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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
German Capital Cold
 to Screen Comedian

7 ONDON and Paris mobbed lA Charlie Chaplin, but Berlin ignored the worlds best known mo- tion picture comedian. It may have been the result of postwar cares or the mania for gambling and carous- ing, which now engage the atten- ton of large part of Berlin's pop ulation who can afford to dissipate, but MT. Chaplin was led to remark in mournful tones, These people don't seem to know who I am."
 Although the Maharajah of Ka- ,purthala was reported to have been moved out of the royal suite in Ber- lin's most famous hotel, the Adlon, to provide accommodations for Charlie, that did not soothe ruffled feelings. No police were needed to guard him from enthusiastic admir- CTS when he went abroad, no ava lanche of invitations descended upon him and in fact Berlin acted as if it were not only unaware of Charities presence, but had not even heard that such a person existed.
 In the circumstances, who could blame Charlie for making his visit brief and returning to that dear Paris where the people appreciate an artist and show their admiration with true Gallic fervency?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
PASSING. OF THE BROOM

| From the Macon News.
 The statistician of the hay. feed and seed division of the United
 States bureau of markets re-
 ports a decline of 40 per cent in the broom industry.
 The charm of these statisticians is that you never know where they are going 10 break loose next" and thus they keep the imagination con stantly on the alert. Perhaps you had not even noticed that there had been a material decline in the use of the broom until the government man of figures called attention to the fact
 His explanation In part is that the vacuum cleaner is largely responsl- ble for the banishment of the old time broom. The use of oil mops and bristle brushes is contributory cause, and the construction of houses in such wayNas to make them more nearly dust-proof is still another.
 But without intending to cast any reflections upon the man of figures we shall have to accept it with grain of salt that brooms, of cer- tain type, at least, have disappeared to any notable extent and if it should come about one of the most cherished institutions of the household will have gone into oblivion. The newly invented devices have their place in our complex civilization, but we know thousands of housewives who still sweep the backyards, and for this the vacuum cleaner would be a hope lessly useless utensil These same housewives, it may be, are scrupulous in keeping the hardwood floors and the carpets clean, and for this the new fangled devices are almost indis- pensable. But as long as there are tidy housewives who give thought to the area behind the kitchen the brush brooms gathered from alder bushes beside the steam will hold their popularity.
 Moreover whenever you speak in general terms of a broom to these same housewives the vision that rises before them is that made of blossomy broomsedge, and as it waves in rJeecy fields along the autumn landscape we note no diminution in the supply of raw material, True, it makes about as much litter as it eliminates until it has worn off it's newness. Indeed the methodica1 mind has al- ways wondered why there should be any proverbial tradition that q new broom sweeps clean.
 But as matter of fact it has held its place for To these many genera tons. Tied in shapely bundle. like the fascines of a Roman lictor. it stands in it's accustomed place in inc corner ready to tidy up the hearth or to serve as major weapon on house. cleaning day.
 The turhey-tail fan has gone the way of all flesh. Martin gourds have lost theirWogue, It doesn't seem as II you see as much pepper, neatly strung, hanging from the ceiling of the back veranda.
 But the man of figures should come south if he thinks for moment that the one broom that deserves the namA has had it's day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
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INFORMATION GRATIS

From the Chicago Herald and Ex-
 aminer
 The college graduate" said Presi- dent Hibben> of Princeton at a tea. sets out to conquer-th world. Yes he sets out with very big opinion of himself. but he soon gets taken down.
 The college graduate the day after commencement swaggered into a bank and asked to see the presi- dent. He was told to wait in an anteroom, where small boy was chewing gum.
 Boy, he said after a bit. 70 you know if there's an opening in the bank for college graduate"
 The boy, chewing grimly. ar- swered:
 Dere will be if dey don't slip de extra five-spot wut I'm askin' fur in me next pay envelope, seer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
From che Washington Star.

From che Washington Star.
 N WOMAN credited with being the A\ first person to play the part c = Little Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin" celebrated her seventy-third birthday a few days ago at her home, Cambridge, Mass. Her name is Mrs. Cordelia Howard Macdonald, and when she came on the stage of the Troy Museum, Troy, N. T., September 27, 1852, as Little Eva, she was little Cordelia Howard" aged years.
 The book of Harriet Beecher Stowe and the play made from it are prob- ably not better known in Washing ton than elsewhere in the United States, yet there is connection be- tween Washington and Uncle Toms Cabin" which, although it has often been told, is not generally remem- bered. "Uncle Toms Cabin" was first published in Washington as a serial story in a Washington newspaper and it has been said on what appears
  first chapter of the story was writ ten in the little frame house at the southwest corner of Thirty sixth street and Prospect avenue former- lv Lingan street., which for more than half century was the home Of Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, author of upwards of 50 novels that were popular in their time
 Not many weeks ago. in an article in the Sunday Star on Mrs. South worth, it was told that she and Har- riet Beecher Stowe were close friends of long standing. Mrs. Stowe, after term at teaching In Kentucky, came to visit Mrs. Southworth at her cot tage. Mrs Southworth had then be- come a writer of renown and both women held strong anti-slavery opin- ions. Mrs. Stowe, in telling of her teaching, related a story which inn pressed Mrs. Southworth. Just at that time Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, pup fisher of the National Era Of tnis city, a paper in which many of Mrs. Southworth's early stories had ap- peared,N called at the cottage. ne came to ask Mrs. Southworth to Write something appropriate for 1orth- coming Christmas number or the Era. Mrs. Southworth introduced pr. Bailey to Mrs. Stowe and suggested that she, Mrs. Stowe. submit to Dr. Bailey the story which she had told a few mo- .nents before. Soon after this meet ing Mrs. Stowe handed to pr. Bailey short story, entitled, Life Among the Lowly' Dr. Bailey published it and it was well received by readers of the Era. Both Dr. Bailey and Mrs. Southworth urged Mrs. Stowe to con tinue the story. and the latter, on the eve of leaving for her home, agreed to send Dr. Bailey another chapter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
soIITu sn. WATERsPour

Frederick O'Brien. in Asia Magazine.
 At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the gale had almost died away. The sea was struggling to break through the lowering sky. Suddenly McHenry shouted to Moet, who was in the trade room: "Captain! Captain! A bloody waterspout! On deck! On decki" His voice vibrated with alarm. Moet reached the wheel in three jumps. He looked ahead, toward a twisted stem of water stretching from the sea to the sky, directly on our course.
 I heard the native passengers and the sailors forward shouting, con< fusedly, and saw them throwing themselves flat on deck and holding to the hatch lashings. Moet, with q fierce oath, ordered the sailors to the halyards
 MeHenry and I sprang to the main boom and helped to take down the canvas and make it fast. With the jibs stin standing, the Marara turned on her heel like a hare pursued by
 
 distant, rushed toward us as We made slow starboard progress from our previous wake The daylight faded; the air seemed full of water, The sailors were again prone. We pas sengers, at a sharp though calm word from Moet, pulled over the companion hatch.
 With pounding heart, but with every. sense alert, l watched the mad drive of the sable column. The ma rara was now in smooth water-the glassy circle around the puanhiohio (waterspout)--and So near was the terrifying. twisting mass of dark foam and spindrift that it seemed inn possible we could avoid it. Moet every inch the master. stood at the wheel. The spout drew near with d dreadful roaring. It was bigger than any of the great trees of the California forests, leaden spiral of hurrying water that wound up to the clouds. The roar was that of a blast furnace and so close, so fearful, that l ceased to breathe.
 Suddenly the Marara heeled over. The starboard rail was in the water, and McHenry and I. tangled heap against the rail. struggled to keep our heads above the foam. Further and further the schooner listed. I was certain that we must meet death in another instant,
 Came the supreme moment. The waterspout rose above us on the port bow like cliff, solid as stone. It passed by. hundred feet to port. In another breath the Marara regafned her boise and was on an even keel. The peril was over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
INDIA'S MIRACLES

Vincent Anderson, in the Arkansa
 Gazette
 Ahere are two Indias-India, the land Of English money, and India. the land of miraclesi India. sun struck and inactive under ter rife heat, and India of 6.ooo. 900 reNgious mendicants, who turn their very inactivity into a lust for the Lord Shiva that beggars description! India, poverty-stricken and starving-and the India of Krish- na, playing his flute at Bindaban and charming a score of milkmafds at once.
 Yours is a land of beautiful myths" 1 said to one old Hindu. who vas sitting before the burning ghaut at Benares
 He looked me strangely in the eye, and for two moments l actually saw a hundred of the same man. 1 be- lieve now the story that Krishna ap- peared as thousand Krishna to every
 Many persons do not believe mine. They say 1 was duped.
 But how about the English states mans account of the Yogi, who walked across the Ganges? Less than two years ago he was making for certain temple near Calcutta.
 I rection and had gone down the Gan ges to bathe. To reach the temple, which was on the Calcutta side, he would have had to go gack little and cross over the Howrah bridge.
 Instead of doing this which would have made his path out of the way. he walked straight across the water to the temple in full view of thou- sands of persons
 Twice during 1920 in two differ ent reputable English newspapers there appeared accounts of two Yo- gs, each of whom rendered rail- road train unable to move simply by looking at the engine. In one case, according to the story, the Yogi was without ticket
 Formerly the Shadus were allowed the privilege of riding free in order that they might reach the various places of pilgrimage. But money talks in India now, so the Yogi was put off
 The train refused to budge. For 15 minutes the engineer fooled around with it. Then it was de- cided to take the engine off and put another on. That was done, but still the train would not go. The crew was dumfounded
 Then the native passengers pointed out the Shadu, who, out of one large eye and one small one, was staring at the engine. The guard politely asked the Yogi to come in and ride And the train moved off!
 bay business man and a prosaic Farsi brought a Yogi to New York city in 1920 wko startled medical men by exhibiting complete con trol over every organ of his body.
 There was one Yogi in Europe and scores in India who have allowed themselves to be buried alive for days and months, and survived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28

NN 7 AsHINGToN, September 27- W\W Especially )-"If the United
 States, according to criti- cisms in 1791, selected site for its capital far from the beaten path, the newly formed Federation of Central America has selected one that is even more remote and inaccessible" says bulletin issued by the National Ge- ographic society.
 "Tegucigalpa Ca name which when properly pronounced brings to mind the "goosey- -goosey-gander. of nur sery rhymes) is now the capital of Honduras, one of the members of the new union," the bulletin continues. Tt might be termed the Lhasa of the West but not because it is a forbidden city by the edict of man. It's citizens have their share of the hospitality for which Latin America country between the city and the two oceans that bathe the shores of Hon. duras, and man has done little to overcome the handicap. It is the only capital on the North American con tinent that has never echoed to the more or less musical blast of a rail- road locomotive and one of the few railroadless capitals ill the western hemisphere. Nor may one yet travel to the new national capital by auto mobile.
 "Tegucigalpa is some so miles in- land from it's Pacific port, San LOT enzo, on highlands more than 5000 feet above sea level A road which is more than trail, but less than highway connects the two points. The most ambitious name that it can lay claim to Is cart road Travellers do the eighty miles in three days by mule back, and if they are travelling light may take their belongings along by pack mule. Trunks must follow even more slowly by ox-cart. In the interior of the country, with it's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
"CAVALLERIA RUsTICANA,

Gllpert w. Gabriel, in Leslie's.
 At Verona Maestro Mascarni game me a bitter little recital of merely finding librettist for what became perhaps. the most popular opera of the east half century. He used to pudge over the Canosa tc give extra lessons, in order that he might gain few ex tra lire to pay some local poet for the task. The sum was never real izea' IL was the friend Targloni who finally capitulated and set to work
 While l was waiting tboupbt over the entire finale" he said. Tt seemed to me that that sentence 'hanno ammazzato compare Turid- du,' shrieked in my ears, but I must find the musical phrase for it. and the orchestral accompaniment which would bring it out finally so as to awaken the strongest impression cid not know how to go about It but finally it flashed across my brain with lightning rapidity one mornins, as l was walking down the main street of Canosa on my way to give a lesson.
 And this was the same chord of seventh which is maintained. scrupu- lously in the manuscript. Thus my opera was begun at the finish!
 When l received by post the first chorus of the libretto I said eagerly to my wife.
 Today we are going to make a big expense
 What sort of an expense%
 "'An alarm clock!
 And what are you going to do with it?'
 I am going to get up early to- morrow morning and commence to write "Cavalleria Rusticana''
 This expense must have made a big alteration in our monthly ac- count book, but it was granted to me without difficulty We went out  together to buy it and. after much dispute. spent lire for it. l think that, if ever I go back to Cerignola, shall find it there in good shape.
 "I went off early to bed. But this time it did me no good to do so. For during the night Git was February B., 1SS9) at precisely o'clock was born Mimi my darling >daughter, the first of my series.
 But l kept my promise to myself. That morning l commenced to write the first chorus of 'Cavallerla Rusti- cana"
 Maestro Mascagni waits awhile, losses his wonderful gray mane, smiles with the moon.
 The rest" says he, belongs to history. l came to Rome in Feb rIary. 1890. to introduce my opera to the judicial commission which thought it worthy of public trial in theatre. I came back to Cerignola with my head in the air. I was chosen almost immediately to carry on in Milan the same work l had been doing in Cerignola. Then they sent for me to come to Rome again to put 'Cavalleria' into rehearsal. And l didn't have penny to my name l couldn't ask the bank to help me because. in spite of the opin- ion of friendly cashier. my sigma ture had been turned in more than once too often. 1t was Edward Son came to the rescue, and generously xogno. the publisher, who finally relieved my embarrassment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
Woodrow Wilson as
 a Private Citizen

..NN the second anniversary of the " beginning of Woodrow Will sons illness dispatch from Wash ington told the latest news" about the man who was at the head of the American government during the greatest crisis it ever faced.
 MT. Wilson has apparently so far regained his health that he now leads a normal life. Quiet, orderly days with no cares of state to wor- ny about are better suited to his temperament than the stormy ex- periences he had as the nations leader, before illness struck him down and left him helpless to car ry out the task on which he had set his heart.
 MT. Wilson has scrupulously re- trained from criticism of his success sor and has to a large extent dropped out of public notice, but he is still an object of great interest to the American people, for they realize that this reserved, little understood man is going to hold high place in the nations history. The bitter ness to which he was subjected has almost disappeared, save for an oc- casional echo in the debates of ; Congress, and Mir. Wilson has the air of man who is content to let his record speak for itself in the un- biased judgment of posterity. He has not attempted to answer his critics or justify himself. His silence in this respect has won him the grudg- ing respect even of his enemies and has strengthened the regard of his friends.
 The former President is described as making numerous notes, some of them voluminous and in shorthand but they are put away and nobody seems to know what he intends tc do with them, as it is stated that he has no intention of writing a book "Almost | ton" of these documents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
WALL STREET QUOTATIONS Tyfa

 fool and his money are soon parted-Poor Richard.
 Ye cannot serve God and Mann mon.-New Testament. Honor sinks where commSrce long prevails.--Goldsmit
 Many go out for wool and come home shorn emselves.-Cervantes God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.-Sterne. He has spent all hts life letting dcwn buckets into empty wells.-Syd- ney Smith.
 Flat burglary as ever was com mitted.--Shakesp espeare.
 Water. water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.-Coleridge He is brought as lamb to the slaughter.--Old Testament. In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.-Emerson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
EQUIPPED

I[ OtA 1<A( What qualifications for office has your candidate?"
 "A deep bass voice and a ponder ous air."
 But what other qualifications.s He won't need any others if he has a good campaign manager"
 MERIT WINS Who brags about his family tree. Will never make a hit with me. Unless he's gathered fame or pelf And has some cause to crow himself.
 WARY See the oil gushing outp ex- claimed the promoter. You can't lose by investing in this we'll" Maybe not" said the cautious citizen, but I'll stick around a while and see how long the flow continues"
 What's the idea?" I've known oil wells to gush by special request"
 REQUIESCAT Through shot and shell he passed
 unhurt, But fate Is queer, alack: lie paused to stare at a skimpy skirt And an auto broke his back.
 HOPEFUL What is your attitude toward Jazz%
 I'm not letting it worry me-" said the elderly citizen. "A nation that can survive hoop skirts, bustles and side whiskers can live down Jazz.
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
NOTICED THE RESEMBLANCE

From the Worcester Telegram.
 Fewer faces are more familiar to the world of today than that of Dante. who died 600 years ago. Even the tired business man knows lew Dante is supposed to have looked Dante's was the plaster Cast on the bookcase which, first seen by the tired business men, brought the quez- ton:
 What's the idea of William c. Mc- Adoo in football helmet. anyway ?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
HENRY CABOT LODGE
From The New Republic.


 From The New Republic.
 From his early youth he consorted with what the March hare has en- duringly called the very best butter. He was amply educated not only in school and college. but by his en- vironment and associations. His bread and cheese problem had been settled for him before he was born. Public life was open to him on tho easiest. pleasantest terms. If he de- sired and had 1t in him to be q statesman. to make and leave his mark on the public life and public affairs of his generation, he had only to commence. There was an 1m- nense pride in and store of good will for him In his own state. The voters there have never checked or interrupted his career. He has been continuously in the state and na- tional legislature since his youth. Given the tools he has never been denied proper workshop for their use. And always there has been thrown about him this friendly legend of the scholar in politics.
 But has he been really fortunate? Hasn't he had some of old Zuan Cabot's hard luck? Hasn't he. too. touched the austere coast of Lab rador? Does he suspect the great fertile mainland he has so narrowly missed? Will his performance stick: will It prove a permanent. enduring thing, or will it be clouded in the obscurity of the eleventh man. the unfortunate who has played his game with some chill and distinction, but when the final appraisal came to be made just missed getting in the ranking ten? That is something for posterity to decide in the intervals of paying off the Liberty Bonds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
MOONLIGHT

By Minna Irving. When l lie awake in the silent night And the clock ticks loud in the
 hall, A brush that is dipped in silver li.- Paints pictures rare on my wal. Dark clustering leaves are sharpA<
 etched.
 And delicate tangles of vines, Faces of dryads and fauna ara
 sketched
 And feathery branches of pines. The night wind blows and the dryads
 dance.
 And the pointed hoofs of the fauns In and out of the shadows glance On the turf of woodland lawns. And the snowy arms of naiad shine From the foam of waterfall, For the man in the moon is an artist
 fine
 And draws on my chamber wall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
DEVIATION THE PAIN

T have just succeeded in borrow . ing $50 from MT. Wadleigh," an- nounced the impecunious citizen.
 "Well,' said MT. Dubwaite, pleas antly. Ego on and finish the story"
 "How?"
 'Did he take gas during the op- eration or did you apply local anes- thetic?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
NEEDLESS THRIFT

Your honor, I'll admit that this officer found several quarts of liquor in my piano, but he went out of his way to insult and humiliate me-"
 How was that?"
 While he was removing the evil dence he kept whistling the Alec holic Blues.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
Concord Progressive Community


 q have just held meeting at Concord church, Piney Woods, about five miles below Bessemer in a splendid and progressive farming community on which the church was greatly revived and fifteen added to it." said Rev. M T. Branham of Gardendale.
 7'The section round about it is> en- unused over the community, fair which will be held at the school house on Thursday morning and from what I learned it is going to be well worth attending. I think the together idea which is spreading out into the country is a good one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
A BURDEN LIFTED

A BURDEN LIFTED What's the matter with Jibway? He looks depressed" trying to make both ends meet" Most people begin to look younger when they reach that decision"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28
AN uNsoLvED MYSTERY

AN UNSOLvED MYSTERY You told me Mrs. Twobble was going to start a household budget" T did" said MT. Twobble, sadly. was 1t a success?'
 wen never know. Six expert ac- countants have given it up.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-28

This was followed by another and another, and thus the story grew. Later 1t was published in book form and given the title, Uncle Toms Cabin It was a book which had remarkable influence on public opinion in the United States.