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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
Progressiyes Who Will
 Not F@llow RooseyelG

| "A STUDENT of this country's po- R litical history, delving, say 100 years hence, into the annals of the year 1912 and the year 1916 will be puzzled at Theodore Roosevelt's ca- reer-at his mental processes and his ethical inconsistencies. After having been honored by the republican party with the presidential nomination in 1904 and having filled the executive chair nearly eight years, Roosevelt bolted in 1912 and formed new party, called the progressive-a party of pro- test against the boss-ridden machine to which President Taft, his one-time protege, still adhered.
 That episode would cause no sur- prise in the mind of the student, for disaffected party men and political bolters there have always been; but what will perplex him will be Roose- velt's object in surrendering to the "old guard" in 1916.
 The very party which was so rotten four years before as to cause his com- plete severance, proves to be the same party that he could not "abide" be- cause it was reactionary, out of touch with the people, and altogether cor rupt.
 Roosevelt vilified Taft, once his "Dear Bill," and denounced the re- publican organization with character istic spleen. Four years later he swallows his words and prances about the country sounding the praises of Nominee Hughes and working for the republican cause.
 To the present generation Roose- velt's action is easily understood. The man who is so vigorous and so vicious in assailing his opponents is law unto himself. Consistency has no place in his make up. But how is it with millions of progressives who fol- lowed Roosevelt's standard in 1912? Some who bolted with the archbolter have returned to the republican fold, but a very large proportion will re- main independent and will vote the democratic ticket this year. They will not follow the bull moose. AS Charles D. Elliott of West Virginia said re- gently in a letter to MT. Roosevelt: "You are asking too much of us to go back to this old crowd. Realizing that Hughes was nominated by the same crowd, he will, in my opinion, be controlled by them and the same interests that took Taft up into the mountain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

It may have been little bit tame in the old days to have to go joy riding on Sunday in a buggy drawn by horse. But the newspapers didn't have to re- serve a column for the list of the killed and injured every Monday morning.
 A mans idea of being treated well Is to be treated often.
 A whole lot of men are going to dis cover when it is too late that the pull that keeps them out of jail won't keep them out of hell.
 Make a lion of a man and 1t won't take him long to make an ass of him. self.
 One nice thing about being married is whom to blame things
 Friend wife knows lot of things that she would do if she were a man. And friend husband knows a lot of things he wouldn't do if he were a woman.
 Some men are so stubborn that they want their own way when our way IS so much better
 When woman is working in the kitchen she looks like the back porch. And when she is entertaining in the par Tor she looks like the front porch.
 Once in a while you will run into an eighth hour agitator who gets mad be- cause the stores are not open at ' o'clock at night when he wants to buy something.
 You may not be able to decipher doc tors prescription. But it is different with his bill.
 We don't blame a lot of the women fol being sore on the suffs and for getting up anti-suffrage leagues The suffs once tried to convince the men folks that q woman could look attractive in 2O-cenl hat.
 As long as you have a good liver Il isn't so hard to face the world with 2 good heart Why do we laugh at bald headed mar of 90 and respect gray-headed man O. %?
 Another reason why married couples have so many wrangles is because h, never gives in and she never gives out Some men are so happily married thaf they are willing to bet you that the devil isn't man at all, but woman who wears a greasy kimono and talks al the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
SEPTEMBER, 1915

By William Wordsworth While not leaf seems faded. while the M fields. With ripening harvest prodigariy fair, In brightest sunshine bask, this nippins
 air, Sent from some distant cline where win-
 ter wields His icy scimiter, foretaste yields or bitter change, and bids the flowers be-
 ware, And whispers to the silent birds, Pre- Against the threatening foe your trustiest
 shields" For me, who, under kindlier laws. belong To natures tuneful choir, this rustling
 dry, Through the green leaves, and yon crys-
 talline sky, Announce a season potent to renew. Mid frost and snow. the instinctive joys of song, And nobler cares than listless summer
 knew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
 CHORUS GIRLS AUTOS

New York Correspondence in the Cincin-
 natl Times-Star.
 At one of the rehearsals of the Anna Held company, now in progress at the Forty fourth Street theatre, the stage manager announced: The police have complained that the street outside the theatre is blocked by automobiles and they say that the chauffeurs all claim TO be waiting for people in here. All you who have automobiles outside will please so at once and have them parked else where"
 Twenty-four people wents out to send their cars away. Nineteen of them were chorus girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
Great Work Dome By
 TThonnas M. Osborne

TTHOMAS MOTT OSBORNES
 J resignation as warden at Sing Sing, because of differences with Gov ernor Whitman, is the last chapter in story of political corruption that aroused nationwide indignation. Foul charges were made against Mr. Osborne by his political enc mics. Of these charges he was speedily acquitted and his return to Sing Sing after he had been vim dicated in court was the occasion of prehaps the most remarkable testi- monial ever paid to a prison official by convicts.
 Having cleared his good name and discomfited his enemies, MT. Osborne is now able to give up his duties as warden without being accused of quit ting under fire. More important still, his humane methods have for the most part been accepted as practicable and will be continued in force by his sue cessor. It may be necessary for the sake of discipline to modify some of his more altruistic ideas, but the foundation and structure of his great work will remain.
 
 Whether MT. Osborne wins greater political honors, as he is said to de- sire, or whether he remains in private life, he must be credited in all fair ness with having brought light and hope to one of the worst prisons in the world and to have given a tre- mendous impetus to prison reform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
Robert Ellis Thompson World.

Robert Ellis Thompson in the Irish
 World.
 w vssss es.sss in sso E z he brought across the Hellespont an army of 1,7O0o0O men, gathered from all west ern and much of central Asia, including the Greek cities on the coast of the Aegean sea- There has been a good deal of skepticism about these figures, on the ground that. such a body would have been found utterly unwieldly, that it was too large for any system of supply of food, and that nobody can be sure that it was counted correctly. And from that time to our own no army of 100000 or more was ever mustered into fight, un- less it were the horde of Huns,, who fought the battle of Chalons in A. D. 451, with the Goths and Romans, and left 250,O00 of their number dead on the field of conflict.
 While fighting still went on in the middle ages, within and between the na- tions into which the Roman empire was divided in that century, armies may be said to have ceased to exist. The military
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
ALABAMA PRESS

Selma Times: The government may have a prophylactic for the boil weevil. but We are still placing our best bets on the old horse called diversi1cation. | Talladega Home: At a southern Cali fornia beach a bevy of California belles out bathing in one-piece suits were pulled and run into the lookup by the police, who arrayed them in barrels with the heads knocked out. The cops were right. Barrel costumes beat none at all.
 Selma Journal: Sir Daniel Cupid seems to be doing overtime work these days On the first page of the social section of the Birmingham Age Herald Sunday there were ten announcements of forth coming nuptial events. Besides there were dozen or more weddings that had already taken place reported in the same paper Unless a torpedo hits Sir Daniel soon, there's just no telling how many victims he will "get."
 West Alabamian: As to cotton. Ala. oama is one of the states hardest hit Tn lSl6, and Pickens one of the counties hardest hit in said state. The ginners report to September 25 for the county shows but 114 bales, as against 1136 bales to same date in 1915
 Livingston Southern Home: superin- tendent Elnathan Tartt of the Beauvoir Soldiers Home has written A. NJ George, secretary of the Mississippi State fair, to be held at Jackson, offering the use oi
 Uncle" Dennis Kane, 103-y year-old vet eran at the Beauvoir home, to sit in the chair occupied by President Jefferson Davis when he was inaugurated Presi- dent of the Southern Confederacy. Tho chair IS the property of Maj J. G. Whit field of Whitfield, Sumter county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14

BEGINNING THE DAY-ShOw me Thy wide world, o my God, and the deep heavensj and reveal to me how foolish are my petty cares. Let me look up and be ashamed. Release me from my little round by the vision of far horizons. Make me big enough and calm enough to live rightly In this universe of Thine. In Christs name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
NO LOVE FEAST, AT THAT

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 In their stories of that hand shaking incident between Roosevelt and Taft 2 number of democratic papers are trying to create the impression that the colonel first feinted with his left and then led with his right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
Cigarettes Cause
 OriemSals Trouble

1EROM the wilds of Arkansas comes J a story that might we'll amuse tbe benighted heather. Cigarettes caused delay of nearly two hours in the arrival of a circus train.
 Fayetteville is the site of the Uni versity of Arkansas and the wise city fathers have passed an ordinance making it unlawful for any person whomsoever to smoke or to bring "lit- tie white slavers" into the town. Show
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SONG FOR THE DAY

Who would not walk with Happiness, If given half a chance? Still wooed away from sorrows by The sunshine of her glance? Who would not walk with Happiness As long as life shall last, And know how sweet contentment is, Where'er his lot be cast?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
PRESTIGE IN PLENTY

T always resented the idea of Bos- tonians calling their city the Hub of the Universe"
 "Yes?"
 But considering the performances of the Red Sox, I don't know but what the claim is Justified"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
THE REAL WHITE SLAVE

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 The real white slave was created by the Mann act-the person who can be blackmailed by threats of exposure and prosecution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE THING

N1AOhCOL Ob HE IHING
 Do you find that prohibition makes much difference in your personal hab- its?"
 Tt does, indeed" replied Mir. Jagsby. I'm afraid to consume as much liquor as did in the old days when we had saloons"
 Why is that7"
 It's this way. Merely propping my foot up on a brass rail gave me so much additional confidence in myself that I didn't know when to quit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
oBL1GING HIM

"see here" said the angry policeman. Two words outer you an I'll run yer ing'
 DO it." replied the pugnacious citizen There's your two worlds
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14
QUITE LIKELY

Whats become of the people who, advocated peace at any price? You don't hear much about them these days" "The presidential campaign is warming up. you know. They have probably be- come involved in so many political ar guments that they are all in a fighting mood now"
 LILT OF A FIRST NIGHTER While parting from the bathing girl
 Was very very sad,
 When autumn leaves begin to whirl
 There's one thought makes me glad. The chorus trips as merrfly
 As e'er it did before,
 And warbles quite as cheerily
 As in the days of yore.
 SCIENTIFIC ABSORPTION What have you there, professor?" "A tube full of deadly germs" T hope you are not thinking of letting them out"
 NO, indeed. I've been experimenting with these germs so long that feel at tached to each one."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14

How we'll he's read, to reason against reading! Loves LabOrs Lost.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-14

KIT 1T ES very small cripple, with
 JO erutoh'" complained the S = voice over the telephone to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11

have robbed me of everything. The mill is
burned; and now you, too, are taken. Mon
Dieu! mon Dieu! what is to become of mel"
Her lamentations died away in n new out
burst of weeping. had listened breathlessly;
now | sank back. This misery affected me too
much. A sharp pain in my wound made me
groan.
Simone raised her head and listened like a
startled fawn. In the moonlight saw clearly
the sharp profile, the delicate brow, over which
some crisp dark tresses fell AS my pain
forced from me another deep sigh she turned
toward me, bending forward.
"Who is there?" she whispered.
But as the moon came out of the clouds and
threw its rays full on me she shrank back as
if overcome by disgust and repugnance.
1T is one Of them, one of the accursed
Boches," she exclaimed And her voice became
deep and scornful.
She bent again over her dead lover, and for
a while everything was still.
suffered an intense pain and was obliged to
groan softly. Then Simone Strengthened her.
self up and said in her deep, angry voice, with
out turning her head toward me:
are you uylHS.
81 don't know; perhaps | am dying" I an
swered.
"Oh yes, you are dying" she returned, with
something like triumph in her voice. "You
must die. Why shouldn't you die? Alfred is
dead; all our men are dead. You burn our
houses and kill our people. And still you wish
to live? No. God is not unjust! I shall
pray God to let you die-and to let you die
bitter death"
Eyes" | answered, weakly "pray to Him to
let me die"
She turned again to her dead. I heard her
whisper something. A longing overcame me
to hear her voice again, to feel once more the
propinquity of something human. So I began
to speak.
'You loved him."
Eyes, loved him." the girl answered proud
ly zone had to love him--him whom you have
murdered"
you were going to marry him."
II would never have married any other
man." answered Smone. Whatever my par
ents might have said, | should have married
him and him only. And now he is dead. But
why? Why he? Why my lover? When he
went away he laughed. He said he was glad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11

to go hunting the Prussans. He so fond
of laughingl"
and the mill is burned?" | said, in order
to prolong the conversation.
They shelled it and then burned it," an
swered Simone, bitterly. at was beautiful
mill-the best in the neighborhood. 1t be-
longed TO my parents and Alfred was our mill
er's apprentice"
While she told me this her voice grew quieter.
1t seemed as if the mere fact of talking re-
lieved her.
up on the granary floor the planking of the
walls was all yellow like honey, and at noon
time, when the sun shone in everything gilt
tered like gold. | used to go up to see Alfred
at midday when all was quiet below, for |
didn't want my parents to know. He stood
there in the golden glitter, himself all white,
only his eyes showing dark.
eve sat side by side; the mill ratified, -four
dust was all around us, and my hair and face
also got white. When l came downstairs l
could not show myself at once to my mother,
for she would have known where had been.
But up there we were undsturbed. Only once
| met him in the garden; and that was the last
evening of all. | stole with naked feet past the
doors of my parents room,and because | want
ed to get to him quickly | ran right through
the salad bed. The leaves were so wet that it
seemed as if had waded through water. On
the other side Of the bed Alfred took me in his
arms and said, you wet a water
mouse"
Tears made her voice tremble and finally
silenced her.
81 see all that" | began. "How clearly see
it The mill yellow with sunshine and him
standing there inside of it, all white from the
clouds of flour dust"
"Oh, no; you cannot it," said the girl
angrily; "you have nothing so beautiful in
your savage land. You can only destroy. If
you die now, will girl over there in your
country weep for your"
eyes, ore will weep for me-" | answered
"Let her weep; let all the German women
weep; for we've also weep"
Back in my country" began land spoke
as in a dream), there stands white house
Little pale red roses grow around it. At the
window sits an old woman When dusk comes
she puts her glasses in the big book in which
she has been reading and gazes down the road
with dim and weary eyes.
"In the garden by the house are apple trees,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
1.-THE ART OF LIFE"
By HENRY b. FULLER.
Courtesy Of "Tho New Republic"

Before Horace Trip had been married
year and half
He began to suspect
That "the art life"
As he handsomely called it
Was rather beyond his technique;
His powers in sleght-of-hand
Were slight indeed
Too many balls to keep in the air:
His wife, his baby his grocer,
His landlord, his publisher,
His friends and enemies
And all the rest of them.
He made many a sad slip,
And came to feel petulantly
That perhaps he was more or less
A dub.
So he bent himself over his desk
All the harder.
If he could not coordinate and control
The various people who made up
The elements of his daily existence,
All the more would he take a high hand
With the brain folk
Who people his books.
These had to behave
Had to do as he wanted.
Sometimes they dashed through adventures
Calamities and contortions
Sometimes they grubbed in the slums;
Again, they were clever and elegant criminal
In Society whatever the mode of the hour.
Tut, anyhow,
All jumped through the hoop
At his lightest command;
Ard each work came out in the end
lust the author had planned it
No bit in the teeth, and no baking
'Tis the weak man, Of course,
Who makes the best tyrant;
And Horace was ruthless.
Soon he TO look himself
As a species Of minor creator,
Grandiose and omnipotent
In a world of his own.
It was not, however, the world
With which perforee
Has everybody dealings.
Things listed and twisted,
Ills publisher carped-
Returns for them both became meagre;
And his father-in-aw
Began to scowl his reproaches;
And all the next summer
Pettina, with little indifferent Wifrd,
Spent at her parents cool cottage
High in the pine woods of Michigan,
While Horace, left quite behind,
Just boarded. Next year
He gave up a fiat
The butcher had shown some impotence;
His wife dressed by her mother;
Pew rent and club dues were far in arrears
So the three went 10 live
Under the roof and the eyes Of the elders
Who looked with great coldness
On what they called "scrbblng,"
And begged him 70 drop it
For something more useful
And profitable.
But Horace, he said, was an artist"
trained 20 his one line Of work,
Stubborn and proud.
lie declared that a man
Who could scheme an elaborate novel,
Shake IT, cew il around.
And push it through TO a suitable climax,
Was a deal Of chap, after all.
He heartily scorned
Those "real-estate operations"
On commissions from which
He and Bettina and Wilfrid
We're now kept a-going
What need TO put art into ones daily life
And its manifold problems?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11

In Udcuo,
In row of symmetrical. well-fnished novels,
Set in due order on the towering shelves
OF Immortality.
Another lean year His writings
Seemed to fall in with the whims Of the day
Less than .-. ---~ ~
He was a humbug; the public,
Not knowing the fact, and yet feeling 1t some
how,
Gave him the go-by.
Bettina now added her prayers
to her parents reproaches,
And Horace, a martyr,
Gave up lterature"-in measure.
Dragging his deadly aversion
TO business,
lie found him a place
With his publisher
Yes, with his own;
For he had knack of kind
That gave him a limited value
In certain practical fields:
He could proof-read and edit.
He became, then, salared cog
In big and busy machine.
His new chief had begun
As a publisher of wallpaper,
Utterine fields, frezes and dadoes.
Next he had added stationery;
Next, books and periodicals;
and now he was bringing out sparsely, each sea-
son.
Volumes Of prose and Of verse
In numbers sufficient
To gid and TO dignity
What choice ones called trade
Horace. at first was quite lofty,
And often said, "Pooh!"
But he had, after all,
Some slight nklings of sense;
And before his first year over
He hummed in a different measure.
II now saw "the business"
A great feat
OF Imagination and technique,
towering well-knit structure
OF many fine cantos;
Ard Theophilus NJ. Decker
As high creative spirit
Strong and compelling;
man Of mark. Of pose and Of breadth;
Prompt and able in all his relations;
prestidgitator
OF twenty times poor Horsce's own power;
Deft at nome with his wife and his family,
Agile and stout gsinst his fellow-paadins,
Dextrous indeed with his hundreds Of helpers,
Prompt with his royalties,
A pillar of the church,
A staunch column in the politics of his ward,
Keen and wary with the. assessor,
And annually Gathering in,
Despite difficulties and competition,
Eighteen and three-quarters per cent
For self, family and the clan of the house;
Doing it easily, lightly,
And jocularly.
Hes a magician" cried Horace
Elate with a promised promotion
Yea, he's an Artist"
Horace advanced
His wife can dress in high feather
From husbands purse;
Her father smiles on him at last,
And little Wlfrid and Imogene
Are allowed TO respect
Their immediate progenitor
Horace row sits az roller-top,
Twidding his thumbs
and knitting his brows g. young author
Who Eighty and over artistic"
Might with few Sigh, concessions,
Do better,
Roth for the "house" and themselves,
II only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
By Robert J. Wi dhack
IX-MARRYING TT

There's way getting wealthy that is often spoken wen Oh
The initial cost all there Isl the rest just clear gam
Buy weddngrng and flowers for the brdetobe to smell o.
And her money yours by right of eminent domain
blossoms
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-15
Severe PUNISHMENT
OF Mrs. Chappell, of Five Years
Standing. Relieved by Cardui.

Mt. Airy, N. C.-hlrs. Sarah NJ. Chap
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