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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-20

The first National League cham pionship game between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates was played twenty-eig1t years ago today, May 20, 1887. The Giants were victorious, by a score of 10 to g.. Pittsburgh played it's first season in the National League in 1887, while
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-20
FEDERAL LEAGUE.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-20

Steve White, the old Princeton twirler, and later g. member of the New Haven staff, would like to catch on with one of the Colonial clubs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-20
30 WILING

CITY LEAGUE. (Park City Alleys. )
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-20

Manager John McGraw of the Giants won't have any use for the Colonial league sAd Brennan, the man who stepped up behind McGraw a, few years
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-24
!. NEWS OF lie DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

Thieves smashed window Of Acme
Camera Co., 21 N. Wabash aV. Got
$1,000 worth of cameras.
C. C. Walker sues E. J. PennyPack-
er, charging latter found 1899 and re-
fused to return it.
Buckner Bros. Lumber Co., 352 5.
Michigan av., in federal court on pc
tition. for involuntary bankruptcy.
BaiIfff in Judge Kersten's court
found Jimmy and file in "bun pen"
Believed prisoners intended attempt
ing escape.
When house detective, J. Abrams,
Hotel La Sale, refused to let Joseph
inc Nabick visit her Chambermaid
friends. her companion, ROb't Sham
hon. bond salesman, beat Abrams up.
Philip BoIando, 724 S. May, booked
on murder charge in connection with
shooting of Vito DeLio, 843 Cam
bridge, in SantO Vantimiglia's saloon,
876 Cambridge av.
Josephine Meyer, II, 1862 Fry,
bruised when hit by auto Of DR.. ]. R.
Lavieri, 1923 w. Ohio.
Frank ZaIewsI<i, S41 N. Kolin, hit
by auto driven by P. w. Simpson, 522
N. Monticello av., As he alighted from
car. Leg broken, skull fractured, Sc.
rious internal injuries. Simpson held.
Mrs. Ida Davis, $40 w. 18th, found
dead from escaping gas. Believed &C
cidental
Il. w. Lovejoy, 6153 South Park av.,
failed to appear in court to answer
to wife's charges of disorderly con-
duct,
Two kids, a and 5, picked up on the
street while hunting adventure, re-
fused to give police names. Finally
father. John Lifkus, 1922 S. Marsh
field av., reported they were lost and
took 'em along.
More than 100 men have Volun-
teered for membership in the civilian
soldier, caOO tO he established at Fl
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-24

TOSueS Sauery.
Louise Wilson, actress, reappeared
in Chicago after disappearance of 2
weeks. Won't explain mystery.
S. MaukUs, 2227 w. Path, shot self
in attempt to suicide. Will recover.
Motive unknown.
Frank VoIk, IS w. Ontario, drown
ed in Desplaines river near Willow
Springs.
JOhan JOHN, so, s511 Sheffield av.,
suicided with gas. Separated from
wife.
Mrs. Louise Rowe, head of dept
public welfare says there will be no
municipal dances this year. No
funds.
John BurneII, 471s N. Racine, who
shot self 8 times, will recover. Sorry
he bungled job.
Lincoln jubilee opened by coIored
race at Coliseum. Orators laud Lin
coins memory.
is members Chicago Assn of Com
merce to cross lake in attempt to
restore peoples confidence in lake
boats.
F. G. Airy, representing express
CO.'S of H., wants rate increase from
public utilities CONN.
Al Jones, negro, arrested at Ven
dome hotel as man whom Mrs. Eve
lyn Romadka left home to become
burglar. Stolen articles found in
room.
Evelyn Stocks, 10, 63o6 DrexeI av,
disappeared with man posing as re-
porter. Police probing.
South Side real estate men pro-
tested to police of plumbing thieves
whose loot totals $73O,OOO yearly.
Aurora's health commission in
formed citizens they must take bath
once a week.
III. State Society of Optometrists-
almost same as Oculists-in cOnyen-
ton here. Blame Lake Michigan for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22

of commercial education to the needs of oversea commerce and ways and means whereby smaller manufactur- CTS and merchants may more effect ively engage in export trade, are sub- jects on which the convention will be addressed"
 The above is an extract from let ter which Mr. Farrell wrote to a prominent commercial body of Ala bama, and it indicates in nutshell the scope of the convention pro- gramme and the interest that will be focused on the meeting.
 Many delegates have been ap- pointed to represent the civic organi- cations of this state. A very strong delegation has been named to repre- sent Birmingham. It is hoped every delegate from this district will arl- swer to the roll call, for the New Or leans convention will mark new turning point in the foreign trade propaganda. The Birmingham dis trict must be in line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
Greatest Movie Production

"The livest question asked any man in the theatrical business today is, DO you think the movies will supplant the legitimate stage?' I invariably re- ply, No.'" said Brown Parks. "The power of the speaking voice on the stage will always be paramount to the screen.
 ''The greatest picture that has ever been made anywhere will be here all of next week. The Birth of Ma tion' is the title, and more money has been spent on the production than any other one thing attempted for the benefit of amusing the public. The whole picture is based on The Clans man and The Leopard's Spots,' writ ten by Thomas Dixon. In one of the battle scenes the producers spent more than S15,000 on gunpowder alone. Shells of the blank variety were fired in uniform were employed and most of them had been drilled before they took their parts in the battle scene.
 "An orchestra of 30 pieces is car ried by the company putting on the film. The music is inspiring and adds to the picture wonderfully. The com pany has not been able to supply the demand of the public for seats in any of the towns it has visited and no one has ever said it was not all that was claimed for it. Many are waiting expectantly for the greatest of all movie dramas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
"BOHEMIANs,

From the New York Globe.
 This is one of the most abused words in the language. There are few people who know what it means, Fewer. still, who have ever discovered the genuine article. Whenever it is pursued with zeal the explorer learns that Bohemia is somewhere else. Some people take it to be coterie of people who are untidy
 in thoir rairnent. To others slackness of morals appears to be the essential char acteristic. Red ink, spaghetti and a lot of loose chatter about Picasso, Marinetti and Gertrude Stein are frequently mis- taken for an unfailing peculiarity of the animal. N
 Only one thing is certain-just as the man who boasts of his sense of hunlor brands himself as being extraordinarily devoid of 1t, so the man who asserts that one. Your genuine artist today will in- dignantly repudiate the accusation If he takes his work seriously at all his hours of labor are more regular and more ardu- ous than those of the most conventional and prosperous of cloak manufacturers If he is a painter, he cannot sit up late carousing as the popular fancy imagines him. If he did he would lose valuable hours of daylight.
 The truth is that most of these alleged Bohemians are wistful souls who work stolidy and unromanticaliy at their type writers or ledgers. Their Bohemanism is harmless if somewhat slovenly pro- test against the essential commonplace ness of their daily lives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
The National Guard

If the military pay bill goes through Congress-" said Capt. Hal F. Halstead, commanding Company B, Second in- fantry, A. N. G., you can look for 8 greater increase in the National Guard of Alabama
 Under the present system there are no attractions, practically, to young men who do not naturally love mili- tary life and customs. Consequently, the National Guard all over the coun- try is at a very low ebb numerically.
 Under the pay bill system, which is proposed, the men would receive something like $5 month for drill ing an hour twice a month. Of course, when we look at it from a patriotic viewpoint, none of us should mind giv- ing 4S hours a year to the nation, but the practical side of the question has to be reckoned with.
 'T am very anxious to see the bill go through, for, as I say, believe the enlistments In the guard will more than double the first two years of the new system"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
Santa Claus Busy Week

The effect of the "shop early" slogan was seen a month ago. The merchants have been kept busy since the first of December.
 The holiday trade in Birmingham has been exceptionally brisk; but no matter how early shoppers start out to make their purchases, great rush comes always few days before Christmas.
 This has been Santa Claus busy week. He has just three days left and these three will be the busiest of all.
 The Christmas spirit was never more manifest than it is now. Not only are the little tots all eagerness, but the grown-ups are Just as happy hearted in watching the approach of the feast of the Savior's nativity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
Back from the Southwest

Arizona is noted for its excessive heat in summer and for it's delightful winter climate" said Dr. J. s. Morrow, who returned recently from Phoenix, where he had been to visit his grand daughter.
 T found prosperity prevailing in Arizona, as it prevails always every where. On my return home I met many Texas citizens and nearly all of them were discussing the Mexican sit uation. They criticize President Will son sharply for his nonintervention poll icy. One of the pest informed and most intelligent observers I talked with said that Huerta, with all his faults, would have come nearer restoring order in Mexico than any other of the leaders. It seemed to be the impression in Texas that Mexico would continue to give this country trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
Developing Export Trade

For many years past there has been much discussion concerning the op- portunities offered this country for the expansion of its foreign trade, but organized efforts have been lack ing until recently.
 When the National Foreign Trade council was formed and convention of manufacturers and other business men was held under it's auspices, a movement was started in practical way which promises in time large re- suits. The third convention will be held in New Orleans in January and the attendance there will surpass in numbers and the prominence of the men who will participate that of either of the previous meetings.
 James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation and chairman of the National Foreign Trade council, announces striking array of delegates who will be pres ent and score or more of men ot wide reputation who will read papers or make speeches.
 "The development of the American merchant marine, the utilization ot the tariff for the purpose of encour- aging foreign trade and protecting it from discrimination, the adaptation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
CXRUsO WRITES "LIAR"
he Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
 An incident that might have led to a Guel in France or Italy closed without bloodshed in New York the other day, when Enrico Caruso yenciled the word s1iar'' over the Krehbiel criticism of his singing bulletined in the entrance of the Metropolitan opera house. The tenor signed his name underneath the tribute to tie veteran critic of the New York Trib- lne The ether papers saw It before the press agent of the Metropolitan did. and so the story got out. The critic that Caruso pronounced lie said: 'The dou- ble bill, with MT. Caruso in the Leonca- vallo work, is sure to fill the house and pack in the standees, even if t''r --"at tenor is not in his best voice. He was not in his vest voice last night. though he has improved over his opening per formynces, and his 'Ridi rag.iaccf was not the cry of yore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
 NATION TO ITS FOREIGN-BORl

Elias Lieberman in the New York Times ,Make thee knight? My knights are sworn to vows Of utter hardhood utter gentleness And, loving utter fathfulness in love."-Tennyson. face you prepared to do your part?
 Come here and tell know you Stand straight and sduarely heart to heart;
 You're a grain of dust to step on, man. Look up The truth mean to try you out
 When passions heat is wEite to search through if anywhere there lives a doubt
 To whom and where your loyalty is due. You're stanchly trueo Then breathe holy
 That what may. your soul will cling to l sheltered you, when first you came. and,
 I want your faith and deeds, if need there But if your thoughts fondly back to where,
 subject ate your potted meat, Or where you scraped and bowed to kings why there
 You returno. You cannot stand white heat There s middle course for loyalty
 And should She who nursed Your brawn and brain and soul, who dubbed free
 Should stand alone in love, in duty first. you stand resolved pledge
 call witness Him that Then rise, Sir Knight, my future you
 On all your utter faith, utter love
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
As to Cotton Prices

The cotton farmers have done a good thing for themselves and good thing for the south by marketing their staple gradually. Had they glutted the market when cotton began to ad- vance they would have been poorly remunerated for the fruit of their industry. But they have been getting good prices and those who have held a portion of their crop will get still better prices.
 The statistical position of the staple indicates cotton famine next sum- mer. Whether or not the war ends during the coming year, there will not be enough cotton to supply the needs of the spinners pending a new crop. In view of the situation, there fore. the market at the present time is much too low. Cotton should be selling at IA or 15 cents. The farmer who holds some of his bales until spring will get more than b cents probably 20 cents.
 Congressman Heflin is invoking the United States department of justice to break up what he thinks is an un- lawful combination of spinners and speculators to depress the market and keep the producer from getting the benefit of high prices that will cer- tainly prevail later on. He threatens to use his efforts to have the New York and New Orleans exchanges abolished, for, according to his way of thinking, these exchanges make 1t possible for bear raids to succeed, and for the bears to prevent the cotton grower from getting what his prod uct is fairly worth. But a"'t-tion for the abolishment of the cotton ex- changes is never taken seriously.
 Were there no exchange there could be no uniformity of prices and the crop could not be handled in a business-like manner. Grain eX- changes in great market centers are absolutely necessary for the economic good of the farmer, and so it Is in respect to cotton exchanges.
 This is the twentieth century and not the eighteenth. Were the selling of those agricultural products which are offered in vast quantities de- pendent upon "curbstone" methods there would be not only disastrous confusion, but the producer would Ego broke"
 The thing to do is to regulate the exchanges of all kinds. And this is what Congressman Heflln is evidently trying to accomplish. Few men have the facts about cotton at as ready command as Alabama's Fifth district representative has them; and no cotton authority has a keener in- sight into market conditions than he. His recent statement, published in yesterdays Age-Herald, will certain ly have a wholesome effect. It will help to bring about better prices and the entire cotton south can but feel grateful to MT. Heflin for his vigor- ouS utteranceS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
LOVES SFIIPWRECK

duck to express their devotion ventura them as frail as that of the hero of thu Mother Goose rhyme whose little boat pended"
 It was upon an empty stomach, you may be sure, that Sophocles said: Call no man happy. It was of an inn that thd author of "Dr. Syntax' declared that on each face a smile was seen, and Bos1 well never told profounder truth than when he declared that nothing produced so much happiness as a good tavern.
 Sings a poet:
 How oft doth man, by care oppressed, Find in an inn a place of rest.''
 And rest, mind you, does not meaI mere respite from toll. 1t means soul composed, spirits tranquilized hearl soothed mind free from agitation and distress. In other words, a mental statd in which a normal man is ready to sed Titan tints in carroty red head and to regard the milkmaid type of villagd belle as the image of one of the Tintoj retto graces.
 It is after dinner that the wise virgin who never left a lamp unified with oil leads the eligible bachelor into the conI servatory. to show him an orchid, ostenl sibly, but actually to hear a proposal which has hung fire. It is in her capacl ity of innkeeper that the wise matrorI holds her own against all cofners. A maj jorty of our unselfish uplifting sentimenti are post prandial.
 The duck left uncarved, the potatoes all lowed to go back to the kitchin, the fix ings ignoredi All of the signs pointed i'd marital shipwreck. The two fresh wate1 sailors never needed them. With thu tiller flashed down, with every inch oI canvas to the breeze and sunlight kissI ing every sail' they went upon the rocks|
 A little more of Sancho Panza in hil makeup and the husband might, unconI sciously, have saved the situation.
 Let lovers be warned that love must be fed. if not upon pork and beans, upol| duck and current jelly, else it win starve| 'grande passion" which sets up al being, or sets out to be, ethereal, prove sphemereal
 Of the earth we are and earthly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
"vo1CE OF THE PALMS.

Richard Le Gallienne in Harper's Maga-
 zine.
 But the glory of palm trees, No pie lures or description in books had ever made me realize that before. ssThe wind is in the palm trees'' had been for me but a haunting phrase in MT. Kipling's most fs nous ballad; but when the bell boy threw open the door of my room Gin Mas sau of the Bahamas) looking into the hotel gardens I cried, What is that sound?' for my ears had been instantly filled with a delicious ripping, as though the room was alive with invisible rivers of running water. I ran to the window. It was the wind in the palm trees-the freshest. purest, gladdest sound to be heard in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
. FRESH AIR EXPERIMENT

1 From the St Louis Globe-Democrat. The what-might-ha have been- expected has happened. The Chicago folk who leased street railway managers into put ting entirely open cars on elevated lines so that the '1overs of fresh air" might occupy them while travelling this win ter, beat nasty retreat at the first cold and really invigorating breath from the lungs of Boreas. They were unable to take a bath in the cold air they profess so much to love, and fled precipitately back to the closed cars where they could subject themselves and others to the dangers of direct drafts blowing through the narrow spaces of open windows. And the railway managers, who may be sus- pected of having shrewdly foreseen this result from the first, have taken off the open all-around winter cars,
 We regret this surrender, though in no way surprised by it. Such riding would have been the making of the people de- handing it. There is no finer tonic than
 cold air bath. It is as invigorating as a cold air draft is depressing. A ride on wide-open car in winter, on an ele- vated road, would have been to these mis-
 guided folk as much like drink of cham pagne as walking over the Grand avenue viaduct on clear, bright, cold morning, when the northwest wind is loudly sing ing down the Mill Creek valley, is to the few St. Louisans who have learned to enjoy it. Such air, charged with life giving clements flaming itself through every pore of a clean body, is as a nectar of the gods making such as take it feel like giants refreshed with old wine. We regret the passing of the cars with open rear platforms, on which men loving fresh 1 air for it's own sake could bathe them selves in it, while the poseurs stuck to the inside and insisted | on sitting in draft against the protest l of anxious mothers with tender babes in l their arms.
 1 It had been our hope though a faint one, that the Chicago experiment would succeed, and that anxious mothers, and l others not poseurs, could have the in | closed cars to themselves That hope is dashed, as we feared it would be. They will not take their own medicine as na- pathetic doses. But the anxious mothers are armed now, with a new weapon. When the professional fresh-air theorist
 makes himself too obtrusiVe, speak only
 the name of Chicago. That ought to shut l both him and his window
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
GALL BLONDS EAT CHEESE

From the Boston Post
 Are you a cheese eater?
 Do you eat your monday wedge of mince or apple with or without?
 If it is with it is a 1O-to-1 bet that you are a blond. for all blonds eat cheese. according to one of the Marie An toinette counter girls in a Boston restau- rant
 This counter girl, besides being an ex- pert manipulator of the hot and cold coffee and master of the mazes of elec- tric order buttons is close observer and psychologist.
 She says that after three years of close comparison of those who patronize her counter she has reached the conclusion that cheese is the preference of blonds. A few dark skinned and pirate like men may use cheese, but the blonds all par take and she suspects that brunette who asks for the with when ordering pie either has a blond strain or a fair haired sweetheart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
THE PICkPOCKET
n the Troy Messenger.

IIOV
 The Birmingham Age-Herald prints a front-rage cartoon showing the dip,' fellow who eases his hands into the pock- cts of another person, and extracts money on which to live. The caption is: "The hand that spins not. but lives off the other fellows money The cartoon is a good one and calls attention to one of the biggest evils of civilization today. There are entirely too many people who are drones. parasites. They do not earn money, nor do they care They seek ease and place their burdens upon the shoulders of others. They can while others lift And thus some must slave tteir lives away, when really there should be no necessity therefor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
Tuskegee's New Head

There is every reason to beheve that Robert R. Moton of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural institute at Hampton, Va, who has been ap- pointed successor to Booker I. Wash ington as the head of Tuskegee in stitute, will carry out the policies o1 Dr. Washington in conducting thls famous school for colored people. The fact that Moton and Washington were close friends, with similar ideals and sympathies, will doubtless make the new head of Tuskegee acceptable to the student body, as well as the peo- ple of Alabama who have always taken lively interest in the school and have appreciated the great work it has done for the negroes of the south.
 There is disappointment expressed in some parts of the state because Emmet J. Scott, who was intimately associated with Booker T. Washing ton for many years in the work at Tuskegee, was not given the place for which he appeared to be the logical candidate. Scott's wide acquaintance in the south among white people and members of his race and his thor ough knowledge of conditions at Tus- kegee would seem to have fitted him to succeed Dr. Washington.
 The announcement of the special committee of the trustees that "the policies, aims and attitude of the in stitute will continue unchanged" is encouraging. Washington made a great success of the school because he understood the negro as no other man of his race has ever done, and combined with that knowledge a sound common sense which enabled him to win the support and en- couragement of the white people of the south, as well as the north, and to make his school the greatest sin gle factor in the country for the up- lift of his people.
 Alabama has come to regard Tus- kegee institute as one of its most valuable assets and nowhere will the future activities of the school be viewed with keener interest than in the state where it flourished for so long under the able leadership of Booker Washington.