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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

fellow I might-but that isn't really in the story, and doesn't concern you, any, how.
 May I help you across the street?" [ asked him. and that pretty girl quit cold. went on about her business
 Thank you replied the blind man.
 On the other side decided to go along little farther with him, for in spite of the slghtless eyes, there was some thing about the old face that appealed to me.
 The sun is shinning-isn it?'' He made it as statement of fact then qualified it with question, and it gave me, an uncomfortable, throaty feeling, to hear that old fellow asking if Gods sum- light, which Is just as free to the sin ner as to the saint generally, were upon him in his darkness.
 Yes" I told him. Tt is a beautiful day." When 1t comes to saying brilliant original things like that, l am always to be counted upon.
 Perhaps you will think it wrong to have asked him how long he had been blind, but I did it. and he told me that he had not seen the face of man for nearly 40 years.
 T am used to it now.'' he went on vol untarily,' and I have seen more good ness in the world during those 40 years than ever did with my eyes Why, used to be cross grained. had high tenn per and was angry with myself and with other people half the time. Maybe it was Gods way of curing me of those faults don't know Since my blindness I have lost all my temper. I could not be angry now-every one is so good to me, so con- siderate. You are a young man, I think, and you would be mighty glad to have all the pretty girls speak to you who speak to me. and who even come and take my arm and help me along from time to time,
 T am hardly less safe on the streets than I would be in my room; everybody's s eyes are mine they all seem to be using, them for my safety"
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one heretofore has had occasion to question the loyalty of imported citizens enny part of hem
 Far be it frum me to question it now. On the con- trary, beleeve with all my hart that vast major rity of citizens in the country who born under sum uther flag, but who have cast theere lots and theere fortunes with us, air loyal and would shed theere blud for the welfare and good of the nasion The trubble s that few hyphens have acted in such manner to bring reproach upon the term The word hyphen used in phases in this country now is enuff to start riot. The man who swears his al legiense to one country and renounses the country of his berth should carefully consider the step, but if he takes it. he ought to take it hook line and sinker and there should be no hint of hyphen A man can not serve two masters-nor can he do the full duty of citizenship in two countries. He must eether be American be sumthing else.
 So far as the Uropean war is consumed we air all bound to have individuel sympathies. No be blamed for that. But when allow sympathies to carry to the pont of disloyalty to our guvvermint air letting the hyphen trol, and the tail wag the dog The nyphen must go that's all theere is to it. Allegiense to two tries at one and the same time presents menny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
ON THE UPPER YUKON

of benches rising one over the other, making great terraces from the edge of the stream to the tops of the mour tains
 Much of the valley has been filled with silt and the Yukon has changed it's course like the Yellow river of China, cutting out new channels and tearing up and throwing down islands. Now we pass through gorges of silt where the sand walls rise above us to tho height of 20-story office buiiJ- ing; and now swing around beds where We seem to be walled in by the cut tings made by the water.
 You can see how Mother Nature builds up the earth. The hills are com posed of earth washings.. The soil is soft and from year to year the snaggy teeth of old Father Time have been gouging long furrows out of their sides. These furrows have caught the moisture, forests of small evergreens have grown up in them and the land soape for miles looks as though t had in with these crops of green trees. TEis makes the country 'ook, when seen from a distance, as thought it were cultivated. There is scarty grass between the patches of forests, and the whole is like a mighty fam planted by the genii of the far north.
 The scenery changes from time to time as we go down the river. Here the banks are almost flat and covered with bushes. There on the opposite sides they are of bare sandy glac.a1 aliuvial At times the earth is so f1jable that it rolls down i'll avala anche es and a blast from our steam whistle will start the sand flowing. It makes enc think of the loess cliffs on the plains of north China. Those cliffs con- tain some of the richest fertilizing matter on earth, and tn cir dust car red by the wind enriches the country uIon which it drops as the siJt from the Abyssinian highlands enricties the Nile.
 The soil from the upper Yukon is poorer than that which surrounds the Dead sea at the lower end of the Jor- dan. It lacks fertilizing qualities and some of it rests on bed of prehistoric ice. which carries off the r.,infall, leaving no moisture for plant lie The glacial ice is seldom more than three feet under the surface. The rain sinks stl cams. It is as though the land was laid down on plates of smooth copper tilted toward the valleys to carry the rain straight to the rivers At least that is the opinion of geological eN-
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"hite. who was killed on the garden roof by Harry K. Thaw, was the lead ing architect, his firm doing the worA while he personally planned the amcus tower and Diana who still stands upon the top It has been used for more kinds or entertainments than we have space to mention herein
 ne proceeding started June 15 by the New York Life Insurance company to ioreciose mortgage of $2.300.000.
 Ine only midnight moving picture show m the country has opened on the roof o1 the New York theatre, in Times square Ihis is to cater largely to actors-moyie stars themselves-and late workers. It IS safe to say however, that it will be patronized by many others, who will go 10 see the actors Tn person, in spite of the fact that one can easily see whole flocks and herds of them in the suuara at almost any hour.
 vacant lot on Twenty third street and Fourth avenue is to be opened for tha use Of children, and will be the most ex- pensive children's playground in the world, though, of course, not very far away IS the still more extensive play and then referred to as the White Lieht district .
 Noiseess brakes will soon be tested out on the 'L' trains here. Hadn't noticed mat they made any more noise stopping ihah they do starting, or unuer ruii head way Dangerous business. too. If they could stop all Manhattan noises. aiI right, but s long as they can't thev should be least permit us the steady roar of them. If they break in on that here and there it will be too trying on the nerves--it will probably sound like a. battle of heavy artillery
 Broadway was treated to rather | n ho oth <l, L ing women accompanied the Nation6f Guardmen along that thoroughfare au thH boys were on their way to entrafn f1 Camp Whitman. N <
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the stunning parties, as a rule. and the rule has few exceptions
 The lower East Side of Manhattan has any quantity of material for stories that the magazine editors and T see to disagree about, but that has by no means lessened nay enjoyment of that section of Man. haitian. Down there I have found wit. intelligence, beauty and breath of vision. have also found something so closely resembling real brotherly love that an expert could not tell the difference if indeed, there is any.
 Those people are not so encumbered with wealth that they have no time for the display of an interest in their fel- low beings. and have seen them indulg- ing in acts of kindness and thoughtful ness which may not be impossible to behold upon the avenue, but which, never theless are not seen there often. Wealth seems to encrust itself with something which makes the majority of it's posses sors stiff and unbending, nor have yet been able to agree with Frank Glass, Jr.. of Montgomery, Ala, who once told me. "A snob is the best fellow on earth. when you know him..
 If children have anything to do with making happiness for their elders, then the East Side should be veritable para disc. They are so thick in that section that one must be very careful about where he places his foot (once spoken of as, watch your step') for fear of tread. ing upon the Deity he worships-at least. that is the way it figures out when we remember that, "Insomuch as ye have done it unto the least of these ye have done 1t unto me-
 These children are freely permitted to get themselves so soiled that it is virtual ly impossible to tell which or the variety of lower East Side nationalities they be- long to. They are. apparently all the happier as result of this and as another result which the board of health may not
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barge of cattle to the heart of the channel He puts the barge ard the steamer right in the heart of the cur rent and we shot down between two of these mighty fingers of rock with a rush into the rapids below. As we pass it seems as though the rocks are not more than three feet away on each side of our steamer.
 little farther on we ride under pTecipices of sand that extend straight ui from the water as though they were cut by knife, and the strata are as regular as those of layer cake. The cliffs rise to the height of the Ws shing ten monument. They seem to be made oi volcanic ash or glacial clay. They are absolutely bare of vegetation save foi the lean spruce and pine on the tops.
 As l have written we passed the Five Fingers between 1 and o'clock in the morning, when the sun is just rising This is the land of the midnight sun, and there are places not far from where we are where on one or two days of the year the sun does not sink below the horizon. Even here, at midnight, it is hard to tell sunrise from sunset. There is long twilight, and the glory of the TislHS anu SettlnS sun seems almost commingled l have seen one sunset on the Yukon which was lost in the moon- rise, and to this day I am not sure whether the sun was setting or rising. I only know that it was light until l o'clock in the morning, and that I was able to make notes at midnight by the light that came in through my cabin windows.
 And this brings to mind the great change in the skies of the Yukon and interior Alaska from those of the rainy southeastern part of the territory. We have left the wet lands and are now in the dry belt of the great Yukon valley. The air here is as clear as that of Col orado. The sky is deep blue. The clouds are often snow white. and they chase each other over the heavens mak- ing moving patches of blue velvet plush on the green hills when they cross the face of the sum- The clouds hang low, and we seem to be on the very roof of the world, with the deep deathllle val leys below" We are in the country of Robert Service, the poet of the Yukon, and some of his verses come to our minds:
 I've stood in some mighty mouthed hol-
 low
 That's plumb full of hush to the brim; I've watched the big, husky sun swallow
 In crimson and gold. and grow dim, Till the moon set the pearly peaks
 glea ming,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY---By Allen Griffin Johnson

like. they are about as healthy and robust lot of youngsters as one would wish to see, in. spite of few photo graphs to the contrary. And later, they grow into fine young men and women. The girls of the lower East Side-the grown girls-have among their number many who are wearing just as much color as any member of Flo Ziegfelds ''Foliies" company-and not paying cent for it either.
 There is open love making on the streets dsn't a person making love happy If successfully and there is the sound of joyous laughter on the majority of the blocks. There is freedom from restraint, such as Fifth avenue has never known and never will know; are frequent meet ings and greetings of friends; there is ar absence of sef-consciousness that even West End avenue is not able to boast, and, in spite of business methods. on a small scale, about which few pertinent questions might we'll be asked, there is, as stated, something so closely resembling the true spirit of brotherly love that the difference is almost immaterial.
 How about the more unfortunate ones there? Well. take a case in point, of which I can speak with first-hand knowl- edge: met him not far from East Houston street. and I mention 1t in that way because all visitors go to Little Hungary on that thoroughfare, and therefore know about where we now are He was gray haired, somewhat bent. and dressed in a manner that showed me he was enormously prosperous Even as I saw him, very attractive young woman was hurrying towards him. for he was feeling with his stick, just at the in- tersection of cross street, to enable him to be sure of just how to proceed. In other words, he was blind. The young woman was going to his assistance--it is a common sight here-and beat her to him, not perhaps, out of the kindness of my heart. or the desire really to be of assistance to the blind man, but equally perhaps. in the hope that. through the old
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the mooing of the cattle we seem to be in barnyard floating down stream. Every now and then the boat excites the live stock The barge is swung this way and that and when it touches the bank and sheep pile up one over the other, some of the cattle are thrown from their feet and the chickens cluck out a protest.
 The Selkirk burns wood and we stor several times day to take on this fuel. Great piles of cord wood have been stacked up on the banks, and this is wheeled in barrows over a gang plank to the steamer. In many of the places the only dwelling is the cabin of the wood chopper. who supplies the ship al so much cord The .purser mea the amount taken with ten-foot pole The cost is $6 or s. and. downstream the Selkirk burns about one cord an hour In coming back against the current the consumption is often four times as much The wood is largely spruce trees from three to six inches in diameter. The logs are sawed and split, and carefully piled Many of the little islands we pass are covered with stumps of trees cut for the steamers, but most of the wood sta tons are on the mainland. the cutting having been done on the banks or in the valleys back from the river.
 The scenery of the Yukon abounds ir strange features. Our whole trip is through the wilderness. We seem to have joined the army of early explorers and to be steaming through new world We pass places
 Where the mountains are nameless,
 And the rivers all run, God knows where
 Except at the wood piles where we take on our fuel there are no signs of life and we ride for miles seeing only an In dian tent or a cabin. The country has not been touched since Columbus landed on the West Indies Islands. It is much the same as it was when the cave dwell CTS, the ancestors of the Eskimos, wrought with their tools of stone.
 have seen most of the great rivers oi the world, the Rhine, the Danube, the Volga, the Nile, the Zambesi, the Yangtse and the Hoang Ho. I know the Hudson the Mississippi. the Ganges, the Indus and the Irrawaddi, as we'll as the Anna zon and the Parana and many other streams of more or less fame. Nowhere else have I seen scenery like that ot the Yukon. It is of it's own kind. Mucr of the country is semi desert and much is as green as the valley of the Nile Here the hills sloping almost precpi- tously back from the green, fast-fowine river, are wrinkled with dry waterways filled with low forests. There is series
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pert who belongs to our party. He tells me the clouds give the region only 10 or 12 inches of water per year and that the rainfall is about like that of California in the neighborhood of Los Angeles, and also that 65 ps1 cent of the water that falls finds ies way to the streams.
 Much of our way down the Yukon is in and out among islands The stream is always building up and tearing down the land through which it flows and the islands are in every stage of formation. Here they are sandbars as bare as the desert of Sa- hara; there they are dustsd with the green of their first yegetauon. A little farther on are patches of lard sur rounded by water with bushes as high covered with forest. Each island mas irs own shade of green from the fresh hue of the first sprouts of the wheat fields to the dark green mixed with silver of the woods of Norway and Sweden. Not few of the islands are spotted with flowers. Some from which the woods have Seen cut for the steamers are covered with fire weed and mighty quilt of d-licate pink rises out of the water. the black stImps upon it standing out like knots on the surface. Such islands are more gorgeous than the flower beds of Hol- land.
 And then the mountains and valley s! Tn places there are low hills bordering the Yukon and behind them mountalrs that are covered with grass, and st.ll farther on peaks clad in their silvery garments of perpetual snow. At one place far back from the river. rising out of a park of the greenast of green, are rocky formations which look like ccstles, as clean cut and symmetrical as any to be seen on the banks of the Rhine and down in the river itself are Lther great rocks more terrible than that on which the Lorelei sat and sang to the destruction of the sailors be- nc ath. One such formation is rnown as The Five Fingers" It consists of five mighty masses of reddish brown rock that rise to the height of six story house. right in the channel through which the steamers mEst sc
 We make our trip down this eart of the river between 1 and Z o'clock in thc morning. when, at this time of the year, the sun is just rising Tie c'n iEg. The ship must go just rig'it or it W,ll be dashed to pieces against the great rocks. The captain guided the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
About Hyphens

peepul becum exhausted it is time for the unfortunate persnn who has exhausted it to take prominent trip away rum theere. When the Americon public begins to let out chose pale blue profanity surning him and his activities it is sign that his activities have been desided in committee of the whole to be extreemly obnoxious to Americon peepul, and sumthng is about to be started. The Americon peepu air just arriving at that cusion consuming the hyphen citizen who makes boast of sed hyphen and who has been diligently gagged in endevoring to up the newtrallity of this country. Regardless of polyticks, the hyphen must go He finds himself unwelcum in enny polyti- cal organnizasion. No be found who fathurs him He is an outcast and renegade; most of the good peepul in this country who air of Gurman Irish, Rushn Italian uther exractsion air openly declar ing that they air Americon citizens furst-and mak- ing theere deeds theere words Uthers air just as loud in claiming to be Americons-but theere &C., tons give heere words the lie It is theese that the Americon peepul denounse, and the polytical party that yeelds an inch to them cannot survive
 Yours trooly,
 V n ~
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finding that it was far bigger propo- sition than they at first thought possi- ble, organized company and are now marketing it after fashion that makes failure out of the question. The east and the west have sent in orders and now that it has been taken up'' by the great metropolis, it is sure. to find it's way into homes and clubs throughout the country.
 The game is played with handsomely illustrated cards. containing actual pho tographs of officers and soldiers of the army. The different ranks are explained. as are also the insignia of each rank. The game is called an engagement, and series is called a campaign.
 The man who put this game on the New York market is w. S. Booten of Louisville, and also of Nashville, where he runs tobacco warehouse
 At the allied bazaar at Grand Central palace, many hundreds of games of "tac- ties were sold, and now, in the various homes on the island there are tactics" parties instead of bridge whist games, but one advantage of the new game is said to lie in the fact that, while it re- quires as much concentration as does bridge. yet it also permits of much liquid refreshment during the progress of she
 campaign"
 Too bad about old Madison Square gar den going into the hands of q receiver; isn't it? If the usual procedure is fol- lowed this means that the garden will ty sold at public auction. I used to be- lieve, before coming here. that it was a sort of open park, or something of the sort-maybe few others know no better today.
 The site was originally occupied by the old New Haven depot. This was re- modelled and later served as an amuse- ment place. called Gilmore's garden. P. T. Barnum was afterward manager for a few years. and gave his circus there. Then 1t became sBarnum's hippodromc. The Madison Sqdare Garden company was organized in 1887. and Stanford
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session of the residents. than
 along upper Fifth avenue. And, since
 money is what every ybody almost seems to be seeking, it follows, does it not.
 that there should be more happiness in that ''neighborhood'' (old southern term) than elsewhere?
 Perhaps. however, these "morgue' owners along the avenue are at the ex- treme end of the money line-they have too much, and are therefore not to be &C., cepted as a fair test. One can get too much of anything. l have been told. So, the Washington square section, the Mur- ray Hill dwellers, of the old New York school or the modern Riverside Drive home owners might furnish a fairer esti. mate. and yet in one of these places Nis there evidence that joy is running more rampant there than in others. Indeed, there are fewer children than in the less |fortunate--from the standpoint of wealth. parts of the city.
 Down in what you might designate as the s'slums'' if you were not talking to one of the residents. it has been my ex- |perience that one can behold more in- Idications of genuine joy and interest in life, than anywhere else, unless you cor. lime yourself to the post-midnight dance 'and-drink palaces, and in them the in |dications are not genuine-at least the joy |ts genuine only for a very brief period. But this information is hardly to be discovered by those who merely go ''slumming' Quite naturally, when a '"slumming party heaves in sight, ths Indications of happiness among sne cwel- Hers in the section they visit, are at once Hidden away. They are not over fond |of being stared at by people who so palp- .ably take the position that they are mere- .y looking at lot of people who are
 Very unfortunate. They don't care for