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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
Who Is Lee 0'Neill Browne !?

When Browne appeared in the recent one asked, "who is this L. o. Browne?" and Browne replied, "If the person who asks that question will meet me on the am." This made it plain that Browne belongs to the militant wing of the democracy and the questioner did not meet Browne on the floor
 The trouble was that he was mention ed as "L O. Browne" when he is known to fame as Lee O'Neill Browne and
 He lives in LaSalle county. which is not far from Chicago. and Is still nearer Joliet. He not only represented LaSalle the legislature the leader of the minority, the democrats in the lower house. He has been renominated by the democrats of LaSalle, and he hopes to secure an- other term. Whether he will or not re- mains to be seen.
 It was through Lee O'Neill Browne that 19 democrats were induced for con- sideration to vote for Billy Lorimer, re- publican. for United States senator. It was he, too, that handled the jack pot. The Lorimer Investigating committee is accepting evidence covering both trans actions.
 Lee oNeill Browne was twice tried for bribery and in the second trial the jury acquitted him. The voters of LaSalle will try him again in November. The yer dict of the jury was not considered vim dication of Lee ONeill Browne, and it is not certain that verdict in his favor in LaSale county in November would be | so considered.
 Between the November election and the Lorimer Investigating committee matters in the public career of Lee O'Neill Browne will no doubt be set right If he should be reelected to the Legislature and the Lorimer committed should condemn him the legislature of Illinois would certainly be expected to conduct an investigation of Its own be- fore Lee O'Neill Browne is confirmed in his seat as legislator for great and prosperous state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
BELGIUM. THE REFUGE

From the bOSIOn OlODc
 When Victor Hugo and other French republicans were obliged to leave France because they were distasteful to Napoleon III, they first selected Bel gium as their refuge from the op- pressor Later they moved to England The Napoleonic arm was long enough to reach from the Tuileries to Brussels
 Only the other day the Egyptians who wished to express their detesta- tion of British rule In their native land, and also to give vent to their feelings against Theodore Roosevelt for his speech made by him in which he said the British rule in Egypt was not severe enough, assembled in the Belgian capital.
 One naturally asks why the Egyp- tians did not hold their meeting ir Paris. The answer is astounding They were not permitted to. The France of M. Fallieres and Premier Briand is evidently no more the home of free speech than was the France ol the first and the third Napoleon.
 Friends of freedom should be grate. full that little Belgium is still on tho map,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Late E. D. Bacon

large number of persons here Will learn of the death of Edgar D. Bacon with sincere regret. MT. Bacon had lived In Birmingham for the past 20 years but had recently removed to Glens Fali' N. T., where he passed away Tuesday of last week The deceased was born and reared in New York state in the Lake George section, and he had rela- tives and many old friends at Glens Falls. He was veteran of the civil war and served in Company K, Thirteenth Wisconsin infantry, [. s. volunteers.
 In Birmingham MT. Bacon was as- sistant adjutant of George A. Custer Post. G. A. R. He was a Mason and a member of Independent Order of odc Fellows. MT. Bacon and his good wife were prominent in musical circles and had sung here in church choirs year in and year out, and in most of the festival ehoruses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
THE NORMAN FAaM-wIFE

Anglo American" in Harper's Weekly l take it that no Frenchman, as no
 Irishman, is really as poor as he looks.
 If thought otherwise, if I fell into
 the mistake of judging a mans income
 from his personal appearance or sur
 roundings or mode of life should be obliged to conclude that Normandy was
 in a bad way. Yet the French peas antry, though they seem to be worse housed, to be more careless of comfort, cleanliness, and order in their personal and domestic habits and arrangements and to live on cheaper food than the English peasantry, are undoubtedly more prosperous. The anomaly is, of course, easily explained. All through English as all through American so- ciety runs the ambition to be thought a little better off than one really IS. The Frenchman has no such ambition. He does not care for appearances; Mrs. Grundy has no terrors for him. His mind Is absolutely set on one supreme object that of putting by enough to buy some government stock and pro- vide his daughter with dot. To at tain that end he will cheerfully, if peasant neglect everything else and concentrate all his energies on raising and selling his crops and dairy produce in the most profitable way throughout lifetime of frugality. And his wife seconds and sympathizes with his ef- forts, working with him in the fields, taking her household duties as lightly as possible, indifferent to looks and dress-an the peasant women here abouts seem old at 30--thriftily saving every sou for the family's future. But see the latter on a fete-day, on one or the few occa sions In the year when they come out in the treasures Of their wardrobes, or on market day when the women troop into Dieppe and sit on the curbstone of the Grand Rue, selling their home made butter, their eggs and poultry and ducks and fruit and vegetables-and you would cease to worry about their poverty. A more prosperous, respectable" or shrewder set of women you would not find any where. II is they, indeed, far more than the men, who keep France going and keep Normandy prosperous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
The smallest worm will turn, being troddcn on. -S hihs he''
Washington Again the Capital

The President and all of the cabinet ex- cept the Secretary of War have returned In Washington after vacation three months long. Cabinet conferences nave been resumed, but there is no great amount of joy in the White House where the scope and significance of the ap- proaching November elections are felt a,5 weighed. There may be optimists In the administration, but there is not one that is cheery enough to read vic tory in those elections for the Aldrich tartff or for Ballinger or for the old guard that, to use Senator Cores words believe the tariff should be revised by Its friends, and that the trusts should be controlled by their friends
 Cabinet meetings are to be held con- secutively, and this will not be difficult for the cabinet ministers are the guests 
 nf the President. They are lodged and fed in the Whige House, and they can very conveniently gather there for the discussion of public business. so that she President himself may have time n nrepare a keynote speech to be deliv- cred on next Saturday night before the League of Republican Clubs in New York, city. The President delights in s<faveling even when his administration Is facing repudiation, and a great rival exists in an active form in an ex-Presi- tent.
 The President will not, however, stay ennr, in New York and the national busi- ness will not be interrupted hereafter. The White House and the various de- ,artments have resumed at the old atands. and business will be conducted as fornerly, even if gloom and impending defeat do hang over the party from Maine to the state of Washington with a Reflection to the nations capital city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
REVERSE ORDER
THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA

From Macaulay's Essay on Lord Give. "HEN was committed that great
 crime. memorable for its singu-
 ! lar atrocity, memorable for the terrible retribution by which 1t was followed. ~rhe English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the gar
 rison, chamber known by the fear ful name of the Black Hole Even for a single European malefactor, the dungeon would. in such climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only 20 feet square. The air holes were small and obstructed. It was the summer solstice the season when the fierce heat of Bengal can scarcely be rendered tolerable to natives of Eng land by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the pris- soners was 146. When they were or dered to enter the cell. they imagined that the soldiers were joking, and. be- ine in high spirits on account of the nromise of the nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and tested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They ex- nostulated. they entreated; but In vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The cap lives were driven into the cell at the noint of the sword. and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
 >ro+hing In history or fiction, not even the story which -ugoHho toio III the sea of everlasting ice' a1ter ne had wipei his bloody lips on the scalp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
Dur Sultan of Sulu

amalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu, is in sA Washington where he is today to have q fence with the President of this far x1l g republic. It may seem strange that . republic presumably ruled by the peo- pie would have a crowned head as a subject, but that is just what we have and we were all parties to the acquisl, ton.
 The Sulu islands over which Jamalul Kiram II nominally reigns number 1SS in all. They are largely mountainous and the mountains are of volcanic origin But there are valuable woods on the slopes of the mountains, and in the val 1eys rice, coffee, cotton and cocoanuts are grown. The Sultan, too controls a pros- porous pearl fishery, and the government pays him 5000 year to help him main tain the dignity of his position.
 Back in 1899 in the administration of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The Lord always fofgives because peo- pie never do.
 There's hardly anything that can cause a higher temper than love.
 cynic is a man who takes himself SC seriously he can't anybody else.
 The best way to make the average man respect your judgment is to asl his opinion.
 Prompt decision is the secret of man. aging husband The woman who hes tates is bossed. Most men don't deserve much, ant they get less. Politics has made many man respec himself by keeping out of 1t. Being engaged Is a dream that car turn into a nightmare of marriage. Women are lucky not to have beer born men, and they would be luckie not to have been born at all. In dispute it's hard to make mai believe what. if it were his argument l-he'd think you were a stubborn fool fo not believing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
seThe Red Hills O,MOnfeyaIIo-

"I was very much entertained by Wal ter Harpers article in today's Age-Herald about Montevallo.' said a man who has often visited the place.
 q have a sentimental interest in the picturesque town of red, red hills and happy homes. My mother was born there, and although she was taken away to Louisiana when mere child, I still hold a tender place for Montevallo
 "The locating of the Girls Industrial school in Montevallo was a good move for several reasons. It Is in the very center of the state: 1t is remarkably healthy town; its people are God-fearing, refined and home-loving. They have un- usual pride and interest in the institution and all the more that so many pieces of ill-luck had heretofore handicapped the place. There has been more or less pickering between Columbiana and Mon tcvallo as the county seat of Shelby. Columbiana has the honor. but now Mon tevallo is contented with her great school
 'The people of Montevallo have taken tending the industrial school. Many of the prosperous citizens threw their homes open to take in the girls before the dor mitories were constructed. And even yet they do so and also provide entertain ments for the pleasure of the girls away from home.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
THE PARsoN RECoUPs

From London Scraps.
 A Scottish parson, remarkable for the simple force of his pulpit style, was enlarging one Sunday upon the text Except ye repent ye shall all like wise perish"
 "Yes, my friends" urged he, with solemn earnestness, "unles ye repent ye shall as surely perish" deftly plac- ing his left forefinger on the wing of blue-bottle fly that had just alighted upon the reading desk the while the parsons right hand was uplifted, just as surely as, my friends. flatten this poor fly
 But before the threatened blow de- scended the fly got away, whereupor the minister further improved the oc- casion" with ready wit, exclaiming There's a chance for ye yet, my friends!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
WANTED, A. REPORTER
.,,. rno,o,.,a c,azette.

From the Emporia Gazette.
 The Gazette desires reporter. He must be graduate of the high school or something equally good. He must be able to spell and write good, iegi- ble hand. He must be willing to work and to learn. Also he must not only be anxious to tell the truth. but to know the truth when he hears 1t. Newspa- pers as a rule desire the truth. But often they are misled by persons whose business profits by misleading newspa- pers. In every town scores of people profit by getting facts distorted in news papers. So, in getting new reporter the Gazette desires one who not only likes the truth, but who knows 1t when he sees 1t. Another thing, tho way tf know the truth Is to develop legs. Ths lazy reporter who will not chase tho item
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
HORACE GREELEY

urrorn the Washington fost.
 ,,..,, newspaper man who writes
 .hs American press, and every onerative who prints his stun' mus foe, A. thrill when greeted wi'h 'ne .,a,rgs that a society has been organ 4. An snecial honor to the memory of Horace Greeley on the one nunoreo.n ann,versary of his birth. He was .ie a.ar of our cloth. He stanos 'ne saaa of American journalism. Tnere ,,.ar. preater writers, perhaps; thefo were superior journalists, mayne'
 p,+ to get to the heart and the mino .ha man to whom he appealed HOT ace Greeley never had his ma'cn n our newspaper history Anu WI. p.cause he was as simple ana as u' divided in mind when editor or '"e ,ost influential papers in America as hod heen a boy of 8, when stai-
 . r, fellow of his school took him on h,s hack and tramped for miies ~ .h. daan snow of New Hampshire on e..,,raav winter evening to enter mn in the spelling bee. from whioh ne child never emerged except as tor. ..o,o New
 Ana this Scotch -Irishman from N9" England, who could subsist on '.ss and a cup of water. printer "'.a tbe cleanest proof of all printers. a' home or abroad. with scant -educa.'on with a vocabulary less than that oi De Foe. even. became the first personaii.s of that estate which is the real ruler oi
 
 our great republic!
 He was all sorts of a man. ~ oS the most guileless and the snre~ues.' now a ruffian full of oaths' now gen tleman full of courtesy. He was no. only a great man. but he was the oes' man of our cloth.
 Make his monument cloud cappeo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
The stock Show nt Marion Junction

A news item in The Age-Herald states that the farmers of that very rich and prosperous section of the canebrake are to hold a stock show at Marion Junc- tion.' said Percy Clark, and I am much pleased to see it.
 ''As fairs were not successful some years ago inaugurated at Selma stock show, lasting three days, and it was success full. These occasions do more than any prove farming and stock raising. They do more than all other influences.
 Marion Junction is a pretty agricul- tural village in the extreme western DOT tion of Dallas county. At this point the three lines of the Southern Railway con verge-one from Akron passing Greens boro and Marion, one from Meridian. passing Demopolis. Faunsdale and Union- town, and third from Mobile.
 '"The country around about Marion Junction is prosperous. The cultivation of Johnson grass and alfalfa has proven profitable. Many fine exhibits of hogs. cattle and colts have been made by the farmers of this section at the fair here and in Montgomery.
 If the management of the stock and poultry show at Marion Junction would add an old-fashioned tournament for which the canebrake is even yet noted, then indeed will there be fun. feast and a frolic, along with an interesting and stimulating exhibition of the products of a prosperous and happy section of our great state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
POINTS TO CHURCHGOERs

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 A clergyman was smoking cigar un- der an oak
 My congregation coughed this morn ing" he said. T could hardly make myself heard. It was most annoying. V
 "Well,"A said a physician. ''the nest time they cough, tell them to press the upper lip just beneath the nose. Press ing the nerves in that quarter will stop the most obstinate cough and. by the same token, it will stop a sneeze too
 'Tll tell you how to stop the hic- coughs. You press hard on the cheek, right in front of the ear. Those nerves there control the hiccoughs as money controls politics. You need only press the nerves will do the resi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
BIrmineham'S School Enrolment

The hope is that the school enrolment this city will reach 1s,ooo This is certainly modest hope when it is re- ,nembered that there are in this city :o.549 children of school age
 Thus far, however no reports have some in of half sessions, or, worse still, ,f children turned away from school be- l.ause of a lack of seating accommoda- ions.
 But 1S,OO0 in school out of '39 49 children Tn the city is far from ideal, and this ,.ity cannot afford to let things stand as hey are at present. start should be made towards the ideal.
 This will be expensive but it is much more expensive to have over one-half of the children of the city grow up illit- crate. for this means that the city will
 in the soon-coming years ettt n rmy of people who cannot xf s1 elf rite.
 hs gses are before you, citizens of 1fifoa n. You have 1s,OO0 children in
 21 ,549 who are not in school 4r mot afford to maintain these acrc fus No city can, and the more poSte cities of the country do not 6 plg run it is expensive and lc It is true economy to teacf
 chiid the three Rs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

of his murderer, approaches the hor- TOTS which were recounted by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy. They strove to burst the door. Holwell, who, even in that ex- tremity, retained some presence of mind, offered large bribes to the goal CTS. But the answer was that nothing could be done without the nabob's orders, that the nabob was asleep and that he would be angry if anyone awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved. prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers in the meantime held lights to the bars and shouted with laugh ter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gaspings and meanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch and permitted the door to be opened. But 1t was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors. by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made 23 ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel house. A pit was instantly dug. The dead bodies, 12s in number, were flung into 1t pro- miscuously and covered up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

clear down, who will not go clear to the bottom or the story, who fails to get both sides of controversy, hurts a newspaper. And, finally, the young man must be neat and clean-in heart and body slovenly reporter prejudices a newspaper in the public eyes. Therefore, the Gazette reporter must be neat, nim- ble, honest, shrewd, decently schooled and Emporia bred. After that the. Ga- zette will undertake to make a man of him. and newspaper man, if he has 1t in him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
Tobacco workers stiIl Out

Tampa. Fla, September T.-At con- ference between committee from the Tampa Clear Havana Cigar Manufactur- ers' association and a committee from the Tobacco Workers union this after noon the workmen withdrew their de- mands Tor a closed shop but asked that a collector of union dues by allowed fin each factory. This, the mapufacturers declared, would be . tacit recognition o1 l the union and the conference ended with
 out anything being accomplished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
Successful Excursions

'The excursions from Atlanta today were highly successful" said Capt. Jack W. Johnson. district passenger agent of the Seaboard Air Line
 we brought in train of 10 cars and each car was filled to it's capacity. Among the excursionists are many substantial business men of Atlanta, and quite a number of them are old personal friends of mine All seem to be pleased with Birmingham. The excursion tickets are good to return until Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
SUNRISE
Bx oscar wilde.

By Oscar Wilde. The sky is laced with f1tful red,
 The circling mists and shadows flee,
 Tho dawn Is rising from the sea, Like a white lady from her bed. And jagged brazen arrows fall
 Athwart the feathers of the night,
 And long wave of yellow light Breaks silently on tower and hc'' And spreading wide across the I Wkkeu into night Dome sn1itter Y
 And all the chestnut tops are -' And ell tho branches strealfed ? ts ''S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
WICKED ENOUGH

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 The father of Coney Island" who judge from the worldliness of his off spring. a minister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

The death of Boss Brayton in Rhode Island gives the people of that state a chance to do little ruling on their own idly, for another boss may bob up any day in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
ABSORBED.

A suffragette
 Went out to speak And at the polls
 A vote to seek, - And talked so much Bout this and that, She actually
 Forgot her hat, Forgot her clothes, Forgot her looks, Protruding pins
 And broken hooks, And hair awry
 And shiny nose, Which, by your leave, Assuredly shows That she was wrought To highest pitch And had the true
 Stump speakers itch. For when a dame No longer thinks Of things to wear And bonnie blinks;" No longer cares,
 Fen though she seems Tn embodiment
 Of horrid dreams, O well-a-dayl
 She must indeed Have heart and soul Upon her screed, Intent to put
 Mans power down, And rule the roost And rule the town!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

The colonel has vanquished the old guard, but he himself will be vanquished by the unterrified democracy which is
 about to come back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

Baltimore says it's census figures are its own and not that of the surrounding country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

The republicans begin to wish the other Maine rested in the mud of Ha- vana harbor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

Speaker Cannon is not overtaxed with requests to write republican platforms. and yet he fails to see that he has be- come a has been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

The Lorimer investigation committee is right, and it is therefore going ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

Chavez is clearly the Napoleon and also the Hannibal of aviation, Tor he crossed the Alps in record-breaking time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

Even Serene E. Payne says the tariff needs little revising. All are agreed ex- cept Aldrlch and Sunny Jim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

A railroad watered in Wall street finds it's profits decreasing even when the bus mess offered 1t is increasing.