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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
A TWICE-SOLD TALE

ton, and returned to New York in 1S42. He never regained his footing. Mrs. Poe died in 1547, and he drifted further from his moorings The growing dark ness of his life was illumined by The Bells and "Ulalume" before he was found wandering. delirious in the streets of Baltimore and committed to the hospital where the lamp of his genius flickered it's last. He was in such straits in 184S that he might have snatched at any opportunity. He died in October, 1S49. It was after the sew erance of his connection with Grahams Magazine after the failure of the Broadway Journal, of which he was the executive head, and when he was neith- CT proprietor nor salaried ed1tor' when he was more than knee deep in the Slough of Despond. that the Lady's Book published his story of the voyage of the Skylark.
 If it is not true literally that Poe worked for $1o week upon one CT another of the magazines or that ME. Godey took advantage of his tempera- ment and circumstances and paid him only 50 cents a page, he was as poor in 1S4S and in 1S49 as if he never had received more than s10 week. If he l sold one idea twice it was his idea, at any rate, and even in the slough he i held to stricter moral standard than 1 writers, revampers of the ideas of oth- CTS. It must be admitted, however, that | there were no magazine writers in Poes lifetime whose ideas he could have used without lowering the stan dard of his work There is none today who would not gain new fame and upon
 it flourish till discovered, if he should steal firetipped arrow now and agoin from the ample quiver of Edgar Allan Poe and shoot his shaft athwart the pages of a contemporary magazine, 1 through the hard head and soft heart of the editor whose policy" is sooth-
 ing themes with happy endings.
 The Sun. no doubt. can say whether the frequently republished statement
 that Poe's Flight" was published in its columns in 1s44 is accurate That it
 has been republished so frequently is Illustrative of the fact that Poe's ideas.
 even when he was not, in his character
 istic mood, etching red horrors upon
 an ashen sky, are so well worth repeti- tion that knight of the pen must bs
 pardoned if he twice collected a paltry
 sum for the same story. his patron. Mir. Godey believing it fresh when he
 bought it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
AUTHORS

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner
 A man who publishes book is an au. thor. If he goes out to lunch he is intro duced as an author, and gets credit there- by. If he lives in a small town the local paper mentions him frequently, and ar- ways with pride Generally he gets into Who's Who in America" Why? Tn other professions success de- termines popular estimation. A man is not looked up to because he sells bonds. but because he sells lot of bonds. A lawyer who gets few cases and loses those is not highly regarded just because he is a lawyer.
 As matter of fact, it takes as much brains and more self-control to refrain from publishing book as it does to writG most books. Anybody who could prove that he had produced a novel and had l then burned it. or put it away in drawe, ought to be mentioned in literary dis patches. | But if he prevails on a publisher tr bring it out, he has in most cases merely added to the gloom of nations.
 There are more than 1000 novels pub lished every year in this country. That averages one every eight hours. Prob i ably 50 are rejected for every one pub lished. This means that somewhere sonn, mighty Casey is striking out the last lin, Of his volume every 10 minutes-mourn full thought!
 If you have a friend who is writing { book. discourage him. Tell him abou the necessity today of more good me chanics. Tell him that if he gets pub fisher you will remain his friend, bU you will refuse to admit that you eve heard of his book; you will treat 1t like
 scandal and hope that people will for get it.
 If he persists in spite of such discour
 agement, there may really be somethin'
 in him.
 If he turns to some other task. you vii
 have saved to starving society an ap
 preciable amount of very much neede' paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Chamber of Commerce
 Membership Campaign.

lNllOT many campaigns have been G N so well organized and so suc- cessful as that for rolling up large membership in the Birmingham Cham Der of Commerce.
 Already 1900 new members have been enrolled and the campaign has three more days yet to run. By the end of the week the total membership will probably pass the 2oOQ mark.
 The Chamber of Commerce has done good work in the past, but with great ly increased numerical strength, which means increased revenue, its upbuilding and activities will be more |far-reaching than ever.
 Birmingham is growing rapidly, and that fact accounts in an appreciable measure for the success of this drive, but the get-together spirit is more Tn evidence than ever in past years, and that is the chief reason of our speed ing up.
 With ample income, President R. A Brown and the other officials cooper ating with him in the Chamber will lachieve wonders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

Celebrating the fact that their work was done, subordinates of the German peace delegation at Versailles sang the 'Marseillaise" and shouteh 'fHurrah for France! Hurrah for Germany" It will take more than song and a few cheers to restore the entente cordiale.
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 Returning soldiers have a way of re- ferring to one another as birds" It shouldn't be done. None of those fell lows ever did anything to indicate that they had feathers on their legs.
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 If Germany is permitted an army of only 100000 men, citizens of Berlin will be able to stroll about the streets with out being jostled every few feet by a soldier.
 Aren't we a trifle beforehand in abandoning our naval expansion pro- gramme, with centers of unrest scat tered all over Europe and parts of Asia?
 Huns at Coblenz were forced to sa- lute "Old Glory" Benighted races should be taught to recognize the greatest flag on earth when they see it..
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 The "agrarian menace" we take it, is something more serious than a farmer hitting the high spots along a country road in his flivver.
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 Won Ludendorff admits that the Americans turned the tide of war against Genrmay. which makes it al- most unanimous
 A bill has been introduced in Con- gress to make it unlawful to take a drink in an automobile. A blow aimed at the joy rider.
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 Househou1d hint: A few quarts of liquor may be stored in the furnace with some degree of safely during the summer months. # # x Possibly that German printing train carried to Versailles was intended as belated illustration of Hun eff. ficiency
 # # 1 One hundred years from now museum sightseers will stand before the "NC-4, the first flying boat to cross the At lantic.
 # x x I Here's hoping that none of the TO cent college graduates will ever TO | gard a diploma as excess baggage. x * +
 Steps have already been taken to pu the pellet jag" beyond the reach 0 the ultimate consumer. | x # :s
 The passing of the bolsheviki vii not be mourned in Petrosrad, if brings food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Little Effort Made
 To Cure Epilepsy

TN an address delivered at the West 4 Virginia State Medical association Dr. Charles A. L. Reed of Cincinnati, former president of the American Medical association, declared that there are probably more than 250,000 epneptics in the United States, that the number is increasing, that the economic loss from this source is more than $125, 100000 annually and the states generally are making no at tempt to care for and treat their cpl leptics in accordance with the latest discoveries of medical science.
 Dr. ReA says five years have elapsed since the discovery was an- nounced that epilepsy is caused "by conditions within the abdomen, o1 which constipation is leading symp- tom.o In spite of this recent knowl. edge, attested by the experience anc observation of the medical profession only a few institutions in the country are trying to cure their inmates.
 In a personal letter to The Age Herald Dr. Reed asserts that the con ditions he speaks of exist "in som' degree in absolutely every state in thu union." The matter will be brough before the American Medical associa tion when it meets at Atlantic Cit. next month, and it is hoped that mem bers of the profession will come pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Campaign For Great
 State Bond Issue.


 M7OTHING should be more obvi- 4 NJ ous than the value of trunk highways of the best class of con- struction, and the proposed bond issue of $25, ,O00, ,000 for building a great system should meet with little or no opposition in the legislature. But to make the passage of the bill doubly sure we'll organized and vigorous campaign of education will be in or der. Such a campaign will soon be under headway.
 Earl Lay has been made executive secretary of the Alabama Highway Improvement association, which will push the educational work, and as the $25 ,OOo,OO will come out of the auto mobile license, and therefore will cost the taxpayer nothing, mere explana- tion should be all that is necessary to develop public sentiment and induce practically unanimous action on the part of our lawmakers. The federal government will match every dollar the state contributes. With 5O,OO0,OO0 expended on trunk roads, the counties will be left free to build connecting neighborhood roads. Our highways will not only be of the motor truck type, paved and wide, but provision will be made for permanent maintenance. Nevermore will we have road out of repair, if the policy of the highway improvement associa- tion is carried through.
 Alabama will be second to no state lin the south in good roads. The forth looming campaign will be short. Let's Isee to it that it is earnest and aggres. lsive.
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 Talk may be cheap. but not in ths case of the Chicago Tribune. which il being sued for sl.ooo,ooo for calling Henry Ford an anarchist * * *
 A panic among bolshevik leaders il Petrograd is reported. However. seems they had foresight enough t. carry off state funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Authorities Take Notice.

'Tt is impossible that dead dog
 will be permitted to remain on thor
 oughfare in oity like Birmingham for
 several days without beng removed"
 said E. F. Ellis, but such is the case,
 for few days back one was killed on Avenue D along about Twenty way to town from Mountain Terrace on Wednesday morning it was still there. It is a most unsightly thing to see dead animals surrounded by flies. I am not saying that city authorities are at fault unless they were notified, but it does seem as if someone in the neighborhood would have called up the garbage wagon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
It Is Tough.

'T hear folks talking great deal about rain sets in that it is going to ruin tho crops by making them grassy while others who have vegetable and flower gardens or cars and want the dust laid are glad to see it; but the thing I hate about the downpours are the ones that come around base ball tirpe and makes a fellow who has taken the trouble to get out to Redwood park draw rain check"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Attracting Attention
 Outside the State.

~ EORGIA is following Alabama's s M plan of cooperative market ing. The splendid work of our farm CTS is attracting much attention.
 The director of the extension ser- vice says that recent publication was made in which Pickens county handled carload shipments of sor- ghum, peas and hogs in co-opera- tive way. It met the eye of a field ,agent of the Agriculture Department at Washington and as a result the district agent at the Georgia State Industrial has been made acquainted with the marked success of Alabama $ cooperative activities, with the sug. gestion that the methods employed here be followed in Georgia.
 Many counties in Alabama are now aroused to high degree of enthusi asm on cooperative shipments. Pick ems is one of the largest producers ane one of the most progressive counties in marketing. It is increasing 1T wealth and is fine example to al lthe, counties less forward-going.
 The benefit to Alabama by the ex tension service cannot be overesti mated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
FLIMsY CRAFT

"An airplane on the stage. A touch of realism, ehT'
 ITO unscientifc minds replied the studious looking man. "I'm glad for the sake of our bold aviators that none of them will ever try to fly across the Atlantic in the kind of airplane a stage carpenter puts together"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, I crave the gift of refinement, of deI- icacy, of close discrimination. Give me a sharp sense of right and wrong. Give me the courage to be true to the faintest trembling of the needle. Make me sensitive to the rights of others. Grant me a gen. uine desire to understand. Amen. H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
UNFEEL1NG FATHER

Have the Blithersbys named thsir new twins yet?"
 "Yes, but they were not given nu names applied to them by Mir Blita- ersby when they first arrived"
 What did he call the precious pair Trouble and More of It."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Member of the Associated Press

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatc herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LIFE'S DRAMA

IlFE'S DRAM A All the worlds stage" Thus opined the bard; Every man you meet Thinks his part is hard. Now and then a star Speaks line or two, Gathers some applause And is lost to view. Those who rave and rant, Those who silence keep, Shortly pass away
 To oblivion deep. There is much of toll, Tears and smiles and strife For the great and small In the play called Life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs bild- ing
 European bureau. 10 King street, Covent Garden. London, W. c. 2
 Eastern business office, World build ing, New York city; western business office. Tribune building, Chicago. The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29


 From the World Outlook According to the 1910 census, tho United States had 12.s5o,oS4 foreign born men and women within it's ocr- ders; about 4.500,00o have entered the country since that date. , But while the foreign-born popula- ton has increased in all but three states. the proportion naturalized has
 actually dropped.
 The number of those unable to read or write any language has risen frcm l,2s7,135 to 1,65o,361. Only one out Of 35o is sufficiently interested in learn | ing our language to attend nigbt I school The church has made comparatively little effort to break through this wall Of
 the spoken word. Every alien who leaves our shores becomes. unconsciously,
 missionary either for or against our ] type of democracy.
 1 The fact that the foreign born resi- dent may acquire. without much diff culty. voice in the nations internal affairs, makes it doubly imperative that he be able to comprehend oar l principles.
 The church cannot be satisfied with anything but an evangelism which l reaches into every phase of the immi' l grants life.
 I As long as there is factory which omito safety devices. an employment agency which collects exorbitant fees a loan shark who preys upon tho Ignorance of women. or row of tene. ments which has earned the reputa' tion of lung block," the church nat a clear-cut duty before it. 1 boys club formed many years ast in connection with a Boston Method
 ist .Episcopal church illustrates tht far reaching results of the influence O jwork among immigrant children. En- ,j couraxed by their leader. many of then I continued their education instead 2 going to, work at an early age, as dit
 so many of their little comrades To
 lday. the alumni of that little club in
 clude doctor, dentist. an attorney
 a high school principal. a professor o Latin at Harvard, writer on New
 iYork daily, a man who has made
 fortune in the sugar trade, and judg
 of the juvsnile court Practically al the members have reached places ,
 distinction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
TEE TED1oNIC FRAME OF NJ,

FRAME OF MIND From Shakespeares s King Richard IT,
 Of comfort no man speak Let's talk CT graves. of worms. and epi-
 taphs; Make dust our paper and with ralny Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills; And yet not so: for what can we be-
 queath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ! Our land. our lives, and all our Boiling broke's, And nothing can we call our own but 44 death, And that small model of the barren Which serves as paste and cover to eul
 bones
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
An.av1taMaAansll.

THE DOWN-TRODDEN PUBLIC From The Florida Times Union. The public pays the cost of all strikes and of everything else,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time, And drawing days ont, that men stand upon.
 Julius Caesar.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
STARING THE ROD

SPARING THE ROD
 Now that you are getting along admit that the sessions you had with your father in the woodshed did you a lot of good"
 No" answered the elderly citizen You see, my father didn't really be- lieve in corporal punishment and many a time when I deserved a licking he let me argue him out of doing his duty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
NOT IN THE RUNNING

NOT IN THE RUNNING How are you getting along with Miss Teacher these days?" Not well, I'm afraid She wants to put me back on a pre-war basis" What does she mean by that?'' q don't know exactly, unless she discounts the IS months I spent in France
 IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO -- Does Professor Diggs know the standing of the home team?" q fear not. Professor Diggs Is trifle behind the times" "Yes?"
 But I dare say he could name all of Babylonia's most famous pinch hitters without once referring to his books
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Good Roads Enth usiast

'I am greatly interested in the good
 roads movement, not only in Alabama and the south, but all over the country
 said Major w. M. McKleroy, the well
 known banker of Anniston, and that
 was the reason I ran over to attend
 meeting of the committee called in BIT mingham to arrange to finance the cam
 paign to put into effect the recent pro
 gnmme of the Alabama Good Roads as sociation held in Birmingham. From the first I was an automobile enthusiast ana was among the earliest users of cars Tn the state. My love for the open road has grown with the improvement of the va rious pleasure motor cars and of the highways. If there was first class road- way between Anniston and Birmingham i it would be pleasure to run over more
 frequently. hope the people of the state are going to get in behind the campaign for better roads with enthusiasm so that
 work can be done at the earliest possible moment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange The Age-Herald will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE E-HERALD.
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

GOING TO LOOK HIM UP
 That fellow Clipping called me old silenus.'" remarked Mir Jagsby. "He seemed to think 1t a great joke"
 What are you going to do about itr
 T haven't decided yet. I have for Silenus, but have an idea that he was neither a pillar in the church nor an ornament to society"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Declines secretaryship.

DecuneS Secretaryship.
 T am greatly disappointed that Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, professor of history at the Southern Baptist Theological semin- ary, Louisville. Ky, who came to con fer with some of the pastors and lay men of the Birmingham district on Mon day in regard to the acceptance of the secretaryship of the Education board, to have it's headquarters here, to which ne was elected by the Southern Baptist con vention, was futile," said Dr. J. h. Hobbs, pastor of the First Baptist church. Upon his arrival he frankly informed us that his mind was practl- cally made up to turn it down as he was en route to Furman university at Greeh- vile, S. C., to talk over the matter oi Ieccepting the presidency of it. we brought all the pressure we knew no" to bear upon him and he left with ms mind unsettled, but evidently the South Carolina Baptists bewitched him, TOT telegram came to me saying that ne hau made up his mind definitely to head the Baptist school at Greenville It is a source of deep regret that Dr. McGlothln oe- clined. A meeting of the board will proo- ably be called to meet here on or about June 10, to take up the matter of organ izing and selecting a secretary. It nao been hoped to call it earlier, but con flicting meetings of the Home board ana other committees in Atlanta for the tirst week in June necessitats a later day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

No communication win be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

From the Louisville Courier Journal. 1N DELEGATION by the Courier
 IN Journal of a reference to Edgar
 4 Allan Poe's "Flfght Across the Sea-" published in the New York Sun in 1S44, evokes from "L. H. Az Louis- vile reader, the question: Where did you get your information?''
 Says our correspondent:
 Poe must have been fond of the dirigible subject. In copy of Godey's Ladys Book, date of February. 1s4s, he publishes a story called 'Mellonta | Tauta, which, he says in foreword was curious manuscript found by him ! floating in a bottle in the Mare Tene- ! brarum and translated by his friend, | Martin Van Buren Mavis. He calls the ! balloon the Skylark, and dates the sup posed manuscript April l.. 284S. I won der if he was paid twice for the same | ideaw
 l Our neighbor, the Frankfort State
 Journal, addressing itself few days 1 ago to the subject of the profits of writings nowadays and formerly, as- l i editor his salary was $1o week and I that he contributed to Godeys Mag azine at half-dollar page.
 Godey's Lady's Book was published in Philadelphia by Louis Antoine Godey, publisher of the Daily Chronicle from l1S30 through and until dozen years after the Civil war. In the garret of nearly all Kentucky homes which housed readers of select periodicals be- tween the thirties and seventies there
 are at least few copies of the Lady Book containing, among other things full-page engravings illustrating Phila-
 delphia fashions, the rule rather thar
 the exception a lady in green gowr
 advancing and lady in pink gowr retreating, that the ambitious imitatol
 might have a fore and aft idea of wha1
 should be worn.
 Poe left the New York Quarterl, l Review in or about 1889 because it , and he and his family, were getting , hungrier with each issue, and removed , to Philadelphia, accepting position , with the Gentleman's Magazine. Afte his "Tales of the Arabesque and Gro |, tesque' were published, and when hi
 fame as a poet was growing, he becam
 member of the staff of Graham
 Magazine. His contributions and MI IGrahams business head increased tn ) circulation of the magazine tenfol' 2 within two years. But he resigned tn ? editorship of Graham's because of hi ! restless temperament and his dissipa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

Entered at the Birmingham, Aid-' postoffice as second-class matter un- der act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

I had rather interesting experience in the old fair grounds, which had been 8 place for popular shows for many years. During my student days I recall how Buffalo Bilrs outfit spent some time in it giving daily exhibitions. h the afternoons I used to loaf around the grounds and watch the various scenes of activity.