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The Ordway new era., 1916-05-26
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The Ordway new era., 1916-05-26
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The Ordway new era., 1916-05-26
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The Ordway new era., 1916-05-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21

of "The Star-Spangled Banner" Every body rises Here and there men and women clap hands. "Visitors in Wash ington," one notes mentally, for Wash i1gtonians, accustomed to a President m a theatre, find no novelty in the sight.
 The President bows and smiles. The long figure in the proscenium box stands rigid and watchful, hand on hip. The three secret service men who have accompanied the party file into seats immediately be- hind the stall. Two uniformed policemen take up their stand in the aisle.
 The curtain goes up on a bicycle act the old, old stuff with the slapstick come dian. But it hits the President pleas ureably. He laughs with a heartiness at the ancient antics and is quite convulsed when the comedians finger is pinched under his mates bicycle.
 The show moves on, always the Presi- dent leading the applause. A dainty bal let is encored time and time again. The leader of the ballet, a svelte Austrian on a curtain call curtsies to the Presi- dent and throws him kiss after kiss, to the joy of the audience He starts to grin broadly, checks himself, props cheek on hand and-one imagines gives an oblique glance at Mrs Wilson, just as any mar ried man would under the circumstances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
WILSON ENJOYS VAUDEVILLE

Ashmun Brown, in the Seattle Post-Intel-
 ligencer
 washington-It is pretty theatre. the prettiest in Washington, this one theatre at the national capital, which presents high-class vaudeville, to which President Wilson repairs one night each week to witness his favorite form of theatricals. Never two weeks in succession does he go the same night, so always the tourists in the city are left to guess whether they should go on Tuesday or Thursday or Friday night in order to see him.
 It is yet few minutes before the cur tain. Passing through the summer clad throng at the entrance one observes an anxious eyed secret service man from the White House squad moving nervously about. Then, presently seated, one sees this same secret service man step swift ly into the proscenium box that faces the Presidents stall. Alert, with beady black eyes shining under jet hair, his white clad form tense and straight, the secret house with his gaze.
 Two ushers hustle about, the crowd parts, and then appears the gray head the long, spectacled face and the white clad form of the President. Beside it i: the matronly person of Mrs. Wilson. clai in summery light blue, corsage bouque at her belt and wearing no hat. The orchestra swings abruptly from the march it has been playing into the strains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
MIR. HUGHES AND THE SOUTH

It has remained for the manufactured to gather these people into the village where they have built up industries fd the most part with northern capital, an have given the people employment, an with 1t better housing conditions, school libraries, Christian associations, play grounds and parks to improve their sd cial conditions. In some respects tf cheap politician fears these manufactul ing centers more than anything else, fd it is only a question of time when thes ignorance, and go to the polls and exei themselves politically.
 The south is being built up, but nd by it's politicians. There are able me in the south, but they are not to | found either in Sampson or Fender cour ties, North Carolina, where they hav neither schools of any consequence, nd a single manufacturing industry, unles all occasional illicit still for the manl facture of 'moonshine."
 MT. Hughes may be able to appoir some capable men to office from th south, when he is elected, but in doin so he will be obliged to eliminate the oI dinary politician. The capable men | the south have been busy during the pad 30 or 40 years building up the south's ir dustries, giving employment to the pool bettering their educational facilities, an putting them on higher plane of inte ligence than they ever were before. VI O., the north should take as much prid in the advancement of that section our country as of any other part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21

From the Providence Journal.
 "HE emphasis put by MT. Hughes on
 the declaration in his Butte, Mont,
 A speech, that he Is not sectional ist, and that if elected he will do every thing in his power to build up the south and appoint worthy men from that sec ton to office, will arrest attention.
 Sectionalism should have died with the civil war. It is a lamentable fact that it did not die. It was bitter pill the south had to swallow after the war, and the death of Abraham Lincoln few radicals in Congress were able to over throw the late Presidents wise policy for the re-establishment of order and of civil government i'll the seeded states. But, in time the intelligent classes of southerners were able to exert them- selves, and the great wrong imposed upon them by radicals would have died out had it not been kept alive by the cheap politicians
 The north has it's share in the blame, too, for 1t has in many ways refused to understand the south. While large sums have been and are constantly de- voted for the education of the negro who is really well able to take care of himself when left alone-comparatively little or no attention has been paid to that class of very poor and ignorant peo- pie in the south whom the negro looks upon as his inferior, and derisively calls ''poor white trash" This element has no vote in the south, or if 1t has, rarely exercises it. Accordingly, the politician does not interest himself in its better nent or welfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
THE HORSE AND HIS FRIENDS

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Out in Peoria, H., a city that is pro-
 gressive and typical of middle west spirit
 although lax in law observance and un-
 enviably famous for its chief product, the National Harness Manufacturerss asso- citation is preparing to hold its annual con- vention. Naturally the preparations in- clude a trip about the city, for Peoria has much to show besides it's distilleries. Here the plans have gone all awry for care- full survey of the city shows that there
 are not enough horse-drawn vehicles
 available to haul even a fraction of the
 800 delegates expected and the harness
 makers must accept automobiles, albeit
 they are harness makers and harness is
 a dress worn exclusively by horse and Is of little use to automobiles.
 Hence the faithful "hoss" must remain in the barns during convention days and take no part in the outings of his friends It's sad occasion when even those who depend upon him for livelihood are forced to desert him, but the horseless age is here in reality at least so far as pleasure Is concerned. A trim driving horse is an unfamiliar sight and an old time runaway would be treat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
AKABA, IN ARABIA

castle built in the twelfth century Baldwin l, member of the House { Flanders and the first King of Jeruss lem who assumed the title after th First Crusade. His reign was short an he died in Egypt three years after | built this island stronghold.
 "Akaba itself has a medieval cast which was built to protect pilgrims con ing from Egypt and bounl for Niece; Ten years ago branch railway line wa constructed joining Akaba and Mecca an affording through communication wit Beirut.
 The Romans held Akaba, then know as Aelana, as military post for man years and it was garrisoned by the fs nous Tenth Legion. Following the Rc mans came the Moslems, under whor the port flourished, it's commercial aC tivity being enhanced to such an e2 tent that in the tenth century it wa described by a chronicler as the grea port of Palestine and the emporium 2 Hejaz.' In the latter half of the twelft century it was captured from the Cru sa0ing Franks by the great Saladin. Dul ing this period it is said that the Jew and Christians who inhabited the tow managed to protect themselves froi massacre at the hands of the Saracer by pretending to possess a letter frol Mchammed which promised them imml nifty from persecution.
 "Akaba is surrounded by many fertil date palm gardens. and the city is bour tifully supplied with good water. I'll Qualifications before being strengthens during the present war consisted of rectangular fort with each angle d tended by a tower"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
NEEDN'T WEAR RAIN COATS

New York Correspondence, Pittsburg Dis
 patch
 The Coney Island mermaids who live in their bathing suits will not have to hide their figures behind a raincoat when they promenade the streets of that resort.
 to be placed upon the bathing suit as a
 street costume. The board of aldermen
 had passed an ordinance to amend a chapter of the code relating to bathing in
 public, the effect of which would have
 been to have swathed each bather in
 wrappings until he or she had reached the waters edge. In returning the ordi- nance disapproved, the mayor said: This
 ordinance would prohibit anyone from riding or walking on any highway or street in a bathing suit unless some outer garment was also worn. If bathing suits
 do not properly cover the persons, sec tions of the penal law are available for the prosecution of offenders. To require an outside wrap or bathrobe would mean that all persons gong to the beaches from their residences would be required to check such articles before entering the water. It appears to me that such an or dinance not only would require an un- necessary checking expense, but would fail to prohibit the wearing of immodest suits and would tend to establish a mo-
 nopoly in the bathing house establish ments on the beach,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
THE LATE ''TODY'' HAMILTON

MT. Hamilton's faith in publicity wf| dying he decided that a good press couI would brace up the old man, and he ell outraged the Evening Sun to print hI obituary in advance. MT. Hamilton tool the paper with four columns of readin| matter and a number of pictures to til bed of the aged snowman. It revive| him after oxygen had failed. Four day, later he died, but his physicians agret3 that the premature obituary had prt| longed his life for that period.
 On March 2. 1907, on his retirement, unique dinner in honor of Tody Hamil ton was held at the Waldorf-Astorij Charles E. Hughes, then governor of til state was one of the guests and speak CTS. In his speech on that occasion til press agent said:
 Tn my long, useful, truthful, faithful funny and fashionable career as circt| press agent I have no vain regrets ary cankering remorse to keep me awaES nights. I can lie down with the clesA conscience of a man who has done hi duty. l nave STdDDeu SPdCc N nothing than any other man you know Therefore, you are as representatlY newspapermen and future publisherl abundantly justified in gathering hey tonight to eat, drink and be merry ovf the event of my retirement from bus ness.
 q have been on Park Row now Tor 1 years My father was a reporter an newspaper proprietor, as was also m grandfather. And I, alas, have ownd four publications, but I kept out or 1al Tn the first stages of my wild repertorli career I did work on the New York SUI I look back on that early repotorii training as the firm foundation Of m subsequent successful career as pref agent"
 MT. Hamilton was born in this city q June 2S, 1S47 and educated at St. Fra1 cis Xavier and Fordham university. Aftt doing newspaper work for several yea he made a fortune of $5OO,OOO in real e tate ard stock speculation, but later lo it. In 1867 he became press agent ar general manager of the New York Aqui rum. In 1881 he found his true vocatid when he took his post with Barnum | Rai1ey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
WI AsHINGToN, August 2O.-(spe- N/ ial)-"When the British en-
 w deavored to effect a landing in

w deavored to effect landing in Arabia at Akaba, on the gulf of the same name as reported in a recent Tur- kish dispatch, they were trying to secure possession of a port which figured promi- nently in Biblical history" according to todays war geography bulletin, issued by the National Geographic society from it's Washington Headquarters.
 "Akaba is none other than Eloth of the Old Testament, and Ezion-Geber, only a few miles away, is the point from which King Solomon sent his navy, manned with sailors loaned by King Hiram for the Jews were never a skilled maritime people). The expedition was bound for Ophir, from which land APO talents of gold were brought to the builder of the great temple in Jerusalem.
 "The Gulf of Akaba, near the head of which the fortified Turkish town is sit uated, is the long eastern horn of the Red sea, having a width of from 12 to r miles, and jutting up into Arabia for g. distance of 100 miles, with the Sinai Peninsula to the west In ancient times the gulf was known as Sinus Aelaniticus and was much dreaded by sailors ac- count of the coral reefs and the sudden squalls sweeping down from the noun tains that rise almost perpendicularly from the shore to a height of 20o0 feet at some points. The only good harbor on the gulf is that of Dahab, The Golden Port situated on the western shore 33 miles from the entrance.
 "A few miles south of the town of Akaha is the Island of Jeziret Firaun, on which are to be seen the ruins of a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
SLANDERING THE WAITER

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 A Newport waiter has brought suit for 5000 against a Philadelphian, prominent in social circles, for alleged defamation of character. His patron is charged with calling him rogue" thief and liar" The suit raises a nice question of ethics and of etiquette for the gourmet to con- sider. Is not the waiter expected to sub init to epithetic indignities, in view of the gratuity he is about to receive? The true the-bottle bon vivant goes to the table looking for trouble He is cooked and primed to challenge every thing, from the temperature of the hook and the moselle to the aroma of the cigars and the blend of the coffee. He storms and fumes and sends for the head waiter on the slightest provocation. It impresses the ladies in the party. Only one who sits in the seats of the mighty can make the lordly plutocrats of the palm room cringe and kowtow.
 The serving man remains bland and obsequious under the hail of abuse, be- cause he knows at the end of the meal he will be able to lift the mortgage on the old home, or buy more steel preferred, or add to his holdings in downtown real estate. What does a little excoriating language about the shellfish or the salad amount to, anyway, as compared with the princely largess that poultices the su- perficial laceration of a walters feelings ? To hear yourself abused for the fault that lies behind the screen, on the other side of the swinging door, is part of the walters business. The chef amid his pots and pans high priest of culinary alchemy, does not hear the imprecations to which his courier is exposed. But neither is it his privilege to turn a soft answer to the outraged majesty of a financier who finds the stuffed ortolans underdone or the nesselrode pudding seasoned insuffi- ciently. Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?' Shall I not rant and objurgate as please seeing that I am paying not for the viands merely, but for the privi- lege of finding fault?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
REMEDY FOR sCoLDING

From the Rochester Democrat and
 Chronicle.
 The Pensacola (Fla.) Journal has taken up the cudgel in behalf of the telephone exchange operators. It declares that the so-called hello girls,' although they are, in a business way. regarded as merely voices, or distractions without personality, are really very human, after all The Florida editors strictures are based upon the generally forgotten fact that even telephone operators have sensi- bilities not unlike those of other mor- tals They are likewise subject to the seasonal depression incident to the rise of the mercury to the neighborhood of the 100 mark. For that reason the Flor ida editor chides the telephone subscriber for working off the surplus heat by scolding the hello girl" The gallant defender of the telephone operator has struck at a prevailing evil. Possibly though the evil would be largely eradi- csted if the abstraction at the switch board was given the privilege of talk ing back to a scolding and half heat crazed subscriber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
OCCUPATION FOR w1FE-sTEALER

From the Charlotte Observer.
 The cork-legged man, who induced a Spencer woman to run away with him, is at present charge on the taxpayers of Rowan county and these will have to foot the bill of supporting him in jail until the courts dispose of his case. This is an additional grievance. There might be some sort of an arrangement, not necessarily mutual with the wife stealer that he be given long engage ment as dish washer for the state pris- oners. This state is not as appropriately equipped for the handling of such gentry as is Delaware, and the next best thing to do would be accommodating him with some sort of agreeable domestic service. Dish washer to the convicts would about fit his case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
THE HERMAN
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Lewis R. Freeman in the Atlantic
 Monthly.
 Yet every man of them (the Royal Fly ing corps) appeared true to what I have since come to recognize as rapidly de- veloping type-the Flying Type"
 The army aviator of today is picked for his quickness of mind and body, and the first thing that strikes you about him is a sort of feline, wound-up-s spring alertness. Then you note his reticence, the cool reserve of a man whose lot it is to express himself in deeds rather than words.
 And lastly there is the quiet seriousness, verging almost on sadness, of the man who must hold himself ready to look death between the eyes at any moment, and yet keep his mind detached for other things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
"How.Do I LOVE THEEr'

By Eligazeth Barrett Browning. How do I love thee? Let me count t
 ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth al
 height My soul can reach when feeling out
 sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day s Most quiet. need, by sun and cant
 light. I love thee freely as men strive f love thee purely. as they turn fire
 praise, I love thee with the passion put to u In my old griefs. and with my chil
 hoods faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lo With my lost saints-I love thee with t
 breath. Smiles. tears. of all my life-and if G
 choose, I shall but love thee better after dsat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
Paper Shrotage

T know that the scarcity of paper is being felt by every newspaper in the United States said J. N. Waters. T have been told by different newspaper men that the old courtesy of the news papers, in sending exchanges to other papers, has been curtailed by practi- cally every newspaper in the country.
 This is the first time in the his- tory of the newspaper business that this custom has been discontinued. l understand that some of the large dailies have as many as 10000 ex- changes on their lists. When one takes into consideration how much paper is being sent out with nothing coming in, it is no wonder that the papers have had to cease this time honored custom
 Tt Is to be hoped some means Will be found to supply the present demand. Paper is being used more extensively each year. This, in a great measure IS due to the public in general becoming better educated, thereby demanding periodicals and newspapers to read so as to post themselves on all matters or moment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
HOTEL LOBBIES
Batting HonOFs

Local baseball fans are following with keenest interest the contest be- tween Ty Cobb and Iris Speaker for American league batting honors, as given in The Age-Herald each morn ing" said James F. Armstrong yester- day. The local fraternity seem about evenly divided as to each mans chances for the coveted honor but in my opin- ion Cobb has started his drive too late and will be forced into second place for the first time in nine years. Cobb is said to be determined to lead the league again this year and thus establish a record of 10 consecutive years leader ship, but although he is now pounding the ball at a terrific clip, I don't see how it could be possible for him. super man though he is, to overtake the Tex an, who is playing the best game of his career. Cobb is undoubtedly the greatest ballplayer of all time and has already set mark which will probably never be equalled again, but he seems to be feeling the strain of many strenuous campaigns, and, like other champions in all lines of athletic endeavor, may at last be forced to give precedence to another. However, there seems no doubt that he will retain his crown as king of the base runners again this season."