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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-06-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
An Emergency and a Moral

Mexcans had murderousy ambushed troopers |Carrizal
 From every state of the union patriots with sentiments of decency outraged and breasts named with ardent desire that the nation assert itself cried aloud for action
 In that great emergency the President of the United States asked Congress for authority to draft into the regular certain qualified members of the National Guard.
 The instantaneous and affirmative response of the House practically unanimous
 There were but two dissenting votes.
 The cast by Mr. London naturally and consistently a pacifist, and politically socialist.
 The other by Mir Huddleson recently honored by the democratic suffrage of Jefferson county.
 The has criticism to make of the representa- tive of the Ninth congressional district It is very probable however that in years he will be remembered not Joshua who made the stand s but Canute who order ed the incoming tide recede and paid for his by all but the loss of his life
 Or perhaps, he will rank in history with Robert Emme Burke of Chicago who by casting in St. Louis single vote agans the renomnaon of the President simply emphasized democracy's harmonious manimity
 In years to may erect monument to representa- ve that against all his fellows he stood unshakably the ground of his personal conviction But in the unfortu naey perhaps true that he regarded ed of his unaterng light that he conempuousy consid or less than the sporadic sparkle of firefy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
PAIL MORPHY

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 The announcement that the Cincin- nati Chess club celebrated the seventyy- ninth anniversary of the birth of Paul Morphy does not mean much to the present generation except to the few who indulge in chess. And yet the name of Paul Morphy was one to con- jure with before the civil war. He was the most romantic figure the game of chess ever produced.
 The world was fascinated by the New Orleans youth who vanquished the greatest chess players in 1857 in Paris. Morphy then accomplished the appar- ently impossible feat of blindfolding himself and playing eight of France s strongest players. a contest in which he won six of the games. Unlike the great chess players of his day, Morphy played rapidly and as if by instinct.
 Then came Morphy's tragic fate, which added to the sentimental interest in his career. His unequalled feats of playing blindfolded proved too much for his mind. In 1864 he became in- sane and disappeared from the world, which was reminded of him 20 years later when his death was announced.
 The Byron of chess. Morphy still re- ceives the tributes of players of that game throughout the world. His games are regarded even today as master pieces. And he also preserves the dis tinction of having been the only Amer ican to achieve a world championship in the abstruse pastime of chess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
LOVE ME, LOVE MY CAT

tions It proved happy one. The great reformer said subsequently, that not even his debts made him unhappy as long as he had Kate.
 But matrimony complicated by dogs and cats and ferrets, the same owned separately, and not by the firm, and the tastes of the members of the firm differ ing as to the desirability of cats, dogs and ferrets as objects of affection, in- mates of the home, sources of entertain ment differs from the Lutheran kind of matrimony; differs in it's superficial as- poets and in it's potentialities. as glass of translucent spring water drunk be- fore breakfast differs from a pint of ready-made cocktails drunk before breakfast.
 Marriage to the Hoosier bridegroom meant much more than to be no longer alone at table, and to see pigtails where there had been no pigtails in the days of his bachelor freedom. And to the bride it meant, no doubt, disillusionment no less crushing in the spiritual and fgura- tive sense than the blow of the poker proved to the Angora cat literally.
 When you go to war pray once," says the proverb. When you go to sea pray twice. When you get married pray con- tinually."
 But continuous prayer may not avail if there are fundamental differences of view upon such vital issues as the placeuwhich a hunting dog or an Angora cat should occupy in the home and in the affections of the family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. C oMEoNE among the many vocation al advisers of persons about to 0 marry-one who temporizes in a situation in which MT. Punch said don't and nothing more-has said:
 Take no pets into the holy but hazard ous state of matrimony
 That advice had not been heard, or was ignored, by hopeful young couple who married recently in Indiana. As a result divorce proceedings followed close upon the honeymoon.
 The bride, who started the proceedings with a petition charging desertion, says the bridegroom left her after quarrel about her Angora cat.
 The cat, it is alleged, whipped the bride groom hunting dog, killed his ferrets and helped itself to a beefsteak which was not intended as cat meat. So inflamed against the cat was the owner of the dog and the ferrets, the provider of the steak, that with one blow of an iron poker he destroyed the nine lives of the Angora and simultaneously, the peace and happiness of his home, or what there was left of it's peace and happiness after the brides pet had routed the bridegroom's pets.
 Martin Luther said of marriage:
 Ut means that whereas I was alone formerly at table I am with someone and when I awake see two pigtails which formerly were not there"
 That was marriage without complica-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
OMAR KHAYYAM

Rosemund Marriott Watson, Poems" " (John Lane). Slayer of sooth. and searcher of dim
 skies: Lover of Sun and Song and summer-
 tide. For whom so many roses bloomed and
 died: Tender interpreter. most sadly wise, X Of earth's dumb inarticulated cries! Times self cannot estrange us nor di-
 vide: Thy hand still beckons from the gar.
 den-side Through green-vined garlands when
 the winter dies. Thy calm lips smile on us thine eyes
 are wet: The nightingale's full song sohs all
 through thine And thine in hers.-part human. part
 divine! Among the deathless gods thy place is All-wise but drowsy with life's mingled
 wine: Laughter and Learning. Passion and
 Regret. fsse4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
THE CLEOPATRA OF WAR

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 An American photographer who has been engaged in taking pictures of the European armies in action has noted an interesting exception to the well known rule that seasoned soldiers pay little attention to the sights and sounds of battle which civilians find so impress sive.
 Everywhere one goes," he remarks, there is the roar of artillery. The men in the trenches get used to the firing and pay no attention. Every clear day, too. the air is full of aero planes. Battles in the air are a daily occurrence. but every one still looks up to watch the flyers battling"
 The time may come, of course. when the rattle of machine guns in the sky will receive from seasoned soldiers no more attention than they give to the fire of artillery to which they are not destructively exposed. But that ad- justment of the nervous system has not yet come.
 The aircraft is still the Cleopatra of war, from whom the unexpected is ex- pected To the most seasoned soldiers "age has not withered. nor custom stalled, her infinite variety"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
MODERN METHODS IN EGYPT

From the Providence Journal.
 The Egyptian ministry of public works, which has been experimenting in cotton raising during the past 10 years in the Gezira region in the Sudan. has issued an optimistic report to the effect that 1t will be possible to do better than dou- ble the yield of cotton in the Nile delta by means of system of dams for irri- gation in connection with the White Nile and the Blue Nile.
 Vast quantities of water have been stored already, and during the past 30 years nearly 100000 acres of entirely new land have been added to the tax able soil of the country. It Is estimated that in this newly explored region about .5OO,00O acres of land could be made capable of growing cotton. This. as a matter of fact, would give more land than is now planted with cotton in Egypt. Irrigation works are now being constructed, and plat of 150,00O acres is being treated.
 We see here only one of many illustra- tions that might be offered of the mod ern development of Egypt under British
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
HOTEL LOBBIES
of Machinery By Express

ITO show that the management of East Lake park is trying to entertain all classes of people this year and get everything running smoothly, a solid carload of machinery for the old mill' was ordered sent by express and arrived yesterday" said Manager George J.. Breinig. Tt weighed 5000 pounds, and cost S175 express. The Jeffrey Manufac- turing company of Columbus O.. with branch in Birmingham, were the ship pers. The kids have worried me so about this new amusement that we decided it would be unsafe to order by freight. With this new addition an dthe new merry-go-round of jumping horses, the youngsters have the latest in pleasure features"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
VISIT TO LEPER COLONY

decorous and unhasty. In a case liks that one's ancestors are responsible. and one hopes, for their credit, that the smile which feels little stiff has not looked so. For to give pain to one of these unfortu- mates would be high treason to the spirit of the place. Their manners never fail.
 We had read that they thrust them selves upon the visitor in eagerness of welcome; we had heard from the decent citizen that they shrank from being looked at. Both statements were in in. tent discouraging, and neither is true You walk through Kalawao and Kalau. papa as you might walk through any Ha. waiian village, and if there is embar. rassment, it is all on your side.
 The extraordinary naturalness of the Set clement is its great feature both to eye and mind. Much of ones visit is in sense, without incident, because thera is nothing "specia" to stare at. You meet people going about their business or pass them sitting on their porches, just as elsewhere. Some of the leper homes are as charming as any of their size in Honolulu; some are desolate like certain shacks in Hauula or Olaa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
Stop Throwing Glass

Eff there is an ordinance on the city books providing penalty for the throw ing of glass and bottles into the street, it should be more rigidly enforced" said w. O. Broyles If there is not such an ordinance in existence at this time, hope the city commissioners will pass one and rigidly enforce it.
 q am inclined to believe that the greater part of this habit or practice of throwing glass into the streets in merely the result of thoughtlessness. But the knowledge that there was an ordinance prohibiting the practice and that the vio- lation of the ordinance would result in a fine would tend to deter most of the careless ones who are guilty.
 There are few who throw bottles and glass into the streets maliciously. Of course the full penalty of the law should be given such persons.
 There are thousands of dollars worth of automobile tires ruined every month. or rather every week, because of the glass in the streets. This destruction of prop erty serves no good purpose and is drain on the financial resources of the community of no small importance. Con- certed action on the part of the authori- ties and the public will stop this useless waste of money and destruction of prop erty'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
SHAVED IN THE BACK

New York Correspondent Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 During alterations" reads sign in a Broadway barber shop, "cus.omers will be shaved in the back" And poli- ticians who were around the Hotel Astor yesterday were wondering if Charles Evans Hughes. republican can didate for President. had visited that tonsorial parlor. When MT. Hughes arrived at headauarters he was wear ing one of those wonderful Chicago round hair cuts" The back of his neck was saved so high that the hair line descended scarcely at all below the tops of his ears. This work of art gave the candidate the appearance of being a highbrow, no matter whether one spied him going or coming. No puddler or rolling mill man dolled up for Sun day outing ever displayed any greater width of smoothly shaven neck than did the justice yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28

From "Kalaupapa: the Leper Settlement
 on Molokai," by Katherine F. Gerould,
 in the July Scribner.
 A CURIOUS medley of emotions is A the reward of the visitor to A Kalaupapa, and one of the hard. est with which to deal is this sudden fear, face to face with a leper who is all but touching you, of not striking the human, right note. It does, not happen often-it Is ptifully true that half the visible population of the Settlement would be unsuspected by the layman of any dread illness. I honestly believe that the worst of it is the mere knowing that they are lepers.
 But now and then one Is flung suddenly on the mercy of ones instincts. These is no time to decide whether to look or not to look; to fix the exact shade of de- cent attention between aversion and GU. riosity. One must not stare, one must not shrink; and the vision of unspeak- able disagreement, just because it is so rare, finds one unprepared and praying inwardly, after the visual shock, that ones smile was in the right place. and the movement of one's eyes and muscles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28

If Capt. Mercy ever sits down to write his autobiography. his recent ad- ventures in Mexico will make stirring chapter.
 Too bad that the Mexicans destroyed the American consulate at Torreon, but we probably won't ned 1t for some time
 The bull moose party died at the age of four years. Yet. in that brief span of time it grew from infancy to old age.
 troops should lose no time in settling scores with General Trevino.
 If Villa is convalescent. the present status of affairs should imm mediately restore him to health
 For obvious reasons Irishmen are not wanted on the jury chosen for the trial of Sir Roger Easement.
 It's dull life these days for the commander of a U-boat. mobilization bride."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
"The Stars and Bars
 and battle scars '

And then we shall return home and hear our neighbours daughter play it again and again on tho pianoforte. And, perhaps we shall hear her sing.
 As the esteemed General Sherman gave voice to, war does not typify aeolian harps and angels. But yet, we must not allow the real gravity of the situation to completely absorb our attention--if war we must wage.
 The conflict in Europe has demon strated effectively that long faces get in the way of progress. War, as Europe has rendered it, calls for keen minds ready to handle the business of fighting with the utmost dispatch, ready to be human beings, and demands g. large amount of common. ordinary. every day horse sense.
 So we must give vent to bit of lev ity, be serious, but not over-serious, and bide our time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
KILLING THE CLAQUE


 From the New York Globe.
 There is always more or less rumor in operatic circles in America of the ac- tivities and gains of the claque. Per- ps the most delicious instance of the absurdity of these shadowy operations was the experience of that blushing de. butante, Nellie Melba, in Chicago last winter. While she was in her dressing room arraying herself to appear as Mimi in La Boheme," a noted claque leader appeared at her door and declared that in consideration of $50 he would make her."
 We learn that in Milan a true bill has been found following an action brought against a quartet of claquers by the tenor Schipa. They are charged with extortion and accused of having obliged certain artists to pay them various sums, as well as to give them certain number of theatre tickets, which they in turn sold. They are further accused of placing these artists in fear of grave material and moral damage to their ca reers by threatening them with failure in their performances brought about by organized hissing, untimely applause, and other spnoyances.
 4 curious detail of the indictment is 6 list of the exact sums paid to these industrious claquers by several artists Only 15 lire were levied on the com plaining tenor, Schipa, though another tenor was called on for 30. However, third was rated as low as five. Strac- ciari, baritone, who sang some years ago at the Metropolitan opera house. was asked for 40
 A baritone named Danise paid as high as 300 lire. Rosina Storchio, the cele- brated soprano, gave up 250 A less known soprano parted with the same sum. Elvira de Hidalgo, whom we re- member at the one-time New theatre as barefoot Amina in La Sonnambula." :" contributed in lire the marked down sum of 18O, at which figure a cynical New Yorker with memory might feel she got off cheap.
 Americans have often wondered why -'-'-cco"n sir~ers. on coming to this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28

l From the New York Globe A perplexed correspondent sends in the following query-a query that ever Oedipus might well have hesitated te answer:
 Editor of The Globe, sir-I would great. ly appreciate your opinion as to what is
 meant by the phase, "best society," What is this nations best society? Is 1t composed of wealthy people living ir
 sumptuous hotels? Is the society O. social functions, debutante dances. din. ners, receptions, and wedding celebra- tions understood as the best society? Dc the names listed Tn the social registers form the best society?
 THEODORE MICHEL.
 Brooklyn, June 2.
 Anybody capable of attempting such g definition is capable of trying to define humor or love or the manners of Sena- tor George Thompson or cubst poetry or the cinema scenarios. Compared to il the riddles that Wotan asked Mime are Culu quColiOiS.
 The nearest anybody has ever been able to get to an answer is list of things that disqualfy any person from best society. Here are a few of them. In the first place, you must not. if you be man. wear suspenders. Of course, suspenders and belt together are quite impossible. Anybody knows that. But suspenders ,,pdar ony c;roupostapces oven if con. cealed by a best, are a sad solecism Again, if you call it vest instead of g waistcoat you cannot belong. You must not. talk correct English; that is as bao form in Newport as in Mayfair or Sever Dials or Mulberry Hill. Neither must you talk the incorrect English or Pc. oria or Red Lodge. It must be a pc culiar brand of inaccuracy. The higf brow is as suspect in best society as he read Hall SCaine or Ella Wheeler Wilcox that is, you must not be caught reading them. And if you have a preference fol Emerson or Henry James you must keeI it dark
 You must be bored by music unless yol are strongly established inside the trenches. Of course you go to the opera voting it consummate nuisance. Many fine distinctions are a matter oi geography. Take, for instance, the Ques ton of wives. In the bourgeois sentiment of the community in which you reside is homogeneous you cannot be best society unless you have two or three of them In Turkey, on the other hand, it is con sdered vulgar and old-fashioned to have large harem-likewise in Utah. In Thi bet the way for woman to be exclusive if she is also rich-is to have only one husband Geography also governs the question of money. In some American communities millionaires are looked down upon as ill-bred Yankees.
 Knowledge however, is bad form al most anywhere. A few eccentrics occa- sionally manage to break through, or be- ing inside are suffered to remain for tnelr familys sake.
 Of course, to give complete list would require an encyclopedia with revised edi- tions every three years. But, after all the last word on society was said by Os. car Wilde: '"To be in it is bore, to be ol1t of if A tragedy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28

country, where conditions surrounding operatic life, especially with regard td the behavior of audiences and to news paper publicity, are so different com
 tinue to be victims to the wiles of
 claquers, who rarely can do more for
 any individual than the enterprisins
 creature that offered to make" Melbs
 for $50. If. after the Milan precedent,
 they continue in the old course, they can charge up the expenditure to noth-
 ing less personal than their own stu pidity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
RADIOS ARE PLENTIFUL
From the Wireless Age

The bureau of navigation, depart ment of commerce, has issued the 1915 edition of Radio Stations of the United States" This list shows that there are now. 5073 wireless stations in the United States, an increase of s1139 since 1914. They are classified as fol- lows: Government and commercial land stations. PA; government and commercial ship stations. Ss5; special land stations 11S; general and re-. stricted amateur stations. sss6.