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gepartment*)* No. 4POO.
The world will he In love with nlRlit
And pnj- no courtship to the anrlsh sun.
—Romeo nnd Juliet.
Single Term Question
Presidept Wilson handled the Jap
anese question capably, and so he has
the tariff problem, and the Mexican
situation. He has in fact made no seri
ous errors since entering the White
House. He has fallen into no traps. If
he goes on as he has begun he Will be
the best all-around President the
Country has had in many a day.
And many people will sustain him
in his repudiation of the one-term
plank of the Baltimore platform. If
Congress should go on and perfect a
constitutional amendment limiting
Presidents to one term, he would, of
course, accept it. But until Congress
does that he considers himself under
Bo obligation to act in that direction.
The people may not reward him
with a second nomination, but they
will be free to do so in the absence of
a constitutional amendment. Eventu
ally, however, a single term of six
or seven years will become law. It
should have been fixed in the consti
tution in the beginning.
The plank in the Baltimore platform
reads as follows: “We favor a single
presidential term, and to that end we
urge the adoption of an amendment to
the constitution making the President
of the United States ineligible for re
election, and we pledge the candidate
of this convention to this principle.”
But this plank is simply academic un
til Congress takes steps to put an
amendment before the states.
As to Smaller Counties
The Montgomery Journal indorses
%rtiat the Hurtsboro Tribune says in
favor of small counties in this state.
Pupils cannot attend the county high
school, and men shirk jury duty be
cause the courthouse is far away.
The truth is, in any state that has
not the township system whereby a
large share of the county business
can be transacted in each township,
counties should, as a rule, be small.
(Where there is a branch courthouse in
A large county the public is usually
satisfied. The township plan does not
exist in the south, and Georgia has
made her counties small because it
'does not.
Georgia has 14G counties and Ala
bama needs about 100 to get on a
similar footing, and the next legisla
ture will be pretty sure to give this
subject attention. “The size of this
county,’’ (Russell), says the Hurts
boro Tribune, “is an obstacle in the
■way of its progress, and the sooner it
shares a portion of its territory with
a new-born county, the sooner its cof
fers will swell, the sooner its younger
generation will acquire the requisite
learning, and the sooner its roads, its
population and its government will be
numbered among the brag assets of
the state^_
Municipal Burdens in This City
Every citizen should study the plans
Of tax reform in >his city suggested
on the one hand by Chairman Henry
U. Sims, and on the other by City At
torney Boyd. The former wants mu
nicipal taxation separated from state
taxation, each to be levied independ
ently, while Captain Boyd prefers to
put city and county under one govern
ment.
Action by the next legislature is
■adly needed. The city is expending
just about $250,000 in maintaining
schools in other counties and in main
taining highways in this county, and it
cannot stand up under the burden.
Some remedy must be found. And this
is why every citizen should study the
two plans already formulated and all
Other plans that may appear. The im
portance of the subject calls for close
study of all plans with a view to
finding one reasonably free of ob
jections—one that would relieve the
city from the strain of present taxa
tion.
The Sims plan was fully presented
In a report made to the Chamber of
Commerce directors recently and
copies of that report should be care
fully studied. It is a good lesson in
municipal taxation, and the plan
promises to gain supporters the more
it is studied. _
An Auditorium Bond Issue
The Birmingham Chamber of Com
merce stands ready to push a $150,000
municipal bond issue proposition for
the needed auditorium.
Birmingham will soon be well off
in hotels and the thing most needed
here now is an auditorium with a seat
ing capacity of fully 8000. It is be
lieved by members of the auditorium
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce that $150,000 will pay for site
and building—a building which would
be a credit to this city for many years
to come.
About the only way we can have an
auditorium is for the city to build it.
Bonds bearing 5 per cent interest
would be quickly underwritten and
distributed among local business men.
Atlanta’s auditorium with a seating
capacity of 7200 is owned by the city.
Savannah is soon to have a splendid
auditorium and that city, much
smaller than Birmingham, is about to
issue $200,000 worth of bonds to pay
for it.
While Birmingham must of neces
sity practice rigid economy during the
next two or three years, or until the
legislature affords relief, the audi
torium is so much needed by various
classes of the community that when
the vote comes to be taken the $160,
000 proposition will, it is felt, win by
a large majority. Even with its mag
nificent hotels and apartment houses
Birmingham can never be a first class
convention city until it has an audi
torium such as is now under considera
tion. But with such an auditorium
this would be the most popular point
in the south for national gatherings.
Religious denominations are to unite
in holding a great evangelistic meet
ing here in the fall. A temporary
tabernacle or auditorium will have to
be erected. But a real permanent audi
torium wqild have served the purpose
far better. Dozens of national organi
zations—fraternal and otherwise—
have had an eye on Birmingham for
some time past and are just waiting
until the city has an adequate audi
torium before electing to meet here.
The interest on the $150,000 would
be only $7500 a year and that is a
small amount indeed for the city to
provide in view of the great benefits
that would accrue to Birmingham.
The bond issue should be submitted
to the voters early in the fall so that
ground for the building might be
broken in time to give us the com
pleted building by next spring.
Shingled Roofs a Menace
The proposed extension of the fire
district to the city's limits means the
use of material on roofs other than
shingles. The adoption of the pro
posed ordinance would not abolish
shingles in many years. Every year
would, however, show gains and it is
claimed that the disappearance of
shingled roofs would mean a decrease
in the number of fires to the extent of
50 per cent.
The fire loss is heavy in Birming
ham, and a gradual change from shin
gle to non-combustible material would
be no doubt a fine achievement. As 10
years would elapse at least before this
could be accomplished, why not start
the reform at once? Some of the sub
stitutes are not much more expensive
than shingles, and the additional cost
of new buildings would not be consid
erably increased.
The reform is no doubt desirable. It
stands approved by the best judges of
fire losses, and a little courage on the
part of the commission would give it
a start in a city in which fewer fires
are desired. It is a choice between in
flammable roofs and roofs that no
spark oan harm and it would seem that
Chief Bennett’s advice in this matter
should be heeded.
Five hundred girls in their teens, pupils
In the eighth grade of the Cleveland pub
lic schools, have begun a practical study
of Infant hygiene with real live babies
to experiment upon. The initiation of the
course took place at the Sterling school,
where Edward Parsch, 8 months old, son
of Mason Tarsch, a machinist, was
stripped and given a hygienic bath before
an interested class of girls in short
dresses. "I believe this is an epoch-mak
ing innovation in public school instruc
tion,'' said Airs, Ada B. Williams, city
supervisor of domestic science instruction,
who is sponsor for the course. Florence
Uirz, 14, who had obtained Master Parsch
for the experiment, undressed the baby.
After the instructor had washed his eyes,
rose and ears, other pupils bathed his
body. Then Lorna Booth, 14. dried and
powdered him and put him to bed. He
demonstrated the value of infant hygiene
by going to sleep at once.
Unable to travel by railroad, James
Tourish, a cripple with a broken back,
was wheeled In a specially constructed
chair from Philadelphia to the shore, a
distance of GO miles. The cripple had ex
pressed a wish to go to Atlantic City and
get the benefit of the ocean breezes. He
sustained his Injuries two years ago from
falling from a roof in Philadelphia. Four
inches of his spinal column was removed
by a surgeon. The journey to the shore
took three days, and Tourish will remain
several months.
"An eminent New York surgeon" says
he never operates for less than JjO.OOO,
and the New York newspapers call the
statement a fake.
A widely-voiced protest against divid
ing tho Belmont estate In Washington
into building lots has revived the pro
posal to have the government maintain
an official residence for the vice presi
dent of the United States. The proposi
tion comes from Mrs. John As Logan,
widow of the famous soldier and states
man, whose residence, now occupied by
Secretary of State William Jennings
Bryan, adjoins Belmont. A mass meeting
will be held to further plans for raising
$25,000 to obtain r.n option on the estate
until Congress can pass on the project
to purchase it for a vice presidential resi
dence. Belmont is situated on a hill at
the Junctio'n of Florida avenue and Four
teenth street, well within the present lim
its of the capital city. It was built by
the late A. L. Barber, president of the
Barber Asphalt company, and was sold
recently to a builder.
For the edification of Governor Golds
borough and his party 4000 terrapin
showed their heads above the surface
of their mud pond. It was not to see
the distinguished party that the terrapin
came to view, but to respond to the din
ner hell, which turned out to be a false
alarm. The demonstration occurred at
the terrapin farm of Tawes & Co. at;
Crisfield, Md. “If my husband were
here," said the absent watchman’s wife,
“he would feed them for you, but just
to show you how they act I will ring
the dinner bell.” Then she picked up
several sleighbells on a string and shook
them. Immediately above the surface of
the mud there protruded some 4000 little
heads, making the pond look very much
like a bed of asparagus.
The five investigating senators at Wash
ington did find one lobbyist, a Mr. Mc
Murray, and he was working to seeuic
some Indian contracts.
The socialist party is chiefly engaged in
manufacturing thunder to be stolen by
one of the old parties.
Among the young and even the middle
aged no Carnegie or Rockefeller seems
to be springing up.
The man who wants war is usually the
person who is not ready to go when it
breaks out.
In 12 large cities the churchgoers are
in a minority, and a war on Satan is
to be begun in those cities.
Make-up editors who continue first page
stories to other pages sometimes over
tax the patience of readers.
The tight skirt may be as sanitary as
the Chicago doctors say it is, but the
girls are not wearing it for their health.
Charles W. Morse says freedom is the
best serum he knows of. He is using U
for all it is worth.
Culebra cut is outdoing the base steal
ers of the national game in the art of
sliding.
The press is powerful, but it is not pow
erful enough to induce all people to stop
eating with their knives.
Dayton has raised $2,000,000 to be used
in flood prevention.
Bachelor Sir Thomas Liplon favors
woman suffrage. Most bachelors do.
The Marquette case rendered the mint
bed at the White House famous.
JAP SENTIMENT AND AMBITION
From “The Progress of the World,” in
the American Review' of Reviews for
June.
The Japanese have shown a solidarity of
racial and national feeling that is unsur
passed, and probably unequalled, in our
modern world. They have aspired to a
place of high rank among the ^. eat pow -
ers, and they have attained it in a surpris
ingly short time. They are impressing
themselves in the fullest sense upon
Korea and Formosa. Because Korea is
theirs, they will not rest until they have
made it Japanese in every aspect of its
life. They wish to stand solely upon
thoir own national character. They do not
like to be regarded as of close kin to the
Asiatic nations, either in civilization, race,
or political and economic ideals. They
ask recognition upon their own qualities
as one of the groat, responsible modern
powers. It is no part of the policy of Ja
pan to have her laborers come to the
United States. Neither does she seek to
have Japanese capital employed in Cali
fornia agriculture or industry. She w'ould
prefer to have Japanese energy applied to
economic development in the home
islands, in Korea, and in Formosa. She
is a close observer of the progress of
other nations, and she has noted the fact
that more recent German industrial devel
opment keeps a fast growing population
employed at home, whereas the surplus
a generation ago was emigrating in large
numbers to build up the United States,
Brazil and Argentina.
“FISHING AS WAS FISHING**
From the Outing Magazine.
Every man who has lived in the cat
fish country knows how the trick was
done. You had a nibble and the cork
bobbed a little. Another nibble and it
bobbed some more. Then if you kept
perfectly still the cork went under and
you derricked Mr. Fish out with a mighty
heave. He was usually about five or six
indies long, and he sailed grandly
through the air to land kerplunk! on the
grass behind you. Sometimes, as a va
riation, he lighted in a tree or fell into
the middle of a red hawbush, which
meant trouble, but you always got the
fish eventually and strung him on one
branch of a forked stick and anchored
•him in the edge of the water.
When the fish weren’t biting, which was
usually about 75 per cent of the time at
a conservative estimate, you jammed the
butt of your pole into the mud and lay
back to watch the sunlight play through
the leaves overhead and listen to the birds
gossiping to each other. That’s the real
secret of successful fishing, anyway—
trout, cat or any kind—where you have
soft grass to lie on and water to babble
your toes in and soft summer sunshine
to bathe you and make you forget yes
terday and tomorrow and their troubles.
A REAL SORROW
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A wealthy woman who has lost a $10,000
necklace imagines she has a great sor
row. Why, she doesn’t know what sorrow
is. Did you ever see a shabbily dressed
mother trying to pull two poor shabby lit
tle tads away from the window of a can
dy store because she didn't have any
money to spend on them? That is sorrow.
And while the little tads may be broken
| hearted, they will never know just how
hadly the shabbily dressed mother feels.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Cotton Crop.
“Alabama’s growing cotton is In fine
condition,” said W. D. Nesbitt.
“The acreage is a little larger than last
year, and I have never known at this sea
son the plants to be looking quite so well.
What the boll weevil will do remains to
be seen. Certain it Is that in every part
of the state the cotton fields could not
look better.”
F.xnmlna j Ioiim Should lie Thorough
“Nearly every state has a mustc teach
ers’ association and two or three years
flgo a good deal was said about the
importance of official examinations,” said
a layman who has taken much Interest
In music. “The agitation started with one
of the northern associations.
“In some of the states there may be a
state board to pass upon the qualifications
of would-be teachers, but of this I am
not Informed. In tlie states with which
I am familiar there are no such boards.
The necessity for thorough examinations
is obvious. In every large city there
are many good teachers, but there are
also many who make their living teach
ing without adequate equipment. I have
known teachers in more than one south
ern city who knew absolutely nothing
of theory; could not tell what key a
piece was written in; could not analyze
a chord and who could scarcely give an
Intelligent definition of counterpoint.
“In this country the standards of mu
sic have been raised in recent years.
Concert audiesices are much more dis
criminating and only artistic perform
ances are applauded by men and women
who listen intelligently. This all goes
to show that there is sufficient Interest
in music as a whole to justify the state
in taking steps toward ‘efficiency exac
tion’ on the part of those who make a
profession of music. 14
"I am told that in New York and
other large cities the musicians’ union Is
quite strict in admitting members. In
New York no one can be elected unless
upon examination he Is found to have
acquired a certain degree of musician
ship In addition to being able to perform
well on some instrument.’’
Recollection* of Gettysburg.
The Tenth Alabama infantry was at
Gettysburg In the very thickest of the
fight. There are a number of men resi
dents of Birmingham who were members
of the Tenth. William S. Morrrow, chief j
clerk of the board of revenue, was a
member of Company B. Speaking of his I
recollections of the final day at Gettys-1
burg, he said:
“I remember the charge of Pickett’s'
men, for they passed over us as we lay j
at the foot of a sloping ridge behind a
few rails remaining of a fence. There
was a battery of 10 guns a few yards in !
front of us and the firing was terrific
just before the charge. There were a
few scattering trees and some scrub
growth between us and the federals, who
were, I should say, about a half a mile
away. The federal were pouring can
nister and solid shot into our lines. I
remember that over on our right a splen
did mansion, situated in a beautiful grove
was set on fire by the federal fire. When
we advanced into action I saw quite a
good sized elm tree and although there
was strong temptation to use it with
others as a shelter from the terrific ar
tillery fire, I decided to side-step. Twas
well I did, for the Yankees made it
a target, and several confederates were
wounded there. W. S. Brown, now a
prominent merchant in Birmingham, was
wounded in the wrist by a shrapnel at
this tree. I can almost hear the buzz
of the overhead shots that made men
duck their heads that day and others,
when under fire.”
Looking: at Photograph*
“I am well along in years, but I never
fail to stop and look at photographs dis
played in a photographer’s window, just
as I did when I was a youth,” said a club
man.
“I believe most people like to look at
photographs whether they know the orig
inals or not. When I am in a strange
town I never pass a photographer's shop
that I do not stop and gaze upon the pic
tures displayed near the entrance or in a
street window. There has been a won
derful advance in photography in my day.
It has been brought up to a high art.
“When passing along Twenty-first street
this week I stopped to look in Stevenson's
window at some new photographs. Among
them were those of Gen. Louis V. Clarke,
,T. W. McQueen, Walker Percy, F. H.
Croekard. General Clarke looked the sol
dier that he Is, and had I known noth
ing of his record or personality I would
have guessed that he was a regular army
officer of the rank of colonel headed for a
brigadier general’s commission-. Mr. Percy
might be taken for a financier; Mr. Mc
Queen for an evangelist and Mr. Croekard
for a French savant.”
Harvey Will Be Mlssed>
“The sale of Harper's Weekly to Nor
man Hapgood and associates will become
effective this week, and those of us who
have been constant readers of Col. George
HaVey's editorials will feel as if we
had lost an old and valued friend," said
a professional man.
• Mr. Hapgood Is a brilliant writer but
Colonel Harvey belonged to a fine old
school that is almost extinct. Gentle
humor and common sense philosophy are
characteristics of Colonel Harvey. He
could never be swept off his feet by
any hysterical movement. He was al
ways well balanced and what he said
always rang true.
“His farewell in last Saturday's issue
was delightful reading, but r. feeling of
sadness came over me as If a friend
were departing. So far as I know, with
the change in the ownership and editor
ship of Harper’s Weekly, no weekly
journal combining at once force, spice,
culture, judgment and conservatism will
exist.
"Tliis paragraph from Colonel Harvey’s
pen is well worth reproducing: 'All, we
suspect, will agree that moge causes than
one have contributed to the general re
sult. Some friendly critics attribute It
solely to poor editing, and goodness
knows we would be the last to deny
so obvious a fact as that we haven t
bean able to edit Harper s Weekly well
enough to make it pay. But when it
comes to admitting, as some assert, that
the weekly would be commercially as
successful today as it was 30 years ago
under Mr. Curtis and Thomas Nast if
now directed by those men of talent, we
have our doubts. Times have changed.
The country was conservative and
thoughtful in those days. Now it is rad
ical and impetuous. The weekly's gen
eral policy has never veered. It has al
ways stood for progress along cautious
lines. It has always held positive con
victions and has never been timid In
expressing them. It has always hated
hypocrisy and despised humburg. Its open
eyes have always been turned forward,
never backward. The dominant issue 30
years ago was civil service reform; in
recent years it has been tariff reform.
The weekly has been a stanch and per
sistent advocate, even leader, of both
great movements.’ ”
The rhaiiiniiqua Kutertnlument.
“The Chautauqua attractions are all
excellent—some of them exceptionally fine
—and it is hoped that crowded houses
will be in evidence the rest of the week,"
said a business man. “But for showers
in the early part of the w eek there would
have been capacity houses, no doubt. As
it wras, the attendance was quite large.
“The musical attractions have been
particularly good. There will be a high
class concert Thursday night and Kyrl
and his band will give two concerts Fri
day—afternoon and night.
“The Chautauqua has been guaranteed
by friends of the Anti-Tuberculosis asso
ciation and it is sincerely hoped that this
association will derive some financial
benefit from the sale of tickets.”
THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES
From "Flood Control by Levees," by
the lion. Joseph E. Ransdell, In the
American Review of Reviews for
June.
The recent flood disasters In Indtana>
and Ohio were caused by unusually
heavy rains over limited areas, and
there may not be a repetition of them
within a century. These rains fell In
regions where the drainage Is excellent,
and the waters had little opportunity
to sink Into the soil or remain in flat
places, but poured rapidly Into the
rivers.
I have had no opportunity as yet to
examine official reports on the sub
ject, but am reliably informed that the
free flow of water in these streams was
very much impeded by artificial ob->
structions, especially piers of bridges
and extensions of solid embankments
for bridges Into the streams, which
acted as dams and prevented the rapid
passage of the water. Until there is
more definite Information, I would not
like to suggest prectical means of pre
venting such disasters In the future.
Doubless much may be done and I cer
tainly hope so, but my impression Is
that these floods were to a large ex
tent providential and beyond human
control.
The situation is quite different along
the Mississippi from Cairo to the gull.
There we have a large area, about 29,
000 squore miles, of low land, which
for years has been protected from over
flow by levees or artificial banks butlt
of earth, raising the natural banks of
the river from 10 to 25 feet, on prac
tically the entire stretch from the head
of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio.
The levee system began in 1718, when
Bienville constructed the first levee in
front of the village of New Orleans,
and there has been a steady growth of
levee-building for nearly 200 years. In
the main, these levees have afforded re
lief from floods, but occasionally, dur
ing high waters such as those of last
year and this spring, they proved in
sufficient and a great deal of damage
was done by overflow. Even In the
big flood of last year, however, the
greatest on record prior to that of this
spring, the levees afforded a very great
measure of protection and not more
than one-lialf of the cultivated area of
Hie delta was submerged, the remainder
being saved from water by the levees
which held.
JAPANESE MORAL STANDARDS
From the World’s Work.
The moral and business standards of
the Japanese are difficult for the white
man to comprehend. It is a common
observation that the Chinaman’s only
virtues are business virtues, whereas
the chief faults of the Japanese are
business faults. Therefore, the Ameri
can business standards, judges the
Chinese by his virtues and the Jap
anese by his faults.
American and Chinese civilizations
are built on contract. Japanese civili
zation Is built on personal honor and
loyalty. So when the American busi
ness man sees the Chinese keeping his
contract, he discovers In him the one
virtue he knows how to appreciate. But
when a Japanese finds himself in a
contract which changed conditions have
now made burdensome, he wonders un
comprehendingly how an honorable
gentleman could desire to impose on
him terms which are now unjust. And
the honorable gentleman understands
only that the Japanese wants to sneak
out of an honest bargain. The two
moral standards are incommensurable.
The Japanese who may evade a business
obligation but who will sacrifice his
life to a punctilio of honor or patriot
ism—he is a mystery. But the Chinese
who will rob his government, or per
jure the member of a rival tong to the
gallows, but whose business word Is
Inviolable—he Is easy to understand.
OIII,ITERATING WATERLOO
From the Boston Transcript.
While Americans are preparing for the
observance of the semi-centennial of Get
tysburg and thousands will study the
battle by the aid of the monuments and
markers on the battlefield, complaint
comes to England that the Waterloo
terrain Is In danger. While La Hale
Sainte and Hougomont still bear the
marks of cannot shot, both are In danger
of being rebuilt and part of the Hougo
mont wall against which the wave of
French courage dashed In vain has al
ready been pulled down. That Is not the
worst of the situation, according to a
British ofTIcer who recently visited the
field. •'Tramcars" and cheap fares have
been followed by “tawdry cafes" located
on the very spot whence the Imperial
guard recoiled. What Is to be done?
The suggestion is that co-operation of
Belgians and Englishmen who would
preserve the topography of Waterloo
may be effective in doing for that famous
Held what has been done for Gettysburg,
but the first step, It Is admitted, will
be very expensive. If preservation Is not
organized there Is danger that the strat
egic points will be obliterated by garden
and farm Held.
MARK TWAIN NEARLY DROWNED,
Albert Bigelow Tnlne, *uthor of "Mark
Twain: A Biography,” relates that It was
In Palmyra creok—or Bear creek, as Mr.
Paine calls It—In Hannibal, Mo., which
las just been converted into a sewer,
that Mark Twain learned to swim.
"Time and again he had been dragged
ashore more dead than alive, once by a
slave girl, another time by a slave man.
In the end he had conquered; he could
swim better than any boy In town of his
age.” When in 1MB Mark Twain paid
a visit to Hannibal he recalled, says Mr.
Paine, the time he nearly drowned in the
Mississippi. "Once, near the shore, I
thought I would let down,” Mark Twain
confessed, "but was afraid to, knowing
that If the water was deep I was a
goner, but Anally my knees struck the
sand and I crawled out. That was the
closest call X ever had.”
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE IDEAL.
Wherever the dream leads,
Follow we on,
Till the light of the sun fades
And the day is gone.
Till the parting word is said
And the tapers gleam,
Down dale and up hill.
Follow the dream.
When toll Is o'er
And the shadows fall.
The dream that is but a dream
Is fairest of all.
A RESPITE FROM RAGTIME.
“So the parade was a success?"
“Yes. It was a remarkable parade."
“In what particular?"
"The band played tunes that were ap
propriate to the occasion.”
VANQUISHED.
"How is your garden, Gadspur?"
"Oh, I threw up the sponge and quit.”
"Aren’t you mixing metaphors?”
“No. I had a continuous fight with my
neighbors over chickens, dogs and chil
dren.”
PESTIFEROUS CREATURES.
“I presume you would call sitting on
the lawn and picking violets a poetical
attitude?"
"Yes, but little red ants are apt to spoil
the attitude."
A GAY CROWD.
The band is playing ragtime tunes,
The night is very hot,
But not too warm
Where dancers swarm
To do the "turkey trot.”
A Joyous scene where folly rules—
Don’t look for reason there;
After the trot,
As like as not,
They'll do the "grizzly bear."
HIS CAUTIOUS ATTITUDE.
"Bllmly is about the sorriest fellow 1
ever saw."
"Oh, don't be too hard on Blimly. Early
in life somebody told him never to start
anything he couldn't finish and ever since
then, for fear he might not be able to
finish it, Bllmly has never started any
thing."
A MOCKERY TO HIM.
The man who's all In, down and out,
And 's parted from his last lone dime,
Gets mad when people talk about
The pleasures of vacation time.
WHAT NEXT?
It looks to us Just like a move
To rob the Jokesmith of his glee;
A learned Briton has evolved,
Or so he claims, a stingless bee.
STUFFY.
Though summer hath a world of Joys
And decks the flelds with fragrant
bloom,
'Tis tough at night on any wight
Who occupies a hall bedroom.
SARAH GETS IT.
Sarah Bernhardt, coy and sweet,
Says we don't know how to eat,
But when Sarah comes to call
We can scarce buy food at all.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Tut, tut, Sarah: don’t be brash.
You’re the one that gets our cash.
We could learn to eat, no doubt,
Ir you’d cut your “farewells” out.
—Springlleld, Mass., Union.
Sarah doesn't worry us;
When we eat asparagus
What is good we gladly gulp
And expectorate the pulp.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Sarah is a grand old dame
Who no doubt deserves her fame:
Though she scoffs at what wre eat,
Our good- coin is hard to beat.
A DIVORCE PANACEA.
Nowadays, when there Is so much dis
cussion of divorce, someone occasionally
makes an observation fraught with so
much common sense that it is worth re
membering. We offer the following para
graph for the consideration of any indi
vidual who Is Inclined to be hysterical on
the subject.
A New York suffragette demands that
the cost of divorces be reduced to |2 so
that the "lower classes" may Indulge in
the luxury permitted the wealthy. That
won't remedy matters any, sister. Divorce
is a tragedy, not a commonplace event.
Selfishness and idleness are at the bottom
of 90 per cent of the divorces secured. ,i.nd
the panacea Is a baby. A little tad In the
home boosts father's stock up to 1000 with
mother and makes father grin, even
though his nose Is against the grind
stone. A baby kind of gets Its little
chubby fists around your heart strings,
and If divorces wore marked down to 2 |
cents father and mother couldn’t spare
that much between them.—Luke Me Luke.
In the Cincinnati Enquirer.
VIEWPOINTS.
Room for the overworked bridesmaid!
Fish may not bite, but "skeeters" will.
We begin to lean on the buzz fan, so to
speak. PAUL COOK.
GROWTH OF MOVING PICTURES
From the Article on Moving Pictures, by
Herbert T. Wade, in the International
Year Book.
THE exhibition of moving pictures in
1912 had reached a point where, in
the United States alone, Judged
merely as an industry, it had become a
matter of striking importance. The differ
ent business interests involved were said
to represent a total investment of over
*200,000,000, and In one form or another
moving pictures were offering employment
to approximately 600,000. It was estimated
that the daily receipts of the 20,000 places
where moving pictures were exhibited ag
gregated *500,000, while in Greater New
York alone some 300,000 people daily were
visiting the shows. There were maintained
large studios, some of which represented
buildings and equipments valued at over
*100,000, and in the larger establishments
four or five plays a week were being pro
duced for photographic record with all
the care and elaboration of a modern
melodrama. It is obvious, therefore, that
the moving picture business is enttled to
special consideration, Involving as It does
the use of real estate for exhibition hails,
many of whch had been specially built,
the operation and maintenance of the
shows, the manufacture of films and ap
paratus, and the provision of suitable top
ics for illustrations by exploration, travel
and mechanical and other forms of en
terprise. From the kinetoscope first ex
hibited In the form of a sort of peep show
by Thomas A. Edison in 1893 to the pro
jection device of Lumlere of Paris and
•
Paul of London a few' years later, the de
velopment and improvement of moving
picture machines was rapid and constant.
Mr. Edison received numerous patents,
and one of these, granted August 1, 1897,
was the subject of a decision in the United
States court of appeals handed down late
in 1912, that Edison was not the pioneer
inventor of the moving picture machines,
but was the inventor of a special form of
camera used in making the photographs
on such moving films. In 1911, as described
in the Year Book of that year, the kine
macolor process, whereby moving pictures
were reproduced in their original colors
with a striking verisimilitude of nature,
marked another advance, and in 1912 the
kinetophone of Edison, whereby moving
pictures were projected synchronously
with the reproduction of appropriate sound
by the phonograph, represented a further
practical achievement.
Mention should be made of the use of
the moving pictures to reproduce famous
current events. Thus in 1912 the Balkan
war, the construction of the Panama
canal, and other important circumstances
were shown widely throughout the civil
ized world, while explorers like Shaakleton
and hunters like Paul Rainey exhibited
moving pictures that aroused compelling
interest in tw'o continents. Pictures of
wild animals in their native haunts in
forest and Jungle, often taken at great
personal rck to the operator, attracted
general as well as scientific interest. Bib
lical events, and classical topics, such
as the siege of Troy, w’ere reproduced
with care as to setting and costume.
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OYSTER “SHUCK ER 3”
A vivid account of child labor In
southern oyster and shrimp canneries
an Industry with which It Is not usual
ly associated In the public mind. U
given by Lewis W. Hlne in The Survey.
In some states legislation is now pend
ing to eliminate this exploitation of
children. Others already have laws, but
without adequate enforcement. Mr. Hlne
says:
"The wages of these workers vary
according to their locality, and the kind
of season they find. The work on the
shrimp Is better paid than oyster
shucking, but it Is much more irregu
lar. On the latter families frequently
earn $10 and $15 or $20 a week, so when
there are several children, and the work
Is steady, there is a great temptation
to make them all help.
"Children of seven years earn about
25 cents a day, and at 8 and 10 years of
age often 50 cents a day or more. At
12 and 14 years they frequently earn
as high as $1 a day and this is adult
pay. The fastest adult shucker seldom
earns much more than a dollar a day
after years of experience. What then
is the outlook for children beginning
this Industry?
“ 'What is your name, little girl?’
“ 'Dunno.'
" ‘How old *re you?’
‘‘■‘Dunno.’
“ ‘How many pots do you shuck in
a day?’
“ ‘Dunno.’
"And the pity of it is that they do
not know.
"What then do they know? Enough
to stand patiently with the rest pick
ing up one hard, dirty cluster of shells,
deftly prying them open, dropping the
meat into the pot; and then go through
this process with another and another
and another, until after many minutes
the pot is full—a relief, for they carry
it over to the weigher and rest, doing
nothing a minute, and walk back,—
such a change from the dreary standing
lng, reaching, prying and dropping—
minute upon minute, hour upon hour,
day upon day, month after month. Or
perchance, for verlety, the <jp.tcli may
have been shrimp, and then the hours
of work are shorter, but the shrimp
are Icy cold, and the blood In one’s An
gers congeals, and the Angers become
so sore that she welcomes the oysters
again.
’’Are you surprised then to And that
many children seem dumb and cannot
understand our language?’’
AHEAD
From Harper’s Magazine.
A Maine man tells a story of a friend
of his in tile west who was induced by
a stranger to buy what was claimed by
the latter to be the best wolf dog in the
country. A few days later the man took
his new purchase and started out early
In the morning to try him out. The dog
soon picked up the scent and started off.
the man following on horseback. The dog
was soon out of sight, but the man could
hear him bark occasionally and followed
on. About noon he met another man
coming from the opposite direction and
inquired if he had seen a wolf and a
dog anywhere, to which the man replied
that he had.
"And how were they going?” queried
the man. "Was the dog nearly on to
him?”
“Well,” answered the other, "If I re
member correctly, the dog was just a
trifle ahead.”
ON MUSIC
By Thomas Moore.
When through llte, unblest we rove,
Boeing all that made life dear,
Should some notes we used to love
In days of boyhood meet our ear,
Oh. how welcome breathes the strain!
Wakening thoughts that long have
slept;
Kindling former smiles again,
In laded eyes that long have wept.
Bike the gale that sighs along
Beds of oriental flowers
Is the grateful breath of song
That once was heard In happier hours;
Fill'd with balm the gale sighs on,
Though the flowers have sunk In death,
So, when pleasure's dream Is gone,
Its memory lives In Music’s breath.
Music! Oh, how faint, how weak
Banguage fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her loul so
well?
Friendship's- balmy words may feign,
Bove's arc even more false than they;
Oh! 'tls only Music’s strain
Can sweetly soothe, and not betrayl
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