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—Macbeth.
Scientists and Immortality
Sir Oliver Lodge, one of the ablest of
modern scientists, now adds his voice
to that of Alfred M. Wallace, another
of England's renowned investigators,
in maintaining that the materialistic
ideas which grew up in the wake of
Darwin and his contemporaries are
not sufficient to account for the mys
teries of life and death.
Categorical denials of immortality,
bold assertions of ultimate ability to
produce life, unemotional attempts to
account for life's mysteries material
istically are more, and more being
placed on the defensive. As Sir Oliver
pertinently asks of the materialists:
“But do they account for every
thing completely? Do they ac
count for our own feeling of joy
and exultation, for our sense of
beauty, for the manifest beauty
existing throughout nature? Do
not these things suggest some
thing higher and nobler and more
joyous, something for the sake of
which the struggle for existence
goes on ?’’
Sir Oliver is on strong ground in
maintaining that “continuity” is one
of the great features of the universe
which must be recognized. If this were
not true it would be necessary to
show that even time is not continu
~ ous'. «
There is continuity in life, spiritual
as well as physical, and the great
pendulum of philosophical thought is
swinging away from the agnosticism
that began its sway more than 50
years ago. The great scientific think
ers are gradually falling into line with
the great mass of the world’s people
who believe that this life does not end
everything and that there is “some
thing higher and nobler and more
joyous for the sake of which exist
ence goes on.”
And after all the wrangling and
disagreements and debates it will be
found that the safest and surest
guides *on the mysteries of life after
death are the prophets and teachers
of old whose words are from men rep
resenting the highest types of spirit
ual exaltation the world has ever
known. __
The Colored Methodists
Few problems in the south are of
such far-reaching concern as that re
lating to the race question. The ne
groes are here; always will be here.
They are needed and we want them
t oremain with us, therefore, right
minded educators, regardless of
race or condition, gladly extend to
the “brother in black” a helping hand.
Every uplifhting influence among
the negroes should meet with hearty
encouragement. The jubilee convoca
tion of the Colored Methodist Episco
pal church being held here this week
is of exceptional interest. The address
ol' Bishop J. H. McCoy of Birming
ham, who brought greetings from the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, to
the ministers and laymen of the col
ored organization, was not only a
great feature of the occasion but
. every phrase and thought gave in
spiration.
Bishop McCoy stressed the impor
tance of education among the negroes
and every negro minister and intelli
gent layman present said amen to the
-»- jdea. As Dr. McCoy remarked, “The
negro preachers are the negroes’ great
leaders along all lines. They are the
biggest men in the race and with that
acknowledged leadership should go
1 correspondingly weighty responsibili
ty.” Bishop McCoy’s words were so
' oound and plain that they should be
repeated over and over again. “As
loaders,” said the bishop, “these min
isters should have deep care in some
things. They should make it their duty
to see that all the children attend
school. They should see to it that they
. get the right kind of an education,
and above all, the preacher should see
' fin'the light of reason that a knowl
edge of cotton root is more valuable
than the knowledge of Greek root.”
Bishop McCoy laid emphasis upon
j these points: “That man is bigger
• than carpenter, bigger than bookkeep
er, bigger than preacher, and that the
three ideals of education, the voca
tional, that which leads to vocations;
the cultural, that which leads to prog
j ress and character building educa
tion, that which makes real character,
must be combined to make a real self
respecting man.”
The bishop told his colored friends
and co-workers that colleges of the
negro race must produce real lead
ers—men truly educated. If they did
not they would soon lose their power
and influence.
The colored Methodists have been
successful in raising money for Miles
Memorial college, situated near Bir
mingham, and it is their intention to
make this institution of the very high
est credit to the negro race. Many
prominent white citizens of Birming
ham have already assisted the college
financially and substantial help will
come from them in the future.
Needed Local Reforms
In no branch of the judicial system
throughout the country has greater
progress been made than that relat
ing to the police courts and the
methods of dealing with the petty of
fenders.
The establishment of juvenile
courts, the probation system, the
court of domestic relations, the golden
rule, detention homos and women
wardens, and jail matrons have done
much to remedy past evils and aided
materially in the reduction of crime.
While local conditions are much bet
ter than they were a short time ago
still there is much to be desired. The
large majority of people who appear
before the police judge are hot crim
inals in any sense of the word; they
are merely petty offenders charged
with the violation of some rule or
ordinance of the city. A great many
cases are neighbors’ quarrels or fami
ly rows in which respectable women
are involved. Under the present sys
tem these women, and sometimes ac
companied by children, are compelled
to sit and listen to the trial of un
savory cases, with the recital some
times of details that are of the most
shocking character.
In all progressive cities a court of
domestic relations has been estab
lished for the hearing of family trou
bles and like cases; also a detention
room apart from the city jail for the
temporary care or confinement of
young girls caught in the meshes of
the law.
Birmingham needs these two police
reforms and needs them badly. The
court of domestic relations An some
cities has a separate judge, in others
it is held after the regular session has
adjourned. In each instance St has
worked admirably and would no doubt
do so here. As to the confinement of
young girls in the present city jail it
is a sad reproach to our boasted civili
zation.
The welfare department under the
able and earnest supervision of Mrs.
Searight has done much to ameliorate
the evil, yet much remains to be done
before Birmingham arrives at the
point reached by other progressive
cities in the matter of police court
reform.
(Ballinger's Star Play
Dr. Gallinger, United States sena
tor from New Hampshire, is the most
immovable of standpatters. He has no
sympathy for change, no patience
with progress. He believes thoroughly
that the country should be governed
in the interests of the wealthier class,
anjj any movement on the part of the
masses to seize a modicum of power
is cried down most bitterly by him.
Such revolutionary schemes a3 the
initiative, referendum and the recall
are regarded by Dr. Gallinger as too
frightful to contemplate. He believes
that they are subversive of represen
tative government, entering wedges
for the sundering of this western ex
periment in republicanism. His de
nunciation knows no bounds; his rep
rehension is without restriction.
Yet Dr. Gallinger arises in the Sen
ate and calmly moves that the oper
ation of the Underwood-Simmons bill
be postponed for a year while the peo
ple of the country are given an op
portunity to vote on its acceptance
or rejection! If the referendum can
be made to serve the monopolistic
vested interests by estopping legisla
tion they have fought against so long,
Dr. Gallinger is for it. Otherwise not.
Those Turbine Drums
The Cyclops Steel and Iron works
of Sheffield, Eng., has been awarded
the contract for building the turbine
drums for America’s newest dread
naught, “No. 39.” It is a peculiar situ
ation, yet the motive of Franklin B.
Roosevelt, acting Secretary of the
Navy, in giving the contract to a for
eign concern, seems justifiable, how
ever much it is to be regretted.
There are three American concerns
considered equipped to do the work.
These are the Bethlehem Steel com
pany, the Midvale Steel company, and
the Carnegie Steel company. Only the
first two submitted bids, the Bethle
hem company offering to take the
contract for $169,568 and the Midvale
bidding $160,272. The bid of the
Cyclops works.was $57,436, and it has
! been given the contract. By sending
the contract abroad, the United States
will save more than $100,000, and the
Sheffield hid includes the payment of
duty.
The Midvale, Bethlehem and Car
negie concerns are competitors of
English and German companies in the
markets of all the world. Why is it
that the figures of American steel
makers are so out of proportion to
those of the Cyclops works in the bids
j for equipment of an American battle
] ship? Do the American bids show col
I lusion ?
The United States has always been
compelled to pay outrageously high
prices for its armor plate. The build
ing of a government plant seems the
j solution of this problem. It may also
be necessary for the United States'to
establish works for the manufacture
of all its war material.
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The movement to take Alabama’s con
victs from the mines is just getting a
good start. Hike all processes of change
in behalf of humanity it will be fought
vigorously. This fact should only add zeal
to the work of those striving for this
forward step.
Provisional President Huerta will send
a message to the Mexican Congress Tues
day. It Is to be hoped that it will con
tain a little of the sound sense and hu- j
inanity which comprised President Wi!- 1
j son’s recent address to the American law- !
makers.
-...
It is up to the Birmingham mothers to
send in the names of their babies and as- i
sure this city winning all of the $50,000
offered by the San Francisco exposition
for Alabama’s healthiest and prettiest
young ones.
Well, Alabama is coming right on up.
Someone Is trying to have Congress in
vestigate the “school book trust,” and j
should that august body decide to do so,
our fair state will be very mucli in tho
spotlight.
So far those six young ladies of Salem, j
O., who sold 20,000 kisses for $20,000 are !
not reported as suffering from any com
municable disease, but there has been an
unusual demand for cold cream in that
town.
Lacy was reported “seen” again. It ap
pears that it is getting to be a habit for
someone to "see” the erstwhile chief
clerk of the convict department every
two or three months.
The Standard Oil company promises a
reduction in the price of gasoline. Now,
if somebody will put tires within the reach
of \ poor man a few of us may own au
tomobiles.
A woman in New Hampshire, aged 70,
eloped with a man aged 42. Authorities
say she is feeble minded. Pshaw! This is
the day of the foxy grandmother.
A young man in New York will inherit
a large fortune if he abstains from ci
garettes, but there are several routes
swifter than the cigarette route.
Howard college this year is blessed with
some exceptionally pretty “co-eds.” The
less said about the hoys’ looks the bet
ter (this in a kindly spirit).
A well known newspaper woman who
used to write glibly about bachelors is
seeking a divorce. No doubt, she still
thinks bachelor.” are best.
Charles M. Schwab is spending $15,000
on a hennery. Well, let him. Other mil
lionaires have spent more than that on a
single chicken.
The American public is now ready and
willing to see the Thaw case disposed of
in some"way. Anything to take it off the
front page.
A military man at the polls Monday
should command thus: “Voters: Take
pencils, seize ballots, mark auditorium
yes!”
Porter Charlton's trial probably will not
be held until April. But Porter has be
come thoroughly accustomed to delay.
Washington Is convinced that the Huerta
administration is utterly without plans.
Is there no one else to murder?
The anguish of the standpatters over
secret legislation serves merely to add to
the gaiety of nations.
It seems that Mr. Anderson got mud be
cause Mr. Underwood would not let him
write the tariff bill.
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Jack Frost has a short name and a
short way about him. He will soon be in
our midst.
Mrs. Grundy seems to be of the opinion
that the slit skirt must go. It does go
great.
David Lamar expressed tittle surprise
at his arrest. But why should he have?
A republican is now mayor of New York,
but It took death to make him so.
A FINE OPPORTINITY
From the Houston Post.
Oscar Underwood is going to be a can
didate for the Alabama senatorship. With
an opportunity like that Alabama ought
to be able to get nil traces of Hobsonltis
out of Its system in a jiffy.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
Dull times often make sharp appetites.
A chaperon is a woman who is sup
posed to he an immune.
He is an agile politician who can suc
cessfully dodge an issue.
If a woman is Jealous she always Insists
that she's no such thing!
If you would be popular, make others
believe they know more than you.
A man who isn’t tied to his wife's apron
string doesn’t want to get away.
The young man who declines to flirt
with a pretty blonde lets a golden oppor
tunity pass. '
The than who earns a good living has
nothing to complain of—unless some other
fellow gets it.
No. Alonzo, you can never tc-ll how
heavily she will tread on your neck after
marriage by the size of her tan oxford.
A medical journal has an article on
"How to Lie When Asleep." Of more
value would be an article on how to In
duce people to tell the truth when awake.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Ibitiiriling; Southern Headquarter*
“Birmingham should leave no stone un
turned in Its effort to secure the interstate
commerce commission’s appraisal board
for tlie southern district.’’ said a member
of the Chamber of Commerce. “Few
things which have been within our reach
have made such a strong appeal to Bir
mingham's progressive citizens. We can
secure tlie appraisal hoard's headquarters
if we only work hard enough.
“President Harding of tlie Chamber of
Commerce, Mr. Malone. Colonel Molton
and other citizens will go to Washing
ton shortly to confer with the interstate
commerce commission's committee which
will practically determine upon the loca
tion of southern headquarters. If neces
sary we should have, 100 citizens volunteer
to go with Mr. Harding upon this mis
sion.
“If we, fail to secure this Important
board,'which will mean a clerical force
of several hundred persons, it will be
because we have not half tried."
Penalizing Oversize Colton llales
“It is true that steamship companies are
penalizing cotton hales that are beyond
the standard limit of 30 inches by GO
inches," said a cotton man.
"Tlie standard gin box Is 27 inches by
54 inches, and allowance is made In the
larger figures for the flattening out of
the bale In compressing. These two meas
urements, the length and width, not the
thickness, are arbitrary, because the com
press can mash the cotton to a certain
thickness, but of course could not cor
rect the other measurements. The state
of Texas has adopted, by statute, the size
of 27x54 inches for all public ginneries,
and most of the cotton is handled by
public ginners.
“You ask me what has become of the
round bale. The fact is. that it made a
handsome package, and apparently a good
sample, but in the center it made felt,
or batting of ttTe cotton, and this is un
desirable for most spinners."
The Iron Marker
Matthew Addy & Co.’s Cincinnati report
just issued says:
"Wholesale purchases of pig iron by a
few large consumers have marked the
past week. The rank and file of small
users have been standing by and watch
ing the course of events. But several big
concerns, arguing that pig iron cannot,
go lower, have contracted for all the
iron they will use during the first half of
1914. This is true of one of the great steel
mills in this territory whose purchases
amount to something like 50,000 tons. This
is a transaction of the first magnitude.
Then a stove concern lias purchased In
the neighborhood of 7000 tons. There has
of course been a sprinkling of smaller
orders, but four or five large transac
tions are the feature of the week. Fur
naces are shipping well and. while the
general foundries do not anticipate any
thing phenomenal, they have good or
ders ahead and every expectation of a
continued fine business.
"The coke situation continues strong,
although shipments are somewhat better
owing to easier labor conditions. There
is every reason, however, to fear in the
winter a coke shortage."
Uiiesllon of Civic Vwakening
“Something must be done to eradicate
the selfish spirit in this city before Bir
mingham really becomes tlie city it ought
to be, said Henry F. Beaumont, a well
known publicity agent, speaking of the
auditorium movement which is now being
actively discussed in every quarter* “The
only opposition which I have been able
to find to the movement for a ‘people's
auditorium’ has been voiced either by
those too self-opiniated to listen to reason,
too stingy to favor it for groundless fear
it will increase taxation, or too old
fogyish to realise that the Magic City
of tiie South has passed the ‘swaddling
clothes’ stage in life and must either
equip itself to meet the competition of
older communities which has displayed
greater civic pride or ‘stick in the mire’
and lose its just rank.
“This limited opposition.’ however," con
tinued Mr. Beaumont, “illustrates a lack
of pull-together feeling, prevents the full
growtli of community pride and in the
long run damages botli the city and its
citizens. It has been the ‘pull-together’
spirit which has made Atlanta. It is
the awakening of the same spirit which
has at last roused Nashville from its
lethargy and it is the spirit which once
running high in Birmingham will lead
onward and onward until the near fu
ture will bring us to the half-million
mark.
"Every channel of life, every class of
Birmingham's people, will benefit from
the construction of an auditorium, while
there isn’t a single, solitary soul who will
suffer the slightest disadvantage from it;
and the sooner a great structure is com
pleted in which large gatherings will
bo held the quicker the time will come
when Birmingham’s destiny as a popular
site for heavily-attended conventions and
associations, and other affairs, each of
which will contribute richly to our up
growth, will be realized.”
Huildina Operations
"Birmingham was never so busy as now
In large building operations." said a real
estate man. "The Tutwiler hotel, the
Rldgely apartment house, the Molton
apartment house and a score of smaller
buildings are in course of construction.
The building improvements In other direc
tions are beginning to attract attention.
"One of the handsome improvements in
the 'downtown' district is the addition of a
story to the Southern club building. When
tile improvements to the club are com
pleted—just before Thanksgiving—this well
known Institution will be more popular
than ever. The Country club is spending
several thousand dollars on Improvements
and the coming season promises to he
gay in the social world."
Let's Have Great Musical Festival
“Assuming that the auditorium proposi
tion will meet with unuallfied indorse
ment at the city election next Monday
we should get ready for a great music
festival in 1911,” said an old music lover.
"We should have the auditorium ready
for occupancy not later than May. Just
as soon as the plans are perfected and
reasonable estimate can be made as to
the time of completing the building ar
rangements should he made for a grand
opera festival.
"Atlanta has had the option upon the
Metropolitan Opera House company for
several years past, but notwithstanding
the fact that the Atlanta management
has always reaped a big profit there is
some doubt about grand opera in our
metropolitan neighbor next Bpring. How
ever that may be, Birmingham should
lose no time in planning for grand opera.
If the Metropolitan Opera company is
not going on tour either the Chicago
company or the Boston company would
be decidedly alluring. a
"But no matter what is done in the
way of opera, I am In favor of a grand
old time music festival during the com
Ing year. I think it would be well to have j
it in November. A Birmingham chorus ;
of about 150 could be organized and trained ;
by Mr. r »molI. and that chorus would be a '
nucleus for a mass chorus of about 1000.
Gadsden, Anniston. Talladega, Tuscaloosa.
Montgomery. Selma. Mobile and several
other centers of culture would contribute
mixed choruses, which, consolidated here,
would make a mighty body of voices. i
"The Damrosch orchestra or some other j
high class and well known orchestra,
should be engaged for the symphony fea
ture. A music festival on the scale 1
have suggested was quite popular in New
England and the middle west some years
ago and it would be extremely popular
here, especially since musical taste has
advanced and made of Birmingham a de
cidedly musical community."
EUGENICS
From the Chicago Journal.
When the spirit of liberty began to
rouse in France a century and a half ago
it showed itself in strange and sometimes !
repellant forms. It put forth wild !
schemes, which meant little save the sub- j
stitution of new tyrannies for old. It was I
willing to throw aside the growth of cen- i
turics for the vague theories of an un- i
known dreamer, and for one brief inter- |
val of madness it made the guillotine* its I
scepter.
But little by little the understanding of ;
: liberty grew and spread until, in spite of
many faults and shortcomings, France is
as truly a free land today as she was
a despotic land in the da>rs of Louis
XIV.
. It was much the same with »that Interest
in future generations which is beginning ]
to show itself in America under the name '■
of eugenics. That word is a shibboleth i
in the lips of thousands who have not the j
slightest i otion what it means. Crude i
schemes for "improving the race" by j
legal enactment are offered in a dozen |
legislatures. Inquisitorial powers are j
handed over to petty officials. Apparent
ly a large group of wiseacres think the j
superman can be bred to order by dis
couraging marriage and'setting a premium ■
on perjury.
Yet all this nonsense is the sign of a
newly awakened interest in a subject of j
vital importance. The world is just begin- j
ning to learn that like breeds like among
human beings as well as among animals.
It is just beginning to understand that
sound and healthy children are more im
portant than factories or -foreign com
merce, and that education which does not
prepare youth for parentage is sadly in
complete.
Tlie new sense of responsibility for fu
ture generations will find itself, just as
the spirit of liberty found itself, and with
j a little wise counsel the search can be
kept within proper bounds.
MH. IXDBRWOUD’S AMBITION
From the Syracuse Herald.
The report that Representative Oscar
\\'. Underwood will be a candidate for the
Alabama senatorship illustrates once more
the string attraction the Senate exerts
upon legislators who won their spurs in
the popular branch of Congress. It is
not easy to understand why a man who
has served so creditably in the House
of Representatives as Mr. Underwood lias,
nnd who now wields immense authority
in that body as the majority leader and
< hairman of the ways and means com
mittee, should desire to lie transferred to
the upper chamber, in which lie is certain
to shine with dimmed radiance, nnd in
which his political power and prominence
will he materially impaired. He is ex
ceptionally qualified for party leadership
in a house where the rules curtailing dc
I ate < all for tlie equal exercise of cool
ness. flrmnes sand tact, and nowhere else
will his opportunity for increased honor
and*usefulness be so good. In the Sen
ate, his parliamentary skill will always
he at a discount, and several years must
elapse, even if we assume his aptitude
for senatorial service, before he can at
tain in that body the relative distinction
and influence lie now enjoys in the
House.
Membership in the Senate is supposed to
be invested with superior dignity and
honor, partly on account of the smaller
size of the body and the greater length
of the senatorial term. But this advan
tage, which is largely sentimental, seems
a. poor compensation for the other and
more substantial advantages Mr. Under
wood will surrender if lie leaves the
House.
WOMEN IN MEDICINE
From the Journal of the American Med
ical Association.
During the pa t year tjieic were 640
women studying medicine, or .‘19 less than
last year, a decrease of 40 below 1911 and
a decrease of 367 below 1910. The percen
tage of women students to the total num
ber of medical students was 3.8, as com
upared with 3.2 last year. There were 154
women graduates this year, or 3.8 per
cent of all graduates. There has been a
very market deeerase, in the number of
women In medicine since 1910. when there
were 907 women students and 157 grad
uates, and In !909. when there were 021
women students and 162 graduates. Of
all the women matriculants, 138 (21.6 per
cent) were in attendance at the two med
ical colle.gesv.for women, as compared
with 143 (21.1 per rent) in 1912, 134 (19.7 per
cent) In 1911 and 155 (17.1 per cent) in 1910.
The remaining 5*)2 (78.4 per cent) were ma
triculated in the ,55 coeducational col
leges. From the tw'o women’s colleges
there were 33, or 21.4 per cent, of all
women graduates, while 121, or 72.6 per
cent, secured their degrees from coedu
cational colleges.
USELESS \DVICE
From the New York Telegram.
A popular song once warned persons
r.ot to give advice, "for wise men need
it not. and fools heed It not.” But there
are many who refuse to obey the injunc
tion and hand out advice gratuitously and
whether you want it or not. Now comes
along a man who gives advice as to the
time when to marry. He says: "Give
yourself plenty cf time to find out
whether you are in love."
Well, so long as you are about it why
don’t you continue and tell what are the
symptoms Some men say that when you
are In love you have a fondness for poe
try. Others say you can’t eat. Others
have various other explanations, one say
ing that a man surely must be in love
who would marry a widow with six chil
dren. But others called him a fool. But
the chrowning piece of foolishness in this
line is his admonition:
"Do not stay out late at night when
single, for when you are married it is a
bad habit."
LOVE MAKING IN BOSTON
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"She turned on him with an Icy stare.**
"And what happened then?"
"His words froze on his lips."—Boston
Transcript.
After this he wiped the frosty rime
from his glasses, and shaking the snow
from his goloshes retired to the paternal
refrigerator.
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES J
OBEYED.
A speeder bold
Was William Erb,
Who ran his car
Into the curb.
The fragments strewed
The ground about
And Bill received
An awful clout.
All out of breath.
Up rushed a cop
And said. “I yelled
At you to stop."
Then Bill, who stood
The ruins amid,
Said, "Well, my friend, •
It seems I did."
AFTER THAW PUT IT THERE.
"Dobbs is an apathetic fellow."
"What n akes you think so?"
"Why, he hasn't even been interested
enough in the Thnw case to look up the
location of Uoaticook on the map."
THEY USUALLY KNOCK.
"How is tiie play?"
"Tt must be fine. I heard it praised by
a couple of deadheads."
A TOTAL WRECK.
"Did your doctor find anything wrong
with you, Glimmersly?"
"I should say so! Before he got through
with his diagnosis I would have gladly
paid him double his fee to find something
right with me."
INTENTIONS.
It isn't so much the life one lives,
As the way one lives it;
It isn't so much the gift one gives,
As the way one gives it.
SURE.
A man may not
Possess great fame
And still wear "Hon.''
Before his name.
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
A man may lug
A weight of sin
And still have "Rev."
To hide it in.
—Nashville Banner.
LOOKING BACK.
This time o' year wre used to poke
To school, all vainly sighing.
And Friday afternoons w’e spoke
"I'm Dying, Egypt, Dying."
NOT COURTING PUBLICITY.
"How clues the senator stand on tariff
revision ?”
"Discreetly out of sight."
THE WORLD’S WAY. I
This Is a doleful truth, we own. I
This accounts for a deal of woe;
Sound his faults with a megaphone,
Sound his virtues soift and low.
A RARE PRIVILEGE.
Dubber tells me that he had some
words with his wife this morning."
■Tm surprised at her liberality.”
"Why -so?"
"Judging front your remark, she permit*
ted Dubber to share in the conversation."
QUITE SO.
"Every man should have some sort of
hobby.” '
"Perhaps you are right, but there is no
more tiresome individual than the man
who makes himself his.hobby."
A SOUL.
A part of the Infinite kindness;
A part of the Infinite pain;
Called from the Infinite spaces;
Hobbled and bound with a chain.
A part of the Infinite glory.
Called from the paths of the stars;
Flesli-held to the earth and flesn-driven,
Made subject to bolts and bars.
\
A part of the Infinite kindness;
A part of the Infinite love; s
A light on the path up to heaven;
A whisper to earth from above.
A treasure—a hostage—a promise.
A thing that is man’s, In his hands;
A punishment—conscience—a mentor—
W’hatever the mind understands.
A throb from the heart of the Master.
To know all earth’s grieving and pain:
To help so. when books are all balanced.
The world shall show something of gain,
—Houston Post.
HIS REQUEST.
\
"You are not averse to a little publlo*
Ity, Mr. Snoots?"
"Oh, I guess not,” replied that gentle
man, who has recently entered public life,
"if you will kindly refrain from mention
ing tlie fact that I am not a baseball
fan. I do not wish to incur the disappro
bation of a great many people whom I
have never met.” PAUL COOK.
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FASCINATION OF LONDON
Theodore Dreiser in the Century Mag
azine.
TIIE first thing that Impressed me
was the grayish tinge of smoke
that was over everything, a
faint haze; and the next that, as a
city, street for street and square for
square, it was not so strident as New
York, not neatly so hur.;h. The traffic
was less noisy, the people were more
thoughtful and considerate, the so-called
rush, which c haracterizes Xow York, was
less foolish. There is something rowdy
ish and ill-mannered about the street life
of New York. This is not true of Lon
don. It struck me as simple, sedate,
thoughtful, and 1 could only conclude
that it sprang from a less stirring atmos
phere of opportunity. I fancy it is harder
to get along in Loudon. People do not
change from me thing to another so
much. The world there is more fixed In
a pathetic routine, and people are more
aware of their so-called “betters.’’ I
hope not, but I felt it to be true.
I do not believe that it is given to
any writer wholly to suggest a city. The
mind is like a voracious floh: it would like
to eat up all the experiences and charac
teristics of a city or a nalton. but this,
fortunately, is n A possible. My own
mind was busy pounding at the gates «.f
fact, but all the while I was there I g-.v*
only a little wgy. | remember being
struck with the nature of St. .Jann s’
park, which was near my hotel, the great
column to the Duke of Marlborough, at
the end of the street, the; whirl of lif<> ;;j
Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus,
which were both very near.
An office I v‘sit««l in a narrow street
interested me. and the storm of cabs
which whirled by all the corners this
region. It was described to me as the
• enter of London, and t. am quite suie
it was, for clubs, theatres, hotels, smart
shops and the like were all hero. The
heavy trading section was farther east,
along the banks of the Thames, and be
tween that and P.egent street, where my
little hotel was located, lay the financial
section, sprawling about St. Paul's Cath
edral and the Bank of England. One
could go out of this great central world
easily enough, but it was only, appar
ently, to got Into minor centers. It was
all decidedly pleasing, because it was n$w
and strange, a ul because there was a
world of civility prevailing which does
not exist in America.,
The amazing metropolitan atmosphere
in wh'oh I 4ound myself satisfied mt
completely for the time being. Life here
was so complex and so extended that in
days and days that involved visits—
breakfast!', luncheons,, dinners, suppers—
with one parsonage and another, political,
social, artistic, I was still busy snatching
glimpses of the great lake of llfo that
spread on every hand. Insofar as I
could Judge on so short a notice. London
seemed to me to represent a mood—a uni
! form, aware, conservative state of being,
neither brillant nor gay anywhere, though
interesting always. About Piccadilly
: Circus, Trafalgar Square, Leicester
Square, Charing Cross and the Strand I
suppose the average Londoner would in
sist that London is very gay; but I could
not see it. Certainly it was not gay ns
similar sections in New York are gay.
It is not in ;he Londoner himself to be
so. He is solid, hard, phlegmatic, a little
dreary, like a certain typo of rain bird or
I northern loon, content to make the best
of a rather dreary situation. On the other
hand, I should not say that the city is de
pressing-far from it—though there are
many who have told me they found it so.
You have to represent a certain state of
mind to he a Londoner, or a Britisher,
even, a true one, and. on the whole. I
think it is a more pleasant attitude than
one finds in America, though not so bril
liant. Creature comforts run high with
this type of mind. and. after that, a cer
tain happy acceptance of the common- !
place. Nothing l*fs than that could pos
sibly explain the mile on mile of drab i
houses, of streets all alike, of doorways
all alike, of chimneys all alike. That is
what you feel all over England—a drab j
acceptance of the commonplace; and
yet, when all is said and done, it works
out into something so charming in its
eommonplacenoss that it is almost irre
sistible.
LIKE >1'LI KE S\\S
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
There are a lot of ornery sensations in
life. But did you ever wake up in the
morning and wonder what you did last
night ?
It doesn't matter how cheap the trous
seau was, It will look like new when the
honeymoon Is all rags and patches.
A man never appreciates a nice, cosy
saloon until he gets married and has a
home of his own
The first baby gets a ring and a silver
rattle and a $.» lay out. And the fifth
baby is lucky to get a box ^>f talcum
powder.
What has become of the old fashioned
woman who wore dress shields?
Speaking of canned goods, did you ever
watch two women kiss when they meet on
| the street?
I They talk about a man leading a dog’s
j life as though it was something awful.
; Why a dog can bury a dozen l>ones and
i go to bed happy, knowing- his wife Isn’t
going to frisk around and find them.
There is a lot of fun in life when
you regard it as a joke. And there is
a brick under every hat you kick when
you take the fool world seriously.
There’s lots of fun in fishing if you don't
have to catch fish for a living.
Life is a merry-go-round, and money is
the oil that keeps it from squeaking.
A man takes a woman for better or for
worse. But he never imagines it is going
to be so worse.
•••••••••••
MY PLAYMATES
By Eugene Field.
THE wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool—
Of red wing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool;
It brings me soothing fancies of the ‘homestead on the hill.
And r hear the thrush's evening song and the robin's morning trill,
So I fall to thinking tenderly of those i used to know
Where the sassafras and snakeroot end eheckerberrics srow.
What lias become of Ezra Marsh, who lived on Baker's Hill?
And what's become of Noble Pratt, whose father kept the mill?
And what's become of l.izzle Crum and Anastasia Snell,
And of P.oxie Root, who 'tended school In Boston for a spell?
They are the boys and they are the girls who shared my youthful play—
They do not answer to my call! My playmates—where arc they?
What has become of Levi and his little brother Joe,
Who lived next door to where we lived some forty years ago?
I'd like to see the Newton boys and Quincy Adams Brown,
And Hepsy Hall and Ella Cowles, who spelled the whole school down!
And Oracle Smith, the Cutler boys, Leander Snow and all,
Who I am sure would answer could they only hear my call!
I’d like to see Bill Warner and the Conkey boys again,
And talk about the times we used to wish that we were men I
And one—I shall not name her—could I see her gentle fac#
And hear her girlish treble in this distant, lonely place!
The flowers and hopes of springtime—they perished long ago,
And the garden where they blossomed is white with winter snow.
O cottage 'neath the maples, have you seen those girls and boy*
That but a little while ago made, Oh! such pleasant noise?
O trees, end hills, and brooks, and lanes, and meadows, do you know
Where I shall find my little friends of forty years ago?
You see I'm old and weary, and I've traveled long and far;' ° '**•** 1 ,1
I am looking for my playmates—I wonder where they vet *