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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
MADE GOOD USE OF MONEY


From the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
The filing of a will in New York re-
Gently revealed what one woman con-
ceived to be her duty in the world BY
this instrument it was learned that the
woman, who, though she had been mar
ried. was childiess adopted and reared
eight orphans whom she took from in
situations. She was far from wealthy,
having an income of only $500 year.
which makes the matter all the more re-
markable. The newspaper account says
that NEARLY all of that money was spent
upon the eight orphans" Those who
have had experience with a family and
the high cost of living will readily be-
lieve that this was SO. Fortunately there
was a life insurance policy of 5000 which
is left to one of the orphans so be-
friended, and we presume that the good
example of the foster mother will impel
this one to extend help to such of the
others as need aid, If there are any in
this position. There are few left In the
condition of this woman, with such a
modest income who would have felt like
taking upon their shoulders the burden
OF caring for such family of orphans.
Many far richer than she would have
considered themselves unable to under
take such an enterprise. The least that
can be said of this woman is that she
made good use of her money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
HIGH ONES

From the New York Sun.
To the stranger within it's gates this
city of light presents few disappoint-
ments, In almost all details it is as he
would find it. The streets are crowded,
the pavements are torn up, the aquarium
is full of fish, Tammany halls home is
visible to the venturesome, the great
white way is flecked with gin fixes ac-
tors stalk the Rialto, the new subways
are interesting even though the city rela-
tive does not know when or where they
women wear daring bouses, The stage.
with it's millions of actors, is well set
and, to an extent, the characters are we'll
cestumed. The thing most shamefully
absent is the silk or high or plug hat,
1t is unworthy of New York to fail in
the matter of silk hats, The visitor has
been taught since childhood that every
prosperous citizen of New York beyond
the age of SO sports high one, wearing
il we'll forward when closing a deal for
a couple of millions and fitting it back as
he quaffs cold pint. But when the
visitor comes. summer or winter, he Is
disappointed. Nowadays the merchant
prince or baron OF finance wears a sad
looking Panama which could be cleaned
while he waited only he will not wait.
In winter he wears a sulen brown or
green hat, not even a derby. The silk hat
is disappearing. Mr., Gibson's portrait OF
Mr.. Jeffries, the best example of the silk
hat in art, is somewhere in France and
the copies fail to inspire as they should.
Mr. James Buchanan Brady. the best
wearer of silk hats since the day of Mr..
Marcus r. Mayer. is somewhere in Sara
toga. if he pursues his ancient habit. Mr..
f! Hammersteins hat is silk, but not stand
AID, so ne must be left out of 1t.
| Is the visitor therefore doomed to en-
tire disappointment? No. not yet. One
valiant soul remains to save the city''
| fame. In the thick of Broadway was OBJ
served this week tall, thoughtful man
A frock coat fell from shoulders thai
were no wider than the sidewalk. silk
| hat rose woolworthan from his lambert
| poll. Jeffries might be in the Rockies
and Brady at the springs, but here was
Robert Fitzsimmons. late of Carson Cit,
and Dunnellen, faithful to New York ant
the silk topper
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MUSIC THE PACIFIsT

From the New York Globe.
1t is rather astonishing to hear Jo-
hanna Gadski. for all her experience in
opera houses the world over, saying that
music of all the arts is the one that
will eventually bring about the downfall
of Mars. To be sure, the fond belief is
not exactly new. One William Shake
speare is authority for a doctrine about
the man who has not music in his soul
and is not moved by concord of sweet
sounds being fit for treasons stratagems
and spois Unfortunately, the world is
at present still digesting the realization
that a race undoubtedly most ap-
preciative of both concord and dscord of
sweet sounds finds it's appreciation by
no means incompatible with stratagems
and spoils, to say nothing of treasons.
Music may have charms to soothe the
savage breast but has it also charms to
lure silver teaspoons out of the haver-
sacks of uhlans?
Chicago educationalist several years
ago demonstrated, or thought he demon
strated. the power of music to subdue
unruly urchins. Indian snake charmers
throughout the centuries have practiced
the art of controlling mans hereditary
enemy with melody. But the same in
strument that lulls the reptile can also
arouse il to murderous fury by producing
a discordant sound. We never yet heard
of snake being pacified by Schoenberg
So, although, Nine. Gadski's hopeful
theory is not without foundation, it OBJ
viously depends upon the tune that is
played Would Tschaikowsky 1872
overture" properly played with salvos of
artillery in place of drum taps inspire
the Brandenburg regiment to lay down
it's arms?
But, above ALL if music is able to SUBJ
due the passions of antagonistic nations,
what on earth will be able to subdue the
musicians? Will any power in heaven or
earth succeed in Transforming the opera
houses of the world into peaceful institu-
tons? Quis pacificabit ipsos pacifica-
torres? Nine. Gadski has come unscathed
through the quarrels of the most cele-
brated and most agitated musical theatres
of the world by dint of a singularly
amiabe and we'll poised temper. But it
would be interesting to learn what the
irrepressible Oscar Hammerstein would
have to say on the subject of musicians
as protagonists of peace.
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| good intake OF sharks is reported
from the vicinity of oyster Bay. How
ever, the colonel is not like Judge Parker
used to be- He can worry along without
his daily swim.
Fears have been expressed that New
York may soon have more money than
| it knows what to do with. Not much
danger of that New York can always
find ways to make money fly.
Frank B. Vrooman, democratic national
committeeman, who says there are 400
900 Japanese soldiers in Mexico, talks like
a man who has been seein things at
night"
Those Chicago police captains who
were collecting 'rake-offs' ranging from
$500 to $50 per week probably laid by
enough for rainy day before they were
caught
Animals in the ST. Louis ZOO are
cooled by electric fans and ice water.
Still lifetime spent in a cage has seri-
Gus drawbacks.
What does Mr.. Hughes mean by kiss
me and I'll kiss you" appropriations?
Congress, whatever other faults it may
have, does not play kissing games.
The suggestion that children be allowed
to go nude at home during hot weather,
if carried out, would certainly save lot
of wear and tear.
The wife sof a lawyer charges him with
treating her cruelty and giving her legal
advice What is cruel in legal advice that
doesn't cost the recipient a penny?
The Italians have at last succeeded in
attracting the attention of telegraph edi-
tors by bagging approximately 10000 Aus
trians.
Nashville denies with some heat that
prohibition has ruined the town. Chat
tanooga chuckles and continues to flour
ish.
A letter that was delayed y years re-
Gently arrived at it's destination, Moth
ing like that ever happens to bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
MEN FROM THE FRONT
From the Survey.

From the Survey
This is an extract from a letter from
Sweden, received by David Starr
i Jordan:
Il went lately to Hallsberg, four hours
by train from Stockholm. to see the ex-
change of prisoners of war.
The first train that arrived was from
Russia, l6 cars, bringing back German
prisoners of war. When the long train
pulled into the station, every doorway
was filled with broken. mutilated men.
These got out as well as they could, most
of them with only one leg, some without
arms, many with distorted faces, all OF
them crippled and ruined for life.
But worst of all was the look in their
faces. Their spirit was broken. They
were only husks of men. They seemed
as if they had been created and the
breath of life had not been given them.
We had quantities of cigars, cigarettes,
chocolate for them, but they wanted post
cards and we bought dozens and dozens
on which they might write to relatives OF
friends.
The car with tuhercr.osis patients was
a dreadful sight. 1t seemed as if all the
sorrow Of tho world were In that train,
and yet three times a week 1t goes down
to Hallsberg-three times each way,
loaded down to the last bed with broken
men. When l would lean over them and
say, Itch CLAUDE dass F'riden bald Kom-
nit their faces would light UP as II they
saw vision and they would whisper
back in German, That Is good. we have
had enough of war. Poor souls. their
day of peace Is very near.
Next l went into a locked car, full OF
poor crazy creatures with a Red Gross
nurse and a Swedish prince who wal
distributing bags of chocolate. The prince
could speak but little English. He wished
to say that the men were insane but
could not think Of the right word, so he
said haltingly, The men are all-fools!
wanted to cry that any man who lett
been was indeed a fool. No country has
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
OuR BIGGEST CORPORATION

B. C. Forbes, in Leslles.
Next to the presidency of the United
States, the biggest job in America is the
chairmanship of the United States Steel
corporation.
| Ebert Henry Gary is the head of
corporate empire greater in income, re-
sources and area than the average
European nation.
| Its income this year promises to reach
5000, oOo, 900, almost equal to the revenue OF
the United States government or the
United Kingdom.
1t has an industrial army of 275, 900 men,
or more than the American army and
navy combined. more than the entire
regular and volunteer force engaged in
the Spanish-American war, enough to
plant one man every mile between the
earth and the moon and leave enough to
girdle the earth with human milestones.
Standing side by side, the solid line would
stretch 100 miles.
The corporation pay roll this year will
! total $3.50, 100000. Since it's organization,
in 1901, it has paid s2,25o,o 10000 in wages.
| 1t has a fleet of LOT steamers, which.
drawn up, would form an unbroken line
10 miles in length, greater array than
the navy of any second rate power.
It's own railroad system, Strengthened
out, would stretch from San Francisco
to New York and project several hum
dreds of miles into the Atlantic. Yet it
pays in freight charges to other rail-
roads 100000 every day of the year.
Its freight bill in is years has aggre-
gated sl,65o OOo, ooo
1t mines as much coal as the greatest
OF Americas coal companies and makes
over 100000 barrels of cement every
month.
The corporations original total capital
of 81, 400 O00, 900 was equal to two-thirds
of all the money then in circulation in
the United States. If it had been all paid
in gold the weight would have been $3.50
tons; in dollar bills it would have cir
ced the earth six times with enough left
to stretch from northmost Alaska to Cape
Horn.
Its assets total 1900. 100000
Not less than $7.oOO,0o0 is spent annually
on welfare work to make employees
healthier, happier, safer and therefore.
more efficient.
Allowing five to family, the corpora
ton supports 1,S75,0Oo persons, twice the
, popula ton of Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
SOPHIE LYONS SUED

Special to the New York World.
Buffalo.-Mrs. Sophia Lyons Burke, who
is better known to the police of two con-
tinents as Sophie Lyons, was sued here
today by Fred Lehner for $4,000, he
charging malicious prosecution. Mrs.
Burke accused Lehner of swindling her
out of $500 in Detroit. She came here
from her home No. AZ Thirty third street.
Detroit, but could not identify Lehner.
This only goes to show how justice
miscarried," said Mrs Burke. II have
been arrested 81 times on mistaken iden-
tity.''
Mrs. Burke claims the distinction of be-
ing the only woman who ever escaped
from Sing Sing prison. whence she made
her exit in 1873. Last February she Of
fered to the city of Detroit her property,
worth $4,000 to establish a home to re-
claim children with criminal tendencies.
Sophie Lyons, now about 70 years old,
is worth $4,000. it is said. Her maiden
name was Levy. Her first husband was
Ned Lyons, notorious bank burglar.
Then she married Billy Burke, who tho
police say. served a term In Jail in Swe-
den The brainy Sophie, beautiful in her
younger days, played her game Of black
mail shoplifting, sneak thieving and
"confidence" work in this country and in
Europe She was arrested here last in
1896 while trying to rob a Sixth avenue
department store.
After that she reformed She took an
interest in religion, devoted herself to
| he do ~bt
with remarkable care, and travelled much
here and abroad. She wrote book
"Why Crime Does Not Pay"
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vival of the brownest," must she be asl
unattractive as that implies? May notI
the outward and visible sign correspond
with the inward and spiritual grace II
Since that unknown poet of the fifteenth
century celebrated the constancy oil
woman against all slanderers-
"Recorde the Nutbrowne Made,
Which from her love. whan her to prove
he cam to make his none, n
Would not departe, for in her herte she
lovyd but him alone
the brown complexion has stood for
faith in love. The possessor of those
two eyes SO soft and brown" whom the
German poet advised us not to trust had
also hair of a golden hue" thus justi-
flying the common superstition that
blondes are deceitful. Not so the Nut
browne Made, who could say even to "a
banysshyd man. that she asked no more
than his company. For in my mynde
of all mankynde I love but you alone."a
Let us be cheerful then, despite the
gloomy prediction of the Times. In the
first place, it may be wrong; all the
known facts point in that direction. In
the second place. were all the yellow,
black, brown and chestnut hair in the
world to be transmitted by nature to mud
color art would undo her work. Mature
is looking up said Whistler when some
inept critic compared sunset in the sky
to one of his canvasses. Any woman can
make nature look up and sit up when she
chooses No, there may be fewer or more
blondes. brunettes or blended types at
one period or another; but it is impos-
slble to conceive of any one type being
oanished from the face of the earth If
the nut-brown maids hair inclines to
mud color she may be trusted to set
nature right.
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himself be sacrificed as these men have
any right to demand what these men
have given No cause is righteous that
demands such sacrifice of millions of its
men,
One man looked like an artist, he was
finely built extremely refined, but his
mind was an absolute blank, as if para
lyzed by what he had seen and heard
The saddest of all was one poor creature
who had brought back from the battle.
field only his fear. He lay there on his
bed trembling like leaf, the perspiration
pouring down his face in an agony of
terror. Nowhere did l see signs of glory
no.
when l spoke kindly to the men they
would weep and kiss my hands. Some
of them were being brought fr I'm ST.
berian prisons, and the spirits Of \ IL were
broken. There was no hope of life in
chem except when spoke of near
peace. They never asked who should be
victorious. They only wanted peace.
Some of the men were old; others were
mere boys. They wore cheap suits of cot
ton drilling. They had crutches but no
artificial limbs. All their rings had been
taken. Just before the men got back
on the train. they grouped themselves
and sang some of their national songs.
1t was dreadful! There was no heart in
1t. no joy. no love of fatherland-only
dead voices and sad. spiritless faces.
1.-THE next morning a trainload of Rus
sian prisoners, 16 long cars full, came
from Austria through Germany. These
men all had artificial limbs They were
cheerful and hopeful, for they had been
better fed and nursed. They had brought
back all their rings and were in fine
physical condition SO far as mutilated
men can be. The faces of some of them
will haunt me forever. One tall, hand
some Russian, full of dash and fire. look
ing every inch a prince-both hands gone
and never again to draw line or to
strike a musical note. To say that war
is hell gives too much grace to warp
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
l SAW HER

l saw her in a bathing suit,
A creature wonderful to see,
Her cheeks were pink as ripening fruit,
Her grace the grace of poetry.
She wore the most expensive hose,
And shoes to match the color red;
Her hair was bound by one of those
Quaint caps that snugly fit the head.
Her suit was silk and finely wove,
And well became her figure trim,
Yet greater wonder; when she dove
/ learned that she could also swim.
Detroit Free Press.
1 saw her in a movie film,
creature with an angels face,
A pretty form, divinely slim,
And movements of exquisite grace.
She wore a most expensive gown,
With things to match from shoes to
hat;
And not a woman in the town
But envied her-you bet on that.
She was, to make it brief, a pearl;
Just get your mind around that fact.
But greater wonder, this here girl
Although a movie star-could act.
Springfield Union.
l saw her in a kitchenette,
And she had been a bride since June;
About her condiments were set
And she stirred something with a
spoon.
Fair was she. and diviney plump,
And her red lips were cupid bows;
Her chin was like a sugar lump,
Her cheeks the color of the rose.
There was a dimple in her arm,
] paused to take another look
At this young bride SO full of charm,
Who-strange to chronicle-could cook
Houston Post.
/ saw her step upon the stage,
And thought she was divinely fair;
creature who'd be quite the rage
If she resided anywhere.
No bathing beauty on the sand
Fer had a more bewitching face;
She held some music in her hand
And struck a pose of wondrous grace
And then she oped her lovely mouth
And warbled words about the spring
And perfumed winds blown from the
south
And, strange to say. that girl could
sing.
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HIS MOTHER CAME FIRST
From the Rochester Democrat and chror

From the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
lcle
While the mobilization OF certain I'LL
nois regiment was under way women in
the persons of relatives and friends of
the guardsmen flocked to the camp in
such, numbers that necessary work was
hampered, Thereupon, it is reported. the
colonel issued orders that only one wom-
an should be allowed to visit each member
of the regiment.
One of the guardsmen. not yet knowing
of the order approached the camp III
company with his mother, sister and
his fiancee. The guard stopped the party
and sternly asked who the women were.
When told he answered:
You can take In only one It's UP to
you to choose
The young man looked tor a moment
at the three and then said, Mother
| When war Is in the air humanity gets
down to fundamentals. and when this is
done mother will never get the worst of
! it. We do not believe that the young
| suardsman will make a worse husband
than if he had chosen his sweetheart. A
| man who can appreciate his mother may
bs expected to take good care Of his wife.
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CALDWELL OF SPRINGFIELD

BY Bret Harte.
Here's the spot Look around you.
Above on the height
Lay the Hessians encamped BY the
church on the right
Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers And
here ran WALL
You may dig anywhere and you'll turn
up a ball.
Nothing more. Grasses spring waters
run, flowers blow
Pretty much as they did SO years ago
Nothing more did l say? Stay one mo-
ment: You've heard
OF Caldwell, the parson, who once
preached the Word
Down at Springfield? What? No! Come,
that's bad. Why he had
All the Jerseys aflame. And they gave
him the name
OF the rebel high priest" He stuck in
their gorge,
For he loved the Lord God-and he hated
King George!
He had cause, you might say! When the
Hessians that day
Marched up with Knyphausen they
stopped on their way
At the Farms where his wife, with a
child in her arms,
Sat alone in the house. How 1t happened
none knew
But God-and that one of the hireline
crew
Who Aired the shot! Enough! There she
lay
And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband
away!
Did he preach-did he pray? Think OF
him as you stand
BY the old church today; think of him
and that band
OF militant plow-boys! See the smoke
and the heat
OF the reckless advance-of that strug,
Cling retreat!
Keep tho ghost of that wife. foully slain
in your view
And what could you-what should you
what would you do?
why Just what he did! They were left In
the lurch
For want of more waddng. He rant,
the church,
Broke the door, stripped the pews, ant
| dash out In the road
With his arms full of hymn books. ant
| threw down his load
| Al their feet! Then above all the shout
ing and shots
Rang his voice: Put Watts into EN-
| boys; give 'em Watts"
1 And they did. That il all. Grasses
| spring. flowers blow
Pretty much as they did ninety-thre'
years ago;
You may dig anywhere and you'll turn
up a ball.
But not always a hero like this-an'
thats -
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From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
- EMARKING that it can see no ex-
IN cuse for the controversy as to
= - whether the blonde type is dis
Appearing, the New York Times makes
a contribution of it's own to tina sup-
jcct 1t declares that both the bonde
and the brunette are on the way to ex-
tinction in this country, and that the
next generation will probably be almost
unanimously brown haired" Nor is this
all: the brown will not be golden
brown" but mud color" This is an in
tertsting diotum, and it would be more
interesting if the Times had given chap
ter and verse to support theory which
in our present state of knowledge we can
only call enpric. Where are all your
golden haired g;rls?" it asks. Where are
your eyes? The brunette may now be
favored by nature and art alike, mud
color may be coming in presently, but
there is still many a blessed damozel
of whom it may be said:
Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn"
Perhaps yellow may not be the only
wear, as in the days when Lydia Thomp-
son get the fashion; but that mud color
ever will be is too much to believe Even
the Times makes an exception in favor
of the glorious red-haired girl" And is
not she also a blonde, true to type in
complexion at least? May there not be
as man" kinds of blondes as of whales,
perhaps Moby Dick among them, too?
Put if the nut-brown maid is to be the
flower Of her sex within the experience
of r1en now living, why should so dis
paragiDs an epithet be applied to her
tresses? Suppose we are to see 1.-The sur
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HOTEL LOBBIES
Alabama Banks Praised

The National City bank of New York,
IN its July letter, pays high compli-
ment to the Alabama Bankers associa-
uon,' said Blanks Everett of the Cham
Der of Commerce. THE letter of this large
institution reviews the economic situation
Of the entire world monthly. To have this
institution to recognize the good work
carried on by the bankers of Alabama
shows that their work is attracting atten-
ton
In speaking of the Alabama Bankers
association the letter says that the work
OF encouraging the farmers of Alabama
to diversity and eradicate the cattle tick
is OF the constructive tspe and has worked
wonderful results. The time will soon be
here when the farmers of Alabama will
be Independent of the cotton crop alone
for sustenance."