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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
SPIRITUALISM

communication and yet not admit U general negative, that such thing is nc cannot be. When MT. Rim demonstratt a number of the simpler methods of spi itualist imposture, he diminished the lik lihood of spiritualist claims. When offered money to any one who cou learn by spirit means the contents or secret letter from Dr. Hodgson he callt attention to the insufficiency of the e isting proofs. though in rather nee less way. since greater incentives ths his money already existed to make m' seek the missing indication But wht he called the whole spirit world as T vealed by mediums deception, he dart straight off the solid height of logic { dogmatic flyer of his own.
 Now. this is deplorable because whe the dogmatic mind gains hold the st dious open mind must go, Partisansh and majority opinion. excellent In me places. have never settled questions
 fact, such as whether the sun or ta earth moves, or whether the commus cable diseases are caused by microbe No mhjoritx vote will solSe the spiritu List problem 'fhe natter should rema in the stage of. investigation. until ( world reaches one way or another, Do urinary agitations on one side or the oth would bring a miscarriage of inquiry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
IN HOTEL LOBBES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Mary Garden and Ysaye Praise Hempel
 When Our Own Mary Garden was in Birmingham in December and I had the pleasure of entertaining her for the day had the opportunity of talk ing with her about a great many sing CTS" said Dolly Dalrymple. Among them, of course, was Frieda Hempel, which was quite natural as she is the bright particular star who will sing at the opening concert of the 'all-star concerts at the Jefferson theatre on Tuesday evening, February 1T.
 Tt was a dangerous risk to run, asking one great prima donna about another. and even halfway hoping that anything kind would be said. es- pecially so in the case of the adorable Miss Garden, whose sharp wit is too well known to need comment here. 1 was delighted when she said that she considered Frieda HempeI one of the greatest living artists.
 Her voice is beautiful Miss Gar den said. and she is an attractive wo- man besides. She wears beautiful gowns, and sings flawfessly.'
 ''The same lavish praise was be- slowed upon Miss Hempel by Ysaye the great Belgian conductor of the Cincinnati orchestra, when he was here. Among other things, Mir. Ysaye said, I've heard Frieda Hempel both in opera and concert and regard her as one of our greatest artists"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
~Here I Am.-

Sheriff Hide of Marshall county told me a good story while I was in Gadsden this week" said Erie Pettus, United States attorney. He stated that he had located wild cat still and went out to make raid. When he came near the spot he hid behind some bushes and the operators, four men, were busily engaged in getting things started. One of the men walked over to bush and pretended to call the sheriff, saying. Sheriff, we are all here and everything is going nicely. Come on out and see us.- They laughed over this little joke, but continued their work and they became hilarious as the work progressed. The sheriff in the meantime crawled up a little closer and the man went to the imaginary telephone the second time and when he said come on out, sheriff. MT. Hide pulled his gun on the men and said, There am. Talk about be- ing surprised, well that bunch was given the shock of their lives, but Sheriff Hide succeeded in arresting them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
LUKE MLuKE SAYS

Every wife knows that her huspand would have more money if he could say "No" when he is downtown the way he can say No when he is at home.
 Egotism is one of the few things that is willing to work overtime without de- manding a big bonus.
 And it would take aboutw $30o, ,o0C, 900 worth of yeast to cause some men to rise to the occasion.
 Another strange thing is that the fell low who always has his hand out never seems to be able to grasp an oppor- tunity.
 What has become of the O. f. man who used to wear pair of red knitted pulse warmers?
 Actors and authors imagine that they receive a lot of adverse criticism. But when it comes to getting knocks from critical hammers the stepmother is in class by herself.
 Why is it that a woman can't read the home paper without exclaiming: Well. for pittee's saker' about dozen times You may not believe it. but a deaf and dumb idiot is better company than a brilliant conversationalist who knows i, all. .N A man may have whiskers that must | be shaved every day. But he hasn't a round bale of hair that must be arranged artistically every day. One nice thing about being chronic worrier is that you are in no danger oi running out of raw material | Tell most any man the exact truth | about himself and he'll wan to lick you | for insulting him
 | No matter how well you do thing, you you will always find plenty of loafers who can tell you how it could be dont
 better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
NEW KING OF KURDISTAN

From .Turks-and Turks" by Theron J. Damon, in Asia"
 1H NvER was to become minister or IS Enver Bey, just turned Sl' was N all of sudden to be Enver pasba or General Enver, Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire. lzzee Pasha. a stalwart soldier, an Albanian of 55. who for several months hao been : shouldering the ignomlnious nroblems of the defeated TurKisn army would be set aside on the nor row to allow this youth to step into his place.
 Enver. the hairbrained! Six years before a handsome. almost pretty' 1ieutenant of 26, he awoke one morn ing to find himself famous. Flushing shy. modest to an extreme he was compelled to meet universal popular ity and acclaim, for he had been beralded as one of the twin heroes of | liberty. His face. with that Of Niazi' I the other "hero.' was emblazoned in every cofee-house and shop in the Iland-the man who had wrung con stitution from Abdul Hamid. HIS name was chanted by happy school children all over the Empire. Mill 1 lions of sedate grown people joined in, child-like and happy for the first time ! in thirty years. The Hamidian r.~ire was over. To the minimizing populace Enver and Niazi were re- lsponsible. In reality they were merely two individuals to whom Fate. in the form of real conspirators at Salonica. said: "Yours is to take the glory | At first Enver found glory-taking 1 somewhat difficult. He was so very modest. But, being handsome and in- telligent, he was soon sent up to Ser Hin as military attache. In the school of Prussian society he began to learn
 not to be so modest. Soon he couio take all the glory. Niazi. very dii- ferent character. fat-cheeked, coarse' ignorant, resigned from the army on account of his eyes" and retired to his l wild Macedonia hills. At the out break of the Balkan war in 1912, Niazi'
 when about to embark for Constahti- nopie, was murdered. and thus termi- mated an already sinister career. En-
 yer was to flourish without 2 rival
 1 The second Balkan war had meant
 the rurks' re-entrance into Adrianople' Enyey Bey at their head. That. and the subsequent treaty with Bulgaria
 made the Turks feel as cocky as if th.v had really come out victorious Thex issued beautiful London-en- Igraved postage stamps to celebrate their prowess and the triumphant
 lrirhteousness of their cause. Ssz
 months before. in January, 1913. had
 not Enver just back from Quixotic
 year in TripolD positively refused to
 give up Adrianople7 Had he not ridden
 down on the Sublime Porte. person.
 ally assassinated Nazim Pasha. Min
 ister of War. and compelled the octc-
 eenarian Grand vixier. KiamiI Pasha,
 to resign? Yes. but a few weeks later he set forth with an armada to clean the Bulgar army away from the shore sf the Sea of Marmora. He returned.
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after having made an egregious fail ure. and on May 30. in London, tfj Turks signed away Adrianople. Al the more, then, the return of Adrian ople was from Allah, Indeed. Ala did seem to favor Enver, for in Jun a month before his triumphal marc into Adrianople, events took place i the capital which seemed to threate the end of the Young Turk cliqu
 Mahmoud Shevket Pasha, the Gran Vizier who came into power throug Enver's assault on the Sublime Port was assassinated. That was part of plot ot do away with Enver and a his group. Shevket alone fell. TIT failure of the plan gave the people (
 Constantinople an opportunity to SC twelve of the conspirators danglin from between twelve tripods erected a public square. Among the dozen wa member of the imperial family. 1 Among the most sinister events ( | the dread year 1913 was the arriv; | in Constantinople of Liman won Sar ders. He came in December at th , head of a great German military mis { sion to reform the Turkish army was only few days until New Year when the secret was out. This missio was to take orders From Little Enve the Turkish Napoleon. who was to be come Minister of War.
 The significance of the won Sander l mission was that William the Secon had chosen Enver as his man. Enve however, with an insufferably growth egotism, soon considered William th Second as his man-not necessaril forever, but at least until E,nver, . | the head of a Turnanian Empire. es tending from the Adriatic Sea to tn deserts of Central Asia, should be abl to dispense with the war lord.
 When Europe mobilized in Angus 1914, Turkey immediately followe suit. But Turkey was penniless an exhausted and needed a chance recuperate from the economic disaste,
 of the Tripolitan and Balkan war
 There was just one explanation for hs 1 fooinardy course Enver was in tt l saddle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
DAWN IN THE DESERr

By Clinton Scollard. from High Tide Houghton Mifflin Co, copyright by Ger
 trude Moore Richards When the first opal presage of the morn Quickened the east, the good Merw2i And by his open tent door knelt an,
 prayed. Now in that pilgrim catavan was one Whose heart was heavy with dunn
 doubts. whose eyes Drew little balm from slumber Up an,
 down
 Ninsht-long he paced the avenues of san Twist tent and tent, and heard the jack
 als snarl, The camels moan for water. This on came
 On Msrwan s.,ss praying, and to him out CThe tortured spirit bursting it's scale fount As doth the brook of Damavend i spring. How knowest thou that any Allah is.'' Swift from the sand did Merwan Iii his face. Flung toward the east an arm of knotte bronze, And said as upward shot a shaft of goi6 '.Dost need torch to show to thee . dawn?">
 Then prayed again When on the deserts rim In sudden awful splendor stood the sum Through all that caravan there vas . knee
 But bowed to Allah
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
Thoughts Inspired
 By a Domino Game

A wELL-KNowN film service < S has supplied it's newspaper pa- irons with picture of Representa- tive Walsh of Massachusetts and "Uncle Joe" Cannon seated at a able playing dominoes. The picture is enti- tied, Washington Domino Champs"
 MT. Walsh is smoking meditative cigar. Of course no picture of .Uncle Joe" would be authentic without cigar stuck in one corner of his mouth and gripped in that ag- gressive way for which he is famous. The lines under this placid study of congressional life in Washington in form the hasty reader that, "Repre- sentative Walsh is considered the title holder of the capital, but Uncle Joe is ahead this winter"
 How gratifying to observe the quiet enjoyment of the two repub- lican statesmen, who are able to de- vote their undivided attention to a domino game while the world, as the democratic campaign committee sol- emnly ayers, is on fire What was Nero with his fiddle, his Tyre or whatever instrument he used on the occasion authorities differ as to that-when Rome was ablaze, com pared to republicans who can play poker, dominoes and politics while the world conflagration incarnadines the heavens and may have aroused the Martians to make another at tempt to establish communication with the earth and perchance offer assistance or advicel
 "Uncle Joe" and his domino ad- versary symbolize a do-nothing re- publican Congress, which has frit- tered away priceless time, disap- pointed the hopes of humanity and halted the onward march of civiliza- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
Give the Black Man
 His Day in Court
THE AGE-HERALD's

THE AGE-HERALD'S Montgom- o cry correspondent states that Horace Chisholm, condemned to death in Jefferson county for trying to snatch white woman's purse, has been granted a new trial The state failed to produce evidence that note alleged to have been written by the negro, which figured largely in the trial, had been compared with his own handwriting.
 The note in question contained a threat against white people, which any half educated and irresponsible negro might write after being sub jected to some of the petty abuses that certain class of whites delight in, probably on the theory that they are showing their superiority ovel their victims. The convicted mar gets a new trial on technicality, but the death sentence was much too se we're a penalty for the crime witl which he was charged.
 At the time the verdict wa, brought in by Jefferson count, jury The Age-Herald commented o, the trial as miscarriage of justice anw>two members of the jury, typica negro baiters, the kind of men wh, are chiefly responsible for the con tinuation of race friction in tn, south, were highly incensed and ever threatened to @get even" with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
Jefferson County's Large
 Growth and Population

V1TS HE figures indicating this coun- \ tvs population are all in Gen. sus Supervisor Cruikshank's office, but they will not be compiled in the census bureau and made public for several weeks yet. Conservative es- inmates have placed the total at three hundred and fifty thousand. In 1910 the country's population was two hundred and twenty-six thousand. In the decade just past the increase has undoubtedly been large and steady.
 How will Birmingham come out in the census? Some guesses are as high as two hundred and forty thou sand. Two hundred and fifteen thou sand will be safer guess.
 Two hundred and five to two hun- dred and ten thousand is the estimate of the telephone exchange, the school board and the postoffice.
 Last years city directory ;ndi- eated a population of two hundred and fifteen thousand This included about five thousand people immedi- ately outside of the. municipal lines. This years directory will show a con- siderable gain, of course.
 1t used to be that city directories were padded and their "census" ridiculedS but it is not so in these latter days. The compilers of the Birmingham directory are noted for their painstaking methods, and go above the population mark little, if any. If the government census gives us close around two hundred and Fifteen Thousand, it will be a good .indica- tion of the accuracy of the directory count.
 | A population of two hundred and ten thousand or two hundred and fif- teen thousand will not be a bad showing for a city that was credited with only thirty-eight thousand four hundred and fifteen inhabitants twenty years ago.
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 The battleship Idaho established a new target record for the Pacific fleet by max. ing nine bulrs-eyes in ss shots with l4-inch l guns. To the man who shoots clay pig. cons that may not look like expert marks. manship. but every time a shell from a l4-inch gun hits the mark in naval war fare it destroys tremendous amount ol property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
Effort to Eliminate
 Alcohol From Medicine

1T0 HE South Atlantic regional con-
 O ference of the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union in session al Macon, Ga., will make an effort to eliminate alcohol from all medicine and from physicians prescriptions.
 The union, composed of good, ear nest women, has had large part in making the country dry, but the lat est proposal will hardly succeed, The prohibition laws as they stand are drastic enough to satisfy the average enemy of the liquor traffic.
 Moreover, the elimination of alco- hol from all prescriptions would moi be practical. It is essential in the compromising of necessary drugs Only now pure whisky is being pre- scribed literally by the medical pro fession for influenza.
 Prohibition with reasonable excep- tions in cases of sickness might be accepted by the bulk of people, but any measure such as that which some of the members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union pro pose would be sure to cause reac- tionary feeling in prohibition circles Far-visioned leaders will counsel letting we'll enough alone. Many con. servative friends of temperance be. lieve that it would have been wise il total abstinence societies and the | Woman's Christian Temperance Union in beginning their work hae made their crusade on John Barley corn and left out of their pledges abstinence from beer and wine. Witt ouCi q pOitCJ III 1OlIS, WHlohy WOuAt have approached the vanishing poin long ago. But this question is nov merely academic.
 The elimination of alcohol iron medicinal preparations will neve prevail, any more than the prohibi tion of tobacco will be enacted int, law.
 | Virginia, where the Woman Christian Temperance Union has fo Emany years had stronghold, is nov moving through the legislature to es tablish and operate a state distiIler. for the manufacture of whisky to b used for medicinal purposes-a pin for sick person every ten days. I the pending bill carries, many othe states will follow the Old Dominion example: Such things show ho, public sentiment is relaxing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
ship by Truck.

The motor truck is becoming more and more popular every year. stated William J. Chapman. manager Service Motor Truck Company, Wabash. Ind, and the use of them in all large and a number of small businesses is fast being adopted. The ship by truck movement is meeting with much suc- cess in many of the northern and eastern states and especially where the roads are most perfect
 T was told that the dealers in Bir- mingham were taking up the ship by truck movement, and this seems to be about the best time to start it, while the good roads movement is ir progress
 Should the people of Jefferson county and the state of Alabama vote favorably on the bond issue fol good roads, and I believe they will the ship by truck movement will hay, a good chance to materialize in thi: l section and also other parts O Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
UNNECESSARY EXPOSURE

From the Home Sector.
 It happened at an inspection in France in the days before delousers became wide ly patronized social centers The eagle eyed top had discovered large. healthy cootie. parading up private's blouse.
 What the dng-dang-dong do you mean letting that thing stay there?" he ex- ploded.
 The dougrboy carefully picked the ani- nal off and tucked it inside.
 Get in there, you little fool" he scold- ed. Want to catch pneumonia?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
DISCOURAGED.

DISCOURAGED. Some time ago fair promises Were made that living's cost Would be reduced and profteers Would into jail be tossed. These pledges greatly cheered our hearts We found it hard to wait Tin those who had put prices up Cursed their unhappy fate. The weeks have flown. the months have
 too,
 And now it seems to me A proffteer behind the bars I'll never live to see.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
rHE pEMocRAr1C ARMY

From the Home Sector. The Y. NJ. c. A. hut at back home camp was crowded with soldiers for the evenings entertainment. At the close of the first act the secretary in charge called from the stage:
 ,"Is Abraham Kinkelstein in the house ?''
 A voice in the rear shouted:
 "No, he is over with the Knights of Columbus"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07

contrary to the law, but 1t is inexcusable in civilized community. There lis no more reason why the average gun-toter should be a walking arsenal than there would be for him to go about town drag ging machine gun A Montgomery reader writes: "so you say in The Age Herald of Thursday Very well, then, if consistency means anything in prohibition Alabama, a law should be framed prohib- iting the manufacture and sale of pistols except for mechanical, medicinal and ec- clesiastical purposes" This sounds req sonable.
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 A Philadelphia woman with fists, feet, poker and scalding water routed twenty two officers who invaded her home to take away some installrnent furniture Let the eagle scream and the people rule And while we are about it. the significant thought occurs to us that the lady's name is Gallagher.
 Newspapers publish a great deal of drivel but they have fairly outdone thenn- selves in the case of the Baltimore Spi- kers and the English war worker who strayed from the straight and narrow path.
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 A New York man was given $45oo py a court for the loss of his wife to another man. The sum was less than he asked for. but since his wife was the kind who is more of liability than an asset. he did not fare so badly.
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 Count von Bernstorff is said to have been astounded when he learned that his name was among the German war criminals demanded by the allies. Regis- tering innocent amazement is the counts long suit The king of chicagos gunmen was shot down in front of his home the other day, but there was probably somebody to step into his place, so it was merely another case of ''The king is dead. Long live the kingP' Sir Oliver Lodge says the suggestion that the inhabitants of some other planet may be trying to communicate with the | earth by wireless telegraphy is nonsense. People are saying the same thing about Sir Divers spook messages + < v Remembering the old adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, Llfyd George declined to commit himself on the treaty squabble in the United States Senate.
 Secretary Daniels says Admiral Sims has fought two wars at his desk. And if he had to, Josephus might be able to pro- duee the identical swivel chairs the ad- miral sat in.
 | 1 The son of an English earl was found working as chorus boy in London revue. which lends color to the report that the English nobility have reached an advanced stage of decay. l x * $ | An eastern contemporary says, win ter shows his teeth" Winter seldom snarls in the sunny south. but when he does all the water pipes freeze and plumb CTS are uncomfortable.
 # # x Arriving in Houston, Irwin Cobb re- marked that Jack Dempsey is siacke, and William Jennings Bryan a habit All who agree with Irv. will please say Aye"
 IT Lord Grey were to return to Wash ] ington, the chances are he wouldn't b, ] received at the White House, even though President Wilson were in perfct health.
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 Paper clothing is now pronounced z success. Still, the knowledge that you are wearing a paper suit is enough to ere I a 0f Aorx
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man who wrote the offending para graph.
 The ignorant, narrow-minded juror, blinded by race prejudice. is a curse to the south.
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PERTINENT ILLUSTRATIONS What have you there?"
 "A booklet entitled. Short cuts Riches
 An! see there's a mountain of d' lars on the cover. To be consistel there should be the picture of penite tiary on the back PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
A SOLUTION DIFFERED

From the Florida Times-Union. The dishonorable discharge of Rear Ad- mira1 Sims from the service would go long way towards clearing up the navy
 tangle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
A.THEoR1sr.

A.THEoRIsT
 ''Did your boy take kindly to fat life after he left coIleger'
 ~Yes." said cobbles. He was [ durned much that way"
 How soT'
 He came back with a lot of ne' fangIed notions about how to run a far an seemed to think tn old home pla was justfth sort of experiment stati he'd been lookin' for. an me an hired man were just tn fellers to do work"
 A DISASTROUS DEMONSTRATIONS
 Are you interested in this new thec of gravitation? ?"
 Nc" replied MT Jagsby, souriy. have a good reason to believe that { kind of grayitation learned about school is still in force. Last night as was climbing my cellar stairs with r last remaining quart of Scotch I stui bled and dropped the bottle to the co crete floor