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The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

When a Turkish official Is reported by
the court 10 have died Of spoplexy.~ his
klnfoIks are generally wise enough not 70
ask for particulars
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

No matter what the -bookies" may
think Of II. Hughes looks like a good. safe
bet il New York
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

We believe we might be able 20 struggle
along in this country without any fur
ther remarks from Carus0 concerning his
family affairs
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

The Pittsbu-g Dispatch says the late
affair al Springfield was neither sec
uonaI nor political" Il wasn't exactly a
pink tea. either. was 81
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

Thornton jenkins Hams lawyer in
rfnates that he viii plead insanity on be-
half OF his client and prove II by the
books he has written This is enough 10
make such authors as Cyrus Townsend
Brady and Marie CorelI trsmble in their
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23
HIS AdrIce.

Here's a lady wants 20 know how TO
remove grease from soup
Tell her 70 rub the soup briskly with
soft cloth saturated in gasoline" said
the snake editor. who vas helping out
with the Answers 10 correspondents"
that day
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23
The Returning vacationist.

As down the verdure-covered hills
The train doth wind.
He's thinking Of the roll Of bills
he left behind
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

SUNDAY. AUGUST .. 1sos-
The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

QAIeG are Q4lL4L4AAE l-le4A tIliS4 4L-llA--
The New York Mail urges its Repub-
ncan brethren TO wake Up and hustle.
reminding them that the present cam
paign is not TO be a walk-Over FOR Mr..
Taft II says:
When Mr. Bryan was nominated at
Denver last month. the Evening Mail
expressed the opinion that he would
poll more votes than any other Demo
crat that could be named. That opinion
is confirmed more and more as the
campaign progresses. for we doubt
whether anv close observer Of political
currents questions the fact that many
Democrats have determined 70 90 back
to their party. and that many in
( fiuential Democratic leaders. heretofore
strongly autf-Bryan. are now urging
the election OF their national ticket Il
l did not seem probable. before Mr. Bry-
ans nomination that he could muster
| these forces behind his candidacy. New
ertheless. he has done SO, with Marse
Henry Watterson. who in 1885 refused
I TO march through a slaughterhouse into
an open grave as the enthusiastic
/ leader Of the returning prodigals.
The effect on the campaign is that
/ Bryan Is stronger to-day than he was
/ at the time OF his nomination. and Re
1 publicans who desire 70 have their party
| win az the polls in November must make
/ Up their minds that a stiff contest IS
ahead of them. The last three national
! campaigns have put Republicans in the
mood TO anticipate Democratic defeat
under any and all conditions. That feel
l ing Of security against Democratic vic
tory cannot be too quickly put aside. A
Democratic victory is not impossible. par
ucularly If Mr. Bryan continues to gain
as he has gained to date
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
The Undertaker's Defense.

People seem to think that the under taker likes to have people die.' said one of Birminghams undertakers This Is a very much mistaken impression, for you will find that the members of this profession are about the most sympa- thetic and biggest hearted men to be found anywhere. They probably shed more tears than any other class of men, and the huge salt drops are the sincere article. When we enter home where deaths angel has just visited, 1t is very often only with the greatest effort we manage to do our work. so overcome are we with emotion.
 None of us want to see anybody die, but ours is a business born of necessity, for there must be someone to care for the dead. If the people should quit dy- ing, why we could make living in some other line of work just as easily. It takes a healthy man with strong nerves for our business, and with this capacity we could easily pick up another good position if deaths angel stopped coming around. Just meet an undertaken and see what a good friend he will be to you. He is the kind of friend that will stick to the last"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
THE SILENT WOMAN.

From the New York Times.
 It is announced by the newly formed League for the Civic Education of Wom- en that members of President Roose- velt's cabinet United States senators, members of the federal and state ju- dietary and professors of the leading uni- versailles will speak and teach against the suffrage movement from it's platform. The league will endeavor ito get from the silent woman an expression of her opinion on questions affecting most near ly her political. economic and social status.
 There is enough substance in suffra- gism to awaken this hostility and for nidable opposition. The silent woman of today is not the woman of her grandmotneis time, partly because of the elevatlns foi ces that have given the vocal woman her spirit in demanding the reins of government. That it is a nasty and overexuberant spirit. one that forgets that this is, after all. world of divided responsibilities according to nat ural fitness, and will remain so, her more sober sister is well equipped to point out. That the silent woman has enlisted in her cause the support of the best men of the nation is an augury of her success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Arkansas Has Too Many Governors

Former Congressman Little was elected governor of Arkansas in 1906, but his mind began to fail soon after he had been sworn in, and he lies to- day hopelessly i'll in mind.
 When he became unable to serve President of the Senate X. o. Pindall became governor, and all went well until the acting governor went to Washington to attend the White House conference. He knew that Speaker Hamiter, who stood next in the line of succession, had knives up his sleeve, but after deciding to take the Secre- tary of State and other leading officials with him he went away from Little Rock to attend the conference.
 Hamiter at once took charge of the executive office. Ills chief act on the spot consisted in calling a special ses- sion of the legislature ostensibly to consider the completion of the state house, but really to annoy and perplex Acting Governor Pindall. Pindall hur- riedly returned to Little Rock and his first act after returning home was to revoke the Hamiter call for a special session. What the members of the legislature will do is unknown and is decidedly uncertain. Hamiter directed them to meet in special session next Monday and the outside world will have to wait until Monday next in order to ascertain whether the will of Hami- ter or that of Pindall is to be respect ed. Arkansas is to elect new gov ernor this year, and neither Hamiter or Pindall secured the democratic nom- nation. Colonel Donaghue is the com ing man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Our Opportunity Today

A vote cast for Oscar w. Underwood today is a vote cast for the chairman of the ways and means committee in the next Congress, which stands pledged by both parties to revise the tariff. The ways and means commit tee is the one that prepares the revi- sion bill. and this district has, there fore, an opportunity to take distinct and important hand in the work that all have looked forward to many years.
 Vote today then for Oscar w. Under wood. He is not here to speak for himself. He is in his seat acting for his constituents in the closing days of Congress. In his absence let us roll up for him full vote. Give him a vote he will long remembers vote that will accelerate if possible his march to the head of the greatest com mittee in the national House of Repre- sentatives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
AMERICAN POSE.
m the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the 1HlldueipHld lcuSCi.
 Takes considerable to rattle a crowd of Americans" said the man from the West Side q was in the Market street car that jumped the track at the corner, climbed the curb and leveled section of iron fence around the Masonic tenn pie.
 Was I scared? Well, I might have been if the conductor hadn't kept his head. Don't be aarmedn he yelled, the building'll stop us. Now that's what I call nerve. Several people tried to telescope each other, but nobody got mad about it. One chap said he had thought he was onto Philadelphias curves all right. but it was difficult to stay on. Another had a theory that patrons were merely getting the shake down that the management had promised. Another fel- low got dumped into a womans lap, and begged her pardon. Don't mention it. Mr. Jenkins, she answered. It isn't as though we hadn't been introduced, you know How is your wife?'
 "Oh, you can't rattle us.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
THE soNG-WRITER's REWARD.

From the New York World.
 The defendant in a pending New York divorce suit is stated to receive an income Of sS000 a year or more from writing songs. His compositions are of f1eeting popular order They please for a season. as rendered by concert hall favorites, and another years audiences never hear them. It is rather a striking fact that topical jingles are such frequent instruments of financial success, while ballads that live long yield scant returns to their authors.
 After the Balf'-who ever sings it now? Yet it paid s36,0oo in royalties .p reaped richly from his Two Little Girls in Blue" Paul Dresser got at least s30,- GOO from "On the Banks of the Wabash" and almost as much from Just Tell Them that You Saw Me" "Good-By Dolly Cray" bought s15,0o0 to Paul Barnes. '"rhe Good Old Summer Time'' was worth Sl0,OO0 to Evans and Shields, and so the list goes on.
 On the other hand Septimus Winner got but s35 for 'Lsten to the Mockipg Bird" which still lives, and Stephen c. Foster, with his "Old Folks at Home,'
 old Kentucky Home," Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming and other ballads prosperity at $1500 year. Benjamin Rus- sell Hanby never got cent for Nellie Cray and did not know his song had been published till he heard it in a Cleveland concert hall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Car Thievlnu Decreasino.

'Thieving in the railroad yards ap- pears to be on a decided decrease,' said a special agent for the Louisville and Nashville yesterday.
 Where box cars of merchandise and various other goods were formerly broken open almost nightly, such occurrences are now few and far between. This is accounted for by the fact that better and more reliable men are now employed in the yards. When the recent depres- sion began to tell on the business of the railroads quite a large number of men were turned off and naturally the best men were retained. There Is no doubt that a great part of the car rob- berries are committed by employees of the railroads, and when the less reliable men were discharged and then replaced by the more honest the decrease in the num- Der of robberes was quite perceptible."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Theodore ROOSeYelt,S Popularity

On Thursday of this week the Cali held and the republicans of that state voted in the primary of May g in favor of an instructed Roosevelt delegation. The republicans voted in that primary directly, just as the democrats of Ala bama will do on May IS. Roosevelt received in California the largest num- Der of votes, with Taft and Hughes trailing behind.
 The California convention will be recreant to duty and instructions if it fails to send a straightout Roosevelt delegation to Chicago. A failure to do this would be duly promised in No yember, and it is not probable that the instructions of the primary will be disregarded.
 Beyond all doubt Roosevelt is the first choice of the rank and file of the republican party, and the attempt to put in a substitute will recoil on the men who are engaged in doing It. The logical candidates of the two parties are Bryan and Roosevelt, and the chances are very good that they become the standard bearers of the two great parties. No reactionary of any sort is wanted by either party, and when the facts are brought out a reac- tionary of the Taft type will prove a loser in November A contest between Roosevelt and Bryan would be con test between two progressives, each outspoken, candid and thoroughly sin cere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Signs in the Way.

'I am glad to see that the city au- thorities are taking up the matter of signs on the streets, said a citizen yes terday.
 Tt seems to me that the law with ref erenee to the construction and placing of signs is very plain, and one that could be very easily complied with. There is nothing that can detract from the gen. eral good appearance of the streets than lot of poorly kept signs. The matter of electric signs is one of importance. When these signs are kept lighted they are an ornament to the street and a thing of public good by reason of the manner in which they light up the arteries of the business section of the city, but when some are left burning and others turned out the appearance is irregular and un- attractive.
 "As matter of protection the various miscellaneous signs that are being put up throughout the city should be placed at least six and one-half feet above the sidewalk, as the law requires. It is at least very unpleasant to step out of the way of a lady on the street and be scraped on the side of the face by one of these red, white and blue whirly-gig signs. of which we now see so many in Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18

year the age limit will be lowered to 65 years.
 The tories have diclIered with the wage-earners often heretofore, and in order to regain power they will again attempt to build up a tory democracy. For this reason it is predicted that the Asquith pension bill will be passed almost unanimously, socialistic though it be. The German plan may be said to promote thrift, while the English plan pulls perhaps in the opposite direction, but the investigations of a pension committee disclosed the fact that the earnings of the British work ing population are so low it would not be possible to put them on the German basis. They could not spare the money, so close are their earnings to bare living expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
HARRY HoUpINPs NEWEST TRICK

From the Philadelphia North American. experts busy wondering how he manages to do his remarkable feats of escaping from handcuffs, strait jackets, packing boxes and like forms of Imprisonment, has added another trick to the list that promises to be the most mystifying of all.
 He introduced the new idea for the first time in Philadelphia at Keith's, Mon day, and it created quite sensation.
 This latest invention is in the form of water tight and air tight iron can just large enough to hold the performer, stopping. It is filled to the brim with water and Houdini enter with his wrists nianacled behind him. There Is not the least doubt about this part of the feat, for every possible chance is given to ex- anime each step in it's progress. The lid is now put on and fastened with six pad locks. The artists head is under water, and it is apparently impossible for him to breathe, see or do more than move.
 The can Is rolled into a cabinet, and in about minute Houdini appears in front of the curtains, the can is brought out still locked and containing the original quanti- ty of water. It is, of course, mechanical trick, but how it is done, especially in such a short time will furnish those disposed to tackle hard problems a worthy subject
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
MAUDE ADAMS REHEARSES

spirits of the "adopted" girl find re- f1ection in her.
 The stage hands at. the theatre will tell you that all hours are working hours with Maude Adams. The cur tain may indeed ring down." the lights be extinquished, but that does not necessarily mean the end of the day nor home for her, so long as tlfere re- mains another point to be gained. There is a storehouse of energy yet to be drawn from for the help of others or for herself.
 Every rehearsal of "The testers" con- ducted by MT. Frohman was attended and participated in by Miss Adams not a usual practice with actresses of her prominence.
 She leaves nothing to "the inspira- tion of the first night" With a mans energy for thoroughness and a wom- ans nimbleness in attaining it, she works and works, contrives and schemes until she carries out her ideas, once they are fully determined upon. But it is work leavened with fine sense of fun.
 Maude Adams ambition at each per formance of Peter Pan' was to beat the pirate, Hook, of course-but, bet ter still, as he scampered away up the stairs of the pirate ship, to catch his Tapping coat-tails. It was poor nigat if Hooks coat-tails escaped her.
 In her fencing bout with MT. von Seyferttz at rehearsal, Miss Adams was as jubilant as boy with his first Waterbury watch, when she finally forced him into tight corner and made things warm for him.
 "Goodsr cried the admiring yon Seynerttz, and Miss Adams dropped her weapon as she laughed at the Ger man actors way of saying "Good!'
 The one trait most characteristic of her, even on the eve of new produc- ton, is her unvarying good humor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Knew His Man.

"Hima sure gotta girl" said waiter in one of the Greek quick lunch restau- rants as young fellow with a sour looking visage passed out of the place
 Always tella it. Hima come in here and can't tella what he wanta eat First he say lika he wanta fight 'Giva me some pie! I ask hima what kind he wanta and he go right up m the air lika you say. Then he don't wanta pie. Say, 'giva me steak and when I yell out to cook he yell at me- don't wanta that wait a while' Then I wait on mother man and come back. He wanta ham and eggs, then he change and wanta steak again Then he say, the dickens, cut it out giva me pie I done thinka hima in love and when hima calla for pie I done know it. Alaways tell it thata way. Whena call for everything and thena say, just giva me pie hma in love. All same way all over the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners
 all. -2 King Henry VI.
Vote for William Jennings Bryan

Colonel Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal started into the cur rent campaign by discovering Governor Johnson and advocating his nomina- ton. He soon saw, however, that MT. Bryan is the choice of the rank and file of the democratic party. He de- fined in last Saturdays Courier-Jour- nal his position, as follows:
 This is to be the paramount issue in the campaign. Predatory wealth still seeking to rule-the trust-breeding tariff behind it-the combine of rascaldom ex- posed by the insurance scandals, the Traction scandals, and the proclamations of the President to back it's candidates, certain New York newspapers to organ grind for them-Taft, the middleman and make believe, already chosen for the one party-what could we do with nominee under the smallest suspicion, or in the least degree equivocal? We could do nothing. The case on it's face shows for itself.
 Tn short, and in fine, gentlemen of the east, if you are resolved to have 1t so, we have come to parting of the ways. But if you will take the coun- sells of an old friend. you will stop a little and think a lick or two. You cannot beat Bryan at Denver. If you could you would have on your hands reproduction of 1904 And then? Why, this, that, in- stead of Bryan, you would have Hearst to reckon with; Rienzi of the sections and of the yellow press, with a bag of gold, maybe as big as your own. Bet ter take Bryan whilst you may. If you be democrats, good and true, swallowing your doubts as we have swallowed ours, you will.''
 The opportunity to indorse Bryan comes to Alabama democrats today, and it is reasonably certain that not "a single county in this state will repu- diate a man who stands staunhh and true to every interest of the many. He is the choice of the Plain People, and they should take precious good care to place a mark "X' before his honored name on the official ballot when they go to the polls today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
L. 1T. R., in the Newark Star.


 1H HB papers gave Nellie Browns \CR death considerable space for a
 day and there was some edi- toria1 excitement over the manner of her taking off That ended the surface signs of public interest in the case, but great many people will remember Nellie Brown for a long time to come, even if she was only working girl" The re- porters did not know how they dignihed the word when they applied it to her.
 Nellie was the eldest of several sisters. She had been head of the family since late in tho 'e0's, when her father died. His death came in the middle of her school fife. She stopped school and went to work at she first thing she could find to do. sh4 weighed out garden seed and made up packages. When most of the girls, put 0r for the spring rush. were laid off, the seed company kept Nellie and she never left the companys service
 At home at nlght she studied to prepare herself for opportunities that might come to her. siie tock up botany in a night school ant won the regard of the head of the botanical department of a nearby university, who helped her to higher courses in ner chosen subject. In time she became member of an illustrious seminary, the other members of which, with their acaaemic degrees and honors, did not guess that the bright-eyed little woman who knew so much about eulti- vated flowers was a working girl.
 A worker she was, and almost indis- pensable at home and in the store. Her invalid mother required new attentions and comforts constantly; her sisters need cd help ill their schooling; the pay ments on the home had to be met, and Nellie bore all these burdens gladly. At the store the company placed her in charge of the retail department, with a dozen girls under her direction. They, in their inexperience, turned to her with the thousand questions and perplexities of the days worh, and her knowledge never failed them, nor her smile Half the town bought garden seed of her and found her an authority in any branch of horti- culture. "She knowed more about gar dens than I'll ever know said truck farmer, who stopped in the middle of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
0ld-Age Pensions In England

Germany has long had compulsory old-age insurance, the government pay . ing about third and the beneficiary paying the remainder during his active years. Italy, France and other Euro pean countries promote voluntary in- surance against old age. Premier As quith, however, brings forward in the budget presented last week a plan that resembles more nearly the plans of Australia and New Zealand.
 MT. Asquith proposes to place the entire burden on the government. The age of bene1ciaries is to be17O years CT over, and they are to receiSe $1.50 a week, or about s3O,OOO,Ooo aN told. The treasury is in condition toNmeet the proposed appropriation. and\ the prediction is freely made that nNxt