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u light heart llvea long.
—Love's I,nhor Dost.
BEGINNING THE DAY-O, Go.l.
| give me n pasalon tor the right! 1
would love It with nil my henrt.
Thou knovrest how doll It nppears at
! times to my foolish eyes, nnd with
what alow seal I follow It. Give
me n great thirst for the things of
the Spirit. I would purane them with
hnrrylng feet nnd with tenrs of de
sire. Amen.—II. M. E.
I He Called Her Sweetheart!
“Marse” Henry Watterson, who has
Kunto this date escaped, is in danger.
“General” Rosalie Jones challenged
him to debate the all important ques
tion of suffrage. He declined. And in
^declining he wrote a note.
His danger does not lie in the fact
that he advised the gentle dame to
stick her pantalettes in her boots. His
danger does not lie in the fact that he
referred to her nimble legs as naugh
ty legs.
But he called her sweetheart.
We who have no imagination can
appreciate the indignation under
which the strenuous Rosalie strug
gles. We who know the aforesaid
Rosalie know that she will retort.
Therein is the danger which threat
ens the gallant editor.
“Nay, nay, Rosalie,” Colonel
Watterson wrote, “stick your
pantalettes in your boots, little
girl, and instead of facing that
dread mob in front of the court
house door, let's hunt buttercups.
Tour brain, Rosalie, if I may say
u without offense, still runs to
your legs—naughty legs—and
brains were made to think with
and legs were made to walk with,
and walking and not debating has
been and may it ever be your long
suit, sweetheart.”
The Aerial Catastrophe
Within the last few weeks the world
lias been shocked by news of disas
trous collisions which have occurred
between sea going vessels, but for
spectacular tragedy the Austrian
aerial catastrophe of Saturdny in
■which nine persons perished was the
most startling witnessed in the annals
ef aviation.
The stage had been set for mimic
(warfare. Troops were being mar
shaled on the grounds over which the
huge dirigible sailed, and observa
tions were being made as to their
movements, A biplane arose from the
BV’Iation grounds nearby and flew
swiftly toward the rival vessel, which
had then reached an estimated altitude
of 1300 feet. Both crafts were manned
by Austrian military officers and
men, who had been instructed to con
duct themselves as though engaged
Jn actual warfare.
As the crowds which had as
sembled on this fateful occasion
watched with bated breath, the
Aeroplane attempted to reach a
position directly over Its enemy; and
when the vessels came Into accidental
contact the terrific mid-air explosion
snd horrible holocaust which followed
^yere such as to at once impress those
ptesent and the world at large with
•‘the horrors that will likely attend
••rial warfare" of the future.
Yesterday’s Crop Report
The government Issued a bulletin
yesterday slating that crop conditions
throughout the United States had
greatly improved, The official report
on June 1 showed that on that date
conditions were about 2.2 per cent
above the ten-year average,
On June 1 of last year all crops
ihowed an average of 1.2 per cent
below the ten-year average, and pros
pects declined as the season advanced,
(Yet, notwithstanding that fact, there
avas a great harvest and the money
Value of several of the crops reached
hew high records. From present pros
pects, the total money value of the
1914 crops will be a distinct record
breaker,
In the south, crop conditions are
highly satisfactory in most of the
and as for Alabama! this will
be the greatest crop year in its his
j tory. Not only will there be a bumpei
: cotton crop, but corn is in splendic
condition and will probably yielc
10.000. 000 bushels more than Iasi
year’s crop. A few years ago Ala
bama produced only about 35,000,000
bushels of corn. This year it is esti
mated that the crop will yield between
70.000. 000 and 80,000,000 bushels.
The hay crop in Alabama is im
mense, and there is a fine oat crop.
Many farmers have produced from 80
to 100 bushels of oats to the acre.
The money value of Alabama’s
crops in 1913 was $200,000,000. This
year it will not be surprising if the
total money value is $250,000,000.
The unusually good crop conditions in
the country as a whole easily account
for the improvement in business.
Record breaking crops and depression
cannot go together. There is no such
thing as overproduction in cereals or
cotton. Every bushel of wheat, every
bushel of corn and every bale of cotton
will be needed to supply the demand.
As a Home City
Visitors who take a little time for
sightseeing are impressed with Bir
mingham’s beautiful avenues and
beautiful homes. As a commercial
and manufacturing center this city
has long had wide reputation. There
has been a steady expansion of this
district’s industrial operations, and it
requires no prophet to picture the in
creasing magnitude of finished prod
uct mills here.
But Birmingham’s exceptional at
tractions as a home city have not been
sufficiently stressed. Visitors after
driving through the residence sections
and along mountain ridges grow en
thusiastic, as well they may. Those
who had thought of Birmingham only
from a business point of view are
wonder struck with the enchanting
andscape effects.
And a fact that is even less under
stood by visitors is our pleasant sum
ner temperature. Frequently during
:he summer season the mercury in the
thermometer rises to the nineties, but
;ven then cool breezes make summer
lays pleasant and summer nights
ileasanter still. Birmingham’ has alti
tudes that remind one of North Caro
ina scenery and pleasure resort con
iitions. Some of the rare attractions
>f Birmingham as a home city have
seen presented in pictorial form by
he Chamber of Commerce and the
-ailroads, but they are worthy of
nuch grater publicity than they have
jet received.
Now that Birmingham has splendid
lotel accommodations there will be a
rush of tourist business here during
the fall, winter and early spring.
But wliat is needed just now is a
larger exploitation of Birmingham
as an ideal summer home city.
A Preacher Who Was Too Popular
The engaging young minister who is
t great favorite with the feminine
iart of his congregation is frequently
:o be met with in the various pulpits
>f the country and he deserves great
■Tcdit for being able, in a majority
if cases, to withstand the blandish
ments of silly women until he is either
safely married, or reaches the age
when common sense aids him to steer
clear of the “whirlpools and rapids” of
his career.
The Rev. W. T. Elsey, a “hand
some young bachelor,” and pastor of a
fashionable church in Grafton, W.
Va., is doubtless now bemoaning the
fact that ho was blessed or cursed
according to one’s point of view—
with the power to fascinate the female
of the species. As a result of the
young preacher’s extreme popularity
among Grafton's “eligible young
women,” he had the humiliating ex
perience of being pelted with egge
considerably past the age of maturity,
the foul deed having been perpetrated
by several of the city’s swains whe
felt aggrieved at being “cut oxit” b>
the parson.
When a “spiritual adviser" make;
lovo, the length of his ears, the stooj
In his shoulders, the cast In his eye
and practically no other physical de
fect seems to militate against him
He is almost a sure winner. Most
young preuchers who desire to marrj
seem to realize this fact and are verj
conservative In their attentions tc
marriageable women, in order thai
those members of their congregation!
who ure disappointed may bo “le1
down” as lightly rs possible. The Wesl
Virginia parson seems to have forgot
ten or ignored this precaution. The
discomfited cavaliers of Grafton de
cided that the “hero worship” hat
gone far enough. The kind of eggi
they chose for drenching the preachei
showed how bad they felt.
Happy the man, whatever his call
ing, w! o eseapes being made t
“lion,” He Is not going to lose wha
few friends he has and his head li
apt to retain its normal size.
Hamel, tliu uviator who was lost no
long ago, was greatly admired by the fal
sex and had no difficulty In persuadlm
young women to fly with him.
Detective Ilurne was dropped from til
International Association of Chiefs of I’o
lice with wliat was equivalent to a "du!
and sickening thud,"
The longest day of tho year la now be
l^nd ps. The ,inwill begin to grot
silftrteg until just b«V*e Christmas.
Some weird fashions have made theii
appearance In London. The cigarette
habit among English women Is held re
sponsible for some bizarre smoking suits.
One style resembles a pierrot suit of black
charm euse covered with a startling de
sign of emerald green leaves, with flashes
of yellow and white. The trousers are
loose and baggy, the collar Is cut rather
low and Is made of black satin with a
green ruffle. Another suit looks like a
Chinese vase, having a background of
blue covered with a hawthorn design.
Some futurist handkerchiefs have a wide
border of some striking color with a
flower of unusual shade in the center. On
other handkerchiefs are embroidered
chickens, beetles, peacocks, storks, ele
phants and similar designs in natural col
ors. Handkerchiefs decorated with a car
rot, a head of asparagus, a strawberry
or some other product of the garden are
finding favor with vegetarians who ere
thus enabled to flaunt their idiosyncrasy
In tho face of every passer-by.
According to custom, King George cele
brated bis birthday by creating many
barons and baronets. But the House
of Lords having been shorn of most "tit"its
political prerogatives, the creation of
peers Is of little moment.
According to the department of agricul
ture, astrology Is a superstition. Further
more, It hafl no bearing whatever on the
kind of stars a man sees when his head
comes Into violent contact with an Im
movable object.
An applicant for a teacher's license in
Georgia said that nobody but God and
Bill Bryan knows Mexico’s form of gov
ernment. Somewhat Irreverent, but close
to the truth.
Thieves stole handcuffs and revolvers
from the exhibit of the convention of po
lice chiefs at Grand Rapids, a "demon
stration" that was not on the programme.
The country Is now face to face with a
$4,000,000 thermos combine, which leaves
the ultimate consumer In doubt as to
whether he should get cold or hot.
According to tho stories told of Lori
mer, ho climbed to the top by hard work.
He tobogganed to the bottom.
Condolences to Premier Asquith. He
held out as long as he could. When a
woman wills, she will.
Progressives should not find fault with
tho conversational powers of Mr. Perkins’
money.
CHAIRMAN GRAVES* SPEECH
From the Mobile Register.
A new voice was heard in Alabama last
week; and nothing can be said against it.
It was the voice that spoke of progress,
of construction, of the abandonment of a
dead and hampering past, and of the
adoption of what is not only modern but
necessary.
"Begins with the courts," said Chairman
Bibb Graves In his address to the new
state executive committee, "for there are
too many’’ courts, too many Judges, too
many solicitors." Do not lessen the work
done but simplify It and make it less slow
and less costly. Get rid of the immigra
tion commission and the cotton statis
tician—what good do they do? Put public
utilities under tho control of the state
ntilroad commission; but, said General
Graves, "not by adding to the number of
that body.” In a word: Let there be ef
ficiency!
WILL HISTORY REPEAT?
From the Mobile Item.
Tho prohibition wire-pullers and the
same influences which controlled the Co
mer legislature of 1907 are not satisfied
with the voice of the people expressed
at tho polls. It matters nothing to them
that in tho primary election of a little
over one month ago their candidate was
beaten by 14,350 votes. They want the
direct Instruction of the people to be dis
regarded by tho legislature. Their plan
is to again precipitate upon the state
such a contest as that which occupied
the greater part of the regular and spe
cial sessions of the Comer legislature.
Thoir thought Is not for the immediate
necessities of the state. They are de
termined to force their will upon the ma
jority of the people at all hazards, by the
same methods that were employed in
1907.
HOUSE SHOULD ADJOURN
From the Montgomery Times.
House Leader Underwood Is Insisting
on early adjournment, and Is discussing
the matter with the President daily. The
democrats ought to adjourn the Congress
and give the business people nn oppor
tunity of taking a breath before election,
or the result may not be favorable to
the party this fall.
LUKE M’LUKK SAYS
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A fool man usually waits until tho
other fellow gets through before he
starts to talk. But when two women
got to gabbing both talk ut tho same
time, and each tries to keep a few
sentences ahead of tho other.
Things have Just about como to a
stage in this country where if son la
asked to do an errand or daughter is
asked to wash the dJshes they can
have their parents arrested for cruel
and inhuman treatment.
Why is It that n girl can look sc
dainty when she is dressed in white anc
a man always looks like he was ped
dling something when he tried to wcai
it?
A good husband isn’t always the mar
who is afraid of Ills wife. He Isn’t the
man who can afford to glvo his wlft
all her heart desires that money wll
buy, IIo isn’t the man who makes t
big fuss over his wife in public. A gooc
husband Is a man who feels lllto a doj.
after lie has quarreled with his wlft
and who feels like a low-downi smikt
every time he lies to her and she be
ltevcs him,
A man will marry a girl for lie;
sunny disposition and then got mar
because she makes It hot for him.
The styles used to turn the women’i
, heads. But nowaduya they turn tin
men’s heads.
The Buffs have cut the "obey” out o;
the marriage contract. It won't bt
long until the brides will enter tin
* bonds of Hywomen Instead of Hymen
• You can’t get anything In this w'orlc
„ without suffering for It. To be populai
1 you have to laugh at the JokeB othei
people tell,
One reason why platonic love Is ul
3 ways a bloomer la because when a mai
„ and a woman get together the womar
says tilings she doesn’t mean and tin
1 man means things he doesn’t say.
The only time a girl ever gets tlror
when she goes to a ball Is when no
. body asks her to dance and she hai
to sit down.
It Is hard to get the first kiss, bu
the rest come without asking.
! IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Hotel W an Weeded
“The Tutwller Is one of the handsomest
hotels I have ever seen, and It will prove
to be a fine advertisement for Birming
ham.” said Roy C. Megargel of New York,
president of the Gulf, Florida and Ala
bama railway, which is operating about
160 miles from Pensacola northward, and
is extending 00 miles further to tap the
Southern railway.
“I had not been in Birmingham for six i
years, and, of course. I am struck with
the great progress that has been made in
that time. This city had been needing
for sometime a modern, fireproof hotel.
The Tutwller certainly fills the bill.”
Virginia nn<l Prohibition
“The situation in Virginia as regards
the liquor traffic is much like that of
Alabama,” said B. B. Burton, who re
cently visited Richmond, where he was
born, and Norfolk where he was engaged
in business for several years.
“Virginia is mostly dry. Liquor is sold
legally In Richmond, Norfolk and a few
other cities, but in nearly all the coun
ties, the sale Is prohibited under the state
local option law. The anti-saloon league
not satisfied with local option, is now
making a fight for state-wide prohibition.
The election will occur in September, and
the campaign is now quite exciting. The
business men of Richmond and Norfolk
are working hard to keep the state in
the local option column, and I believe
that when the vote is counted the anti
saloon league will ho defeated.
“The people of Virginia are conserva
tive, and many of thoso who vote dry in
the rural precincts are opposed to state
wide prohibition. They are asking, 'If
state-wide prohibition was a good thing
■why did Alabama, which had tried It.
return to local option?’ ”
A Visit After Six Years
“I am enjoying my visit here very
much,” said George Jackson, who for sev
eral years was prominent In business and
musical clroles here, but who has been
for sometime past a professor of German.
'T have been living recently in North Da
kota, but when I leave Birmingham I ex
pect to go to Chicago, and will live there
during the coming scholastic year.
“Birmingham has grown so much and
has Improved so much in every way that
I scarcely recognized it when I came on
this visit. I find that everybody is talking
about the Tutwller, and the people are
certainly justified in their enthusiasm. It
is one of the most superb hotels in thle
country.
“I am glad to hear that Birmingham is
making progress musically. When I lived
here I belonged to Mr. Guckenberger's fes
tival chorus, and greatly enjoyed the
large musical entertainments given under
Ills auspices. There was a good deal of
appreciation of high class music here 35
years ago, but I am told that concert aud
iences are much more discriminating now
than then. That, of course, was to lie ex
pected, for Birmingham has had phenom
enal growth in population, to Bay nothing
of Increased opportunities for hearing fine
music.”
Great Corn Crop
“In an automobile trip to Springville
and other points of interest In this part
of the state Sunday I was delighted to
see the crops looking so fine,” said
John H. McQueen.
“Never in my life have I seen such a
great corn crop. It Is not only well grown
and In strong condition, but It is entirely
freed from weeds. I am told that the
crops throughout the state are <n excel
lent condition. It certainly makes one en
thusiastic to rJde through the country
and see signs of prosperity on every
liana.”
Doctor Riley’s Rook
“The Rev. Dr. Riley’s new book,
'Makers and Romance of Alabama His
tory,’ Is receiving most flattering notices
in the state press," said a professional
man.
“Dr. Riley is the author of a number of
popular historic works, and he recently
published one of his best. It is made up
of revised sketches which appeared origi
nally in The Age-Herald. The Montgom
! ery Advertiser In an extended editorial
article concludes as follows:
" This hook is a notable work, prepared
by a thoroughly competent historian who
Is more than a mere chronicler of facts.
It Is good for long sittings, or short sit
tings, for each tale is short yet fairly
complete within itself. It is not like a
"straight history” of one thing, which re
quires to bo read through or not at all.
It may be read in whole or In part, but
the chances are it will be generally read
In whole.’ ”
Marked llunlnena Improvement
“There has been marked Improvement
In general trade since Juno 1, and It has
been particularly marked within the past
week or 30 days,” said W. W. Driscoll of
Chioago.
"There is more activity in the business
world now than at any other time this
year, and the feeling in commercial cir
cles is that prosperity will be the rule in
most sections of the country during the
summer and fall. I believe that if Con
gress would adjourn we would have even’
more prosperity, but as it is conditions
ure very cheering.”
Will Seenre Many Conventions
"Birmingham will have quite a number
of conventions of good size this year
and a greater number next year," said a
member of the Chamber of Commerce.
“Most cities have to fight hard for con
ventions, and Birmingham will have to
do some active work along this line, but
when a national organization that has
held several annual meetings In the south
is ready to come south again, It will, with
little persuasion, decide In favor of Bir
mingham, for the sake of novelty, If for
no other reason."
ELIOT UNVEILED
From the Philadelphia Record.
Now we have the real Charles W.
Eliot without his mortarboard cap and
with his doctor’s gown stripped from
him. We see him—scholastically speak
ing—in his nakedness. We see him in
, his so-called library. The shades are
raised and the gas Is lighted, and we
can see the president emeritus of Har
vard playing poker or solitaire, or pur
suing some other unllterary occupa
tion. Ho Is not reading, because there
are no books In his library.
The other day the Boston Transcript
threw a few bouquets to him on the
subject of his command of the English
language, and especially his gift for In
scriptions, wherein another former
president of a university has Improved
, on him. Promptly It received a letter
asking: “Were you ever In Eliot's
house? If so, you know there are no
books there, and never have been.
President Eliot may have read hooks
when lie was young, but that was long
ago.’’
Ko this is the “first citizen of Mas
, sachusetts,” as he was recently voted,
Is It? This man whose house contains
, no books and never did is the man who
told the world a few years ago not
only that a five-foot shelf of books
was enough, but what books should fill
that shelf. Only a few days ago he
was telling the world what poems to
teach to the children, and none of them
were by James Whitcomb Riley or Eu
gene Field, wherefore Indianapolis and
Chicago will have no more of him.
The idea of this man talking to us
about books! His house doesn’t con
tain them and never did. There are
no “best sellers’’ in his meagre cata
log. The few books he knows are
those that were published a century or
two ago at the latest, and some of
them are as old as the mummies. The
books descriptive of the capture of the
female by the male, or the pursuit of
the male by the female of the species,
are entirely unknown to him. The
books ho read when he was young, ,
which was a long time ago, were not
of that sort. The books men and
women are turning out at an incon
ceivable rate, which are designed to
come Just inside the ehtlcal measure
ments of the postal service, he Is dis
gracefully Ignorant of. These socio
logical novels, in which the daughter
of Old Moneybags and the professional
philanthropist she is gradually falling
In love with plan to rebuild the old
man’s fftetory and place all his em
ployees on a sort of henryford pay
roll, ho is densely ignorant of because
they weren’t written when he was
young, which was notoriously a long
time ago.
And down in Massachusetts they put
this sort of an illiterate at the head
of a university and keep him there,
and burn incense to him as the chiefest
of the highbrows! Well, the Yankees
can impose on us no longer. We've
looked into his house. There are no
books there, and there never were any.
THE DOLLAR MARK
From the New' York Independent.
Of all the theories advanced in ex
planation of the origin of the dollar
mark no one is entirely satisfactory
and convincing. A Spanish source has
often been suggested, but the fact
that the sign is not tised in Spain
Is at least a negative indication that
another origin should be sought.
The following theory is not pre
sented as complete, but it has some as
pects of probability which make
seem worthy of consideration. The
sign $ was used in Fortugal as early
as 1644; how much earlier I cannot at
present say. It was called clfrao
(cifra means a cipher, and clfrao is
merely an augmentative). The Portu
gese, however, did not use it originally
ir exclusively to represent a monetary
unit, as appears from the definitions
of clfrao given in the Portugese dic
tionaries of Vieira, Mores Silva, and In
the Diccionarlo Contemporaneo, all of
which say in substance that the clfrao
serves to separate the thousands from
the hundreds, as, for example, 3001506.
and that it serves also as an abbrevia
tion for three ciphers, so that 745$ is
the same as 74."$000.
The Dlcclonarl Contemporaneo adds
that it is also used to represent a
monetary unit, as the patacas In Ma
3&u and Timor, the dollars in America,
ate. It may be added that Macau and
part of Timor are Portuguese posses
sions, and that the pataca is nearly
squivalent to our dollar In value. The
sign was also used to represent thou
sands of men as well as of coins; thus
the Portugese historian Lemoa writes
of 4$ eavalloy, e 60$ infantes—4000 cavalry
and 60,000 infantry.
A THOUSAND YEARS OF FARMING
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
British peers boast of being the eighth
or twelfth of their line. But out Jri Lan
caster county, Pennsylvania, there are
men whose ancestors for 30 generations
have been farmers.
King George’s folks have only been in
the kinging business about 200 years.
That trade of peering so popular abroad
Is now compared with the lineage of hus
bandry of which some of the Mennonites
m:ght boast.
A thousand years of farming! No won
der I/ancaster is the garden of a hemis
phere. “Go where there is limestone,"
was the motto of the early German im
migrants. and it was noted even a cen
tury ego by an ancestor of the Coxe fam
ily wherever there was limestone soil in
Pennsylvania could be heard the German
language.
It was of young men of that stock about
whom the celebrated Colonel Morgan of
Virginia said after the revolution:
'My Virginian riflemen were fine sol
diers, but I also liked the Pennsylvania
Dutch because they starved so well."
HENDERSON “SHOULD WORRY”
From the Fort Payne Journal.
One of Mr. Henderson's newspaper sup
porters says he will veto a state-wide pro
hibition bill if one is passed by the legis
lature. If that paper speaks with author
ity that is the first time an answer lias
been given to the question what will Mr.
Henderson do with a state-wide prohibi
tion bill? He was asked the question num
bers of times during the campaign, but
failed to answer.
From the Selma Journal.
The Mobile Ttem says that Governor
elect Charles Henderson will veto a state
wide prohibition bill if one Is passed and
presented to him. That would be encour
aging to "the bane of our civilization,"
and if a bill is passed by the legislature
assembled, the Journal has no idea that
Mr. Henderson would veto it. Like Dr.
Crumpton, we look on Henderson as a
mighty poor friend of the liquor traffic?.
He always votes ngalnst It and never
drinks it; has no sympathy for it and we
do not believe that he will depend on its
future to take care of his political char
acter.
FRAUD IN ALABAMA
From the Sheffield Standard.
All this talk about changing the law
so as to prevent fraud In primary elec
tions will come to naught unless we can
arouse public sentiment to the point
where it will be dangerous for any man
to attempt to debuucn the electorate.
What we really need Is a law that would
perpetually disfranchise any man who
either buys or sells a vote.
From the Ashland Progress.
The reports of fraud in the recent pri
maries which aro being boldly published
in the newspapers present a serious situ
ation. If such reports are true they
should not be winked at or passed light
ly by with the usual remark that some
body is “sore." There’s no excuse for
such things now, and if fraud is tol
erated even In a small way it Is likely
to grow Into huge proportions in future
elections. •
8ELMIAN* ADVISED
From the Anniston Star.
Selmians are felicitating over the fact
that the Southern Bell is to build a new
home there and help in the upbuilding
of the city. They had bettor not get
too happy, however, lest they be made
to pay for the building.
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A DAZZLING CREATURE.
Down by the shore
Fair Elinore
Is voted beauty’s queen;
Filled with dismay,
The gossips say
Her like was never seen.
Her bathing suit?
All tongues are mute—
The crow’d can but admire,
While hundreds gape
At Elbe’s shape,
Seen through her scant attire.
MISLEADING THE PUBLIC.
"I’ve taught my dog a number of smart
tricks.”
"For instance?"
“When I go into a saloon for a drink
I make him walk down the street and
wait for me In front of a soda water
store."
GONE’ BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
“Whither away, Dobson?"
”1 m going to attend the obsequies over
$10,000 of my hard-earned money."
"1 don’t understand.'*
The stockholders of a defunct corpora
tion are to hold a meeting."
NOT WHY HE LEFT,
r called Dibble up over the telephone
this morning and told him exactly what
I thought of him.”
"What did Dibble say?”
"lie said If I would stay right where I
was for about 10 minutes he would come
and fix me.”
“Did you do it?”
Certainly not. I would have looked
like a fool standing at the telephone with
nobody at the other end of the line.
PREFERS PEACH.
I know’ a man whom good food cheers
And puts a glad look in his eye,
But 1 c could live for ninety years
Without a .piece of rhubarb pie.
A MERE SURMISE.
"Do you see that small man who wear* ■
thick spectacles?”
“Ye*.0
“He knows more about volcanoes than
anybody else in the world.”
“Ahem! Is that why he shows such
marked deference to his wife?”
IDEAL ARRANGEMENT.
There’s lots of room
To kiss, they say,.
Beneath a nose
That’s retrousse.
THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
“There s a married brute for you! Hi*
wife stopped and gazed with longing eyes
at the posters in front of a moving pic
ture show, but he didn’t offer to take her
Inside.”
“Don’t be too hard on him. I happen to *
<now that his wife keeps the family purse.
3hc probably wanted to see that picture,
but was too stingy to squander a dime.”
MISUNDERSTOOD.
“What made the chambermaid quit?”
"A facetious * lodger called her 'fair
Hebe.’ ”
“Well?”
“She burst into tears and vowed she was
i good girl.
“SOLID COMFORT.”
“What makes life a pleasure?” asks an
advertiser. There is a difference of opin
ion. Some people say “wine, women and
aong;” some say private yachts; some say
automobiles and some say costly raiment,
but any honest toller will tell you that
It is taking his shoes off in the cool of
a summer evening and propping his feet
UP on the window sill while little Maggie M
goes to the corner saloon for a bucket
Df suds. p. c.
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GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY J
TRIAL OF ORSINI AND OTHERS
*' January 14, IN08, an attempt was
made in Paris upon the life of the
Emperor Napoleon III by Felix
Orsini, an Italian, and other conspirators,
leading among whom were Pierri, Rudlo
and Gomez. Three shells were exploded,
two persons were killed and many
wounded.
Pierri denied all knowledge of the con
spiracy until the day before the attempt
was made and said that he repented and
took no part in the act. Gomez, the
servant of Orsini. knew nothing of what
was to be done until the last moment.
Rudlo confessed everything and in
culpated the others. He confessed that
he had thrown one bomb himself.
Orsini acknowledged his participation
and declared that he had Intended to kill
the Emperor. His fixed Idea, from his
youth, he said, had been the deliverance
of Italy and vengeance upon the Aus
trians. When the French Landed at
Rome he wus convinced that no assistance
was to be looked for from the Emperor
Napoleon and he resolved that he must
bo killed.
At first Orsini had intended to make
the attempt alone, but Beelng the impossi
bility of approaching the Emperor, he had
taken others into the scheme. When he
was arrested he had resolved not to speak
of his confederates, but w-hen he found
that they had betrayed him he gave way
to a feeling of vengeance.
Allsop, the Englishman, who had aided
him in procuring the manufacture of the
bombs and under whose name and with
whose passport he had entered France,
did not know that the bombs were in
tended to be used to kill the Emperor, but
supposed that they w'ere to be used in
Italy.
At the trial Orsini was defended by M.
Jules Favre, who in his speech read a let
ter from the prisoner to the Emperor:
"The depositions which I have made
against myself," says Orslnla, 'are suffi
cient to send me to the scaffold, and I
shall submit to my fate without asking
pardon, both because I will not humiliate
myself before him who has destroyed the
reviving liberty of my unhappy country,
and because In the situation In which I
am now placed, death for me will be a re
lief."
* **« ii mi uonaumea only tne better part
of a day and all of the prisoners were
found guilty. Gomez, with extenuating
circmustances considered, was sentenced
to hard labor for ll^e. The others wert,
condemned to death.
The sentence of Rudio was subsequently
commuted. Orslni and Plerrl were exe*
cuted by the guillotine on March 13, th
former meeting his fate with much dig
nlty and firmness, while the latter be
trayed tokens of great* querulousness.
At the time of the attempt to assassi
nate the Emperor, Napoleon III and the
Empress were on their way to the thea
tre. The intended victims were unhurt,
but Orslni himself was wounded and was
at once arrested. Besides the letter the
assassin addressed to the Emperor re
questing that he take up the cause of
Italian liberty, he wrote another one to
the youth of Italy, stigmatizing political
assassination.
The importance of Orsini's attempt on
the life of Napoleon III lies in the fact
that It terrified him, and he came to be
lieve that unless he took up the Italian
cause other attempts would follow and
near the prison of La Roquette to be pres
n&ted. This fear contributed not a little
to the Emperor's subsequent Italian
policy.
As an illustration of the great interest
In this case, thousands of people would
assemble every morning before daylight
near the prison of La Roquette t obe pres
ent at the execution of Orslni, no definite
Jate having been fixed.
Just prior to his execution Orslni wrote
a. respectful letter to the procureur gen
eral, acknowledging the equitable and
honorable conduct of the court that tried
him. and of the Jury that found him
guilty, as well as to the perfect liberty
accorded to his counsel.
It is said the heads of both Orslni and
Plerrl were steeped in vltrol after death
that no prying Madame Taussad or insin
uating Claudet might photograph the fea
tures Gomez and Rudio were shipped
off to Senegal, from which they were
carried to the swamp of Cayenne, which,
although less speedy, are as remorseless
Instruments of destruction as the guillo
tine, which they congratulated themselves
r>n escaping.
TOMORROW— THE BOORN MURDER CASE
*.*....
ELECTRICITY FORCES PLANTS I
From the Boston Transcript.
Of tremendous Importance to mankind.
In view of the rapidly decreasing food
supply of the world, was the announce
ment of the result of experiments made
during the past year In increasing veg
etable growth electrically.
T. C. Martn, In presenting the report of
the committee on progress, announced
that vegetable growth has been Increased
75 per cent over normal by the use of elec
tricity at night. It Is by such experi
ments that the men of electrical science
are striving to solve ahead of time tvhat
will eventually be the greatest problem
the race must face—the shortage of the
food supply. Plots have been sowm with
radishes and lettuce seed. Portions of
the plots have been excited by high fre
quency currents. The vegetables In tne
plots so affected showed a 75 per cent in
crease In yield over the plots left to the
ordinary ministrations of the sun and
rain.
MRS. STEVEN SON'S GRAVE
Eos Angeles Dispatch In the New York
Herald.
Ill the fulfilment of her last wish, the
ashes of Mrs. Robert Eouls Stevenson will
repose beside the body of her husband on
the summit of Mt. Vaca, Samoa. This
was made public here today on the author
ity of Mrs. Isobel Strong, daughter of
Mrs. Stevenson. Before the door of the
tomb will be Inscribed the last stanza of
Stevenson's verse to hlB wife:
"Teacher, tender comrade: wife.
Fellow farer, true through Ilfs,
Heart whole and soul free
The august Father gave to me.”
To this tomb there will be no means of
aocees except a rough mountain path.
When the will of Mrs. Stevenson, who
died In Santa Barbara several months ago,
Is settled, her children, Mrs. Strong and
Lloyd Osbourne, will take her aBhea to
Samoa. The ashes are now In San Fran
cisco.
I1RIEF AND TO THE POINT
From the Chicago Journal.
The Port Jefferson (L. I.) Weekly hss
the following account of a tooal wedding:
"Jarvis Robinson and Miss Grace
Hodges, both of Port Jefferson Station,
were quietly married Wednesday. No
cards, some cake and nobody's business.”
BOY’S RARE MEMORY
Skowhegan. Mo., to the Philadelphia
Record.
Skowhegan hoaata of 6-vaar-old
Ralphard Peters, a native of Boston,
who, after hearing Grey's Elegy In a
Country Churchyard read to him once,
was able to repeat it. Little Ralphard
Is the most remarkable example of In
fantile development ever brought to
the attention of the many learned pro
fessors and specialists who have ex
amined him. He can read the most
difficult literature and pronounce any
word in the English language cor
rectly.
He could read when but two and a
half years old, and now he reads the
Bible to his grandparents and explains
the paragraphs. He Is only Just learn
ing his figures. His pronunciation be
came easy and he advanced so rapidly
that his grandparents became alarmed
and consulted a physician.
1 f he hears a song once he will im- *
mediately repeat the words and slug
the tune as if he had been trained for
several days.
AT EVENTIDE
By George Foxhall,
I have a little boy, and every night,
As I bend over him, where, flushed
with sleep,
He lies like slumbering Love In evening
light,
Resting In shadows that are never
deep—
I pray, with wistful, pain-encircled Joy,
That he may always be "my little boy.’’
I have a little girl, so winsome-sweet
She seems like some stray elf from fairy
land,
Except that fairy lips could never meet
To make such kisses, and no fairy hand
uld hold such dimples, or could reach
so far
Into worn hearts where hidden smile
beams are.
And as I bend above her, where she lies
All coiled up to teddy bear or doll
Or holding fast to some delayed ''sur*.
prise',
Or some strange animal called "Prettv
Poll," y
I know that, be she dross or purest pearl
Always my heart will call: "My little
girl."