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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
bud the Mrong Hog

Alfonso Morrow carries good ones about with him all the time. This he told yesterday: "A middle aged negro whom l employ for odd jobs occasion ally, some time ago asked the loan o. $1 to get hair cut. I gave it to him. The next day he showed up with his head literally clean to the skin, and this condition exposed a long scar across his foretop running in a zigzaS line. l asked him how he got that scar. His answer to me ran this way:
 Boss, you know l wasn't always a 'Egious nigger. l ran with bad crowd one time, and me and my puddle was haungry and thought wed steal la hog from under a house and nave
 some bacon. l was to get under the house and scare the hog out, and my pardner was to lay that hog low with
 a big club as he kun out so as he won't make any noise.
 "Yas, sir; but that dog goned hog was one CT this here fightin kind, and he come at me so hard that kum out from under the house first and that partner of mine hit me instead of the lhog. The agreement, you see, was to hit the hog quick and hard, so as he won't make no noise.r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
CRAY NIGHTS

From the Atlanta Constitution. Oh, dreary nights, all ashen gray, With never star or moon-lit ray
 A-beaming down Ger where the purple mountains tab : Stand darkly draped in somber pail
 Ger meadows brown. Oh, bleak winds, weirdly whispering Ye sadly pass. deep murmuring
 As troubled wights- As grieving for the days departed. Sobbing. bereft, broken -hearted,
 Throughout gray nights. Far upward toward the sullen skies : In vain we peer, with questioning eyes,-
 For starry beam; No light illumes the ashen gray, No faintest hue of promised day,
 No cheering gleam. What though. the stars and moon may.
 hide
 And night may hold? If Love abide ThroIeh gloomy mist. the stass will3
 shine. s The golden moon her fold refine IT
 And Light be everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

A California beauty, charged with murder, says she only wants to be treated fairly The gallant gentlemen of the jury arc expected to return the usual verdict.
 "Pussyfoot Johnson says the United States will never be dry. In that case a large number of prohibition workers will. stay on the payroll
 # j. + There are all kinds of pessimists in this world. including the man who says the League of Nations will never have another anniversary.
 # # # Everybody on Villas hacienda is required to work, There is no better cure than work for the revolution habit.
 It is reported that Lenine has gone mad. If the story is true, he probably didn't have far to go.
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 Ireland is either remarkably quiet just now, or the old reliable censor is back on the job.
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 houseboat is an ideal place for writing a presidential message, pro- vided there is no phonograph on board.
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 Caruso is getting well and expects to be singing soon. However, he'd bet ter put a rabbits foot in his pocket.
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 In the matter of disarmament the big powers are so excessively polite, each one says, ."After you.'' # sf x
 Thus far this celebration of Thrift Week" has been comparatively noiseless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
Problems of Income Tax

Again the commune vulgus and the experts as well are figuring on the mazes of the income tax. Hugh Nor row, lawyer of distinction and now an industrial captain to boot, made this confession:
 When they called for the first in> come tax return, l studied over my personal return for some time. l waded through most of it successfully, but finally got stuck and needed in- .terpretation.
 T put on my hat and was reaching for my overcoat with the intention of sallying forth and consulting banker friend, when that banker friend en> tered my office with income tax blanks in his hand.
 T told him I was just starting out to consult him about my income tax problem. He laughingly remarked that he had come to See about the same problem as 1t confronted him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

the amenities of life. While he oc- cupies the White House there will be little to disturb the tranquility of Washington, if we may judge by his career in the past. There may de- velop clash of wills should the party bosses attempt to dictate to the Presi- dent and he refused to obey orders. That is mere speculation, however.
 The fact that the President-elect is on good terms with his fellowman and will have a sympathetic Con gross to work with will give him an opportunity to make his administra- ton constructive, in the best sense of the word. There are indications that the intends to work, and work hard. He has been undergoing a strenuous trial at Marion and has not spared himself.
 The new President will enter office under the most favorable auspices and the country is confident that his administration will be filled with substantial achievements. Perhaps no President has ever gone to Wash ington with fewer enemies in public or private life.
 Unfortunately, no man can fill the presidency to the satisfaction of ev. erybody and MT. Harding will have
 more enemies when his term ends i than he has now, but at present al signs point to an administration that will be creditable to him and usefu
 to the American people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
HARD ROLLED PUGILIsM

From the Chicago Tribune.
 After Pete Herman had knocked Jimmy Wilde for a row of flats it was said in London that Wilde was just as popular as ever, just as much of pu- gilistic idol. He put up a fine fight The English had a good evening of sport. Wilde was licked, but the Eng fish are for him just the same. He will fight many times again and they'll be for him.
 Old Bat Levinsky was to have fought Bombardier Wells, but could not beca use he had injured himself in training. Wells, who would have been defeated, is the canvas were not so well acquainted. Beckett has taken two bad lickings, one from Frenchmtn and the other from an American second rater, but the Eng fish are for him. They do not discard their champions
 When American champions are through, they are through. After they have gone to dreamland they go to the farm. They are permitted to try a comeback, but the populace is derisive, Two minutes after Dempsey walk ed away from Willard in Toledo, Willard was dead. He now shows symptoms of coming to life, but champ who has his crown knocked off his head might as well throw his head after it. The American system is savage, but it also gets results. There is no senti- ment in it. When a man falters he is gone. There was popular liking for Sullivan and Fitzsimmons after they were gone, but if they had persisted in fighting and getting licked the populacc would have been derisive. The savage system produces the men, It is not so nice to contemplate and it certainly is not so friendly or what we call human as the English, but it> is nature. and ain't nature wonderful?
 It's the top dog who has the friends not the licked one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

From the Kansas City Star. N ARRIE made a wonderful success TX with the fairy play, Peter Fan ~ He followed it. two or three
 aars ago. with another deligntIu ui fairy play. "Dear Brutus." Now h's th,rd fantasy. Mary Rose" is playing in New York.
 It starts out with all the wonoeriu' c1everness characteristic of the autnor' r,a nro,ogue is the visit of sololer
 tho great war to the deserted nome of his childhood in Ergland-a nouse with a reputation of being hauh.eu. Then the play goes back thirty yeats +o inc girlhood of his mother, Mary Pose Her lover asks her parents con sent to their marriage. They tell nm .of an incident in their daughter chiiu- ,ooa on visit to the Hebrides she .nds on an island which tradition says ;s enchanted. Almost before her Ia thers eyes she disappears. Thirty days later she is found on the island With no memory of her disappearance. The .torv does not deter the lover and they are married.
 In the next act Mary Rose and her husband. now married four years anu with baby son. visit the fatal lsiano' once more she hears the call or us eerie music, to which her huspanu ears are deaf, and disappears. Many years elapse and she again appears as e,rlish as when she vanished. Tier par ents are grown old. her husband IS gray haired officer in the navy her baby boy has run away to Austraha' Here the action ends. presumably with Mary Roses death.
 Again the scene shifts to the time and place of the prelude. The soldlef son sees his mothers ghost. She IS still restless. searching for her lost baby. The call of the island comes ana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

'the carrier of wave station" Sus-- pecting telephony, he listened in," with, the result that he was favored from. somewhere with "Roamin' in the Gloamin' on the Bonnie Banks of: Clyde sung in the limpid Scotch of Sir. Harry Lauder. Not an unusual tune to. hear in Scotland, but following the ditty- came the words, Two CIR. is speak :. ing" MT. Benzie looked up Two-Q. R. in the Wireless Age and found that it. was the code address of Hugh and liar :. old Robinson, father and son. not dwell:
 lers on the bonnie banks of Clyde, {.
 but residents of Newport. N. J., U. s. A.
 The Lauder record had roamed into the Aberdeen gloamin' via atmospheric cur. rents over the north Atlantic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

We do not know much. But we do Know that no man is ever as polite to his own wife as he is to other women.
 Funny how man who can figure other things down to the millionth frac- tion of an inch can't locate a doggone eye in the back of his wife's dress.
 Any man can tell you that there are more pretty girls in his home town than there are in any other place on the map.
 Where two or three women are gath cred together some other woman is get ting an awful banning.
 Lady Godiva was modest enough to wear her hair down when she wore her famous costume. But modern girl puts her hair up 'Shen she gets into an evening gown.
 After woman has been married for a few years she is a whole detective agency in herself.
 Why is it that the woman whqujhas the kind of husband she would swap for four cents when he is alive wants $4O,- 900 for him if he happens to be killed by an accident?
 If wife can't get into hot water in any other way she can always open mail that is addressed to her husband. They tell us that tho skirts will be even more daring next summer. We'll they'll have to make them out of invis- ible hair netting.
 If wife will take good care of her husbands present she need not worry about his future.
 What has become of the girl who couldn't take a ride in an automobile unless she had six wells tied a. ound her hat?
 When it comes to looking tough, 2 broken down prize fighter and an old corset run about 50-5O. Copyright. 1921.) !. .s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
so BARRIE FAILED

the ghost disappears. That's all.
 There has been much discussion among the criticis as to Barrie's mean ing. and the Outlook ventures the hope that his next fairy play will bring less shadow and more of the sunlight Of other years. It is possible to find much simpler explanation than most of those so far offered.
 The first sensation in watching the play is of the bewildering Barrie defs- ness of touch and competency of stage management The scenes are ingenious, the lines witty. Expectation constantly rises until the return of Mary Rose after her long absence. Then the spec tator wonders what the author is going to do with her. and what solution he proposes for the whole thing.
 In the epilogue he learns. Barrie is simply helpless. He has no solution. and the play peters out. The converse ton between the soldier and the ghost is pointless. What happened is fairly obvious. The author said to himself:
 
 about an enchanted island a disappear ing maiden?" So the play grew nicely until the last act. Then Sir James dis covered he had had no real idea to develop. Other writers have had the same experience. They have started with a promising scheme that seemed too good to throw away. But it didn't work out.
 Usually an author remorselessly slaughters that kind of an idea. But Barrie didn't have the nerve to. There was So much that was attractive about it. So he wrote his play and let it drop at the end-perhaps hoping people, would speculate enough about it's. meaning to cover up the fact that it. was only part of play and had no. meaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WRONG NAME

Well how do you like it?'
 DO you call this stuff 'moonshine ?' sputtered the visitor, as soon as he could get his breath Certainly"
 q don't want to hurt your feelings, or question your good intentions, but if this is moonshine' it's sad misnomer-"
 NO SALE
 Well, did the stock salesman succeed in getting you to invest?"
 "No," said Mir. Dubwaite, 'he did not. In fact, he soon discovered that tho cigar he forced on me when he opened the conversation was total loss"
 TO BE EXACT w What time did MT. Bibbles get home last night?" Speaking frankly" said Mrs. Bibbles, "he was delivered on the premises by person. or persons unknown to me, be- tween half-past two and three o'clock. BACK TO NORMALCY
 "The silk shirt era is thing of the past"
 q fully agree with you" said Mr. Dubwaite. Nowadays when you want an office boy to loaf about the place and get in everybody's way, you can no longer insult him by offering salary oe s5 week. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
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Sound Combination
 of Alabama Interests

! @ EVERAL country merchants visit O ing Birmingham recently were asked how much cotton the farmers have held from the market and what enabled them to hold it. The reply was that at least half of the crop is still being held for higher prices and this has been made possible through help extended the farmer by the merchant and the banker.
 A third factor has entered into the situation. That is the ability of the farmer to live at home on the food and feed stuffs raised by him alongside his cotton.
 With the southern farmer, banker and merchant combined for mutual service and protection of common in- terests, and with diversified crop production, the south need ask no odds of any people on earth. All the natural advantages are here. Utiliza- ton of these advantages is all that is necessary
 Brought to realization of the gen. eral readjustment of prices and con- vinced that they have not been sig naled out by coalition of evil forces to bear the entire burden, the farm CTS, at modest rises in the cotton market, are going to sell at least enough of their cotton to purchase supplies required for making another crop.
 Country merchants say rather general liquidation may be looked foi around March 1 to 15. That is not very far away. Mill men and wholesalers might do we'll to be prepared for ar early spring demand from the agri- cultural south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
COURAGE OF STEVEN SON

Lauchlan MacLean Watt in scribner's
 Magazine.
 Stevenson showed intensely how the soul is independent of the body. His victory over physical weakness is one of the proofs that man possesses a soul. The greatest mistake of all, by which most grave injury has been done to Stevenson, is to allow the thought of his physical weakness to obtrude itself between him and the estimate of his work.
 So many today, have seen courage and patience of lying men, with ITO hell with surrender" in the Valley of the Shadow, that Stevenson's courage seems perhaps even slight thing to talk of, like the courage of camp fol- lower, who gets the M C.. or the c. M. G. for keeping the fires burning at the base, while thousands die forgotten in the shell torn trenches. An empires young manhood has suffered In silence undecorated. What are they apt to think of man in his bedl suffering ever so much, but not called upon to stand waist deep in the mirc of reality, and die on his feet in the wet?
 That, of course. will pass. It is easy to analyze it.
 But this Was one who loved life--to whom the world was very preciously dear--to whose soul laughter was the sweetest music. and the joy of activity the expression of everything that was life's best-half the meaning of crea- tion. Yet here he was, set on footing
 which had no stability shut up in a sick room when he wished the open field, his right hand tied up to his side lest his lungs should spout blood deaths cold clutch clawing al him, and !, just slipping it's grip upon him, God knows how often. And then, with 8 his dream and his sunshine and his song.
 The sentry at the listening post has a quick interest of immediateness in time and eternity. Yet, if he live through the next two hours he is relieved upon the watch. But this man, with hole in his lungs. and the red froth on his l lips, can only hope for respite. but for no release.
 We can believe him to be speaking
 the truth. from @ vocabulary steeped in l reality of feeling and experience, when
 he says. Y wish to die in} my boots ss to be drowned. to be shot to be thrown from horse, ay, to be
 hanged. rather than pass again through that slow dissolution" To man like Stevenson, who loved the sunshine and
 the stars. this episodic death that was his destiny was real affliction-this compulsory silence, that sealed his lips
 from speech, when he had sso much to say to his fellows. an absolute martyr dom. And yet when he was able to face things again. he faced them as though ho had no wounds;sand. when he spoke 1Shis message.5 he smoke it with a smile | Un his lips just Freshly wiped clean again from the froth of death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
STRATEGY

Don't forget" said the fair defend- ants lawyer, that when I give you the signal you are to begin crying"
 T won't forget
 And if you can contrive to smile through your tears our case will be as good as won"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
SINGING s.soo MILES

From Leslie's.
 In Peterculter Aberdeenshirs. lives |eSorge W. c. Benzie, a wireless opera- tor. one evening. not many weeks ago. Bensie was at his apparatus and heard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
Southern Man Wanted on
 Commerce Commission

EH HE resolution adopted by the u Alabama Manufacturer asso- citation calling for southern member of the interstate commerce commits sion will be heartily indorsed by the people of the south.
 The present personnel embraces three men from New York, two from New Jersey, one from Massachusetts, one each from Iowa, Wisconsin and Colorado and two from Kentucky. The great south and southwest, embracing more than third of the entire coun- try, are without representation. The two members from Louisville cannot be said to represent the real south, because they reside on it's extreme northern border.
 The Manufacturers association wants "a representative of the south, whose home may be in the south and who is familiar with the souths needs as to transportation facilities neces- sary to the south's industrial and ag- ricultural life"
 The east has reresentation of six, more than half the entire member ship of the commission. The, south is not stretching it's claims in re- quest for one representative. None but a man resident here and familiar with our transportation problems at first hand is capable of knowing what the south is entitled to and should have.
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 vashineton Anticipates
 | Quiet Administration fNYEWSPAPER correspondents and others familiar with affairs in the national capital predict that the Herding administration will be free 1p<m explosions.
 Mr. Harding is strong believer in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
QUITE A COINCIDENCE

QUITE A COINCIDENCE
 Did you enjoy the seance?"
 Not particularly. The medium had bad cold and was grieved to learn when the shade of the late Julius Caesar was summoned from the spirit world that he seemed to be suffering from the same complaint"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
THE TEST OF PHILOSOPHY

T care not for the filings of fate,' Said one whose name was Jeptha Tate, But when he to the dentist ran He was sad and mournful man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
A MORNING PRAYER

When I struggle, Lord, and ngon-
 izc under the\ bitter lash of the world. while I suffer let me sec thy sure light out beyond me! For l can bear a sorrow more or less when I know 1t ends in thee. Amen.-M. S.b.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
sound Conditions

Despite the depression which fol~ lowed the heavy decline in the price of cotton, business conditions arc sound in Greene county said J. D. Steele, Jr. a business man of 11utaw who was in Birmingham to attend the meeting of the Alabama Manufactur- ers' association.
 Fortunately, most of the people in our section of the state had prospe -ed mere during the last three of four years than they had ever before, and everyone was better. able to stand a depression than heretofore. The banks were in far stronger condition, and the merchants were in better shape than iE 1914. when cotton went to cents. We weathered that storm and of course, we are going through the press ent depression and deflation period with far less trouble."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
Why Birmingham Fare.
 Better Than Other Cities

IT UNDOUBTEDLY Birmingham will
 " pass through the readjust- mept period with less trouble than majority of other cities of the same class and those larger as well. There is one outstanding cause for this.
 The district has two sources of prosperity One is the trade of
 the south, the southeast and the
 southwest. The other is the trade
 of the Orient, Europe, the West In-
 dies and Central and South America
 of the world, in fact. Domestic trade has been inactive for sometime, but the export busi-
 ness has been good. One Birmingham
 shop is finishing railroad bridges for
 Cuba, the Philippines and Mexico and
 has just completed sugar house jobs
 for Cuba. Others have entered the
 year with similar contracts held over from 1920.
 It is the continuous outflow of
 steel and iron products to other coun- tries that insures the regularity of Birmingham pay rolls and brings a liberal patronage to local merchants. Although the American army is small, there are several million young men in the country with military ex- pertence who could be used in an emergency.
 Membership in the House of Rep resentatives will not be increased. This will prevent number of ambitious
 citizens from trying to live on a Con- gressman's salary.
 ** It seems a pity for woman who
 is as good cook as the lady from
 Oklahoma to waste her time in Con-
 gress.
 Birminghem's crime wave has re- ceded far enough to permit a, pedes- i trian to get home with his pay en- ! vslops.
 Aristide Briand cultivatss the kind of mustache worn by road agents'. when the west was wild and woolly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20
Lines Frightening

< People are becoming more and more alert to the breaking of the child labor law says Mrs. P. E. Bowers, "a fact that is shown in the prompt re- port on any infringement thereof.
 Only few days ago, a report was filed of the employing of a girl ln1er age by a concern in this city. It was promptly handled. I believe there is less federation of child labor law .n> Engagement than there has ever been.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

BAD OMEN "The celebrated English visitor is busily taking notes" T fear the worst" Why so?" He's studying us through monocle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

WORSE hate the ukulele, But I'm very free to own That it doesn't jolt my system Like
 the
 slide
 tromb hone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

BirminghRm's crime wave has re- ceded far enough to permit a, pedes- trian to get home with his pay en- velope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

It seems pity for woman who is as good cook as the lady from Oklahoma to waste her time in Con- .gress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

Aristide Briand cultivates the kind of mustache worn by road agents'' when the west was wild and woolly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-20

Membership in the House of Rep resentatives will not be increased. This will prevent number of ambitious citizens from trying to live on Con gressman's salary.