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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
SHORT sToRY pIALoGuI

SHORT bTORY DIALOGUE.
 'fWell, as livel It Is MT. Rasher! How is Yokahama2"
 "Finel What's doing in Paree?"
 "Deadly dull, hear. I've been at Monte Carlo for seven weeks.'
 You don't sayi Did you see my friend, the Countess Froufrou?''
 ''Yes. I'm asked to spend 10 days at her country estate in Brittainy
 Lucky fellowl After a few weeks here in dear old Lunnon I'm going over to New York; Over in one boat and back in the next. you know Then away to my shooting lodge in Scotland.''
 Note: The author of the story from which this cosmopolitan chat is taken is a quiet resident of 'Possumville and has never been anywhere. PAUL COOK.
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TO BANNER BEARERS.

Bear your banner bravely-
 Trail 1t not in dust; Hope and faith and courage Build perfect trust. Though the world may faunt you, Treat you with disoaln. Keep the goal before you, Struggle on amainl Bear your banner bravely- With a purpose true; Rise from every sorrow,
 Conquer pain and rue. Never play the craven, Even though you fall; Worth may be defeated,
 Winning isn't all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26

Japan and Russia prefer to act as keepers of the Open Door in Man. ehuria.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
Ihe ract of ReceptIveness.

"It is a very good idea to cultivate the knack or the tact of receptiveness. even to the point of sometimes being bored" said a well-informed man. T had some experience once with .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26

Privilege dies as hard in Great Brit ain as it does in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26

Miss Marjorie Gould evidently thinks her Aunt Anna is enough in one family for a generation at least,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26

President Taft is slow in making ap- pointments. He cannot see any reason for being in a hurry.
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FICTION A LA MODE.

FICTION A LA MODE. I like to read a novel,
 In which the heroine Is heiress to a million
 And owns a limousine, And makes eyes at the chauffeur, And's never known to lag, Ands drawn by Harrison Fisher. Or James Montgomery F1agg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
Inquiry Into Price of MIX.

New York. January 25.-An effort to 1x criminal responsibility for the high price of milk was begun today under the Don nelly monopoly act by a special grand jury.
 Under the same act a previous grand jury with the same foreman, Evert Jan sing Wendell. the philanthropist and am- ateur athlete, indicted the American Ice company for criminal conspiracy in re- straint of trade saA
 The district. attorney said today that judging from the amount of evidence the investigation would probably last from six weeks to two months. In charging the grand jury Justice Goff said in part:
 ''It Is charged that dealers and han dlers fin this city have entered into a combination for fixing the price of milk If that be true I charge you that these men have committed crimes
 Tt makes no difference about the mo- tives, even if they were philanthropic. Tho intent to do the act must be in- fered from the doing.'
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It will be difficult to say what MT. Knox has gained in the Manchurian railway matter.
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LIKES TO BRAG.

''He says he is an average man."
 ''That's what he tells everybody" "Insufferably conceited. don't you think?'
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TAKE IT NOW.

If others good luck
 Inspires your resentment, For you I'd prescribe
 A dose of contentment.
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sALYE

He brides himself on being pedes- trian." "Ahi I see. He can't afford to own
 an automobile"
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BOYCOTT AFFECTS
 PRICES OF FOOD

Pittsburg, January 25-Prices of all food products are beginning to feel the effect of the boycott on meats which went into effect with about 125,O0o people today. Hogs, calves and lambs at local yards again dropped in price today from 5 to 15 cents a hundred. Developments were indicative that the movement of the people of Pittsburg is genuine re- volt. Butter and eggs and in many in stances vegetables are being shaded in prices Butcher stalls and markets in residential sections are well nigh de- serted.
 In Pittsburg there was a rush on the fish markets. Fish prices are lower than they have been for some months and the consumption of oysters and fish will be startling according to one of the deal CTS.
 District Attorney William A. Blakely today expressed himself in favor of a grand jusry investigation into the causs of the high prices and said that he would present the matter upon the first com plaint made to him. This was taken to be an invitation for somebody to start something for the county officials to take up.
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At the cat shows there is to be no meat boycott
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SOME scANDA

I've just hit upon a new idea for a book"
 What is 1t about?"
 "The man in the moon tells all he knows"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
Greatest Dam in the World.

up to the first of the present year the Assouan dam impounding the waters of the Nile in Egypt was the largest in the world but the United States has sur- passed 1t in the Shoshone dam at Cody,, Wyo.," said man just from the west.
 "On January r the last course of con- crete on a solid wall of concrete 32S.O feet high, making a monolith, was put on by the workmen. The dam will im- pound the waters of the shoshone river and will refill an ancient lake of 5000 acres in-the 'Bighorn Country and bring into cultivation by irrigation 132,0oo acres Of land. The dam is located in canyon or the Shoshone river. Tunnels through the walls of the canyon will release the waters which will flow down the channel of the river 16 miles to Corbett, where a diversion dam will turn the current into a tunnel two and one-half miles in length, and then be used for irrigation purposes The Corbett dam and tunnel have already been completed and some 2o,0Oo acres or irrigated lands are cultivated by means of this water supply"
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SOON.
The Jingle chap

The jingle chap
 And the funny man Will soon get gay
 With the baseball fan, And Casey's now
 Immortal rhyme Will make its rounds
 For the thousandth time!
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Will Stay In the Race.

"A great many people seem to think that former Chief Justice Samuel D. Weal1ey will withdraw from the contest for the governorship, but why there should be such an impression I cannot imagine,' said a well-known business man yesterday. Judge Weakley an- nounced his candidacy last year before the amendment campaign had started. He is no quitter and my estimate of his stay ing qualities was confirmed when I asked him the direct question relative to his remaining in the race, and heard his answer expressed unequivocally to the ef- feet that he would make an active can- vass and would be in the fight to the close of the primary May 2. Judge Weak ley is counting on large personal fol- lowing, which he will undoubtedly have. for many prominent men who voted against the amendment and several who made speeches against it are going to vote for Weakley on personal grounds. And I have an idea that he will get very large prohibition vote. But no matter what the outlook for victory might be, he will not come. down.
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Columbia all his life.
Cheerful report, this. ashingtonians
arc mighty fond of the play depicting
Washington life 1t takes them far
away from home. enables them To- peer
into such a realm of the wholly unfami,-
lar. that it's almost as good as travelling.
II soothes them with its atmosphere and
a aroma of a strange remoteness. 1t por-
trays men and women and manners and
things that they have never seen or heard
of.
Now, who wouldn't visit TanSier or
Teheran? Well, the average Washington
play Is just about as faithful a picture of
life I'm either one Of those places as it is
portrayal of life in Washington. There
have been Washington plays that breath
ed the spirit of Timbuktu and exhaIed the
efiiuvia OF Topeka.
Lets pull out of their box and ex-
anime some of these perennial puppets
OF the conventional Washington play.
To begin with. we'll take the United
States senator of the Washington play
Isn't he always the gay old clip? He is
hopelessly addicted to peari-colored cloth
ing, with "a frock coat, and TO four-in-
hand cravats more crimson than the
fiamingo of Paraguay. Generally lie has
backing brush hirsute chin-piece.
lie rarely walks on or off around
the stage. His method of locomoiion is "A
sort of dance, or hop. skip and jump. In
his cost-tsil out fan-Ni in his hands
and trips merriiy through the ConvoltItious
of the Czech mazurka. In his sobcrcr
moments he portrays thoughtfulness by
pulling rcfectively at his hirsute chin
piece.
Hes the chummicst imaginable
terms with nearly every body in the play.
lie whacks his private secretary on the
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REVERE CROSSING
CHARLES RIVER.

when he arrived at the Rev. Mr. Clark 5
house in Lexington. \ guard was about
the residence to protect the slumbering
statesmen. They ordered Revere to make
no noise lest he awaken the two men.
Noise" HE roared, you'll have noise
enough before long. The regulars are
coming out"
Then he went to the house and aroused
Hancock and Adams. A little later he
was off for Concord.
Revere was forty years old light of
frame, wiry and superbly healthy. He
saw what little there was of the battle
of Lexington. Up to this time all the
work he had done in the continental
cause had been gratuitous. The day
after Lexington he was engaged regularly
as outdoor messenger of the committee
OF safety He did not fail to put i'm a
bill and the committee promptly cut it
down.
Revere does not seem to have felt any
i'll Will for the way his accounts were
audited by the continental and the fed
eral governments. Nearly every bill he
presented was pruned. Next he was en-
ployed to make a copper plate and print
SJ0o,G0o in notes. His bill for this work
was cut one-third. After the British
evacuated Boston lie was elected ma jor
of one of the regiments of the Massachu-
sets militia. 1t was Il matter of regret
to him that he did not get into the con-
tlnental army. After serving six months
as major he WAS promoted to a heuten-
ant colonelcy. and transferred to the ar
tillery in what was known as the Mas
sachusetts State Train. His son Paul.
who was sixteen years old. a lieu
tenant. In one of the letters he wrote at
this time Revere bewails the fact that
few of the Sons of Liberty We're i'm the
army Most of the men who did the talk
ing before the war We're careful to let
others do the fighting when the conflict
began. Revere was one of the few who
both talked and fought.
He was in command of the force in
Fort William in Boston harbor. and i'll
August. 117I. went with his regiment to
Worcester to receive the prisoners cap
tured in the battle of Bennington. Fol
lowing this came the one thing IN Re-
Feres life that laid him open to criticism.
He was i'm the wretched Penobscot expe-
dition sent out from Boston in which
Commodore Saltonstall behaved SO badly.
Nothing in the revolutionary war was
worse than this affair. The American
fore" was ample, but through bad man
aSennent aud worse the underta king ended
IN disaster. Most of the blame rested on
Satonstall for whose conduct there
seems TO be no excuse. but charges of
INSTRUMENTATION and cowarlice were made
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rugs without apology, but they take il
goodnaturediy, for they know that the
lobbyist Is powerful. dangerous and
Nindictive individual who has most of
the national legislators crushed under his
heel or reposing helpIessIy in the hol-
lows of his pudgy palms
~
The lobbyist is dissipated, middle
aged chap. as a rule-you can all but sea
the concentrated beads of old vintages
standing out OH his sinister forehead. He
DULLES renowned legislators something
scandalous corras them in shadow cor
nerS OF drawinE rooms and threatens
en- and misses at EN- that if they don't
do what he wants them to do he'll fix
en- all right: and they cove, and quail
under his balefuI glare. just as natural as
anything you ever saw in your born
days
He always carries a tremendous roll
of yellow currency i'm his outside over
coat pocket. and YOU are to suppose that
all of this currency is in the form of
en-thousand-dollar bills Everybody I'm
Washington knows, from having been
told so by playWrights since before the
great patent Office fire. that when lob
byists do business with legislators they
invariably do the oiling with ten thou
sand-dolar bills. that being the sort of
money least liable to attract attention
when the corrupted legislators begin 10
blow it in.
The lobbyist in the Washington play
always. as a matter Of course, gets ii
where Minnehaha wore the eiks teeth
before the final curtain. To some folks
if seems mistake and likewise a pity 10
polish him off in this manner. for he Ger
tainly appears to be just about as decent
chap as any of the rest OF them i'll the
play, and swell spcnder besides. Bue
they always foil the lobbyist in the
Washington play. | couldn't conscien-
tiousy say that I ever lobbyist
with ii fur-trimmed oyercoat get foilcd ia
Washington. but the playWriEhtS who
do tho Washington thing apparently
have seen them Oh all sides in Washing
ton. and guess they ought to know
What they see, hadn't they?
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ne RLN

hut Mr.. Eve was more of monopolist
than a patriot. He had the only powder
mill left I'm America. The British au
thorities had destroyed all the others. AS
trust Mr.. Eve saw nothing to bother
him The Continental Congress had to
buy from him at his price or shut up
shop. He was chock fun of the spirit of
independence, but business was business.
He was delighted to see Mr.. Paul Revere
of Boston and complimcnted him on being
Vouched for by such excellent gentlemen
Morris. Hancock and Dickinson. but
not only would not explain the process of
powdermakng to Mr.. Revere, but would
not talk powder to him. He guarded his
mill with the most Jealous care and deli
cately let Mr.. Revere know that the
sooner Mr. Revere departed the better
Mr.. Eve would like it.
Revere was so quick to take the hint
that Mr.. Ewes manner softened some
what and he was gracious enough to let
Revere walk through the mill just before
he departed. Mr.. Eve had not taken note
of Reveres quick eye, nor had he an idea
of his visitors knowledge of chemistry.
or he would not have been so surprised
later when he found that Revere had
learned enough to rebuild the old powder
mill at Canton, Mass, and begin to sup
ply tons of powder to the continental
army
A useful. lively. versatile man was Paul
Revere He came by his vivaciOus man
ner naturally because of his French
blood. His people, being Huguenots, fed
from France at the time of the edict of
Nantes. and his father. Apollos Rivoire.
had angliciZed his name into Paul Revere
when he came to America in 1102. The
Paul Revere of history was born in Bos-
ton. January 1. 1875. He was not a
great man and he had few of the quail
tiles OF leadership. but what he lacked in
genius he made up in activity bodily
and mentally.
He was jack of all trades and master
of not few. He was surgeon, dem
fist an engraver a goldsmith. "A car
bells. pots. kettles. cannons, spikes. nuts
and bolts; printer. d soldier and YER
sifier Apparently he was pugnacious.
for he had "a goodly number of enemies
and got into many rows Far back in
the records there is a case noted in
good behavior to the next session of the
court. But he was an uncommonly good
citizen. When he was tWenty-one years
old he took part in the Lake George
campaign. This was the only time he
served the king. In the dispute between
the royal government and the colonies
he was rebel of the most pronounced
order. His cartoons of the happenings
Of the exciting times preceding the revo-
luton had decided effect in intensifying
the rebel feeling. From his shop went
forth many papers of quaint interest His
cartoons were not works Of art. the
verses we're not of high order but
up in fervor.
He was Of the few cnSraVers Of
Boston, and his prints may be found in
almost every revolutionary collection. En-
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ing and watching for the lanthorn lights
IA the belfry OF the old North Church.
nut the fact is that Revere was not on
the opposite shore waiting for the signal
10 ride. He was in Boston town. and II
was by his direction that the lights Were
displayed 1t was after the signal was
set that he crossed the Charles river TO
begin his famous ride. And lIe was not
the only messenger who rode that night.
Half an hour before Dr. Warren sent for
linn TO carry tho fstefui news to Lexing-
ton and Concord that the British troops
were moving, another ridcr-Wiiiam
pawes-hsd been dispatched hy tho long
road over Boston Neck Fearful that
Dawes would not get through. Or. WAT
rem commissioned Revere TO go by the
shorter route across the river.
To get through by the neck route Dawes
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craving was not the art then that it is
today. Revere was good for his day.
1t is surprising that the British did not
take measures to suppress him. For ten
years previous TO Bunker Hill he was
one of the most energetic and open of
the revolutionists. He not only talked
rebellion. but he acted he talked. He
was one of the Sons of Liberty tn dress
in Indian Sarb and throw the tea in Bos-
ton bay. and he was one of the commit
tee of forty appointed to watch the move
ments of the British in the days Just
before Lexington. How he managed to
~ in politics is surprising, especially in
view of the fact that he had family
of regimental proportions, but he did it,.
and did 1t so we'll that he never failed to
prosper. He a thrifty man, was
Paul Revere, and he was a rare hand
at making out bill.
Apparently business and politics. verse
making and tooth pulling, engraving and
lancing. did not absorb all his energies
for there are dozen or more records of
trips he made to New York, to Philadel-
phia, to Portsmouth and elsewhere in the
continental cause. He was a gallant
entertaining. he got all the news along
the route. and he had the very good
sense to keep silent about his own mis-
sion. He probably was the most trusted
and the most frequently employed mes
Senger of the men who brought about the
revolution. No wonder. then. that he was
one of the two men sent by DR. Warren
to warn Hancock and Adams when the
British troops began to move.
Revere's own story of that historic night
is. in part, as follows:
About 10 o'clock DR.. Warren sent in
great haste for me. and begged me that
j would Immediately set off for Lexing-
ton, where Messrs Hancock and Adams
were. and acquaint them of the move
ment, and that it was thought they We're
the objects. When | got to DR.. Warren s
house / found he had sent an express by
land to Lexington-a Mr.. William Dawes
The Sunday before, by desire of DR.. War
rem, ! had been to Lexington to Messrs
Hancock and Adams. who We're at the
Rev. ~. Clark s. | returned at night
through Charestown. there l agreed with
Col. Conant and some other gentlemen
that if the British went out by water we
would show two lanthorns i'm the North
Church steeple, and if by land. one, as
a signal: for we We're apprehensive it
would be difficult to get across the
Charles river or get over Boston neck. I
left DR.. Warren, called upon friend.
and desired him to make the signals. |
then went home. took my boots and sur
tout. went to the north part of the town
where l kept boat two friends roweI
me across the Charles river d little to
the eastward of where the Somerset man.
of-war lay. 1t was then young flood, the
ship was winding, and the moon was ris-
ing. They landed me on the CharlestoWn
side. When / got into town | met Col
conant and several others. They said
they had seen our signals 7 told them
what was acting and went to get me a
horse. | got Il horse OF Deacon Larkin."
There were some English troopers on
the road. but these the night rider clev-
crly avoided. lie tells of his reception
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back and calls him Bud or Willie or Algy
or Pctcy He has a rogush eye tor all
the ladies' halting not at chucklns sonis
Of them under the chin. He bubbles WIN
boyishneSs, effervesces WITH An dihiost
hysterical enthusiasm.
He has a siIpernormal insight into leg
isative jobs, and he Is sublfmeiy ABOVE
engaging in any of the jobs himself: tie
SAYS breeZily smart things to the slt-pe
decked ambassador about the efteteness OF
monarehical states. He confounds the
lobby shameS his sinister colleagues en-
gagged i'm playing into the hands OIL 'ne
lobby fetches all of the young folkS OF
the play together and pronounees rat
Ting benediction over them. pays OIL the
mortgage on his faithful old black mes
senger's Virginia farm. and IL sort VI
all-round Citizen F'iXit from canape TO col
fec Rubicund and registering. he wears
the smile that won't he erased.
..In a word he's just the sort or a man
that the late John r. Raymond or Roland
Reed would have been had they served IN
The. Senate of the Inited States.
Now WashingtoniaIls. you KNOW nave
really found the legislators at the nortl
end of the Capitol to be. generally speak
ing quite a Sedate, IL not gloomy, set
of old men, That's why they so heartily
So different. you see. Washingtonlans are
lust as appreciatiye of things that are
different other folks
The stage member of the lower House
is pretty much the same as the senator,
only of course he's fashioned from a
rougher pattern. and he generally wears
Il very long black frock coat i'll combina-
brimmed black slouched hat-the invaria-
BILE raiment of all representatives. or
course as everybody knows who lives in
Washington.
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terra consequence, even if they were less
picturesque. than was the one to Licking
ton. The ride to Lexington catches the
poets fancy and thrills the patriots soul
because it was the curtain-raiser to the
nations glorious drama, but no particu-
lar attention ever was given to Revere's
ride to Portsmouth in IA or his ride to
Philadelphia in November. 10, yet his
ride to Portsmouth had direct bearing
upon the success of the battle of Bunker
Hill. and had it not been for that Phila-
delphia trip the Continental army would
have been in bad way for powder.
J.; Z
Somehow that Portsmouth affair. al
though il was the first warike act of the
Colonists has received scant attention 1t
autedated Lexington by four months. The
British to hobble the Continentals, had
prohibite ed the Importation of gunpowder
and military stores. Without powder and
ARM the Continentals could do nothing
In Portsmouth. n. H.. there was good
supply in Fort William and Mary. The
garrison consisted of only six men. The
Sons of Liberty learned that Gen. Gage
intended to reinforce the garrison or re-
move the stores. Revere was dispa tched
forthwith to arouse the New Hampshire
patriots. -Four hundred men sWoOped
dowr on the fort, overawed the garrison,
seized leo casks of powder and gOodly
supply or n1uSketS ana mad the STUN hid
den in Durham before the frigate and
sloop sent from Boston with troops ar
rived in Portsmouth. 1T was part of this
gunpowder that reached the field in the
nick ri tins when the Continentals am
munition gave out at Bunker Hill.
In November. 1l1o, he was sent TO
Philadelphia by the provincial congress
of Massa cilusetts. Among other things
he was instructed to learn from the pow
dcrnaker there all Inc could regarding the
naking of powder and negotiate with nm
for the establishment of powder mills in
Nassach ,Isetts Robert Morris, John
Dickinson and John Hancock introduced
R,.ycrc tn the powdermaker, OsMell Eve,
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ECENTIY I read
an announcement
to the effect that
three of our lead
ing dramatists' are
engaged upon pla Us
depicting Wash
ington official and
Social life, . OBJ
served n middle
aged Washington
MAN who has lived
in the District of