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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-08-20

What's the prediction for tomor-
row. weather man."
Fair and warmer"
1T may he warmer but it's not
fafr
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-03

81 wonder, Mrs. Waverly, if you can
understand just the state was in?
81 felt 1 would give my soul gladly
for the feel of Harvey's arm about me,
to realize that in all this world there
was at least one person that cared
whether lived or died.
81 called Harvey up on the tele-
phone and said: If you love me, come
and take me somewhere for the
whole day. 1 cannot stand it without
you another minute
Fortunately he managed to get
away, and we went out in the country
for long drive.
cit was then we thought we had
settled our affairs, but instead we
stirred them into an impossible mess.
Ito Be Continued.)
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-03

Garry your purse on your cane-if
you have a cane.
If your purse that is NOT on a cane
is a plump purse, go get thee a cane,
fair maid. The swagger little cane
with it's purse attachment is fashion
able, but not FREAKISH. Just a
smart touch to a smart wOman's cos
tune.
-O-O
The Empire State Express has been
running for nearly twenty-five years.
During that time it has carried almost
100000 passengers without one fat
al accident,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Self-Developnent

great development of the about the strength of positive advertisements to send small short while
 
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 opponents realize
  fling think surrender Except example of power philosophy He ondservan of Christi" al then I strong" This perfectly strength of glad surrender of self to some The The who have adorned this forgetters of self
 ruthless usually bloated shallow silly has and n0 "ol'Np'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
THE BALLAD OF SIR BoRs

By John Masefield. Would l could win some quiet and rest
 and a little case In the cool gray hush of the dusk, in
 the dim gray place of the trees. Where the birds are singing, singing
 singing and crying aloud The song of the red. red rose that
 blossoms beyond the seas. Would I could see it, the rose, when the light begins to fail And a lone white star in the west is
 glmmering on the mail,- The red, red passionate rose of the sacred
 blood of the Christ In the shining chalice of God-the cup
 of the Holy Grail The dusk comes whitening gray and the
 darkness aims the west; The oxen low to the byre, and all bells
 call to rest; But I ride over the moors for the dusk
 still bides and waits, That brims my soul with the glow of
 the rose that ends my quest My horse is spawned and ribbed and
 his bones come through his hide, My sword is rotten with rust but shake
 the reins and I ride; For the bright white birds of God that
 nest in the rose have called And never a township now is a town
 where I can bide. It will happen at last at dusk, as my
 horse limps down the fell-- A star will blow like note God strikes
 from a silver bell And the bright white birds of God will
 carry my soul to Christ And the sight of the rose. the rose, wil
 pay for these years of hell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
SMASHING CIVIL SERVICE ISSUE

From the New York World.
 The democratic party has created since March 4, 1913, 30,000 offices out side of the civil service law at an an- nual cost of $44,O0O,00O to the tax payers of the country.-Republica National Platform.
 It appears by the published state ments of the United States civil service commission that from June 30, 1912, to June 30, 1915, the number of employees in the executive civil service increased by S0,903-from 395,460 to 476,363 Here evidently is where the republi- cans extracted those 3O,O00 new offices outside of the classified service.
 But it now appears on the authority of the acting president of the commis- sion that on June 30, 1913, four months after MT. Wilson's inauguration, the commission flor the first time" includ- ed in the published lists s2.157 mail contractors and employees in small post offices.
 Making this deduction, there is shown to he not only no numerical in- crease in the executive civil service, but decrease of 1254 during the more than two years of the Wilson admins. tration, when population was increas- ing and the activities of the public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
"THANK YOUw

From the New York Telegram.
 Is 1t possible, as advanced by the presi- dent of the Discussion club of the Detroit Y. M. c. A., that women lack courtesy?
 Discussing the subject "Bridled Tongues a speaker advanced the idea that if some women would unbridle their tongues enough to say Thank you" and add a pleasant smile more men would be ready to exchange their seats in street cars for strap, but as long as men know they won't even get "Thank you'' for the petty sacrifice they won't make 1t.
 That's no argument. There are faults on both sides. Think of the sensitive woman who, when about to sink into a seat with a grateful Thank you," is greeted with a brutal Huh! I'm getting off here"
 Because some women are advanced Is no reason why men should recede in decency. Men haven't. It's the things who sprawl their legs all over a street car while carrying half smoked cigars in their fingers; who see the Stars and Stripes borne by without salute and Toll in their seats when the national anthem is played.
 And we permit 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
DIXIE SHOWS HER DIMPLEs.

From the Louisville Herald.
 The sunny south is smiling and getting prosperous, thank you, according to the latest figures from that section of these United States.
 According to Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway, Dixie's wealth is increasing nine times IS fast as her popu- laton-and Harrison has figures to prove it.
 In the last 10 years, he has been telling the Virginia bankers convention, with an increase in population of but 1413 per cent, the sections assessed valuation has increased S1.25 per cent, and its total wealth 1923 per cent
 Do you wonder Miss Dixie smiles and shows her pretty dimples?
 In the same time the value of the souths agricultural products has in- creased 5654 per cent, livestock 51.S2 per cent minerals 42.s5 per cent. and manurac- lures, of which we are accustomed to think the south has none too much, 107 6( per cent
 And bank deposits have grown TIPS per cent
 New Orleans informs us, by the way this years cotton crop will bring S765,OC0 eco, nearly s17O, ,oooOC0 more than last year $ and in grade 1t ranks with the best dur ing the last five years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
A MUSEUM TRAGEDY
from the Pittsburg Dispatch.

That Gustav A. Link should have been familiar with the reptiles of the Carnegie Museum for years handling snakes famil- iarly loving them as pets, as others would love dogs and horses, ana yet should meet death from a bite of one of these pets, and that one of our great American rattlers, is a museum tragedy which is probably without a parallel
 MT. Link might have had the fangs of his venomouS snakes extracted, as is a practice among snake charmers.' he might have had at hand we'll known anti dotes for inoculation by the deadly bite of poisonous snakes; but he seems to have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
CLOSE CALCULATION.

Impatiently the huckster fingers. The bride Is counting on her fingers His profits large are bound to dwindle, He'll find she's one he cannot swindle.
 
 service had to respond to this increase. Furthermore. it appears that "the number of positions subject to com- petitive examination has increased greatly during the period"
 The facts do not merely send a sam pie line of republican statistics glim- mering. They deal a crushing blow to MT. Hughes two great issues of democratic footing of the civil service and of growth in executive inefficiency under Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20


 THE report that the Deutschland
 had reached it's destination safely, while not substantiated, caused no surprise and was readily believed. The hazards of the return were mini mixed after the vessel got safely
 throu h the Chances in the cruisers lying Deutschland's Favor in wait for her
 off the Virginia acapes. If she could escape from har- bor where every move she made was promptly reported to the enemy and where she seemd to be securely bot tied up," the latter part of the home ward voyage entailed but little risk. The allies had no means of know ing when the Deutschland would ar- rive in hostile waters. With the whole Atlantic ocean to hide in and wait for a favorable opportunity for running the blockade, the chances were vastly in favor of Captain Koenig and his crew.
 As a Sporting exploit" the trip of the Deutschland appeals to Americans, regardless of their former attitude to- ward the Germans, and public sym pathy was almost entirely with Cap tain Koenig in hoping he would "get through" safely.
 THE late "Tody' Hamilton was per Il haps the best known circus press agent in the world. As the only cir cuses worthy of the name are found in this country and MT. Hamilton be-
 a m famous 'Tody" Hamilton's here, he had no White Elephant peer among the
 older generation of publicity men who followed the for tunes of the tented shows.
 He was a unique character and his command of adjectives was astonish- ing. One of the amusing stories told of him has to do with the claim of rival circus agent that his show had a sacred white elephant" among it's Unparalleled aggregation of won ders, drawn from the four quarters of the earth"
 By using peroxide and ammonia on the hide of an ordinary elephant with no claim to being in the confidence of the gods, Hamilton produced an ami nal said to have been snow white, which he advertised as "an exact coun- terpart of Forepaugh's fraudulent elephant, but better job, by better artists"
 That occurred in the days when Barnum was living up to his theory that people like to be humbugged. Since then the circus has undergone a great ethical change. Nowadays the "greatest show on earth" lives up to it's Autographs with remarkable fidel- ity.
 \ LTHOUGH the summer is almost A gone only three of the candi- dates on national tickets have been notifed-Hughes, republican nominee for President; Hanly, prohibition nom- inee for President, and Landrith, pro
 hibition nomi- Notification Oratory nee for vice in Autumn Month president. Fair
 banks, MT. Hughes running mate, will be noti- fled on the 31st of August. President Wilson will be notified September ?, and Vice President Marshall in the week beginning September II, the ex- act date to be fixed within the next few days. The two democratic events will be of more than ordinary inter- est.
 United States Senator Ollie James of Kentucky is to head the committee that will visit MT. Wilson at his tenn porary home in New Jersey, and ex- Gov. Martin H. Glynn of New York, whose keynote speech electrified the St. Louis convention, will notify MT. Marshall in Indianapolis. Senator James is an effective orator, but he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

had such confidence in the loyalty of the serpents he had cherished as to have taken no precaution whatever.
 The heroic feature of the tragedy is that after he had been bitten, and could feel the venom coursing through his veins, MT. Link continued his demon stra1ion to class of the University of Pittsburg. It was an exhibition of su- preme nerve, no matter if 1t were some what recklessly overdone. That there was no effective serum or antitoxin with in reach Is rather astonishing. but that was the lamentable fact, fatal to the vic- tim of one of the most extraordinary of all unusual mishaps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THAT ELEMENT
 WHICH IS DESTRUCTIVE TO BIRMINGHAM

1 he in charge of the Tennessee company.
 Exactly that which has been pursued by MT. Crawford, and that which he says he intends to pursue" he promptly re- piled.
 In the course of the conversation 1t de- veloped that the Tennessee company was buying Bessemer steel billets from the Pittsburg district for delivery to the Fairfield wire mill, under it's contract, be- cause it could now sell open hearth steel at a price so much higher that it paid the company to do so Conditions were extraordinary at the present time. open he arth steel for some purposes command ing prices which several years ago would have been considered fabulous.
 * *
 Needless to say the four of us left Cor don Crawford with the ideas which had been conveyed to us shattered. We were likewise impressed with the clear-cut magnitude of his views and of his work, and, above all, that, if such could be, he was more interested in the deeply founded, practical growth of Birmingham than any of us.
 The trouble with a large element of Birmingham is the desire to lounge upon a comfortable couch and point with pride to Red mountain, expecting 1t to furnish food and clothing without effort on the part of the lounger
 in the population of Birmingham within the past two years. There is no use in any of us indulging in bombastic denials of this. There is no use in trying to prove by different sorts of figures that this cannot be- These correllary figures simply lie.
 Instead of denying facts. it is our busi- ness to get to work as intelligent beings and build up population-build it up hon. estly and without resorting to untruths.
 But to build up population we must be honest with ourselves, fair to our neigh bors and just to those who come among us.
 At present we have too many of the gra sping, grating business kind among us-too many who seek first to make corpses of their business rivals and climb to success upon the cadavers of their neghbors. They seek more to destroy an associate than to develop an asset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
Chess and Checkers

The club has been even more suc- cessful than we had anticipated" said r. R. Pomeroy, secretary of the Bir- | mingham Chess and Checkers club, 1220- 22 Jefferson County Bank building, yes tel cay. We now have an enrolment of about 60 enthusiastic devotees of these pastimes and new members are being added from time to time. The clubrooms are we'll filled each afternoon and even ing, and plans are now being considered for an enlargement of our quarters.
 The tournament committee is to meet within the next few days to make ar engagements for the fall tournament, which will be the third since the or ganization of the club. Some of the new members have expressed themselves as determined to make the former winners fight little harder for the honors next time, and present indications point to hotly contested tilts for the champion ship.
 Tentative plans have also been made for Jose R. Capablanca the Pan-Amer- lcan chess champion, to come to Bir- mihgham on his next southern trip and is is expected that his visit will be an event long to be remembered in local chess circles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
NEVER so NIFTY.

'I long to roam amid bucolic scenes, ' remarked the sentimentalist.
 Not l." said the confirmed patron of girl shows. Believe me, friend, the milk maids you meet in the country are not to be compared to the kind you see in musical comedy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
QUICK CHANGE.

Hears and laughter are never far re- moved in this world" remarked the phil osopher.
 'That's true Women in a moving pie ture theatre have hardly ceased bluooer- ing over a narrowing death scene before a fat comedian appears on the screen and proceeds to tumble down a flight of stairs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

, have read letters written by supposed Birmingham business men marked per- sonal and confidential, written for the pure purpose of destroying a business rival and thereby getting the business themselves. These ghouls of Birmingham should be either converted to honest methods or driven out. We need, more than anything else a business esprit de corps here.
 Business men who will resort to the subterranean methods of billingsgate and blackmail in letters marked personal and confidential would be likely to steal a neighbor's watch or his wife, This ele- ment should be taken in hand by the preachers. If the preachers fail, then they should be turned over to the mob. They have no place in a town which together, business spirit as much as Bir- mlngham.
 The expression of watch or a wife I used above reminds me of remark heard in the old Southern club some nine- teen years ago when I first located in Birmingham.
 I was looking on at fifty cents limit ] game of poker. Suddenly winner fin- gered his stack of blue chips, looked at his watch and remarked, Gee. I'm late. My wife has been expecting me half hour. I'm sorry to cash in, but must go.''
 In a few minutes another winner went through practically the same perform ance, looking at his watch and referring to his wife.
 Shortly thereafter third winner re- marked and performed in like manner. Laying his cards upon the table and lazily leaning back in his chair, gazing upon a decimated stack of chips Judge Charlie Forgetful remarked: Not having either a watch or a wife has cost me lot of money.' k * k The mere gamblers and spectators and tale-bearers and corrupt practicers are costing the good, constructive people of Birmingham a lot of money. Many of these fellows are taken into our clubs and our homes as social associates and treated as honest men. The quicker we taboo this class and publicly frown upon them and condemn them with public sentiment the better will be Birmingham. 
 70
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
LOVES WEAPONS.

The latest news from Mexico, These days Is rather tame; And yet, little while ago
 Our bosoms were aflame With patriotic fervor which
 We cared not to restrain And jingoes, keyed to highest pitcn' Cried War!" with might and maln. AIS quiet on the border now
 And no one is afraid That Villa bold will keep his VOW And make another raid. No longer trapped, the trooper dies Upon the dusty plain; By senoritas' charming eyes
 Our soldier boys are ta'en.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
A HEALTHY SPECIMEN.

A HEALTHY SPECIMEN. month to live by the doctors.' Well, well! I must say he doesn't seem at all depressed by the thought ot dying"
 "Who say he was about to die?" You say he was given six months tc live by the doctors"
 Exactly. And according to my recol' lection, that was about 10 years ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
TRYING TIMES.

O, 'tis hard to write a sonnet
 On the blessings of content, When your wifey needs a bonnet And you cannot raise the rent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

BEGINNING THE DAY-Gutde Thou our quick decisions, our sud- den purposes, to Thy glory. Give grace and pOise and sweetness 10 our hard-pressed hearts. May the machinery of our lives, in the whiri of which at times we seem to lose Thee, be really driven to Thee. Keep Thou Thy hand upon us and may the issue of this day be Thy will.- Wilton Merle Smith. -H' M' He
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
BACK TO NATURE.

BACK TO NATURE. we've organized Back to Nature club in our town.''
 Are you really in earnest?" 'I should say so! We've fitted up the most luxurious club rooms you ever saw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
vwYT HAT is the matter with Bir- A/ mingham2
 The trouble is with the people

w minghamT
 The trouble is with the people.
 There is too large an element of the selfish and of those who would live on speculation rather than creation.
 There is an element of turmoil makers who persistently go about starting false rumors on those who are constructing.
 For instance, only this past week the rumor was wildly circulated that the Tennessee company was choking the life out of Birmingham by it's prices to local consumers on steel and that Chattanooga and New Orleans were buying from Pittsburg cheaper than Birmingham could buy at home. People who heard it rushed to the Chamber of Commerce and some of them came to my office About the city hall also heard threats Ol Illc LII NSHSCdISO thoS ShONAo SS wrecked upon this great company.
 To those who came to me replied that such talk must be the veriest rot, that the Tennessee company was operated by business men of intelligence and of the highest character.
 So l got together Morris Bush, pres ident of the Chamber of Commerce.; l. c. Beatty, president of the Birmingham Realty company, and Robert E. Ingalls,, president of the Ingalls, Ironworks, and we four called upon President George Gordon Crawford of the Tennessee com pany.
 I asked him what MT. Beatty. as pres- ident of the largest company holding fac tory sites in Birmingham, could say to prospective industries desiring to locate here and l referred to the rumOfS preVa- lent.
 MT. Crawford promptly showed figures for five years past where local prices were Pittsburg prices plus one-third of the freight rate from Pittsburg to Birmingham. In other words, steel rods, etc., were sold to Birming- ham customers at a price giving the purchaser the benefit of two-thirds of the Pittsburg freight rate and the Tennes- see company getting the benefit of one third of this rate. The average price of steel produced here had been about $e a ton less than the same could be bought from Pittsburg.
 I asked Mir Ingalls,, as the largest local
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIr1ES
LATTER DAY AFFLUENCE.
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LATTER DAY AFFLUENCE. '"The white man not only took the 1n- dian's land away from him, but de- bauched him with strong drink "Quite so, but here of late the white man has made amends to the red man." "In what way?'
 By giving him congenial employment in the movies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
LANDLORDS TROUBLES.

LANDLORDS TROUBLES. 'The proprietor of a summer hotel has with.'
 NO doubt"
 "A hotel proprietor of my acquaintance recently lost the hermit he has employed for years to live in a nearby cave as an attraction for tourists and is having the duce of time getting anybody to take the job."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Scene of Activity


 Notwithstanding the high temperature now prevailing the Birmingham Athletic club continues the scene of much activ- ity," remarked J. D. Beavin. secretary of the club.
 Many young men are, of course, at- tracted by the pool and showers, and in the afternoon the tennis grounds are thronged with players intent on outdoor recreation. The pool and billiard parlor with it's numerous tables also affords much pleasure to members at all hours of the day
 "In the evening and on Sundays the reading rooms and balconies are fully oc- cupied by members who thoroughly ap- preciate the social advantages of the in- | stitution.
 Perhaps one of the most encouraging and important facts in this connection is | that the membership and elected officers are in thorough accord when it comes l to matters vital to the club and its perma. nent development
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Industries Prosperous

"The prosperity of the middle west and east is marvellous" said Benjamin Gather of Baltimore, who is at the Morris. q have recently been In Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, New York and Bridgeport, and the many industries in these cities are begging for men, The wages paid are above any ever paid before.
 '"The automobile plants, munitions plants, steel mills and numerous other industries having large war contracts are working three shifts of men every "A hours. This unusual activity is not confined to munitions and automobiles alone. Many factories are making socks, shirts, shoes, uniforms and other nec- essities for the soldiers of Euroue. All of this typifies the progressive spirit of the United States and demonstrates to the world that we are the best equipped nation on earth when it comes to manufacturing and furnishing the worlds wants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

1 We cannot hold mOrtaHty's strong
 hand. king "onn'