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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
HARPER'S WEEKLY

of reconstruction, the Blaine campaign in which the Weekly bolted the re- publican nomination., the anti-Tam- many fight, which made the fame of the Weekly's great cartoonist, Tn. Mast, and the campaign for civil ser- vice reform, of which Curtis made the Weekly the champion and standard bearer.
 The decline of the Weekly after this period is attributed to number of causes. The bolt from Blaine brought serious defection in the ranks of it's readers and a large financial loss. It had enjoyed very large circulation among veterans of the union army and. they very generally resented what they deemed it's assertion of the republican party, which was then pre- -eminently the party of the soldier. The death of Curtis removed another prop of the Weekly's popularity. arb by this time, too, it was no longer unrivaled in it's field. Competitors had sprung up and were bidding for popular favor with new and novel forms of entertainment. Political and literary thought had shifted and was ready for new leader ship. In general reorganization of the Harper firm that followed, George Harvey became its president and made a strong effort to restore the Weekly to it's former place of leading It never. however, was again a financial suc- cess. nor was the subsequent effort of Norman Hapgood to rehabilitate it more noteworthy
 But the name of Harpers Weekly. if 1t shall disappear in the merger with the Independent, will not soon be for gotten. Bound copies of it, half a cen tury old stand on many book shelves and will remain d monument to a high standard of American weekly journal- ism achieved by pioneering enterprise and maintained dvring long and use- rul career
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
A Case of Extravagance

1 Judge Henry A. Sharpe, candidate flor the tenth division of the Tentl Judicial circuit, without opposition
 is out of pocket cents in the matter
 of campaign expenses-the amount lpaid for two 2-cent postage stamps
 One of those stamps was used ir
 mailing the announcement of his can-
 didacy to state democratic headquar-
 ters at Montgomery and the other in
 mailing his announcement to Probate
 Judge J. P. Stiles.
 | The law is mandatory which pro- vides for the filing of announcements of all candidates with the judge of probate and of all candidates for the judiciary with the chairman of the state committee of the party under whose auspices the primary is to be held. But as both Judge Stiles and Judge Sharpe have their benches ir l the courthouse the latter could easily have saved cents by calling at the probate office and delivering the re- quired form in person; and without much trouble or loss of time he might have found some friend bound for Montgomery and got him to carry his notice in his pocket and delivered it to the proper person. However, there would have been an element of risk.
 Some men are forgetful and there fore not dependable. A friend en- trusted with an official paper might have become busy with his own af- fairs and forgot to call on the party chairman.
 The use of the mail for forwarding official statements may seem more business-like, to say nothing of dig nifty, but acting on this hint for money-saving Judge Sharpe, when he comes to offer next time, may con- clude that on principle he should save even in coppers.
 Judge w. E. Fort and other candi- dates who are unopposed have re- ported their campaign expenses as nothing" They must have entered the field without invoking the aid of the postman; either that or they con- strued the law about filing campaign expense accounts so as to exclude from the category, that which was mandatory.
 Looking over the published list of the persons running for office in this county, with the amounts they have expended in trying to "land," it seems that many have practiced strict econ omy, while few of those in the scram- ble have been lavish, as one recalls lavishness in days gone by.
 More of the campaign money has been paid for printers ink, postage and street car and taxi fare, and all of these items count up fast if friend candidate is bent on winning. May they all get their moneys worth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

From the Chicago Tribune. HERE is what various citizens of Chicago think of the Bacon-Shake- A A speare controversy. All were asked: Who write Shakespeare?" by re- porters for the Tribune.
 Sergeant William G. White, retired: "l have read most of Shakespeare's works and few of Bacon's books. and though am not a college professor, I believe any person with fair education can see that Bacon never wrote the works cred tied to the bard of Avon.'
 Capt. Thomas Meagher. commander Shakespeare avenue police station: Who ever wrote the books in question, and no matter what the decision may be, I hope they won't change the name of our fair station to Bacon. We have one of the finest buildings in the department and 1t is fit monument to the great poet"
 Harry Newman, newsboy, Madison and Dearborn: q never read no books by them guys but I hope they never settle the argument. It sells lots of papers,"
 Miss Louise Hyman of 2142 Division street, shopgirl: What play? I never thought about who wrote Shakespeare or Bacon"
 Miss Lillie Kelly of 6509 Evans ave nue, shopgirl: q suppose Shakespeare wrote his own plays. Anyhow, I don t want my Romeo and Juliet to be a Bacon instead of Shakespeare
 Mrs. Henry Howell, 933 Sheridan road, clerk, flower seed department: T have been so busy with my flower seeds I haven't paid much attention to the pre- sumptions of Bacon. But think Shake speare wrote his works all right"
 Mrs. Josephine Hunt, shopgirl: Why, Shakespeare, of course! Don't you think so?"
 Miss Mildred Kulbersh, 1752 West Polk street, waitress:~ Bacon wrote those plays. Just because Shakespeare was rich he got the credit. He was popular, that was all, while Bacon had the brains."
 Miss Fannie Koplan, 914 Sibley street, shopgirl: My, Shakespeare was more cap speare was greater man. Sure. he wrote 'em"
 Miss Anna Maiklov 1517 South Trum- bull avenue, shopgirl: 1T never heard about the men, Shakespeare or Bacon. What do care? don't think about such things
 Miss Elizabeth Yaviits 2035 Iowa street, shopgirl: Shakespeare wrote them.''
 Miss Rosa Goldstein, 2541 Douglas boule- yard. shopgirl: 'I studied Shakespeare play once in school. The teachers said he wrote it. and they should have known. Shakespeare for me'
 Mrs. Kathryn orcutt sO2o Lake Park avenue, mems underwear department: 'I am working for the store. and I don't bother my head about outside things But Shakespeare has the primeval claim on me. I'll stand by him..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
Reducing Cost of Living

One thing that irnpresses me favor ably toward the municipal light plant bond issue" said Marc Linx, ''is the fact that if the present plant is enlarged it will give the city so much better chance to make satisfactory trade with the other companies which supply electricity. If you want to make a good trade with a man it is always well to be in an in dependent frame of mind. If the city has its own plant it will be in much better position to talk business than if it had to take whatever is offered.
 'I cannot help feeling that an en- larged city plant will do much to reduce our electric bills, and this is only one of the things that Birmingham must look to. It is but one item. it is true, in the cost of living, but we have got to find some way to get the general cost of liv- ing down in Birmingham. There are other things that need attention, of course just as badly as this. and they are the things we must work out among ourselves. It does us no good to be known as the most expensive city in the south in which to live.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
THE GROWS, WOOD
(In front of Verdun.)

In front of Verdun)
 C. k. B., in the London Daily Mail Among the trees the dead men lay: The men in blue, the men in grey The trees that waved their branches high Beneath windy winters sky Ere those last cruel days were sped Lay shattered by the shattered dead There Ter the sodden melting snows The tide of battle ebbs and flows. And France yet yields her dearest blood 10 stem that eager savage food Which foams against her front in vain And breaks in awful heaps of siain Here in the wood of my delight
 The last of winters snow lies white On budding boughs the thrushes sing Their old true song of coming spring. Yet many gallant man lies low Who died that these things might be SO God rest the souls that found release To keep our English shiies in peace. God guide us that our opening eyes See naught but that great sacrifice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
7fom the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times
 "HE passing of Harper's. Weekly,
 which has been acquired by the
 A Independent, closes the long ca reer of a publicantion which was a pioneer in the field of weekly journal ism in America Starting in 1857, it's publisers found in the civil war the opportunity which their enterprise turned into an immdiate and lasting success. Pictorial art was then new in American journalism and the Week. and ambitious venture into that un- tried field, The Harpers boasted that every army officer who could make a sketch was on the Weekly's staff, and as a result they were able to spread spirited pictures of battlefields before their readers with a wealth that as- tonished and delighted the fresides of the north.
 Nor was this the only exhibition which the Harpers gave of their jour- nalistic acumen. They made the Weekly the medium through which American readers were able to join the circle of the leading English novelists Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Charles Reade were among the serial contributors to the Weekly, and certainly their appearance in its pages was as high mark of pub fishing enterprise in those days as any |evidenced by the heralding of literary celebrities by popular periodicals in these.
 Harper's Weekly attained it's highest lpcpularity and success under the edi- |torship of George William Curtis, a |pefiod extending from 1863 to 1892. This period covered the stirring events
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE?'

i, Miss Julia Waters, 1928 Lunt avenue, shopgirl: Shakespeare is good enough for me!''
 | Miss Katherine Lynch 455 West Forty 1 fifth street, "one who doesn't work: Who says Bacon wrote Shakespeare
 after 300 years? Good-night!
 Miss Elsie Neander, S212 West Sixty
 third place, shopgirl: T read plays but ! I don't look to see who writes them. Shakespeare or Bacon is all the same to l me''
 1 Miss S. H. Donelson, 5542 University Iavenue, shopgirl: Shakespeare has writ
 ten all the plays I have read of his
 know. What's all this fuss about, any, how?'
 ] Miss Mary Mcdonald, 2500 Flournoy street, shongirl T read Macbeth once. But was never interested much in such
 deep stuff Shakespeare is the author, I
 suppose. Why not?'
 I Miss Gertrude Young, 5o6 West Forty third street. shopgirl: T really cannot 1 say who wrote those things. It is the 1 first time I ever heard about the plays, and I don't know"
 Miss Rhoda Brown 3Sss Indiana avenue, shopgirl: T never read much about it. I can't say what I think'' | Miss Marie Kominos, 24 East Twenty 1 first street, shopgirl: T don't know about Shakespeare or Bacon. have nothing to say.''
 Paddy Durkin, copy clerk in sheriffs office; ''The plays, sonnets etcetera, were | written by the Bad Man from Egyptr' 1 Thomas D. Toomey private secretary l to County Clerk Sweitzer: ''The world cannot as yet know my opinion. The world must wait until September, when my fve-volume treatise on the subject will be issued. For II years have been Ecompiling the work. am now reading the proofs on it.. The theory presented in the treatise is entirely new and in stantly will be accepted" Miss Grace Gallagher, stenographer for County Clerk Sweitzer: q haven't any opinion on the subject and I don't want you to put my name in the paper Don't my name in the paper, I'll sue your' Walter F. Marggraf, private secretary to County Treasurer StucSart Not for publication I think the plays were writ ten by Queen Elizabeth. History records that she had a masculine mind and was, therefore, capable. Also she was the one person in England who had enough power to make Shakespeare keep his mouth shut forever because if he didn't-off with his head! Well, I don't know who wrote
 em I never was much interested in that stuff does it interest you?' Thomas J. Moore CTommy Mowatt, for mer claimant featherweight champion ship. who boxed Abe Attell and Young Corbett to draws) T think the plays
 were written in collaboration by Tom Sharkey and Tom Moore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
HOTEL LOBBIES
Tuning up orchestra

Perhaps the most tiresome, and from the point of view of the laymen in the audience, the most unnecessary process, IS the tuning up of 8 symphony or- chestra before concert Strains of tun- ing and impromptu scales and arpeggios emanating from many instruments at once float from behind the stage, ac- companied in the audience by the rust ling of programmes and other visible signs of impatience" remarked Philip Memon
 Only the musician realizes how neees- sary preparation this is. The tuning of a symphony orchestra, of course, re- quires standard, and although the means of procuring the correct pitch varies, the Philharmonic society of New York, which is scheduled to appear here in May, has found it most expedient to use standard tuning fork Formerly the A pitch was given by the oboe an instrument similar to the clarinet, but a little shorter and played through a double reed instead of clarinet mouth piece. But the oboe is more or less in- fluenced by the weather, although it varies less than other instruments.
 "All the instruments of the Philhar- monic orchestra take their pitch from a fork which is tuned to what is known as the standard international A-435 pitch that is, the above middle C. which vibrates 435 times per second. This is lower than the former concert pitch, which sacrificed everything to brilliancy. 'A-435' has been found best, on the whole, for singers and players alike"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
SOUL OF COUNTRY NEWSPAPER

SOUL OF COUNTRY NEWSPAPER | William Allen White in Harper's Maga- 1 zine for May.
 Our papers, our little country papers, seem drab and miserably provincial to strangers; yet we who read them read in their lines the sweet, intimate story of life. And all these touches of nature | make us wondrous kind. It is the coun- try newspaper, bringing together daily the threads of the towns life, weaving them into something rich and strange
 and setting the pattern as it weaves di- recting the loom, and giving the cloth its color by mixing the lives of all the peo- pie in it's color pot-it is this country newspaper that reveals us to ourselves, that keeps our country hearts quick and our country minds open and our country faith strong.
 When the girl at the glove-counter mar
 ries the boy in the wholesale house, the
 news of their wedding is good for a forty-line wedding notice, and the forty lines in the country paper give them self respect When in due course we know
 that their baby is a 12-pounder named
 Grover or Theodore or Woodrow, we have
 that neighborly feeling that breeds the
 real democracy When we read of death
 in that home we can mourn with them
 that mourn. When we see them moving
 upward in the world, into a firm, and out
 toward the country club neighborhood,
 we rejoice with them that rejoice. There
 fore, men and brethren, when you are
 riding through this vale of tears upon
 the California Limited, and by chance pick up the little country newspaper with
 its meagre telegraph service of 5000 or 4OOO
 words-or at best 15,000 or 10000; when you
 see it's array of countryside items its
 ntermnable local stories; it's tiresome
 editorials on the waterworks, the schools,
 the street railroad, the crops, and the city printing, don't throw down the con-
 temptible little rag with the verdict that there is nothing in it. But know this. and know it well: if you could take the
 clay from your eyes and read the little
 paper as it is written, you would find all of Gods beautiful, sQrowng, struggling, aspiring world in it, and what you saw would make you touch the little paper with reverent hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
"Lure of Sunken Treasure"

Lure or CuHkeu lIedSufc
 Many men have dreamed of draw
 up from the deep the fabulous
 asure deposited there when ships
 ,e sunk. This vast store of riches
 been accumulating from year to
 IF at an increditable rate ever since
 days of the Phoenician traders.
 though attempts have been made
 m time to time by adventurers to
 some of this wealth that lies un- kr the sea, most of them have met fith failure, except when they op- tated in shallow water. Needless to hy, no treasure ship that could be eathed was permitted to rest undis- ks.bed for any length of time, but gre are still incalculable riches ly-
 at greater depths which even baf-
 the diver equipped with air hose Id rubber suit. Deeper than 250 feet ydiver can accomplish little, and even x that depth a few minutes work is terrific strain.
 However, a salvage company has ,een incorporated in New Jersey Ghich hopes, by the aid of new div lg equipment, a sheet-iron suit of .mor, to operate at depths in the Ocean which no one has been able to reach before. The company controls the patent on this iron diving suit, and if the dreams of it's promoters come true, will be able to work what is a virgin field
 The company's divers will, it is nid, descend 600 feet, about twice as eep as other salvage companies have ben able to go. The possibilities for
 bmarine adventure and treasure ove thus opened up are tremendous, Ina it is small wonder that the men interested in this company see ship Ioads of gold already in their grasp. Among the vessels they hope to re- cover are the Merida, sunk in 800 feet of water, sixty-fiye miles east of Cape May F, 1911, with cargo pf, $500,000 in silver bars, $300,000 Y gold and about $200,00o worth of
 uablcs in the purser's safe; the
 rs s:k off Beachy Head, in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
THE WAY OF BROADWAY

From the New York Sun.
 In one of the night restaurants I have been seeing young girl each night-of one of the best of New Yorks families. I understand. At her side is an ex-tango "artist' who doubtless was the original of that excellent term, social gangster.'' asked the manager if he knew who she was, and as l pointed sher out she handed slipped is a better word--a bill to her swarthy friend. The manager telephoned somewhere. A few minutes later an el- derly man came and took the girl away The swarthy one went to another table and was merrsaes It is the way of Broad way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
NUN FIFTY-FIvE YEARS
From the Baltimore Sun.

FfOfn the BaItlfflUFe pun.
 members of the Visitation Order of Sis
 ters died few days ago at Mount de Sales academy from the infirmities oi age. She was 90 years old and had been i'll about a week.
 Sister Ann was born in Ireland and en' tered the convent at Mount de Sales academy 55 years ago. She was formerly Miss Ann Tracey and during her services of more than half century at the insti- tuition was known as an out sister. Five years ago Sister Ann was to have cele- orated her golden jubilee as nun, but at that time was in poor health. As far as is known she has no relatives in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
Escorts for Sponsors

-sWe are not having much trouble to find escorts for our official young women during the reunion" said Thomas Dozier. commandant of Camp Henry D. Clayton, s. c. ", yesterday. ''The younger set in Birmingham are coming to our aid right along.
 "The advantage of attending the grand ball we will give on the night of May 16 is a drawing card for mem bership to our camp. Realizing that is the best way to attend, many young men who otherwise would not have joined have been made members
 While the inducement of the ball is attractive, the greatest inducement, in my opinion, is the privilege of meeting and becoming acquainted with the hosts of beautiful young women who will attend the reunion as sponsors and maids of honor."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
Ereight Rates

The freight rate situation is a mat ter with which Birmingham merchants and manufacturers will have to deal if we expect to hold any of the smaller manufacturing concerns that are coming in,'' said John w. O'Neill yesterday
 T was in Chattanooga recently and bought lot of stoves to be shipped into Birmingham. The freight rate from Chattanooga was IS cents a hundred pounds, wohile it costs me g cents a hundred to ship the same products out of Birmingham. This is serious propo- sition, and ought to be adjusted in some equitable manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
PUNCTuRING AN ALIBI
inc shaffield Times /

TOfn tHG o1eHIeIu iITfIes. Editor of Sheffield Times: An item ap peaFed in your paper last week stating that Henry Hotchkiss was called to Chi cago on account of the serious illness of granddaughter. l wish that statement corrected please. for he went on one ol his periodical sprces.
 MRS. HENRY HOTCIIKlSS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
shouId Vote for Four

T was talking to a very intelligent man from the Ensley section today said Ross c. Smith, and he thought that he could vote for but one man for delegate-at-large to the national conven- ton. I think the confusion in his mind was caused by some of the specimen bal lots which are being distributed which fail to point out that four are to be voted for for this place.
 ''It seems to me it would be well for the newspapers to call attention to the fact that each voter should cast his ballot for four men for delegate-at-large because if the voter marks but one name his ballot will not be counted. The new election law does not permit single-shot- ting so that man would simply be throwing his vote away if he fails to mark the full number of names entitled to go to St. Louis as delegates''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

that a training camp will be opened in one of the western states. Within a few years the system will take and will become a very appreciable factor in this country's preparedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
Roosevelt Will Be Nominated

"1 believe that Roosevelt will be the nominee of the republican party at it's June convention in Chicago said c. P. Wofford, an eastern travelling man who was in Birmingham yesterday. T attend ed the last republican convention and wit messed Teddy S breaking away from the party, and I believe that this tine he will return to the fold. Either that, or the fold will go to him. At any rate, it looks very much as though he will be the nominee.
 T believe President Wilson will be elected if he keeps the United States out of war. If we are plunged into war with any nation, however, believe the people will demand Roosevelt, and will elect him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

Of course, nobody planes Mme. Gsds- Xxi because her husband happens to be a German conspirator. Her name is usually mentioned with his for the purpose of identifying him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

The fact that the general in charge of the British campaign in Mesopofamia has Percy for a first name probably has noth- ing whatever to do with the success of inc Turks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

The Mexican peons didn't seem to know how many aeroplanes the American army had in Mexico, but they probably know about how many troops are there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

The West Indies report large in- crease in their rum business, due to the war. The Demon Rum is comparatively safe from the Womans Christian Tenn perance Union in the West Indies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

Judge Tuthill says the mountain labored and brought forth mouse. He must remember that a great many people take the authorship of shakespeare's plays seriously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

"Who is this Obregon?" asks a con- temporary. Watch him. He may be the strongest man in Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05

Nothing much is heard from Papa Joffre these days, but the fact that Paris has not been captured yet shows that he is still on the job.