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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-03-12

Mr.. London writes IF / owned
your Tea. | would guarantee cure or
refund their money. I say it's Nature
cure and the only one for the blood "
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea cured
him where other remdies failed. Try
IL with yourself. Sam Bridges
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-03-12

Mrs. Kate Hall says: II have kept
house 10 years, am the mother OF four
children. and l would not keep house
without HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. " Wise woman, whyY Drives
away sickness. brings health and hap
piness to the whole family. It's the
worlds preserver. Sam Bridges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIH,ssss'.
Interest Was Lacking

The race is now run and all Is over
but the shouting said an old line DEM
oerat from another county last even
ing. land | am glad. There has been
an almost total lack of interest, although
the candidates pressed their campaigns
with zeal and determination. But the
business man. with few exceptions, has
permitted the politician to take care of
himself. and as result his business has
been injured very little comparatively
speaking.
THE one-sidedness of the campaign
must be blamed for the lack of interest.
The people evidently figured from the
beginning of the fight that Colonel Nal
Tory had no earthly chance to achieve
the victory. The Selma candidate has
many friends, many prominent friends
but these with few exceptions, showed
no interest whatsoever. AS a matter OF
fact, Senator Moody wrote one letter on
invitation. Governor Jelks permitted his
picture to be used in advertisement
but Colonel Gaut alone has done active
work. Had all been as faithful as Gaut'
O'Nears victory might have been less
than a perfect landslide. AS it Is, 1t Is
the consensus of opinion that Colonei
Mallory can carry only seven or eight
counties"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Paulhan'S Feat In England

Louis Paulhan flew over the 1856 miles
between London and Manchester in 4
hours, II minutes actual flying time. On
account of the benumbng cold he made
one stop. The offer of $4,000 prize for
cir machine from London to Manchester
made within "a hours, with not more
than two stops, goes to him, and the
record of cross-country speed is also his
hf the weather had been warmer he
would have made a flight that would
have far outdone Blerot's across the
English channel. Beyond all doubt Paul
han is the finest aviator in the world
His courage is equaled by his skill, and
If he keeps up his present pace he will
eoor demonstrate the possibility of avia-
tioE under all circumstances.
In the present year more long flights
lead up to a daring attempt to cross the
Atlantic in an arship built expressly
for the historic task This would be but
a development of the work inaugurated
and established by the Wright brothers
When they had convinced the world that
man can fly in heavier-than-air ma
chimes, aviation became but a matter of
development, just as the steamboat and
the locomotive had been in years
gone by.
Paulhan and Bleriot are daring avia-
tors, but their work cannot eclipse the
fact that the foundation was laid by two
Americans working patiently together in
small Ohio city The motor principle
In air flights was verified by them, and
the heaver-than-air machines became al
once an interesting possibility.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Practically no Deficit

1.-THE recent music festival was not
only an artistic success, but, all Things
considered, it was most gratifying
financial success said member Oh
the executive committee
when President J. II. Holcombe SUD-
mitted an itemized statement the DAY
after the festival there appeared to De
a deficit of 1913, but when the accounts
had been finally audited and everything
adjusted, the deficit was found to ne
only s3329-an amount SO small thar
members of the committee simply
reached down into their pocket change
and made up the sum. Had the fes-
ttval been held in a large auditorium
President Holcombe estimates that the
receipts for the Wagner night wouio
have been $1,000 more than they were
at the Jefferson, where people had to
be turned away.
1.-The people of Birmingham respond
ed with characteristic enthusiasm and
the success of the festival marks an
other stage in Birminghams onward
march,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

will endeaYor to be sound asleep, with
instructions that he is not to be aroused
from his deep and timely slumber.
The standpat crowd in Indiana is not
large. 1t is, however, full of gall, and
the fact that it stands utterly ignored in
state campaign is not only an affront
to Speaker Cannon and the retiring
Aldrich. but also to Mr.. Taft himself. In
great state Mr.. Taft stands today with
out a following simply because he, to-
gether with Bosom Friends Cannon ana
Aldrich, say the tariff is the best ever de-
yised. Indiana, it is plain, does not
think so.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Indiana's Democratic State Ticket

No state campaign in this political year
will exceed in interest and importance
Indiana's. That state was once DEM
ocratc stronghold, but since 1896 repub-
lican pluralities have been recorded. In
1905, however. Mr. Taft's plurality was
but 1871, and Mr. Marshall, democrat
was elected governor by a plurality OF
i4,453.
Today the democratic ticket is headed
by the name of John w. Kern for United
States senator. The republicans indorsed
the candidacy if Mr.. Beveridge, and thus
. progressive democrat is pitted against
an insurgent for the chief office of the
state. 1t will be an exceedingly interest
ing race.
The standpatters and benehciaries of
the new tariff will stand disfranchised in
Indiana, for they will have no one to
vote for-certainly no one who considers
this tariff the best one ever devised.
TAFT will this week be shot across Indi-
ina in the depths OF the night when he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
twenty-five Pounds At Ten Cents

The postofflce department asked Con-
carrying on rural free delivery routes OF
packages up to II pounds in weight for
% cents. The committee on postoffices
and post roads has practically agreed, il
is said, to reject Postmaster General Mey-
ers' schedule, and will report favorably
the bill of Congressman Bennett of New
York, which fixes the maximum weight
of a mailable parcel at % pounds and pro-
vides a tariff of / cent up to one pound
Of cents UP to eleven pounds, and of 10
cents thereafter up to the proposed max
imum.
The Bennett schedule would be very
pleasing and popular on all free delivery
routes. and the only obstacle in the way
is the size of the deficit it would create
whether, in short. packages can be prof
fitably carried by the government at the
prices named. The creation of great
deficit would discredit the entire parcels
post proposition, thus delaying public
facility that has been delayed beyond
reason already.
The question of receipts and cost should
be well threshed out before the Bennett
bill is passed. The people on the free de-
livery routes should be treated with great
liberality, but they would gain nothing
from a bill that creates a deficit that the
government cannot afford to assume Ma
doubt estimates of cost and revenue will
be forthcoming, and then the people can
The better Judge the Bennett schedule.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Mr.. Roosevelt As q CatspaV

The appointment of Governor Hughes
to the supreme court has put the repub-
lican party in New York state in deep
in New York the entire party is in like
predicament.
Today the leaders see but one way to
lit the party to the surface again with
any prospects of staying there, and that
way consists in handing over the keys
and control of the party in New York
state to Theodore Roosevelt Immediately
upon his arrival home in June.
r..
The entire plan looks to the election Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
The Campaign Ended

| The state campaign is ended and to-
morrow the democratic voters will pro-
coed to cast their ballots. A governor
and a legislature United States sen
ator. chief justice, two associate JUS
tees and other high office bearers will
be chosen in the primary and the nom
nations thus made will be equivalent
To election.
While all the positions to be filled are
important interest has conferred chief
ly in the gubernatorial contest. II
would be difficult to recall a campaign
in Alabama in which two candidates
for the goyernorship were so popular
personally as Col. H. S. D. Mallory
and Emmett O'Neal. Both men stard
high in the legal profession and both
are entitled to the unbounded respect
of the public.
| In view, then of the unsullied reputa-
ton of the two gentlemen aspiring to
the office of governor, there has been
no ground for harsh personal criti-
cism Some of the partisars of Colonel
Mallory have INDUCED in baseless
charges against Mr.. O'Neal, but the
campaign on the whole has been con-
Quoted on a relatively high plane. Only
tie issues which the two candidates
fer have been considered by the great
mass of the democracy. Mr.. ONeai
| represents the progressive, upbuilding
Mallory is allied with those politicians
WIKI kicked aside the democratic plat
form of 1906 and succeeded III encat-
ever known in this country. In the
proposed prohibition amendment this
radical element sought to invade even
the sanctity of the home and but for
Mr. .ONeal and other strong defend
ers of the constitution the intolera BILE
amendment would have been fastened
upon Alabama for long years to come.
Some of the men who helped to de
feat the amendment are supporting
Colonel Mallory-most of them on per-
sonal grounds. The rank and file OF
the democracy who opposed and who
Will always oppose the principle of con-
st'tutional prohibition will vote for
ONeal. 1t is a question of Issues
not a question of men. With the cleo
ton of ONeal and a legislature, the
majority of whose members will be
broad minded democrats, Alabama will
bound forward and will lead all the
states of the south in peace and con-
tentment as we'll as in the march of
solid prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
With Rings on Their Fingers

The reforming women of the east have
started crusade which looks to the
enactment of law in all states requir-
ing all married men to wear rings as a
public notification that they are married
Once let his position be defined, so they
argue, the girls would no longer be de-
ceived, society would be purified, scan-
dals would disappear and this old world
would be immeasurably advanced. so.
cially speaking.
But would all this become a logical
and natural sequence? Is all flirting done
by men, especially at summer resorts
Would a man with ring on his finger
be tabooed by all women?
These questions at least suggest posi-
bilities. The ringing of husbands would
DO no harm, especially If they could,
under all circumstances, be kept rnged,
but human nature cannot be changed by
one small ring, no matter how persistent
ly it be worn. The new reform is cor
rect enough in theory, but in practice
It might prove to be as full of holes as
a skinner. Flirting, alas, is as old as
the human race, and the reforming Wom-
en- of the east will have to go much
deeper before they abolish it altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Effective without Fireworks

STERLING A. Woods speech In the In
terest of Mr. O'Neal's candidacy, deliv-
cred at Uniontown Friday and printed
in The Age-Herald, furnishes us with a
striking example of how a political Or
ator can be effective without making the
fur fly or touching off fireworks said
an old democrat ut was capital speech,
fresh. witty and convincing, and there
was not a bitter phrase in it. 1t was
epigrammatic, but there was no sting. A
droll bit of humor was that when Mr..
Wood said One of the fixed charges In
modern political fights is that there Is a
corruption fund.- .,z5s
1.-The speaker went on truthfully as fol-
lows 1T (the corruption fund CHARGE is
industriously circulated with affidavits to
match, and with amounts that make the
mouth water. The rumor starts from
fertile mind, fearing defeat; it is denied,
but made again each day. and like a lie,
goes further than truth can follow. The
system seems to be to get, not the Nal
lory, but the O'Neal forces to believe it;
and to get those who have not been
paid money, and that's all of them, to
believe the other fellow has been paid;
and thus get all dissatisfied because they
do not believe in that manner of carrying
elections.
!" Not long since, in a joint debate, the
other side boosted so strong that they
had walked to the meeting, rather than
ride in the gilded car of corruption, that
I was forced to take the crowd into my
confidence, as | do you today, and after
pledging them to secrecy, admit that my
expenses were paid, and that my wife did
the paying But she does it with cheer
full heart. and voter or not, I correctly
represent her.
Another paragraph in Mr. Wood s
speech that was at once bright and true
was in reference to the amendment. 1T is
Qaid,' remarked Mr.. Wood, that the fight
for governor is not the amendment fight;
well, it is and 1t isn't You can prove
1t either way you want. But listen to the
talks on the other side, read their circu-
lars, see Congressman Hobson's letter, and
you will find that two black-eyed peas
could not be nearer alike OF course
the scientist and the microscope will find
distinctions, but to the voter they look
very much alike; enough so to vote con-
sistently then and now
THAT part of the speech just quoted
contains common sense philosophy, and
the primary election Monday Is sure to
work out that way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

WINSION
From Some Representative American
Story Tellers In the Bookman.
Regarding Mr.. Churchill's place in
American fiction. it Is possible to speak
with more confidence than In the case
of most of his contemporaries. That he
has a widespread popularity is a fact
that cannot be disregarded, and this
popularity instead of waning has re-
manned constant quantity. He builds
his books solidly, as one builds houss
upon the rock with the intention that
1t shall not soon be torn down. He has,
moreover the advantage of a careful
style and a scrupulous regard for truth.
There are some of us who are inclined
to feel that he has been taken rather
too seriously by the present generation
in much the same way that Mrs. Hum
phry Ward has been overrated by her
contemporaries. OF the two writers, II
seems fairly safe prediction that Mr..
Churchill mas a rather better chance of
maintaining his present level in the
Years. to come. He Is still young and
his later work shows a real gain in the
knowledge of what fiction as a serious
literary form should mean. There g
every reason to believe that his beat
and biggest work is yet to come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
MEASURED HER HAT
,m the Brooklyn Eagle


Everyone in that part of the car
smiled except the man who did it and
the girl who was under the hat. He was
plain, quiet man, apparently of the
higher type of mechanic. She was young
and pretty and had one OF the enormous
new hats. with correspondingly enor-
nous pins stuck in at various angles.
She was in one of the cross seats and
he was standing behind her. Without
moving a muscle of his face he drew
from his pocket folding foot-rule, care
fully measured the expanse of the brim
and let everyone around see that 1t was
fully IS inches. Then he laid the ruler
along the projecting end Of hatpin and
gave proof that 1t reached five and half
inches beyond the crown. The uncon-
scious owner of the creation looked up
with puzzled little frown as her seat
mate suddenly doubled over in mirth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

Mr.. Roosevelt to the Senate to be fol
lowed In 1916 by his return to the Whit
House. Mr. Taft is to be given sec.
ond term nomination even If he does love
the new tariff beyond any other.
This would be a winning scheme il
voters could be kept from becoming hun
cry on account of the rising prices of
necessaries and the greed of trusts pro-
ever devised When hungry men go to
the polls they pay small attention TO poll
iticians or to Mr.. Rooseyelt's grandstand
tour among the royal families of Europe.
The coming election in New York will
turn upon the tariff and its trusts, and
the lion hunter would have to define his
position on IT, If he too, says it is>the
best tariff ever devised he cannot carry
New York any more than one of the
machine could. If he denounces the tariff
he becomes an insurgent and Mr. Taft's
grip upon the big state becomes loosened
at once.
The Roosevelt programme is fascinat-
ing, but there are obstacles in the way
and the chances are about nine out of
ten that Theodore Roosevelt will not
agree TO pull the machines ehestnuts out
of the fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
PAUL COOK GROWING

From the Admission Star.
Annistonians who have been watching
the work of Paul Cook, the brilliant
young poet and literary editor of The
Birmingham Age-Herald staff, have
noted a marked Improvement in his out
put within the past year, and they fur
thermore note with no little pleasure
that this improvement seems to be con-
tinuous.
BY birth, by early environment and by
education, Paul Cook has been eminently
fitted for serious work in the profession
of letters. He made good with start
when he was taken on as member of
the staff of the big Birmingham daily,
and he has had numerous offers from
colder chimes and on larger publications,
but his love is with the south, and he
has chosen to labor in the land of his
love-
Mr.. Cooks column on The Age-Herald
is quoted throughout the United States,
he having attained a rank as one of
Americas leading newspaper humorists.
At one time there seemed to be a dan
ger that he was devoting too much of
his time toward the wooing of the muse
in her lighter vein, but more recently he
has shown a tendency toward serious
work. and In some of his latest poems he
has shown a delicacy of expression and
depth of sentiment that suggest the
modern masters of poesy.
Paul Cook is by no means at his re-
NTH He is young and virile. He is a
close student of books and a closer STU
dent of men, He has caught the spirit
of the New South in it's relation to the
old. and the Star predicts that he will
live in the history of American letters
as Alabamas foremost son in the weav-
ing of words for the food of the soul
ana the refreshment of the mind. He is
in the line of evolution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
THE MASTER OF PARLIAMENT

across his breast gloomily alert. Rare
~ is he moved to smile, Witty gibes b.
bis compatriots will sometimes lighter
his face, but pleasantries from the go
ernment or opposition benches do n,
shake his Indifference. He gives one L
impression of being a very stern person
who regards these English jokes as
waste of time Unlike many of his fol-
lowers, he speaks but seldom.
1t is this impenetrable self-restraint
which has helped Mr.. Redmond to ar
tain his present power. He organizes
he directs, he controls He is a master
of parliamentary strategy. He knows
how to play the waiting game, but he
has not wasted the time he has spent
In waiting. Many years he has utilized
In moldng his impulsive and high-spir-
tied party into a united whole looking
forward to the opportunity which time
was sure to bring. True, he struck in
cidental blows and struck them shrewdly.
He has demonstrated that perhaps be-
You'd any other leader in the house
he knows how to make the best oppor-
tunity, when to remain silent, when to
move. All the responsible members of
the house knew that when Mr. Redmond
was saying the least he was as much
to be reckoned with as when he was ut
tering grave warnings from below the
gangway.
The house of commons likes Mr. Red
mond He comes of good stock, even in
his fiercest moods one does not forget
that he Is an Irish gentleman. He hits
hard In debate, but he is always court
aous, always tactful and dignified Or
ganization and opportunity have been the
Two things in his mind for a generation
past. Now his hand is on his sword
sc. FRANK DILNOT.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
LANDSCAPE NEAR JERUSALEM

Robert Kitchens, in the Century.
The country about Jerusalem is essen
TALLY pale country. Indeed, often
thought it looked stricken, as If its pal
lor had come upon 1t abruptly, had been
sent to it as visitation. I was not sor-
ry that I saw 1t first under grayness and
swept by winds. The grayness, the winds,
seemed to me to emphasize its truth, to
drive home its reality. And there was
something noble in it's candor. Even ma
ture can take on an aspect of thickness
at times, or at least certain coquetry,
a daintiness not wholly free from sug-
gestions of artifciality. The landscape
in the midst of which Jerusalem lies Is
dreary, is said; in story meather Is al
most forbidding; yet it has a bare frank
ness that renders It dignifed, large
simplicity that is very striking. The
frame is sober, the picture within it is
amazing, and neither, once seen, can ever
be forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
WOMAN OWNS FROG RANCH

From the washington Herald.
One of the most successful frog ranches
in California is owned and managed by
Miss Katherine Walsh, according to Her.
bert S. Warden of San Francisco, who is
a. the Arlington.
Like a good many other people now
living in the west, Miss Walsh was
forced to leave her native state in the
east because of i'll health. Being told
to live out of doors, and forced by ne
cessity to earn her own living, she de-
cided to raise frogs for the market, and
now she not only owns one of the most
picturesque ranches in Contra Costo
county, but supports in comfort her
mother and two children of dead sis
ter.
1.-THE net profit of Miss Walshs frog
geries | was told, was something like
S20Oc a year. She sold $500 dozen frog
legs in San Francisco, and that was the
amount cleared. They were all shipped
alive to hotels and restaurants, and the
price received was from 81 to IS a dozen.
OF course the price of frog legs, like
that of every other variety of game,
depends on the size and the season.
1.-The native green frog of California
is very small" continued Mr.. Warden,
land while the legs are delicious in taste
they bring much less money than when
the native frog is crossed with the large
eastern frog. According to epicures the
very best frog for the table is the cross
between the California and the Florida
species. With carefully selected stock
this cross produces exceptionally hand
some frogs. and SO deliciously favored
as to put to blush the finest Partisan
product"