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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. ~ I'VE dog a bad name and every V 0 body will swear he has rabies.
 NS Give him a good name and he may play with your child even though he be afflicted with rabies.
 That's the way it is with Shakespeare. Is there schoolgirl in the land who has not read an essay in which she made a multi sided portrait of him? He knew more law than Lord Coke. More medicine than Sir William Osler. More astronomy than Calico. More science than New ton. More finance than Rothschild. More philosophy than Bacon. More business than sehwab. More navigation than Co., lumbus. More military genius than Ma poleon.
 But he didn't. It has merely become a fashionable habit to pretend that he did. have the say-so of that highly accom- plished lawyer, Hampton L. Carson, for it that MT. William Shakespeare made sad mess of the law in the very play over which most of us rave about his lega; cleverness
 The law in the Merchant of Venice" wouldn't even pass muster in a sauires office at Rubeville.
 As you doubtless remember that Bas- sanio wished to wed Portia, but didn't have the price. He went to his rich friend Antonio and made touch for 5000 ducats.
 Antonio was the Stephen Girard of his day and had ships upon every sea. How ever at the time the love sick Bassanio went borrowing Antonio didn't have 5000 dueats in his pockets. so he sent, for Shy lock.
 Sure, says Shyloek, I can loan you the money for three months, but I want your bond with this sporty agreement. to-wit: That if you do not pay me in three months I can recover the ducats plus pound of your fair flesh"
 Antonio agreed, but, of course, didn't pay promptly. for if he had done so there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
CO-EDS IN A HUFF

the world affairs. If an evening spent man to win football game we naturally will believe that either all worth while men must be bachelors or else a remark able change occurs in a student when he leaves college.'
 That poor dear man. said another eo-ed, snickering. "And have you seen that frightfully artistic picture of him in leopard skin with arms and legs as white and poetic as anything. He's posi- lively as beautiful as Mordkin. And here he scowls at poor adoring us and just to think we all had sore threats roofing for that creature when he made clever plays on the football field.'
 Tt may not sound quite right to say this," Miss Marjorie McKeown said, 'but the boys played such punk football this year that they must find some excuse, and we're handy, so they picked on us."
 'The poor fish," spoke up Miss Victoria Adams, when asked her opinion. "Be- viously arranged dates for their royal highnesses they come forth into the lime light with that kind of nonsensical stuff.'' And Miss Adams eyes flashed and her dimpled cheeks flushed as she spoke. Miss Adams is . self-confessed consist ent fusser.'
 First, they invite and then they in- dict,'' she continued. "Who makes the dates? You never hear girl asking a man for a date.
 'why not put the blame where it's due? It isn't a sin for girl to fuss In fact, it's all right-after you get through studying you need wholesome recreation, and I can't see any harm in going out with fellow. A girl shouldn't be attacked for moderate pleasure seek ing. If some men 'boneheads' have such sluggish mentality that they can't serve studies and recreation at the same time nobody Is forcing them to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
From the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
 N1o-EDS at the University of Michigan V are in huff at Maurice F. Dunne,
 son of the ex-governor of Illinois. Their freckled, but none the less ader- able, noses are being carried about an inch or so higher since he declared that Michigan university would be better off without single co-ed on it's campus.
 Dunne, star football player and all around athlete, recently wrote an article for the Inlander, college publication, charging that too much ''fussing'' is sap- ping the manliness of the sons of the university. Perfume parties, tepid teas and parlor pastimes" are causing the college to degenerate, he said. He called upon his college mates to pay more atten- tien to their studies and athletics and less to the girls.
 Michigan's poor showing at football last fall is laid to the co-ed's baneful ln- fuence by the handsome Maurice. A num- Der of other athletes have joined Dunne in his stand and a storm of protest has arisen from the co-eds.
 ''oh, rats and little fishes" said Miss Louise Hatch, one of the most "fussed co-eds at Michigan, when shown copy of the Inlander. Say, did you ever read Mark Twain when he told about sending the negro up to sit on the safety valve during race on the Mississippi? One of three things happened-the boat blew up' it won the race or the negro fell off the safety valve. In this case Matrices me- gro fell off and he has spurted steam all over the campus without doing any dam age except to his own little craft"
 Over bubbling fudge pan another coed stopped stirring long enough to ex- claim: 50 he thinks that we have no business in interfering in what he calls mans game. namely football. Just wait until he sets out in the world and finds out what a real mans game really Is and how important we women are In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19

From the Pittsburg Post.
 YNERHAPS no other woman of history
 I0 had more varied love affairs than S did the dashing Queen Bess of England. The daughter of Henry the Eighth and Anne Bolsyn might well be expected to possess the intense nature which marked her father as a man or rapid decision and bold execution.
 When Elizabeth came to the throne she found her countrymen divided against her. It was necessary for her to play Protestant and Catholic, each in turn, which she accomplished by humorins their respective leaders desires and per mifting herself to become a party in the intricacies of various love matches
 All the great continental powers were demanding an alliance with England or threatening to ruin her. With her ur- scrupulous, scheming mind and valiant spirit Elizabeth managed ultimately to play Sweden against Denmark, France . aeainst Spain. and the Austrian arch- duke against the others.
 By 1883 she had no longer need to fear the powers on the continent and could safely turn from her strategic courtships and pretended love making to those who spontaneously reused her.
 To just what extent Elizabeth toyed with the passions of men for purely diplomatic reasons is questionable With holding marriage, promising, denying, un- til the. many precarious situations
 might be tided over, and then casting aside each agreement as it served its inn mediate purpose. was her common prac- tice.
 She had played at love making With foreign princes because it was wise, and for the moment, best. It may be possible that Elizabeth realized her foreign suitora were playing fast and loose with her and sought to "beat them at their own game If such were her purpose she well sue ceeded. Among the spurned were the King of Spain. the Due d'Alencon, the brother of the French King.
 Elizabeth was no respector of persons as whims moved her to affairs with no bles and men of lesser rank from her owr Kingdom. However, she never forgot hel responsibility by becoming involved whers the good of her country might be sacrt feed.
 Federigo Zacchero's painting of Eliza beth at 45 depicts beautiful, open coun tenance. Probably no portrait could dt
 her justice as her beauty was largely de pendent upon her vivacious animation Az young woman she was golder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
Increase In Price of
 Railroad Materials

M TABLE has been prepared by N. SN M. Rice, second vice president of the Frisco railway, which shows that 52 per cent of the material pur- chased by the Frisco in 1915 will cost $3,35O,532 more in 1917, an increase of 119 per cent. The increase in price of the remaining AS per cent is 60 per cent.
 According to this statement, axels cost 257 per cent more this year than they did in 1915; brake beams have gone up 36 per cent; the same quanti- ty of continuous joints purchased two years ago would cost $152,432 more this year; the increase in the price of track spikes over the price paid in 1915 would be, for the same quantity, $209,714. The increase in the price of boiler tubes is POI per cent, of steel wheels 107 per cent.
 These figures are given to show why it is that railroad managers, with freight rates lower in 1916 than ever before, and the average wage of em- ployes higher, are wondering where they will get the money to make need ed improvements. The items mentioned are not all, by any means, that have vastly increased the opertaing expenses of American railroads.
 is really in an English jail he may have unexpected leisure to finish writing his memoirs.
 Cuba must keep quiet" says Phil. adelphia contemporary. Otherwise Uncle Sam may have to give Cuba another spanking.
 The Kaiser continues to speak highly of his submarines, but outside of Ger. many they get few compliments. 1
 The world has long since decided thai the young Turks are little if any i'm, provementAon the old Turks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

If prayers were always answered we would all be throwing away tons of stuff that we couldn't possibly use
 The Colorado judge who decided that talk in sleep is not good evidence must be a married man.
 The reason man has nothing but scowls for his wife when he is eating breakfast is because he will have noth- ing but smiles for his stenographer when he gets down town.
 The average wife can tell you that many a man who was perfect baby when he was an infant has never out grown it.
 A small boys restlessness may get on your nerves during the day. But, gosh, how he can sleep when he gets to bed!
 The scientists are investigating the Ire markabe" case of a man who got mar ried and then resumed his bachelor ca- reer, forgetting in his lapse of memory that he had a wife. Huh! Nothing re- markable about it. There are mighty few married men who, when they get away from home, do not forget that they have wives.
 There weren't many divorces in the old days when friend wife hammered her ali mony out of friend husband with rolling pin.
 After doing business with some men I you get the idea that when they get to | hell they will try and sell old nick tar Hess pitch, sulphurless birthstone and burnless coal
 | A woman can have a good time by just sitting down and worrying because she
 has nothing else to worry about.
 Marriage is often ceremony in which a man signs over to woman the righl | to do his thinking for him. When a woman goes gunning with re
 volver she may not be able to hit the sid' | of a 10-story building, but she nevel
 misses a husband or an innocent by | stander.
 Most of us would be happier if we coule only choose our own way of being un happy.
 | And the man who marries girl wht
 has a pug nose is always sure of some thing turning up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19

1t is said that great many visitors to Washington during the inauguration will stay at Baltimore hotels on account of the District of Columbia's new dry law. Baltimore will have enough re treatments" on hand to supply the de- mand
 Many of the negroes who left the south for the northern cities are compelled to live in basements and dilapidated houses where they try to keep warm with oil stoves Small wonder that hundreds are dying of pneumonia and other dis eases.
 Having reached the conclusion that in- undation in case of attack might be too much of good thing. Holland is trying to restrain her righteous indignation against Germany.
 The attitude of most entente sympa- thizers is that the stories about scores of captured submarines lying chained to- gether in British harbors is too good to be true.
 Saying, "Go to Halifax," to a person nowadays has special significance. The British authoritie at Halifax are causing |. oil Iyiy
 
 Nothing Doing In the Angel Line" is the title of recent editorial. Reference is to real angels. The theatrical variety are still fairly numerous. * Speaking of glad tidings, those militia men along the border could hardly sleep for sheer joy when told that they were to be sent home.
 Nothing saddens movie fan more than to learn that his or her particular idol of the screen is not only married, but has children.
 Who. writes letter now? asks an eastern newspaper. Not the millionaire who has just been scorched in a breach of promise suit.
 * *
 If Lord Northcliffe is really displeased with Lloyd George the British public will hear of it through the Northcliffe newspapers.
 * *
 If coal in the east gets much higher in price, the ultimate consumer will have to buy fuel by the pound
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
QUEEN ELIZABETH

blonde, with that peculiar, transparent
 complexions. She inherited the long, slen-
 der. graceful hand of the Tudors which
 was so greatly admired.
 To what extent she would have em-
 ployed her woman's charm for the sake
 of the state had it not been feeding her
 conceit and craving for admiration is 2
 question. In her old age, Elizabeth for
 got that she was no longer the piquant
 beauty of days gone by, and continued
 to grin and cast flirtatious eyes upon
 the flatterers who sought to gain her fa-
 vor.
 Elizabeth, after all, was woman with Ia womans longing for the deeper, last
 ing affection and ties that accompany
 true love. Many condemn her, claiming
 a woman must be only half woman to
 use her nature as a tool. But when she
 could throw off the diplomatic restraints
 upon her. she gave free play to her deeper
 emotions, resting assured that all was
 well with England, and that being cared for, her personal happiness might be con-
 sidered.
 iOSS tachments, probably the most familiar Is
 Sir Walter Raleigh, whom she forbade to make further trips to America, as she could not bear to lose him from her court.
 The lone sincere passion of her life" was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester an Arrogant, general gallant, whose love for her was none the less genuine than hers for him. To be sure, Robert Dud- ley's wife, Amy. was for period the millstone around his neck. Elizabeth bore no resentment toward her lover for being so afflicted and after Amy's death the affectionate relationship, tender and near as 1t had been, was not altered That Elizabeth loved Leicester she ac- knowledged. That she had no heir, no son. was her sorrow, which she often openly deplored Surely. then, the only reason for her not having married Lei cester must have been due to her diplo- matic mind and intention of serving Eng land first.
 She knew that were she to bestow upon Leicester a position of command or con- trol she would be swayed by him and lose her complete queenship. As Eliza beth wanted their love free from compli- ca tions of state, she refrained from giv-l ing Leicester any important work to do. any mission to perform. ITO every one she rave some power at times--to all. save Leicester" And this because she loved him the more, and instinctively as we'll as rationally attempted to reduce | him to the more convenient role of mere man.
 One wonders whether Queen Elizabeth was altogether satisfied with her life. There seems so much that is pitiable in it. To have spent whole life in court ship that meant nothing-to have thrown aside the one love which would have re- ciprocated her emotion of depth and care and sincerity. One wonders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
DIFFERENCE IN BLoCKADEs

From the New York World.
 The various questions asked in an other column relative to the British blockade of Germany and the so-called German blockade of England are common to many minds less familiar with inter national law. They resolve themselves into the one question thus stated:
 If ship is given two weeks warning not to attempt to run the blockade and if it still persists in making the attempt, why, in reason and common sense, is it entitled to any additional warning?
 To ask this question is to ask why in- ternational law sharply distinguishes be- tween paper blockades and real block ades. Any ship proceeding against a merely declared blockade is and has been entitled to additional warning" if for no other reason than to determine the reality of the blockade.
 Neutral ships have headed and may now ish blockade. They are subject only to seizure as prize If caught by a superior force, and they further have the benefit of prize-court proceedings to determine if Confiscation should extend to ship or car go or to both. Human life on board is always respected. Such was the United States blockade of southern ports in the civil war There was the proclamation of blockade at the outset. There was then the additional warning to every ship caught and suspected of an intent or trying to run the blockade.
 The German ''blockade' of England is another thing. There is no mere seizure of ships as prize for confscation, and We concede to the submarine that innova- tion. But there is no additional warm ing" There is no opportunity left to cor rect mistakes if mistakes are made. There is no respect shown for human life and this is the great point we put at issue with Germany. It is a "blockade' of murder and terrorism, and nothing else
 The writer of the letter referred to is a lawyer, and he virtually asks us what is the difference between arresting ar alleged offender and taking him to court and shooting him dead on the spot. Fol most people that question may be trusted to answer itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
PATRIOTIC JUDGE

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 Irv. Cobb's old friend, Judge Priest" never did any homely and plain spoken thing with a better dramatic effect than did one of our Jersey justices. On the day when President Wilson notified Con- gress that he had handed Count Won Bernstorff his passports. The news was whispered to the judge by 8 court off cial. Gentlemen and fellow citizens" he said, interrupting tho proceedings of his court. "the President of the United States has informed the Senate and the House of Representatives that he has broken off diplomatic relations with the German empire. This trial will proceed after the janitor has hoisted the United States flag over the courthouse"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
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MARK TO THE RESCUE


 From the Pittsburg Post
 This is dated by the San Francisco Ar gonaut" back to the time when Mark Twain lived in Hartford, in the next block from Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Prof. Stowe.
 One cold and blustery winter morning, after an unusually heavy snowstorm. a neighbor, meeting Mark on the street slowly blowing his way through tho drifts with a corncob pipe in his mouth and snow shovel over his shoulder, asked him where he was bound.
 'Oh, just around the block--on an err rand of mercy" drawled Mark, removing the pipe from between his teeth and pointing over his shoulder with the stem of it. Mrs Stowe has just teiephoned me that Professor Stowe is under the weather this morning, and I'm on my way around there to shovel him out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
JERSEY QUAILv

From the New York Herald.
 There is something suspicious about MT. Henry Fords project of moving one of his plants to the Jersey meadows imme diately after announcing he is to build ''flivver" submarines. Perhaps the new terrors of the seas will be armor plated mosquitoes?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
HOTEL LOBBIES
wornt of War CIo.e at Hand

Worst Of War Close at Ban0
 The war in Europe shows no signs of abating in intensity, albeit the desire for and belief in early peace is growing among all the belligerents," said Henry Clews in his weekly financial review. Bitterness grows each day and all indi- cations point to resumption of hesttli- ties with the coming of spring upon g more destructive scale than ever.
 Evidently the worst is close at hand, and to the innumerable horrors already endured, that of starvation is now to be added; starvation, not of the belligerents only but of the millions of unfortunate noncombatants in Belgium. Poland, Ar menia, Siberia, etc. Human endurance must be approaching the end.
 As for the attempt to starve England with submarines that will prove futile, At most the results will not be worse than temporary inconvenience or de- privation of some articles of sustenanee. Great Britain had total ocean tonnage of nearly 20o00,000 before the war, or almost one half of the worlds total. The losses from the beginning of the war to the new submarine campaign were about 100000 tons, of which 2,50o,0o0 tons were British and the remainder neutral,
 These losses. however, have been very largely compensated for by new construe- tion, so that, according to an estimate of the United States shipping commits sioner, the net loss of worlds tonnage in January was about 100000 tons. Of late the output of new tonnage has been i'm increased in all parts of the world by high freights and prospects Of their continuance for long period ahead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
THE PEACE THAT ryRANrs MAKE

by James huBSetl loWell. The best guide from old to new is
 peace Yet, freedom. thou canst sanctify the
 sword Bravely to do whate'er the time de-
 mands, Whether with pen or sword. and not to
 finch, This is the task that fits heroic hands; So are truths boundaries widensd. inch
 by inch. do not love the peace which tyrants
 make; The calm she breeds let the swords light
 ming break! It is the tyrants who have beaten out Piowshares and pruning hooks to spears
 and swords. And shall pause and moralize and
 doubt? Whose veins run water let him mete his
 words!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19

BEGINNING THE DAA-be me' ciful. o God, unto all who neeu hnS mercy. and let the Angel ot Presence save the affHeteo' Thou the Strength of the weary tne Comfort of the sorro"iui' Friend of the desoiates the Hisn' oi the wandering, the Hope or the o' i,r. inc Savior of the lost, for ,resuS, sake. Amen.-BOok of Com- mon Worship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
Don't Catch Many stu.

No We don't have as many moon- shining cases as we used to-" said United States Deputy George Brown. And there's a reason. of course one reason may be that there are not so many moonshiners operating. Another is that the government has withdrawn the re- ward formerly paid to persons reporting illicit distilleries.
 ''The government used to pay a re- ward to men to help the government officials locate the distilleries, This re- ward has also been withdrawn. Natural ly, the men in the country don't spend as much time hunting the moonshiners as they once did. We get one now and then, but we certainly don't get as many as we used to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
Many Living Writers on Drama
WHIP BEHIND.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Henry Ford's one-man submarine is no doubt wonderful little thing, but is there no place on the back seat for fellows wife?