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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-14

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trtsacs on either tho STAGE az arrrrn.
VIII be soon in the stellar pir of
"iovcls MARY. "A fNc part Metro won
dcplay which viii hc presented hru
Al ,hc Amusu Theatre to-day afternoon
and night. This dcnshtfm and gitici
young artistic is surrounded oN an ca
ccllcn, east n this his foaturc. beaded
hy Thomas Carrmon, hcr ncW irad-
,nr man Nr CarriRan FIRST appeared
with Miss Mlutcr on the Metro pro-
snm n "pmpios.'
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written q, Richard Harry, and b. rs-
nccnuly suited ca the talents of thc
.crucn's youneVst star The lvcal' ~
this interesting fcaturc a. lnld in th'
picturesque surfounding ~ Florida.
rhc sIors deals With prison conditions
as thoY wcrc in Florida a few N"ars
sgo. when state Prisoners VIEW en- b.
p'oycd BY prvete individuals.
The story concerns the howe ~ a
young southern glrl and a norihcrncf
who Is falsely accused and sentenced
to nfe Imprisonment she obtains his
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-14

People don't have TO purr aud
tondy "a get along with one am
other. They don u have TO link
arms and swear eternal friend
ship. When man acts tho part
Of a man without too much
grouchincss and gossip, has neigh
hor will respect him, even il he
doesn't care TO break bread with
him.
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-14
CIRCULATION eooKs
OPEN TO ApVERTt6CRS
Wednesday, juno H. 1910.

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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-14

Charles IS Molten. m mot $50
sure that transportation isu't at
the bottom ol an preparedness
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bottom
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-14

roiudcNtrr tolls Lowe to wage
his BATTLE before the proper COM
mtiee at So Louis. There ls like
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poindoNtor aud that committee. II
il is really Democratic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
HOTEL LOBBIES


The French government is anxious to
do some business with the Birmingham
district" said Simon Klotz, French con-
sui for Alabama. IT was in France the
day after war was declared. My mission
was one of peace and 1 expected to ad-
vertise the Birmingham district SO as to
stimulate trade between the two coun-
tries AS it was L let the French gov
eminent know that the largest steel. iron
and coal district in the world was right
here in Birmingham.
Despite the fact the war is raging
throughout Europe, the allies are anxious
to continue their commercial activities
and thereby hold their trade in this coun-
try. I have sent samples Of coal to
France from this district and have re-
ceived the most flattering replies. The
great trouble at present is that the
scarcity of ships makes it impossible for
the United States to carry on as much
dealing as In time of peace. Mr.. Everett
of the Chamber of Commerce, is coop
Grating with me in obtaining some data
on conditions here and the many diff.
ferent commodities Alabama has for
sale.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
MARK, 1TWAIEN'S PESSIMISM

ers OF the main characterization, bish-
ops, capitalists, scholars-whose tongues,
were in their cheeks as they wrote andl
worked.
The only reason why We ever think of
Mark Twain as a purveyor of cheerful
ness and fun is because he was equippedt
with an exceptional set of digestive or
gans and nervous system strung on
frame as stanch as that of a grand
piano. He was laughing cynic. The
fun Of running to earth absurdities and
fallacies and of seeing illusions dissoive-
in thin air was SO great that he pur-.
sued it with infectious mirth for decades
before the fact came homo to him that
all his laughs were laughs at the empti-
ness of the world and the gullibility OF
tho people who really believe that there
is wisdom in government and reason IN
society and reality behind faith. How
this discovery affected him his biogra-s
piers have told US.
We Missourians admire and love Mark
Twain. We revere his memory for his
devotion to truth. even when 1t appeared
to him dreary and profitless; we are
proud of his impatience with humbug; we
exult in his contact with the pretensionss
of aristocracy; we are conscious OF the
exceptional character Of his power or
philosophical analysis. But when we
want cheer as to the ultimate worth
Wilderness of things. we turn to some-
body else.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
THE PLIGHT OF KING ALCOHOL

From the New York Herald.
Indications are multiplying that King
Alcohol is to have hard winter. Here
is Mr.. William Jennings Bryan demand
ing that the democrats enlist to destroy
him, lest the party be buried in a drunk
ards grave. Mr.. Henry Ford, on the
other hand, would capture the monarch
alive, hitch him to automobiles, reapers
and threshng machines and make him
work for living.
The sage of Nebraska believes that the
King has been tried and found lacking in
all the attributes that might save him
from a modern thorny crown or golden
cross. The sage of Detroit believes that
the demon rum has many good qualities
hitherto unsupported and that he may
yet become respected member of So
ciety.
When two such doughty champions
from the near west and middle west dis
agree on such a vital question as what
to do with John Barleycorn 1t would be
presumptuous for the near east to offer
a solution. There remains, however, the
far, far west, which is adept at settling
fateful question this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

One reason why married couples do not
understand one another is because he
never praises her until he gets down
town where she can't hear him, and she
never praises him until after he gets out
of the house.
All the fools are not that way because
they drink liquor. More than half OF
them never tasted the stuff.
One thing is certain. If girl can regu-
late your color scheme for you before
she gets you, she Is going to select your
hats and ties and socks for you after she
gets you.
No man is ever so meek, so ignorant
or so poor that he can't give you a sure
cure for rheumatism.
# we had to be able to do a thing
better than the fellow whose work we
criticize, there wouldn't be much criti-
cism.
Some men give you the impression that
nature gave them all that was coming
to them between the feet and the collar
bone and then forgot to finish the job
Wouldn't it be nice to know that after
you die the world will say of you: He
always minded his own business?'
Women are more careful of their ages
than are men. If the regiments that
fought on our side during the Spanish
American war had been composed of
women, we wouldn't hear many war rem
inscenceS.
Don't waste your time in telling others
that you love your enemies. The few
people who won't know that you are a
liar will know that you are a molly
coddle.
A woman's reputation and her COM
plexion are what she makes them.
The old-fashioned girl who could make
good biscuits now has a daughter who
can make good fudge.
The trouble with a checkered career
is that it usually ends up in stripes.
No hum! If you loaf around, spend
your money and become poor, you are q
lazy old bum. If you work hard, save
your money and become rich, you are a
thieviAg old tightwad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
re him the actual horrors of the vOr-

fore him the actual horrors of the vor-
tex.
The British government put out these
pictures deliberately. To the public
David Lloyd-George said: IT am con-
WINGED that when you have seen this
wonderful picture every heart will beat
higher in sympathy with its cause and
purpose, which is no other than that
every one of us at home, and those
front are doing and suffering for us. and
how their achievement have been made
possible by the sacrifices at homer
In the same strain the editor of the
Sphere declares: TT is OF an. entertain
ment; 1t is really almost a religious
service" A chaplain Of the forces, back
from the front, said: at is the finest
thing of its kind the public could have"
while another authority declares that no
other argument could so effectively aid
the cause of the Red Cross.
On the other hand. Dean Hensley Hen
son. a London clergyman. expresses him
self as horror stricken because crowds
Of Londoners feel no scruples in feasting
their eyes on pictures which present the
passion and death of British soldiers"
The clergyman protests against an en-
tertainment (which wounds the heart and
violates the very sanctities of bereave-
ment."
1t is somewhat curious that soldiers,
the men who actually participate in those
tnrts Vubn orr nnciIA a
for their enactment, or who control some
government function which has to do
with their preparation, as a rule stoutly
defend the public display of pictures.
These men claim that Notwithstanding the
fact that the war has been brought home
to the British. the public is still less
aroused to its stern reality than 1t should
he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
0R II AsH1NeroN. Novem,

NIX II ASHINGTON, November 20.
WV To what extent the recent
air raids Of the Teutonic al
lies have modified the gayety of exist
ence in >the Paris of the East" as
Rumanians proudly call their capital
city, it is hard to imagine, but strik
ing picture of Bucharest before the
war is given by John Oliver LaGorce.
in a communication to the National
Geographic society, a part of which is
issued as the following bulletin in the
society's war geography series.
'"The near eastern metropolis of
Bucharest is about equal in size to
our own national capital, and yet it
has 20 times as many restaurants and
cafes, 10 times as many street lights,
and twice as many theatres 1t is re-
garded as the most expensive place in
the world for the well-to-do and the
cheapest for the poor. Prices at the
Hotel du Boulevard are higher than in
New York or London, anu travellers
who have visited Monte Carlos leading
hotels and then journeyed to Buchar-
est have found it's rates from Is to rs
per cent higher than those obtaining
in the hostelries of Monaco.
But If their prices are high, their
service and their food leave nothing
to be desired. The cuisine of the
leading hotels and private homes is
French, and money is no consideration
quality is paramount. Some of the
finest restaurants east of Paris are in
Bucharest and the night life, with its
passionate, pulsating gypsy music, its
sparkling wine, it's beautiful women,
it's scintillating Jewels, its handsome
men, is as gay and as alluring as any
thing the world has to offer.
"As to clothes, everybody who pre-
tends to dress at all dresses in the
mode of Paris, and the gowns Of the
elite are as up-to- the-minute as those
to be seen on the Champs Elysees.
Gambling flourishes openly. and
high stakes are the rule rather than
the exception. Many of the players
own farms as big as an American
county and their incomes are proper
tionate1y large.
s'The source of the wealth of Bu-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
ALL MOVED
RUMANIA'S CAPITAL

charest is the big country estates and
the cheap labor. The rich 'boyar' has
a whole army of retainers. who reA
ceive little more for their toll than
did the slave in our own country be-
fore the civic war--their victuals and
keep The result is an immense in
come which finds it's first expression
in a very fine residence in Bucharest,
and later in the maintenance OF an
uItra-expensive establishment. 1t is
said that the Rumanian government
has the finest home for its foreign
ministry to be found in all Europe. II
was built by one of these 'boyars,' or
landed proprietors, who had the mis-
fortune to die soon after his palatiaI
home was completed. The governments
thereupon acquired it,
Nobody but the proletariat thinks
of walking in that picturesque capital!
Nearly all the Cables own their own
teams of long-maned, flowing-tailed
Russian horses. They are Russian ex-
lies of the Skoptsy Sect who have
religious belief that no family should
have more than one male child and
who resort to religio-surgical cere-
mony to insure this condition.
"They wear great blue-black velvet
coats, the skirts of which reach to the
ground Their waists are bound about
with multihued sashes. the flowing
ends of which drop back over the seat, /
and one can guide his driver by pull
ing one end or the other of this sash
when language difficulties stand in the
way.
eff the presence of the landed aris-
tocracy in Bucharest reminds one OF
Buenos Aires, the driving customs I
bring to mind those of Mexico City.
Every evening all polite BucharestI
turns out in its smartest equipagesl
and drives up and down the beautiful \
parkway known as the 'Chaussee.'k
Along this superb drive the endless |
chain procession moves In double file. |
with the center of the boulevard rel
served for the royal turnouts. ThereI
is no physical line of demarcation be- /
tween the kings highway and the
other part of the boulevard, but cour-
tesy toward the royal family drawsv
and respects an imaginary one
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
GIRLS AND JUSTICE

From the Chicago Herald.
With the increasing political prominence
of woman comes recurrent mooting of
points in this Connection are suggested by
Madeleine 2 Doty's new sociological study,
"Society's Misfts''-special application be-
ing made anent 1.-THE Little Common
wealth., an English Junior Republic
of wide and successful note
The laws of this republic, made by its
juvenile citizens, are administered by
juvenile judges, chosen by their fellows,
who may be Of either sex. 1.-THE first
girl chosen" for judge, it is significant
to note objected. She said it was not
the place for a woman. But the COM
munity knew better and insisted" The
little girls success was instantaneous ana
ever since girls have been the most pop
ular judges despite-per perhaps because
Other tendency toward discipline of
unconventional and unexpected kind.
Girls think UP things to do to you
and boys only fine thus the Little Com
monwealth verdict indicating new uses
for the far-famed feminine ingenuity and
harmonic sense.
Another Little Commonwealth incident
may be cited as evidencing judicial value
for that feminine willingness to Change
the mind" too often employed as a polit-
ical argument against women.
One of the older girls was indicted for
swearing, her language. according to a
specially appointed committee of ex-
perts," being unfit for polite society The
A-year-old girl judge sentenced the &C
cused, a year her senior, to have her
mouth washed with soap and water. Cit
izen attendants at court protesting that
this punishment was undignified and,
besides would take four of us to do it, -
the judge, upon reflection, admitted the
good sense Of the pro.est and quietly
changed the sentence to one more in
keeping with the subjects standing and
age.
Conscientious desire to fit punishment
to deed, readiness to submit personal
pride to the interests Of efficient reform,
these are factors important as desirable
in judicial connection. In private life
women frequently display such virtues,
to which they have been trained by ages
of family attrition and practice, in high
order. May it not be that the exigencies
of public duty, of executive and admin
istrative Justice and discipline will find
them equally we'll equipped?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
sTANzAs FROM ~wAR-MUsICv

BY Henry Van Dyke, in the Christmas,
December, Scribner.
Break off! Dance no more!
Danger is at the door.
Music is in arms,
To signal wars alarms.
Hank, sudden trumpet calling
over the hill!
Why are you calling, trumpet, calling?
What is your will?
Men, men, men!
Men who are ready to fight
For their country's life. and the right
OF a liberty loving land to be
Free, free, free
Free from a tyrant's chain,
Free from dishonor's stain.
Free to guard and maintain
All that her fathers fought for,
All that her sons have wrought for,
Resolute, brave, and free!
Call again. trumpet, call again,
Call up the men!
Do you hear the storm of cheers
Mingled with the women's tears
And the tramp, tramp, tramp of march
ing feet?
Do you hear the throbbing drum
AS the hosts Of battle come
Keeping time, time, time to it's beat?
0 music, give a song
To make their spirit Strong
For the fury of the tempest they must
meet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
4 X 4
Grateful Furrier Feeds
Thousand Immigrants

Thousand IraEmigTaElts
1.-THE New York correspondent Of
u the Cincinnati Times-Star re-
lates "human interest" story which
is just the sort that has made this
country land of promise to the pow
erty-stricken hordes of Europe.
When Max Gootschneider landed in
New York twenty years ago, he had
young wife, baby daughter and $50.
He also had pluck and perseverance.
1t is easy to guess that Max is rich
man now and lives in a fine house, but
unlike many foreign born citizens who
come to this country and amass for
tune, he has not forgotten that other
immigrants may have the same bitter
struggle that he had during the first
few weeks he spent in the United
States.
In honor of the daughters engage
ment to young diamond merchant,
Mr.. Gootschneider, prosperous fur
rier, and his good wife decided they
would give a great dinner. The feast
was spread in the building occupied by
the Hebrew Immigrants Sheltering
society, on East Broadway. A thou
sand poor immigrants were fed as
they had never been fed before in all
their lives. There were no invitations,
but everybody was welcome. The
greatest abundance of good things
were provided and all day long about
a dozen chefs toiled to feed the throng,
young and old.
No wonder "Papa" and MAMA"
Gootschneider beamed, for they, and
Miss Gootschneider and her fiance,
were as happy as their guests. Such
people deserve all the success in life
that comes to them. This gargantuan
feast was one way of expressing graf
itude to land whose opportunities
enabled them to rise from poverty to
affluence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
From the st. Louis Republic.

From the st. Louis Republic.
81 REVIEWER of Mark Twain's
~ Mysterious Stranger, published
- - since his death, declares In the
current number of The New Republic
that '1t is possible to say several foolish
things upon discovering that the great
est American humorist wrote book OF
pessimism." This is an amazing COM
ment. Did Mark Twain ever write a
book Of anything else?
IT was no accident or inversion that
found Mark Twain. in his last days. dis
coursing to friends and relatives of the
damned human race" When old age
and the WEAKNESS Of the way took from
him the mere zest of accomplishment
the gay exultant humor with which he
went forward to meet the strange and
the diverting things in life and to an
alyze. for the pure pleasure of the dis
section, what other people took for
granted-Mark Twain had to fall back
ON his real opinion Of the world and its
inhabitants That was summed up in the
bitter phrase we have just quoted.
The good people in our authors world
are all stupid and all bores; a half con-
temptuous pity is the best sentiment
they evoke. To him all religion is pure
superstition-more or less projected; all
wisdom which has community sanction is
pretense; there are good people. how
ever; in them the pretense is uncon-
scious. Society, whether In the little
hamlet with mud lines on the walls of
the houses, beside the untamed Missis-
sippi, in the trim New England village
or in King Arthur's court, is founded
on just two things: Conscious humbug
and unconscious humbug. The most en-
gaging people in Mark Twain's books
are the sharpers and the outlaws: for
ourselves, the Duke Of Bridgewater and
the Lost Dauphin on the Mississippi raft,
planning ''drayma'' and "somethin'
ruther worse than low comedy" as they
approach the little village at the hSad
of the bend. evoke with Huck Finn him
self, an admiration denied to all the
debt-paying, face-washing characters.
There is plenty of pathos In Twain's
books; it is the pathos of unsophisticated
people trying to take seriously and sim
ply beliefs and institutions which have
been formulated and built up by follow
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
Plenty of Turkeys

No one need be without Thanksgiving
turkey, according to ]. J. Vorenberg
head of the produce firm bearing his
name, at 212s Morris avenue. When asked
about the supply he said:
why. man alive There are turkeys
enough awaiting execution and turkeys
that have already undergone that ordeal
to supply every family in Birmingham.
MY shipments for the past 10 days
have aggregated thousands of pounds of
the incest fowl that the great hotel for
whom they were dressed ever received
This libral condition also applies to tur-
keys for home consumption and Birming-
ham matrons need have little fear Of
scarcity of the 'gobbler' and his feminine
companion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23

Those who were thrilled at the intense
ly dramatic courtroom scene of Madam
X will find something reminiscent in the
climatic third act of Common Clay the
sensational American drama by Ceves
Kinkead which will appear at the JEFF
ferson on Thursday and Friday" re-
marked H. s. Sickle of Birmingham.
while on a recent trip to Gotham 1
visited the Republic theatre where Com
mon Clay had been running for almost
a solid year and was then drawing large
crowds. Possessing all the dramatic
force and vigor of the French master
pieces this scene contains nevertheless a
humanness and verify which were lack
ing in the former. The plot is a unique
one in an American theatre, ad has dis
tict artistic merit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-23
EDITOR UNMASKED

From the Pittsburg Post.
An essay on editors by schoolboy ap
pears in the Enterprise" Fallbrook.H
CAL:
Don't know how newspapers came tos
be in the world. don't think the GOOD
Lord does, for he amt got nothing tc8
say about an editor in the Bible. think
the editor Is one Of the missing links YOU
read of and stayed In the business until
after the flood and then came out anol
wrote the thing up and has been here
ever SINCE
If doctor makes a mistake he burtes}
1t, and people dassent say nothin'.
When the editor makes mistake there
is q big swearing and q big fuss, but N
a doctor makes mistake there 10 q
funeral, but flowers and perfect silence.
A doctor can use word yard Ions
without anybody knowing what It -
but If an editor uses one he has "a
spell It. L
II doctor goes to see another man
wife he charges for 1t. but II the editor
goes he gets q charge OF buckshot
Any old college can make . doctor, pu
an editor has to be born