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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
A Mistress of Mystery
From The New York Herald.

From The New York Herald.
Everybody who likes book for the story
will join us today in offering felic. ati0ps 30
Anna Katherine Green, whose se1 snty-f6th
birthday it is. Those thousands or millions
whose days have been frightened by her novels
viii add sigh of regret that there is not an
other thriller of her liko
We are not sure that Mrs. Rohlfs, as the nov
eist is known socially, is the most voluminous
of living Americans; but we are positive that
no other living American novelist has made so
many persons sit up many nights to finish
a tale From 1878, when 1.-THE Leavenworth
Case" was published, until now, we doubt
whether there has been an evening when some
Of Mrs. Rohlfs' stories were not causing thrills,
and maybe chills, to inhabit thousand spines.
The finicky encyclopedias say that Anna
Katherine Green appeals to ga large if uncriti-
cal public" WE'LL then, hooray for the large
if uncriticaI public which, by buying her books
in carloads, encouraged her to go writing
mystery stories and putting back into life some
of the joy which the hypercritical critics took
out All that the critics could say against her
books was that, in the rush of the story, the
rapid clicking of the plot and the swift dance
of the characters she forgot style. Fortunate
it would be, for the comfort of humanity in
the long winter evenings to come, if some of
our novelists would write without fancying that
Style peered over shoulder and Critic
over the other.
Anna Katherine Green has been tale writer,
with no pretense to being anything else. She
has let her great contemporary, Mr.. Hardy,
take care-of the cosmic snarl while she at
tends to crime tangles. She takes deserted
house or an isolated inn, adds some pine trees
and mournful wind, packs in feud, tri-
angle, a shot in the night, weird woman in
black, choking cry and singular footprint in
the snow-and sends for her detective. At
o'clock in the morning the reader closes the
book. looks apprehensively around his chair and
sneaks to bed, shuddering but content. Maybe
it isn't art, but it is story telling.
Mrs Rohlfs has written at, least 80 stories
of mystery and it is certain that her readers
could stand 80 more-all written to please the
audience rather than the critics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
MR.. WELLS ON WORLD PEACE
nm The Now York World.


From the logic of H. G. Wells second article,
which the World prints today, there is no es-
cape. But life is not logical. The full cur
rent of human events does not blast its way
straight through obstacles; it flanks them in
sinuous course History is one long record of
illogical compromises sought where action
might, in theory, hav ecut the core of truth;
and the end is not yet.
Some day-so we must hope, or DESPAIR of
humanity uttery-the full understanding of
brotherhood between men of different speech
and race will prevail, but that will only be when
public sentiment and public opinion permit
The very goal of internationalism premises ma
tionalism as a step in development for the
tribe the village and the clan. Meantime there
may be wisdom in the saying that half a loaf
is better than no bread. The Washington
conference can fall short of ideal international
ism and yet fail to justify Mr.. Wells judgment
that in that case ait were better than the Wash
ington conference never gathered together"
The union of American states is taken as an
example of what the states of the world must
do. We who live in that union do not regard
it as failure because it took IA years of war
and heated political agitation to reach the stage
of constitutional government, and 76 years
longer and great and terrible civil war to
Danish the theory of state sovereignty, which
might be compared with the nationalism of to-
day, and affirm the power and prerogatives
of the central government. We are content
that freedom slowly broadened down." be-
cause that was freedoms way, and it would be
idle to complain of fact.
1t is the great merit oi Mr.. Wells articles
that they dig down deep to fundamental fact,
compel thought and provoke discussion. We
may agree that the world needs "a Pax Mundi,
federated world CONTROL" that can as effect
lively keep any single nation in order as the
American union proved able to do. But we
shall not wholly despair of humanity if it still
turns its back upon logic and approaches the
desired end by the slow, the wasteful but the
accustomed method of trial and error, of ap-
Proclamation, of compromise and evolution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From The Chicago News.
Money and poor relations are the two roots Of
some evils
Probably TIE mule kicks because his owner
doesn't use tractor.
Give a woman half chance and she will
proceed to Boast Of her ailments.
The man who "also ram in a political race
usually has an empty purse as a souvenir.
No, Beatrice, astronomers do not scour the
heavens for the purpose Of polishing the stars.
Children cease crying for the moon sometimes
before they are big enough to want the earth.
An optimist may be person who invests
in gold brick every time the opportunity pre-.
sents itself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

From Leslie's Weekly.
The name his father gave him was burned
away in the battle-fire We are christening
him anew from the font of Immortality. He
who fell in the dark valley is borne through
the portals Of his home amid the weeping of
many mothers, the saluting of comrades, the
booming of cannon--beloved because he was
lost, renowned because he is unknown.
His unwritten story is now deathless legend.
President and pickaninny, ambassadors and
famed heroes, bend above his grave in kindred
gratitude He may have been the darling of
genius. He may have been the humblest of
toilers. But however he may have lived, he
died as an American, and he died well.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
THE ONLY THING TO DO

"Co-operative marketing on business-like
basis is the only hope of the farmer to measure
up to the organized business interests now
handling his products" said Dr. ]. B. Vines.
81 am strong for the cooperative movement
in Alabama that was begun at the meeting in
Birmingham Saturday and proud of the honor
accorded me in placing me on the organization
committee.
"We have learned the lesson Of acreage con-
troll and diversified products. Marketing comes
next and is the most important of ALL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
WHAT NEW ORLEANS HAS DONE
MOBILE CAN DO

By this time the people of Alabama probably
realize the value of the port of Mobile and the
necessity for passing the amendment which will
make it one of the greatest shipping centers of
the nation. Nevertheless it is interesting to
learn that persons outside of Alabama are inn
pressed by the strategic advantages enjoyed
by Mobile.
In letter to Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen,
who has charge of the state department of
archives and history, Albert J. billiard, formerly
of Montgomery, but now of the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, strongly approves the port aid
amendment and tells of the remarkable develop
ments of New Orleans. Mr.. billiard says the
amendment, if adopted, "means more to Ala
bama than any legislation for SO years. The
people of the interior hardly realize what is
going on between New Orleans and Galveston
and the intermediate ports The tonnage of
exports and imports of this short strip of the
gulf coast is greater than that of New York
Boston, Baltimore and San Francisco" He says
millions of tons of freight is hauled through
Mobile to enrich Louisiana because Mobile
lacks the facilities to handle it.
Loading and reloading Is ships a day, Mr..
billiard states, means from 100000 to $780,
600 paid to labor each week. Even if the Louis
lana docks and warehouses were operated at
a loss, they would still be good investment
of great industries to New Orleans, including
the International Harvester company, with an
investment of $2O,OOo,O 900. The port facilities
of New Orleans, built with public funds, have
drawn agencies there from "every spot on the
earth" They have put new life into dairying
and truck growing, put back into commission
every steamboat that has been idle for % years
and placed in operation 1900 motor boats.
Mr.. Dillard writes with the enthusiasm of
man who has seen the transformation wrought
in New Orleans and has first-hand knowledge
of the facts. AS former Albanian, he wants
Mobile to share in this tremendous north and
south movement of freight. All Mobile needs
to become great port is the proper equip
nient. Unless the people Of Alabama are stone
blind to their own opportunities, the port amend
ment will be passed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
TREMENDOUS FOOTBALL CROWDS
SHOW LOVE OF CLEAN SPORT

The large attendance at the Centre-Auburn
football game on Saturday showed the popu-
larity of this sport in Birmingham.
There is a lesson in it. The young are nerv-
Gus, active, alert. They cannot and will not re-
main still. If denied pleasure that is not HARM
must have action.
Parks and Fairgrounds, wading and SWIM
ming pools, athletic courts, tennis, baseball and
golf, swings and gymnasiums, bands and or
chestras-these are the things which count for
clean young lives. Not only that, but they
mean the happiness of fathers and mothers who
see their children at play in ways that do not
injure, but build up.
Geraldine Farrar, in her divorce suit against
Lou Teegen, has named "other women in
score of states" We shouldn't wonder. Right
here in Birmingham Lou has been called fas.
cinating devil.
A woman magistrate of Atlantic City an
nounced that she would kiss the Bridegroom
every time she performed wedding ceremony.
She must be figuring on sending the bride away
with frown.
Although detectives and secret service men
are guarding delegates to the disarmament con-
ference, Secretary Hughes exploded. bomb in
their midst that left them amazed stunned and
flabbergasted.
The Warehouses of Crewe breads the number
thirteen and black cats On the strength Of
that, and the fact that she is marchioness,
she gets her picture published in the papers.
1t is just as well that the bolsheviki are not
represented in Warrington. Some Of the WASH
ington BARRIERS would be sure to make uncompli-
mentary remarks about their hair and whiskers.
*
Mr. Dempsey is accused of making love 20
haauteous ''shimmy'' dancer. Instead of try
ing to give Nempesy trouncing, the lady's
husband propc>s to get some Of his wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
RECORD CROWD HERE

"The demonstration in the lobbies of the
hotels and on the streets is largely according
to whether the home team wins or not" said
Scion Jacobs.
81 never saw such out-of-town crowds at a
game as were here for, the Auburn-Centre
game, but after the Kentucky boys won, there
was small chance for hurrahing. The Centre
"fans" were not numerous enough to stage a
parade, and so everything was pretty quiet on
Saturday night. If Auburn had won it would
have been quite different"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
HIS SPEECH

From The Chicago Herald and Examiner.
At the wedding breakfast the bridegroom, an
exceedingly bashful young man, was called upon
to speak,
Blushing to the roots of his hair, he rose,
intending to say he was no speechmaker. But
unfortunately, he placed his hand on the brides
shoulder and stammered these opening (and
closing) words:
"This-er--this thing has been thrust upon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
PERTAINING TO vAMPs

From The Kansas City Star.
A Philadelphia lawyer says most murders
nowadays are attributable to vamps. The vamp
plays the affections of two men up to point
where one rival kills the other. Only sometimes
the vamp herself is killed. Much depends, from
the vamp's standpoint, on the moment of flight.
She who vamps and runs away will live to vamp
another day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
THB SOLITARY

From The Yale Review.
Let them think love them more than d.
Let them think care, though / go alone.
If it lifts their pride, what is it to me,
Who am self-complete as flower or a >,
!
1t is one to me that they come or go
If have myself and the drive of my VIII
And strength to climb on summer nigh
And watch the stars swarm over the aill.
My heart has grown rich with the passing o
years;
i have less need now than when was young
To share myself with every conner,
Or shape my thoughts into words W y als
tongue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
eAu.y1JaM1@a.stil
DOESN'T HAVE TO WORK

From The Houston Post.
Arthur Brisbane admits investing 100000
in Victory Bonds. So you see here is one edi-.
tor who works for the love of work and doesn't
want to retire to farm as most of US do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
MERE NOVICES

From The st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The amateurs routed the old guard at
Baltimore convention in 1912, Mr.. Tumul
tells us, and nominated Wilson. Among
novices that helped were the late Roger 81
van and William Jennings Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
BOUND TO PULL SOMETHING

DOOIVD y OIII1 oOu1ll Ii11VO
From The Galveston News.
1t has just about gotten so in this country
that when person has heel troubles they pull
his teeth, and if he gets bone felon they take
his tonsils out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14

BIRMINGHAM IN LEAD AS
A CITY OF HOMES

The record of permits issued for building
homes shows Birmingham at the head of south
eastern cities in this respect AS the records
of other cities are published, this is more and
more apparent.
The closest competitor in the southeast is
Atlanta. Building permits issued for homes in
that city during the past 10 months total 1,123.
The Birmingham record for the same period is
1,I35.
In the first four days of November building
permits issued in Atlanta call for $102, 900 of
construction. In Birmingham on the first two
days of November permits were issued for
$250,000 worth of construction.
Atlanta has expended greater amount of
money on building this year than Birmingham,
but Birmingham retains its claim to be the city
Of homes Birmingham rejoices over the growth
of its neighbors, but with pardonable pride
points to its home-building record.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14
FARM MARKETING MOVEMENT
is UNDER HEADWAY

The appointment of an organization commit
tee and executive board by Alabama planters
and business men interested in the establish
ment q cooperative farm marketing machinery
ia Alabama marks the beginning of that most
desirable attainment.
Thd way was paved by the lsgitiErure's adop-
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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-04-15

tie filtration, and Mrs. Bing went to
see about 1t, the two agreed on keep
ing the salient facts from father.
A dressmaker came after Phyllis
arrived to get her ready for the party.
The afternoon of the event, ]. Patter-
son brought the young people of the
best families of Hazelmead by special
train to Bingviile. The Crookers, the
Witherllls, the Ameses, the Renfrews
and a number Of the most popular stu
dents in the Normal school were also
invited. They had the famous string
band from Hazelmead to furnish mu-
sic, and Smith-an impressive young
English butler whom they had brought
from New York on their last return.
Phyllis wore a gown which Judge
Croker described as "the limit" He
said to his wife after they had gone
home: "Why, there was nothing on
her back but a pair of velvet gal
lOwses and when stood In front of
her my eyes were scared"
Mrs. Bling calls 1t high art" said
the judges wife.
II call 1t down pretty close to see
level" said the judge. "When she
clinched with those young fellers and
went wrestling around the. room she
reminded me Of a grapevine growing
on a tree"
The reaction on the intellect Of the
Judge quite satisfies the need Of the
historian. Again the Old Spirit Of
Bingvllle had received notice. II Is
only necessary to add that the punch
was strong and the house party over
the weekend made a good deal Of talk
by fast driving around the country In
motorcars on Sunday and by loud
singing in boats on the river and
noisy play on the tennis courts. That
kind Of thing was new to Bingville.
When 1t was all over, Phyllis told
her mother that Gordon Klng-one Of
the young men-had insulted her
when they had been out in a boat to-
gether on Sunday. Mrs. Bing was
shocked. They had a talk about It up
in Phyllis bedroom at the end Of
which Mrs. Bling delivered an injunc-
ton, Don't tell fatherw
1t was soon after the party that Mr..
]. Patterson Bling sent for william
Snodgrass, the carpenter. He wanted
an extension built on his house con-
taining new bedrooms and baths and
a large sun parlor. The estimate Of
Snodgrass was unexpectedly large. In
explanation Of the fact the latter said /:
1--WE work only eight hours a day now.
The men demand It and they must be
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1wIIlnht NarIsa wIth LntItud..


Twilight Is the dlffused illumination
of the sky which Immediately pre-
cedes sunrise and follows sunset. When
the sun sets below the horizon we are
not at once plunged into total dark
ness. There is an intermediate period
of partial and slowly increasing dark
ness. That period is twilight. 1t is
caused by the reflection of the sun
light by dust and particles Of water
vapor in the upper atmosphere. The
same phenomenon occurs just before
sunrise, and, to distinguish 1t from
the evening twilight, Is called dawn.
Dawn begins and twilight ends when
the sun is about eighteen degrees be-
low the horizon, and consequently
their duration varies with the latitude
and season of the year. The higher
the latitude the smaller the angle at
which the suns path meets the hOr-
lion, and hence the longer 1t takes
the sun to sink a distance Of eighteen
degrees below the horizon. In the
tropics twilight rarely is longer than
thirty minutes, while In the north OF
Scotland about the middle OF summer
there are several nights on which twi-
light fills the entire interval between
sunset and sunrise.
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taken to and from their work. They
can get all they want to do on those
terms"
"And they demand seven dollars and
a half a day at that7 It's big pay for
an ordinary mechanic" said ]. Patter-
son.
There's plenty Of work to do"
Snodgrass answered. II don't care the
snap O. my finger whether get your
Job or not. I'm forty thousand ahead
O. the game and feel like layin' off
for the summer and talkin' a rest"
81 suppose could get you to work
overtime and hurry the job through If
I'm willing to pay for it," the million
aire inquired.
"The rate would be time an a half
for work done after the eight hours
are up, but It's hard. to get anyone to
work overtime these days"
swell, go ahead and get all the work
you can out Of these plutocrats Of the
saw and hammer. I'll pay the bills"
said J. Patterson.
The terms created a record in Blng-
Vile. But, as Mr.. Bling had agreed to
them, in his haste, they were estab-
lished.
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-poIIa win African Burial.

Art galleries in New York last year
exhibited specimens Of African doll
makers. Perhaps the most interesting
story of dolls in Africa is that which
concerns the doll custom Of a tribe
dwelling near Lake Nyassa. When a
member Of the tribe dies a rough Inn
age Of the dead person is made OF rags
or wood and laid away In a tent.
Thousands of doll images Of dead
tribe members lie in the tent, and It
is said that the tribe believes that the
dolls are the embodiment of the souls
of the dead men. BY keeping the souls
on earth they believe they are cheat
ing the fends which are supposed to
Turk beyond life. The tent is regarded
as sacred and only the medicine men
are permitted near 1t.
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Pauline Baker ElOpoS.
GRO BE CONTINUED,
MEN OF IMMORTAL MEMORY
Many Of the Works Of tho Greek
Philosophers, Plato and Aristotle,
Are Still Preserved.

Plato (427-347 B. O., the celebrated
Greek philosopher, taught that the
true source Of knowledge Is the reason,
observes an exchange. According to
bis teaching, we come to conscious
ness through Innate Ideas developed
by contact with the outer world
through senses. He distinguished be-
tween empirical knowledge and reason,
and divided philosophy into logic,
metaphysics and morals. He was the
first to attempt the construction of
philosophic language; to develop an
abstract idea of knowledge and
science; to state logically the prop
critics of matter, form, substance, ac-
cident, cause and effect, reality and
appearance to describe the divinity
as a being essentially good, and tell
Of his moral attributes. He taught
that matter is an eternal and infinite
principle; that God is the supreme In
telligence, incorporeal, without begin
ming, end or change, and that the soul
of man is immortal. Aristotle 1884,
800 b. O., another celebrated Greek
philosopher, was the pupil of Plato and
the teacher of Alexander the Great.
He makes logic the instrument by
which all general knowledge is OBJ
tanned. He enlarged the limits Of
philosophy to include all sciences ex-
cept history. He taught that nature
is a machine, active through deity or
a first cause.
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Bling was entitled to much credit, hav-
ing been born Of poor and illiterate
parents in a small village on the Hud-
son a little south Of the capital She
was pretty and grew up with a longing
for better things. ]. Patterson got
her at a bargain IN an Albany depart
ment store where she stood all day
behind the notion counter. "At a bar
gain" It must be said, because, on
the whole, there were higher values
in her personality than In his. She
had acquired that common Bertha
Clay habit Of associating with noble
lords who lived In cheap rOmances
and had TASTE for poor but honest
girls. The practical ]. Patterson hated
that kind of thing. But his wife kept
a supply Of these highly favored nov
els hidden in the little fiat and spent
her leisure reading them.
One of the earliest recollectlons Of
Phyllis was the caution, Don't tell
fatherw received on the hiding Of a
book. Mrs Bing had bought, in those
weak, pinching times of poverty, ex-
travagant things for herself and the
girl and gone in debt for them. Col
lectors had come at times to get their
money with impatient demands.
The Bings were living In a city
those days. Phyllis had been a wit
ness of many interviews of the kind.
All along the way of life, she had
heard the oft-repeated injunction,
Don't tell fatherp She came to re-
gard men as creatures who were not
to be told. When Phyllis got into a
scrape at school, on account of a lit
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ION WITH THE DANCED"

Synopsls-In the village OF Bing-
Vile thirteen-year-old Robert EN-
met Moran, crippled son of a poor
widow. is known as the Shepherd
Of the Birds. His world Is his
mother and friends, his little room,
the flower garden of Judge Crooker,
and every flying thing he sees from
his window. The painting of pic
lures is his enjoyment, and little
Pauline Baker, small daughter OF
neighbor, the object of his boyish
affection. To him, ]. Patterson
Bing, the first citizen of Bingville,
Is the ideal of a really great man.
The village becomes money mad,
rejecting the great world in its
state Of unrest. The Bing family
is a leader in the change. To them
the village has become ''provin-
cial." The butcher and baker and
candlestick-maker all raise their
prices. Even Hiram Blenkinsop,
the town drunkard, works hard for
a month. The Old Spirit of Bing-
Vile is summarily fired.