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Gunnison news-champion., 1916-12-22
OHIO CITY
News-Champion Correspondence:

News-Champion Correspondence:
Tuesday, Dec 10
johnson & Company are putting up
ice.
Hugh Monson and Geo. Smith were
visitors in Pitkin Monday.
J. NJ. Flick is convalescing after be-
ing confined to his bed for two weeks.
Don't forget MRS. Tubbs of Shanty-
town, Saturday evening the 23rd.
H. NJ. Hudler has gone to do assess
ment work on marble property above
Pitkin.
W. B. Conklin is hauling ore from the
Woodruff property, on Gold Hill, to
Quartz Creek.
Raleigh Flick had the misfortune to
scald his face quite badly last week and
has to take life easy for few days.
Carrie Christensen has gone to Pitkin
where she will assist Mrs. Elmer Wiley
with her household work this winter.
C. A. Christensen and family have
gone to Brush, Colo. to make their
future home. Their many friends wish
them success.
Eber Dice moved Bob Bain's house
hold goods to the Gold Links mine this
week. Mr.. and Mrs. Balm will live at
the Links this winter, he being employ
ed in the mine.
Lew Ksrns and Bill Russell have tax
en- lease on George Karn's property
on Beaver Creek. Brown McLain NOV
ed them over Friday.
John McLain had the misfortune to
lose q valuable horse last week. Hodge
Watson also lost horse Sunday.
Gunnison news-champion., 1916-12-22

T. r. L. Dsughtry. a Pitkin mining
man wa. in town Thursday.
Gunnison news-champion., 1916-12-22

Steamboat Springs Pilot:-About the
first of October the Pilot remarked tha {
many people were getting unduly ex-
cited over the proposed beer amend
ment, claiming that it had but little
backing and predicting its defeat by
approximately . hundred thousand.
The majority against the measure -
announced by the state canv assing
board is IS, 7s9.
Carbondale Coyotes seem very
plentiful in this locality this winter and
are being captured quite frequently.
Dean Smith has trapped several, the
last one Saturday was . monster. He
is marketing the hides, and as they are
all in tip-top conditionhe is pulling down
top prices. Dan Mccarthy shot one IN
bis field Friday. and other people hsve
reported like oceurrances. The beases
are getting hungry and becoming very
bold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
Pay Your Poll Tax

Jefferson county's tax collector Will be busy today and tomorrow issuing poll tax receipts. Up to Saturday afternoon about 5000 voters had pald their poll tax, but this leaves some thing like 4OOO citizens in other re- spects qualified to vote who have not paid.
 There will probably be rush for the collectors office today. Tuesday is the last day and only those not eX- empt by age or otherwise will have the privilege of the ballot this year who can produce poll tax receipt.
 The frxmers of the state constitu- tion were wrong in making the poll tax cumulative, and whenever an- other constitutional convention is held, and maybe earlier by amend ment, that feature will be changed. In the meantime the electorate of Alabama is being reduced by reason of the fact that many a citizen IS several years in arrears and will never feel able or inclined to pay up. It is easy for everybody to pay $1.5O, but when one has lapsed for several years the amount seems large and, for the poor man, it is large.
 Every inhabitant of Jefferson coun- ty and the other counties who is reg istered and who is subject to poll tax should keep himself in voting trim by paying $1.50 every year.
 When the tax collector closes his books tomorrow evening it is hoped there will be comparatively few men who have failed to pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
STAMINA VS. MISFORTUNE

From the Cincinnati Times Star
 On an old fashioned rosewood bed in New York city lies woman of 67 who anniversary of her invalidism. For half century this frail body has been confined to a reclining position. The invalid has never stood up since the day she was injured. She was but IT years old when the blow befel her.
 While New York has been churning and seething and expanding around her. this woman has borne her burden with cheerful patience and a sweet good will She has never complained, but rather, has been an inspiration to others. She has kept abreast of the times by dili- gent reading. Accounts of her say that she possess a dry wit and an unctu- ous humor which repel all efforts of sentimentalists to weep over her lot.
 This woman has not lived in vain, nor has any one. in fact. who shames the chronic croakers, the howlers in misery over thes petty misfortunes of life. Fifty years in bed is a terrific price to pay for the mere privilege of living. That such an experience may be used to develop and dispense an aggressive cheerfulness is little short of marvel ous. It affords an eloquent object les- son to knee-heish complainers against thumb wide disappointments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. By the first week of April the road
 sides of England are gay with violets Other dainty spring blossoms snuggle cozily under the hedgerows, half con- fident and half shy, now knowing surely whether the green fields may not be deception. Before March Is gone the leafless woods are richly strewn with windf1owers. The cottage gardens are much alive in these early days of the spring. England blooms fairly month earlier than New England, and the
 English flowers are prettier. perhaps
 and surely more abundant than the posies of our American woods and way sides
 It was inevitable that Shakespeare, the all observing, should know and | love the flowers. Nature rhapsodizing was quite unknown in Shakespeare's S time; it is, in fact a recent develop
 ment of literature. But the loveliness ! of nature could not escape the notice | of the master mind. Was not "the I melancholy Jacques the natural and proper forerunner of the nature phil osopher of today? Shakespeare meant Jacques to be an odd fish; but he put into his mouth words of wisdom and true piety Shakespeare himself, we
 must believe, heard sermons in stones,
 read books in the running brooks, and
 saw good in everything.
 +Larofora +Lo+
 Cleveland should establish in memory
 of the bard Shakespeare garden" It
 will be an English garden, and it will
 have the homely herbs and simples as
 well as the merely pretty blossoms.
 There will be rue and rosemary and
 lavender and fennel. There will be cow slips and violets and eglantine and
 musk roses. And there will be the good
 English woodbine, so dear to every English heart.
 Perhaps. if the weather is fairly to give a fine disply on April 23 the day fo the Shakespeare tercentennial cele- bration It Is, for us, a rather fortunate day, for our spring flowers are then usually at their best. In England a much earlier date would be as good. Those who participate in the honors to be paid the memory of the immortal thinker and writer will undoubtedly find in the gentle memorial of the flowers a cause for new appreciation He whose genius held humanity as a page of dearest print saw also the worthiness and the loveliness of the lesser things, and included in the all
 most superhunan scope of his mem tality an understanding of the fairy | faces of the April hedgerows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
Music and Drama

One of the best evidences that Bir- mingham has recovered from the business depression that prevailed last year is seen in the large patronage which the theatres are enjoying this season. In both music and drama, it is an exceptionally brilliant season.
 Never in the history of Birming- ham have so many high class musical attractions been presented as in the amusement year of 1915-16. The long list includes artist recitals, symphony concerts and grand opera.
 The musical entertainments thus far have been largely attended, and the eager demand for seats for the coming attractions proves that the public taste for that which is highest and best has not been overestimated.
 The interest in music of artistic merit is increasing steadily through out the country and Birmingham is more than keeping pace in its musi- cal activities. This city is widely known as an industrial and commer- cial center and it has now gained a reputation as a cultural center. This is an encouraging sign indeed. Bir- mingham is naturally proud of it's progress in material development, but it has reason also to be proud of these humanizing tendencies that make for civic betterment and true happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
Getting the Real News

The Sunday Age-Herald has long been acknowledged as the only medium through which the people of Alabama get the real news. The livest topic in Alabama today is the contro- versy between President Denny and Professor Losey at the state universi- ty, which has resulted in a hurried call of the board of trustees for to- morrow morning Yesterdays Age Herald was the only paper in Bir- mingham which carried the complete correspondence between Dr. Denny and Professor Losey, showing the de- velopment of their differences.
 Yesterdays issue was unusually rich in special features. The Roto- gravure section continues the only en- terprise of it's kind in the south, and yesterdays section made strong ap- peal to patriotic Americans with it's portrayal of some of the great vessels of the American navy.
 The Sunday issue contained 620 ad- occupying 5000 inches of space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
The Minneapolis Orchestra

We begin our annual tour at St Joseph Mo-, February F, and will reach Birmingham February l6," writes Wen dell Leighton, manager of the Minneap- olis orchestra of S5 men. We appear ill Kansas City Sunday, February F; Mem pnis on Monday, and New Orleans on Tuesday. From Birmingham we go to Nashville and our itinerary will include Louisville, cities in Ohio, Massachusetts and New York. We will give a con- cert in Boston February 24, and in New York February 26. Our tour will end at Chicago March ,.
 We have great orchestra, as every one knows and Birmingham may well anticipate our coming with keen interest Birmingham is the only city in which we will give two performances-matine and night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
The Financial situation

Henry Clews, in his Saturday review of the New York stock market and business conditions generally, says in part:
 The financial situation as a whole is sound and prospects hopeful The last two months of liquidation have exerted a wholesome effect and will leave the mar ket in better condition for a rise, when conditions again justify an upward move ment Prices frequently decline in Jan uary owing to liquidation based upon the rise at the first of the year The success ful sale of $25,000,00O state bonds at 1O327 showed that there is plenty of capital seeking high grade investments and served to strengthen the general market as did the increase in St. Paul's dividend There are strong factions in the market and though the bears seem encouraged by recent success, new buying would probably be developed on any pronounced decline"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
The Zeppelin Raid on Paris

The Parisians had enough to eX- cite them Saturday night when a Zeppelin raid over their city resulted in the death of 24 people and the in- jury of 27.
 Time was when a Zeppelin attack on Paris, attended by many fatalities, would have struck terror into the en- tire population. But the French peo- pie have schooled themselves to face danger without consternation. They have never lacked in courage, and as for patriotism, in no country in the world is there finer manifestation of it than in France.
 The war has lasted a year and a half and the end is not in sight. There has been much desperate fighting, but no decisive battle has been recorded, and it will be yet sometime before either side can claim far reaching victory. But the Germans are prepared to carry on destructive campaign from the heavens and many an historic city with it's stately edi- fices and treasures of art may be laid in ruins before the winter is past. Paris and London certainly have much to fear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
From the Cincinnati Enquire

From the Cincinnati Enquirer. " HIS European war has been the
 stimulus to the development of
 aeroplanes to degree that even by experts would not have been deemed possible in the short space of IS months of time
 The Zeppelins and other classes of dirigible airships do not seem to have made nearly the advance that aero planes have, although several inventors are of the opinion that a combination of the aeroplane and the balloon will finally prove the safest and most relia- ble of all types.
 The news from Great Britain and Germany leaves no doubt but that each of these nations now possesses squad rons of swift aeroplanes which carry effective rapid firing cannon as well as machine guns, and they each have a number of battle ship aeroplanes car rying heavier guns and large numbers of bombs and other explosives as well as crews of from 10 to 25 men. Each one of the large belligerent powers has organized special corps of avia- tors, and companies of squadrons num- bering 40 to 50 machines are in daily service along the battle fronts in the east and the south as we'll as in the west.
 Thousands of these machines, from the lightest to the heaviest type, are being rapidly constructed. While France, Germany, Austria, Russia. Ser via have been frequently raided, and their border cities have suffered seri- ous damage, yet Great Britain and Italy, protected by the sea, have suf- fered as yet comparatively small dam age.
 The air conflict is just beginning. The aeroplanes have demonstrated their untility in this destructive war work, and before three more months of 1916 have elapsed they will carry death and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
The Foreign Trade Convention

That was great convention held in New Orleans under the auspices of the National Foreign Trade Council, of which MT. James A. Farrell is chairman" said J. J. Gilmore, southern sales agent of the American Steel and Wire company, who returned from the Crescent City yester- day. The second annual convention held In St. Louis was full of interest, but from all accounts the New Orleans meeting was a larger and more successful affair. Bir- minSham was well represented.
 These foreign trade conventions mean a great deal for the manufacturing inter- ests of the United States, and this last convention will, l have no doubt, mean a great deal for southern trade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
OF HAREMS

From the New York Times.
 Mr. Diaghileff does not seem pleased over having to modify the ddoes of the Russian ballet in accordance with the prejudices of the police. America is saved" he remarked after making the cuts pointed out to him by those critics; and he seemed wounded over having to change a scene in which there was some sort of orgy in harem, holding that harem was mot a pink tea.''
 He may know great deal about pink teas, but he is not an authority on har- ems. A harem scene is not like a pink tea, but it is much more like a pink tea than an orgy. harem is the living apartment or apartments of the ladies and children in a Mohammedan gentle mans household. The etiquette in these apartments differs from that of the apart ments of the ladies and children in the home of a gentleman residing in Peoria or South Birmingham, Mass. Still, in point of decorum and dullness there is. it is probable not much to choose The western conception of a harem might be regarded by a Turkish gentleman as un- complimentary and undeserved. MT. Diaghilef's rebellious observations might strike his ears much as his own might strike ours if he should remark, in simi- lar circumstances that life in a Boston boarding house was not a religious ob- servance. and should revolt at having to modify an allegorical representation of life in such a place conceived in a hec- tic style Let us not cast aspersions on Turkey until we know that she really did sink the Persia; let us be neutral toward her in spirit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
AEROPLANE DEVEL ELOPMENT
From the Providence Journal.

disaster to many of the principal cities| in the belligerent countries
 Enormous as has been the loss off life during the years 1914 and 1915 thisI present year will be beyond them all inI the magnitude of destruction of prop-| erty and in the numbers of the soldiersI and civilians of the countries at war who will be killed and wounded.
 There will be few nights of repose| in any of the towns and cities of the| warning nations after the first of nextI April, for the deadly machines by the| thousands will be striving every hour from the falling of the night to the| dawning of the morning to kill and del stroy their opponents. With the new| machines the raids upon Great Britain| and upon Italy will make them the the-| aters of spectacular work of war, anal both countries will see within their| boundries scenes similar to those which, Belgium, Northern France. Servia, Galicia and Poland have witnessed as to| the horrors of this terrible strife.
 The latest type of the armored bat tie ship aeropIanes of Great Britain| and of Germany are able to make more| than 100 miles an hour; have rapid-| firing cannon, with range of five miles ;I carry tons of explosives, and can rel main hours in the air without descend-I ing.
 They are flying forts, and no cityI or town but will be at their mercyI unless defended by equally efficient flying machines.
 When this war closes and the cal pabilities of these machines are rec- ognized by those who study progress| in peaceful ways there will be a rev. olution in transportation of mails freights and persons in many parts of the world.
 It took the automobile fully 10 years| to convince the masses of the people, of its adaptability to general use, butl this war has convinced the world of the utility of the aeroplane in a small| fraction of that time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
Generous Philadelphia

With celluloid buttons, tiny flags and persuasive smiles 2500 pretty girls of Philadelphia raised S45,000 in one day for the relief of Jewish war sufferers. The highest and the lowest contributed gladly to these attractive solicitors, who stood on every street corner and held boxes to receive con tributions. The young women began work at ' o'clock in the morning and few stopped until midnight. They visited theatres and motion picture houses and everywhere they went pen nies, nickels, dimes and dollars de- scended upon them in steady stream.
 It was even rumored that one young woman, particularly well qualified to dispose of the more delectable sort of kisses, sold six for the neat sum of $50, but the story was not substan- tiated. At any arte, the object was eminently worthy, and if such sale really took place, the prudes could have little to say. In front of the Produce exchange $1700 was paid for an ordinary box of oranges, single orange being auctioned off for $75.
 In all parts of the country the re- sponses made to the appeal for relief of Jews starving and dying in the war zones were on a generous scale. Something like a million dollars was reported raised in New York alone and perhaps several millions more were contributed in other cities.
 Birmingham should have raised al least $1O,OO0 for this cause in very short while. Some generous donations were made at the mass meeting helc here, but contributions were rather slow in coming in.
 The Jews were among the first tt suffer from the war and they natural lv looked to the United States for re lief. Whatever ill feelings may have been created in Europe by the policy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
sCorTs FIFTETH BIRTHDAY

From the New York Globe.
 Antonio Scotti, who has sung on the stage for 25 years and at the Metropoli- ian opera house for over half of that time. celebrated his fiftieth birthday yes- terday-a celebration which will be con- tinued today when his comrade, Enrico Caruso, will give dinner for him at which ravoli. spaghetti, and zabaglione will be the principal plates
 The career of Sgnor Scotti has been unioue His devotion to the highest de- mands of his art has beer unswerving, and the result is that today, when his voice is no longer at it's freshest, he still stands in the first row of artists at the opera. His Scarpia, recognized as an incomparable piece of acting when 'Tos- ca" was first performed here, is still a feature of the performances of Puccini' $ opera, and his Tonic, Iago, Marcello, and Sharpless are still to be seen and heard.
 Music lovers, especially those who like to see opera finely acted. will join in the hope that Signor scotti may be seen and heard at the Metropolitan for many more years sAx
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
First Trip to the South

This is my first trip south and I am most favorably impressed with this sec- ton," said Archibald W. Peters at the Tutwiler. 'I represent large New York mercantile house, and I find business conditions in the south far better than had expected. I have been very suc- oessful in Birmingham. Prosperity seems to be the rule here.
 T used to think of the south as a back ward section, but I see that it is any think but that. Birmingham is a very attractive city, indeed. Its business dis trict is handsomely built up and it's resi- dence district is surprisingly beautiful It has fine hotel accommodations, and as for the Tutwiler, it is one of the most elegant hotels in this country.
 T shall look forward with great pleas ure to a return visit to Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
THE GLORY THAT IS GREECE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 persons are indulging in almost lachrymal emotions in regard to the possible knock ing to smithereens of Athens, as war seems to be enveloping the Islands of the Blest' begging that the grim gods of centimeter cannon, rapid-firers and poison gases will spare the Parthenon. the Acropolis, the numerous ancient tenn ples, shrines and art treasures.
 As for Athens almost all that it pos for the immortal days of poetry and phi losophy and oratory, have long been in ruins. At any rate they were no more precious in their pristine periods than were the great cathedrals and shrines of Belgium, now riddled with the modern projectile in comparison with which the enginery which left in ruins the Parthe- non and it's fellows was puny boys bowgun.
 The glory that was Greece is not in her ruins, no matter how fascinating their place in prose and song, but in her liter ature and art sculpture. The glorious ut- terances of Homer, Aristophanes, Aris- totle, Hesiod Plato, Demosthenes. Eschy- Jus and a host of others, will never fall to the guns of an enemy, and the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and sung" will remain intact in books and marbles ages after the poisonous gas bomb has become as obsolete as the weapons of the Paleozoc period.
 As for the works of art the best of them were long ago eXhumed from the oblivion of earth and debris by people more in love with the artificial effigies of beauty than Greeks have been since the days of Homer and Achilles: and for hundreds of years, for the most part, have been in the museums of other parts ot Europe. It is a far cry from Pericles to Constantine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-31
Dr. Lupton Returns From New orleans

Dr. Frank A. Lupton and Mrs Lupton returned yesterday from New Orleans where they had been for a week.
 T felt the need of little rest and my wife and I greatly enjoyed our visit to the Crescent City," said pr. Lupton. New Orleans was crowded with visitors, and had it not been for a friend who came to our assistance in securing quar- ters, we would have had great difficulty Tn finding a comfortable lodging place.
 New Orleans seems to be more pros- have been filled to capacity all winter.
 T visited the Charity hospital-the largest in the southland was much in- terested in the work there. It is a great institution"