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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
sALvINps ACTING

Eron, "A Super With Salvini,'' by Alger-
 non Tassin, in the Christmas, Decem-
 ber Scribner.
 So abandoned was he at times that 1t was difficult to believe that the force vas at all governable. Though there would have been time just before the fifth act to run over my important scene with him, it was not done.s In this act Desdemonas bed was placed in what but the alcove was not boxed in and could stand right up against the bed. Before the act began Miss Brooklyn who played Desdemona with sweetness and appealing grace. implored Salvini 10 be gentle Now, MT. Salvn," She begged, do be careful, won't your lie playfully promised. When, after she was asleep, he drew the curtains of the pea aside and gazed down upon her stood within five feet of him. The scene that ensued was, at such close range, very poignant. I did not wonder that she had implored him to be gentle. As he was choking her with the pillows she kept gasping in broken whispers or real terror between her heard outcries and moans, "Oh, MT. Salvini! Please, please, MT. Salvinl!" Sickened and fascinated I watched him; and I did not make con nection with the real world again until Emilia-that vigorous and intelligent ac- tress, Mrs. Bowers-made her round-off scene at the back of the stage calling, Murder! Murder.'' Then I rushed head long to Iago, for I knew that must shortly go on.
 Of what happened that first night l have no clear picture. I was dazed by the sudden transition from the darkness where I had stood and seen Desdemona strangled few feet away to the torches of the stage and world which in com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
IS EATING A LOST ART.

From the New York World.
 A New-York caterer who has gone into bankruptcy attributes his troubles to a lack of social patronage. Society no longer eats and drinks on the lavish scale of decade ago, when entertaining was in it's golden prime at Newport. In fact, there is no, more society" What masquerades as such has lost its refine ment, and what is worse. from a cater er's point of view. It's appetite.
 Alas for the good old days!s Are the s10,0OO dinners no more, and the simian feasts which called for the caterers highest skill? If society has lost the art of dining it is obviously in a bad way It may bear with complaisance the charge that it is not refined and that it prefers cabaret shows to dancing parties but to indict it for gastronomic detriora- ton strikes at vital part. A society that affects the simple life when the cost of living is at it's maximum has clearly forfeited it's chief claim to social distinc- ton.
 Happily, there are indications that the conditions of which this caterer com plains are transient and largely limited to his own establishment. With all the war profits that are itching to be spent, with all the swollen prosperity that is hankering after the flesh pots of New York, caterers have little to fear Even if the golden age of society dining has passed, the steel age. the age of muni- tions millions is here, to feed and feast. The war brides are eager to dance, and what difference if Newport no longer pays the piper?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
HOTEL LOBBIES
Peace and Prosperity

Peace and prosperity, the democratic campaign slogan, just about tells the story of conditions in and around Gads- den,' said Judge L. L. Herzburg, pro- bate judge of Etowah county, who was here yesterday. "In addition to the large steel plant and other very big industries, Gadsden> has many smaller diversified plants which tend to keep business going at lively clip all the year round. For this season, our people have not felt the depression which has been so keen in many of the agricultural districts of the state which are forced to depend en- tirely upon their farm products.
 'The south has not shared fully in the unusual prosperity of the past two years which has been so marked in the north, east and west. However, I am of the opinion that when the war Is over, we will come into our own. Many of the mill lions of dollars of money made in the other parts of the country will be forced to come to the south to make proper in vestments. Then we will not be ham pered for money with which to improve and develop our resources"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
A PREMIUM ON TOADS

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Even the lowly toad is coming into his own. His services are greatly needed at our navy, where the cattle are dying off because of a malady for which snails are responsible. There are no toads in the Pacific islands, even as there are none in Madagascar or Newfoundland Consider ing the fact that he is a creature utterly harmless, who does nothing but good, the abuse that has been heaped upon this humble denizen of the garden plot or the roadside ditch is inexplicable. Every ma- ture toad is the survivor of host of tad poles Birds, fishes, saakes, turtles, newts at one stage or another in the life history of the Bufonidae are their inex- orabe enemies. When they are full grown they have not much to fear but snakes Even then, they are the victims of a silly superstition as to the harmful ness of the acrid fluid exuded from the corrugations of the skin which makes them distasteful to their enemies. If all the toads betook themselves to the isles of the sea we should become at once aware of their beneficent activity and invite them to return. Yet the poor things seem unable to live down the bad name Shakespeare gave them, which he merely passed on from what he found in the books. Their beauty is not to be appraised from their bow-legs and their pronged feet their cubstic stripes and blotches and their squatty ugliness; when it comes to performance they are in- credibly more lovely than many crea- ture that looms large in the worlds eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Boxing Good Sport

T read with interest the account on the sporting page of The Age Herald a list of the football casualties for this year, said Mike Kelly, who has pugilistic as- pirations and has been a follower of the game for years. "The thing that struck me most forcibly was that the great American sport, football. caused fewer deaths this year than ever before. The number was six.
 .'In the past six years only two men have been killed in the prize ring. The last one was Arthur Pelky, the heavy weight who fought Jess Willard. The unusual amount of prejudice against the boxing game should subside. There is no sport quite as exciting and interesting as boxing. The present statute against box ing in this state was framed many years ago to prevent the Sullivan Kilrain bout from being fought here. Two athletes, in perfect physical trim, battling in a ring is the best of all sports. The Birming- ham public would generously patronize bouts if they could be held"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
PROsPICE

By Robert Browning, Fear death?-to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, < When the snows begin, and the blasts
 denote am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the
 storm,
 The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a vis-
 ible form, Yet the strong man must go; For the journey is done and the sum-
 init attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battles to fight ere the guer-
 don be gained. The reward of it all. was ever fighter. so-one fight more, The best and the last! would hate- that death bandaged my
 eyes, and forbore,y And bade me creep past No! let me taste the whole of it, fare
 like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in minute pay glad
 lifes arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to ', the brave. The black minutes at end, And the clements rage, the fiehd-voices
 that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first peace
 out of pain, Then a light. then thy breast, o thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
PAUL COOK.
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

Any man who has to wear, slow-cut shoes in cold weather wonders how a3 woman can wear a skirt and invisible stockings and keep her legs warm.
 Our idea of smart woman is one who has sense enough to realize that she didn't marry the best man on earth and sense enough to make the best of what She got.
 If the dear girls only knew that the natural result of a mans working in the open with his shirt unbuttoned in front and his chest exposed is a thick growth of hair on the chest, maybe they might be induced to avoid those low-cut waists Most men would rather have pull with the police than have clear con science.
 Why is it that man never begins to realize how fond he is of blondes until he marries a brunette? You don't have to risk getting bat in the shoot by telling a big-mouthed guy that he is there with the bull Use a little Judgment and merely inform him that he was born under the sign of Tau rus.
 Sir Oliver Lodge announces that he has talked with the dead. But he doesn't in- form us what T. R. had to say to him.
 You can fool single man. But a married man knows that the perfect S6 on the street isn't likely to look that way in her nightgown.
 Every now and then we get the idea that Sampson's well-known weapon that. he used on the Philistines must have been taken from an ancestor of one of these holier-t -than-thou reformers. The reason why father likes to tell ls about how he had to walk the floor all night every night with the baby when they were raising it is because he once had to get up and walk it for two min utes, but did so much cussing that mother relieved him of the job.
 The high cost of living wasn't such a much in the old days when a man was satisfied to eat meal with one knife and no fork and licked the gravy off the knife before using it to eat his pie.
 They claim that a horse hasn't as much Nsense as a man. Huh! At that a horse is smart enough to know when women is driving him..
 Anyway, corn fed girl has the satis- faction of knowing that even if she does slip on the ice and fall, her bones are not going to cut hole through her skirt when she lands. r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
FoRGoTrEN GREArrAMERIoAN

Julian Street, in Golfers Weekly.
 Everyone who has heard of Robert Full ton certainly everyone who has heard of s. r. B. Morse or Cyrus w. F1eio' ought also to have heard of Mattne" Fontaine Maury. But that is not the case For my part. I had never heard of Maury until went to Virginia. l have asked schoolboys if they have heard of him. None of them has. Yet Maurys s scientific researches and accomplish ments have had an enormous enect. not only in this country. but throughout the world.
 If may be said that Maury laid the foundation for our modern weather bu- reau. and that the science of meteorology began with him. He founded the na- tional nautical. observatory and the n.y. topographic office in Washington, and dis covered. among other things. the cause or the gulf stream, and the existence of that plateau in the north Atlantic ocean which, ifsI am not mistaken, made possible the laying of the first Atlantic cable. Cyrus W. Field said, with refer ence to this: "Maury furnished the brains, England the money. and did the work" Further than this, the charts of the north Atlantic which Maury made years ago are today the basis upon which that ocean is navigated by all nations
 am informed that though he was decorated by many foreign governments he was never given so much as a cheap little medal by that of the United States and that his name has not been kept alive bv any memorial or other token of his country's gratitude
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE PROSPERITY
 WAVE AND ITS PROMISES FOR BIRMINGHAM

R1HE most interesting study of a
 week in New York to me was
 of the faces of men I had seen and talked with early in October.
 These men had then told me of the volumes of money being subscribed to carry the pivotal states for Hughes. The money made good in the pivotal states of New York. Indiana and Illi- nois; but the republican pirates of the east and middle states footed the gol- den ship before it sailed into the far west on its mission of bribery and cor ruption and the real people of the country won the election.
 The men of Wall street yet wear sickly expression when receiving southern democrat. But they are agile and mentally athletic. Instead of be- moaning the fate of the country and it's business, they quickly recognized there was nothing to fear in the Will son policies and jumped into the stock marlret to win hack the money given to the Hughes campaign fund.
 They have done it, too
 Business and values have never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

"rations" for their own comfort, to say nothing of economy.
 These health sermonettes are couched in such plain language that everybody can understand them. The one which appeared in The Age-Her- aid few days ago, in decrying glut- tony as a national vice, was full of common sense philosophy. If people will only act on the advice of the gov ernment's health service there would be far less hue and cry about the high cost of food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Docket. Being Cleared

Assistant Solicitor James Davis stated yesterday that excellent progress is being made in clearing up the criminal docket. and that by the first of the year matters will be in excellent shape.
 T do not know just what the new consolidated court bill will do for the present judicial system of Jefferson county said MT. Davis, but it's in stallaton will not find the dockets of the criminal courts all clogged up, as much progress has been made in the past few months to get rid of all old cases and hundreds of the new ones. In fact the criminal dockets are so we'll cleared at the present time that trials on all classes of crime can be given as soon as wanted-and sometimes too soon for the defendants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
News Merchants

'I have never enjoyed anything quite so much as being host to about l5O happy newsboys," said White Gibson, the we'll known lawyer, who gave big barbecue to the newsfes yesterday. "The entire crowd of kids left the city early yesterday morning and walked out to my place.
 'They seemed to have a good time. and everyone of them who came up seemed to thoroughly enjoy the spread. I am very fond of these little merchants. The majority of them have someone to sup port and quite number save their money. Some of the greatest financiers we have in this country started life as newsboys I daresay some famous men will develop from the bunch out to my house yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Shock to RepubIicans

"The democrats have always had trouble securing enough money to prop erly finance the national campaign as. unlike the republicans, practically all the contributions are small" said Ralph Quinn, assistant United States district attorney. However if the republicans continue to bet as much as they did in the recent election, and give as great odds the democrats ought to make enough money to enable them to make larger contributions to the campaign funds.
 "One of the features of the election which was most gratifying and which was really a surprise to most people in the state was the increase in the vote for the democratic nominee for Congress in the Ninth district and the decrease in the democratic vote for the same office. With the repub- Iicans making such an active campaign, and making such loud claims about their strength in this industrial dis trict, the result was not only surprising, but shock to them. The democrats of course never conduct 8 regular cam paign in this district, but the several rallies they held just before the cleo tion tended to refute the arguments which had been advanced by the repub- licans."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
BEWARE THE MOTOR APPETITE

From the Ioleuo blade
 You have heard of the motor car face" that grim mouthed, half terrified look which nervous drivers acquire, and of the "motof car air." the pitying atti- tude of those who ride toward those who walk. But have you heard of the motor car appetizer" We'll it's thing that's troubling physicians.
 This appetite is developed from rid ing in the sharp air. It has an artificial edge on it, since it is not born of exer- else. People gorge themselves when they ought rather to be putting on the brakes. They haven't earned the great meals they eat Digestion rebels The doctor IS visited. He knows the signs Eat lot suppose?'' he says. Ride in motor car?' Never walk if you can help .it?' Justification enough for intestinal civil war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

parison to the one I had just left was palpable acting. Docilely hurried after Iago and took my appointed place. But I should not have been in 1t when the time came had not terror rooted me rather than give me legs. For the feroc- ity with which Othello ran at Iago and the rage that distorted his features were unexampled. It was one thing to have seen it directed elsewhere and another to find it plunging your way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Canal. Prospects Good

Tt now looks like the Valley creek canal is to be real thing at last" said President A. M.-Throckmorton of the Bir- mingham Real Estate exchange. With the strong committee in charge, I do not think 1t will be long before the matter begins to take shape. The committee is greatly encouraged over the assurance Congressman Huddleston gave them, and they will put forth every effort to get the canal built. We are especially fortunate in having as chairman of the committee J. A. VanHoose, who has been interested in the canal since it was first talked of 20 years ago. MT. VanHoose will, am sure, do everything that any man can do to get the canal built"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

trenches" by Christmas was ridiculed was because only idealists were in charge.
 On MT. Schiff's committee are no Madame Schwimmers, Ben Lindseys or Charles Akeds. This latest propa- ganda will find it's work slow, and nothing may ever come of it, but it will at least be taken seriously by the neutrals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
UPS AND DOWNS.

Did she really fall in love with an aviatorr'
 No She merely took him up for a lark.'
 "ohr'
 "Then he took her up."
 q see-in his machine
 "The man she had been going with for two years dropped her"
 Served her right!'
 "Her spirits fell. She stated the case to the aviator. Heewent right up in the air and she hasn't seen him since"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
THE SOLE BENEFICIARY.

THE SOLE BENEFICIARY. T see where a fellow got married to pay a freak election bet"
 What folly! Do you suppose there -s any chance for happiness in a marriage ot that sort?"
 q dare say the person who performed the ceremony was made happy to the extent of s5 of s1o."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-''o God. who art the truth, make me one with Thee in everlasting love. In Thee is all that I would have and can desire. Let all teachers hold their peace; let all creatures be silent in Thy sight; speak Thou alone unto me."-A kempis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
oDIoUs COMPARISON.

"I thought the modern styles in wom- en's clothes were ridiculous"
 "But you've changed your opinion
 .Yes I've just been looking over some photographs of fashion queens taken 50 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
PLACATING SANTA.

'Is your little son obedient?" "only about three weeks in the year." That's singular"
 "No. think it quite common. He usually begins to obey me implicitly early in December
 PAUL COOK. :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
THE CHRISTMAS OPPORTUNITY.

However, fair this world may be,
 You'll meet with men who're signing From grievous troubles to win free
 And who are always trying To lift themselves from depths of gloom To which they have descended; Whose earthly path no joys illume-
 Most sad and unbefriended. season now is close at hand,
 For such as these provided, When good cheer regns throughout the
 land
 And selfishness is chided. If all whom worldly wealth beguiles Would help less favored others, Despairing looks would yield to smiles And men indeed be brothers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Freiglhe Claims
 Paid Promptly

THERE was time when freight A claims against railroads in this section of the country were long de- ferred. In fact so much delay was experienced in settling claims that were supposed to be just and clearly presented that shippers lost their patience and finally became railroad knockers.
 But that time was many years ago. The days of fred tape" have passed. A reasonable claim against a well managed transportation line is now settled propmtly. Interstate Com missioner James s. Harlan stresses the fact that no cause for criticism of railways in this respect now exists. He says that when the claims of ship pers against railroads are we'll found ed they are paid promptly.
 During MT. Harlan's ten years service on the commission he had heard so many complaints about slow settlement of claims that he came to think this was one of the weak spots in railroad management, but after thorough investigation he found that the carriers in most cases were not to blame. At any rate whenever claim was reasonable the railroad company was ready to pay it.
 Such 8 confession was vouchsafed by MT. Harlan ia an address before the Freight Claims association re- recently. q wish," he said in summing up, 'tto congratulate the association on the showing made. The trouble with us was that we had made no distinc- tion between claims that had been de- clined or that were without merit and therefore still pending, and claims that were well founded and had been promptly adjusted"