The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-05

wing on the ticket with General ~
Ter, and become President on the
death of his chief, headed the "know
nothing ticket in 1856 and carried
Maryland. The original American
party became defunct year or two
afterward. A second party bearing the
same name was formed in 1872 in OPP
position to all secret societies. And
still another American party came
into existence in 1887. Not much was
heard of it, but William Sulzer, de-
posed governor of New York, now
heads a ticket bearing the name
American.
The prohibition party and the So
cialist party are called minor parties,
although the latter's popular vote in
1912 was 901, 1878.
These side-issue political 'move-
ments" come and go, just as some
large parties have flourished for a
time and have then disappeared. But
the democratic party outlasts them all,
because it's principles are true, No one
will ever live to see the day when a
democrat will not be found holding
tickets at the polls.
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MAYHEM Guy de Maupassant de-
Wv scribes French peasant life
in one of his short story masterpieces,
the stark realism of his art is almost
but the result is wonder
fully vivid picture which fingers IN
Tragedy That Might Have memory
Served De Maupassant ! G
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the events of lengthy novel have
been forgotten. His skill in visualiz-
ing sordid and grewsome phases OF
existence is extraordinary.
With what avidity De Maupassant
would have seized on an incident that
occurred at Frederick, Md, the other
day. Given a French setting, with
French peasants as the actors, he
could have woven it into a tense mar
rative of human degradation and sor-
row.
A mother and two daughters went
forth to seek an erring son, boy IA
years old. They were bringing him
home intoxicated. At the edge of a
canal the boy was permitted to lie
down. The mother and a friend of the
family went to gather sticks for build
ing fire, leaving the sisters with the
lad. In one of his drunken paroxysms
he rolled into the canal. Recalled by
the screams of the girls, the mother
leaped into the water to save her son
and both were drowned.
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7HHE bartender, suave and efficient,
y is no longer permitted to ply
his ancient calling in communities
where prohibition holds sway, except
in a surreptitious manner ill-befittlng
a man of parts, but elsewhere he is
still esteemed.
Recently nearly one hundred doc
tors, lawyers, newspaper men and
postoffice employees attended fare
we'll banquet
Meet to given in Chlca-
Honor a Bartender go to Matthew
j. Fitzgerald.
A loving cup was presented to the
ouest of honor who had been bar
tender in the "loop" for nearly forty
years and was departing for the south,
doubtless to end his days in retire
ment, as the opportunities for tending
bar in this section of the country are
limited.
"Matty," as he is known to friends
and former patrons, no doubt COM
bines with skill in connecting drinks
qualities of mind and heart which
have earned him, after many years OF
service behind the mahogany, fare
we'll banquet and loving cup.
nm HE Sixty-fourth Congress has
u done it's part we'll in the matter
of preparedness legislation. The bill
recognizing the army and federaliz-
ING the National Guard was worked
ont in the House committee on mill
tary affais,
With Dent at Head of VIII &c n
of Military Committee James Hay
of Virginia,
an old member of Congress, was chair
The National Guard feature of
the measure was intended as an ex-
pertinent. 1t has some objectional
phases as seemed apparent in the
for the Mexican border
duty. But that experience was hardly