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O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace
of God! —Richard III.
Kaiser William’s Keign
Kaiser William II of Germany con
tinues to receive the congratulations
of the world on the twenty-fifth anni
versary of his accession to the throne
and well does he deserve these con
gratulations when his quarter century
reign is viewed and considered as the
historian will view and consider it.
France was still sore from the
wounds inflicted on her by Germany
in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870
when William was called to take his
father's place as ruler of a great and
growing empire. lie was regarded as
an impetuous youth, arrogant, auto
cratic and ambitious, but likely to be
held in check by the great chancellor,
Bismark, known as “the man of
“blood and iron.” Bismarck had been
the virtual ruler of the new German
empire during the short reign of
Frederick and felt not inclination to
relinquish his office when Frederick
died. This brought the boy emperor
and the iron chancellor into rather
strained relations and to the astonish
ment of the world Count Bismarck
was dismissed, thus leaving William
to pursue his own policy without help
or hindrance from any power or per
son.
The 25 years of his reign has been
an epoch making time for Germany.
William has been a disappointment to
all the prophets who undertook to
forecast his actions and destiny. He is
known as “the war lord” and yet Ger
many has not fired a shot since he
assumed the imperial crown. He has
harangued the army and navy until
the soldiers and sailors bristled for
fight, but there has been no blood
spilled. He has taxed the people far
beyond all previous levies made upon
them, but he has built up an indus
trial and educational system that has
compensated for the oppressive taxa
tion. He is the arbiter of Europe to
day, and also the peace preserver. He
is still in the mental and physical
vigor of manhood, and so long as his
reign is a continuation of what it has
been he will deserve the congratula
tions such as he is receiving today
and none will be more sincere than
those of the United States of Amer
ica. _
Rivalry and Progress
The lure of Europe for the Amer
ican is growing greater every year
and to meet with the demands which
this increase in passenger traffic has
caused, the shipbuilding companies in
England and Germany have entered
into a competition which has resulted
in the accomplishment of what was at
one time considered the impossible.
This is a sort of rivalry to be encour
aged, since it not only redounds io
the commercial benefit of each, but
also adds to the safety, comfort and
* convenience of every individual whose
business or pleasure takes him abroad.
It is one of the immutable laws of
nature that every victory must bo
paid for by victims. Nature keeps
her secrets strongly guarded and only
the daring are permitted to enter
these mysterious chambers, but once
these secrets are revealed their sim
plicity is manifest to all. In the loss
of the Titanic attention was directed
to what is now regarded as one of
the most obviously elemental means
of safety, the double hull, which is
really a ship inside a ship, but this
secret had to be learned at the cost
of over 1400 human lives as well as
$10,000,000 in property. ,
The conquest of the air has not been
unattended with its victims, some of
them unfortunately being altogether
unnecessary, but yet not without
some contribution towards the solu
tion of a problem which is still far
from being satisfactorily solved. It
is a common and frequently repeated
proverb “that fools rush in where an
gels fear to tread,” but the world,
nevertheless, owes an immense debt
lo those who make the venture
against which sense and reason vig
•roaaljr protest. To the pioneer and
• r
his daring spirit belongs the glory of
advancing the frontier lines of prog
ress, but the fruits and profits are
reaped by those who lay the solid
foundations upon which progress is
built.
Whether men look today at the
fleets of great ships that cross the
ocean or the fleets of ships that soar
overhead; whether they turn their
eyes towards Panama where two
mighty oceans wm soon join hands,
or turn their ears towards the illimi
table space through which vibrant
messages are .-pced’ng with the veloc
ity of light, they will see and hear
evidences of the enterprising spirit of
genius tamed down to the practical
purposes of daily life by the men
whose commercial instincts prompt
the rivalries out of which sprung the
good results by which all men bene
fit. _
For Humanity's Sake
Birmingham has many institutions
that are noted for efficient work. One
of the newest and one of the most
serviceable is the University Free
Dispensary on Avenue F near the
corner of Twentieth street.
Dr. Lewis C. Morris, the dean of
the graduate school of medicine of
the University of Alabama, is taking
an active interest in this dispensary
and he is assisted by a corps of finely
equipped and enthusiastic members
of the medical profession.
In the few months that the free
dispensary has been in operation thou
sands of cases have been treated.. It
is operated on a thorodghly sys
tematic plan. Records are kept with
great care. Indeed, the records of
Johns Hopkins could not be kept more
thoroughly than are the records here
in this University Free Dispensary.
And more noteworthy still is the deli
cate consideration which every pa
tient receives. Black and white, men
and woman, are accorded not only hu
mane attention, but their feelings are
considered as much as if the patients
were of wealth or social consequence.
While the university free dispen
sary has comfortable quarters in its
rented home, the demands upon the
institution are increasing rapidly and
a large building must be erected.
Across the avenue the medical college,
which is now a part of the University
of Alabama as its graduate school,
has a large vacant lot. It is estimated
that a suitable structure of brick and
concrete completely furnished, would
cost about $30,000. The building it
self would probably cost about $25,
000, but the equipment on modern
lines would cost fully $5000.
Who will put up the $30,000? It
may be assumed that this amount of
money for so laudable an enterprise
could be raised by popular subscrip
tion, but it has been suggested that
some wealthy citizen might donate
the entire amount and have the free
dispensary bear his name as an en
during memorial.
Regarding Summer Diet
Most of us southerners eat too
much. With the older citizens it is
easy to recall the time when every
man was supposed to eat three square
meals a day—a meat breakfast; a
meat dinner and a meat supper. A
few old fogies still eat that way but
those who have given the matter se
rious thought and those who have
been pinched by the high cost of lvi
ing have made a new summer sched
ule something like this: A light
breakfast without meat; a noon
luncheon with almost no meat, and
a 7 o'clock dinner with meat, but lit
tle of it. ^
Vegetarianism was a fid 60 years
ago and it still has some ardent sup
porters today. The abstinence from
meat was attractive to persons of
lively imagination and small knowl
edge of dietetics as theory or science.
All eminent physiologists have in
sisted that purely vegetable diat is
not good for the human family. Be
this as it may vegetarians will still
point to examples of healthy speci
mens who abstain year in and year
out from flesh, fish and fowl.
The Age-Herald’s advice is simp
ly to adopt a happy mean in these
summer days. A mixed diet—meat
and vegetables—is the best for health
and is conducive to longevity. But
meat three times a day in summer is
almost as bad as an excess of al
coholic stimulants. The fact is that
two meals a day with meat at only
one of them is enough for any work
ing man or woman, whether that work
be in brawn or brain. All who
try the light diet this summer will
be all the better off.
Prosperity This Summer
l In the great wheat belts business
prosperity is already strongly in evi
dence. A' banner crop always means
briskness and an increase of wealth
to the particular locality in which
large crops are harvested.
Agricultural reports for the whole
country have been favorable. A great
wheat crop is assured and the corn
crop will probably be equal to the
immense crop of last year.
In the south cotton promises well.
Up to a few years ago cotton was the
south’s only important “money crop”
but corn is being raised on a large
scale now and so. too. is alfalfa.
During the past few years Alabama
I has raised nearly all the corn that
A . -- . ■ . A
was needed to feed stock. This year
it will probably have corn to sell arid
it is only a question of time when
corn will be almost as important a
money crop as cotton.
Every farmer has waked up to the
importance of corn production and
the enterprising ones are doing some
thing to promote it.
An English noblewoman will receive Jlfl,
OOo to dance two week:, barefooted In vau
deville, this sum being paid her by a New
York theatrical manager. Maybe her title
has more to do with the large amount of
money she gets than her dancing.
It Is possible to cross the ocean on some
of the smaller boais and have a delight
ful time, but the average American of
means thinks he could never hold Ills head
up again unless he went across in a “le
viathan.’’
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A St. Louis woman, who is suing for di
vorce, claims that her stepchildren put
salt In her talcum powder. Deplorable!
atiu, they might have gone further and
put sand.
A foreign nobleman visiting “our
shores,” as the sob writers say, declares
that he found the tango a bore. Maybe
l.is view's on other matters are also worth
while.
Some people will sit for hours with a
buzz fan trained on tho center of their
backs and then wonder why It is they
don’t feel up to- the mark.
It is reported that American prizefight
ers are organizing a “protective” associa
tion. The ideal! No wonder latter day
prize fighting is effete!
According to a Chicago writer, there are
28 wrong w'ays to use a broom. The vac
uum cleaner, we believe, is not so suscep
tible of misdirection.
“Taking him up and down/’ is the way
an editor refers to Secretary Bryan. The
editor must imagine he is running an ele
vator.
Norman Hapgood calls politics a “high
spiritual endeavor.” Norman has always
impressed us as being an earnest soul.
Well! Well! The world does move. The
time has come when Cupid is required to
have a health certificate.
General Diaz does not appear to be keen
about returning to Mexico. He knows the
lay of the land too well.
President Wilson doffs his coat and
keeps on his job in spite of the weather.
Taking pot shots at army aeroplanes is
said to be a favorite sport in Maryland.
The steam hammer is music in the ears
of the man w?ho believes in progress.
TRIBUTE TO MR. FINCH
From the Birmingham Ledger.
At his home in this city died a union
veteran of the great war and a veteran of
much longer service in the uplift of hu
manity. N. P. T. Finch has been a news
paper writer in this city for many years.
He came to The Age-Herald as editorial
writer in 1898 and was here during the
closing years of the century and wrote
cheerfully of the dawn of the new.
Before coming to Birmingham Mr. Finch
had been one of the builders of the Atlan
ta Constitution. He sold out and went
north for a time, then caine to this work.
Here lie has done fine work. Ilis writ
ing has been clear, cheerful and forceful,
and this city and this state owe Mr.
Finch a debt of gratitude for his modest,
intelligent, helpful writings for 15 years.
A good man has gone and ills body will
rest with his comrades beneath tho sod
of General Lee’s estate at Arlington.
ORIGIN OF THE SLANDERS
Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook.
Ever since the panic of 1907 the stories
attacking my own character, which orig
inated In financial centers that were hos
tile to me, have been circulated in every
widening circles and with ever increas
ing virulence; and 1 made up my mind
some time ago that on the first occasion
W'hen they were published in a paper of
sufficient standing to warrant my taking
action I would do so. Two or three papers
published them, but at once retracted
them. One paper which published them
and did not retract them I found on in
quiry was edited by an ex-Unlted States
senator, who, during my administration
had been indicted, convicted and sent to
prison for a criminal offense; and two
other newspapers proved on inquiry to be
sheets of such low character that a prose
cution would probably have been bene
ficial to them. I took action against the
first newspaper that published the charge
which was of sufficient responsibility and
previous respectability to warrant the
proceedings.
AGE-IIERALD’S JUBILEE EDITION
From the Birmingham Ledger.
The silver Jubilee number of The Bir
mingham Age-llerald, issued today, is not
only large, and comprehensive, but it is
superbly presented. It is in folio style
with kindred subjects covered and each is
deftly headlined so as to attract the at
tention of those especially interested. The
illustrations fit the subjects and the mass
of data concerning the growth of the dis
trict for a quarter of a century is splen
dily arranged.
The edition shows a world of care and
much taste in typography, subject matter
and general aspect. The whole consti
tutes such a thorough epitome of district
growth and its wonderful natural condi
tions that every citizen of Birmingham
should send copies to friends elsewhere
as well as file away for future reference.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
True love to Iks little and acts foolish.
What the end seat hogs lacks Is bristles.
Taking advice Is sometimes worse than
giving It.
High living never qualities one tor the
higher life.
Either take things as they come or turn
your hack and let them go.
The meet trust makes the lover of pork
chops bristle with Indignation.
Dir you ever get nervous prostration
from trying lo make others happy?
The loncsumest woman In the world Is
she who hasn'P’any old memories to brood
over.
Pity a man who thinks he Is doing well
If he stays on the water wagon between
drinks!
The ancients believed that the world was
square—but that was. before politics was
discovered.
Be kind to the Iceman. The ancients did
not patronize him In the goold old sum
mer time, and Just look at them today.
Some people think It queer that we have
no female after dinner speakers, but there
is nothing queer abcut It. Women tell all
they know before dinner li self over.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
For (Hr |»«rk Cominiasioii
“Several months ago one of the iron
lamp posts on the Park avenue eils<' ot
Capitol park was broken; was either
snapped off by the wind or was broken
by some rowdy,’’ said a citizen.
“The posts were manufactured at An
niston, I believe, and ft should be easy
to replace this broken one. The ex
pense would scarcely be worth consider
ing Ten dollars would probably pay for
a new post. T hope the park commis
sion will give this matter attention, as a
broken -post reflects badly on the city.
Then anil Now
“Those of us who remember tlie Ger
man Emperor when he ascended the
throne 25 years ago will readily recall
the various comments that were made
upon him," said a traveled man.
“I was in Berlin shortly after Wil
liam was crowned. I had an idea, and
the people of Berlin had an idea. I
think, that tlie new Emperor was going
to be not only very spectacular, but
very war like. Some of us thought
that he lacked mental poise in a serious
degree, but looking back over 25 years
we see that William IT has been a
model ruler. lie has kept in close
touch with his people; has done every
thing he could to promote learning, art
and religion. I think he will go down
in history as one of the greatest rulers
the Teutonic people have ever had.”
Barefoot Itaya Hecalleil
"These warm days bring memories of
ihe time when one could go barefoot
from April 1 to October 1," said a
young citizen. "It was only a little
more than nine years ago that I was
vying with my fellow members of 'de
gang' to see which one could go bare
foot first.
"I remember a ftme in the latter part
of March when I persuaded my mother
to let me go to school minus shoes.
The wind was blowing from the north
and it was anything but warm, but I
knew 1 would be envied by all my
friends if I was the first to come to
school hurefooted. Well, 1 stuck it out
until noon, but the wind was growing
colder and my courage was distinctly
on the wane. When school was dis
missed for the noon recess 1 slipped
away from the crowd and sneaked my
shoes from the closet and returned to
school. My mother was kind enough
not to say 'I told you so’ when I got
home that evening, hut I continued
wearing my shoes until April showers
were v£ry much In evidence."
Hot Weather and Babies
“Watch the babies!" exclaimed a fam
ily man yesterday afternoon after a
friend had dropped a comment on the
current “batting average" of the mer
curial tube. “July Is the month to be
most feared and of course June and
August on botli sides of that month are
very dangerous,” said he.
“I’ve reared four of ’em and Just as
soon as hot weather comes I always
begin to worry about the babies. I’m
not a medical man, but I believe that
nine out of ten physicians will agree
with me that summer heat during Juno,
July and August Is directly and in
directly tlie cause of more infantile
deaths than any other condition a
growing child has to meet with.
"As far as the heat itself is concerned
there is no so much danger. but
through the heat the little fellows’
stomachs are weakened, their consti
tution and vitality are sapped and their
systems in general are made suscept
ible to the dozens of children’s ailments
that ultimately cause death. The secret
of the whole thing, from my experience
and observation, is to give the baby
plenty of water, botli externally and in
ternally, and keep him cool. Of course,
with this must go ordinary common
sense in giving him food. The latter,
however, I believe Is a matter in this
day and age which any average father
or mother can do satisfactorily if they
try.
"For that reason I attach tlie most
importance to bathing the baby’s body
often, not less than once a day and
two or three times In real hot weather,
give him all the moderately cool water
he will drink and above all keep heavy
and hot clothes oft him. Don't be afraid
he’ll catch cold. The hoter It is the
he’ll catch cold. The hotter It is the
are left enough clothes for common
decency and If the baby is real small,
a year old or younger, take him Into
the nursery when he gets too hot and
strip him entirely.
“More babies catch cold from having
on too many clothes than from not
having on enough during these hot
months.”
Annlaton Finished Product
"Our company has Just closed a con
tract with Jacksonville, Fla., for white
way lamps,” said George Schumacher,
general manager of the Union Foundry
company at Anniston.
"Jacksonville, by the way. Is one of
the most progressive cities In this coun
try. The people of that community ap
preciate the best of everything and the
municipal government endeavors to buy
the best. It will be one of the most
brilliantly Illuminated cities in the Uni
ted States."
Business < oaditlone
"Business conditions in Alabama are
highly satisfactory,” aaid H. F. Jones of
Clark & Jones, piano dealers.
"We not only look to Birmingham and
the Birmingham district for trade, but
the agricultural portions of the state as
well, and it is most gratifying to see the
farming sections so prosperous?* The
farmers are getting better oil every year.
They not only buy pianos but they show
a disposition to buy the best.'’
Many Historical Inaccuracies
"It is no wonder that history car
ries sometimes gross lnaccurancles, and
yet after the years pass there is no
guide or authority save the printed
record," said a student of affairs, past
and preBent.
"The public prints are giving us
sketches and supposedly authentic de
tail and incident with personal mention
of prominent heroes in the bloody trl
days of a half a century ago, yet there
are numbers of easily avoided mis
takes being made. For Instance, I
noted that an illustrated article in an
afternoon paper stated- that Carl Schur*
succeeded to the command of the fed
eral troops July 1, when General Rey
nolds was killed at the very beginning
of the battle by a confederate sharp
shooter's bullet through his brain. This
occurred about 11 o'clock a. m.
"Genei%l Schur* aay* he hastened
to the scene of action, leaving his di
vision in command of General Schlm
melfennlng, and when he arrived
learned of Reynold's de&th, and that
General Howard informed him that he,
(Howard), was in command of the
whole. The first corps was hotly en
gaged and also the eleventh corps. Gen
eral Barlow was severely wounded.
About 7 p. m. Generals Slocumb and
Sickles arrived with the twelfth corps.
"General Meade says he sent General
Hancock to represent him, and to take
charge of the troops engaged, when
ho heard of General Reynold’s death.
Hancock proceeded with Howard to
put troops on Cemetery liil 1. to protect
the right flank attacked by the con
federates. It was upon the return of
General TIancaek ta General Meade's
headquarters, with his and Howard’s re
ports on'the general situation that de
cided General Meade to give battle to
the confederate army then centering on
Gettysburg. (It. R. XXVII. Part 1
P. 115.)
"June 30, Bufords cavalry met In
Gettysburg, Pettigrew's brigade, Heth’s
division, Hill’s corps and there was a
skirmish. On July 1, Moth's division,
with Pegram’s battalion, followed by
Pender’s division and McIntosh’s bat- |
talion of artillery, moved from Cash- !
town. About three miles from Gettys- j
burg, Heth's advance—Archer's bri
gade—encountered the federal advance,
the first corps. There the great strug- 1
glc—one of the mightiest in the world’s
history—was opened. The day was
crowned with success for the confed
erates. Hill's corps captured 2300 pris
oners. and two pieces of artillery. Gen
eral Archer was captured by the fed
erals. General Heth and General Scales
were both wounded.
"General Ewell's troops , marched to
the aid of Hill's, but General Ewell says
he had received instructions from Gen
eral Lee not to bring on a general en
gagement until all the rest of the army
came up; Longstreet’s corps had not ar
rived. General Rodes of Ewell’s corps,
entered Gettysburg by the Yorktown
railroad, and Early, of Hill’s corps, by
the Caahtown road, the army having
retreated to Cemetery hill. General
Gordon says that 300 of the enemy’s
dead were on the ground passed over
by his brigade. Ewell’s corps cap
tured Generul Barlow, one piece of ar
tillery, about 1500 prisoners, and lost
2900 killed, and wounded and missing.
General Schlmmelfenning succeeded in
concealing himself (name and all) in
Gettysburg for two days, when tiic
federals recaptured the town."
HARD TO SAVE MONEY
From the Wichita Beacon.
Henry Brown's father and mother were
married when the senior Brown was earn
ing $1.25 a day, with occasion lay offs.
They started housekeeping in two rooms.
She did the housework, made and mended
the clothes, took care of the babies and by
her capable ways made it possible for her
husband to lny something aside. Out of
those carefully, painfully accumulated
savings Henry was educated.\
Heny expects to be married this June.
He draws a salary of $26 a week. His girl
is the sweetest creature on the face of
the earth—in Henry's opinion—but she
can't cook; she has to have a maid, and
she and Henry are planning to Mart in a
classy apartment. At the beginning their
home will be sweller than that of the old
folks ever was.
But we shall miss our guess If Henry, at
the end of the ttrst year, shall have any
thing in the bank. Or at the end of the
second or third or tenth.
Henry's father used to make a very
satisfying meal on mush and milk.
Catch Henry doing that! He might, for
sometimes men do have old fashioned
longings. But Henry’s bride won't. Loin
steak for hers.
A ride by roll for even a few miles, es
pecially for pleasure, was an event in the
lives of Henry’s na and ma.
But we are willing night now to go on
record with the prediction that It won't
be long before Henry and his frau will he
whining through town and country in in
automobile. It may not be paid for. And
!l may cut alarming holes in Henry's $25
per. But the Jones and the Smiths have
autos, and the Browns are going to be
every whit as good as they.
Of course, it is right that the young
generation should be better off than tho
old. That's what progress is for. The
wonderful achievement in wealth produc
tion during the past two score of years
would be ghastly practical jokes If young
Brown and the young Mrs. Brown that is
to be couldn't start their home making on
a higher economic plane than their par
ents knew In the srantler long ago.
But note that we said "better off."
What Is better off?
Is it to be in debt right at the edge, with
no cushion for an emergoncy?
Or, is It to use hard, practical sense ami
self-denial in the spending of an income,
so that wdiat’s spent brings in a tolerably
durable return; and so that, no matter
what's bought, something is always
saved?
Custom, the most cruel of tyrants,
makes sependthrifts of most of us.
Whereas, 40 years ago, custom was
rather on the side of thrift—it was fusli
ionable to save.
If custom Is like a pendulum, swinging
between extremes, wouldn't it be a pr^fty
good Idea for the newlyweds this June to
give it a push back toward frugality?
the PUBLIC PARKS IN PARIS
From the London Globe.
The areas of the principal public parks
in Paris are as follows: Hols do Vincen
nes, about 2290 acres; Hols de Boulogne,
2156 acres; Jardin des Tutlerles, 74 acres;
.lardin du Luxembourg, (12 acres; Pare do
Montmartre, 62 acres. There is also the
Park Monceau of about six acres and the
Champ de Mars, the site of the exhibi
tions of 1889 and 1900. The exhibition
buildings have all been removed, and part
of the land converted into streets. The
portion remuining as a public park com
prises about 25 acres. With the excep
tion of the Champ de Mars, all the parks
above named have remained substantially
unchanged as to area for many years.
TRICKS OF FAMOUS SMOKERS
From the Family Doctor.
Inveterate smokers do funny things.
Carlyle smoked up the chimney with a
degree of thoughtfulness for the feeling
of others not universal in his conduct.
The famous Bishop Burnet, who like many
another author, found composition faclli- j
tated by puffings of the seductive weed,
disliked the interruption of removing his
pipe constantly while he was writing. Iti
order to combine the two operations with
due comfort to himself he bored a bole
through the broad brim of his hat, and
putting his long pipe through It, puffed
and wrote and wrote and puffed with the
roost philosophical calm.
LITERATURE'S LONGEST SENTENCE
From the London Chronicle.
Which is the longest sentence on rec
ord? An Index of library reports lias un
earthed "an example of the possibilities
of the English clause" which might bo re
garded as a claimant for that distinction.
It runs to 59 lines of eight words apiece,
and appears in an early report of the
New Bedford Library. It. is reprinted in
extenso In the course of an article on "Li
briary Reports From a Frivolous Point
of View * In the new issue of the "Amer
Itan Library Journal."
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
AMBIGUOUS LANGUAGE.
"This sporting writer says SwatplU
'clouted the sphere on the nose.’ What
does he mean?"
"I don't know. The average baseball
has no features to speak of. and I have
never been able to detect anything on one
that looked like a proboscis.”
SOON DONE.
"I see where a famous novelist says
that most of his fellow craftsmen write
about themselves.”
"No doubt that’s true. I wonder if the
statement also applies to newspaper hu
morists?”
"Oh, yes. Now, there’s Scribbles, for
instance. He can write a complete auto
biography in a two-line squib.”
WONDERFUL WOMAN,
"Mrs. Flobbit has remarkable poise,
don’t you think?"
"Yes, Indeed. That skirt she is wear
ing is so tight I expect it to split every
minute, and yet she is as calm as if it
were made of sheet-iron."
COULDN'T WALK.
We said Patrice went out to walk,
But that was such a bobble
It made 'most all the neighbors talk—
You see, she wore a hobble.
EVERYBODY’S DOING IT.
"By saying, ‘That is as easy as falling
off a log’ one conveys the Idea that some
thing is every easy to do."
"Exactly. And he might convey the
same idea by saying, ‘As easy us dis
crediting Dr. Friedmann.’ '*
A MODERN FAMILY.
"What sort of family is this, anyhow?”
"Mother is a vice crusader, father af
fects Scotch and baseball and daughter
thinks there’s nothing like the tango.
the new star.
Miss Phoebe 1». Beebe.
The Grand Rapid* Hebe,
Mas knocked at the portal of lame;
And famous shall she be,
Miss Phoebe H. Beebe,
If anything lies In a name.
—Chicago Tribun*
Said Phoebe B. Beebe:
“I pine for to free be,
I'm satisfied single to stay.
Though suitors say, ‘Phoebe,
Friend Wife, dear, to me be,’
I’m going to be Beebe alway.”
—Johntotown Democrat.
<>h, Phoebe B. Beebe,
Book hero to where we be,
A poor summer widower cuss!
Oh, great will our glee be
Oh, Phoebe B. Beebe
If you’ll come and do flapjacks for us.
—Houston Post.
Now'. Phoebe B. Beebe
May famous and free be
And any old thing that she please;
We’ll merely say Phoebe,
However fair she be,
Half a name like a hive full of bees,
INS AND OUTS.
“Glddins goes in for ail kinds of fads.’*
“Yes, and comes out poorer.”
A SUPERIOR PERSON.
He doesn’t roast the Boston girls
And say that Philadelphia's slow; ,
Ho never wonders if Maud’s curls
Upon her head e’er chanced to grro*%
Ho never jests at woman’s ways.
Nor makes fun of the clothes she wear®
And things she saves for rainy days,
At which some lucky fellow stares^
Ho never treats the baldhead man
As if he were a human joke;
The umpire and tho baseball fan
At them rude fun he’ll never pokt^
I In fact, I might run o’er * list
Of many subjects deemed taboo*
Because htfs not a humorist
i And scorns all things that jokesmitha do*
HE HATES IT SCK "J
“Is Dobbs a hard-working manf*
“I guess you could call him that. Anjft
kind of work scorns hard to him.'*
PAUL COOK,
WHITE WOMEN IN HAREMS
London Cor. New York Sun.
THE perils undergone by white wom
en who marry colored men formed
the subject of a warning recently
issued by the Australian government at
the request of the colonial secretary, Mr.
Harcourt. This warning primarily con
cerned marriages with the Pathans and
others of the hill tribes of the northwest
frontier of India, but Foster Fraser, the
Asiatic traveler, extends the warning so
as to include Mongols and Caucasians.
“It is extraordinary,” he said, "to find
the number of white women who aro In
the harems of Persia, for example. They
are mostly English and American dancing
girls who have met Persians who were
traveling abroad, and, mtsclnated by tales
of life in eastern palaces, have married
them.
‘‘When I was in Persia I came across a
typical case. It w\s that of a girl who
had been an attendant at a stall at the
Crystal palace. There she was seen by a
Persian in the entourage of Nasr-ed-Din,
a previous Shah, when he visited this
country. She married him according to
Homan Catholic rites and with her sister
went to Persia with him.
“Once in his own country, however, he
immediately placed her In the harem,
where she found herself but one of several
wives and was forced to live a life of se
clusion, cut off from her own people. She
met only the Persian ladies of the royal
harem, to whom, curiously enough, she
used to translate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
detective stories, in which they were
greatly Interested.
i “Eventually her husband died and ah*
desired to return to England, but many
[difficulties were placed in her way and it
was only by the persistent good offices of
| the wife of the British minister that shs»
[ was able to depart, taking with her her
son on the strict proviso that ho returned
to Persia when he was 16 years of ase.
Subsequently, I believ*, she married an
Englishman and now lives at Peckham.
“Marriages between Chinese, Japanese,
Egyptian, Siamese or Persian men and
white women are rarely happy. The men
from these nations who travel are natur
ally wealthy, and women who become fas
cinated by them forget that they will have
to live in a totally different atmosphere.
An intolerable longing for home comes to
them and escape is impossible."
As an example of the danger of mixed
marriages to white women a recent case
may be cited In which it was held that a
white woman married in Englaud was no
longer the wife of n Siamese after she had
been deserted for three months, this pro
cess being sufficient for a husband to end
his marriage in Siam, and the wife was
bound by the laws of her husband's coun
try.
OUTDOOR WORK FOR PRISONERS
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
IN ‘fGood Words/' a little monthly pa
per published in the United States
penitentiary at Atlanta, is the follow
ing reference to the prison farm:
“During the past month one of the busy
I parts of the institution has been the pris
on farm. On an average, about 23 men
have been on this detail daily, and It is
|an assignment earnestly sought after, as
the detail is out in the open air, virtually
free, and the men on it are regarded by
the officials as working under the honor
[system. They are sent to different parts
of the 200 and more acres of this part of
the reservation, end are in charge of
only one officer, who acts as both guard
and superintendent.- and there are many
occasions when he does not see a worker
from the beginning of his labor until the
time for assembly, preparatory to comihg
into the inclosure of all the detail for their
meals. The farm work has been conducted
In this manner felnce the opening of the
institution, and no trouble has been ex
perienced, and no attempt made to escape.
“This year about 83 arres are being cul
tivated, devoted principally to corn, sw’cet
potatoes, watermelons, cabbage, tomatoes,
beans and onions, with large plots of rad
ishes, squashes, turnips, cucumbers and
other vegetables. The products of tlie
farm are all used at tho prison, and It
contributes materially to the subsistence
of the prisoners, ami is a source of econ
omy In maintaining the institution.”
It is not surprising tnat convicts should
seek tlie opportunity of working on the
prison farm. It gives them employment
in the open air and the surveillance, as
may be seen from the foregoing, is only
nominal. The men aro "virtually free’*
during the hours in which they are at la*
bor. It would not bo advisable, of course,
to trust all classes of prisoners to such an
extent, but experience has shown that
convicts, as a whole, are more tractable
and require less watching when engaged
in outdoor work, such as farm labor or
road building.
There should be a prison farm oper
ated in connection with every peniten
tiary. If there were no other reasons tho
fact that it can be made, as at Atlanta,
"a source of economy In maintaining the
Institution,” is ample justification for its
establishment. In addition every state
should employ at least some proportion of
its prisoners in road building. It is no
longer a debatable question as to whether
convicts can be profitably utilised In this
way. Several states are using prison la
bor on their roads to great advantage and
prison farms are inereaslngln number and
in usefulness.
GARAGE FOR PEftAMBltATORS
Philadelphia Correspondence New York
Tribune.
A garage for baby carriages is to be a
feature of the Henry Dlfc’ston Memorial
church, In course of construction in 'Pa
cony, a suburb of this city. The Rev.
Cornelius Hudson, the pattor, said re
cently: v
“We have lots of babies in the congre
gation, and we thought that if we built a
place where the mothers and the fathers
could keep the caiTiages during the serv
ice more of them would attend the serv-1
ices regularly.
“It has been no uncommon sight to see
1G or J7 baby carriages lined up In front
'of the church on a Sunday afternoon. We
have taken a census, and believe that at
least 100 families with babies will come
here if we give them a suitable place
wlrerc their perambulators can be taken
care of."
PARASOLS FOR MEN
Berlin Correspondence New York World.
"Ah, Hans, what colored parasol have
you ordered
“Well, Max, 1 have not exactly decided,
but something I should say slightly verg
ing on the mauve.”
"And your blouse?”
"Oh, on that I have made up my mind.
It shall surely be of silk network—some
thing In the design of linden leaves."
"Ah—delicious, my dear Hans!”
The foregoing may be taken, quite seri
ously it you please, as typical talk be
tween members of a dress reform league
for males In summer, which has organised
brigades in this capital, In Dresden, In
Bonn and in other German towns, look
ini? toward wrenching a bit of comfort out
ot the hot spoils. Contrary to superficial
deduction, the gentlemen who speak thus,
one sincerely to the other, are not the
slim dandles of the fashionable strassen,
but the chaps who wJth blandness have
reluctantly acquired embonpoint—and how
a healthy German certainly docs acquire
embonpoint!
Being baldheaded the sun Is merciless to
their domes, and being fat the heat is
simply—well.
In Berlin the movement started and has
been acclaimed. Plump bold heads will
not wear touts, but blouses, cut after the
fashion of a schoolboy’s garment; but
there is no bar on tho peek-a boo.
Enthusiasts have written proclamations
to the press, signing their names numer
ously to the communications.
THE AMERICAN FLAG
By Joseph Rodman Drake.
When Freedom from tier mountain height
Unfurled her stundard to tho air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there;
She mingled with Its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of tho skies.
Anil striped Its pure oelestlal white .
With streakings of the morning light:
Then from his mansion In the sun
She called her eagle bearer down,
And pave It to his mighty hand.
The symbol of her chosen land."
Flag of the free heart's hop#' and homg
By angel hands to valor given; ‘
Thy stars have lit the welkili dome.
And all thy lures were born In heave*.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Whore-breathes the foe but falls befert
ns,
With Freedom's soil beneath outs feet.
And Freedom's banne'f streaming o'er u*l
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