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The wolves have prey'd) and look, the
gentle day
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round
about
(lapples the drowsy east with spots of
grey.
_Much Ado About Nothing.
Direct Election of Senators
The direct election amendment was
sent to the states on May 14, 1912,
and Senator Bristow believes it will
become a part of the constitution in
a single twelvemonth, a rapidity of
ratification unknown in a century.
Up to March 7 thirty states had rati
fied the amendment, and it had been
passed in one branch of the legisla
ture in six more states. Should the
aix states ratify it it would become
a part of the constitution speedily. If
some of them should not ratify it,
other states later on would do so.
The Florida legislature meets next
month.
This movement to weed out sena
tors elected by corporate influence,
or personal wealth or political manip
ulation, has been going on half a
century and it was not until last year
that the Senate surrendered to the
popular demand.
In Georgia opposition was aroused
to the proposition on the ground that
it handed over to the control of the
federal government senatorial elec
tions. There was not one word of
truth in this. The amendment relates
to section three of article one of the
constitution, and not at all to section
four of that article. Section four
stands just as it has since the adop
tion of the constitution in 1790. The
power of the federal government
would not be changed a particle by
the ratification of the pending
amendment. No one knows this better
than Senator Hoke Smoth and he
is expected to put this state right in
this matter.
The Mexican Situation
Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador to
Mexico, has resigned, and there is a
wide feeling that the sooner he is
relieved the better. He is believed to
have favored the Huerta-Diaz regime
in accordance with intimations from
the Taft administration, particularly
no doubt from ex-Secretary Knox. It
is at any rate known that he disliked
Madero.
In February was begun a series of
butcheries having for their object the
upbuilding of the Huerta-Diaz ma
chine, and this machine will beyond
question count on Diaz when a so
called election for president is held.
There may be other candidates, but
the provisional president and his
henchmen will control the election.
All Spanish-American elections are
farcical anyway. They are never the
real thing.
The present administration will no
doubt soon replace Henry Lane Wil
Bon wilh a man who will represent
•11 the people of the United States in
stead of some particular interests,
•nd he will be a good judge of the
time when the Diaz government
should be recognized. The Diaz ma
chine desires recognition, but it will
not get it at the hands of President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan until it
is fully entitled to it. Of this the
country feels will assured. Philander
Knox and Henry Lane Wilson are no
longer arbiters of Mexican affairs.
From a Mine to the Cabinet
William Bauchop Wilson, first Sec
retary of Labor in this country, was
once a miner in the soft coal mines
about Blossburg, Fenn. He has
served six years in Congress, com
ing from a district usually republican.
He is and all his active life has been
a democrat..At present he is a farmer
near Blossburg; is married and has
nine children.
He wad chairman of the House
committee on labor which reported
the bill to create the depart
ment of labor. This bill says that
"the purpose of the department of
labor shall be to foster, promote and
develop the welfare of the wage
earners of the United States, to im
prove working conditions and to ad
vance opportunities for profitable em
ployment.” Capital is not mentioned,
but Mr. Wilson recently said that “a
wise policy would of course take into
consideration not only the interests of
labor but the relationship between
labor and capital.”
While Secretary Wilson will be
frjendly to organized labor, yet those
who know him well say thkt he will
act wisely in case a great strike
arises. The Erdman act is still in
force, relating to differences between
railroad companies and their em
ployes. This law provides for media
tors in such cases, and no doubt Sec
retary Wilson would endeavor to ex
tend its provisions to cover strikes
outside of the railroads. He would en
deavor no doubt to bring the two
sides together and to get them to
agree to arbitration. He has long been
connected with trade union affairs,
and he may prove skillful in handling
strikes, which is after all a matter
of importance in this industrial coun
try. The new secretary promised to
become1 an efficient and useful mem
ber of the new administration. In or
ganizing the department of which he
is the first head he has room for all
the executive ability any man can
muster. ...
Let’s Have the Boulevard
A great boulevard running through
Birmingham from east to west, such
as has long been discussed and which
is now being considered by the city
commission, would not only meet a
popular demand, but it would greatly
enhance values hereabouts. Few im
provements that could be devised
would equal in importance the proj
ected boulevard.
The proposed route of the East
Lake-Ensley boulevard is along First
avenue from the extreme eastern
part of the city and by way of the
baseball park and the fair grounds
on to Ensley, where it would connect
with the Corey boulevard. All small
property owners on the line of this
thoroughfare are naturally eager to
see the work begin and it is under
stood that practically all the owners
of large abutting property are now
favorably inclined.
While the property owners would
have to pay ultimately for the work,
the city is ready to carry them on
particularly easy terms. Everyone
appreciates the value of good streets
and beautiful driveways in and about
a city. The boulevards that have
been constructed and paved here
within the past few years have added
immeasurably to the attractiveness
of Birmingham and hence increased
all values. The building of the East
Lake-^nsley boulevard would be a
grand stride forward, indeed, both
from a utilitarian and a city beautiful
viewpoint.
As First avenue, which will form a
part of the boulevard, is being newly
paved, only about six or seven miles
of new grading and paving will be
necessary. The cost therefore would
not be very great compared with the
benefits that the general public would
derive.
It .is hoped that this boulevard
movement will materialize without
delay. The construction work should
be under way before the spring is
gone.
To Avoid Charge of Nepotism
In the democratic caucus Joseph R.
Wilson, a brother of the President,
received but nine votes, while James
M. Baker, the successful aspirant, re
ceived 25 votes. Mr. Baker is an as
sistant librarian at the capitol. About
the same time Capt. A. M. Wilson, a
cousin of the President, went to
Washington from his home in Ore
gon, to secure appointment as a mem
ber of the Philippine commission.
When he applied.for the place to Sec
retary Garrison he was told that the
President had sent out word that no
relative of his should have a position
in the new administration. Captain
Wilson has exceptionally strong back
ing in his state and the President may
possibly relax his rule in this case.
But several cousins who are after
postmasterships will be barred out.
No charge of nepotism will lie
against this administration, and when
Joseph R. Wilson, a newspaper man
in Nashville, was defeated for the
secretaryship of the Senate this fact
became fully known. The secretary
ship of the Senate is an office wholly
without the range of presidential ap
pointment, but a large majority of
democrats felt that even presidential
relationship should not be permitted
to open the way to the charge of ne
potism. !
These facts simply show that the
new administration is to be conducted
on a high plane. The democratic party
is on trial, and the President does
right to keep his administration above
criticism in small matters as well as
in large ones.
Jr slab V. Thompson, a banker of
I'nlontown, put through a business deal
last week that netted him a profit of
fl,000,000. Thompson sold a tract of coal
land to the Midland Steel company for
$1,770,000, an average of JSOO an acre. The
land lies in Washington and Greene coun
ties. I,ess titan eight sears ago Thomp
son bought tlie same property for 1750,
000, and carried a large mortgage on It
Mrs. Ernest Lister, wife of Governor
Lister of Washington, literally kicked Into
the street the bill appropriating $2,000,000
for state roads when the chief clerk of
the House tried to hand her the document
at the executive mansion. Governor Lis
ter refused to accept the bill, which had
been rushed through two houses to get to
him before midnight so that Jje would
have to sign or veto it before the legisla
ture adjourned March ,18. He refused to
come to the door and Mr*. Lister at a
late hour declined to ^accept the bill. It
was found lying on the porch when two
newspaper men arrived. They called Mrs.
Lister’s attention to it and asked if that
wa* the bill. "Oh, that paper,* she said,
as she kicked it off the porch and into
the driveway, "we don’t want their old
papers around here." The bill was left
on the ground.
Emilio Madero, brother of the murdered
president of Mexico, declares that he
would shoot down with his own hands any
member of his family that would try to
re-establish their power in Mexico. Sat
urday it was understood Emilio and his
brother Intended to hold a conference
against the Huerta-Diaa regime. This
Madero denied Sunday and said: "None
of the Madero family will ever live in
Mexico again, each member will sell all
Ills property there and the family will
scatter all over the face of the earth.
We have renounced for all time the coun
try of our birth, the country that made
our brother president, then allowed him
to be shot in cold blood. We will have
no connection with any revolutionary i
plots.” v
When Postmaster General Burleson had
been sworn In an elderly clerk entered.
“This is the first paper a Postmaster
General signs after lie has qualified," said
the clerk. s“Please sign here." The
Postmaster General noticed the paper was
done up in a handsome wallet but he did
not examine it closely. When Mr. Burle
son started for home Mrs. Burleson, who
was present, picked up the wallet and
tucking it under her arm said: "Well, I
guess I will take this along." On the way^
home Mr. and Mrs. Burleson examine!
the contents. They found it was a rail
read and steamship pass made out in the
name of “A. S. Burleson, postal Inspec
tor," duly signed and approved by "A.*S.
Burleson, Postmaster General."
Gasene, the new fuel liquid, is the dis
covery of Henry B. Taylor, of Warren,
Pa. According to Mr.lor it will an
swer all the purposes of gasoline as far
as fuel is concerned and will sell at whole
sale for 3 or 4 cents a gallon, as against IS
cents for 74 gravity gasoline. One offi
cial says he is using It in his own automo
bile and it works successfully. It is ad
mitted there is considerable smoke with
the first few explosions.
Germany proposes to have a graduated
scale of levels to pay for the increase i:i
the army. The heiress to the Krupp es
tate will pay under this plan 7,200,000
marks a year, or $1,800,000. She no doubt
knows how to get this money back from
the government.
James E. Watson of Indiana says that
Prof. W. H. Taft of New Haven will be
the next republican candidate for Presi
dent. This means four years more of
democratic rule. Shake, James.
Vincent Astor thinks more and better
oats should be grown to the acr$ in New
York, and he proposes to show the farmer
how to do It. He is now a farm demon
strator, in other words.
The New York Evening Post thinks the
south should he satisfied with a President
in the White House and an ex-President
on its golf links.
I Mrs. Mary Pettigrew Keyes, one of the
nine real daughters of the revolution, 1.3
dead at Princeton, 111., at the age of 100
years.
Dr. Friedmann need not stop to resent
n chilly reception in New York. He
should get right down to the cures thetn
selves.
It is not Dr. Friedmann's peculiarties
hut his vaccine that interests the people.
Never mind the former.
The army of Gen. Rosalie Jones will be
mustered out as soon as the police in- j
vestigation is completed.
Dr. Friedmann's mock turtle serum Is;
greatly distrusted by the old line doctors
in New York.
Messrs. Lewis and Sherman m brevet
senators and both are clamoring for the
toga Itself.
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Some begin to think Joaquin Miller was I
not a real poet because he left an estate!
of $<0,000.
Secretary Garrison will, let us hope, be |
a friend to our undeveloped waterpowers
and rivers.
The moving pictures of the Inaugura
tion cannot reproduce the colors and the
voices.
The selection of embassadors from, on
army of multi-millionaires is no easy
task.
Washington sadly needs a police force,
a police chief and a city commission.
There are still bones in the shad, ac
cording to the latest accounts.
NEW CHAIR AT YAI.K LAW
From tlie New York Times.
New Haven, Conn.—Miss Emily South
mayd of New York has given Yale $12S,
000 to found a clAilr of equlf.v Jurlspiu
detice In the Yale I,aw school In memory
of her brother, the late Charles F. South
mayd, who was a law partner of Joseph
H. Choate and William M. Evarts.
Although Mr. Southmayd did not re
ceive a college education, he became a
leader of the American bar and received
the honorary degree of doctor of laws
from Yale In 1881. Several members of
the Southmayd family were Yale grau
ates In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
centuries.
The chair will form an expansion of the
law achool professorships, nearly all of
which have only 8100,000 as a foundation,
and, therefore, giant the Incumbents ail
Income'of less than 8.UuO.
A
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Free Attractions for the Fnlr
“I am busy now considering offers
of attractions for the state fair," said
President B. B Burton. "Many of the
offers are very tempting We are going
to have more free attractions next
October, and better, than ever. W© will
have a great midway and altogether
tlie amusements will be ahead of any
thing ever seen in the south before.
"As the state fair Increases in im
portance every year It behooves us to
start on the preliminaries earlier year
by year. We are certainly getting an
early start this year and our pro
grammes will soon bo ready for
publication."
The Music Festival
President J. H. Holcombe of the Mu
sic Festival association has called A
meeting of the board of directors for
this afternoon, when it is hoped that
plans for a festival May 5 and 6 will
he sufficiently well advanced to close
contracts with the attractions upon
which options are held.
"The only thing we have been wait
ing on recently is the guarantee fund,"
said Mr. Holcombe last night. "The
board agreed that we would not have
th© festival unless $10,000 was sub
scribed. About SO per cent of this
amount, has been raised and I believe
th© balance will bd* reported at the
meeting Tuesday afternoon. Of course,
no on© is called on for money in ad
vance and only In the. event of a
deficit is any assessment made, and
then it is pro rata. There are no counter
attractions In Birmingham on May 5
and 6 and there is good reason to
believe that we will com© out finan
cially ahead.
'Many of those wno suoscriDeci 10
the guarantee fund have taken a pub
lic spirited view of the matter and have
assisted the festival cause with alac
rity. An annual festival has come to
be an Institution of Birmingham. It
is a civic as well as a musical propo
sition and there should be no diffi
culty in rounding up the $10,000 guar
antee.”
If a festival is held, and there seems
now to be no doubt about it, the Cincin
nati orchestra, under the conductorship
of Dr. Kumvald, will be engaged. This
orchestra ranks right among the fore
most. It has been engaged for the Cin
cinnati festival this year. The Thomas
cTTchestra has been used heretofore in the
Cincinnati biennial event, known as the
greatest musical festival in America.
The change in favor of the local orchestra
is due to tbe fact that under the present
leadership it has been brought to such
a high plane of excellence as to be con
sidered by the Cincinnati Festival as
sociation as the peer of any orchestra in
this country.
Poultry IlfllNlng In the South
“Although there is some poultry
farming in t lie south there is little
compared with that of other sections;
little compared with what we should
have,” said ,T. Howard Sledd, editor of
Practical Poultry, published monthly in
Birmingham. “Tefinessee has made
progress within the past few years and
now the poultry industry of that state
is assumingp large proportions; but in
my old slate of Virginia, where poul
try farming should be extensive, little
has been done. The same may be said
of nearly all the other southern states.
“There is no reason wity poultry cul
ture in the south should not be a very
large interest. As chickens and eggs
are always in demand and as Birming
ham is a great market there should be
many men engaged in poultry raising
in this particular section. Southern ag
riculture has become progressive. There
has been marked improvement in
farming all over the south and the
time must certainly come when en
terprising young men, brought up or
the farm, will be aroused to the com
mercial importance of chickens and
eggs.”
President* nt Church
“I was much interested in reading
the account of President and Mrs. Wil
son attending religious services in
Washington,” said A. C. Dwight of
Pittsburg.
“I was formerly a resident of Wash
ington; was living there when Mr. Mc
Kinley was President. He worshipped
at the Metropolitan Methodist church,
where I was also a worshipper. He
usually came attended by a White
House clerk or an assistant secretary.
The military aide to the President was
not then in vogue and there was very
little formality on Sunday, but a squad
of police was always detailed for duty
in front of the church to keep back
the crowrd of^visitors who had gath
ered to get a glimpse of the President.
President McKinley occupied a seat
near the front on the right aisle. Just
before the services closed ushers wen I
down the right aisle and whispered to
each person sitting at the end of a
pew' to remain standing until the
President had passed out.
til have heard that when Mr. Roose
velt was President a military aide ac
companied him to church—the little
Dutch Reform church, which he attend
ed regularly. President Taft attended
the Unitarian church and he was al
ways escorted by an aide in uniform.
“President Wilson's church going
last Sunday wras even more unosten
tatious.”
Spring Weather Next Week
“In some years the backbone of winter
in this latitude is not broken until about
the last of March,” said a weatherwise
citizen, "but as far as 1913 goes, winter is
past. We will not have another freeze.
I predict beautiful spring weather from
the loth or 16th until April. We may then
look out for a rainy season.”
The New Administration
"Many men wrho did not vote for Mr.
Wilson for President considered him
something of a doctrinaire and felt that
if he were elected 'he would not fully
grasp the business situation of the coun
try; but from the way he ie starting out
he will be one of the best Presidents this
country has ever had,” said Philip j.
Yardley of Philadelphia.
“Ill 1908 I voted for Mr. Taft, but last
November I voted the democratic ticket.
Although I have never been a politician
I have considered myself a republican.
But I felt last year that the time had
'come for a change in party administration
at Washington.
“The pessimists in the business w >rid
who predicted that President Wilson
would have a chilling effect on indus
trial activity and general trade, are be
ginning to see that their fears were un
founded. Business conditions are sound
ami trade is moving along well. I see no
reason whatever to think that there will
he any slowing up or legitimate commer
cial activities this year.”
COSMKTIt S ON OLD SOLTll
From the Boston Transcript.
When passing Old South it is wise to
turn up one's coat collar, for a liquid
compound for ilie purpose of removing
a century's encrustations of grime and
paint might do as much for the human
cuticle. It Is a wan ghost that looks
out at us from these soapy erasures on Its
walls. The blush of its original brick
looks not quite innocent of rouge; and
the effect is a shade disquieting, as if
a stately and aged dame whom we had
got used to seeing in nothing but sober
'black had suddenly resolved to “put
on colors.” The shock might be less if the
colors were being put on more tidily*
but this streaming of cosmetics over
eaves, walls and circumjl^ent pavements
arouses dismay. Can this be the grand
motherly meeting house who has glim
mered down on us through her steel
rimmed spactacles all these years? You
ask us whether we approve of the
change. We reply, like the little hoy
who W'ept so inconsolably at his sister's
wedding: “Yes, but she isn't our Kmlly
any more!”
The fact this freshening of the oldest
landmark in Newspaper Row is viewed
by chronic down-townsters with a doubt
ful eye. Probably we shall get reconciled
in time, but frankly, It Is a bit of a shock
and a drop. After the collective optics
of a community have been accustomed to
a sombre aspect of a meeting house over
a 4pace of a century the effect of its
bursting into gayety of hues is as if the
occulist had, during his test of our eyes,
abruptly and brutally substituted for the
convention “A F G K D Q” (“Can you
read that?”) a sun lit prism darting all the
colors of the spectrum. Doubtless, the
prism is more enlivening as a steady thing
than the deranged alphabet, but he ought
to break it gently.
these strictures are uttered tentatively.
Old South is too faithful a friend to in
cur denunciation for a bit of once-a-cen
tury eccentricity. To be sure, its clock
might be desired to be a little more re
liable. Its hands have a treacherous habit
of fooling you into the placid belief that
you have five minutes extra when, in ,
reality, the time is up. Or they cry: !
“Make haste! Make haste!" when there is
no hurry in the world. But summer .or
winter it stands there, with a web of ivy
green flung across its sooty walls; or fes
tooned with snows. It has the prime
quality of the trusted friend. You always
know where to And it.
ELECTRICITY FOR THE BEDROOM
From the Electric News Service.
Very little care and attention is given
to the placing of electricity in the bed
room. Apparently the contractor just
sticks a wall fixture in wherever it is
most convenient and the occupant of the
room has to make the best of a bad' job.
Just as often as not the electric light is
located up against the wall where it ought
not to be.
Not only Is it important that the electric
light for the bedroom be located where It
is most convenient, and where the entire
efficiency of the lamp is available, but
other outlets should be provided in case
an extra lamp is desirable during sickness,
or for reading purposes. Now and then
auxiliary electric devices, such as the
small electric iron, the electric fan, the
electric shaving mug, the electric lumi
nous radiator, are desired, and where only
one outlet is provided the lamp has to be
taken out whenever anything else is used.
Of course this is a great inconvenience
during the hours of darkness.
An electric shaving mug is very service
able in homes where hot water is not al
ways on tap, and in connection with the
shaving mirror it is quite handy to have
an electric light that may be adjusted+to
render its best service. The electric curl
ing iron and- the electric hair dfyfcr ap
peal very strongly to the ladies of the
house, the former having distinct advan
tages over the curling iron which has
to be heated by gas with the accompany
ing soot and danger of excessively high
temperature. The electric vibrator is an
other apparatus which may be used in the
bedroom. Fans, ozonators, radiators and
other common devices may also be wanted
in this part of the house. To many per
sons a reading lamp which can be placed
in a convenient position at the bedside
is also a comfort and convenience. The
provision of a number of outlets is just
as desirable In the bedroom as in any
other portion of a residence, and if the
greatest use is to be made of electric cur
rent the contractor or designer of an
installation should bear all these points
in mind when laying out his wiring
scheme. _
A CALL FOn MOTHERS
From Leslie’*.
While their daughters ’’turkey trot" and
"bunny hug," or parade the streets
dressed more after the fashion of the
woman of the streets than of modest girl
hood, where are the mothers? If thought
less girls do such things, what shall
he said of the mothers who have so far
forgotten the duties of motherhood as to
permit or encourage them. At Palm
Beach the other day when a thoughtless
(or worse) youjig man had made all ar
rangements for the younger set to turkey
trot In bathing costumes on the beach to
the accompaniment of a talking machine,
a mother who had a proper sense of her
duty declined to have her daughters take
part tn such a proceeding and the vulgar
performance was nipped In the bud.
But where are the mothers that demand
a restraining hand? Do they no longer
rare about the amusements their daugh
ters seek? Are they no longer concerned
how their daughters dress? Is maidenly
modesty becoming a thing of the past?
A revolution In manners and morals Is
taking place, with little or no protest
from those who shoujd be first to speak—
the mothers. The vogue of filthy and
beastly dances In supposedly goqd society,
the vulgar and suggestive styles, and the
general laxity of conduct, even among
boys and girls still In their early teens,
constitute a terrible indictment of the
mothers of the day whose eyes lyjve been
so blinded that they do not see whither
we are moving. Give us a revival of
old fashioned mothers who will restore
the simple customs that used to charac
terize the period of childhood and youth.
A MORAL GONE ASTRAY.
From the Living Church.
A New York philanthropic writer visited
an emergency case of poverty, and left
$2 in cash and some coal and groceries. A
day or two afterward the visitor called,
and was asked for more money. She in
quired how the $2 had been spent. ‘ Oh,
said the sufferer, “my hair was falling
out very badly, and I spent that money
for hair tonic!” The disillusioned visitor
threw up the case.
A few months afterward she met the
woman, who looked very prosperous. On
inquiry, she explained that her hair lian
grown very rapidly, and that she went
back for another bottle. On selng her
line, new growth of hair, the tonic people
gave her a salary of 115 a week tb sit
in their show window and exhibit what
the tonic had done for her hair; and her
•laughter got a “job” there, pasting labels
"u bottles!
The moral seents to have gone astray,
| doesn't it?
I My friend, who tells me this story,
I leaves out the tit a! point—what was the |
tonic?
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
\ A TRIFLE SEVERE. s
"Miss 'Fearher, you look so sweet 1
could bite you," said Mr. Simpers, with
his most fatuous smile.
"Pray doh’t," answered Miss Peacher,
In well simulated alarm. “I had a friend
once who was bitten by an insect and
nearly died of blood poison.”
NONE TO STARE.
When Bella doth a novel read,
She has to prop her feet up high;
But then to blush there Is no need.
Because no wicked men are nigh.
EAST BflOUGH.
“I know a man who writes hundreds or
letters and never uses the pronoun of the
first person, singular.’*
"How does he avoid that?"
"Hs refers to himself In the third per
son, singular.'’
NO NEED TO WORRY.
She gazes on herself the while
Her mirror doth reflect the truth;
And judglng'from her happy smile,
She still has beauty, grace and youth,
DARN THE FAMILY.
"So you want to marry into my family,
do you?"
"Not at all, sir. I want to marry your
daughter.”
UNGRAMMATICAL FRUE.
Her face It was lovely.
Her ligure superb;
But, heavens, how could she
So misuse the verb?
OVERWHELMED.
"This officer testifies that you were go
ing 40 miles an hour when he arrested
you," said the judge, sternly.
"Vour honor,” answered the prisoner at
the bar, "I am flattered to tears."
"What do you meat) by that, sir?"
"My automobile is a 1911 model and 1
bought It second-hand."
A SAFE PREDICTION.
Ere long will backs
Begin to ache
Of those who would
A garden make,
And they’ll observe,
With loks of rue,
A mighty crop
Of blisters, too.
HIS CLAIM TO FAME.
'A newspaper paragrapher passed away
the other day, after many years of ser
vice. AVhat do you suppose was his dying
request?"
"I can't Imagine.”
"He asked the members of his family to
erect a simple monument In hie memory,
with his full name, the date of his birth
and the date of his decease on the shaft,
and a brief statement to the effect that
he had never written a pert paragraph
about the matrimonial experiences of Nat
Goodwin.''
NteVJSR SATISFIED
We want so much
We’ll never get,
This world Is filled
With vain regret.
And when we’ve passed
Life’s journey o’er,
We’re just as wistful
As before.
REASONS FOR REJOICING.
This is the philosophy of a correspon
dent at Reserve, Kan.; "Don’t kick be
cause you have to button your wife's
waist. Re glad your wdfe has a waist,
and doubly glad you have a wife to but
ton ajtfraist for. Some men’s wives have
no waists to button. Some men's wives'
waists have no buttons on to button. Some
men’s wives’ waists which have buttons
on to button don’t care a continental
whether they are buttoned or not. Some
men don’t have any wives with buttons on
to button any more than a rabbit.”—Kan
sas City Star.
THE POOR V. P.
lie has been found.
To whom do we refer?
To the man who talks about the "Oc
cultation of Tom Marshall.”
HIS WORD OF REST.
I.
He said, whilst they all wan talkin —
Abusin’ him, high an’ low:
"Thar's rest somewhere in the quiet—
Where God's white daisies grow.
Under the cool, kind grasses •
The storms of Life ’ll cease;
Safe in a sheltered harbor.
The dead, at least, are at peace!''
II.
Thar was the place of his longin'
Thar’s wdiar wre sigh to be
When the ship can’t stem the tempest
Over Life’s trouble sea.
Never a soul but felt that way,
Yearnin' for release
’Neath the kindly shade by the green
trees made,
Under the daisies of Peace.
—Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Con*
stitutlon.
HOW COULD THEY?
•It’s a blooming shame!"
"Still, you can’t blame her parents."
"Why not?"
"When they bestowed the name of
‘Fairy’ on her they didn’t suppose sh#
would ever weigh over 200 pounds."
PAUL COOK.
ON HOW TO BE HAPPY
Extract from an essay by Joseph Miller,
published in the Independent.
THE poem of “Evangeline” is a
succession of pictures. I never
read Evangeline but once—it is
a waste of time to look twice at a sun
set; but I believe I can see every pic
ture in that poem as distinctly as if I
had been the unhappy Acadian, for here
the author has called in all the ele
ments that go to make up a perfect
poem. When the great epic of this new
solid Saxon tongue comes to be written
it will embrace all that this poem em
braces. New and unnamed lands; ships
on the sea; the still deep waters hid-,
den away in a deep and voiceless con
tinent; the fresh and fragrant wilder
ness; the curling smoke of the campfire;
action, movement, journeys; the pres
ence, the inspiring presence of woman;
the ennobling sentiment of love, devo
tion, and devotion to the death; faith,
and hope and charity; and all in the!
open air, under the bent arch of heaven.
For no great poem has ever been or
ever will be confined in a parlor; or
even fashioned from a city. There is
not room for it there. You might as
well try to grow a California pine in
the shell of a peanut. Homer’s “Odys
sey,” out of which have grown books
enough to cover the earth, owes It im
mortality to'all this and its outdoor ex
ercise.
When this land Is once more, a wll-1
derness and our language lias perished
from the earth, so far as I can guess,
there Is «o living Saxon poet will eo
jdure the consuming fire of translation,
like the old Greeks, except perhaps
Walt Whitman. He cannot be made
more rugged or more rough than he is,
and there is for him a large probability
of polish in translation.
I was once riding alone over the
mountains of Durango, in North Mex
ico, when I was overtaken by what 1
thought to be a band of robbers. There
was no escaping them—there was but
this one mountain road climbing up the
back of the great, steep, rugged moun
tain; and so 1 did the best L could—
Joined them and fell into conversation
with the leader, halfjsxpecting all t lie
time to be murdered
At last, as we climbed the lofty sum
mit and looked down over the rich val
ley, with its cool waters winding
through it, this black, hard-looking
Mexican reined his mule, lifted his hat,
and, looking over the valley, exclaimed:
Que hermosa! “ How beautiful!” I felt
no fear after that. We slept together
that night; and he told me, this man
who could not read, many pretty things
for my book.
To these poets; these lovers of the
beautiful; these silent thinkers; these
mighty mountaineers, far away from
the rush and the roar of commerce;
these men who have room and strength
and the divine audnetity to think and
act for themselves—to these men, who
dare to have a heart and enthusiasm,
who love the beautiful world that the
Creator made for them, I look for the
leaven of our loaf.
Would you like to know the secret of
happiness—a secret that no navigator
ever brought from the sea; a secret
fhat tut merchant prince was ever rich
enough to purchase? I will tell you.
The secret of happiness Is the appre
ciation of the beautiful In nature; the
appreciation of God's unwritten poetry.
Ah! you are disappointed. You expected
me to tell you how to make a fortune,
how to he famous. Do not be mistaken.
The secret of happiness is the love of
tho beautiful; the secret of happiness Is
the appreciation of unwritten poetry.
I would say; Dearn to read the book
of nature every day around you—all Is
open before you; and then the books of
men will be simple things. The greater
Includes the less.
I,ove and comprehend beauty; for
then you will love and comprehend the
world.
HOME OF JOHN D. HOCKEFEI.LER
From "A Day with John D. Rockefeller,"
Joe Mitchell Chappie In National Maga
zine for March.
L'p the hill, past Slflepy Hollow, lying
on two sides of a distant ridge, are the
heights of Pocanttco Hills. In the green
Kent House, with square tower and goth
ic decorations, lives Mr. John D. Rocke
feller, on the border of his estate, while
the new gray stone house on the summit
Is being completed.
The home was In keeping with the sim
ple tastes of tile man. In the corner of
the hall were flowers—just the old fash
ioned, late fion-er3 of autumn; hollyhocks
and chrysanthemums. There was the
usual hall rack with hats and caps. A
photograph of a group on the golf links,
showing Mr. Rockefeller In hie best golf
fettle, was near the entrance, and In the
adjoining room pictures of I.ineoln and
Washington made It seem like an old
fashioned American home. A cheery fire
was glowing in the grate inside, and on
Hie table were magazines, books and
newspapers In friendly array. It was all
cozy and homelike, such as any man of
moderate means might enjoy. Promptly
at the hour appointed, Mr. Rockefeller
came downstairs. He was attired In a
gray outing suit, trousers rolled up, and
•was wrapped in a gray sweater, with
a golf cap set • squarely atop, as though
ready to eclipse his best record. As the
single guest of the golf "gallery," I 'was
armored with a paper vest to keep out
the chilling wind, while waiting to watch
the solitaire game of golf.
"Now we're ready,” quoth the host,
leading the way to the green. "I-oucy,”
the Italian caddy, wllh a heavy mous
tache and genial brown eye, pinched the
sand and perched the ball. After one or
two sweeps with the'wlub, Mr. Rockefel
ler sent the ball circling through the trees
toward the green, like a bird seeking Its
nesting place. It was a prime drive, and
Mr. Rockefeller turned to me, his eyes
gleaming with the satisfaction of a man
who has accomplished his purpose. Henry,
the colored man. as the advance guard,
held up the targets showing the location
of each hole.
"Where Is It going, Henry?" called Mr.
Rockefeller, after a drive. "Is It all
right, Henry?”
"Yeas, sah, I guess It struck the green
all right,” shouted back the good tu
tored advance sgjjut, “and hit’s still
goin' ylt.”—
IN SCHOOL DAYS
By John Greenleaf Whittier.
Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,
A ragged beggar eunnlng;
Around It still the sumach! grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within, the master's desk is sean.
Deep scarred by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seals,
The jack knife's carved Initial.
The charcoal frescoes on the wall;
Its door's worn sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping slow to school,
Went affirming out to playing.
Dong years ago a winter sun
Bhone over It at eettlng;
Dlt up Its weetern window panes, N
And low eaves' Icy fretting.
It touched the tangled golden curls,
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Of one who still her steps delayed
When all the school was leaving.
For near her atood the little boy
Her childish favor singled; *
His cap pulled low upon a face
Where pride and shame were mingled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left, he lingered—
As restlessly her tiny hands
The blue checked apron Angered.
He sew her lift her^yes; he felt
The .soft hand's light caressing,
And heard the tremble of her voice,
As If a fault confessing.
"I'm sorry that I spelt the word;
I hate to go above you.
Because."—the brown eyes lower fell—
"Because, you see,' I love you!"
Still memory to a gray haired man
That aweet child face is showing.
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing!
He lives to learn In life's hard school,
How few who pass above him
Dement their triumph and his loss,
Dike her—becaus^ they love him.
The poem of James Whitcomb Riley en
titled <'Dast Night and This,” published
In this commit February 2B, should have
contained the fallowing copyright credit:
"From Afterwhiles. Copyrightd 1«M; used
by special permission of the publisher^
The Bobbe-Hcrrlll company.”
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