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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
Mr.. Taft Has Troubles of His Own

Troubles are coming to Mr.. Taft.
He prefers the line of least resistance,
and yet he is not man of tact. He is
clumsy. AS a party leader and poll
tician he is already disappointment
within his own party This leads
those who have special reasons for at
lacking him, like the New York
Tribune, to predict Mr. Roosevelt's
nomination. The Tribune is disgrunt-
led because Seth Low or some other
man is to be sent to relieve from fur
Their service its editor as an ambassa-
dor at London That editors strong
point is lavish display socially speak
| ing, and the government is tired of so
much snobbishness. AS time runs on
similar opponents will increase in
numbers, and all will be apt to pull in
favor of the man in the jungles, be-
cause he supposedly has large popu-
lar following.
The second-term Taftites see more
danger, however, in the insurgent war
all along the line, even in New Jersey,
directed alike against the administra-
ton as well as against Cannon and
Aldrich. There are two hostile camps
in the republican party, and Senator
Cummins Of Iowa has already declared
war. Both sides are ready for the
fray, and both claim to be regulars.
Each is trying to read the other out
of the party, and each is reaching for
the others jugular.
The republican opponents Of the
present tariff bill will conduct a lively
campaign next year, and it is already
plain that Aldrich's central-bank plan
is doomed, and that Joe Cannons race
as spa is nearly run. Cannon
may be reelected to the next con-
gress, but there will be enough insur-
gents in the next congress to see that
he is not reelected speaker, even If
the democrats are not able to control
the house.
The Taft administration has thus
far lined up with Cannon and Aldrich.
It is not an administration that has
the courage of its convictions, and
there are probably troublesome days
coming to it. It Is said that Congress.
man Loudenslager. acting chairman Of
| the republican congressional commit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
THE sPINN Err.

By Mary Ainge De VereI
The spinner twisted her slender thread
And she sat, and spun
'"rhe earth and the heavens are mine,"
she said,
And the moon and sun;
Into my web the sunlight goes,
And the breath of May,
And the crimson life of the new-blown
rose
That was born today
The spinner sang in the hush Of noon,
And her song was low;
"Ah. morning, you pass away too soon.
You are swift to go.
My heart oerfows like a brimming cup
With its hopes and fears,
Love, come and drink the sweetness up
Ere it turn to tears
The spinner looked at the falling sun,
= rs 1t time to rest?
My hands are weary, my work In done
/ have wrought my best,
have spun and woven with patient eyea
And with fingers fleet.
Lo! where the toll of lifetime lies
In winding sheetr'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
RISING Tide Of Business

Full returns for october show that
the bank clearings outran those of Oc-
tober in either 1906 or 1907. A new
record in the first ten months of a
year has been established although the
early months of 1863 were not ex-
tremely active. The upward bound
of the past three months has put the
record of ten months to unapproach-
able figures. The total is $15,351 ,000,-
900. as against s14,550, OOO. 900 in the
corresponding fen months Of 1905.
Nor is this all We are producing
pia inn at a1sas'- aheled rate-about
SCyQ r~s ear. Railway earn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Richmond November 10.-With a bright
pleasant day the inhabitants of the former
capital of the Confederacy today turned
out in full force, gave President Taft a
hearty welcome and entertained him with
that warm hospitality for which Virginia
Is noted. The President and his party
reached Richmond at clock from
Wilmington, N. C. He appeared very
happy as he emerged from his private
car Mayflower at o'clock for the final
day of entertainment on his 1900 mile
tour
Members of Richmonds reception COM
mittee, headed by Governor Swanson and
Mayor Richardson, greeted the President.
Automobiles conveyed the party to the
Virginia executive mansion, where the
President was the guest of Governor
Swanson at breakfast.
The President then addressed members
of the Virginia State Press association
and the Times Dispatch Correspondents
association in the hall of the house of
delegates at the capitol at 10 o'clock.
Later in another room of the capitol the
President spoke to delegation of ne
groes.
Governor Kitchen of North Carolina
was the guest of the President In his
private car after leaving Wilmington last
night and Travelled part of the way to
Richmond. The Secretary of the Navy,
George Won l.. Meyer, met the President
here.
President Taft visited old st. John
church, where Patrick Henry made his
famous give me liberty or give me
death speech. and also st. Paups church
where Jefferson Davis, President of the
Confederacy, received the message from
General Lee saying that the Confederate
forces must evacuate Petersburg and
leave Richmond unprotected. The Presi-
dent also visited and spent some time in
tile Confederate museum. He made the
comment there that the picture of Jeffer-
son Davis which belonged to the museum
did not compare in excellence with the
one in the war department at Washing
ton. The museum officials said they
would probably apply to the Secretary
of War for permission to have a copy
made of the painting at Washington.
The Pre- sidents talk to the negro dele
cation was devoted mostly to education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
PARTLY NEWS.
rom Golfers Weekly

From Golfers weekly.
High politicians act with shrewdness,
and leading financers are still more care
full. The following outline may serve as
diet to intellectual appetites:
Mr.. Crane was selected by the President
on the recommendation of a man as un-
popular with professional politicians as
Mr.. Crane himself.
1t was received with disfavor by both
Of the senators from Illinois.
Mr.. Taft expressed the wish for uncon-
ventional candor on the ambassadors
part, along the lines Of his own Shanghai
speech.
The most daring speech made by Mr..
Crane, the one in which he spoke of
hold-up finance, was expressly approved
at the time by the Secretary of State.
Mr.. Crane endeavored repeatedly to OBJ
tain instructions from the secretary, or
any of his assistants. Finally, In despair,
he telephoned to the secretary that he
would be compelled to leave without even
passports. The secretary insured him
that no instructions were needed. and
that If any suggestions occurred to the
department they would be sent to San
Francisco.
On Saturday afternoon before Mr..
Crane was to sail a certain gentleman
called at Volley Forge. He was the
partner of one of the leading fnanciers
in the world-a financier who had large
part in the Chinese loan. Mr.. Knox 8
telegram was sent on the following day.
1t stated a reason SO frivolous that
scarcely anybody has taken 1t seriously.
One of the leading authorities on diplo-
macy in this country has stated that this
pretext was ridiculous. Everything that
was in the Chicago article had been pub
lished before; nobody paid any attention
to it; and Mr.. Cranes name did not ap-
pear
Another of the leading authorities on
diplomacy in this country, has stated
that Mr.. Knox proved beyond doubt his
unfitness for the post he holds.
The newspaper organ OF the great
financier referred to received Mr.. Knox's
rebuke to Mr. Crane with howl of de-
light. It stated gleefully that at last We
had Secretary of State who was his
own master. 1t meant, perhaps, not ex-
actly his own master, but, If dominated.
not by the President of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
From September to November.

I'm September, when the supporters OF
the amendment held state rally in the
Christian church. at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Twenty-frst street, for the
purpose of divorcing, as far as possible,
the amendment cause from politics, I
watched the proceedings with keen in
terest," said an old democrat.
1.-THE amendment bill was Matched in
politics and after the legislature adopted
1t the campaign was inaugurated by pro-
hibition politicians and was to be con-
Quoted as a political project. But amend
ment leaders soon heard a strong protest
against running the campaign in the in
terest of certain candidates for office and
got busy in a hurry to assure the people
that 1t was not a political move. but on
the contrary was only a great moral
Issue
Il laughed to myself as I looked on at
that Christian church meeting, for I saw
the utter impossibility of separating the
amendment campaign from politics I
listened to the 'no-politics' speeches, but
said l to myself these politicians can't
fool an intelligent public
ical meeting In place of worship. Mr..
Carmichael. speaker of the lower house
in the legislature, delivered y smooth
discourse, as he stood in the pulpit and
leaned over the Bible but 1t had a hollow
ring. 1t was the first time that I had
ever listened to Carmichael as a pulpit
orator and l was impressed, as were
others doubtless, with his ecclesiastical
JUNCTION and his apparent fitness for the
churchs work. But the rally was full
of politics all the same--as full of poll
tics as an egg of meat. The Idea ex-
pressed by Speaker Carmichael in Mont
gomery that the church people were 60
ing to run this state came to mind, and
then the self-righteous cant of certain
amendment leaders was all the more ac-
centuated.
THE rally that afternoon in the Chris
tian church and the rally that night in
the First Baptist church made many
weak-nerved and unthnking politicians
cling to the amendment band wagon.
They thought the church people were all
on one side and were going to elect con-
stitutional prohibition. But truth is
mighty and will prevail.
THE moral side of the amendment Is
all sham and pretense. Unsophisticated
men and women do not understand it SO.
But the freemen of Alabama who do
think along practical lines see the wrong
of it all and the humbus of it all, and the
politics of 1t ALL In the landslide ma
jority that will be rolled up against the
a large percentage of earnest, thoughtful,
consistent church members. Since Sep
TENDER there has been a ground swell
against amendment politics. political par
sons and arrogant politicians In general"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

THE LEGEND OF FOB WHITE.
The Meridian Dispatch publishes the fol-
lowing legend which tels how the call of
bob White! originated.
"A great many years ago, in a wigwam
south of town, there lived an Indian
maiden of high birth. Her father was
chief of the tribe and built great hopes
on his only daughter. She scorned any
indian brave who offered her father less
than 100 ponies for her, and in proud and
naughty fashion broke the heart of every
young brave in that section. Robert
White young white settler, came out to
buy skins of the Indians, and the maiden
fell desperately in love with him. Rob-
ert White had good taste and didn't like
the smell of deer oil on her hair and
seorned her love In true Indian fashion
she shot him In the back with a poisoned
arrow. The girl, overcome with remorse.
fed from his cold and clammy corpse into
the woods, calling as she went, in a pitt
full way: Bob White! Bob Whitev The
hills sent back the echo, and the birds
caught up the refrain and from that day
to this, If you are in the woods, you may
hear pitiful note with sob in 1t calling
out Bob White! Bob Whitei What be-
came of the maiden is not known She
was never seen in flesh again, though a
dusky looking form may be seen.sealing
In the evening when the birds are call
Ing Bob White! Bob Whittier"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
REFLECTIONS OF, A BACHELOR
From the New York Press

Much promise, little performance.
A man wants a lot of noise about his
glory.
Woman is flower and man is the
wintry gale that nips it.
What a woman likes about being an old
maid IL she expects to get over it any
minute.
If the average man spells word wrong,
he will argue he could prove 1t was the
way they used to do It II he could only
find an old dictionary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
WILL BE RESENTED.

From the Walker County News.
The impudence of Brooks Lawrence,
the Ohio carpetbagger. in denouncing
the supreme court of Alabama is made
doubly SO by his wanton attack upon
United States Senator Bankhead, whom
he called a saloon and whisky man.
The insult will be resented at the polls
on the 18th.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

would answer the dinner horn, now re-
sounds with the whistles of the factories
and the mills.
where l chased the fox, and drove the
deer with my pack of hounds, Banjo. and
Butler. Fiddler and Fanny, the forest
has been cut down by the wasteful hand
of man. and the signing of the wind in
the treetops has gone.
"When 1 looked at this vast stretch of
prairie made so by the destroying hand
of the seekers for gold, 1 could but sor-
row softly, as l thought of my friends
who roamed the forests with me, and
my faithful dogs who responded SO
readily to noisy halloo.
1.-THE people of Sylacauga are proud of
their little town.. and they have reason
to be. The farmers are improving their
land, and on all sides can be seen evil
dences of thrift and prosperity.
Should you go there, visit the CAN'T
marble quarries; great things are being
done there Long ago 7 wrote DR..
Gantt's will as he dictated it, my pay was
being kept in court for u years as a
witness If any heir to the estate ever
received a dollar to this good day l
do not know it.
"The sweet memories of the days of
which 1 have spoken. and the love for
the living will abide"
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tee, has decided to give no aid to the
election of insurgents on the ground
that they are not republicans. The
breach widens and it will continue to
widen up to November next at least.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
YE EDITOR.

II EDIIOR.
Ye editor
At untruth flies
And swiftly nails
A dozen lies.
He says the bride
Was passing sweet
And overlooks
The groom's big feet.
He sets up type
And feeds the press,
And faces want
With brave address.
A busy man,
No doubt, is he;
AS busy as
A man could be.
He's seldom praised,
But often blamed,
Yet of his toll
Is not ashamed,
And when we think
OF how he slaves
And hardly e'er
4 dollar saves,
And how he bears
The sings of fate
And still maintains
A cheerful gait,
We're led to b'lieve
Somewhere, somehow,
He'll WAR q oranrr.
Upon his brow!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

When the supreme court stood by
the sanctity of the home Brooks Law
renee said, 1--WE will find a way to
get around that. we will put it in the
constitution"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Commander Peary outranks Theo-
dore Roosevelt, for the former COM
mands $1.20 word for manuscript.
This is a record that promises to stand
a long time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
PRACTICALLY PUT

PRAOIIOAII1 PUI.
A practical man, who'd a practical plan
For plling up practical wealth,
Kept hard at the game, did this practical
man,
Till he'd lost all his practical health.
But practical STILL he refused to be i'll
And kept at his desk every day
Till death came along with a practical
chill
And practically laid him awayl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Ormsby McHarg calls Forester Pin
chot a trimmer" Why, of course. He
is trimming the water power trust,
however, instead of trees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Judge Heffelfinger is Yale's latest
football coach and he stands ready to
encourage mass plays that he does not
participate in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

A man died in a New York bar
ber's chair, and the barber had not
said a word to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Two brave old soldiers lined up
against the amendment when our two
United States senators stated where
they stood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Mr.. Gompers proposes to indulge In
free speech right up to the prison door
at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Uncle Joe may be compelled to have
an entire Pullman car unless he can
control his penchant for snoring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

BOYS start In school with the hockey
worm and later they acquire the hook
worm over in Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
As Fateful Day Approaches.

IT used to take a lively interest in poll
TICS" said member of Brmingham's
Virginia colony, land was a worker in
many Virginia campaign. In Alabama
I have been a steady voter but 1 no
longer do more in politics than cast my
ballot.
AT the beginning of the present cam
paign l was undecided as to how l would
vote. l am in sympathy with the pro-
hibtion movement but recently it has be.
come clear to my mind that constitutional
prohibition is a miserable failure It has
proved a marked failure in Maine, in
Kansas and in other states where tried,
and conditions are such in Alabama as
would make 1t a rank failure here.
THE amendment is defeated. Some of
my amender friends connected with head
quarters, while not admitting to me that
they are whipped, are far less cocksure
In their talk than they were 10 days
ago. Five ex-governors. two United
States senators. the ablest legal talent
in Alabama and nearly all the farmers
are against the amendment, and 1t is i'm
possible for the amendment machine to
win against such heavy odds. The amend
ers will beat their tom-toms and keep up
a show of hope until election day, but
the bottom is falling out and the democrat
ization will be more and more in evidence
as November 20 approaches.
st was In Virginia when General Ma
home met his waterloo His defeat was in
the air several days before the election;
and the amendment party in Alabama be-
gins to look just as the Malone party
did on the eve of the collapse of Mahone's
machine. After the smoke Of battle blows
away the Anti-Saloon league will prob
ably be reorganized and conducted as a
nom political force. Under the present
system, after its primary object was ac-
complished, 1t slipped up on the people
and taking them unawares brought on an
expensive election and plunged the state
into political turmoil. My prediction is
that Jefferson county will give majority
of 1000 against the amendment and the
state majority of 1000 to 10000 against
it. Mr. Hugh Morrow coming out against
the amendment was reassuring to all the
ants. Perhaps no one knows county poll
tics quite SO well as Mr.. Morrow"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

The President kept his eyes open
while crossing the country but he saw
only one man willing to become min
lister TO China
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THE RECKONING.

Toiling, toiling, toiling
Till lifes little day is done,
And the sum of the years is counted
And the goal is lost or won
Till the cold death dews are falling
on eyes that are fain of sleep
And a voice, whence we know not, whis-
pers,
/'What We SOW, that ye still must reap"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Checle is giving out and chewing
gum may attempt to initiate eggs In
an upward flight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

All who want a slice of that million
dollar Rockefeller fund should secure
a hookworm at the earliest opportun-
ity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
DAMNINo WITH FAINT PRAISE.

From the Walker County News.
Captain Hobson and the editor of the
Birmingham Ledger are >damning the
proposed constitutional amendment
with faint praise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

A California preacher has quit to
become an undertaken. He got tired
of the academic end of the business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Tammany has put three women on
the school board, and all admit that
the appointees are beyond praise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Cuban statesmen recently fought a
well-managed blank-cartridged spectac-
ular duel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
HEARD AT THE zoo.

HEARD AT THE zoo.
1.-THE Tiger seems to be very proud of
his beautiful stripes.
Yes; he reminds me of some drum
mers I know"
How is thatT'
HE devotes great deal of attention to
his side lines"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Mayor-elect Gaynor is encouraging
a small premature boom for president
in 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

A. lazy man should be asked to prove
that he is not afflicted with hook
worms
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

The Eskimos led white men to the
north pole, thereby cutting off their
supplies of gumdrops.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

New England is also endeavoring to
breed car famine, even as the west
and south have one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

The drummers home for voting or
other purposes has been held to be
where he sends his pay check.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Pellagra and the hookworm are at
tracing the attention of millionaires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

yes; she says she didn't spend half as
much for souvenir post cards as she did
on her previous trip"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

"Why do you recommend pneumatic
tires for the water wagon?"
"Oh, merely to deprive weakened
brothers of the excuse that they were
jolted off,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
APPEARANCES

Full MANY a man who owns an auto car
And seems to be immune from every i'll,
Although he smiles and smokes a good
cigar,
Has not wherewith to pay his grocery
bill.
And oftentimes the dame whose Jewels
In ways to make her poorer neighbors
stare,
For Just one word of love doth sorely pine
And deems life's burdens passing hard
to bear PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
OF COURSE IT wouL1

OF COURSE IT WOULD.
'sToot tootl toot!'
A chap across the way
Upon a noisy cornet
Is learning how to play.
Beg pardon-he's not learning
At all, that I can see;
I wonder, If I shot him,
Would the jury set me free?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Mr.. Hearst aid Mr.. Bryan have each
scored three defeats.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Forewarned Is forearmed. Don't
trust your homes to future legislatures
without limit or restriction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Theodore Roosevelt has hunted al
most everything except the hookworm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

The hookworm should be asked to
explain it's views on tainted money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Nine Sleinheil admits thar she had
some shortcomings as vita. She Is
certainly candid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11

Joe Cannon is inclined to resent the
charge that he snores in a sleeping
car