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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
KINGS OF KOHINOOR LAND

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 |WN THEN it was made known a few
 WW days ago that six Indian sedi-
 tionaries at Lahore had been sentenced to death, the question was raised as to the ability of the native rulers to control the inflammable social finder within their own dominions.
 The extent of the territory and th& power of the native rulers are little un. derstood outside of India. Beyond the three. presidencies and twelve provinces Of British India are tracts which, taken together, comprise an area a third as large as the United States, holding 7S, S,o0o,- 900 people. In these regions are 710 rulers, of whom about 100 are important. Among them are many who work hard in the best interest of those they rule and are innocent of the tradition of sloth and dissipation associated with the life of an eastern prince. There might be cited the Gaekwar of Baroda, who was the first ruler anywhere in India to establish free primary schools He has fought against the pernicious custom that prescribes obloquy and loneliness for the child wid l. |ow. The Maharajah of Kashnir has for his prime minister a knighted engineer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
A DERELICT PRINCESS

You're the right ono to tell me I am vulgar. People of my kind would never in their lives act as vulgarly as you have acted tonight. Do you think any servant girl would go for . man as you did? : : Do you think person in my place would have dared raise his eyes to you if the invitation to do so had not .come from yourself? ss It hurts me to see you sink lower than your cook
 The yellow journals found in the affair between the crown princess and Glron great romance, reversing the case of the prince and the peasant girl familiar to readers of fairy stories. strindberg says of the affair between the counts daughter and the valet:
 T don't believe that any love relation in higher sense can spring up between two souls of such different quality"
 It Is, at any rate, improbable that happy and enduring relationship between runaway crown princess and a tutor whatever the difference between the souls of the two persons who havs moved hitherto in such different social planes could result from an elopement from . royal palace to third rate hotels.
 Possibly Julias father. in real life, locked her up and called her a lunatic. At any rate nobody will fail to under stand the sentiment that moves the King Of Saxony to lock Louise in retreat where she cannot longer make public spectacle. of herself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
cAux.kutMtAa1uttH
roo MUCH rRrv0LITY

From the Pittsburg Post.
 A warning is sounded by Senator Me- Cumber of North Dakota that too much frivolity is undermining Americas younger generation. Pleasure Is put before every thing else in the life and thought of a vast majority. Teachers who know the struggle of concentrating the mind of modern youth on the useful things of life are contendinE against distractions un- known in earlier days, the increasing social indulgences turing youthful atten- ton from books and home studies to gathering that ape the clubroorn pastimes of elders, the persistent avoidance of studious employment, and the preference for incidence or trashy reading or even worse dissipation.
 In this debilitating atmosphere much of Americas youth is losing the energy to concentrate on making a creditable showing. Stuffing themselves with can died pleasures many boys and girls pass by the substantial bread and butter of life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25

concerned in hydro-electric development. The Nizam of Hyderabad is strong for public works and for the conservation of the natural resources of his realm, and has given 5000, 900 to Great Britain's war treasury. The Nawab Begun of Bhopal, a woman 5s years of age though a loyal follower of Islam who elings to her pur- dah (veiD, so that few have seen her face, is an earnest and enlightened so- ciai reformer
 The great influence of such potentates as these is not to be belittled, and in the crisis 1t has been used without stint in favor of the imperial government. Even from Nepal. by far the most independent of the native states, come the Gurkhas, who provide some of the best of the In- dian regiments, and the ruler of this state invaluaby befriended England in the Sepoy mutiny.
 The answer of India to the appeal of the mother country Is as quick and as whole-hearted as that of Canada or Aus tralia, and 1t comes from those in whom English administrations. for all their fol- lies, their inaptitudes, their positive CT TOTS, have created implicit trust. respect and even friendship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
THE RAGGEDY MAN James Whitcomb Riley, in Golfers for

James whitcomb Riley. in Golfers for January. "A posthumous, poem.) A domineerin' feller. like at he Spelt separate. an spelt 'er with a "e, And made it proper-not because 1t
 was, But simply jes' bscause--you know
 because. I allus want to go on and lay down When fel1ers want to argey; when Iia
 brown On one side, roll mo ovsr-biams of Keer whuther I'm roast UT jes' fry. o a sore -toed man Is SO sadly grand, As he sets. in his heyday. gaxin' Into the pAst, and amoantn' and 0roanin' and paraphrasin'l-- How I wisht that my now was then when the heart does best when it
 doesnst-- How I wisht was young agen,
 Er how wisht I wasn't! Love yer inemies. but don't Think theyn b'iieve it--'cause they
 won't! Ef they: anything bettef'n heaven Yea. moro surpassin' fair sposc it'll be whch you and me X G1t aceualIy tended therel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
"ALArtAMIss.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 "Alafamss" is new term, which we hope has come to stay. The term is not particularly phonetic, but sufficiently sug- gestive to be altogether adequate to the purposes it is used for. Does it puzzle you? Well. it is made upssimply of the first syllable of these rather well known names: Alabama. Florida and Mississippi. It suggests a section of territory com prising 19 gulf coast counties in three states which development company has assigned to itself the work of exploiting by intensive, sustained publicity in the north and east. The Gulf Coast Country Development league, organized by sub stantlal business men from three states is the company which has undertaken the admirable plan of exploiting the ter ritory in these counties. It is a sound and daring idea which controls these men. The. promoters are raising a fund of &25a.0o0 to be expended during the next five years at the rate of $60O00 a year, with which to carry on their extensive publicity propaGanda throughout tho north and east telling of the opportu- mites and advantages for settlement ana development to be found in these coun- ties" and tourists will be sought with special energy Seeing that the winter tourist goes to southern California and southern Florida, because the gulf coast country Is ''unknown'' to him. vigorous drive will be made upon the tourist who hitherto has bSxn bestowink dis patron age upon other sections.
 Representative ana responsible citizens are leadint in this movement, which promises rich returns to the section of the country which their vision Is favorins, The enterprise is In line with tic best developneft philosophy in thAt it is highly organized and has mapped out a definite programme of action. It is in line with thS idAa of intensive cultiva- tion'' in that 1t does not undertake to cover foo much tArritory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25

From the Louisville Courier-Jou ourna1.
 NH 7 HEN Louise, crown princess of
 MW saxony, eloped with Andre Gi-
 ron, the Belgian tutor of her children. yellow journals in America treated the incident in highly romantic manner. Here was a princess of the blood who could not stand the tedium. the artificiality, the stiff formality, of court life; a woman with a heart who would not endure fife rendered loveless by reasons of state"
 Tho discovery that Louise now is in a lunatic asylum, placed there by orders of the King of Saxony. does not prove that she was, or is. insane. Tho King may have taken lawless measures to quiet, insofar as possible family scan dal. If tho crown princess was not in- sane, her romance was an extremely sordid affair. Tn connection with the news that she is ifnmured in Dresden and not allowed to communicate with friends. the fact that Giron left her year after the elopement is recalled by a correspon- dent at Rome. Andre, weary of an illicit affair which had at first the stim- ulation of wide publicity in which the humble tutor figured as the hero who had rescued an unhappy princess from a palace and a hateful life. left Louise stranded and made a quiet respectable match, under the stipulations of the church and the civil law The Countess v<ya p< her escapade. lost favor in the eyes of the yellow journals, as well as in the eyes of Andre. The public lost track of her.
 How like the affair between Julia, the counts daughter. and Jean, the counts s valet, in August Strindberg's tragedy. Miss Julia," was the real life elope- ment in which Crown Princess Louise and Tutor Giron figured. That tho woman taken lightly is held lightly, and that with the station of her lover in nowise keeps her upon a pedestal in his eyes, but has the opposite effect, is illustrated in the affair of Louise and Andre as 1t was in the story of the affair between Julia and Jean.
 strindberg was called by soma of his critics . lunatic, and by all of them a hater of women. but in Miss Julia" he writes 2 sermon with scalpel In their outlines the histories of Julia and Louise are the same. save that Louise has not committed suicide. Possibly Julia did not The story. strindberg tells us in . preface. was from real life It wal
 recounted to him. He made q tragedy of 1t. supplying. perhaps, tho conven. tional climax. How like what may be imagined as having occurred between Louise and Giron. after the novelty has worn off the relationship, Is the dia- ioshe between theuounts daughter and her valet lover. VI
 Julia-You lackey. you menial! Stand Iup when talk to you! Jsan-You lackey's love. you mistress oi
 uiasnIal-s -shut up and Gst out Of hsre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
HOTEL LOBBTEs
Busine. Is Progressing s


 Hotel business in Birmingham for the month of January has been exceedingly good" said Harry New. manager of the Motion hotel. Eleven days this month we have had every room in our hotel oc- cupied On Tuesday. we had to turn down scores of people who came to Bir- mingham to attend the performance of Sarah Bernhardt.
 "The business for the first few days fin the month was nothing extra, but since then we have been filled to ca pacity practically every day. All of the travellers speak of the good times and how Birmingham Is bettering her namc in other portions of the country.
 According to the travelling statesmen, practically every city in the state is en- toying prosperity. Their sales will set & new record for year if the present ratio continues, they assert like to see every body prosper and sincerely hope the good times will continue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

Going to war and going to law are alike in that the winner usually comes out loser.
 We have not yet located the oldest joke. But the biggest. joke is a wom- ans promise to obey her husband when she is being married.
 Many fellow who has more money than brains hasn't the price of pack of cigarettes.
 You can fool woman into marrying you. But you can't keep her fooled.
 A man doesn't always let his wife have her own way just because he is fond of her The real reason is be- cause he is afraid Of her.
 A mans idea of fair play is for you to let him have about Hyper cent the best of the proposition.
 The reason why you can't tell a woman's age by her teeth is because nearly half of them arc store teeth.
 The fact that mans eyes are downcast is no sign that he is modest. Maybe the girl he Is facing is wearing one of those careless waists.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned belle who thought that her waist should be smaller than her neck?
 There was time when men envied women because women didn't have to shave every few days. But it is differ ent nowadays.
 Why does a butcher always weight the slice of meat you order? Whether you ask for$A 2b-cent slice, or Ss- cent slice or b0-csnt slice, the slice he cuts is always just right when he throws 1t on the scales and he never changes it.
 It Is too bad that most people do not know how little they know. Ii they did. they would talk less Any wife who is nursing husband who has ono foot in the grave can tell you that he does 2 lot of kicking with the other. The only difference between the vanity of men and women Is that wom. eh do not make any bones over il when they are primping in front of [ mirror. and men do their primping Or the sly.
 The average man'g idea of retribu- ton is something that iG going te overtAko the uth1r lt11eW1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
THE DEvILIsH COCKTAIL

From the Knickerbocker Press.
 An indignant parent has written the following letter to the editor of the Syracuse Post-Standard:
 When read in my Post-Standard that the Sumner school girls enter tained Mayor Stone with oyster cock- tails my blood boiled. What good does it do to teach the children in the schools the damage that alcohol does the human body if this sort of thing is p4rmitted?"
 No wonder the blood of this Onon- daga parent effervesces. The fiend who would be guilty of soiling tho hands of children with catsup and tni,asc0 sauce would be capable of mixing calories with the food of human beings. If our innocent oysters are to be contaminated with the degen- erative influence of horse-radish, what hope Is there for tho United States? The advancement of the prohibition movement. may bA measured. Indeed. by the disappearance of feather dus- ters.A Scarcely one of them remains. and good riddAnce to them. too. for therH was mora than ono cocktail In theic no4Ariouo clutch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
REVIVAL IN RIVER TRAFFIC

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 The world comes down from tho steel and mining csntsrs along the Ohio river that . great revival in river transporta- ton Is to De sStn on the A1ssissippi river during ths present year. For one thing, . great increase in coal towing to the southern territory is to be opened up. and for this purpose alone many steel barges are now under construction at AmbridGe. Pa, where the American Bridge company plant is located .. A
 Congestion of rail facilities. the surpris- ing cheApness of water transportation and the nearing of tho timetor the expira, to be thS reasons. for the reported re- q xakeninR of river transportation. One Industriai conoirn at PitksburG whict moved coal " itt own f1ett did It st one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
Hn KNOWS.

T want to see the sights in New York. suppose I had better get native New Yorker to show me about"
 Don't do it. If you want to see everything there is to see. good, bad and indifferent. strike up an acquaint- ance with some fellow from Oshkosh, Kankakee or KeoAuk who goes to New York once . year." PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
A PLIGHT FAR WORSE.

Governor" said the whining tramp, give a dime ter a poor unfortunate what leads hand-ter-mouth exist ence."
 Beat 1t, my friend" said the hard hearted citizen. Leading a hand-to- mouth existence is no great hardship. It's the fellow who takes his nourish- ment through tube that I'm sorry for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
ATMosrHEHr or MYsTERY

From the Brandon (Iowa) Bee.
 Work on the new school building will be practically completed and school will convene there next Tues day. Seems like a public dedication would have been rather nice, but if any such arrangements are being made 1t is being kept a secret though why public business should be transacted in secret is a deep, dark mystery, like why people eat limbur- ger cheese and how old is Ann. But I guess that's the way they do around here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
CALLING THEM OFF

From the Cleveland. Plain Dealer.
 They were named,' says the Louis- vile Courier-Journal, New York, Chi cago, St. Louis, New Orleans They are called N'YaWk or N Yarrick. Chi cargo, sint Louee, Newer Leans. And -er-might one mention Looahvul?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
Billy Sur1day Erads
Campaign I'm Boston

Campaign I'm B0sG0m
 TTHE REV. w. A. SUNDAY, who J has been invited to conduct g revival in Birmingham and has ten- tatively accepted, recently ended the most successful revival of his career in Boston. The proverbial apathy of Bostonians, not to mention what has been termed their intellectual aloof- ness, could not withstand the vitriolic fervor of "Billy" Sunday. There were trail hitters by the thousand and the largest free will offerings-four in number-he has ever received.
 According to the figures sent out from Boston, the 10 weeks campaign broke all records for attendance, trail hitting and collections. The total number of trail hitters was 6O,509, among them former Governor Eugene N. Foss, who gave the evangelist 5000. In one day more than 1000 persons walked down the famous saw dust path and shook the evangelist by the hand, thus signifying their inten- tion to lead Christian lives. During the 10 weeks MT. Sunday preached 133 times and the total attendance was 1,320, 300. If the tabernacle could have held more the attendance would have been increased by many thou sand.
 To cover the expenses of the re- vival $90, ,436.5O was collected and the free will offerings, the preachers sal ary, totaled $51, 800, exclusive of do- nations made in various churches which have not yet been listed.
 When 1t is remembered that the nuInDeI Ol DOSLou ITdll HittcrS eA- ceeded those of Philadelphia by 1s,- 900, although Boston has a smaller population than the former city, and was 37,000 more than hit the trail in Baltimore, some idea of the tremen- dous religious awakening caused by Mir. Sundays preaching may be gained. Whatever his detractors may say, in the case of Billy Sunday figures do not lie. Anyone is at lib- srty to count the trail hitters and the amount of money taken in is public matter.
 Furthermore, anyone who has ever heard the evangelist preach one of his dynamic sermons and observed the way in which he completely dominates . vast throng by his personality, must acknowledge that there is some great force at work in this remarkable man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25

gressive cities. These institutions are only possible when people of civic pride cooperate to set them going. Once started properly benefactions from the rich will come from time to time and place the gallery or orchestra on solid basis. Art, including music, has been generously treated by men who have accumulated vast wealth. The time will come when those of modern means will do their part pro- portionately.
 Last years benefactions made a fine showing, even if they fell short of early estimates; certainly no one has right to feel other than proud of America as a nation of individual givers.
 When a food crank asked President Wilson to live on 25 cents a day, he is re- ported to have told her that he would do so if Mrs. Wilson would consent. He knew very well that if Mrs. Wilson cared two straws about him she wouldn't let him do it.
 There are some enterprising people in the state of Alabama. For instance, there is the citizen who takes about 1oo game cocks down to the Mexican border every year and sells them to Mexicans at a fancy price for holiday cock fights.
 *
 A man committed suicide during the afternoon performance at the New York Hippodrome the other day. The press agent will hardly use that as a recom- mendation for the show.
 
 A New York birth control advocate who was sentenced to jail has gone on a hunger strike. If she will only keep it up long enough the jail authorities will save some money.
 Villa doesn't want to do anything that will delay the depature of Pershing's troops While not good guesser ordi- narily General Carranza knows what that reason Is.
 
 At Salt Lake City wedding guests ate a cake baked 4s years ago. Age doesn't improve a cake half as much as certain other refreshments often served at we'd ding feasts Excitable correspondents should calm themselves and not hurry the Deutsch- land into the harbor at New London, l Conn, before she gets in sight of land. A number of miracles are reported in l the base hospital at Deming, N. M When l sick guardsmen heard they were going home they immediately got well. An Illinois man has agreed to abstain from alcoholic liquors three years for $500 The average bibulous person would consider that working for nothing.
  The climate of Arizona may be rather hard on the Alabama troops. but for ob- vous reasons the war department couldn't send them to Palm Beach. Franz Bopp, former German consul gen. eral at San Francisco has learned that there is really limit to Uncle sam's patience with conspirators.
 * The announcement that a male '.idcl of the screen will shortly be in town has created great excitement among femin- inc movie fans. The Chinese held their New Year cele- bration this week. Broadway was bliss- fully unaware that anything of the sort was going on. At any rate, most of the European sov- ernments seem to think that President Wilson means well, and that's solne- thing.
 !. * Another stirring romance is being ad- vertiseds by magazine, but it doesn't de- tail the adventures of a soup cook.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
Benefacsions IEa
 the Year 1916

6N HE benefactions reported last 0 year not under $10,000, listed by the World Almanac, aggregated a large sum, but not as large as in 1915, when the total from all sources was given in as s51O, 1000, ,OO0; not as large even as in 1914, year of as lte de- pression.
 Last year the colleges announced benefactions amounting to about $23,- 000, ,00O, and the gifts to benevolent and other institutions aggregated ap- proximately 65,OO0,000.
 In other years the large benefactions reported in European countries was l included in the World Almanac's tabu- lation, while the gifts and bequests in 1916 were confined principally to those coming from American bene- l factors. But even that fact should not have caused such a wide differ ence, for during the past IF months the rich have grown richer and many men who were not rated high in if nancial circles five years ago are now /! nlillionaires-some Of them multimil- lionaires. And when it comes to large giving the wealthy classes in this country lead the world. It may have been that most of the big educational institutions found themselves surfeited with money and could not very we'll use any more. Next year American philAnthropists will be appealed to more than ever by oppressed and starving people of war stricken countries. And the call will meet with generous response.
 Of the colleges that have been helped in 1916 only few in the south were in the list. In this state Tus- kegee institute was remembered" to the extent of $150,oOO. The uni versity received gift of 12,O0o, and Talladega college gift of $10,000. | Of the benefactions bestowed upon northern institutions the largest total went to the University of Chicago $3,1s1,543. The Massachusetts Insti. ute of Technology received $2,224,-
 972, Columbia university $1 1886, ,205
 and Delaware college $1,028,S00. Il A generation or two ago benefac.
 tions in the United States were con
 fined chiefly to colleges, schools o1
 technology, orphanages and hospitals
 In these times of educational exten
 sion and humanitarian activities thu
 same great causes are remembered
 but in addition art galleries and sym
 phony orchestras-bot costly, bu both considered necessary factors il cultural devslcpmsnt-ass springinl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
NO REST FOR THE WEARY.

NO REST FOR THE WEARY. A proud and happy father
 Is Ebenezer Bing, Who calls upon his daughter
 And says, 'My dear, please sing" The visitors must echo The fathers fond request, But everyone is thinking,
 "Oh, for chance to rest"