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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
From the Nashville Tennessean.

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 YUST little while ago, in a prosaic,
 drudging lawsuit, the theory was 0 advanced for the first time that Shakespeare is the work not of one man theory asserted it to be the work of the Jesuits, of number of sholars of that order working together. Newspaper writers and magazine writers have rid dled the theory Shakespeare, they say, could not have originated with the Je- suits They go much farther. Shake speare. they say cannot be collabora- ton. A number of men, they hold, could not bring themselves into such unity, could not make work so stamped with one personality.
 We'll nobody cares much whether Je- suit, Jew or jester wrote Shakespeare But the theory that it was written by many men is interesting, and the posi- tive declaration against it by newspaper and magazine critics may not be, for all it's seeming soundness just sure of it's ground. This world shapes Its judgments very largely upon precedent. A thing that has been done once may have been done twice. If literary work as great as Shakespeare, of an equal unity with Shakespeare, as distinctively stamped with one style as Shakespeare, were done by number of men, then why may not Shakespeare have been done that way?
 There is in English only one other piece of literature comparable with
 okt fAof hoe erted so profound an influence on every page of what we now know as English literature. That one comparable piece of literature is the authorized version of the Bible-and it is greater than Shake- speare.
 The authorized version of the Bible was made, not by one man, but by 47 men. They were not particularly notable men. Not one of them is known for any great talent. Not one of them impressed him self upon posterity save by this joint performance. Not one person in ten who reads this could call the name of any one of the A.
 Those 47 men went through the great mass of holy writ-materials differing as widely as any materials could possibly differ from the unlike languages of two unlike peoples, spread out through many centuries of human progress, touch- ing many types of civilization and semi- civilization, ranging all the way from the camp regulations of primitive pa triarch to the fine organization of Rome at it's high tide. Over that tangled mass of materials the 47 worked-and brought | out of it the greatest marvel of literary unity in the world. From lid to lld oi
 that book. there runs a rhythm so per
 sonal, so constant. that the whole great
 book speaks with the voice of one author And man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest" Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. l When this corruptiple shall have put on interruption, and this mortal shall have
 put or immortality
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
WAR AND POETRY

Verses innumerable from the firing Fort Sumter to the close of the civil V. were written. The curious will find ma of them by northern and southern pol in the Rebellion Record. What thI poems stand out in bold relief? WI mans Burial Hymn of Lincoln" C'WI Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom dl My Captain," and Lowell's 'Comme, oration Ode" No one of them sounds Tyrtaean note There were stirrF poems written during the civil war, peals, invectives, dirges, poems. desci' tive of battles on land and sea; they lE their effect at the time. Some of tfY are still remembered by collectors of f thologies. How many now recall names of H. H. Brownell, Forceythe VI son, Timrod, Hayne? Yet it is safes say that no English poet has yet writl verses to be named with the best by I four men just named.
 Perhaps the influence of the war English and French literature will be \ after peace is declared. At presenti England the taste of the reading pull seeking something new, seems to be ! war books and novels, as the great pl lie that wishes to be amused freque the music halls, the cinema shows, 1 the theatres given over to musical cf edies and revues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
TWO MIRACLES OF ENGLISH

Not only is it the rhythm of the B
 through and through; it is the rhythm
 all subsequent worth while English. \
 ton, writing of heaven and hell and between, made it his touchstone, Isaak Walton, writing of trout bro did the like. Addison the precise cd
 not escape it and Johnson, the pomEl was never far from it. Gibbon, whera turned his fire of destruction against A Bible, and Drummond, when he mao truce between religion and science, U equally the biblical form of speech.
 And that mira acle-using the word int Aristotelian sense of a human thing S which we cannot account-was the VI of 47 human entities. Why may Shakespeare, the other great miracld English-using the word in exactly same sense-be the work of 10 or 20 ola men?
 All of that has essentially nothing do with the theory of Jesuitical orY It has merely to do with the cock-S contention of the critics that Shakespef being of remarkable unity and stanA with a style as of one man, must ne|' sarily be the work of one man and ncl many men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Mobile After the Storm
FROM MOBILE NEWSPAPERS.) )
 Has Unique Fire system

While the fire alarm signal system is disarranged, owing to the recent storm, Fire Chief Charles McCoskey has signal tower on top of the City Bank and Trust company building. A fireman Is sta- tioned on top of the building with a fine pair of marine glasses, keeping a con stant watch for smoke or evidences of fire.
 A private telephone has been arranged from the top of the building down into No As engine house on St. Joseph street In the event that a fire Is discovered the watchman in the tower will advise head quarters of the probable location and engine houses in the section where the fire is discovered will be notified.
 The signal tower is only temporary and is a precautionary move on the part of Chief McCoskey in an effort to minimize fire danger until the large force of men at work can repair. the signal alarm sys- tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
MAKING DEATH STINGLESS

From the New York Times.
 Full many literarygem of purest ray serene can be found by those who search with care the columns of the rural press, for there appear the writings of men, and eke of women, whose style has not been of convention. They dare to be ingenu- ous, and when they have a thought-that happens sometimes, even in the country! they put it on paper in all the courage of their innocence
 A truly charming example of the gen. ially naive is the following. gratefully clipped from the Banner of Home town, Pa:
 Ut Is with sorrow that we announce an accident to Mrs John Whitman. wife of the well-known grocer who sells three pounds and half of sugar for a quarter. While he was chasing her around the yard in fun the other evening she stepped on an old tomato can and severely lacer- ated her foot. Should blood poising set in and she be removed from our midst, the Banner will turn it's column rules as a tribute to her"
 Thus can an editor Who is really kind mitigate the apprehensions of well-re- garded neighbor by a promise of post humous honors! It would be sad indeed to die from stepping on a tomato can and not know how the war comes out but the promise of turned rules would in spire resignation at least Kings and Queens and Presidents get no more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
FREEDOM. OUR QUEEN

 By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Land where the banners wave last in Blazoned with star-clusters. many Floating o'er prairie and mountain Hark! 'tis the voice of thy childre,
 thee!
 Here at thine altar our VOWS we rt Still in thy cause to be loyal and tl True to thy flag on the field and
 wave,
 Living to honor it. dying to save! Mother of heroes if perfidys blight Fall on a star in the garland of light Sound but one bugle-blast! Lo! at
 sign
 Armies all panoplied wheel into lin Hope of the world thou hast brokeI
 chains
 Wear thy bright arms while a tl
 remains, Stand for the right till the nations Freedom their sovereign. with law
 her throne!
 Freedom! sweet freedom! our voice|
 sound, Queen by Gods blessing, unsceptredj
 crowned! Freedom. sweet freedom, our pulsel
 peat Warm with her life-blood. as lonI they beat! Fold the broad banner-stripes ovel breast Crown her with star-jewels queen o! west! Earth for her heritage, God forl friend, She shall reign over us. world vii
 end!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Battle With storm

For three days two young men bat tied with wind, wave and fate, fighting a successful fight and coming from the storm of Wednesday and the wind and rain of Friday safe, though much the worse from the strain they had endured. MT. Shirley Hall, aged r, and Mr. Will fred Smiley, 19, both of Zundels, were the young men. They say that they consider 1t only the will of providence that they survived. For three days they fought against the elements in a 2s-foot, s-horse power launch, the Bernice, owned by MT. Smiley, with neither food nor drink. And they ascribe their safety to a great de- gree to the stanch craft in which they were during all this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
From Age-Herald Files

Tuesday, July 12, 1S9S.-The Spanish cab inet Is disrupted and Premier Sagasta tenders to the Queen Regent the resigna- tion of the entire body. The prospects for speedy cessation of hostilities are bright.
 The first gun is fired in the fight of the city of Birmingham to enforce lower schedule of rates proposed for the water works company. The waterworks com pany draws first blood in obtaining a temporary writ of injunction from Chan cellor Thomas Cobb prohibiting the city from enforcing it's rates.
 The Birmingham Arms and Cycle com pany announces a new industry for Bir- mingham in the opening of it's complete bicycle repair shop under the manage ment of Jerry Foley.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Hotel Business Better

are at the present time doing a better business than they did before the storm.
 Manager c. B. Hervey of the Cawthon reported that his damage, all told, would amount to about 5000. He said that busi- ness was much better from Wednesday up to the present time than 1t had been previous to the blow. MT. Hervey in dorsed the stand taken by the newspapers in keeping down sensational and exag- gerated reports of the storm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
RATHER LOUD.

Are you living in quiet neighborhood now?'
 q thought so for while," answered the esthetic person.
 What caused you to change your opinion?"
 T saw a neighbor of mine sitting on his veranda yesterday. He was wearing silk shirt with pink and green stripes an inch wide"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Pretty peaches Made

Mobile and the coast south today have as pretty beaches as can be seen any, where. They were made by the recent storm. Report yesterday from Dauphin Island said the beach there, very attrac- tive before the storm, Is much larger and of greater width. For five miles, possibly the entire IS miles, the island has a per fectly formed beach over 100 feet in width.
 From the mouth of Mobile river for miles south along the shore of Mobile bay Is continuous beach of considerable width. It is clear of old logs and trash that once marred the beauty of the beach,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Flood Conditions Serious

The memorable flood conditions of 1SSs are being duplicated in the vicinity of Selma and in that section of the state,
 said H. w. Seed, a prominent Selma att torney, who was at the Tutwiler last night. 'The Cahaba river, which is doing much damage to the best farm lands in the black belt, is five miles wide in some places. The Alabama river is out of its banks and Is overflowing thousands of acres of the best land in the state. The crops on the river lands are being de- stroyed and the indications are that the damage from the boil weevil will not compare with that done by the floods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
ALABAMA PRESS

Tuscaloosa News: When 1t gets damp ercugh to take the crook out of um- brella handle, it Is damp.
 Montgomery Advertiser: Pshaw! Jim Hills fortune doesn't mount much higher than Ao,0O,O0O. We thought the. man was solvent
 Talladega Home: Hugh Roberts has dubbed this era "the era of false alarms" That's mild way of putting 1t, Hugh.
 Dothan Eagle: In this day of rapid transit you wonder that the doctor could be so slow when sending for him after partaking of green cucumbers
 Anniston Star: Some people did not raise their boys to be soldiers but are satisfied to let them be street corner buns who are too proud to fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13

BEGINNING THE DAY-O my Lord. heIp me to build up and not to tear down. Help me to seize upon the good and to cultivate 1t. Give me swift senses for discovering the hidden qualities of beauty. May find good in men who think theS have no good, and be thereby their minister of life. For Chrisfs sake. Amen.-H. M. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Ministers Start Relief Work

Taking up relief work measures in- augurated by the Mobile Register, min isters of the several denominations have banded together in a general work of re- lief for the needy and suffering of the city of Mobile. Two meetings were held yesterday for the purpose of working out a plan of general action in order that not one needy person be overlooked. These ministers have appealed to the laity of the city to come forward and assist in the cause with money. clothing and actual relief work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
QUITE FoRCEFuL

T fear Cholly has no stability of cha acter.''
 ''No will power, you mean?"
 "Yes."
 That's where you are mistaken. happen to know that he has clung to ( same brand of cigarettes for the p3 seven years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13

. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
 That mans laugh is like tonic"
 T don't deny that it has a cheerf ring" said the cynic, but hearing t same loud laugh all day long is like ta ing dose of medicine, every hour. gets to be monotonous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
APPRECIATION.

How was the concert last night?" asked the low-browed person.
 Splendid" replied thre lover of music. "Signor Spodelli actually made his vio- lin talk!'
 Its remarkable what some of those fellows can do with a fiddle. heard chap in vaudeville once who could imi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
STARING HER FEELINGS.

STARING HER FEELINGS. "Confound her awkwardness! belle the cook has broken another plate!' claimed MT. Gadson.
 For heavens sake. start one of yc funny stories, so she won't see how d tated we are." said Mrs. Gadson. "sh4 coming in now with the roast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
THE MINIMUM WAGE.

The man who works for Henry Ford Has reason to be, gay, For if he only swSeps the floor. He gets five plunks a day.
 Birmingham Age Herald And that is more than he requires At least that's what we trust For man always meets his desires When he can raise the dust.
 Savannah Press
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
FOOLISH ADVICE.

When things go wrong the optimist Declares we ought to smile. Confronted by an aching tooth,
 This course is not worth while If we possess it, nothing then
 Can make the moment bright, And smiling at anothers pain
 Soon makes him want to fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Business outIook Good

T have just returned from Chicago and other northern and eastern cities, where I have been to purchase fall stocks of furniture for my store" said w. o. Broyles yesterday. T made the trip in my new Chandler car and had a most pleasant outing. Business conditions throughout the country seem to be inn proving and I think we will all have a very satisfactory trade here this fall. Anticipating that condition, and seeing the optimism which prevails among the leading business men in other sections of the country, made very heavy purchases for the fall and winter trade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
sCANT REWARD.

The under dog who got in wrong Much sympathy has always met; And sympathy that won't last long Is all he's liable to get.
 Washington Star The under dog comments himself To men of altruistic bent, But when it comes to giving pelf, They simply won't donate a cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
GOLD HYPoDERMIc NEEDLES

From the Literary Digest.
 It has become necessary to lower cost of hypodermic needles. so they now being made of gold. The redut is said to be quite satisfactory, altht gold as a cheap substitute is fillir new role; for the platinum needles used are much more expensive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Major Nnah in City

Maj John Q. Nash of the Kentucky Military institute, is at the Hillman hotel.
 Kentucky Military institute has made the honor list for the third time" said Major Nash, and is again ranked as one of the big 10.' We are naturally very proud of our institution and its continued growth is source of pleasure and grati- fication"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
HOTEL HOBBIES
Order from Wyoming

T received a mail order for two bottles of Tanlac from Fort Yellowstone, Wyom- ing, this morning." said Dr. Eugene Ja- cobs yesterday.
 That shows Birmingham papers are widely read. This product could have been bought much nearer home. but, of course, I am pleased that this man se- lected Birmingham and Jacobs drug store to supply this medicine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
JUST WAITING.

You say you don't care to express an opinion as to whether Shakespeare or Ba- con wrote the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare?"
 That's my attitude at present." an- swered MT. Jobbles. 'As am still pay ing installments on a set of the aforesaid works, can't plunge into the controversy with the enthusiasm I expect to show later on.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
 -CymbeIine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Substitutes for Alcohol

Birmingham must be a hard place to quench the thrist,' said T. N. Cot trell, manager of the Wilmington Phar- macy, yesterday we druggists have all kinds of calls for substitutes Of alcohol. It is amusing the alibi the diff ferent victims of the drug habit use to get the drugs to satiate their longing. Some come In and say they have an aunt or an uncle who Is dying and the only thing that will save them will be a little bay rum. Jamaica ginger or paregoric. It is a mighty hard prop osition to turn down these slaves, but if everybody did this, these people would soon learn to do without the drugs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
"YOU ALL.

"IOU ALL"
 From the New York Times
 Where does that-all car go?" was the He was extending the use of "all' in the phrase "you-all." The car was crowded. He might have asked, Where do you-all go?" All did not go, evidently to one place; hence the confused ''that-all car' He desired to know the destination of the car.
 A Northerner listening would have smiled at the confirmation of the erron- eous opinion held in some quarters that 'you-all'' is a true singular in it's num- Der But just as the old English had a word for we-two (wiD and you-two (yiD. others"
 The southern usage of "you-alr' ad- dressed to a lone person Is understood to mean you and the others (of a party or family). That is the meaning of the locution, and it may be worth illustrating with examples.
 In Alfred Henry Lewis Peggy O'Neal" a negro Is made to refer to one person as you all,'' which may possibly be accurate for negro life in Tennessee the scene of the story. The correct use however, from the southern standpoint may be found ir Miss Minerva and William Green Hill. . Billy and Jimmy have gone on the excur sion and the negro, Sam Lamb. comes up to them.
 |" Hit don't matter what y'all wants, was the negro's reply. 'Y'a'l gotta gil right off. Dis-here 'scursion train don't leave twell 12 o'clock. Now yall set jes as straight as yer kin set and don't yut try to Hope out on de platform neider Set whar kind keep my eyes skinned or yuh, yuh slippery elum eels. |" When he is thinking of the two sepa rately-admonshin both to keep theil seats-he says ''y'all;' when he Is threat ening, when the accent Is not on the you ness. he says. and correctly. "yuh, yuf | little eels." He continues: Den I gwine come back and wasf yer, so y'll look like 'cpectabie white | folks?'' '
 ] In this he slurs ''you-all Il look like.
 into 'y'll look like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
SOLEMN THOUGHT.

While ocean bathing's quite lark, I'd hate to be nipped by shark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Hard to Get Accommodations


 station on the Alabama Great Southern railroad and all its trains are required to stop here' said E. w. Barrett yes- terday. "These passenger trains carry Pullman cars and advertise in all the newspapers in Birmingham that through Pullman cars are carried to Asheville. New York, and other points. A Bir- mingham man. however, is in luck to get accommodations on any of these cars
 'It is extensively advertised that a through Pullman goes to Asheville, N. C., popular resort, every afternoon at $40 But it is rare that Birmingham people are allowed the privilege of getting into this car. as New Orleans has the first call on it.
 'The management of the Alabama Great Southern Is to be congratulated in that it is going to put on special car for Asheville this afternoon and allow some of us who want to go there to ride on it. Many of us have waited for days for the privilege of riding on Pullman cars. The Alabama Great Southern gives its passenger department in Birmingham the same privileges that it might give to York or Livingston. Yet it keeps an ex- pensive office here with lot of high priced clerks. who do their best. What IS the use of keeping these clerks and pas senger department here? They can't do anything but draw their salaries. "Unfortunately. the Louisville and Nashville railroad does not run every where. If it did. 1t might do better by Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13
Harding Becomes Governor of Panama


 The retirement of Maj. Gen George W. Goethals from the active list of the army and from the governorship of the Panama zone on his own request, will result In President Wilson appointing Lieut.. Col Chester Harding to the posi- tion of governor" said s. F. Harring- tion, formerly connected with the war de- partment, but now engaged in business in Baltimore.
 Colonel Harding was prominent as an- engineer. on the Panama construction when he was 8 major. He was after wards a commissioner of the city of Washington by presidential appointment, but for five months he has been in Pan- anna as engineer in charge. He was slated for governor year or two ago. when General Goethals was preparing to retire and when Congress, as reward for his extraordinary services. raised him to the rank of major general, with the privilege of retiring whenever he chose. Although General Goethals lacks several years of the statutory retirement age, out of the service.
 Lieutenant Colonel Harding as govern or of Panama will receive $20,O00 and will be furnished with a large house and lot of servants. He is native or Ala bama and is a brother of w. P. G. Harding, of the federal reserve board"