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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
THE CoBBLER,s MYSTERY
the New York Sun.

from the new Y DIRK Sun.
My shop is down cellar (said tn eshoe-
maker) and as I never had time to paint
a sign it is hard to tell that a shop is
there at all.
One morning in the spring while 1 was
working at my bench l heard something
fall on the stairs and when 1 went out
there was a little paper package. No
body came for it and at noon L opened
it and found two nice sandwiches and a
pickle. 1 gave the sandwiches to the ice
mans dog and he ate them and did not
die, SO 1 knew it was not the Black Hand
at work The next morning at the same
time 1 heard the same noise and there
was another package just like the first
except that instead of a pickle there was
a banana. 1 did not invite dog that noon.
fer l am a poor man.
The third morning 1 was waiting and
when I heard the package fall on the
steps 1 ran quietly up and nobody was
in sight but girl hurrying as girls do
who are going to the subway on their
way to work. The next morning peeked
out in time to see her drop the package
on the stairs. She did it quickly and al
most without moving her hand. l knew
she did not throw it as a present to me
because l am married and shave only OH
Saturday nights.
Every morning except Saturdays and
Sundays until last week l found the
lunch on the stairs. Then one day l
heard the girls step as she went past
but no package fell. l went up and
looked. She was carrying big suitcase
but no lunch. Since then l have not seen
or heard her and 1 have to buy sausage
at noon.
I told the policeman. Maloney, about
it and asked him what he thought and
he said: "Stenographer. Poor family.
Old lady put up sandwiches. Girl got
beau who took her to lunch. Didn't dare
tell mother. Mother kept on putting up
lunch and girl threw it in cellar. Girl
gone to get married, probably EPment'ry,
watson
My name is not Watson, but Figliano'
They were nice sandwiches.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
A RELIGIOUS revival, the like Of
~ which was never known before,
4 \ is sweeping around the world.
1t began in Europe, is spreading across
North and South America and in Asia
SO many thousands are turning to Chris
tianity that missionaries are bewildered
and staggered by it, according to the re-
port to the general conference of the
Methodist church held this summer at
Saratoga, N. Y.
The most generally accepted cause Of
it is that the war, with it's horrors ani
desolation, has sobered and solemnized
the world has has had the effect of driv-
ing the people upon divine security. That
this is the underlying cause was ths
theory of those who attended the Sara.
toga conference The reports of the
worldwide revival made to that confer
ence states that it 'far outreaches the
fondest dream of the most ecstatic vision
Paul ever had" and 1t applies not alone
to the Methodist church, but to all
churches.
| Willard Price gives in the American
Review of Reviews a summary of those
reports. THE new emphasis on religion
lin Europe is well KNOWN" he says,
Each potentate claims God on his side
troops pray before entering battle, it il
reported that hundreds Of thousands OF
Testaments are being thumb marked in
the trenches. REVEALS are on in France
and Bulgaria. liquor and luxury are ia
booed, and the simple life. which lis
psychologically related to the religious
| life, has been made the rule"
| Bishop Stuntz reported to the conference
that never in the history of this conti-
nent have so many converts been gath
cred into the churches of South America
as during the past few months. In Mex
leo churches are packed to the doors. and
the sale of Bibles there, which before
had a maximum of $1,000 copies in year.
totaled $1,000 copies last year.
| In Japan. Kimura, San, who was with
Billy Sunday 10 months, studying his
methods. is holding meetings in a big
tent. is bringing SO many thousands down
the "sawdust trail" and the influence OF
his meetings Is spreading SO that the
Protestant missionaries in Japan have
united in call for 474 new missionaries
to take care of the increasing work.
| In Korea 1t has been estimated that
since Christian missionaries went there
Is years ago there has been an average
of one convert each hour. But in the
revival sweeping that country the aver
age is Is converts per hour, day and
night, and services have to be held in re-
lays to accommodate the thousands who
come.
In China, DIR. S. Earl Taylor, secretary
Of the board Of foreign missions. report,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
HOTEL LOBBIES
Remove n Landmark

The march of progress cannot be de-
tered on account OF sentiment" said
C. R. Carter of Tuscaloosa, general man.
ager of the Tuscaloosa Railway and
Utilities company, who is at the Tut
Wiler Our company is constructing a
freight house near the postoffice in Tus-
caloosa, and one of the oldest and most
historic residences in the city had to
come down to make room for it. This
was the old Leach home, which was
linked with much of the history and ro-
nance in Tuscaloosa during and prior to
the civil war.
All the people who attended the CEN
tennial celebration and pageant will re-
member the scene, An Interrupted We'd
ding, which proved to be one of the fea-
lures of the presentation. This wedding
took place in the Leach home, which has
just been RACED to the ground, and it
was out of this residence that the union
soldiers took the bridegroom as prisoner
while the marriage ceremony was under
way. But the old has to give way to the
new, and Tuscaloosa is too progressive a
city to stand back on account of senti-
ment in matters of this kind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
FIELD FLOWERS

By Thomas Campbell.
We field flowers. the gardens eclipse you,
it's true,
Yet, wildings of nature, l doat upon you,
For We watt me to summers of old,
When the earth teemed around me with
faery delight,
And when daisies and buttercups glad.
dened my sight.
Like treasures of silver and gold.
love you for lulling me back into
dreams
OF the blue Highland mountains and
echoing streams,
And of birchen glades breathing their
balm. @
While the deer We're seen glancing in
sunshine remote,
And the deep mellow rush of the wood
pigeons note
Made music that sweetened the calm.
Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter
tune
Than We speak to my heart. little Wild
ing of June:
OF old ruinous castles We tell,
Where thought it delightful your beau
ties to find
When the magic of nature first breathed
on my mind,
And your blossoms were part of her
= spell.
Even now what affections the violet
awakes; N
What loved little islands, twice seen in
their lakes,
Can the wild water lily restore;
What landscapes read in the primroses
looks,
And what pictures of pebbled and min
nowy brooks VA
In the vetches that tangle their shores.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
THEY DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE

of the benefits of a college education
probably never will be put beyond the
pale of debate, though most people no
longer question the affirmation that
college graduate is better equipped to
meet life in all it's phases than he would
have been if he had not gone to college.
Ask the man who has not been to col
lege what he thinks about it. He will
not hesitate to tell you that he has
missed something that now seems essen
tial to his welfare, that he wishes he
might have acquired that finish and
training which the college gives the am
bilious youth.
These are distinguished lights in the
world of literature named moment ago;
but their experience does not argue
against the college course. Their expe-
rience merely proves that if there is ge-
MUS in man or woman, and along with it
industry and perseverance, nothing can
keep them down in this world! You
can't keep a squirrel on the ground"
Is an old adage. If the stuff is in you
it will come out; but will it not be coaxed
| out more readily if your mind is prop
erly trained by experts? One needs the
finish. the polish and the poise. the eff
cheney which he can get in college more
quickly and probably more surely than
by hitting out blindly without leadership,
without comradeship in the early strug-
giles of life.
The fact that you have had no college
course does not argue that you may be-
come a Mark Twain, Burroughs, a
Chesterton or a Whitman
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
DOWN CAME GARDEN, ROSES, ALL


The excursion boat from Chicago to
Milwaukee is no place for Kansas man
who has illusions. Imri Zumwalt of Bon
ner Springs writes back to the chief
tain of a recent trip on such a boat,
from which he emerged practically intact,
except for his Kansas illusions. Night
had fallen on the return trip to Chicago.
he says, and lovers thronged the deck In
dark corner sat loving couple locked
In fond embrace. Imr paused mo-
ment to listen. Memories of his own
youth rose UP before him, and thus to
hear the old sweet song again was like a
breath from the past. They were dream
ing Of their future, cottage on the lake
shore, garden and a rose arbor-just
the same old dreams Inri had years ago.
And he sighed that he was nearly 40,
bald, and almost unshapely. And just
then he heard a tender voice from the
dark corner, pleading, Now, please,
won't you tell me your name?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
HOLLAND is PREPARED

H w. Van Loon in the National Geo.
graphic Magazine.
The Dutch people do not intend to use
their army for any purpose of aggrandize-
nent. They do not expect that the few
hundred thousand men which they are
capable of bringing into the field will ever
decide the fate of Europe. But they have
CT Gated an army and a navy of such
strength that any enemy who should wish
to attack the small country will be obliged
to reckon the cost before he dares attack.
They have made soldier of every man
capable of bearing arms They prepared
the principal part of the country for i'm
mediate inundation, and then quietly
made it known to their neighbors that
they would regard neighbor which
should cross their frontier as their enemy.
Hollands coast is guarded day and
night The sand dunes, which provide a
wonderful natural barrier have been for
titled with hidden guns and well covered
position for machine guns. The towns
and villages situated behind the dunes are
we'll garrisoned and an excellent system
of roads running parallel with the coast
enable the Dutch government to trans
port artillery and infantry to any threat
ened spot within less than an hour. Tor
pedo boats and flotilla of submarines
patrol the coast at all times.
The Dutch sowed a sand grass upon the
dunes and bound their shifting sands.
They damned back the seas and. foot by
foot, won much of their territory from the
ocean, which nevertheless protects them
from human foe, because no nation has
soldiers tall enough to keep their heads
above water should the sturdy Hollanders
call the seas to their aid
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
TWO FAMOUS MEN

From the New York Telegram.
Here is pen portrait of the famous
novelist Thackeray, written in 1876 by
Edward Fitzgerald who, as the English
adapter of Omar Khayyam. was to be-
come equally famous In time.
I'm the meanwhile old Thackeray
laughs at all this; and goes his own
way writing hard for half a dozen re-
views and newspapers all the morning
dining drinking, and talking of night
managing to preserve a fresh color and
perpetual flow of spirits under a wear
and-tear of thinking and feeding that
would have knocked up any other mar
l know two years ago 1T least
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
A SENTIMENTAL OMISSION


From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
1t is related that the Duke of Aosta,
in urging his army onto the attack upon
Gorilla, called upon them to fight lin
the name of your mothers, your wives,
your sisters and your country"
What is the matter with Latin gallantry
that "sweethearts" should be left out of
the dukes adjuration? Has 1.-The girl l
left behind me- no inspiring function in
Italian bravery?
We do not like to differ with the duke,
who has been very successful as far as
he has gone, but we would suggest that,
if greater efforts become necessary in
his future campaigns, he include the
pretty brown-eyed maid of the Euganean
hills or of Valambrosa in his exhorta-
tons. Italy still has its Beatrices and
it's Lauras.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
A MONG the distinguished modern
~ authors who did not graduate
4 \ from colleges. are the following
a $ shown by William w. Ellsworth, late
president of the Century company:
Bret Harte, Walt Whitman, Bayard
Taylor Joel Chandler Harris, William
Dean Howells, William Gilmore Simms,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Burroughs,
Edmund Clarence Stedman (who spent
two years at Yale, without graduatlns)'
Frank Stockton, Harry Cuyler Bunner'
john G. Nicolay, James Whitcomb Riley,
Mark Twain, Henry James, George w.
Cable, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Mary
E. Wilkins Freeman Edith Wharton
Miss Sedgwick, Margaret Deland, Ger
trude Anterior, Alice Brown. Ellen Glas-
gov, Agnes Repplier, George Bernard
Shaw, Gilbert K. Chesterton, William
Black. John Mansfield, Rider Haggard,
George Moore. Eden Phillpotts, Israel
Zangwell.
Mr. Ellsworth, commenting upon this
formidable showing, says:
1.-THE more one studies these lists the
more the college or non-college classifi-
cation seems to grow about as important
as classifying the writer's according to
the color of their eyes. The men and
women succeed who have it in them to
succeed and one is at loss to prescribe
a course of study for the student who
seeks to follow the footsteps of the great
authors.
The old controversy over the question
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
A Forward Step

Cooperation has been preached and
noised in Birmingham until the very
word has become a bore to many per-
sons" said Colman Blach yesterday.
However, it is the one word that spells
the solution of Birmingham's needs today
to make it one of the best cities in the
world. We of Birmingham do entirely
too much talking and not enough actual
doing. What we need is to cut out some
of the hot air. and get down to real
cooperation in acts and deeds.
THE organization of the retail clothers
OF Birmingham is just a step toward uni
versal cooperation of the citizens of this
city. We believe that it is going to revo-
lutionize the retail clothing business in
Birmingham, and if the proper spirit is
put into the thing there will be real CO.
operation on the part of the clothiers for
more efficiency in service. honest adver-
tising and better ethics in business meth
DDS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
A MUSICAL CRITICISM

From the Kansas City Times.
A blind man, accompanied by three
women, was singing on the streets OF
Polo the other day and incidentally
picked up some small change when the
hat was passed. The several discords
however, so offended the musical critic
of the News Herald as to draw this
1.-THE man had deep voice like g
Crooked river bullfrog while the voices
of the women reminded one of a splin
ter on rail on a windy day."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
Chattanooga Getting the Gold

According to Charlie HOFFMAN, a for
mer local business man, now located in
Chattanooga. prohibition has proved a
bonanza for the liquor selling agencies
there. Mr.. HOFFMAN estimates the bust
ness receivd from Alabama from express
orders as in the millions.
Everything is prosperous in Chatta-
nooga," said Mr.. HOFFMAN. "Our bank
clearings last week were about $3.50, 900
more than Birmingham. That is as 1t
should be, for we are getting the money.
There are about 35 liquor selling
agencies in Chattanooga at the present
shipping wet goods to the prohibition
states. 1t is all cash business and it
will run annually into the millions 1t is
estimated to run now to about 100000 a
week or 100000 a month Most of the
orders come from Alabama
In Chattanooga everything is business.
Prosperity seems everywhere, and the
only thing that am sorry about is that
the Tennessee city is taking it away from
my old home town of Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
Prefers Single Roof

There is little doubt in my mind that
the citizens of Birmingham are greatly
in favor of shingles for roofing instead
of the composition roofing" said Thorn
ton Estes, well known lumber man.
When YOU see rock going up hill
something is behind it. When you see
an anti-shingle ordinance go into effect
something Is also behind that. In the
first place these composition roofs are
not fireproof, but cost more money and
are not satisfactory. Shingles will last
as long as 20 years, and in the event
shingled roof needs repairing the work
can be done at a nominal cost.
Il am in the lumber business, but sell
composition roofing. 1 make as much
money on one as I do the other, but l
do not want to see the present roofing
ordnance remain a law
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
GOING TOO FAR.

ut is shocking the way young women
here put on bathing suits at home and
then walk through the streets to the
beach," said a visitor at seashore re-
sort.
"oh. we're used to that" replied the
resident, land don't mind, so long as they
go direct from their homes to the beach,
but if one. of them should tarry for an
ice cream soda or yield to the tempta-
ton to drop into movie show. dare
say it would cause a sensation"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PICNIC FIXTURES.

No picnic ever was complete
Without little rain;
Or someone running down the street
In time to miss the train.
Youngstown Telegram
No picnic ever was complete
At least so I've been told;
Unless some grandpa did a feat
To prove he'd not grown old.
Geneva Free Press-Times.
No picnic ever was complete
Without buzzing bee
That lighted on youngsters nose
And robbed him of his glee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
"HONEsT IAGow
From the New York Telegram.

Men of the type of lago are morally
color blind says Sir Herbert Tree, actor
and manager. They traffic with intrigue.
For them this mode of sef-advance-
ment has no ugliness. The study of their
lives is social success; popularity is their
religion The voice of the people is louder
than the voice of God!
with them, there is no brainsickly
misgiving as to the means by which they
attain their ends. They go through life
Shaping their fellow-men on the back
everywhere making friends, taking care
nowhere to make enemies
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
A RISKY INVESTMENT.

Has your son decided to enter BUSH
ness?'
Yes" replied Mr.. Cobbles. but I'm
not encouraging him any,"
That's strange. Why not?"
IT can't afford to buy mahogany fur
niture and oriental rugs for an office
he doesn't expect to stay in more than
two or three hours a day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17

BEGINNING THE DAY-oh' "hh'
- We have of love, of tenderness
81 affection, of kindness, ana nov
,-ahIe we nre, we the sons Oh
God. we, immortal and sovereign Oe-
,m~s, strong as the universe OF
feeble as the worm, according as we
vs.ent God or only ourselves MS
we lean upon infinite Being: or U
-tana aIone.-Amiel-H. Nj. FL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
NOT USED TO IT.

us it true that Twobble and Dubwaite
are no longer on speaking terms?'
that they still find it rather difficult to
ignore each other"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
NO SUPER-OPTIMISTS.

OF gracious mien
Was William Ring,
But when he heard
Miss Yowler sing
The smile he wore
Soon sped away
And came not back
The livelong day.
Which goes to prove,
AS we'll it might,
Upon this earth
There is no wight
Who can resist
Woes great and small
And never seem
To mind it all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
MORE TRYING STILL.

TT is painful to hear man and his
wife quarreling in tones audible to all the
neighbors."
True, but it might be even more pain
full to the feminine part of the neighbour
hood"
How SOP"
THE quarrel might be heard by them
and still not be quite loud enough to en-
able them to find out what it is about
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
SHAMELESS.

"A certain old-fashioned sinner who
in box that resembled a Bible, while
his rod folded up into walking stick
How does the modern sinner conduct
himself on such an occas ion?"
HE not only makes no effort to. hide
his fishing gear, but calls attention to
his depravity by loudly footing his mo-
tor horn when he starts out"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17
RATHER DULL.

"I understand your town is establish
ing a record for law and order"
Yes" replied the thoughtful citizen.
And it's rather hard on our local re-
formers"
How Is that?"
They haven't had an excuse to call
mass meeting and pass resolutions in
more than six months
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17

The amity that wisdom knits mot
folly may easily unite.
-TroiIus and Cresstda'
Il X X
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17


advice of the health authorities are
carried out strictly, there will be no
more typhoid fever in Jefferson. The
fact that it is a preventable disease
should arouse the men and women in
every community and set them to work
to make that community typhoid free.
1t requires persistent and united eff
fort, but is not the cause worth it.?
TT is announced authoritatively that
i President Wilson will not make a
campaign tour. All candidates for the
presidential office who have been
numbered with the "outs trying to get
in" have taken the stump, and if they
had the gift of ora
Not to Make tory and liked to
Campaign Tour hear their own voice,
they made great
records as rear-end platform speakers.
They spoke and spoke until their vocal
chords became Observation-Disclosures
seriously.
But the rule has been for the Presi-
dent seeking reelection to make
speeches only in response to an invita-
ton on some notable occasion. The
democratic campaign committee had
been counting on President Wilson
making tour of the west, but in de-
clining to do so he has commended
himself to those who have regard for
the proprieties. A President travelling
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17

A head waiter may be more or less ia
nous, but he has never truly arrived
until his picture has been used in ad
vertising fashionable brand of ciga
rettes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17

TELEPHONE
BEN tpriynte exchange connecting AL
Departmental Main 4SOo'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-17

Just above an advertisement stating
that pawnshops will close at p. m. The
Age-Herald announces "Other sports on
Page TO-" Well. sports and pawnshops
are more or less related.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-08-23
CALL kELsO FOR JlTNEy

| have dissolved partnership with
Basey and viii hereafter be found at
l02 West Harrison Phone S97. Roy
Kelso, the Jiney Man.