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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-23


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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
Autos and Road Troubles

While the oil magnates and the me-
chanics chortle gleefully over the an
nounced increase in the output OF au-
tomobiles, there is one man who re-
CARDS the situation with an apprehen-
sive mein. He is r. F. Lovelady, presi-
dent of the board of revenue.
For among his many duties one Is
listening to the kicks" of taxpayers
in regard to the condition of the pub
lie highways. And anent this situa-
ton the president of the board as
serts:
Since the advent of the auto and its
common adoption 1 must confess that
there are many more complaints as
regards the condition of the roads
OF course, a goodly number is expect
ed, but in the olden days when the
people depended upon the horse for
business and pleasure, the complaints
were appreciably fewer.
1.-THE extensive use of automobiles
makes the task of upkeep of public
highways much more difficult and ex-
pensive. The weight of the immense
trucks and big machines on the road
bed works havoc. The depreciation OF
the bridges is likewise marked. How
ever, the board of revenue expects and
welcomes criticism of the public
roads"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
GOLD-HEADED CANES

From the savannah News.
In the dying moments of the recent
session of the legislature the speaker pro
tenn and the reading clerk of the House
received each q gold-headed cane, which
is evidence sufficient that the time-h hon
ored practice of Gaming is not dead; at
least, it is not dead in Georgia. There
is something dignified about a cane with
gold head. in spite of the fun that has
been poked at it, and the allegation that
it belongs to day long past when
stovepipe hats and Prince Alberts were
quite the thing Few men buy such sticks
for their own use. and most of the men
who own them acquired them by means
of graceful acceptance speeches after
being told that, in general terms. some
body or some organization or other was
proud to present this token of esteem.
There is many handsome cane stand
ing in a corner where the visitor to the
home may see 1t, and inquire about it
and inspect it, with it's flourished in
SC ription Children like to say: This was
presented to my father for something
or other" and to grandchildren or to
great grandchildren, specially while they
still are young, there Is something awe
inspiring in the straight stick with it's
top of precious metal, a relic of an an
cestor who was so great as to win so
much esteem of his fellowmen that they
actually bought this thing and gave it to
him. And their generation of the ances-
tor increases as they gaze upon it, I'M
til the time comes when they, too. are
given gold-headed canes to be set in
the corner along with grandfather's.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
A Brighter Outlook

There are many people in Birming-
ham who have unconsciously dropped
into a habit of looking on the pessimis-
tic side of things said Hill Ferguson
yesterday. Some of these are among
the best and most patriotic men in the
city, but this bad trait has gripped them
without their knowledge. OF course,
there are some people who for various
selfish reasons desire to give the city
and district a temporary setback, but
fortunately they are largely in the minor
ity.
There have recently been run to
earth many false statements regarding
the industrial, commercial and political
affairs of this district which had been &C.
cepted as true by men who did not stop
to make an investigation. Things are
now beginning to take on brighter look
and in a short time, all the fault finding
and complaining of the past will be over
with. One of the most encouraging signs,
and one thing which makes for the fu-
ture growth and stability Of the district
is the fact that a vastly larger num-
Der of people are living within their in
comes and are saving some money OF
course money saved does not help bust
ness at first as much as when spent,
but in the end, it adds vastly more to
the physical wealth of the community"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
Fayors Armisttce

IL am greatly in favor of letting the
rerouting question alone" said Jack Ad-
ans, the well known druggist. When the
letter of w. B. Leedy was read at the
commission meeting on this subject few
days ago, it expressed my sentiments ex-
actly There is enough things of vital
Importance to be attended to IN BIZ
mingham without changing the routing OF
the street cars.
II heartily agree with Mr.. Leedy In de-
claring an 'armistice for at least year.
and let us people of Birmingham put our
thoughts and efforts forth to better our
city and thereby make Birmingham the
finest town in the south. Things are
not as bad as some would think, but
they could be better, and by all of us
pulling together we can accomplish this
result which will accrue to the benefit
of all our citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
WI ASHINGTON, D. c., August %.
M (Special)-Gorizia. whose cap
ma rl1ed the first SIGNAL

w ture marked the first signal
gain of the Italians on the Isonzo front
in many months, is the subject of today S
war geography bulletin of the National
Geographic society:
| with a population of 10000, mainly
| Italians, Gorilla German Corr is the
principal city of the Isonzo valley. The
capital of the Austrian principality OF
Gorilla and Gradisca, it is charmingly
situated on the left bank of the fsonzo
river, about eight miles east of the Aus
| tro-Italan boundary line, some So miles
northwest of Trieste, LOG by rail northeast
of Venice, and nearly 400 miles southwest
| of Vienna.
"Gorizia has never had particularly
strong appeal for American, tourists, as
| it's antiquities are few-a cathedral dat"
| ing from the fourteenth century and re-
built in the eighteenth, and the ancient
castle of the old counts of Gorilla perched
on Castle Hill, where military BAR
racks was situated at the outbreak of
the present war-but it is popular with
| the Viennese as a winter resort, owing to
| its salubrious climate
1.-THE manufacturing industries of the
| town are varied and important, includ-
| ing silk, cotton, leather, paper and match
| factories. Rosoglio, liauer much priced
throughout the Levant. is made here
and there is also brisk trade in can
died fruits
| "Gorizia is mentioned in history as early
as the eleventh century and received
charter three centuries later. Its chief
distinction was not to come until the
nineteenth century when 1T became the
ASYLUM of Charles x, the last of the elder
line of Bourbons to occupy the throne OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
HOTEL LOBBIES
Great ACCOMPLISHMENT

Il believe President Wilson will be
able to bring about settlement be-
tween the railroads and their en-
ployes," said Judge N B. Feagin. III
he does, it will be one of the great
est accomplishments of the era and
will return him in office without any
trouble. This, with his various other
constructive governmental policies,
should elect Wilson by big major
ity.
Almost every day 1 hear the ad-
ministration criticized, but when the
critics are put to the test they in
variably have no grounds to base them
upon. In my opinion, the pass
age of the federal reserve act and the
rural credits act was two of the great
est pieces of legislation ever put over
in this country and such things as
that is going to have their effect in the
fall election
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
GORIZIA, A WINTER RESORT

France. This sovereign. who abdicated
too late to save the crown for his grand
son, hopefully styled Henry v, is de-
| scribed by historians as a typical Bour-
| bon, who never learned anything and
never forgot anything After his retire.
ment from Paris following the revolution
| Of July 27-29, $780, he took up his resi-
F: dence at Gorilla, where he died of chol-
era six years later.
Beside the tomb of Charles x, in the
Franciscan monastery of Castagnavezzi.
which overlooks Gorilla from a hill to
the east, is buried the Bourbon's heir,
| better known to history as Comte de
| Chambord than by the kingly title of
Henry V. This claimant to the French
throne was called the 'enfant du miracle
on account of his birth seven months
after the ssassination of his father, the
| Due de Berry. Upon the occasion of his
christening with water brought from the
River Jordan by Chateaubriand, he was
presented with the celebrated castle OF
| Chambord, which had been bought from
| the widow of Napoleon's marshal, Ber-
thier, by enthusiastic legitinlists Thus
| the royal baby acquired possession of the
| famous residence of France I, Henry IL,
and Louis XIV, in one Of whose 440
chambers the first performance of Mo-
Heres great comic farce Bourgeois Cen
| tilhomme' was staged He died 80 years
| ago at Frohsdorf and his body was
brought to Gorilla to be placed near that
of his grandsire and of his uncle, the Duo
D'Angouleme, Charles son.
Seventeen miles north of Gorilla in
an airline is Tolmino, also captured by
the Italians in the present drive. Dante
is supposed to have written some of the
cantos of the Divine Comedy in this
town on the IsonZo."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
A CENTURY OF sDONT'S"

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
L. S. Arnold is 102 years old, with all
of his natural teeth in his head and no
spectacles on his eyes. He snapped his
molars together in Wichita, where ne
was found en- route from Sha vince, OKLA,
en- route to Pittsburg, Kan. "Oh, yes,
we're old" he said, but we don't think
SO. We're going to live so more years be-
fore we depart from this world 1t was
then he snapped his teeth, saying, look
at them and afterward stood on his
hands on the floor of the railway sta
ton to prove his agility.
Accepting Mr.. Arnold's statement OF
his age, we must still deny that he has
lived that long. We predicate the denial
on his statement of rules which have
governed him during the last 80 years,
Never eat meat. Never go out after
dark. Don't drink anything but milk
and water" L. S. Arnold has been only
existing for two years more than a
century. Going to bed with the chickens
eating only bread and butter and vege-
tables and drinking nothing stronger
than milk, he is able at 1902 to stand on
his hands, grit all of his teeth at once
and to say: Never had a spectacle on
my eyes in my life" But one is moved
to wonder whether two rows of good
teeth, undnlmed sight and standing on
the hands is compensation for such a
dreamy time as he must always have
had. Who would want to stay here a
century without occasional indulgence in
the good things of life which bountiful
kind wherewith to solace and console In
the tribulations which it is a part of the
plan of the same Providence to visit upon
them?
One might say that L. S. Arnold has
been dead for 80 years. That he doesn t
know it in no way changes the fact that
if not dead he has surely not been alive,
and standing on his hands as an evidence
of life only recalls DR.. Johnson's remark
ON seeing a trained animal performance
that his wonder was less that animals
could do such tricks than that anybody
should want them to do them. Mr.. Ar
mold has missed the juicy steaks, roasts,
he has abjured game in hunters para
disc, the inspiration which good coffee
and tea can give has never been his,
nor the glow which came to all men in
his day from the big demijohns at log
rollings, house raisings and in the har-
vest fields. Even hog killing time, with
all it's delights for living people, has
never meant anything to him. He has
not lived, but only vegetated. Neverthe-
less his case calls for counterpoise in
a centernarian who has smoked and
drank since boyhood, and whose father,
like that of Little Breaches" 'larnt
him to chaw terbaccker jest to keep his
milk teeth white" .
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
"MRs., OR "MIss"
le Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald
1t is stated that German women be-
trothed to soldiers who do not return
to the fond arms mutely embracing
will have the right to the title Frau.
or Mrs. This will glorify the be-
reaved and in some instances assure
henor in the community. Thus is brought
up the question, how should women writ
ing on business matters and neglectins
to state whether they are Mrs. or Miss
be addressed? Or if 1t is necessary fol
in speech, should he seek refuge in his
perplexity in the still more forma
madam"
In old English days a woman, widow
wife. spinster, was mot offended if she
were addressed as Mistress" So-and-so
Essayists and poets of the eighteenth
century thus spoke Of maidens free
There is a pleasing quaintness in the
term. Miss" in comparison seems flip
pant or patronizing. And mistress
written out cannot provoke laughter. un
like mister" which, ironical as it may
seem in some households, is a weakened
form of master"
Travellers in France have hesitatet
between madame" and "mademoiselle'
| in speaking to the woman at the desk
Resentment was sometimes shown il
either case. There was a time in Franc,
| when "mademoiselle' was the title givel
| to married woman whose husband wal
not of the nobility. The great made
moiselle was the eldest daughter of thu
Kings eldest brother. The great madam,
was the Kings eldest daughter, Will
Monsieur, after the sixteenth century
was the younger brother of the King.
Perhaps in any country the reception
! depends on the age and temper of tn
woman addressed. maiden witherini
on the stalk may smile on hearing
madam" or Mrs" and matron, fic
titiously youthful in appearance will no
resent the term Miss The German
women are the greatest sticklers TO
precisely defining titles. The wife of al
apothecary is furiously vexed If she
not given the full title Frau Apotheke,
and so 1t goes up the scale. Possibl
the inevitable change in the position an
| occupations of women in Europe sine
| the war may affect the disposition Q
titles. Certainly no one will grudg
the betrothed and bereft women of Ger
many the title of Mrs." especially
when they happen to be mothers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
A SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC

From Golfers.
Alan Seeger is dead. We knew him as
fledgling of Harvard college; one who
loved Pater's prose and Swinburnes
verse; an artist to the fingertips. This
rather frail young man, Connecticut
Yankee by birth, German by remoter
origin, but above all the soul of gentle
ness aspiring toward all the projections
ir a world of compromise and mediocrity,
died the other day as soldier of France.
August, 1914, found Seeger a student at
the University of Paris. He explained
the convictions and sentiments which
turned gentle amateur into soldier
Of the foreign legion in these simple
terms-which he applies to the other
American volunteers who sprang to arms
France, learning from the worlds mas
tiers how music Is made and paintings
painted; how beautiful buildings are de-
signed, and language is nodded, and life
| is made more rich:
| Paris-mystic, maternal, personified, to
whom they owed the happiest moments
of their lives-was in peril. Were they
not under a moral obligation, no less
binding than their French comrades were
bound legally, to put their breasts be-
tween her and destruction? Without re-
nouncing their nationality, they had yet
chosen to make their homes here beyond
any other city in the world. Did not the
benefits and blessing they had received
point them duty that heart and con-
science could not deny?
Wars are the birth pangs Of new
eras," wrote young Seeger; while in ex-
ouisite verse he wrote the stanzas which
he called Champagne, 1s14-1s15." The
spirit of this poem is as beautiful and
unspoiled by pretense as any poet ever
conceived; and in 1t Seeger writes OF
his own death to come, and tells how:
Under the little crosses where they rise
| The soldier rests; now round him undis-
mayed
The cannon thunders, and at night he
At peace beneath the eternal fusillade
We wish that we might print this poem
in full Poetry lovers may find 1t ir
the North American Review" for Oc-
tober, 1915. The war made Alan Seegel
a soldier and a poet, yet impaired not al
all his fundamental gentleness, thu
beauty of the spirit. The war made hin
and destroyed him. To England the wal
gave as it's poet hero Rupert Brooke; a.
token of the love of two great repub
lies, it gave to America and France thi.
other soldier-poet eternally, divinely
| Young; his life and death made poetry
too. If there is tragedy in such a loss
we joyfully remember that In tragedl
also there may be pure beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
B. C. Forbes, in Leslie's

B. C. Forbes, in Leslie's.
NE American could have a crown
4 for the asking. He IS the UNI
~ crowned king Of the tropics, the
Cecil Rhodes of Central America, deml-
god in the eyes of half dozen repup-
lies
There sits daily in an unpretentlous
office at Battery Place, New York, 81
lent Hercules who is Transforming the
American tropics from jungle to fruit
garden, who is creating prosperity, health
and peace where only poverty oisease
and revolutions formerly luxuriated, VINO
is busily steel rail linking Central Amer
lean republics to one another as a neces-
sary preliminary to their union into one
powerful commonwealth and who, also'
is plodding to make it possible to travel
from New York, Chicago or San Fran
cisco all the way by rail to Panama or
even to Rio Janeiro.
Minor C. Keith was Brooklyn Lad
who, at 16, started in mems furnishing
store on Broadway, New York, at "
week, didn't care for selling collars
socks and neckties, and quit in SIN
months to become a lumber surveyor
He made $1,000 in the first year and Their
went into the lumber business on his owr
account, his father having followed that
industry.
Before old enough to vote he was rails
ing cattle and hogs on a bleak, uninhab'
Iited island called Padre Island Gas LONG
as Long Island) near the mouth Of the
Rio Grande. He had, looked over the
country after the civil war and decided
to settle on this forsaken territory. Onl!
one other family lived on the island.
| Here young Keith trained for the bat
tie of life, under rough. nerve trying
circumstances, with two revolvers nevel
unhitched from his belt and with cattle
thieves. and other carefree gentlemen al
about him when he crossed to Texas
and the Mexican border to buy cattle. hi
rose at every morning, roughed 1t fol
| 16 hours daily, often slept outside-ane
prospered.
He reared and bought cattle all over
the surrounding territory to kill for theil
hide and tallow. The beef. not worti
anything in Texas in those days. was fec
| to swivel He amassed a herd of 400
stock and cattle and 1000 pigs. Stock cat
tie were then worth $3.50 to So and steers
brought 81 for each year Of their age
! (Today alas! we city folk pay IS cent
a pound for the choicest parts of sucl
steersD
1 Then something happened to chang
the course of Keith's career. His uncle
Henry Meiggs. was the famous builde
| of the first railway over the Andes AM
Of other epochal South American lines
Minors eldest brother, Henry Meigg
Keith, had joined his uncle in Peru AM
had taken over a contract from his un
Gle to build railroad in Costa RIGA TO
the government. One day, in 1871, Mino
received a letter from his brother ask
Ing him to come to Costa Rica.
Minors job was to run the commissa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
DOWN IN DIXIE

II see Colonel Jagsby and Major Bilfur
seated on the majors veranda with pal
metto fans in their hands and iced drinks
on table between them"
cool"
Yes. And they'll probably succeed If
somebody doesn't come along and start
an argument about the civil war
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
THE APOLOGY

THE APOLOGY
BY Ralph w. Emerson.
Think me not unkind and rude
That walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.
Tax not my sloth that
Fold my arms beside the brook;
Each cloud that floats in the sky
Writes a letter in my book.
Chide me not, laborious band,
For the idle flowers / brought;
Each aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with thought.
There was never mystery
But tits figured in the flowers;
Was never secret history
But birds tell 1t in the bowers.
One harvest from thy field
Homeward brought the oxen strong:
A second crop thine acres yield,
Which y gather In q song.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24

BEGINNING THE DAY - oru,
teach me that IL did not get tired
T could never enter into the heaV,-
ness of that multitude who are az
WAYS tired. Teach me thar c
wise I could never know the bless-
sdness of rest. Teach me that fnoa
rayest me my strength to spenu,
and i'm it's spending L gro" hAes'
Thee. Amen.-H. Nj. E'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-24
CLERK WHO REFUSED A CROWN

ouently died and the construction of the
riat of the railway. His brother subse-
railway was suspended through the gov
eminent not being able to supply the
money. In order to carry out his broth
er's undertaking he recontracted the
coast line Of the railway with the gov
eminent Also to make possible the
building of the mountain section Tor
which the government had not the need
full 100000, he made a contract with
the Costa RIGA government to settle their
external debt which had been defaulteo
for IS years. He proceeded to London
and after many difficulties arranged
settlement of the debtrand all arrears or
interest, and obtained 100000 for the
construction of the railway.
The International Railways OF central
Anne rca-"The Pan-American Railway
is not a mere paper railroad. Half OF 1t
is already built Connection has been
made, on the Pacific side, with the Ma
tional Railways of Mexico, at the Guate-
mala boundary. The road runs down
the Guatemala coast and then cuts clear
across the continent, to Puerto Barrios,
on the Atlantic side; this transcontinen-
tai line is now in profitable operation.
the net earnings Cor profits in the first
four months of this year having been
$6e7, 545. From midcontinent the line Is
being built straight through the little
republic of Salvador to La Union, on the
Pacific. Next it will pass through Hon
duras and join the Nicaraguan road. The
Costa Rican system will then be reached,
and from Port Limon to the Panama
canal will be the final link on the north
ern side of the great divide. The
South American extension, Mr.. Keith is
confident will follow
More than $40 miles of the international
Railways are today actually operating
and making money. And the daring
project is daily creeping towards compile
ton.
II have heard, Mr.. Keith, that you
hope tc bring about the union of the five
Central American republics-Guatemala,
Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Panama. Is that your ambition?" II
asked. He gazed into space. Then:
II believe that will come. 1t will bel
great thing for them all. But only
railroads can bring it about. The peo-
pie Of Costa Rica are today strangers tol
the people of Nicaragua, although their
countries adjoin. There must first bel
| commercial and social intercourse. Thel
railroad will make that possible