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TEBE1*H4).\K
Bell (prlT.te eaehs.ge eonnectlne all
department* )• Mala 4DOO.
Masters, I nin to dlseoiirse wonders.
—Midsummer MghFs Dream.
BKCIVMNG THE DAY—o l.ortl.
preserve me from trying to do too
raueh today. Remind me that It Is
not him moeh, hut how well, how
sweetly, how eoutentedly. Hint
nvnlls. Remind me that there Is an
other life In which I slinll labor,
filve me to do my work quietly.
For Jesus' snke. Ameu.—R. M. E.
(Jraves Is Overwhelmed
On assuming the chairmanship of
the state democratic executive com- j
mittee sometime ago, Bibb Graves de
livered an address in which he pointed
out several unfortunate conditions in
Alabama which should be rectified.
Inasmuch as his remarks were no more
flambuoyant and sophomorical than
those usually made by newly elected
party leaders, inasmuch as he did not
more grievously offend by naming
evils without naming remedies than
the average man would have offended,
and inasmuch as he said nothing de
serving of adverse criticism, The Age
Herald joined in the general chorus of
approval.
Evidently, however, the speech of
the new chairman was remarkable. It
has been favorably digested by prac
tically every one of the erudite edi
tors of the rural weeklies—especially
by those who see nothing salutary to
be forthcoming in the nomination of
Charles Henderson. Columns in praise
of the chairman have been written.
Certain of the more enthusiastic have
complained that the chairman was not
named to a fat office by the adminis
tration at Washington, and others,
perhaps even more enthusiastic, have
practically demanded that at this hour
he be given the bread of patronage.
The following is from the Centre
ville Press:
“Gen. Bibb Graves has made a good
start as chairman of the democratic
executive committee. He has thrown
out some wise suggestions, and the
party will do well to follow his ad
vice. He Is a progressive democrat of
the Wilson variety. He and John D.
McNeel did more than any other agen
cies combined to get a majority of
the Alabama delegates for Wilson as
second choke, and the administration
should recognize Bibli with as good
sn appointment as that with which
MeNeel has been recognized."
To this lugubrious paragraph, the
esteemed Montgomery Times adds the
following:
"General Graves will do his full
duty wherever he may he placed, and
he has done splendid and valuable
service for the party. To him more
than to any other man in Alabama is
due the swinging of the Alabama del
egation in line for Woodrow Wilson at
Baltimore at the critical moment, and
that made his nomination possible. He
asked bread of the administration and
It gave him a stone.
“The very first opportunity that the
people of Alabama had after that
time General Graves was given a most
flattering indorsement by the people of
Alabama, and a democratic adminis
tration owes it to itself to do th« fair
thing by General Graves. He should
have a good and suitable appointment,
and there should be*no delay about it.
lie is deserving; he is competent; he
In worthy, and is capuble of tilling any
Office within the gift of tlie President."
All of which is distasteful, no
doubt, to General Graves. He did as
sist Mr. Wilson. He did ask for fed
eral appointment. He did fail of his
expectations. But he is altogether a
good fellow, and he would be the last
to charge Mr. Wilson with base in
gratitude, or to attempt, by virtue of
having given some general and some
specific advice, to renew his applica
tion for a federal berth.
There ace still men in Alabama who
are willing to do and say what they
think is right and proper without hope
of financial reward. We believe that
Graves is one of that number.
Honor to the Maiden Aunt
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the National American Woman Suf
frage association, has become the
jopenly-avowed champion of the maid
en aunt. “Maiden aunts are the great
est blessing in the world, next to
mothers,” says Dr. Shaw, who, by the
way, uses the prefix “Miss” before her
name. “They are the mothers of the
motherless. I don’t know one who isn’t
helping to bring up or educate rela
tives—nieces or nephews or young
cousins. And it has always been so
They have always done all the hare
work of the world and got no credit
for it. The maiden aunt usually be
gins by taking care of her father and
mother. The sons marry and go, and
so do the sisters, but the most de
voted daughter stays on at home. By
the time the old people are gone she
has got herself into the way of de
voting herself to others.”
There is a great deal of truth in
what Miss Shaw says. There is hard
ly anyone who hasn’t known or been
related to the kind of woman she de
scribes. And the maiden aunt not only
receives no credit for her self-denial,
but her spinsterhood is often made a
subject for unfeeling jest. Not much
of the fun poked at her is meant to
be unkind, yet the woman who re
mains single to devote herself to oth
ers belongs to the unobtrusively heroic
type who have done so much to keep
this old world from going to the
“demnition bow-wows.”
Miss Shaw’s point is well taken.
More honor to the maiden aunt! Let
her have a day, or two days, if she
likes! We are all more or less indebted
to her. She deserves our encomiums
and our lasting affection.
University Site
If Birmingham had nothing else to
offer the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, as an inducement for estab
lishing its proposed university here
but the site, the educational commis
sion would be slow to select any other
city that might be assured, no mat
ter how much money might be sub
scribed. The Birmingham college
campus on Owenton hill, embracing
nearly seventy acres, possesses rare
natural beauty. It is near the center
of Greater Birmingham, but with its
altitude it insures just such isolation
as is desirable for student life.
Noth another city in the whole south
could offer such a site as the one in
cluded in the Birmingham college as
set. It commands an enchanting view,
and when the grounds are improved
under the direction of a landscape
architect the Methodist seat of learn
ing, whether it be college or university,
will be one of the great show places
of Birmingham. The value of the site
from an esthetic point of view, there
fore, cannot be overestimated. Money
could not buy a site anything like it.
The citizens are responding gener
ously to the appeal for the university
fund. The commission i6 to make its
decision next week. It looks now as if
Birmingham would be the only city
whose offer would include a large sum
of money. But notwithstanding Bir
mingham’s chances for winning the
prize are singularly bright, the can
vassing committees will not relax their
efforts until the commission makes it3
announcement.
Pay Regardless of Sex
The National Educational associa
tion in session at St. Paul, adopted
resolutions yeserday in which in
creased salaries for teachers and equal
pay of teachers regardless of sex
were urged.
Women are admirably fitted for the
pedagogic profession. They have a
particular gift for teaching the small
er children, and when it comes to the
exercise of discipline they are not
lacking. Some of the most successful
principals of schools in the large
cities are women. It is right there
fore that they should be as well paid
as the men.
There has been marked progress in
pedagogy. In public and private
schools the standard of achievement
has been raised, and the female teach
er has distinguished herself as a rule
in her eagerness and her ability to
keep in the forefront.
Years ago when women were new in
the field of wage earning, it seemed to
be a matter of course that their pay
should be less than that of men; but
times have changed. Intelligent, well
trained, honest-minded women are in
constant demand for school work and
office work; and a member of the so
called weaker sex has no trouble in
holding her own with the male pro
fessor.
The action of the National Educa
tional association should meet with
general approval.
Steam heat was turned on in the dining
room of a New- York hotel a few days
»Ko. The old-fashioned man who boasts
about sleeping under a blanket In sum
mer will have to go 'way back and sit
down.
'I lie Washington new spapers are bl ag
ging about the "ideal summer weather"
o! the capita) with an enthusiasm which
is heightened by the tact that they seldom
have sueh art opportunity.
It Is presumed that the Kentucky lassie
who cut eight acres of oats in a day
was not interrupted by a judge on horse
back who wanted a drink of water.
Colonel Roosevelt will find that it is con
siderably harder to "break the solid
south" than It is to break an ordinary
precedent.
As long as the price of butter and eggs
Is not prohibitive, nobody In jiartleular
is going to worry about the high price of
radium.
A distinguished "contributing editor"
has resigned, but it is not believed ihat
lie is looking for another job of that
sort.
The Gaekwar of Baroda, Sayajl Rao
fit, succeeded to the throne In 1875 when
tie was 13 years old, but it was not until
five years later that he was empowered
by Great Britain to conduct affairs of
state. The population of Baroda about
this time was a little more than 2,000,000.
The state was retrograding rapidly,
finance and credit were in a bad condition
and the people were oppressed by heavy
taxation. Only tlie poor paid taxes. The
rich and powerful were practically ex
empt through the connivance of corrupt
officials There were no divisions of gov
ernment Into executive, legislative and ju
dicial departments. There was no code of
law In the state, government positions
were held by men of little or no educa
tion. the state’s business was transacted
in dilapidated buildings and less than 1
per rent of Baroda’s population could read
and write. During his XI years of rule
Sayajl Rao in has wrought a great
change for the better. He has giv«n Ba
rodaa modern government. The rich
have been taxed and the poor relieved of
their burdens, most of the land has been
surveyed, well built government offices
pre scattered throughout the state, irriga
tion canals, tanks and wells have been
provided for farms; waterworks have
been built, and 350 miles of railway con
stricted. Good roads, bridges and tele
phone lines make communication easy.
Many schools and colleges have been
built. The Gaekwar has also done good
work in reorganizing Hindu society and
purifying the Hindu religion.
A New Jersey gardener found a $10,000
necklace on a rosebush. Burbank has
never been able to grow anything like
that.
Admlra Dewey -finds some trouble in
using his legs, mbut is able to stand up
long enough to be snaps otted.
The suffragettes are piqued because
President Wilson declined to be heckled.
Some men are that way.
It is safe to assume that if Matteawan
ever has a "reunion," Hary Thaw won t
be there.
The recent election in Mexico was a
perfunctory affair. See results.
MISS HARRISON’S STORY
Centreville Press: Flora Milner Harri
son had a most interesting and well writ
ten article in The Age-Herald last week
on the proposed Industrial School for
Boys, to be built and maintained by the
state at Ragland. Such a school is needed
in the state and the article should arouse
new interest in this laudable undertak
ing.
Blocton Enterprise: An interesting ar
ticle written by Miss Flora Milner Har
rison appeared in The Age-Herald of June
28, in which a strong plea is made for a
school for boys which will be to them
what the school at Montevallo Is to the
girls of our state, a technical Institute,
where the boys can be taught all branches
of Industry. "A school to meet this de
mand," writes Miss Harrison, "has been
planned, indeed it has been chartered.
The fact that it is not yet in operation
is due to peculiar circumstances. In 1911
It was enacted by the legislature that
'there be and is hereby created and es
tablished at Ragland, the Alabama School
of Trades and Industry, for the education
of boys.' At the same time the state
made an appropriation for the school of
$50,000, with an additional $25,000 when the
trustees should have secured an equal
amount. For the past three years efforts
have been made to secure the use of the
$50,000 appropriation, but on account of
the condition of the state treasury, have
been fruitless." The article is an extend
ed one and shows the young lady is very
much in earnest in her efforts to arouse
sufficient interest to get a school for our
boys.
UNDERWOOD’S SAVING CLAUSE
From the Mobile Register.
Mr. Underwood made a need
ed point Tuesday when he in
sisted that the Touse resolution
seeking information of the Secretary
of the Treasury be made to read, "if
not incompatible with the public In
terest." He said that the House has no
more right to direct the executive de
partment than the executive depart
ment has to dirapt the House.
This is the rule of interdepartmental
courtesy that Is sometimes disregarded.
Mr. Pnderwood has done well to bring
it to the attention of the House.
MR. COMER AGAIN
From the Fort Payne Journal.
Mr. Corner contributed $5UOO to aid
in securing the Methodist university
for Birmingham.
This is the man who is charged with
having no broad patriotism or public
spirit but seeking only his own ad
vantage without regard to anything or
anybodys else.
OPPOSES EQUAL SUFFRAGE
From the Tuscaloosa Times-Uazette.
Editor Doty of the Andalusia Star
says he is opposed to anyone having
the righj to vote who sits on the floor
to put on hosiery. Editor Doty’s head is
level and he "sho" is a married man.
LUKE M’LUKE SAYS
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A woman's idea of a great tragedy is
for another woman to lose her voice.
When a girl has her own hair she is
so afraid that you won't notice it that
she fixes It so it will look as though
she had slept in it all night and parades
down the street without a hat.
For the love of Mikt • ry to act na
tural. Most people take themselves so
seriously that other people regard them
as Jokes.
There are dangerous microbes In
kisses. But a man never realizes the fact
until after he has been married about
six months.
People who are always praying ex
pert the Lord to be a whole lot more
liberal than they would he If they had
the power to answer the prayers of
others. •
You may have noticed that all lazy
people have busy tongues.
Boost a man and he will forget it In
10 minutes. Knock him and he will re
member it for 10 years.
A woman is a person w ho will raise
six small children for u man and do
her housework with a baby on one arm.
and hustle around for 18 hours a day!
and ktnrve herself ho flic kids ran have
a little more to cat. and be afruld to
go out because she hasn't anything to
wear, and treasure the dime her hus
band gives her as though it was a bil
lion dollars. And, when the • hildreu
are asleep, she will pick up a paper for
a moment and start to imllguate at the
prevalence of white iluvriy.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bright View of BiiMlnenai Situation
“If business 1s not as active as 1
has been in midsummer in some years
Past, it Is improving every day am
there Is promise of great prosperity be
tween now and autumn,” said L. V
Forman of Chicago.
“This year s winter wheat harvest it
so much of a record breaker that bus
iness in the west would be flourishing
no matter what might have happened
But in many states record breaking
corn crops are reported and in the
south 1 am told that crops generally
are good.
“I hear that Alabama will niakf
about 1.500.00U bales of cotton, and this
year’s crop will bring more money
than the highest record crop of 1911.
Most of the southern cities seem to be
flourishing. Birmingham certainly has
all the appearances of commercial
thrift and growing population.”
Harding Without a Hlval
“It looks hh if Mr. Warburg and the
Senate would not get together, and
that the federal reserve board would
have to get along without the serv
ices of the distinguished New York
financier.” said a clubman.
“Owing to Mr. Warburg's pre
eminence in the world of finance and
especially his training In international
banking he was selected by President
Wilson for membership on the fed
eral reserve board. He is widely known
by reputation and the newspapers have
all commented favorably upon his ap
pointment. Assuming that other mem
bers of the board are men of affairs,
with a broad knowledge of the theory
of banking, Mr. Harding, in the ab
sence of Mr. Warburg, will be without
a rival when it comes to preponderance.
He will be the one big banker on the
board.”
The Birmingham Spirit
“The greatest thing that has ever oc
curred in Birmingham took place just
awhile ago,” said J. E. Shelby yester
day afternoon. ’Members of the Birming
ham Rotary club in one of the most
Btirring meetings I have ever witnessed
in my life, subscribed over $12,000 to the
Methodist university project.
"Talk about civic pride and boosting,
there it was in the original package.
That shows the spirit in which Birming
ham has tackled this university propo
sition. People have realized the merit
uf the undertaking and everybody seems
to be putting his shoulder to the wheel
n helping Birmingham land the college.
"I can’t see how the college can be
located anywhere else now. With the
spirit Birmingham has shown in this
matter we could get the moon if that
Happened to be what we were after. The
university is ours. Just wait, it’s already
nearly all over but the shouting.”
Alabama Farm Landa
“The farm lands of Alabama present
iome wonderful opportunities to men who
ippreeiate the producing value of rich
soil, combined with a mild climate,’’
?aid James a Wiebens, formerly of Illi
nois, but now a resident of Birmingham.
“I have now been in this state for about
wo years; and as I am connected with
i seed concern here, my attention has
naturally been drawn to the soil and its
nroducts. Before conning here I was thor
mghly conversant with farm values and
nroducts presented by prairie lands of
lie middle west; and after making a
study of Alabama land I can say with
out hesitation that the black belt of this
state offers some of the greatest farmi
ng opportunities in the United States. In
’act, after a careful investigation of the
’arming situation in Alabama I became
mthuslastic and decided to Invest in a
’arm and become a tiller of the soil.
“That was last year. This year I have
ibout 100 acres of rich land under cul
tivation at West-over, on the Seaboard,
ibout 50 miles from Birmingham, and
there is every promise of an abundant
Harvest. I employed a good farmer, and
Instructed him as to the variety of crops
I wished to produce, and have kept in
touch with the situation while engaged
it my regular occupation in this city,
^rops are diversified on this farm with
excellent results. I have 40 acres in corn,
?o in cotton, and have recently harvested
about 30 acres of oats. The winter oat
crop netted about 40 bushels to the acre,
and this land is now in peas. I am leav
ing today for a short stay in West
over. and anticipate a pleasant and profit
able trip.”
The Logical Place
“Birmingham is the logical place for
the Methodist university, for while there
are a number of excellent educational
Institutions here. Howard being one of
the best colleges in Alabama, we have
no university either in fact or in name,”
Bald a professional man.
“Atlanta, which of course would like
to have a Methodist university, has al
ready Oglethorpe, a-flourishing institution
under Presbyterian auspices. Oglethorpe
is beginning to branch out, and con
siderable money has been raised for im
provements recently. So even if Atlanta
should get the Methodist university it
would have to divide honors with Ogle
thorpe university; whereas, in Birming
ham the university would tower without
any other institution within sight of it.
1 have an idea that the majority of the
educational commission will be strongly
In favor of locating the university in Bir
mingham.” ^
Iron Freight Rales
Matthew Addy & Co.b Cincinnati re
port this week says in part:
"Attention this week is centered in
the reduction of southern ‘pig |,on
freights ordered by the interstate
commerce commission. This reduction
was not expected. Two years ago it was
asked but the commission had taken
so long to consider the matter that
most of the southern ironmasters hail
come to regard the delay as a polite
refusal. The decision brings great joy
to the south, but it is almost a bomb
shell to northern producers who see
the whole competitive situaty»n
changed.
"The new rates will he beneficial
to all consumers of southern iron in
the middle west and they will ^dd a
competitive burden to the Ohio and
Chicugo furnaces The latter in partic
ular have been doing their best to
1 -o 1 d their own local market as a mon
opoly, but the less freight from the
south will enable southern irons to en
ter Chicago more easily than recent
ly has been the case. Northern fur
nace men, however, are already pre
paring to present their claims for a re
adjustment of their rates, so an in
teresting time may be expected.
"The week has seen more inquiry
and there has been regular buying."
n tHBlRIi IS RIGHT
from the Atlanta Constitution.
If Paul Warburg, the New York
banker and eminent international au
thority on finance, serves this county on
the federal reserve board it will be
without previously undergoing a grill
ing- at the hands of the Senate com
mittee. This 1b the condition upon which
Mr. Warburg has, at the request of
President Wilson, withdrawn his de
i cllnatlon. and he is right.
Warburg did not seek a place on the
reserve board. He was designated by
the President, in recognition of his un
usual and singular qualifications. The
acceptance of the post would have in
volved the severance ■ of connection
probably worth annually seven or eight |
times to him his compensation in fed
eral employment. The work appealed
to him undoubtedly as a pure service
of patriotism, and since he is able to
afford the personal sacrifice, he signi
fied willingness to accept. The Presi
dent was particularly anxious to get
Warburg on the board, since it is prob
able that of all the men named, his
knowledge of banking is the most en
cyclopedic. He is an authority not only
on national finance, but on International
finance, an important fact, since the new
currency law authorizes the setting up
of branch hanks in foreign countries.
Warburg found out. however, that he
was to be subpoenaed and haled before
the Senate committee like a criminal
under charges. He was to be subjected
to a cross-fire from experts and ama
teurs alike, politicians seeking political
capital as well as senators honestly
seeking to fix his qualifications. He
promptly objected. The committee could
find out all it needed to know of his
life and reputation through other chan
nels. He did not shun investigation.
But there was a right way and a wrong
way. They could ask him to communi
cate facts by letter, or they could send
a representative to him, or adopt any
other one of a dozen methods. What he
did not propose to stand was the ordeal
of being made a partisan or dema
gogic football, subjected at every turn
to the Indictment of suspicion. Under
these circumstances he withdraw his
name. At the President's urgent solici
tation he consented to reconsider, the
one stipulation being that he was not
to be catechised by the Senate commit
tee. This immunity he has a right to
demand, upon the same plane as other
board nominees. It is significant that
the Atlanta regional bankers, at session
at Montgomery day before yesterday,
unanimously passed resolutions in
dorsing him.
It is to be hoped the manly stand of
Mr. Warburg will bring an end to this
petty exhibition of ‘inquisitiveness, and
that the country will be permitted to
gnjoy the services of a big man with
out subjecting him to implied insult
and accusation. It is high time that
men in public life be relieved from the
hallucination that all men in "big busi
ness’ must be regarded as crooks until
they prove themselves otherwise. The
idea is as insane as it is demagogic.
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
Tuscaloosa News: Despite the absence
of regulation of fireworks, Birmingham
managed to have a pretty sane Fourth.
Marion Times: It is a dull day in Bir
mingham when a homicide iE not report
ed, or at least it would be a dull day
if none were reported. But Birmingham
rarely ever has dull days on this account.
Huntsville Mercury-Banner; "Put the
weeds or be arrested" is the mandate of
the Birmingham commission, from which
we assume that even in Greater Birming
ham there are people who have to be
felted to keep the weeds from growing up
in front of their residences.
Montgomery Times: Birmingham is go
ing light out after the great Methodist
university, and all the state of Alabama
should join In and help get it, as what
helps that great city helps all the state.
Centreville Press: Religious services in
seme sections of Birmingham are being
held in the open. If the extreme heat
ccntinues, this plan, if adopted in other
places, would increase the attendance on
religious worship
Gadsden Evening Journal: Birmingham
citizens are so elated over the interstate
commerce commission's decision in the pig
iron cases that they are responding with
even greater enthusiasm to the call for
that $1,000,000 to get the big, Methodist
university.
Colbert County Reporter: Birmingham
is going after the Methodist university in
earnest. But that’s characteristic of the
Magic City’s spirit, and we are with the
people down there, and If an insignieant
Methodist layman can aid Birmingham in
any way we ar? willing.
Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: We live in
a progressive age. vp at Birmingham
they have installed a lozen or so electric
fans in the grandstand to keep the base
ball enthusiasts cool while they watch the
players out in the field perspire end wipe
their faces with the sweat rags that
they stick under their belts. All this is
dene to help draw crowds. Aphat Is what
we call enterprise for it has been too
hot for even baseball lovers to sit in the
giandstand and watch the game. With
elecytric fans as an addition the attend
ance at games in Birmingham may bo in
creased.
A SHIP CAPTAIN’S POWER
From the New York Sun.
The extent of which a captain of a
steamship may discipline passengers is
passed on by the appellate division,
second department, in Bennett against
Austro-American Steamship company.
It appeared that plaintiff was a second
cabin passenger on a ship bound from
a port in Greece to New York. A large
number of the passengers were dissatis
fied with the food furnished them, and
the plaintiff went aipong the first cabin
passengers to get signatures to a com
plaint to be used on the arrival of the
vessel In New York. The eaptain entered
the music room while the plaintiff was
there and seized the letter. He ordered
the plaintiff to leave the first cabin
quarters, and when the plaintiff re
fused to go until he got the letter the
captain had taken, the captain struck
him, had him removed forcibly by the
crew and confined until the veyel
reached port. The court said that a
question of fact as to whether the cap
tain exceeded his authority was raised
for submission to a jury, and in its
opinion, said:
"Doubtless the captain had a legal
power to imprison the plaintiff. But did
the circumstances then existing justify
the attempted exercise of this power?
It is a long clay since the belaying pin
or marlinspike or knotted robe's end
were not only instruments, but, symbols
of a shipmaster’s authority. Considering
the vast steamshLp traffic of the last
half century, it is remarkable how few
cases are to be found In the books af
fecting a ship captain’s right to enforce
discipline upon the passengers on his
ship. This fact speaks in no uncertain
way of the habitual patience of the
shipmasters and their grave responsi
bilities."
adrift with the times
MERE PRETENSE.
1 he festive summer boarder
At ease in a hammock lies.
AN 1th nothing at all to worry about,
'Cept heat and swarms of flies
And mosquitoes when the shadows fall
And a scant supply of food;
And a bed that makes his body ache
AVhen he’s in a reading mood.
The festive summer boarder
NVrites happy letters home,
Deviates lie’s found a oleasant place
From which he'd never roam.
Were it not for the fact that duty calls
And he dare not answer nay,
Thought it almost breaks his heart to go,
When he'd so much rather stay.
REWARDED.
"He gave his whole life to unselfish
labors for this community."
"VA hat did the community ever give
him?’*
A vote of confidence.”
THE KNOWING ONES.
Political life is full of unexpected re
vers*-*-.”
That » true, but when a candidate re
verses himself somebody is sure to say,
'I told you so!’ ”
MAKING MATTERS NVORSE.
"Twyson wants to separate from his
wife."
“On what grounds?"
“He says she deceived him before he
mt-rried her by making him think she
could win money playing bridge to pay for
hc-r clothes,"
"She loses, eh?" s
"Yes. She not only fails to win enough
to pay for her own clothes, but she loses
the money Twyson leeds to buy his
clothes,"
THE HEATHEN.
Though the heathen may rage
And in conflict engage,
You've got to admire
Their warm weather attire.
—Washington Star.
Though the heathen may be
•Most unlovely to see.
They never do wear
Wigs made to green hair.
BLOW TO HIS PRIDE. J
“A landscape gardener was prostrate
in his office yesterday.” '’B
“Overcome by the lisat?" jfl
“No. He was ov»r;ome by his emotions. B
A suburbanite asked him to design an j
onion bed. j
OWNED A HATCHET.
“Who is your favorite character in his
tory, Tommy?”
“George Washington, air.”
“Why George Washington?”
Because he s the only character in his
tory 1 ever read about who seems to
have had any fun when he was small.” >
IN WITH THE TRUSTS.
“Did r understand you to say that Sen
ator Flubb came up from the people?”
"Yes. and he's going back on them
now.”
A FOOLISH NOTION.
"President Wilsons phrase, psycho
logical depression/ <s overworked.”
"I’m afraid *o Only the other day
I heard a luckless angler say he won
dered if that was why fish wouldn't bite.” i
SHOCKING.
Miss Flaunt wears clothes so very thin, ^
The wicked gazer sighs
And wishes nature's gift had been
An extra pair of eyes.
IDLE OPINIONS. -
Getting up early has no advantages if
the man you want to "do” sleeps late.
The woman who ‘wouldn’t stoop to
flatter n man/’ sometimes wishes later
on in life that she had done so.
Just about the time a man saves up '
something for a rainy day he gets a
t< cthache and has to give it all to a dent
ist.
The kind of people who think there are 4
no times like the old times are the kind
of people who don't belong in the present.
One objection to taking things as they
ci me is that they quit coming after
awhile p. n.
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF JACK SHEPPARD
cmnr r^nu, commonly Known
as “Jack,” is the most picturesque
figure in English criminal history.
Df poor but honest parents, who left him
*n orphan when quite young, Jack fol
lowed a career of crime that w’as as re
markable as it was daring, and finally
wound up suspended upon a gibbet at Ty
burn at the'youthful age of 22.
The first theft of this “prince of thieves'*
was that of two spoons, and shortly aft
erward, by his own confession, “I fell
to robbing almost everyone that stood in
my Way." In April, 1724, owing to the
treachery of his brother, and other asso
ciates, he was committed to St. Giles’
roundhouse, from which he skillfully
made his escape.
Like adventures of unparalleled coolness
md imprudence followed in quick succes
sion, and on Whitmonday, May 25, 1724,
he broke out of New prison. His escape
Involved getting rid of new irons, cutting
through a double grill of new oaken and
Irfti bars, descending 25 feet by means of
a. sheet and blanket, and then scaling a
wall of 22 feet, which he surmounted
svith a companion on his back. Shortly
lie was again apprehended through the
betrayal of the celebrated receiver of
stolen goods, Jonathan Wild.
Sheppard was tried at the Old Bailey
•efore Justice Blackkerby, on August 14.
1724. and condemned to death, He was
tried upon three indictments. Several
other prosecutions might have been
brought against him. but this was thought
fUfficiemt to rid the world of so capital
in offender. He begged earnestly for
transportation to the most extreme nart
j£ his majesty’s dominions. He pleuded
youth and ignorance as the motive that
bud precipitated him into the guilt; but
he court, deaf to his importunities, gave
bim no satisfactory answer.
The date set for his execution was Frl#
lay, September 4. Only several days be
TOMORROW—TRIAL OF SIR THOMAS MORE
THE MEXICAN SOLDIER
From Leslie's Weekly.
The Mexican soldier is not, as a rule,
* coward. He lacks dash and Initiative,
but he stands fire well, and does what he
Is told. He is also capable of enduring
Incredible hardship. His food is princi
pally tortillas and beans. Properly
bandied, trained and equipped he would
[nake a first class fighting man, but I dc*
not believe he could make a stand against
an efficient foreign army in his present
state of disorganisation. He would be
hopelessly outclassed, because he is un
disciplined, undrilled, a poor marksman
and above all has not learned to trust his
officers.
General de Moure's column was the first
of several that went to the relief of To
reon, all of which totaled about 7000 men.
They were stopped at San Pedro de las
Colon las. In western Coahulia. by the con
stitutionalists. Here was an expedition
of all arms, yet it had no commissary,
no signal corps, no intelligence depart
ment. no sanitary officers and only the
semblance of a medical corps. The men
had no tents and only such blankets as
they found for themselves, while most of
them carried beer bottles instead of can
teens. Military automobiles were pro
vided for distributing ammunition and
water to the firing lines, but this was such
a recent innovation as to be a constant
source of wonder.
The officers fared better than the men,
but only because they had more funds.
General de Moure and a part of his staff
traveled in a Pullman car, which was
sent back soon after reaching San Pedro,
as the general said It was costing the gov
ernment too much. Some of the officers
had accommodations in first or second
class day coaches, but the majority of
them traveled as did the men, in box cars.
MIGHTY BEER DRINKERS
From Tit-Bits.
Judging from the consumption of beer
at the annual “Malbock,” the May week
when Munich’s bock beer is brought out,
the reports that the Bavarians are
drinking less beer would seem to be
premature, to say the least.
In the great “Hofbrauhaus'' alone,
whose beer gardens are among the
largest in Europe, the daily attendance
of visitors averaged 12,000, and between
them they managed to dispose of 6600
iii.i uaie ne was again able to es
| cape, and was not recaptured until Sep
tember 10, when he was taken back to his l
! rpn and chained down to the floor. This 1
they felt was not sufficiently secure, so \
he was taken to a dungeon known as the '
Castle, where he was chained to heavy
iron bars.
Now it waa thought that he was be
yond all possible chance of escape. On
October 16, however, when his keeper
\ isited his cell he beheld almost a car
load of bricks and rubbish about tl
room and the prisoner gone. Six gre:
doors, one of which had not been open f<
seven years, were forced and found aja
he having passed directly to the stre
by the main hail and stairway.
He wrote ills Jailers a polite letter ai
at olive took to stealing again. He wi
apprehended on November 10 and was at
once carried to the King's bench bar at
Westminster, where the record of his con
viction was read and it was ordered that
he be hung on Monday.
The day came, but Jack tiad still some
hopes of eluding Justice. One of his
projects was that as soon as his body
fas cut down his companion should take
It and put it In a warm bed and bleed
him, fob" lie believed If such care were
taken they might bring him to life again.
Sheppard was hanged at Tyburn on
Mondav, November 18, 1728. He died
with great difficulty. When he had hung
about a quarter of an hour Ills body was i
out down by a soldier and delivered to
bis friends, but instead of carrying out
his suggestions they buried him.
Sheppard was for a considerable time
the comYnon subject of conversation. Sev
eral different histories of it is life were
published at the time. His potralt was
painted by no less a distinguished artist
than Sir James Thornhill; poems were
written about him, and his adventures
were dramatized, and for sometime he
became the leading subject of many pulpit
invectives.
gallons, an allowance of more than half i
a gallon for each person. About half of fl
this was bock beer, anti the remainder t
the ordinary Munich dark beer.
Of edibles the dally consumption in
cluded 20 calves, four pigs, 38,000 sau
sages, besides quantities „f poultry an l
"beer” radishes.
As the Hof brewery is only one of
several other large establishments In
Munich, It Is probable that the city's
consumption of beer during the "Mat
bock ’ must have been in the neighbor
hood of 20,000 barrels.
A St BSTA ATI A I, ESISTEME
From Harper's.
The pastor of a well known Boston
church was calling a short while ago on
a dear old lady, one of the "pillars"
of the church to which they both be
lt l ged. Booking upon her sweet, mother
ly face, which bore few tokens of her
93 years of earthly pilgrimage, he was
moved to ask her: "My dear Mrs. Adams,
what has been th& ‘hief source of your
V underfill strength and sustenance dur
lng all these years'.’ What do you con
sider has been ihe real basis of your ex
traordinary vigor of mind and body, and
has been to you an unfailing comfort i
through joys and sorrows which must f
come to all of God's creatures? Tell me,
that 1 may pass the seeret to others, and,
If possible, profit by It myself.”
The good pas.or waited with unusual
eagerness for the old lady's reply, which
she gave, after a noment’s ri'flectlon,
while her kindly old eyes were dimmed
with tears,
"Victuals," she answered, briefly.
THE MEETING
By Alfred Noyes.
White as a shining marble Dryad, supple
and sweet as a rose in blossom,
Fair and fleet as a fawn that shakes the
dew from the fern at break of day,
Wreathed with the clouds of her dusky
halt- that kissed and clung to her
sun-bright bosom,
Down to the valley she came, and tht
sound of her feet was the bursting
of flowers in May.
Down to the valley she'came for far and
far below in the dreaming meadcwa MB
Pleaded ever the Voice of voices, calling
Ills love by her golden name;
So She arose from her home in the hills,
snd down through the blossoms that
danced with their shadows.
, Out of the blue of the dreaming dis
tance. down to the heart of her lover
she came.