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THE AGE-HERALD K. XV. BARRETT .. .. .. .. Editor. Entered at the Birmingham, Ala., postoffioe as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879. Daily and Sunday Age-Ilerald . 18.00 Daily and Sunday, per month .... .70 Daily and Sunday, three months. £.00 Weekly Age-Herald, per annum. ..">0 Sunday Age-Herald. 2.00 A. J. Eaton, Jr., O. E. Young and W. H. Overbey are the only authorized traveling representatives of The Age Hcrald in its circulation department. No communication will be published without its author's name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose. Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age-Ilerald will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address, THE AGE-HERALD, Birmingham, Ala. Washington bureau, 207 Hibbs build ing. European bureau, 0 Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London. Eastern business office, Rooms 48 to B0, inclusive, Tribune building, New York city; Western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for eign advertising. TELEPHONE Bril (private exchange connecting all departmental. Main 4iHM>. In the menntlme, what hear you of thrae xvaraf —All's Well That Eads Well. i _ , --- BEGINNING THE DAY—I thank Thee, my Father, for the love and wisdom which hnve restrained Thee from answering all my prayers. 1 thank Thee thnt hast heard my prayer for strength rather than my prayer for a lighter hardens thnt Thou hast given me trust rntlfer than rlehes, anil communion with Thee rather than freedom from fears. Amen.—H. M. E. V Cotton Crop and Prices This year’s cotton crop has been va riously estimated at from 13,000,000 to 15,000,000 bales. Alabama has made a bumper crop, and despite boll weevil ravages in some counties this state will produce, it is thought, not less than 1,500,000 bales, and some observers and statisticians think the Alabama crop will not be far short of 1,600,000. Looking back over a period of 10 years, Alabama’s cotton crop multi-j plied by 10 has given approximately the total of the entire crop of the country. This rule may not hold good this year, for weather conditions in Alabama were especially favorable, while in some parts of Texas and in some other states conditions were not altogether favorable. With a normal market situation the farmers could have counted on selling their cotton at 13 or 14 cents, but the European war has made trouble for the cotton south. Western grain farmers will get large prices for their crops this year because of the war, but in order to maintain a market for cotton the government must aid. As President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton association says: “United effort on the part of all the people is imperative at this time." He urges most earnestly a large attend ance at the general conference to be held in New Orleans August 27-28. ‘‘The cotton situation,” says Pres ident Jordan, “while grave, can be handled with safety to the growers of the south if prompt and systematic plans for financing the crop tempo rarily are adopted and put into execu tion throughout the 800 cotton grow ing counties.” The Age-Iierald reproduces some of the interviews, including Mr. Jordan’s, which the Progressive Farmer pub lishes this week. They will be read with great interest at this time. The Progressive Farmer, in summarizing the situation, calls attention to the danger “that farmers may take 9 and 10-cent prices this fall and that specu lator and buyers xvill then sell the same cotton for 14 to 16 cents after Christmas.” The editor of that jour nal urges every farmer who makes even a bale of cotton to xvrite to his representative in Congress and say: “1 believe the government should help finance the cotton crop in the present crisis, and so arrange it that farmers can get this help xvithout paying any body high interest or negotiation charges.” This is certainly a time for the farmers to "get busy” and to stand together. They should act promptly on the suggestion to write members of Congress, and by all means let the leading farmers of the south arrange to attend the conference in New Or leans. Cupolas At Liege That the aeroplane, the dirigible airship and wireless telegraphy are not the only innovations of modern warfare is shown by the news reports j of the battle around Liege, where the Germans found their most powerful guns unable to demolish the armored cupolas mounting rapid-fire guns which commanded the approaches to many of the important bridges across the Meuse. The cupolas, which are a distinctly novel feature of modern warfare, are unknown in this country, but they are employed extensively along the French border to command the principal ave nues of approach across the fron tier. Germany uses what is known the Gruson turret, which somewh^ resembles in idea the Belgian cupolas, i but is much heavier and is intendec chiefly for coast defense. The Grusor turrets arc built for heavy guns anc have withstood a point-blank fire ol 110-ton guns. The Belgian cupolas figured large ly in the stout defense of Liege mad< by the Belgians against eonsidcrabh odds in numbers. The cupolas mount i i rapid-fire gun capable of discharging 25 or 30 shots a minute. They lie clos« to the ground and protrude only three | or four feet above the surface, an ex cavation being made to contain the gun chase and magazine. They car be operated by not more than 10 men and usually have an all-around fire. The cupola covers the chase and mag azine like a lid. The only opening is -n port for the gun muzzle. The gun is trained by revolving the cupola. A cupola cannot be demolished except by guns so heavy that they' cannot be moved about with troops. Perhaps, after all, the armored cupola is an evolution of the old fash ioned blockhouse which was capable of a stout defense in its time, but is no longer useful except in contend ing with savage or semi-savage peo ples who have no artillery. Having no frontier to guard from a powerful foe. this country does not need armored cupolas, but they have already proved highly serviceable in Belgium and have amply justified the far-sighted engineers who hit upon this unique plan of defense. The War News Censorship Instead of growing better, the cen sorship over war news is growing more rigid each day, and probably for the first time since the invention of the telegraph events of startling, world-wide moment cannot be chron icled. Since the cables between the United States and Germany were cut, nothing but an exceedingly meager news serv ice through London is possible from any point within the German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian empires, and even such dispatches as get through by way of London are rigorously cen sored by the British authorities. News dispatches from France and Belgium all are subject to like governmental supervision. A few weeks ago it would have been thought impossible to isolate Europe so completely from the rest of the world. Readers of The Age-Herald, however, may feel assured of all the news possible to be obtained, for this newspaper seven days in the week publishes the full dispatches of the Associated Press—the greatest news gathering agency in the world. Bringing Settlers to the South The Southern Settlement and Devel ppment organization which was formed last spring is planning for an active campaign this fall. S. Davies Warfield of Baltimore, chairman of the Seaboard Air Line, is the president of the settlement organization and in tends to give it his ' st personal at tention. In order for the association to achieve large results, earnest co-op eration on the part of leading men in every state of the south is needed. Such co-operation is already assured in a number of states and it is be lieved that every state will be in line. The trouble with manv movements for bringing desirable settlers to the south has been a lack of the “stiek-to it” policy and a lack of practically directed effort. Not a few immigra tion associations and homeseekers’ movements have sturted off with great promise, but the enthusiasm died out, and little was accomplished. In recent years the railroads trav ersing the soulh have done much to exploit the south’s rich resources and ii'.ve induced thousands of homeseek ers from the north to settle in this part of the country. Their work is systematic and permanent. The new organization for develop ing the south will, it may be taken for granted, work in conjunction with the industrial departments of the rail roads. This is a good year for inaugurating a homeseekers’ movement, for the south is making a fine shoping in crop diversification and in agricultural progress generally. The compara tively low prices of Alabama farm lands are certainly attractive, and the steady enhancement in values should not be without its appeal. War is instructive, declares an ex change. But for the present situation, few of us would know who King Albert is. Another viewpoint has it that it is far better for the ruler in question should a few of us who know who he is than many who he was. Consumers who smoke "imported" ciga rettes needs have no fear of their sup plies being cut short. New York facto ries will continue to turn them out in large quantities. About the most pitiful photograph Imag inable would be that of Andrew Carnegie with the dove of peace in his arms, taken on the steps of The Hague Peace palace. Society women of Paris who are acting as clerks In stores have found out for the first time in their lives how- it feels to be on the other side of the counter. A New York detective gave up $10 he won while obtaining evidence in a gam bling resort. We expect to see him in War invariably raises the prices on im ports and we may yet get an inkling as to just how much of this French Imported wine Is made vin California. Germany's first call for financial aid will be made upon the people's savings. In other words, Germany expects every man to pay his duty. -.—--—... —. ■ — One objection to federal ownership of railroads is that it might take away that fat mileage allowance from our national law' makers. With neutrality to maintain, Uncle Sam will hardly be able to keep as close a watch on Mexico as he has done here tofore. The Kaiser has gone to the front, but nobody expects him to go quite as far in that direction as his soldiers do. Sailing in a soa thickly strewn with mines is no picnic, even if you happen to be aboard a neutral vessel. If you accost a Ixmdon policeman now you are apt to find yourself addressing a member of the nobility. New Orleans probably believes the news it gets from Paris and discounts the news it gets from Berlin. No, Estella, the United Mine Workers are not laying the mines you read about in the newspapers. As long as Italy Keeps out of the ,1'uss there will be no rise in the price of spaghetti. Perhaps Huerta will decide that a tour of Europe just at present is not to be though! of. It’s n lucky thing for the Germans that the Krupp gimp are made at home. At that $T>0,000,000 per day comes pretty high even for a first class war. TELLS OF OSCAR WILDE London Dispatch in the Chicago Tribune. Though Oscar Wilde has been dead for thirteen years, the notoriety of his name is kept alive by an apparently endless succession of quarrels among his friends and his friends’ friends. Ultimately it nil! be possible to strip Wilde’s writing of the adventitious interest of social celeb rity and of scandal and to estimate their intrinsic value. Before this estimate is likely to be made by the nearest genera tion some measure of agreement will l** necessary on the facts of Wilde’s career. Although Lord Alfred Douglas' “Oscar Wilde and Myself’’ is not the kind of soft answer which will turn away the wrath of his various opponents, it will help peo ple to form their estimate of the facts of the intimacy and confirm their probable impression of Oscar Wilde’s character and talents. Lord Alfred Douglas has a pungent or even feline literary touch, but his general statement of the relations betw'een Oscar Wilde and himself it straightforward and credible, lie has frankly outgrown any excessive admiration for Wilde either as a w'rlter or a man. The process of dis illusionment was completed by the dis covery of Wilde’s attacks in the" unpub lished portions of “De Profundls." The writer denies that he knew' the ex tent and character of Wilde s vlciousness until nfter legal proceedings had been begun, and makes some true and incisive observations on Wilde's craving for no toriety, which falsified his talent and substituted imitativeness and shallow epi gram for wliat might have been inde pendent genius. But the time has not yet come for a final appreciation, nor is Lord Alfred Douglas the critic to undertake It. He is fairly entitled to tell his story of the relationship, though It would* have been all the better for being told more shortly and with less acrimonious refer ence to a number of people of very small real importance. OVERWORKED “EATING MUSCLE” London Correspondence in New York American. One of the questions which has lately' been exercising the brains of medical au thorities in Ixmdon, Paris and New York Is the treatment of tired patients. It has only recently been ascertained that this is due to the eating muscle being out of order. In order to brink back vitality to this important organ the patient must lie on a board with his feet about tw'o feet higher than his head. “It is a little short of comic," said a Harley street doctor to the American, ‘‘to ■ see a long rowr of patients in a nursing 1 home with their feet cocked up In the air, lying at full length alongside each other.” "It is quite a mistake to suppose that the most tired people are those who work their limbs most,” said the doctor. "Those ! who abuse the eating muscle are In reality ; the ‘weary Willies.’ It is the people over ; 40 that are most prone to the eating muscle trouble. They overwork the or gan by eating rich meats at banquets and dinner parties. The eating muscle is one of the most sensitive portions of the human organism." LUKE M’LUKE SAYS From the Cincinnati Enquirer. A woman Is a queer proposition. The more she brags about her husband before company the more she roasts him when they are alone. Many a man who Is too honest to dye his hair thinks nothing of whitewashing his conscience. Anyway, the old-fashioned man who used to bring home his booze in a Jug. and called It "groceries," didn’t have to go to the polls every' few' months and vote against a proposition that would compel! him to pui chase his liquor from a blind i tiger and pay four prices for it. And if the Society for the Regulation of Other People's Business can compel you to submit to state-wide prohibition, | what is to prevent it from going further and regulating the width of your pants and tile height of your collar? Every woman wants to own something she can boss. And if she can’t get a dog or a cat she gets a husband. Men are but grow n boys. And you may i have noticed that when two boys are playing with a toy wagon the smallest boy is always the horse. Even If you are lacking in some things, cheer up. The dog with the shortest tail wears the fewest tin cans. There is a use for everything. The man who has a flowing mess of w hiskers sel-1 dom spills any soup on his shirt front. Adam hadn't anything to kick about. When lie came home at night Eve never kissed him to get a whiff of his breath to see if he had been drinking. The trouble with this world is that people who haven’t anything to say al ways insist upon saying it. Any bonehead can shoot straight. But it takes a man to think straight. A man never knows how many faults he has until he marries. The wooden-headed Indian who used to stand in front of the cigar store has been displaced by the ivory-headed Indian who stands in front of the big league baseball stands. History contains the names of many eloquent orators. But w’hen it comes to talking, old General Booze can make the others look like dummies. Among the other pests a man hates to meet Is the guy who is so lazy that lie leu the wind blow his noss. IN HOTEL LOBBIES Enjoyed Mummer Resort "My daughter and I spent a week at Tate and greatly enjoyed the social features of that popular Tennessee re sort,” said S. E. Thompson, who re turned home a day-or two ago. “I had been hearing of Tate for many years, but had never stopped there before. It is a beautiful place, and representative people from all over the south are found there. One day during my short sojourn there were 62 arrivals.” Tidings from Austria ‘LAs my fatjjer and mother, Mr. and Mrs. B. Steiner, are in Austria, I am as a matter Of course watching the. mails with great eagerness,” said Her bert Steiner yesterday. **■ ‘‘On Saturday last I received a letter from father dater at Marienbad, July 25. Although Austria-Hungary had de clared war on Servia. there seemed to he little excitement at the time my father wrote. But today I received a letter from Marienbad, dated July 28, in which father gives a lively account of conditions. 'Such excitement I have never known before.’ my father says. 'Everyone who can is leaving Marion bad, and the place is half empty.' •^8 Germany had not declared war at the time my father wrote It was his purpose^to take an automobile and go to Eger and there catch a German train. He said that if Germany should get into the conflict then he didn't know how he would get away from Austria. Father concludes his letter as follows: " ‘The patriotism here among the Germans is w onderful. Rosa and I en- i joy it immensely, but "we should wor- ! ry.” However, within a few days food j will get scarce and !f l don’t get ! enough, then 1 will go too. Combined with the hardships, the weatlrer is rain ing continuously and is very cold, and today the thermometer is at 48. We are well, thank ’ God, and take our treatment every day. My heart Is in good condition; I enjoy this place and it does me good. “ 'Sunday morning Kaiser Strassa was full of trunks and some people were packing them on the streets in their haste to get out. We are due to go to a play tonight, but in case the actors are Austrians, they will have to go to war, and the play will be called off.’ ” Ridgely Fast Filling I p "The Ridgely apartments will be en tirely filled, no doubt, by the 1st of October, and once filled they will con tinue so,” said a man who lives there. "The Ridgely is a building of im mense size and capacity os everyone knows, and it was doing well to start off at the beginning of summer 50 per cent full. It has been filling up grad ually ever since and I understand that very few apartments are left un signed for. The service Is excellent —strictly high class—and any family or bachelor may be considered most fortunate If they or he secures a home there.” Cost of Producing Cotton “It Is not possible to figure the cost of growing cotton in the general sense, as so many varying details enter into the proposition,” said Hal T. Walker, owner | of a plantation in the black belt, near Montgomery, who is visiting his daugh ter, Mrs. James H. Hillman. “It Is probable that some farmers get their crops marketed at a cost of 8 cents for all expenses of production, and yet some others will find it running full up to 10 cents. “The conservative planter, satisfied to get a good living from his large acreage, goes the even tenor or his way and does not trouble about theories of Improved farming. The aged land owner is willing to leave such things to the generation to follow, and his holdings to his children. He enjoys the homage of his negro ten ants and tlie fellowship of his peers. Ev ery summer there is a chain of barbecues and watermelon feasts, and these add to the joy of living in the black belt, with Its broad acres and magnificent distances between settlements.” The ( oiigreftMlonnl Klrdlouit "Three or four months ago it might have been a good guess that the demo crats would have barely a majority in the next House of Representatives; but I be lieve now that the majority will be very large,” said A. H. Conway of New York. "I am not a politician, but I voted the democratic ticket in 1912 and expect to vote the same way this November. Dur ing the last four weeks I have traveled through a number of western t ates. I found the Underwood tariff popular in that section. The banking and currency act meets with favor in all business cir cles east and west, and the antitrust leg isla be no doubt, give satisfaction to the people. “The republicans are In a disorganized state. If they had old tinje leaders w’ho could bring about harmony the demo crats might lose in certain districts, per- ' Laps; but the democratic administration has made good, and by way of indorse ment, there will be a signal democratic, victory this fall.” Builder* of Birmingham The Traders National bank In its bio graphical series entitled, “Builders of Birmingham.” Issues in connection with its August calendar this sketch: “Eugene DeVert Brown was born in Marion, on November 17, 1865. In 1887 he came to Birmingham and engaged in the mercantile business. Ten years later he entered the real estate field, a line of endeavor to which he is par ticularly w'ell suited by reason of his initiative, enterprise and Judgment. The firm of Browrn Brothers & Co., of which he is the head, is one of the strongest in the state and has wide connections. “In 1901 a new era in the real es tate business in Birmingham was be gun as a direct result of Mr. Brown's efforts, when the construction of the Woodward building, Birmingham’s first skyscraper, was commenced. This build ing was erected by Mr. W. H. Wood ward, aB were the First National bank building and the Brown-Marx annex, under the supervision and upon the advice of Mr. Brown, in whoso judg ment and ability Mr. Woodward placed great confidence. The original Brown Marx building, now the largest in the south, was promoted and erected by Brown Brothers & Co., in connection with Mr. Otto Marx. “Mr. Brown has been active in many public undertakings, and is prominent in the affairs of the Chamber of Com merce and other civic organizations. He is a director of the First National bank of Birmingham and is interested Id otli •r sucQpssful enterprises. WAR ECHOES Alexander Wenyon* Samuel, in Ne York World: The six powers war, i history will call it, will prove by far tl costliest as well as the bloodiest in a time. For today the engines of war, alike I their price and destructlbility, outrang to an incredible degree any that hav ever been employed previously. Guns tin have an accurate ra\ise of nearly miles, shells that can lift more tha IA000 times their own weight, bomt dropping aeroplanes that can hover d rectly over fortifications impregnable t direct attack, submarines that may prov more deadly even than super-dreac naughts, and all these controlled b pow'ers aggregating in population mor than 500,000,000 people whose sinews c wealth are in billions almost beyond com putation. there indeed Is the world oil max, the stage set for tne vast pagean of death. The war will be on land and sea and i is quite conceivable that the triple en tente may secure victory at sea to be de prived of its fruits by disaster on land. And the difficulty in making any esti mate of the probabilities of success lie in the fact that both on land and se there will be employed instruments o war that never before nave been tried. No one today really tnows how a su per-dreadnaught will stand up to torpe does, or resist the dropping shells of th water plane. “Naval air-craft" is a ne\> and seemingly contradictory term, bu it will soon be a familiar one. And ther will be demonstrated both the capacity o the dreadnaught to resist the attempt b make It “submarine” by a mammoth su per-dreadnaught, and also the dread naught capacity to resist the mosquito like attack of a water plane or sea plane There is nothing in naval history to guid< in prognostication. All fiiat happens wil be quite new, and make the whole his tory of sea and land fighting obsoleb and useless, placing Its volumes amonj romance. The destructiveness of the present en gires of war is so great that the sei fighting could not be r*olonged througi what at tlie time of the armada wen called “spacious days.” But in view o the strength in population and resourcei of the continent of Europe, the land fight ing might continue for a very long time and most paradoxical or all, might re suit in a chess player's stale mate. Bu if one of the great triumvirate shoulc appear to win a decided victory, it woulc be at a cost similar to that of a man who to save his life, submits to an opera tion and loses his leg* For it will be e lamed and maimed Europe that will present itself again upon the worlds commercial highways after the war Lamed financially and maimed physically, the Europe of 12 months from now will have to be remapped and remade. Not the least probable result would bo the overthrow of many thrones and the es tablishment of republicanism. Bridgeport, Conn., special to the New York World: The submarine boat plant of this city has been put under strict government espionage during the. last week, owing, it is said hare, to the discov ery of European govej-nment agents ir Bridgeport. Though it is rumored that attempts were made within the shipyards to ge1 drawings and details of the meclianisrr of submarines being obstructed for thi United States government, so strict an the injunctions issued to employes that they even refuse to admit their connec tion with the works. It is known that every forelgn-bon: employe of the company has been dis charged and that every workman has been ordered to sign an agreement where by he practically becomes a government employe, subject to a fine of $1000 or sia months' imprisonment should he be caught disseminating information, draw ings or photographs of the boats undei construction. London Special to the New York Sun: The Spectator says: “The great war nai come, as every sensible person knew’ il would come—very suddenly, without ap parent reason. Germany and Austria Hungary are already at war with Rus sia, France, Great Britain, Belgium ant Servia. At any moment Germany may be at war with Holland. Italy and Roir mania are almsot certain to come In ae soon as Russian troops appear In strength on her frontiers. “Russia wants Transylvania and its 4.000,000 Roumanians, now’ oppressed by Austria. Denmark and Switzerland may very easily be forced to take a hand, foi the small powers are beginning,to realize that the issue for them is one of lif^ oi death. If the Germans win there will be no place left for the little independeni nations. They know tnat they will al ways have a genuine friund and protectoi in Great Britain. “What caused the war? Our answer ii that Germany was ready and determined She thought that we, Russia and Franc* were neither ready nor determined anc she therefore struck. Germany begar her preparations for war as soon as thi Kiel canal was finished, that is, as aooi as in her belief her readiness was at iti maximum. The German government hai always been a firm oeliever in the im portance of material pieparation as wel as in the idea that war is not a mattei of self-defense." An American, referring to the Specta tor’s article, said: “The new England is Wt fighting foi dominion nor to deprive any power of iti right or independence.^ Realizing this with that Instinct for justice and rlgh common to our race, this idea cannot bi expressed in better words than those o the greatest American, Abraham Lin coin, in his second inaugural address: “ ‘With malice toward none, with charitj for all, with firmness In the right, a God gives us to see the right, let us strlv on to finish the work w’e are In.’ ” * • New York Independent: Jean Jacques War is the foulest fiend that ever vomlte* forth from the mouth of hell. Thomas Jefferson: I abhor war an* view it as the greatest scourge of man kind. Benjamin Franklin: There never was i good .war or a bad peace. William Lloyd Garrison: My country i the world; my countrymen are all man kind. Napoleon Bonaparte: The more I stud; the world the more I am convinced of th | inability of force to ciaate anything dur 1 able. Paul on Mars Hill: God hath made o one blood all nations of men for to dwel on all the face of the earth. | /Anrdew’ Carnegie: We have abolishe* slavery from civilized countries—the own ing of man by man. Vne next great stej I that the world can take is to abolish wa —tnb killing of man by man. Georgd Washington: My first wish is V •m tha whole world at peace, and the in ]' ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES tv NO CAUSE TO WORRY. 3 Though champagne doars, he shall no € mind 11 Who much prefers Milwaukee's brew, And deep in soothing suda doth find n Nepenthe for a life of rue. A CONSIDERATE wife. e i "A- beauty specialist offered me a ram 0 edy yesterday that she guaranteed woulc n make me look 10 years younger," saic i _ Mrs. Twobble. 0 "Why didn’t you try.It?" asked Mr Twobble from behind his paper. , "She wanted $25 for the recipe,’’ an* e swered Mrs. Twobble, "and I was afraid the price would make you look 10 years . older." xxxxxxxx t A note today From fair Yvette; The postscript is The sweetest yet. Some tiny marks 5 For kisses meant 1 Have filled my heart f With vast content. WELL INFORMED. "Are you keeping up with the war news, dearie?" "Indeed lam! Three Swiss battleships were sunk yesterday by German cruisers and President Carbajal of France is lead ing the French army against the Bel gians." . __ HARD TO BELIEVE. ‘‘Splndltft seems to be rather vain of his personal appearance," said Grabscom. “He certainly is,” assented Jagsby. "I've seen Mm admire nimself so much ir. a barroom mirror that he'd forget to order a drink." PA'S GUESS. "Pa. who was Atlas?" "1 guess ha was an ancestor of Kaiser Wilhelm, my boy.” WHY HESITATE? Noyes and Watson both have written Poems to Are the British heart. What's the matter with Rud. Kipling? Won’t he try to do his part? WHO LOVES HIS WORK. His daily duties please him well And maybe that's the reason why, No hardship makes him fain rebel, Nor dims the laughter m his eye. WARES TO SUIT. How about a collection of the world i best poetry in six volumes?" said tin book agent. "Selections from Shake speare, Milton, Spencer and all the fa mous poets.” Say, exclaimed the man at the desk, wheeling around in his chair and dis playing a poker vest, a pink shirt anc a diamond stud, "what sorter guff are you tryin' to gimme?" “Beg pardon," answered the resource ful agent, as he reached into his satchel and drew out a paper-covered volume. "J was just about to ask you if you would like to have a copy of the life of John L. Sullivan written by one of the most noted referees In the business." LET US HAVE PEACE. Beware of the, fierce Welsh rabbit, men, Avoid him with a frown; For he does all his fighting when You think you have him down. \ —Cincinnati Enquirer. "Don't fight John Barleycorn, old pard," Said clever Uncle Sidney, “Because he hits a blow that's barred HeWhales you on the Kidney." —New York Mail. The Lobster Is a brilliant red, It's claws are often felt; Don’t tackle it at supper, lads, It hits below the licit. — Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Beware of dry Martinis, men, The ninth reject it; The pesky, things will lloor you when You least expert it. NO RESULTS. "Wife," said Mr. Tupper, "I'm proud to SRy that no matter how unkindly you speak to me, I never answer hack.” "That’s what makes me so mad," snapped Mrs. Tupper. "i might as well be talking to a dummy." p. c. GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY ____ v 4 TRIAL OF JOHN H. SURRATT ■W\V the round up of the many uereons ( seen him in the city on the day of th« ■ accused of being Implicated in the murder of President Lincoln, the most sought after of the men who had made good their escape was John H. Sur ratt. A search was at once started for his apprehension, but he made his way to Canada. While his mother was under going the torture of her trial he lay con cealed In the house of a friendly priest some 40 miles from Montreal. Surratt remained in Hiding in Canada until he was able, under an assumed name, t osail for Liverpool from Que bec. He traveled unhindered to London, Paris and finally to Rome, where in the early spring of the following year, under the name of Watson, he enlisted in the Papal Zouaves and was sent on garrison duty to a post near th* Neapolitan fron tier. There Surratt might have remained un known until the end of his service had he not accidentally met another zouave of the same company wno was an Ameri can and who had known him in Maryland. He reported his discovery to the Ameri can minister to Italy. Rufus King, and on November 2, 1866, “Zouave Watson” was metamorphosed *Tom a soldier into a prisoner or state. He was taken to the military prison at Rome. From here he made his escape and boarded a steamer for Alexandria, Egypt, wh/bh port he reached on the 27th, and the, American consul there being apprised of ills com ing, he was finally intercepted and held to await the arrival of a United States vessel to carry him to his country. The United States corvette Swatara touched at Alexandria on December 21, and when It departed !t carried Surratt to the United States to stand trial. On February 21 the vessel cast anchor abreast of the Washington navy yard. There, in sight of the prison in which Ills mother was tried and condemned and under which she lay burled, Surratt, by order of the Secretary of State, was de livered into the hands of the civil authori ties. The district attorney at once began to prepare for his trial. The trial opened on June 10, 1867, and lasted until August 11, 62 days. During the trial there was a general Impression that Surratt would be : able to prove an alibi, so far as his being In Washington near the time of the assassination, hut this was not the case, for a number of men swore that they had murder. During the trial over sen witnesses tvers examined. This testimony was concluded on July 22, when District Attorney E. C. Carrington addressed the jury. Richard T. Merrick, the junior couneel of the de fendant, followed, creating a profound sensation by his Impassioned vindication of Mrs. Surratt, the mother. .On Saturday, Augqst 3, Edwards i’ierre punt began the closing argument for tin United States—a labored effort rendered intolerably tedious by copious readings of the testimony, decorated with lengthy quotations from the Bible, and suffused throughout with a pious unction. On August 7 the charge was given to the jury. The jury retired at noon on the same day and remained in seclusion until l o'clock on Saturday, the 10th, when tilt foreman came in and announced that tht jurors “stood precisely now as when they tirst balloted (eight to four for tht prisoner) and could not possibly make a verdict.'' The jury was thereupon discharged against the protest of the prisoner, who was remanded to the custody of the mar shal. The idea of another trial. It is probable, was never seriously entertained by the government. Under a recent act of Congress another jury could not hay* been selected before the ensuing Febru ary, and, for the sake of appearances, the defendant was kept in jail In the meantime, and subsequently the case wai set down for the 24th of that month. On June 22, lkfis, the defendant was released on bail and three months later the indict ment was “nole prossed." The counsel defending the prisoner dur ing the trial were General Merrick and John G. Carlisle. That so prominent ail accomplice in the mincer of the ever-to be lamented Lincoln should have been al lowed to walk the eartn a free man, with out arousing an overwhelming outbust of popular wrath. Is explicable alone <*: the hypothesis that the public at larjt shared in the misgivings of the authori ties as to the strength of their case. Had Surratt been caught In time to be tried I by the military commission nothing could have saved him front the fate of his mother. Conversely, had Mary K. Sur ratt been spared to by tried,by a civil tribunal she never would have met tilt death of shame. As the decision of tlie supreme court of the United (states ntadt void the proceedlnga of the military com mission as matter of law, so tile dis charge of her son reversed its condemna tion on the merits of the case. TOMORROW—TRIAL OF LORD WILLIAM BYRON | striving which should most contribute to the happiness of mankind. Abraham Lincoln: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ’ right, let us strive ... to do all which I may achieve and cherisl. a Just and last ing peace among ourselves and with all nations. 1 Emanuel Kant: The method by which states prosecute their rights cannot under present conditions he a process of law, since no court exists having Jurisdiction over them, hut only war. But, through i war. even if it result in victory, tha ' Question of right is not decided. 1 Robert E. Lee: But what a cruel thing is war, to separate and destroy families I and friends, and mar the purest Joy and happiness God has granted us in this ( world; to fill our hearts with hatred in stead of love for our neighbors and to devastate the fair face of the beautiful world. b , Faris Correspondence Philadelphia Pub . lie Ledger: The enthuslasnj, gaiety and confidence of the Frencn soldiers on their , way to the front Is wonderful. During , the campaign In the Balkans the Bul garians marched to war sullenly and si lently, as though they had no heart In t the dreadful business, although they I fought afterward witu wonderful cour age. but the French soldiers go laughing, I singing and shouting toward the German • frontier and Hre never tired of the cry: 1 “On to Berlin! On to Berllhl’ As troop trains pass one hears the ••Marseillaise" , wafted from the carriage windows. They , are so supremely confident of the perfect ursniiumviiiii mm mueni cuurage or tnf French army that they have no doubt oi wiping out the defeats of 1870 by a scriel of victories which will leave Germany crushed and bleeding at their feet. “Even if she sues for peace now," said one French officer, “we will grant it only after the surrender of Alsace-Lorraine and full payment for our mobilization." Another officer said that the troops on the frontier were so excited that it would be impossible to hold them back even 1! Germany tried at the last moment to afJ range terms of peace. | THESE REMAIN From the Houston Post. 4 The tumult and the shouting dies, thi boosters and the lunks depart, so d< the snorting other guys who’ve been l nuisance from the start. But, Lord ol Hosts, we can’t forget, the Sons of Real are With us yet. L’ENVOI x By Rudyard Kipling. j The smoke upon your altar dies, The flowers decay, Tiie goddess of your sacrifice Has flown away. j What profit then to sing or slay The sacrifice from day to day? “We know the shrine ia void," they said “The goddess flown— A 1 Yet wreaths are on the altar laid—I The altar-store Jf [ Is black with fumes of sacrifice, w* Albeit she has fled our eyes. ™ For, it may/be, if still we sing And tend the shrine. Some deity on wandering wing y May there incline; And, finding all In order inee Stay* while we worship at ba