davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
A CANNON O. BACON

enthusiastically Miss Harriet Monroe ano her admirable endowed magazine of min strels.
 Follow me into the pitt" How many Chicagoans have obeyed that perilous order, be the pit of wheat or what not? "Where's Bohemia? Speak. Here in your city:'' proofs inexpugnable. "The nature of our people, our city's institu tions:" it Is the very voice of John May nard Harlan. Shall I keep your hogs?" And we call Judge Tuthills attention es- pecially to this last clinchins nail: " Hang hog is Latin for Bacon.'' The Chicago mystifier jeered the mystified.
 Mine Armour!" 'Iike a rich Ar mour:' Does Judge Tuthill need any more evidence? "A Morris! "The Yards" 'The stocks carry him." whereas at present one has to carry stocks "'Tis hot, it smokes;" the Chi cago aether rendered in four words. A dismal clangor heard from far' that is the choral consonance of Cook county's immeasurable, innumerable noises. q do not without danger walk these streets Is every mans thought, be he resident or outlander, in the Windy City-''the wind is loud"-no matter who is chief of po- lice. Repair to Pompey's porch is hit at the inveterate porch climbers" Finally, q will, repeated again and again, is the motto selected for Chicago, if we are not mistaken, by our sometime esteemed contemporary, The Inter Ocean.
 Why multiply proofs? 'rne case is more than established irrefragably It may be added that the Chicago Shakespeare was familiar with Fabyan's Chronicles, and that Tut and 'Hill' are inserted, with evident design, in the same scene of the Third part of tHenry VI"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
A FORTUNE BY HIS PEN

Girard, in the Philadelphia Public Led
 ger.
 Richard Harding Davis earned enough with his pen to pay for luxurious living and $i0OO0 year besides.
 In 25 years of active work he saved s250,O0O. which is not equaled by many professional men of any class whatso- ever.
 doubt very much if there is a single ore of Pennsylvania's physicians less than 52- which was Davis age-who has spent so much and saved so much.
 I could name but a very few lawyers who have done it, although people pay more handsomely to save their property from peril and their bodies from jail than they GO to keep their breath or remain out of the grave.
 There is no teacher in Pennsylvania oi any age who has accumulated $25o.000 out of his or her profession. There is nc clergyman who has done it, either. al though pr. Russell H. Conwell has giver away four times that amount, which he made upon the lecture platform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
Harvey as a Prophet

Writing for the May number of the North American Review, Col. George Harvey, the man who is credited with having made" President Wilson, says, Nobody wants Hughes-nobody but the people," As to the "heroic' citizen of Oyster Bay, who is believed to have designs on the republican nomination, Colonel Harvey says: "Whoever says our colonel is a can didate is liar. He is no hill climber. He is Mahomet. If the mountain sees fit to come to him, it may bask in the glories of heaven; if not, it can go to he'll"
 These are strong words, but Colonel Harvey is a master of strong words and creates the impression of saying what he thinks, whether one agrees with him or not. He was at no pains to spare the feelings of the American people, regarding their unpopularity abroad and on numerous other occa- sions he has stated frankly just where he stands. Again referring to the jus tice, Colonel Harvey writes: "Nevei since the republic demanded that George Washington become its first President has there appeared SC striking an instance of the office call ing the man. Rightly or wrongly wisely or not, the will of the people will prevail, and Charles Evans Hughes will be the next republican
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
candidate for President of the United

candidate for President of the United States"
 According to a popular conception of the cortoonists, MT. Hughes IS a sphinx, and regardless of what he hears, maintains unbroken silence. This is explained by the fact that his judicial position prevents him from expressing his political views and per hitting it to be known whether or not he would accept the republican nomi- nation. No such restriction curbs Col onel Roosevelt, who continues to make more noise than all the favorite sons put together and despite the finallty of Colonel Harvey's prediction, may be willing to oblige the mountain by going to meet it half way, and seems just now the inevitable standard-bear- CT for the republicans in the next presidential campaign.
 It will be interesting to recall Col onel Harvey's prediction after the re- publican convention meets in Chicago. A wise prophet leave himself loop hole to crawl through when his pre- dictions are not verified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
MAKING THEM YOUNG AGAIN

MAKING THEM YOUNG AGAIN New York Correspondent Cincinnati Times-Star.
 My word!" exclaimed a man in the
 Claridge grill as lady passed that's s Fanny W-!'
 That's Fanny--redivivus," responded the interesting person with whom the man was chatting, "and what she went through to accomplish it you'd never be. neve. But the effects there, isn't it?' He conceded that it certainly was. | Looks like she'd just come in from roll ing a hoop,' he said. Positively, she looks 10 years younger than when l | first knew her. and that's 10 years ago." girl-who was the subject of these re- marks wore simple little frock which, | in a catalogue, would be attributed to | a miss of 16 Her blonde hair, in a braid, was doubled up and tied with a l boy Her face was youthful in the ex- treme and innocent of even suspicion of | a wrinkle. Her manner was almost child | ish-faultlessly so, because she was a | first class engenue when Charlie Hoyt
 was still writing musical comedies. "I'll tell you what she did," continued
 the interesting person. "She went through | four weeks of positive torture, took a chance on her life and remained in se- i clusion for nearly three months in order ] to make herself look like a kid. And | how much money it cost, heaven only knows-that is, outside of herself and the | doctor who did it. Oh, she's not the only l one I know of two other women who l have had it done, and the effect is the | same in their cases It's likely to be- | come a fad among those who can afford it and have the nerve to try it. This 1 doctor simply restretches the skin over 1 the face and takes all the wrinkles out | Then he gives some sort of supplemen- | tary treatment which freshens the com l plexion. And with it he has method ot ! reducing which gives that slim figure
 Of course, the operation is something
 dreadful. He cuts the skin loose along
 the edge of the hair, from the temples
 I to the back of the neck. Then he stretches
 it and sews up the wounds. Despite all
 the care and skill he exercises, there is
 naturally a scar all the way round. But
 it is easy for women who have had tn,
 operation to dress their hair so as tc
 hide the scar. And they look like kid.
 and they are happy despite all the pair
 and the danger of death from blood
 ! poisoning. It just shows what womer
 will do."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
City Hall-Auditorium

Let's have an auditorium propoSi- tion included in the fifth of June bond election.
 The Miner report to the Chamber of Commerce on the feasibility of con- verting the Roden steel frame of twelve stories into municipal edifice, combining auditorium, city hall and public library, having been unani- mously approved by the civic body at its general meeting Thursday night, is now before the city commission and early action is expected.
 Birmingham needs only one thing to make it the greatest convention city in the south, and that is an audi torium with seating capacity of 5000 or 10000. Until two years ago our hotel accommodations were made quate, but today Birmingham leads every city in the United States of ap- proximately it's size in the number of good hostelries, and few cities can compare with Birmingham in the magnificence of it's largest hotel But organizations of national extent which assemble thousands of people when holding their general conven- tions, never consider invitations from cities that are without big conven- tion hall.
 When Birmingham has an audi torium it can then go after such con- ventions or national gatherings as the triennial conclave of Knights Templar the annual convention of the Locomo- l tive Engineers, the annual meeting of | the National Educational association which brings together ten thousand people and sometimes more; the an nual convention of the Knights of Co. lumbus, which placed Birmingham 1T line at last years meeting for future consideration-tho and many others None of the organizations named as semble less than ten thousand people who would be entitled to seats in tht convention.
 1 If the Roden proposition does no appeal to the city commission then le some other plan be adopted. Bu whatever is done let's not dela. further.
 The commission should be able t make a thorough study of the plan now under advisement within the nex ten or twelve days. A bond issu proposition for the city hall-audi torium could then be added to tn $2, 100000 school bond issue and $500, 900 municipal electric light plant bon' issue, to be voted on in June.
 The school building proposition am the light proposition will be ratifie'
 by the voters and so, too, would b
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Home: Two thousand, four hundred and nineteen white illiterates rave been found in Tuscaloosa county, end this in the shadow of the state uni versity. Let's remove it." Selma Journal: Walker Percy is against war. He has changed since this editor used to look upon him while a member of the house of representatives at Montgomery. He didn't mied a war then.
 sylacauga Advance: When Georga's new prohibition laws go into effect It will be more difficult than ever before for Georgia colonels to entertain their friends.-Age-Herald
 But it will be less difficult for them to pay the preacher
 Clanton Press: In times of stress in the country at large, IS well as our local at- fairs, it is incumbent upon every right thinking citizen to keep his tongue and temper, curb his expenditures, place more faith in his individual capacity and look steadily to the future. The results of the future are based on true faith and cour- age.
 Guntersville Advertiser: The highest price ever paid for Alabama cattle was paid last week when A head of native steers sold for sS.50 per hundred pounds at the National stock yards. The sale was made by E. F. Allison of Bellamy, and the lot averaged S61 pounds. These cattle, of course, wore free of ticks. Cat tie infected with ticks or even from cuarantined section bring no such prices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
CIVILIZATION IN TURKEY

Brewer Eddy in World Outlook for May.
 One hundred years ago two men sat by their camp fro under the eastern stars by the neadwaters of the Euphrates Over the same spot the Russian tidal wave rolls today in the onslaught of con quest. These early travellers are clad in native costumes They look like Turkish nerchants. Their faces are Drowned with the juice of berry, while long. flowing robes hide their foreign birth. All their camping kit and baggage Is carried by a single pack animal. For months they have been journeying on foot and on horseback through the unknown valleys and plateaux of Asia Minor. for new world is spread before them. These are the scouts of civilization, the explorers who first pierced into the unknown life of the near east.
 For more than year their journey takes them through Armenia, Kurdestan and Persia, and the record of their jour- neyings, often written in secret by the light of their camp fire. relates the standard authority on the country, in- habitants and their home life for the heart of the Turkish empire.
 Smith and Dwight were the pioneer missionaries of tho great land that now appears in it's space of daily prominence cn the front pages of our newspapers. Glance down through the decades to note the result of their work. They are but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
Making Movies in Birmingham

Id Guetlin, representing the Gaumont Motion Picture company in their See America First" weekly programme. is in Birmingham for the purpose of taking moving pictures of all that is interesting in this city.
 While here, MT. Guetlin, who is being Commerce, will take pictures of the in dustrial plants, downtown streets, resi- dential portion of the city, clubs and the Bi-inlngham motor speedway, which is being built around the lake of the Bir- mingham Motor and Country club In speaking of his impressions of Birming- ham. MT. Guetlin said:
 q suppose I am like the average per- son who comes to Birmingham for the first time in that I thought this city was dirty smoky, grimy town. somewhat I have been agreeably surprised. Instead of this being the sort of city I presumed it was, it has proven to be one of the most interesting and attractive cities I have visited in the south. 'I find there are enough features here to nioke a complete weekly programme of Birmingham, and will accordingly be here until I can take all the scenes. l can readily see why Birmingham was chosen es the town in which the south s ! only speedway will be built. was out to | the grounds yesterday. and was impressed
 with the beautiful scenery and attractive lake"
 l The Birmingham picture. when com pleted, will be shown throughout the
 United States under the heading of See America First"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
Growth of Motor Power

"1he entire motor horse power in the United States in the last 20 years is greater than the combined horse power of the locomotive in the last 70 years" said Capt. John Craft of Mobile president of the AlaLama Good Roads association "The statistics show that the combined horse power of the steam engine in the last 75 years is only 4SOO0,000, while the combined horse power of the motor is 51 01.00o in 20 years.
 This great increase in motor power
 has been responsible for the building of the great highways, and macadamized roads, and the concrete bridges. The peo-
 pie are beginning to see the necessity of more good roads-roads with more Sub- stantial foundation to bear the heavy tonnage of the great motor trucks that must pass over them in the carrying on of commerce.
 Road building has become a great commerce in the last few years. Sub- scr,ptions for road building are no long, CT looked upon as a charitable deed, but as a progressive commercial investment. In my opinion it will only be few years until the country will be covered with good roads,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
peneficent Factor in Education

The Drama League of Amer1ca' wh;ch has been holding it's sixth an rnal convention in St. Louis this week. is we'll worthy of recognition Tn al cultural circles, and Is receiving It.
 Through local branches, called cen ters a wholesome propaganda IS car r;ed on seeking to revive an interest in the letitimate stage and glving support in a practical way to theat- rical managers who present plays that are clean and, from literary polnt of view, worth while.
 The line upon which the league proceeds comments itself to all friends of dramatic art. It does not undertake to censor plays. The work of reform, as usually understood, the league leaves to others. It discusses nlavs with a view of selecting the good and setting the seal of its ap- oroval on all such for the benefit of the public.
 Every league member feels it his or her duty to lend encouragement to authors and producers of high class plays by patronizing the theatre, Ii convenient, whenever such attractions are announced.
 The enthusiasm with which the Shakespeare tercentenary IS being eel ehrated in the United States IS due largely to the activities of the drama league. The plays of Shakespeare will never lose their interest among read ing people. The demand for new edi- lions has been greater within the last ten wears than in any other like neriod. But on the American stage Shakespeare has not been drawing of late as was the case in the time of Charlotte Cushman, Booth, Barrett and Mccullough.
 Fifty years ago the gallery crowded to see Shakespearan performance. The gallery gods shouted themselves hoarse over Macbeth and Richard III, and sat rapt whenever a virile actor played Hamlet. Whether those good old days" will ever return is ques- tion. Certain it is that today only a man like Forbes-Robertson can enact Hamlet and draw capacity house.
 If there is to be a popular revival of Shakespeare's plays on the boards, it will be through the well directed ef- forts of the Drama League of America.
 All honor and all success to the league. As beneficent factor in edu- cation, its work cannot be overesti- mated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29

AAf Iuthlll, the pays oL tho 5o
 w called Shakespeare were written in Chicago. The local allusions throng. "On the forefinger of an Alderman is palpable reference to the greatest states man of the First ward, the Hon. Hinky Dink. and his eye-offending "sparkler." "As true lover as ever sighed upon midnight pillow is a frank plagiarism from the Hon. Bath House Johns ia nous lyric, Dear Midnight of Love-
 To whom but the Hon. Carter Harrison and his brown Fedora" and presiden- tial longings could apply the line: And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn
 I would be consul, says he" Your straw-coIor beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-g grain beard' is an unmistakable reminiscence of Senator James Hamilton Lewis and his auroral streamers; and that amiable citizen IS distinctly sketched as 'the very pink of courtesy" "Your German may be either Representative Buchanan or Sen ator Sherman. 'It did me good to brave the Tribune points to a personal ac- ouaintance with the Hon. William Lori mer. Mayor, farewell!" might be the very answer of the Chicago voters to the
 Hon. William Hale Thompson at the municipal election the other day. So, too, almost all repent in their election.
 Old Chicagoans who recall the Chicago river in its most high and balmy days Git was usually or often on fire) can have no doubt as to 'I'll jump into the burn ing lake," There's pansies, that's for thoughts" takes us inevitably to MT. Fuller and the Chevalier of Vain Thoughts. "She taketh most delight in music, instruments. and poetry" means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
FEARLESSNESS

linen who are at the time wholly with out the feeling of fear. The action which is heroic-the opportunity for Individual acts of exceptional bravery l-obliterates the fear that is normal
 before going into battle. and which assails the imagination at the time of enlistment.
 That the gallant six hundred of the Light Brigade was composed of men who were strangers, under normal conditions, to the emotion of fear prob ably is not believed by any veteran whose service took him into battle. At any rate there are many men who wear decorations for gallantry and who are fearless enough morally to admit that physical fearlessness is no part of their
 soldierly qualifications.
 It Is a common thing to hear some- one who has had involutarily a dan gerous adventure express surprise that at the moment of nearness to death he was sustained by excitement. or di- verted by the necessity for action and experienced no feeling of fear. The more protracted period of excitement at Thermopylae or Gettysburg bore along many man who was not fear Hess and made him face fearlessly the imminent dangers of battle and en- dure unf1ichingly the wounds that | drained his vitality as he advanced to almost certain destruction. The Old Guard at Waterloo, however heroic, was made up of men, not demigods or devils, and if there are mon who do not know fear they constitute a class !too small to be of any conscQuence in
 war,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
Goop oLp CIRCUS BAND

Iii the May American Magazine is a story by Henry Wallace Phillips in which he says: You take circus band; they don't go piking along-one. two. three every man with his little note. right there like a gol-darned steam engine. No, sir! The circus band is there to make a joyful noise and it does it. If one feller happens to be trifle late or early with his contribution, nobody looks scornful at him. He's good feller, just the same, so long as his wind holds out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
Gratffied at Result

T am very much gratified with the result of the barbecue and dedication of the bridge at Lovick,'' said Blanton Riggins "The committees from the Jefferson County Good Roads associa- tion have worked so faithful on the project, and it is genuine pleasure to see the success of our work.
 'The plan for this barbecue was in- augurated by Major Elliott and myself but without the help of prominent good roads enthusiasts we would not have been able to reach the mark. The barbecue has pushed the work on the bridge and the roads leading to it-not only has the county pushed the work by the means of convict labor, but the citizens of Leeds. Lovick and Irondale have been very active in getting roads in shape in time for the occasion.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29

From the Louisville Courier-Journai.
 A YOUNG Scotchman told recruit
 A ing officers that he had no 4 > ties to keep him at home ana no conscientious scruples against par ticipating in war. but that he had an ungovernable fear of being killed. He was surprised when the officers did not regard his timidity as disquallfyins condition or a reasonable excuse and sent him to the colors. confident that he would be a good soldier.
 The absolutely fearless soldier must be a rare specimen if indeed he is not a mythical hero. Assuredly the world fighting is not done by men who do not know fear and it is the experi- ence of many brave soldiers that the oftener a man witnesses carnage the |leener becomes his fear that he will be one of the victims in the next engage ment. But if fearlessness is rare cour- age and determination are so common that a majority of men can face bat tie calmly, and the deadly fear of ridi- cule or disapprobation, the fear which makes some persons who gre not pas sionately cleanly take seven baths a week and makes others assert that they do. is a powerful factor in caus- ing timidity to assume a bold and war like front. It is probable that oncc into the thick of the fight the average man is too much occupied by his activities to dwell upon the danger to which he is exposed. and that the heroic charges which troubadours celebrate and which history commentaries are made by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
any reasonable proposition that would give Birmingham spacious and well appointed auditorium.

The government maintains a corps of efficient and well-fed cats, attached to the army and kept in the commissary de- pots of the large cities to kill rats and mice. Each cat draws an annual salary of $1S.25. The officer in charge of each depot submits request for an allowance to support as many cats as he thinks he needs. According to army regulations. he must not pay more than cents pound for the meat fed to them, although canned milk is added to their rations. No matter how numerous rodents may be, and regardless of cats prowess as hunter it has been found that the gov ernment cats cannot subsist entirely on their prey. Neither does providing other food cause them to get lazy and act like some other government employees. Bids for cats meat are posted at regular in tervals. The beef must be fresh and free from bones. Hundreds of cats are also distributed through about 50 of the larger postoffices Mora than $50 a year is spent by the New York postoffice for cats meat. A certain breed of cats which became inured to cold in the ware houses of a cold storage company have been found serviceable in the huge cold storage depot in Manila. They have heavy fur and have become so accus- toned to low temperature that 1t is said they do not thrive in an ordinary atmosphere.