in election frauds.
In the Leavenworth prison the
Hoosier mayor will line up alongside
of a colony of imprisoned bankers
men who could not stand prosperity
and who were not wise enough to let
well enough alone. For the ignorant
criminal, or even the intelligent GRIM
inal who is not habitually so, but be-
comes involved in law violation through
some sudden Impulse, the public gen.
orally may be excused for sympathetic
feeling. But the man upon whom for
tune smiles to such extent that he
reaches high places Of trust-well,
there seems to be absolutely no ex-
cuse for such a man going wrong. 1t
is quite probable that few years in
stripes will impress the mayor of
Terre Haute with the fact that public
office is~a public trust which cannot
be used as a plaything.
There are pessimistic individuals
who cling to the theory that the poor
and lowly are the only ones prose-
cuted and that the law winks at
moneyed wrongdoers. Facts, how
ever, put more optimistic light upon
this country's administering of the
law Within comparatively short
space of time several wealthy men of
more than local prominence have been
hailed into court to answer charges.
Notable among these is former
United States Senator William Lori
mer of Chicago. Lorimer had vast
wealth and was supposed to have what
in vernacular is designated as pull. I"
But his money and his "pull" were
not sufficient to save for him his seat
in the United States Senate.
Moreover, Lorimer's pulp and his
money failed to save him from court
action concerning string of Illinois
banks in which he was concerned and
which became involved in mesh of
financial difficulties.
James j. Brady, state auditor of
Illinois, was also indirectly dragged
into the mess.
Then again look at the fate of
Diggs and Carminetti, the prominent
young Californians whose influence,
although great, not only on the Pa
cific coast, but in the national capt.
tai also, failed to save them from
prosecution under the Mann white
slave law
Even Harry Thaw with all his riches
cannot, it seems, gain his freedom.
No, Mr.. Pessimist, it isn't exactly
true that the laws of this country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
Battling the Submarine

What appears to be device that
i, will effectively protect ships from
submarine attack and other dangers
of the sea has been invented by Prof.
A. A. Fessenden, and is described by
Cleveland Moffett in the American
Magazine. 1t is submarine signaling
apparatus which can be attached to
a vessel under the water line and en-
ables her officers to tell the exact
location of other ships, icebergs,
rocks and similar perils of the sea.
The invention reduces the danger of
a collision to a minimum and is said
to render ship immune from subma-
rine attack.
A test of Professor Fessendens
oscillator was made in 1914 in Mas
sachusetts bay which proved to be a
great success. A wooden wrecking
tug was equipped with steam tur-
bine and generator for furnishing a
current to the oscillator, also a der
rick and boom to lower the heavy APP
paratus in the water. A switchboard
was placed on the deck of the tug,
which was moored to the Boston light
ship at the mouth of the harbor.
Professor Fessenden and J. F. Per-
kins, vice president of the oscillator
company, went aboard a powerful
sea going tug and steamed out in the
Atlantic to see how far they could
hear the signals from the anchored
tug with their microphone receiver.
1t was agreed that the sending OPP
orator on the anchored tug was to
keep his oscillator blowing twice a
minute for five hours.
Stops were made by the inventor
and his companion at distance of
two miles, at four miles, six miles,
eight miles, sixteen miles and finally
twenty-five miles. The microphones
were lowered into the sea and the sig
nal from the other tug could be plain
ly heard. At distance of twenty five
miles the sound was so distinct that
it could be heard with the telephone
receiver a foot away from the listen
er's ear. The last test was made at
thirty-one miles. The oscillator could
still be heard, although the sound was
faint. The chief defect of this inven-
ton seems to be the fact that it can
not be used on vessel that is moving
because of the confusion Of sounds in
the sea, like the lap of the waves
against a ships sides and other
noises.
However, Professor Fessenden has
made water wireless" practical, and
if his invention does all that is claimed
for it, the submarine will be no long
er feared.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
MIRAGES

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
/" HE traveller in a thirsty land thinks
he Sees in swimming blue stria-
= ton of haze just over the horizon,
the promise of waterbrooks. Soon, he be-
lieves, the anguish of parched throat and
swollen tongue and disobedient thews and
sinews will be over. He shall loll on the
green turf with the zephyrs making the
tiniest applause in the multitudinous
leaves above him, while the brook laughs
and trills over the stones and the birds
sing and the suns anger is turned by the
modifying shade and breeze to bland
ness. He shall be at his ease and find rest
for his body and his soul. Out of lulle1
mind shall fade the rack and torment of
the desert marches. The burning right
mare. will lie entirely behind him like lost
youth. All this shall be his, if he can
only reach the rim of the desert sands
that makes the edge of the sky's illinlita
BILE cupola of blue heat. So he goes on
and on, and the place where he wants to
be goes on and on, too, in a hooking re-
treat as he advances, till at last he de-
spairs and perhaps succumbs,
Still nursing the uncomfortable hope;
Still clutching the inviolable shade.
Life is like that A man fares ahead
with the thought of the rainbow's end Sc
questered deep in his mind. Nor does he
tell all he knows and thinks. There are
deep springs of communion, wells of in
spiration that go far down which his soul
visits when and where none knows, ever
as shy woodland creatures come to the
reedy md Gin of the lake to Stake their
thirst In dancing starlight while the hun
ter sleeps. He cannot always find them.
He may have been there once or twice
when he was younger and have forgotten
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
ALABAMA PRESS

Andalusia Star: The wisdom of our pro-
hibition legislators is apparent when it Is
recalled that their measures permit man
to receive annually more liquor than the
average Individual consumption m the
United States.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
1t is regulation after all, and not pro-
hibtion. Many processing prohibitionists
know this, but refuse to admit it. 1t
would be fatal to their preaching.
Final solution of the evil will be regu-
lation. 1t will never be prohibition.
Local option regulates better than any
measures that have ever been tried Lo.
and prohibition than an of the state. wide
measures that have ever been enacted.
The nare of a g,eat organization of
good women tells what every right think
ing man stands for-woman's Christian.
Temperance union. Temperament Do
you catch the point?
Gadsden Evening Journal: "Fonetic
Spelling Bord Plezd hi Years Cane" reads
a headline of the phonetic style. How da
yu Ink it?
Troy Messenger: Nearly every fellow Is
thinking just now about how well the flsh
would bite The fact remains that if we
keep right on our jobs the fish will not
bite u.s.
Selma Times: All the financial wiseacres
speak hopefully of the south. Diversified
farming has won more converts in the
south than In any part of the country.
and the greateAt increases in crops, and
therefore in material wealth. are conf
IDENTIFY thought to be on the way.
Decatur Daily: At any rate. Birming-
ham copped the attendance rag.
Wetumpka Weekly Herald: The last
week really made us think and feel that
spfing has at last actually arrived. The
birds. are singing their sweet melodies;
the butterfly has made its appearance
the trees and all nature is putting on
coat Of green; and the farmer ID busy
doing his pro rata in making Alabama
feed herself, Everything il lovely In old
fillmore, thank you
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

MIDNIGHT BEFORE CORINTH
From THE Siege of Corinth," by Lord
Byron.
The walls grew weak; and fast and hot
Against them pour'd the ceaseess shot,
With unabating fury sent
From battery to battlement;
And thunderlike the pealing din
Rose from each heated culverin;
And here and there some cracking dome
Was fired before the exploding bomb;
And as the fabric sank beneath
The shattering shells volcanic BREATH
In red and wreathing columns flashd
The flame, as loud the ruins crash'd,
Or into countless meteors driven,
Its earth stars melted into heaven;
Whose clouds that day grew doubly dun,
1mpervious to the hidden sun,
With volumed smoke that slowly grew
To one wide sky of sulphurous hue.
The wall is rent the ruins yawn:
And with tomorrows earliest dawn,
Ger the disjointed mass shall vault
The foremost of the fierce assault.
The bands are rankd; the chosen van
OF tartar and of mussulman,
The full. of hope. misnamed "forlorn,''
Who hold the thought of death in scorn,
And win their way with falchion's force,
Or pave the path with many corse.
Ger which the following brave may rise,
Their stepping stoe-the last who dies!
IT'S midnight; on the mountains brown
The cold. round moon shines deeply
down;
Blue roll the waters, blue the sky
Spreads ike an ocean hung on high,
Bespangled with those isles Of light,
So wildly, spiritually bright;
Who ever gazed upon them shining
And turn'd to earth without repining,
Nor wish'd for wings to flee away.
And mix with their eternal ray?
The waves on either shore lay there
Calm, clear, and azure as the air;
And scarce their foam the pebbles shook
But murmur'd meekly as the brook.
The winds were pillow'd on the waves;
Th'. banners droopd along their slaves
And, as they fell around them furling
Above them shone the crescent curling,
And that deep silence was unbroke.
Save where the watch his signal spoke
Save where the steed neigh'd oft and
sErill,
And echo answered from the hill.
And the wide. hum of that wild host
Rustled like leaves from coast to coast.
As rose the Muezzins voice in air
In midnight call to wonted prayer;
1t rose. that chanted mournful strain,
Like some lone spirits GER the plain:
Twas musical. but sadly sweet,
Such as when winds and harp strings
meet,
And take long unmeasured' tone.
To mortal minstrelsy unknown.
1t seemd to those within the wall
A crs' prophetic of their fall:
1t struck even the besieger's ear
With something ominOus and drear.
An underlined and sudden thrill.
w hich makes the heart q moment still.
Then beat with quicker pulse. ashamed
OF that strange sense its silence framed;
Such AZ sudden passing bell
W9a<es' thopel7 ea'is = eeEn4GE'e 1nezk
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

three men described as British deserters
the right to search received the great
est shocks of it's life, for Immediately
American ports were closed to British
commerce and in less than five years the
war of 1912 was in full blast. England
should curb it's arrogance and remem-
Der the lessons of the past.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

the way amid the dusty intersections
where many came and went Yet the life
of his spirit depends upon the rediscovery
Only now that he has found the priceless
ness of one pure draught of water from
life's perennial river does he regret he
strayed so far that he cannot rediscover
the route to the clear, swift onrush of its
flood. All depends on his persistence in
the quest Suppose these be decisions in
his sky-yet they have power to lift ami
lead, allure and irradiate and glorify.
Though his snow mountain turn to cloud
by and by, all the time it was mountain
in his eyes it did him good
Be sure when you robe man of his de-
lusions that you give him realities quite
as respectable as anything he thinks he
Sees What you behold as his cobwebs t.
be brushed away with relentless pesorn
may be his precious cloth of gold, his
wishing carpet, however attenuated ana
meagre of texture and fibre. There was
of old curse pronounced on him who
rushed to pluck the mote from his neigh
boris eye. Nobody wants all the miracle
explained away from the face of creation.
You have only seen your friend truly
when you have seen more than the man
or woman really Is. Sharp analysis tells
you there is no halo such as ancient low
ing superstition put round the head of
saintliness. You are scolded and set right.
mayhap, by the well meaning, and tod tn
strip from flowers and trees the glamod-
of the springs investiture. Yet if we try
to live only upon and by what is, we
write and sign and seal an epitaph. We
have to grow, and even. to be. not upon
bread and meat, or stones and W sod, or
facts and figures solemnly and stubbornly
arrayed. but upon divine and nebulous
foreshadowings, vague intimations, voices
and previsionings of a spirit land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

BEGINNING THE DAY. am go
ing to try to live this day with ref
erence to the largest possible num-
Der of people. Ii were the sorriest
tragedy TO live for myself alone.
My family Is not enough; nor my
city, nor my state, nor yet my cOun-
try. o God, make me citizen of
the whole world today. Amen
II. NJ. II.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Growing the Mikado of Japan will cost
that country 1000, 900 yen, or s2,oOo,oOO It
could be done cheaper, but things are look
ing up in Japan and she can afford to en-
joy herself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
What is meant by comment is USE
less father" asked Little Rollo, the
boy cross-examner.
1T means, my son. that you can't
think of anything else to say"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

favor the rich. 1t would be more near
ly correct to say that the way of the
transgressor, rich or poor, is hard
If the transgressor happens to get
caught.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

What has become of the old-fashicned
grandmother who used to insi.t upon ev-
erybody drinking sassafras tea as a spring
tonic?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

General Huerta may deny that he had
anything to do with the Staying Of Ma
dero, but his denial doesn't seem to make
much of an impression on Madero's sur
viving relatives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Smile today. Leave the frowns for to-
morrow. Keep on doing that day after
day and you won't need to spend any
money for wrinkle eradicators
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

A prominent New York cotton broker
age house in its Saturday review says in
part:
Cotton prices during the week re-
sponded to number of bullish develop
ments. In the first place, the government
report on supply and distributor was
more favorable than expected. showing
as it did an increase of 10000 bales as
compared with March, 1914.
For eight months, August to March in
elusive, consumption was less than 10000
bales behind the corresponding period s
year ago. which far exceeded earlier gem
eral expectations. Then, too, further OPP
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

A New Mexico man who bought n
wooden leg on the installment plan was
sued for failure to pay. He lost the case.
The lawyers pulled his leg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

The mere chance of catching pneumonia
is not going to deter the baseball fan from
attending the early games
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

John Bunny, the famous funny man.
of the movies is reported i'll. This might
be cataloged as tragedy in reel ife.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

A woman peace advocate has called
Colonel Roosevelt a barbarian. a hard
name more or less doesn't make any diff
ference to the colonel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

A trade journal SAYS watchmakers are
more thrifty than the ordinary skilled
craftsman. And yet they go on tick
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
COMMENTED

COMMENTED
Il care not for the jests O. fate
A cheerful fellow said:
If there's no meat upon my plate,
I'm thankful still for bread
And though my clothes indeed are
poor,
They keep my person warm,
And when ones walking out of door
That is their chiefest charm
And though my bed is rather small,
At least it's clean and neat,
And I don't mind its size at all.
Because my dreams are SWEET
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Why did they name him Tun1ulty?
There has never been a more quiet man
about the White House
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

1t would be interesting to know just
when the allied fleet plans to finish up
that little job of capturing Constantinope
and blowing the Turk out of Eurone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
Observation. on southern business

BUSINESS In the south Is becoming
better each MONTH said Milton Mes
baum, clothing salesman, who travels
out of Rochester, n. Y.
"Of course, business in this section
las not yet fully recovered from the
depression brought about by the Euro
pean war; but for that matter neither
has business in New York entirely re-
covered but everybody sees prosper
ity ahead
Il travel in all parts of the south,
but do not remember seeing such ar
excellent hostelry as the Tutwiler in
birmingham. The 25-story Jefferson
County bank building with the News
PAPER club occupying the three upper
stories Is indeed a community asset
which this city may we'll feel proud
of. In fact | have never seen a club
in any section of the country in which
the arrangements were better and the
appointments more elegant"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Terrible warning: Austrians defending
the fortress of Przemysl were defeated
because of shortage of tobacco.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Jonathan Glew died at Shenandoah
Ia, few days ago, aged 1903 years. ANY,
how, he stuck to life long while.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Presumably the most enjoyable outing
a German aviator can have is to oyag
over to England and drop a few bombs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Labor men are sticklers for the scale
but they never seem to care for the Sar
Jose scale.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

1t is not believed that the shortage of
eye materials in this country will result
in any blondes reverting to brunettes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Somehow. opportunity and procrastina-
ton do not seem to travel the same road
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

The impression is growing that this
country can't have too much neutrality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperity In Pike County

Il have just returned from Troy,
where 1 had been on a business trip,
and I am glad to report that prosper
ity prevails in that section of Ala
hama,' said Prentice B. Reed, manager
of the Southern Adjustment bureau.
Many of the farmers of Pike coun-
ty have held their cotton. They are
out of debt and are in fine shape.
had been hearing a good deal about de-
preston in the cotton belt, but 1 found
nothing of the sort at TroYn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Oh, for a Burbank, these spring DAYS
to cross the young onion with the sweer
pea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20
SEEMS INCREDIBLE

SEEMS INCREDIBLE
They are very congenial.v
"A most unusual couple. They can Sc
lect wall paper without wrangling."
UNPOPULAR UNCLE SAM
China seems to think that Uncle Sam is
the only friend she ever had. 1t is graft
flying to know that at least one nation
on earth thinks well of the United States.
By trying to keep neutral during Eu-
ropes unpleasantness we have succeeded
in making ourselves, perhaps. the most
unpopular people on earth. Hands across
the sea to poor old China and hall to
the dragonl Long may he wave,
INSTRUCTED PHILANTHROPY
Granville Barker. who is intimately as
ISOLATED with the higher things in
theatricals. advocates a fund for the
temporary support of budding literary
geniuses." A most admirable conception,
no doubt, and one that might result in
saving numerous Chattertons for the
world at large But genius is of uncer-
tain growth. Sometimes 1t blooms over
night and sometimes it continues in the
budding stage for years, even unit,
death intervenes. Who shall say when a
literary genius has passed the tempo
rary budding period and may be consid-
cred in full bloom? At what time could
he be cut sharply off from his perqui-
sites9 Moreover, there are many, many
budding literary geniuses" who never
pass the embryonic stage. Ye critic who
attempted to weed these out of philan-
thropys garden would have stupendous
task before him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

England's new cabaret toast: Drink to
me only with thine eyes"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

thing that is valued strictly according
to its size is bank roll
HAS HE THOUGHT OF IT?
Il see where it is stated that Padarew-
ski has eschewed the piano while Poland
suffers So"
His motive is patriotic no doubt. STILL
a few piano concerts at Padarewski rates
would help considerably to swell the
Polish relief fund
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PAINFULLY REMINDED


Because my dreams are SWEET
PAINFULLY REMINDED
''oh, madame, chirped the French
miliner. Here is what gay call re latest
wrinkle in hats"
Heavens, child" exclaimed the dow
aser. Don't mention that word again in
my presence. have just spent two
hours at beauty doctors having my face
ircned.p
KNOWS WHAT TO DO
"Dubwaite is not brilliant conversa-
tionalist."
mo. Still. he has certain amount of
tact
"Yes?"
when there is lul in the conversa-
ton he gets up and puts a new record on
the photograph"
A COWARD? SURELY NOT
PA, what is pacifist?
I'm the opinion of a certain distin-
guished citizen of this country, my son,
a pacifist is person who would rather
have ar exalted look than black eye."
A HUSTLER
We sing of a lass named Maggie Sledd
And gladly pay her our devoir.
As a chambermaid she's talented,
With Is rooms in her repertoire.
THE LARGER THE BETTER
THE artist spent 20 years painting this
picture.
1T isn't very large"
my dear fellow. art is not judged by
its size"
Il guess that's true. About the only
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

A HUSTLER
We sing of q lass named Maggie Sledd,
And gladly pay her our devoir.
AS a chambermaid she's talented,
With Is rooms in her repertoire
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

mingham, Ala.
IS matter under
B, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

They are very congenialp
"A most unusual couple. They can Sc
lect wall paper without wrangling."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

E. Young and w.
usIIDvIov are the only authorized
travelling representatives of The Age
Herald in its circulation department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-20

Gadsden Evening Journals: 'Fonetic
Spelling Bord Plezd hi Years Cane reads
a headline of the phonetic style. How d.
yu Tx it?