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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-12

Avenida Beira Mar, which runs for four miles along the shore, being lined with statues, fountains and fast growing palm trees. The two streets are brilliantly
 illuminated all night long. the electric lights being so powerful that their glow can be seen 45 miles out at sea
 The Avenda Central. or as 1t is now called the Avenida Rio Branco, compares favorably with the Champs Elysees and the boulevards. It Is lined with mag nificent palaces from one end to the other. beginning with the great Palace of Peace. named after President Monroe The palaces have an even sky line. They are of only four or five stories, but their decoration is splendid and the arehltec- ture is of the most modern type. Beyond the Peace Palace is the National library, a magnificent structure of stone Next is the brownstone School of Fine Arts, and across the way the Municipal theatre, made of gray marble. We have no amusement building in the United States to compare with that theatre.
 Farther down the street are the news. paper buildings, including those of the Journal do Commercial, O Paiz and the Journal do Brasil. There are also the Academy of Fine Arts the Military, Naval and Central club. the Great Gen. tral hotel. and many banks and other buildings devoted to business.
 Some of the details of this street are worthy of mention. The central road way consists of blocks of hardwood laid in asphalt or cement, and the sidewalks are pavements % feet wide and floored with mosaic. They are made of things laid in patterns and smoothly fitted to- gether At home we think We do we'll if we have a mosaic vestbule. Down here in Rio they have three miles of such mosaic running up and down the sides of this avenue. Each block has it's own pat tern running from cross street to cross street. Here is one where the black and white lines give the impress sion of being grooved, looking like great wav- iug flag from one end of the block to the other. From above this flag of wSite and black stripes seems to be moving up and down like the waves of the sea. and the Illusion is SO perfect that the people walking upon it appear to be go- ing over hills and hollows. the seeming difference in. height being created by the way the colors are, laid have often sat and watched this effect from my room. on the third story of the great Hotel Central, which stands in the heart of the avenue. Other blocks have diff ferent patterns of the same colors
 Another detail of the. Avenida is the great street lights which, with their
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big globes, make night as bright SIS day, and another is the postoffice boAes. The latter are of bronze upheld by bronze posts which have arns reaching out and holding the box The lamp posts are of bronze, and every thing seems to have been created with out regard to expense.
 The Rua do Ouvidor has also been made over. This. which in the past was the Broadway. the Rialto and the Boulevard of the capital. is now divid- ing it's honors with the Avenida Cen tial. It still has the best stores and many of the clubs. It Is one of the chief gossipins places, the chief shop ping street, the walk where the beaux and bellies come to see and be seen the spot where the candidate feel, tho pulse of the people and the politician holds his daily receptions. It is the same as in the past. but 1t has been remade. The old street has been torn up and new one with a smooth tava- ment and sidewalks eof tiles. fine enough for the floor of a bathroom. have taken its place. The crowd r. thicker than it was when I was hese 15 years ago; but it is of the same character representing Brazil Today the Ouvidor Is too narrow to contain 1t all, and 1t has over1owed into the Avenida Central. which is thronge1 with people from noon until midnight.
 The crowd of these two streets is typical of fashionable Brazil. Both men and women are we'll dressed. Near ly every man carries cane. and many of the women wear the short skirts and the high -heelcd shoes of different colored feathers so common today Tie faces of most of the people are sallow, and there are many blacks and mulat- toes. Among the best dressed on the plexions are of bright coffee-colo and whose black hair waves even more than the mosaic flag under their feet. Others have a complexion which makes one think of old ivory. They have mind you of the beauties of Lisbon. The men are almost invariably thin They look lean and nervous. Many of the women are fat, the sedentary life of the rich adding to the ayoirdLpois of the maidens
 Both the Ouvidor and the Avenida Cen tral have beautiful stores. which form the walls for the moving pictures I have described. The window displays are like those of Paris. the most of the stock be- ing shown behind the plate glass A great
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to go rite down to the last trench to that he gets 1t.
 Senatur Burton's polytieai opponents-n his OWL partyurge that he is too old for the honurs he seeks No would notise it. The Senaur is as active and alert enny of the boys. He is 64 but look al Uncle Joe who must be at leest 100 The Senatur may be getting along sumwhat in yeers, but he hasn't waised enny of them each yeer he put by sumhng of valew till he has his think box full of all kinds of nolledee. He Is called lucky" by his friends as lucky as the Kyser"-so if he wins the g. O. nominasion. the oppossion will have to fite his ability and his luck, too, which will be combna sion
 Senatur Burton is of the reeally grate big men of the country and should 1t happen that it Is the cards for his party to win in 1916. far be 1t frum admit it. the country could set perfectly steddy iu the boat and not worry. Senaur Burton. if Pressi dent would be as safe and they make 'em. II is of his favvorite pass-times prod the demmy cratic party but he Is paryot with all that, and as broad minded Is possbull for member of his party to be- and especially when he has to hold ur the radisons of Ashtabuler county
 Yours trooly,
 BILL. VINES. Washington D. C.
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RIO DE JANEIRO FROM TOP OF SUGAR LOAF

of Rio which runs around the sea can be plainly picked out with the eye. but the distance dwarfs the tall palms and other trees to bushes and the auto mobiles look like ants or bees, flying along over a strip of black road, which from the Sugarloaf seems only as wide as a pencil mark. That avenue runs along the sea for miles. The tiny buildings at its back are palaces, and, together with the tumble of houses form one of the most beautiful cities of the world
 Now let your eye follow the shore line. It winds in and out of one bay after another Now it circumscribes an island and now goes up and down a peninsula. Everywhere there are buildings, everywhere trees. and hers and there great gardens of beautiful. is the Monroe Palace of Peace and the broad street upon which it stands, cutting through from one side of the peninusla to the other. is the Avenida Central, the new boulevard, of the Bra lillian capital that surpasses any in Paris. It is only 10 years of age. but It is one of the finest streets of the world.
 But stop moment and see where you are. How did you get to the top of this mighty cone rising straight up from the ocean. You could have reached it only by an aeroplane a few years ago. The rock is so bare and so steep that a goat could not climb it. But now it has an observatory made of steel and concrete right at the peak and an aerial railway. consisting of Cars slunS to steel cables. lifts pas sengers from the sea to the top. I took an electric tram in the center of the city and rode four or five miles to the park where the national exposition was formerly held. l bought a ticket at the Bilhetoria, inside the great steel tower out of which the car rises. The car itself is a steel cage which will hold 12 or IS people. 1t has four cables two of which are thick your wrist. They run on great pulleywheels. The upper cables support the car. the lower ones keep it steady as it goes up. The metallic sides of the car reach to the height of your chest and the space above is covered only with net work, so that you can see we'll as you go up. The fare to the top is 66 cents, and the return costs the same. You buy tickets at hoth ends of the route.
 The car starts on the level. and ris- ing, you feel as though you were In an aeroplane. You are soon high above the harbor. A little later the car tilts. You are beginning to climb and you go on the slant to the top.s As you rise
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then they suddenly ceased An official in power omitted to specify night schools in contract for prison labor.
 Many agents are now. at work at the ship of prison reform in Alabama. that so long and so faithfully had Miss Jrlia at the helm. No work done can ever be hard as deserving as the pioneer work of movement. no leader SO great as the one that with God alone makes majority.
 Every school child in Alabama that sings the school song should be told of it's author. and her life SO dedicated to splendid deeds to uplift and nope, her spirit so ,danntless, her work so great.
 The state of Alabama has been siven great gift int theapersohality of this woman. TO the south has been added an- other link in the chain of American Women in Civic Work
 But not for glory or honor did she toll not for the consideration of self. but for a big end, for the good of her beloved Alabama. G.
 Bishop Fitzgerald said of her: Miss Julia Tutwiler is the Angel of the sStcok- ade." In the eyes of her only are her deeds and gifts small. Her own words il her state song best typify her attitude Little, little can l give thee.
 Alabama. Mother mine. But that little, hand, brain. spirit,
 All have and am are thine Take. oh take the gift and glver.
 Take and serve myself with me:
 Alabama, Alabamts will eer be true 10 tHcs
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beautiful poem to her on her seventy fourth birthday: To Julia Strudwick Tutwiler. on her seventy fourth birthday. Full many years hast thou this wide world
 blessed, Yet old thou art not, thy deeds thy youth
 assert: Thou canst not age thy spirit all alert, Thy mind so fresh to plan for the op-
 pressed, Thy heart kept strong to succor the dis.
 tressed As ever quick for use thy hand and brain To fight the wrong and comfort those in
 rain Eternal youth to thee is Gods behest. The lonely prisoner signing in his cell Remembers thee and besses thy dcar The children of our state sing thy sweet
 songs. And all the hosts of those by thee taught
 well Rise up and thank thee and keep bright
 thy fame. They as their teacher strong to fight old
 wrongs.
 AGNES ST. CLAIR YOUNG.
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harbor for nearly four miles It has only one interruption, and this Is caused by the Widows mount, behind which it turns inland for some 800 yards. The avenue joins other avenues following the hsrbor, and the whole affords double motor track which carries one for many miles along the edge of the bay, from which 1t Is sep arated by the sea wall.
 Rio is big city, There are only four municipalities in North and South America that surpass 1t in population. These are New York Chicago. Buenos xiires. and Philadelphia. The city GOV CTS twice as much ground as Paris. It is nine miles wide and 10 miles long. and 1t is mass of beautiful vegetation except where the houses and streets have been chopped out of the jungle The mountains at the back have mag nificent trees loaded with orchids and on their lower slopes are gardens with all the flowers of the tropics. Many of the streets are lined with royal palm trees and every park contains plants that we see only in botanical gardens
 INiO IS the nome or the. royal palm. its fern-lilSe top is to be seen all over the city. The trunk of this tree is as round and straight and smooth as the most beautiful column ever clipped out by a sculptor. It rises in a symmet- Iical shaft of silver gray to a height of from 100 to 150 feet and there ends in | canopy of fern-like leaves. Some of the villas of Rio have rows of these palms on the sides of the walk that lead into them; and many of the ave nues are lined with palm trees. The palm avenue of the botanical gardens is famous all over the world That ave iSi palms averaging 80 feet in height.
 One of the wonders of the new Rio de Janero is the Avenida Central. This is a boulevard that has been cut right through the heart of the city IS one of the new Improvements. This avenue is one hun dred feet wide and a mile and half in length. It crosses II different streets including the Rua Ouvidor, which has long been noted as the center of business and ia shion of the Brazalian capital. About 600 buildings were demolished to make it and the whole was completed within the space of six months. That was in 1904, and today the Avenida Central is one of the most magnificent streets of tho world. It has cost millions but the money has been well spent and it will be long before it's artistic beauty will be surpassed It is an extension of the
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Identifying Himself

From the Magazine of Fun
 Lord Charles Beresford of the British navyis an adept at great many things He has the reputation of being as willing to fight with q London taxi-cabby as the average French or German military officer is to challenge another to a duel Neither is he afraid of Boobies. as tn. London guardians of the peace are called One of the popular stories about hin runs something like this:
 He and the Duke of Porterheld wers standing on street corner in Londor one day when Lord Beresford was par tlcularly struck with the strutting of very important Bobby across the street Calling seedy looking individual, hs said:
 "Tll give you half-a-crown if you wiz go over and knock that Bobby's hat off.
 The seedy looking one mmediatel. crossed the street and knocked off tn, hat in q most artistic and inspired man ner and then reioined the two others op the pavement. The irate Bobby. picking up his hat crossed close behind him.
 Who are you?' he demanded of tht duke.
 ''I am the Duke of Porterheld and yoy will find me at"-givlng his number
 And you?" he demanded of the next one.
 Lord Charles Beresford of the British navy, and my address is,' so and SO
 And youi'' said the Bobby. grimly turning to the grand executive of tho scheme.
 "I?' said the seedy' looking individual inserting his thumbs in the armholes Q, his vest and casting A superior, glance al his colleagues. "I am de Prince of Wales an you all knows where youse can find me-
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iant men 1t has given to the
 country Now. after many gen. erations when the awakened -=ide in woman is coming into its place in the history of the nation. we are find ing here again does the southland play . conspicuous part in the history of the nation.
 In New Orleans out of F loving cups awarded by a local newspaper for the most useful citizen, four have been given to women. Mrs. Mlliken, for the estab- lishment of the Milliken Hospital for Children Mrs. Ida NJ Richardson re- ceived the cup for the Richardson Memo- rial building of the Tulane Medical de- partment. and the other two women of New Orleans signally honored have been Miss Sophie B. Wright for the establish ment of free night schools and pr. Sara Few Mayo for the service she rendered in the establishment of the Woman's and Children's sdispensary.
 / New Orleans holds one of the few mon- uments erected to woman in this coun- try, the beloved Margret being so hon cred. To Birmingham has fallen the dis tinction of having the only statue erected in the world to woman educator Miss Mary Cahalan, and to Birmingham also belongs th&e dtgtinction of having as citizen MisS 1u4e Tutwiler. s
 Rankp With seiis suished Women the biggest woman the state has ever known. Lyman Abbott said publicly that shefis Alabama's first citizen. A<receut' book from the pen of Helen Christine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-12
By FRANK G. CARPENTER
1915 by Frank G. Carpenter
 Rio De Janetro


 Rio De Janeiro. T@ 1TAND with me on the top of the Sugarloaf and take look at the )ss:7a;sea harbor and city of Rio de l9zaz28J Janeiro. We are on a mighty
 la. j. rock, almost three times as high as the Washington monument and more than one-third higher than the Eiffel tower in the center of Paris This rock stands at the entrance to the harbor of Rio. It rises almost precipitiously out of the sea and commands panorama of water and land such as can be seen nowhere else in the world. Right be- low us are the three great islands that guard the entrance to the harbor, and beyond them at the east rolls the At lantic ocean, extending on and on to the horizon At our left begins a wall of gray mountains that extends like a great horseshoe about a magnificent bay, on the shores of which is the city of Rio. The mountains are green at ths base and far up their sides, but their ragged peaks are lost in the clouds Some of them are over 5000 feet high, and one, on the opposite side of the harbor, is so tall, so slender and straight that it seems to point to the heavens. and is known by the people as The Finger of Cod"
 Now turn your eyes to the harbor of Rio, with it's city of a million and more hugglng it's shores and climbing the mountains behind. It is the most beau tiful harbor on earth. I have heard it compared to that of Sydney and Con stantinople, but to me it outranks them both. In coming to Sydney you wind through the mountains. and enter narrow bay surrounded by hills, with the town on one of the slopes Con- stantinople has the Golden Horn, with Pera at the right and Scutari facing you on the Asiatic shore over the way Neither has the wonderful mountain eff fleets of Rio, and the beauties of the ocean are lost by their being far inland. Here you have mountains and sea, and that under skies as cerulean as those that cover the Bay of Naples or the waters of the Piraeus, near Athens. The harbor of Rio is immense, and it Is spotted with islands There is an outer and an inner harbor, the outer having an opening in the center of the half moon. The inner harbor forms d part of the bend of the moon and it is around it that the great city runs, hav- ing sea-wall like the frame of pie ture. Back of the wall the buildings rise, covering the foothills The great drive
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Embarrassing

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 young man in the country had ten der passion and took his girl some low CTS.
 How kind of ycu,'' said the girl. '.to bring me these lovely flowers They are So beautiful and fresh, I think there Is some dew on them yet"
 Yes" said the young man Ii, great emharra ssment there is; but I'm xoinx to gay it off toTorrow-'
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deal of taste Is exercised in creating ar tistc effects. and all sorts of ways are used to entice one to enter. The depart. ment stores have player pianos. as we'll as shows of one gnd or another. The jew. elery shops show quantities of diamond. and the other precious and semi-precious are large shops selling canes and millners and dressmakers from Paris. The price marks are puzzling. The currency Is i1 reis, of which it takes about 5000 to equal one of our dollars. When you first look at the marks you seem to be in a city stones. for which Brazil is SD noted There of millionaires Here silk shirts arc lah. eled: "S for 3oso0o." The price seems enormous. you think If sloooo u, shirt. Bu,. when you understand that it takes 3eN reis to equal sl, the price comes down to slo or a little more than s per shit. The jewelry marks are even more as. founding. The figures on diamond rings and bracelets run from 500s00o to l000se0o, and 1t Is only when you cut off three of the ciphers. and divide what is left by B. that you get the actual values in American dollars.
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U 5Sa,12 into Pennsylvanier, and also being the most
 northerly, well the most easterly
 county in Ohio, Ashtabuler county has uther things to point to with less pride, and ovver which the plain peepu of sed Ashtabuler county at varius and sundry intervals, when in the proper humer and under the proper inspirason with justice do reesunabull amount of swelling up, is the fact that back in 1851 the Honerabu Theordore E. Bur ton thoughtfully selected Ashtabuer county in which to make his nissia apperense and dgnifed entranse into Americon polyticks. Although at the time this inturresng event took phase Ashtabuer county took 1t with grate camness, considering it's importanse
 nevertheless Ashabuler county has always held herself in this commenderbull restraint cents that time Ashtabuer county may have been sumwhat backward in recognizing the fact that she had a favvorite sun, which may be set down against the sumwhat constructive spirit of the sed plain peepul of Ashtabuer county back in its early histerry the word progressive in it's present cents incoming Ito h--l with the constitusonp and uther advansed and equally censibu slogans yelped at all times by the esteemed followers of the mty Teddy, but Ashabuer county when she finally awoke to the situasion has
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Poem on Her Birthday

Miss Aknes kt. Clair Young a niece of Miss Julia's. has written the following
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SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT Dy MRS. SIDNEY V. LILLIAN

HE south has long been lauded
 and praised for the many val
 iant men 1t has given to the country. Now, after many gen
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HISTUR EDDITUR: Aside rum the dstinck- tion of almost Hopping ovyer the border |0a into Pennsylvanier, and also being the most
 " northerly, as well as the most easterly
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RIO De JanefrO.
 rAND with me on the top of the Sugarloaf and take look at the harbor and city of Rio de Janeiro. We are on a mighty rock almost three times as high
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Back of the wall the buildings rise, covering the foothills. The great drive
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Both the Ouvidor and the Avenda Cen tral have beautiful stores, which form the walls for the moving pictures I have described. The window displays are like those of Paris, the most of the stock be- ing shown behind the plate glass. A great
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-07
NUMBER ST

Sharp were Butler visitors Sat-
lsrday.
Miss Irene Wilcox Of Mt. Pleas
ant township was in Passaic trad
ing Saturday.
Several of this vicinity were
thrashing this week.
Mrs d. S. West of Mt. Pleas
ant township helped her sister,
Mrs. j. II. O'Dea, cook for thresh-
ers one day Last week.
John Eichler returned home
last week. He has been in Kan
sas.
Mrs. Webb Shelby and Sally
lIolwell were Butler visitors Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Snyder
went to the fair at Amsterdam
Wednesday.
Dennis Thralls of Butler visit
ed Y. A. O'Dea Friday.
LITTLE IRISH ROSE.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-07
Foster News.

Chas. Cullison spent Sunday
with his son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Badgett,
out west of town.
Doctor Rhoades reports fine
baby girl, born at Mr.. and Mrs.
True Kratzer's last Sunday.
Mrs. Ethel Goodenough, the
primary teacher at the Christian
Sunday school took her class out
for an outing last Saturday. All
Of the little folks had a fine time.
They took their lunch and Went
out to Uncle Joe T. Smith s farm
on the creek where they ate their
dinner and picked nuts.
A. Bess, coal dealer from
Pittsburg, Kansas, was in our
town a few days last week want
ing to buy some soft coal.
Harry Martin is about on the
sicklist. He is laid up with boils,
which are very painful to him.
Mr.. Heustis is a sojourner in
our city with a merry go-round
and he is entertaining the young
as well as the old with ride on
his swing, for "A jitney a ride.
Vest Bell was sworn in as as
sistant postmaster at Worland.
Mrs. Lightfoot, the postmistrcss
is going to take a vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Lloyd came
in last Friday from an extended
visit with relatives in Colorado
and Nebraska. They report Il
fine time.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. MetzIcr
came in last Friday from Sedalia
where they had been attending
the State Fair. Slim.