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THE AGE-HERALD
E. W. BARRETT.fcdltor
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Prosperity’s the very bond of love;
Whose fresh complexion, and whose
heart together,
Affliction altera. —Winter’s Tale.
The Value of Night Schools
Every large city needs night schools.
Many cities have such schools with
adequate accommodations and in a
high state of efficiency.
Birmingham now has two night
schools—one at Ensley, which was es
tablished a year or more ago and
which is well attended, and one estab
lished a week ago in the Paul Hayne
building situated in the central part of
the city. At Ensley there are three
night sessions a week. While that
school is under the direction of the
board of education, the funds for its
maintenance are contributed by two
industrial corporations, the Tennessee
company and the Semet-Solvay com
pany. It is free to all boys under con
ditions of age and elementary educa
tion.
Young men who are preparing
themselves for examinations for the
position of mine foreman are said to
be quite numerous in the Ensley
school, but the majority of the stu
dents are those who work at the steel
plant. The course of instruction is
such as may be found in all first class
technological night schools—arith
metic, algebra, geometry, chemistry,
physics, mechanical drawing and En
glish. The last is by no means least.
Technical knowledge will not go very
far these days in advancing the am
bitious youth unless he can make an
intelligent report in writing; and in
order to get very high up, he must be
sufficiently well educated in English
to write not only grammatically but
convincingly.
The Paul Hayne night school has,
according to Dr. J. H. Phillips, super
intendent of,public schools, started off
reasonably well, but the attendance
is not as large as was expected. After
the holidays there will be a larger
attendance, no doubt, and it is proba
ble that in a year or two several public
night schools will be in operation.
In addition clasees under the su
pervision of the Birmingham board of
education, the Young Men’s Christian
association conducts an excellent night
school. It appeals especially to boys
who wish to equip themselves for n
business career, but those of a me
chanical turn are also provided for;
and especially good work is being
' done in teaching English to the young
foreigners.
With Birmingham’s rapid growth
it should not be long before a me
chanics’ institute, such as may be
found in Richmond and other cities of
approximately Richmond’s size, is
established here. In the meantime the
night school facilities already offered
mean much for this city and should
be fully appreciated.
Business and the Tariff
Notwithstanding the recession in
business related to industrial opera
tions, a distinct note of optimism pre
vails. It is generally felt in large busi
ness centers that the new year will
witness not only a revival of indus
trial activity but a revival that will
develop new high records in many
lines of trade.
It is a noteworthy fact that few
manufacturers or other business men
are charging the present lull to the
revised tariff. Commercial and indus
trial papers and recognized leaders in
the financial world refer to certain
Causes, some of them centering in Eu
rope; but scarcely one refers to the
tariff as having anything to do with
present conditions.
With good crops as a basis, and with
our natural resources and with the
prodigious resourcefulness of the men
who conduct large business operations,
ift is not easy to check prosperity. It
is reassuring at any rate to know that
the few alarmists who were predicting
hard times as a result of the Under
wood tariff legislation have turned out
to be poor prophets. The downward
revision was intended to benefit the
people and it will do so. It has not
been long enough in operation for re
suits to be widespread, but it is safe
to say that within a year from now
the Underwood tariff bill will be the
most popular enacted into law since
the war.
If the interstate commerce com
mission grants the petition of the
eastern carriers for a small increase
in freight rates, the sentimental as
well as the direct effect on the gen
eral business of the country will be
strongly in evidence. The petition will
probably be granted, and that action
will be followed by a large buying
movement in the iron market. The
holiday season will soon be over, and
the business public will begin to look
forward with hope and confidence to
a new era of prosperity. This is a
great country indeed and that new
era certainly cannot be long delayed.
City Retrenchment
Since Birmingham’s municipal ex
penditures far outrun the city’s reve
nue the commission has acted in a
business-like way in cutting salaries
and dispensing with the services of
such officials and employes as were
not absolutely necessary.
Official salaries here have not been
excessive, and general regret will be
felt that the cutting down process
had to be resorted to. The savings
effected will be only at the rate of
aboift $83,000 a year, but in view of
the city’s present embarrassed condi
tion even this saving will count.
Any government to be thoroughly
efficient must have officials whose
services are worth as much as those
found in other fields of high class em
ployment, but the time must come
when the city will get relief through
legislation. The city tax rate is now
comparatively low, and that is what
has brought on the trouble. The com
missioners will ask for an increase
that will provide ample revenue.
When the commission finds Bir
mingham’s finances in good shape, or
relief even in sight, the police force
should be, and doubtless will be, in
creased to the numerical strength of
two years ago. In the meantime, those
*on the city pay roll will accept the
retrenchment action of the commis
sion in good spirit.
A Railroad's Presumption
The Pennsylvania railroad wants
women to give up high heels and
hobble skirts, or, in fact, any sort of
tight skirt, no matter what fashion
may choose to call it. When a large
and healthy corporation like the
Pennsylvania has a wish, that wish
is usually granted. However, in this
case we see breakers ahead, at the
same time mixing our metaphor.
No matter how politely and courte
ously a railway system or a trolley
car system lets its feminine patrons
understand that styles of clothes less
tlangerous to their welfare while
traveling are greatly desired, women
go on risking their necks with a calm
superiority worthy of a better cause
It was but recently in Milwaukee,
if memory serves us right, that the
street car officials tried to put the
ban on high heels and hobble skirts,
prompted partly, no doubt, by an al
truistic motive and partly by a desire
to lessen the probable number of dam
age suits. What was the result? The
wishes of the trolley company officials
were calmly ignored. Classically, the
situation remained in statu quo.
Now, a railroad has been known to
speak softly to a politician and per
suade him to sell his very soul, but
even a railroad is wasting time when
it seeks to modify women’s apparel.
George Washington as Surveyer
The government is buying land for
the new Appalachian forest reserve,
and in retracing the old lines of sur
vey made by George Washington finds
the work done by the “father of his
country” perfect.
In 1761, when Washington was only
a youth of 19, he ran lines with chain
and compass in Virginia for Lord Fair
fax. His surveying instruments were
primitive, of course, but so intelligent
and thorough was his mathematical
feat that the technically educated sur
veyors of today using high power
transits have been unable to find any
variation. Washington’s lines are
plainly distinguished.
Patriotic Americans have so long
been in the habit of hero worship in
contemplating the genius of Wash
ington and the purity of his charac
ter that they attribute to him almost
supernatural gifts. That his early
achievements included important sur
vey work every school boy knows, for
all the school histories refer Jo him
as an engineer; but some writers in
recent years have been disposed to
regard Washington’s skill in youth as
exaggerated. The government’s report
on the accuracy of his surveys is,
therefore, at once interesting and
gratifying. *
Of course government experts who
checked up George Washington s sur
veying done in the Virginia hills in 1761
found the work perfect. Think how
humiliating it would lie to discover
that the father of his country didn't
know a straight line when he saw it!
The trial of Adusht Hanish, who may
spell his name in several different ways,
is chiefly significant because it discloses
the fact that the^tazdaznan cult of
sun worshippers in this country num
bers something like 14,000. • J
Nearly 25,000 Pennsylvania clergymen
who have been enjoying the privilege of
half rates when traveling on the Penn
sylvania and Reading systems are won
dering whether one of the laws enacted
by the last legislature will compel them
to pay full fare after January 1, says
the Philadelphia ledger. The railroads
themselves are in doubt and have re
ferred the question to their legal de
partments. The newr law, it seems, per
mits the railroads to issue reduced rates
to employes, but makes no mention of
permitting them to any pther class of
citizens. Railroad officials are said to
be desirous of extending the privilege of
half rates to the clergy, and will do
so unless the new law Interferes. Clergy
men assert that George W. Boyd, gen
eral passenger traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania railroad, has always been
their stanch friend in this respect. In
all probability the interpretation of the
new law will be made by the state pub
lic service commission after the first of
the year. *
Alabama coal lands have been enhanc
ing In value steadily, but the price per
acre at which sales have been made seems
‘dirt cheap' when compared with the
price obtained for coal property In Penn
sylvania. Mineral values in Alabama are
certain to reach much higher levels with
in the near future. The second largest
deal in Greene county, Pennsylvania, coal
lands was completed a few days ago,
when J. V. Thompson and 17 other Greene
county residents conveyed nearly GOOO
acres to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube*
company. The land is worth frotn $025
to $700 an acre, and it is understood the
purchase price was about $4,000,000, paya
ble in from three to ten years. The sale
means that an extension of the Pittsburg,
Virginia and Charleston railroad will be
made at Rice’s Landing. It will also con
nect with the Monongahela River rail
road at the mouth of Dunker creek, thus
giving an outlet to the coal mined in that
county.
A Jury in Justice Newburger's part of
the New York supreme court returned a
verdict for $29,000, with interest and costs,
against the banking and brokerage firm
of A. A. flousman & Co., of No. 29 Broad
*
street, in a suit brought by Mrs. A.
Small to recover the value of stocks sold
by the brokers in the panic of 1907. The
New York World says Supreme Court
Justice-elect Cardozo, who appeared for
Mrs. Small, contended that the defend
ants had not given his client sufficient
notice that her stocks were to be sold,
and that they were therefore liable for]
the loss she had sustained. Counsel for
Housman Co. said that Mrs* Small
had received all the notice necessary, !
and that her failure to provide sufficient I
margins was the cause of the sale.
Ernest W. Darrow advertised for a wife
last May and 400 women answered by let
ter, by telegraph, by telephone or went
in person to his home in Patehogue. In
his advertisement Darrow, who is a con
tracting mason, announced that he made
$50 a week, that he had four motherless
children and would give the proper wife
$40 a week for the support of the children
and herself and the household expenses.
He was married at 3 o’clock Thanksgiv
ing afternoon to Miss Julia Stagg, an
English girl, who landed in Canada from
England nine months ago and went to
live in Brooklyn.
Civil service reform has marie political
plums extremely scarce. In Cleveland’s
first administration nearly every other
democrat in the south got something. In
his second term civil service had been
greatly extended, and now President Wil
son finds himself with very little patron
age for the south, where democracy is
strongest. Still there are a few plums
left, and they may drop before the win
ter is over.
The pacification of Mexico may yet be
far off; but when that unhappy country
does get through with its troubles, if
there is anything left of It, it will start
on the road to prosperity again. Old
Gen. Porflrio Diaz was a dictator, but
as President he gave the people of Mex
ico a stable government, which was fol
lowed by a wonderful upbuilding.
Old-time Sabbath observers thought It
wrong to talk politics on Sunday, but in
these progressive times politicians and
those who take patriotic interest in elec
tions sometimes make Sunday a busy1 day
in politics.
The Mexican general who is reported
to have committed suicide when the
city of Victoria was captured by rebel
troops, probably preferred to save
Hureta the trouble £? having him ex
ecuted.
And Mayor Shank of Indianapolis ac
tually quits under fire! We are receiv
ing some hard jolts these days from
first one quarter and then another.
The “king of the loan sharks" has
been sentenced to serve six months 1 i
the penitentiary for usury. We tyope it
will seem like six years to him.
No matter how many suffragettes
Mock to Washington, it is a significant
fact that Uiey don’t help tl.. bar busi
ness.
Theodore Koosevelt never overlooks
the main chance. He has found time
to write a message to American boys.
In this period of retrenchment in Bir
mingham it is hoped the grade-crossing
problem will not be altogether forgot.
English, teachers score the “ragtime
writing" of today. Ah, well, the rag
time dancing is worse.
"Shop early for Christmas." This ad
vice has been given before, but repetition
will do no harm.'
TIME TO ACT
From the Houston Post.
The Birmingham Age-Herald says
Underwood’s majority over Hobson
should be sweeping. It should be more
than sweeping. Hobson should be
steam-rolled, snowed under and land
slidden. No commonwealth can afford
to triile with its prestige.
4§
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
New Orleans Exposition Project
"I* was In New Orleans the other day
and found the people full of the 3914 ex
position movement,*' said H. P. Cheno
weth.
"New Orleans had a great exposition,
one of the best ever held in the United
States—in 1884 or 1X85, and the one now
projected will. It Is believed, even surpass
it. The early opening of the Panama
canal will heighten the interest In a New
Orleans exposition and draw visitors
from all over the country, and especially
from all over the south. The ^Orescent
Pity, when Pt gets up anything big, does
it to perfection."
* -
Sol <’abeen** Enthusiasm
"Birmingham is unquestionably tin*
most progressive city in the south,’’
said Sol Paheen yesterday. "The facr
is that no city of approximately its
size can be compared with it, and the
best of it is that its growth will go
on without any break.
"This second avenue, where my place
of business is, has expanded greatly
within the past two or three years. It
is a wonderful thoroughfare. It is easy
to remember when the - mercantile
blocks were few in number, but now
the avenue stretches out far in the
eastward direction and is building up
steadily in a westward direction. Even
on rainy days this avenue is crow’ded
with pedestrians.
"Other business streets are being
built up fast and it will not be long
before Fifth avenue is a great mer
cantile thoroughfare. We will see
stores all the way from the Terminal
station to the Hotel Tutwiler, and on
the west side of Twentieth street out
to Smith’s park. But today Second ave
nue is good enough for me."
The Dayton Visitors
"The great Pythian event, which has
been well reported In The Age-Herald,
has even surpassed my highest expecta
tions," said H. M. Beck, past grand chan
cellor of Alabama, and a member of the
supreme lodge of the world.
"The Dayton team has covered Itself
with glory. Its work has been a revela
tion to all of us. We could imagine how
spectacular and beautiful the ceremonial
could be made, but the Dayton knights
have gone beyond anything I ever
dreamed of. This event will give a great
impetus to the Knights of Pythias lodges
throughout Alabama.
"An interesting feature of the cere
monial Friday night was the use of a
pocket Bible which Justus H. Hathbone,
who founded the order in 18G4, always car
ried in his pocket. It was used here in
obligating the candidates. Of course, this
Bible is much treasured. It was brought
here by the Dayton visitors, and we es
teem it a marked compliment."
Rurnl ( rod 14a
"Alabama should lead orf on her own
account and establish that state land
credit bank which W. P. G. Harding out
lined and really provided for in the reso
lutions adopted at the recent meeting of
the Alabama Band congress," said a
gentleman who is interested in the build
ing up of Alabama.
"The I^and congress could not perform
any service that would have more value
to Alabaida than in aiding to get Buch
a bank for the farmers of the state. If
it could be known to prospective set
tlers that money could be ha^ for faftn
development purposes In this state, as
cheap even as money for commercial pur
poses is obtained, there would be a won
derful impetus given to the development
of the agricultural resources of Alabama.
If It takes two years to bring this hank
into materialization, and it will possibly
require that much time to obtain it, the
state would be more than compensated
for all it may put up to sustain the land
congress.
"It is almost beyond comprehension
how the farmers can bear the many bur
dens that are placed on them and still
manage to have anything left to live on,
and when it is known that they do this,
it Is proof positive that there is money
in farming in Alabama, even according
to the old methods, and if operated along
modern methods it would most pay hand
somely."
Helenr<11 iik County School Work
“The practice of teaching the tenth and
eleventh grades in the county schools Is
J.o be stopped after this year,” said
Charles R. West of Maben, member of
the^rountv board of education who was
in Birmingham yesterday.
“We have found that there are but
one or two pupils in these two higher
grades in the entire county* school sys
tem and therefore the expense attached is
too high for the results received.
“It has been our practice in the county
schools to teach the eighth grade in
schools where there are thiee teachers
and the eighth and ninth grades in.
schools where there are four teachers or
more. t This practice will be kept up for
it affords many of the rural students
of the county the opportunity of securing
the studies they would receive in the
first two years at the high school in Bir
mingham and we find that many of tho
boys and girls take advantage of the
opportunity. We are now teaching these
grades in about 25 different county
schools.
"In some of the schools, however, where
four or more teachers are employed, they
have begun teaching the tenth, and in
one or two instances, the eleventh grades.
There are but very few pupils who take
the courses and as the expense is con
siderable the practice will, ■ therefore, be
dropped.
“As a matter of fact the county schools
should not go beyond the seventh grade,
I think, but in a county where there is
a city as large as Birmingham it seems
that the higher grades are necessary.”
Western Florida Prosperous
“The people of the whole western
coast of Florida struck me as wide
awake, active and prosperous,” said
B. F. Eldred of Birmingham, who had
just returned from a month’s outing
along the gulf.
“The orange yield will he heavy
and luscious this winter and the
grapefruit groves have supplied an ex
cellent demand. The fishermen along
Tampa hay were making phenomenal
catches a few days ago and mackerel
was beginning to be plentiful.
“The cities fronting Tampa bay ar-i
fine winter resorts and they are be
coming better patronised every year by
the northerners, who journey south to
this semi-tropical clime and escape
their long bleak winter. These resorts
were beginning to fill while I was
there. Luxurious hotels ate main
tained and they seem to be paying in - i
vestments, for new and better ones
are being built every year. Within th^ :
past 10 or 15 years a bustling city of I
I some 10,000 native inhabitants has!
| sprung up and I ant told that the pop
ulation of this great* winter resort, St.
[Petersburg, numbers now’ as many as
!30,000 when the winter season is at its
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM’S
AFFAIRS AS AFFECTED BY CUTTING EXPENSES
UHE city commission of Birmingham
Is going about things in the right
spirit, however hard it may be
upon the employes and Institutions of
Birmingham.
Under our tax rate and the present
property assessments the city of Bir
mingham has been running far behind
for years and the time had come when
something practical had to be done—even
rthen the charitable institutions of the
city had to be turned over for subsistence
to the voluntary contributions of a gen
erous people.
Now that the cut has been made ai*«
will be In effect for some time let the
commissioners and the broad-guaged cit
izens get together in instructive work to
bring about legislation providing for a
higher rate of taxation. Either this
must be done or assessments materially
raised. The objection to the latter is
that Birmingham would have to divide
up with the state and county the amount
its citizens paid on their property.
* * *
As Mr. Percy and others have pointed
out, an extra session of the legislature
would relieve Birmingham of its present
needs. It is absurd to that the bal
j ance of the state h: Bir
mingham. It hr
great industrial and p.
Alabama. A great mass of ti»v
this state would welcome an extra »x..
sion of the legislature to relieve its dire
distress, and to perform other legislative
acts, which would place the state In a
right and proper position before the
i ,r • ;
voting powders to punish any interest or
any politician. They would simply per
form the functions for w’hlch they wTere
called and adjourn. It would be well to
give them a chance and if the strong
men of Birmingham will get behind the
movement it can be accomplished.
* * *
I hope in the curtailment of the ex
penses of Birmingham that street im
provement work will not suffer. Nothing
has added so much to the cleanliness and
attractiveness of Birmingham in the past
few years as has the paving of its streets. *
These pavements are paid for by the
abutting property owners, and there is no
reason why the balance of the people
‘ngbam who own property should
same functions for the
'‘ty as have those
'*»sr In frontt
of theu • , ,mv .-s
The cut In the pot.
Birmingham is the most serio^
1
owners as well as pedestrians. The traf
fic squad has done its work splendidly,
but unfortunately this number of men
has been drawn from the force protecting
the residence sections and suburbs, where
robberies and brawls have been frequent.
The public would be eager to see the re- .
establishment of normal financial condi
tions In Birmingham and the upbuilding
of the police department by at least
doubling the present force. \
..nil
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE FIGliTING SPIRIT.
Because your heart is heavy,
Because your temples throb
And there’s no peace or quiet
In all the toiling mob;
Because the world Is shadowed
By phantoms of despair
Let not the hope forsake you
That helps brave men to dare!
A LESSON LOST.
"If you would look at yourself once in
a mirror, when you are intoxicated, you
would reform,” said the thin-lipped mor
alist.
“ ’S no ..use, brother,” answered the
bibulous person. "I’ve tried it and I can’t
tell whether I’m myself or somebody
else.”
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING.
"Bogg is a good fellow, but he lacks
something that’s found by the seashore."
"And what is that?”
"Sand.”
’TWILL BE A RELIEF.
There’s one sound, often heard, I shall not
miss
Whene'er this mortal coil I shuffle off;
And if, my friend, thou wouldst know
What, 'tis this:
The auto horn like an asthmatic cough.
FAVORED MORTAL.
“Dobbs seems to be on good terms with
his fellow man.”
“I should say so! He can borrow all
the money he wants at 4 per cent.”
TAINTED.
"Twobhle isv always looking for unex
purgated editions of old books.”
“Yes.” I
"I guess that's a sign that a man’s
a bibliophile.”
“Sometimes it’s a sign that he's a biblio
phile, but more often It Is merely an In
dication that he is averse to thinking
clean thoughts."
TOO SHARP FOR MOTHER.
"Mary, your hair is touseled. What has
| that Mr. Flipp been doing to you?"
"Nothing at all, mother. When he
opened the front door to go out a strong
[ gust of wind blew in and disarranged my
hair."
"IMMORAL#" CONDUCT.
"The mayor-elect of New York has in
curred criticism by shooting porpoise."
"A public man has to be careful of his
conduct. A former district attorney of
New York was severely criticised for
‘shooting craps.’ ”
TRANS PLAN TED.
Said Abner Wynne,
With doleful sigh,
"The foot rail in
This bar’s too high."
His favorite place
Had been sold out;
In such a case,
Grown sick with doubt
He looked around
For pastures new,
And though he found
The same old brew,
The "atmosphere"
Was not the same,
So he dropped a tear
And felt no shame.
Say what you will
Of any wight
Who quaffs his fill
Night after night,
Poor Aimer had
A heart, he did,
And so felt sad
New scenes amid.
ANCIENT STUFF.
A humorist roamed
The wlldwood free
And felt asleep
'Neath a chestnut tree.
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
A squirrel saw
Him sleeping but
It did not gnaw
The chesty nut.
—Youngstown Telegram.
The humorist stayed
There all the night ,
And perished from I
The chestnut blight.
—Springfield Union.
Worm-eaten through,
I.ike last year's beans,
He sold his stuff
# To magazines.
Nashville Banner,
''HIGHBROWS” CONVENE.
Before the National Council of the
Teachers of English, at Chicago, Percival
Chubb of St. Bolds bewailed the "uniform
vulgarity of our national culture,” In
cluding the "movies." According to the
press report: "Culture, ho said, was be
coming increasingly eye-minded and ho
urged the development of ear-mlndcdncss,
making the auditory sensitiveness and re
sponsiveness the touchstone of good
usage, so that in the place of the blight
of literary bookishness there might be
substituted a reliance on the auditory
sense and judgment, Instead of the pre
meditations of the pen.” \Rnh for Per
clvale Chubb! The “e” Is gratuitous.
When pedants meet 'tls high time for sen
sible folk to go in quest of the tall tim
ber. PAUH COOK.
height. Of course real estate Is boom
ing in that thriving resort.
“I returned by way of Jacksonville.
That city is, I believe, the most pro
gressive south of Birmingham* It has
some splendid parks; even the city wa
terworks, which Is near the business
center, is situated in the midst of a
beautiful park. Birmingham will have
to maintain its present high record rate
of development to hold its own in re
lation to Jacksonville.”
WHEN THE JUDGE WAS HACKED
F?om the Popular Magazine.
Judge Isaac Johnson of Media, Pa., was
holding court one day in a port town,
where the labor unions had organized a
big strike and walk-out. The mayor of
the city had issued an order that the
police should seize, throttle, grab, and
arrest all men who either loitered in the
streets or appeared intoxicated.
There was brought before the judge on
that bright and peaceful morning a gentle
man whose Irish accent was as thick as
the flaming locks that crowned his head.
He had been arrested as a troublesomb
striker.
“Well, my man,” said the judge kindtf,
“why did you want to make trouble?”
“Begorra!” responded the astonished
Irishman* “Oi wint for no throuble. You
think Oi’in a sthriker. Oi’m a sailor.”
“Don’t joke,” counseled Judge Johnson.
“Tell the truth. Where are you from?”
“Ireland,” replied the sailor.
“Oh, 1 don’t believe you ever saw a
ship,” the judge insisted. “You’re no
sailor.”
“How d’you think Oi cr-r-rossed the
ocean?” demanded the Irishman, now ill
a rage. “D’you think Oi came over in a
hack?”
WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Anti-Saloon League of America
has injected itself into Alabama poli
tics to the extent of indorsing the can
didacy of Mr. Hobson and by intimation
opposing the candidacy of Mr. Under
wood. There are many who think that
if the league’s recommendations were
followed there would be no liquor sold
in the union, and nothing else.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
Be sure you are wrong—then don’t do it.
The easiest way to catch a flirt is not
to try.
A man is known by his lawyer and a
woman is knowm by her doctor.
If you have to walk, distance doesn’t
lend enchantment to the view.
It’s always surprising how much deeper
a hole of debt is after one gets into it.
After a man has expressed his views he
may wish he had patronized a slow
freight.
There is nothing hypocritical about the
frank admiration some men have fori
themselves.
The girl who persists in doing more than i
her share of the courting is apt to break I
Ifito the spinster class.
While pacing himself in the hands of j
his friends, the candidate should place
his pocketbook there also if he expects to
come under the wire first.
SPENDING FAMILY INCOME
Belle Squire, in Woman's World for De
cember.
It will take but a few weeks of book
keeping attempts to prove that the wom
an’s task is no simple one. Many a
woman and many a man has tried to keep
track of expenditures and given it up In
despair, as not being worth the trouble.
“The money comes; the money goes;
that's all there is to it. Life is too short
for such a grind.” Such is the burden of
their complaints.
The money income should be looked
upon as bundle of funds, and each fund
in turn should be looked upon as a smaller
bundle of funds. The whole Idea in keep
ing accounts of expenditures should be to
put like expenses together and to deter
mine their relative importance with re
gard to size and importance. It resolves
itself into a matter of proportion, good
taste and common sense.
To make it practical and useful the
character or nature of each expenditure
must be analyzed. Perhaps this is the
reason so many fail. When this money
income must buy all the things of lire, It
is difficult, indeed, to classify them. Shel
ter, food, clothes, service, these are easily
classified, but what of the thousand and
one things that make up life outside of
these primary wants, the things that
make it agreeable? How shall the ex
penses of a family be classified, when
there are so many different needs,
many wants and individual tastes, such
varying ages?
Here, then, is whore the use of the new
tool comes in. A crisis confronts the
modern home. The woman, especially,
must meet the situation that she may be
a worthy descendant of the mothers of
the past who never flinched when duty
called.
Oim UNKNOWN TONGUE
From the T. juisvill^ Courier-Journal.
A book reviewer makes note of tlie
fact that there are 450,000 terms in the
latest edition of the Standard Diction
afy, against 304,000 SO years ago. The in
crease, it is stated, shows an advance
in the science of lexicography . as well
as the growth of the English vocabulary.*
English in its present development is
the most flexible of languages. Upon the
lips of a man who has a good working
knowledge of the vocabulary* It is an
unmatched instrument for thought con
veyance. Yet how me y of us know
enough of it to make, j jo?
In an elbow a equal n fa ceship with an
unabridged dictionary lies a continuous
and expanding opportunity for education.
Yet many persons, 'feven among those
whose vocation is to deal in one way or
another with words, look in the dictionary
only to settle a bet or an argument,
and in their daily work follow the method
of the girl who didn’t know whether to
spell it “paradise” or paradice,” so spelled
it “heaven,” and saved herself the trouble
of inquiry.
Not only every library, but also every
business office, should have an una
bridged distlonary at hand, and a smaller
one as well. The convenience of a small
volume is not to be underestimated, and
ordinarily the abridged dictionary serves
the purpose. When it does not the morel
unwleldly, but more complete, volume!
should he within easy reach. It is not
necessary to look in an unabridged dlc-J
tionary to learn how to spell words ordi
narily used, but the habit of consulting!
the highest authority results in constantly
increasing knowledge of the misuse ot
many of them. As that knowledge in
creases—and it is never complete—the vo-4.
cabulary gains precision and its possessor
becomes a more skilled workman. Skilled
labor is at once better paid and more
agreeable to the laborer than mere drudg
ery.
HE'S ALL RIGHT
From the Tuscumbia Alabamian-Dispatch.
Underwood is fill right. Prohibitionist*
of this state voted for him for the
presidency, and we believe the most of
the prohibitionists are going to vote
for him for senator.
LITTLE BOY WE USED TO KNOW
—Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Ladies'
Home Journal.
The little boy whom we used to know,
Who came to us when the day burned
lowr,
Who left his swing and his bat and ball,
Who left his playmates and games and all
To come and stand by our easy-chalr.
To stand before us with yellow* hair.
On sturdy legs—with his feet apart,
Before he snuggled against our heart.
Where is ho now with his romp and
squeal,
With his little hurts that a kiss would
heal?
We heard him say his “I lay me down,"
And we pressed our lips to his tousled
crown,
Then his father tiptoed across the gloom
And sat him down in the farther room,
While his mother stayed by his side to
croon
A soft bye-low to a world-old tune.
While he drifted out into Sliimherland;
Then we stood and gazed at him, hand In
hand,
And—looking backward to where lie lay—
It seems *twas then that he went away.
It seems that lie never came back at all
To the rubber cat and the bouncing ball,
To the old rope swing and the games he
knew,
A genie touched him—he grew and grow'!
From the room where our baby had sunk
to sleep
A youth came forth. And his voice is
deep.
And his eyes are honest, and he is strong!
And while still ecohes the bye-low song,
liis lips say “Mother!” and then laugh
“Dad!”
And we are frightened—but we are glad!
Sometimes we stand in the little room
By the little lied in the evening’s gloom;
And we miss the faltering ‘‘lay me down,’* <
And we'd give the world for the tousled
crown i
To kiss once more! Oh, Boy! grown tall,
\\ e are frightened for you at the thought
of all
The dangers that wait your unwary feet!
And grieving—for heartaches you’re bound
to meet!
But we are proud for the dear world’*
sake
Because of the man you are going to
make.
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