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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23
Looking to 1912

"It Is a safe bet that Woodrow Wilson will be elected governor of New Jersey said J. N. Barton of Philadelphia T have talked with a good many Jersey democrats and several men who usually vote the republican ticket and they agree that Wilson is gaining adherents from the republican ranks every day. With his election to the goeernorship he would be regarded as presidential timber. but Governor Harmon of Ohio Is almost sure to head the democratic ticket in 1912. It might be well to put Woodrow Wilson on the ticket for the second place. I was born and reared in Pennsylvania but ever since I was old enough to vote I have voted the democratic ticket; and as the south Is true to the democracy I think it would be only fair to have a southern man on the democratic ticket next time. Wilson is southern born and southern raised, and although he has been a nothern man by adoption for some years, he is, understand, still proud to be called southerner. I believe Harmon and Will son would be strong enough to carry sev- eral northern states and have many votes to spare in the electoral college"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23

PICKLE AGNES MAUD. I'm dead in love with Agnes Maud, But hesitate to ring her; Though hers the charms the bards ap
 plaud, I fear she's not a clinger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23
NOT A RYsrANnE1

How does he stand with his tailor?'
 He doesn't dare to stand on the same block with his tailor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23
Al WANING FICI1R1

Fame Is a fleeting thing''
 "Yes, indeed. I dare say Mrs. Nation couldn't get 10 cents for a hatchet now."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23

Aviators are out-doing even pugilists in earnings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffiee as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28
A Veteran Leader.

Editor National Tribune: In all great
movements for the betterment of man.
kind there always looms up some one
individual, who. above and ahead of all
others, takes the lead and bears the
brunt of the contest; some Individual
who not only has a full heart for the
struggle, but whose hand is ever at the
helm, who stands upon the watch tow
er, with ever-ready vigilance. permit
ting no device of the enemy to gain an
entrance into the camp to succeed No
wooden horse within which may be
concealed an enemy escapes his watch
full eye. Many others may do great
deeds, and without whose assistance the
contest might be in doubt; nevertheless,
without the guiding hand of the leader
failure is inevitable. His the constant
effort, the sleepIess vigilance. Now.
there have been great men, statesmen
and soldiers, who have done great work
in the interest of the men who at great
sacrifices saved this great Nation and
held it forth to the world of mankind
as a model of self-sustaining free gov
ernment for all time to come, But who,
at all times and under all circum-
stances, amidst the storms of discour-
agements as well as the sunshine of en-
couragement, thru evil report as well
The National tribune., 1910-07-28
King of the Gypsies.

There were great doin's In gypsy cir
cles in Washington last week. The
gypsies annexed themselves a new King.
King Emil is his new title and handle
20 the plain, ordinary name of Mitchell.
He is from Louisiana, and his crown
ing as King of the gypsies in the United
states took place in plain little law
office in Washington one day lsat week.
The crowning was attended by the
chiefs of the FIVE great gypsy tribes of
this country.
The certificate of election. drawn up
by the attorneys. was as follows:
Know all gypsies by these present.
that we. Wasso Mitchell. Ell John, John
Williams. Steve Miguel and Miller
George. representing all the tribes OF
the gypsies of the United States. duly
appointed under the customs, rules ana
laws of the gypsy tribes and of the
United States, as representatives of said
tribes. do appoint, elect and constitute
Emil Mitchell, of the city of New Or
leans, chief of all the gypsies of the
United States, with authority to do and
perform all things and acts pertaining
TO said Office that he may lawfully do
under the rules, customs and laws of
the gypsy people. and not IN conflict
with the laws of the United States or
any sovereign State"
The paper was duly signed, and then
was taken to the offices of the Attorney
General and the Secretary of State, who
will attach their respective seals to the
instrument.
1t has been five years since the gyp-
sizes chose a King. Zlatcho Dimito, his
predecessor, has crossed the border in
to Canada, thus abdicating his title,
and with his departure the tribes i'm
mediately chose a new man and sent
their chieftains to Washington to in
stall him.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28
Only a Nominal Capital.

Washington is to-day only nominal
ly the Capital of the United States. Off
cially the Capital is where the Presi-
dent of the United States is, and that is
at Beverly, Mass, but when the Presi-
dent leaves the Capital he usually leaves
some member of his Cabinet holding
down the lid. At the present time not
a single member of the Cabinet IS here,
nor is it expected that one of them Hill
be in the near future. The whereabouts
of the heads of the various portfolios
of the United States Government is as
follows:
The Vice President of the United
States is at Big Moose Lake.
The Secretary of State is cooling him
self at Valley Forge, Pa.
The Secretary of the Treasury is at
Dublin. n. III.
The Secretary of War is out in the
western reaches of the Pacific Ocean,
somewhere between Honolulu and Ma
nila."
Attorney-GeneraI wickersham is at
Beverly, Mass.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock took
ship for Europe a week ago.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer Is at the
Restigouche Fishing Club in Canada.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger Is
in Seattle, Wash.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is on
his farm in Iowa.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel Is at Marion, Mass
The highest officials of Government in
Washington are Assistant Secretary of
State Huntington Wilson and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Charles D.
Hilles
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

as good, has been as constant, as vigil
liant, as courageous in fighting the bat
ties of the old soldiers to obtain that
which all fair-minded men concede is
justly due them as John McElroy? Com
rades, think of the enemies that Com
rade McElroy has met and beaten in
this struggle for simple justice for the
old soldiers. The fight is still on. as
fierce as ever. and only death will stay
his hand. Now, comrades, who Is so
worthy of the high honor of Command
er-in-Chief? Who so eligible? The
Fastening years admonish US that the
chair will soon be draped and empty,
with none eligible to fill the vacant
seat. Comrades, let us then elect Com
rade McElroy to this high honor on
first ballot, without dissenting voice
j. H. McQuaid, Shinnston. W. Va.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28
Widows Pensions.

Mrs. NJ. p Newcomb, Munnsville, N.
Y, thanks us for our reply to the Roch-
ester Herald. She knows women who
have married veterans since 1890 and
who were then strong young women,
but are now broken down from taking
care of their husbands If they should
outlive their husbands, they would have
to go to the poorhouse.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28


another instalment the os and
children ana ue
AFTER IT'S puohcaion
book The exhausted but the demand
additional erediabe typographical
volume will kleggs
soldier
Each will be Of printed in large type
bound
and wills be
while
Those
accompanied by each
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE Washington D. C.
The National Tribune egs (pape cove post.
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The National tribune., 1910-07-28
A Few Copies SHII Left For Sale.

Sixteen chapters of battles. marches sieges
and camp life. Ten company histories and
22 contributed articles by the rank and file
and roster OF 155th Reg't Pa. Vol. Zouaves.
What 1t saw; what II did, and where 1t
went-all told by actual participants. Eight
hundred pages
Five hundred photo-engravings, illustra-
tons of wartime and portraits.
Superbly bound. Specially designed cover
Price $500; sent by express. 80 cents extra.
All checks, orders, etc. to be payable to
the South Side Trust Company. Treasurer.
Published by 155th Reg't Association. Adj
dress Chas. f. MeKenna, Secretary. 7O2 Friek
Building, 435 Fifth Ave, Pi:.sburg, Pa.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28
OF TT T@@ His Transformation from
NJ NA1I\Jos Raw Recruit to a Veteran

HEW BOOKS in the Lit.
erary history of this
= country had such in.
stantaneous success and wide
popularity as the "Si Klegg"
series. From the very first
The story attracted a host OF
readers, and these increased
in geoEaetrical ratio as the
publication progressed.
1t is the story plainly, SIM
ply and truthfulIy told of the
development of two green
country boys into veteran
soldiers of the highest type.
The story is told with affec-
tionate fidelity by one who
marched, camped and fought
with them, and there is 4
universal agreement that it Is
far the best story of the ex-
perience of the enlisted men
III tne OniOn army that has
ever been written. Every
detail and incident is 80
truthful, so like his own ex-
perience that the veteran in
stantly recognizes it with
a burst of laughter or the
tears yelling into his eyes
The abounding humor OF the
book is one of its most fas-
einating features. Wherever
it is possible to extract fun
out of any situation or hap.
pening it is done in the real
old army way. The heros Of
the story see the fun them
selves at once and the
author vividly depicts il.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

John A. Gross is dead. Mr.. Gross
was a newspaper man of the very high
est type. He understood newspaper
work from the ground up. He had been
in the press galleries of Congress for
the last 20 years, and he entered the
newspaper work In 1881 as a messen-
ger for the New York Associated Press
He had been at different times con-
nected with the United Press, later with
the American Press Association, and
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

M. C. Hazen, District Surveyor, soon
will undertake to ascertain whether or
not Gen. George Washington was as
good a surveyor as he was a soldier.
Mr.. Hazen will resurvey Reservation
13 of the District, to ascertain the ac-
curacy of the original survey made in
1897 by Gen. Washington. The resur-
vey will be made on the recommends
ton of Attorney General Wickersham
to ascertain the accuracy of the reser-.
vation.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

departure in the survey of public
domain was inaugurated with the be-
ginning of the fiscal year, July l. The
work will now be performed by survey
ors employed by the General Land Of
fee instead of thru the contract system.
Land Commissioner bennett believes
that the change will effect an enormous
saving of time.
For several years the Land Office has
been endeavoring TO obtain authority
from Congress to do its own surveying.
Permission had been refused until the
session just closed, when 100000 was
appropriated for the work. This was
an increase of 1915, 600 over last year.
Under the old system, after the con-
tractor had made his survey, it had to
be inspected by an Examiner of the
Land Office. 1t was never less than
two years, and often three and four
years, before the work was accepted
land the land made available to entry.
Under the new plan of employing
lthe surveyors the delays previously en-
eountered, it is said. will be obliterated
1.-Two supervising surveyors will be
placed in the field and will examine the
work constantly as ii progresses.
AS soon as practicable the surveyors
kwill be appointed by Civil Service exam
|dnations. This cannot be done imme-
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

Mrs. Katy C. Brownell, whose seth
birthday was celebrated recently at the
Jumel mansion, on Washington Hights,
has unique distinction in that Gov.
6prague, of Rhode Island, gave her a
special permit to join the Rife Guards
at Providence in 1861. She went to
the front with her husband, being
wounded in the second battle of Bull
Run.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28
Not So Long.

1t is just 120 years since the District
of Columbia was established as the
seat of Government of the United
States. Congress passed the act July
16, 1890. The District at that time was
comprised of land offered to Congress
by the States of Maryland and Virginia,
and was originally square, the sides
of which were 10 miles each. 1t is said
that it was partly in Difference to Wash
ington's judgment that what was called
the Potomac Country" was selected.
By an act of Congress, dated March 80,
1871, Washington himself was author
lied to select the site and mark the
boundaries and this he did. early in
the year the cornerstone of what was
called the Federal Territory being laid
on April Is. Maj. Pierre Charles PEn-
FAINT, a French engineer who had served
in the Continental army, was selected
by Washington to lay out the new Fed
eral domain, and he drew up the plan,
which was adopted by the Commission
erS in charge, and then they fired him.
The laying out of the plans of the city
as drawn by PEnfant was done by An
drew Ellicott In September of 1871
Washington was the name selected for
the city, and Columbia was adopted for
the District. In 1900 the Senate side
of the Capitol was completed, the cor
nerStone of which was laid in 1898, and
Congress held its first session there in
December. AT that time all the archives
of the Government had been brought
over from Philadelphia and installed in
the Capitol. The great barn of an un-
finished White House was first occupied
by John Adams when he was President.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
been forced to take hand in protect
ing the National Guard in the States;
that is, such members of it as may be
in the Post Office employ. He has ad-
dressed a letter to one Postmaster, who
has been charged with discriminating
against the National Guard by refusing
to allow employees to attend to their
military duties. He warned them
against the practice, and called the at
tention of the Postmaster to a regula-
tion that authorizes leave of absence
without pay to all members of the Ma
tional Guard when called upon to per-
form military duties.
The position of the Department is
thus stated in the letter:
1.-The Department believes that the
National Guard should be encouraged
in every way that 1t is feasible for Post
masters to arrange the duties of en-
ployes, SO that leaves of absence to per-
form military duty may be granted
without detriment to the service"
M C. HaZen District Surveyor soon
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

Among the ITO wants" and ITO let's"
in the daily papers of Washington there
might be something like this: ITO let
Presidents special room at the Union
Station" The world now knows that
washington has one of the most mag
niifcent white marble Union Stations in
the whole world. II is a thing of beau
ty and presumably will be joy for
ever, as 1t is built to stand for ages to
come, and is supposed To have accom-
modations to care for four times the
population that Washington now has
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

For a long time there has been a
growing Dremonition that the United
States Government is determined on
getting rid of its women clerks. This
is stamped with official approval by
the statement from authoritative
sources that women stenographers are
no longer wanted in the Government
service. The Civil Service Commission
has announced that there is soon to be
an examination for the purpose of in
cluding men stenographers and typists,
the demand for whom the Civil Service
Commission has been unable to meet
II is stated for a fact that all the vari-
Gus Departments of the Government
are seeking to replace women stenog-
raphers with men on the ground that
men are more amenable to discipline,
are more easily transferred to places
where their services are needed and
can more readily be drafted into other
kinds of work.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

Another man with conscience has
been found. The other day there came
to the conscience fund of the Treasury
Department a letter from a New York
man, who stated that he had put it
over Loeb" to the extent ofS150. The
writer said that he had only just re-
turned from Europe. and had brought
with him some articles that were 'duti-
able, but which he had not declared.
His conscience got to hurting him like
the mischief, and so in order to satisfy
it he forwarded the $50 which repre-
sented the duties on the smuggled-in
articles.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

Aug. 5 President Taft will be the
guest of honor and make the address
at the unvailing of the big monument
erected by Massachusetts in memory of
the Pilgrim Fathers at Provincetown,
just inside the hook of Cape Cod
Among the other guests will. be the
Hon. James Bryce. Embassado- from
Great Britain; the Minister from the
Netherlands, Senator Lodge and a
number of other noted people The
President and his family will como over
to the dedication from Beverly on the
Mayfower. Fifteen ships of war are
expected to be present. and the May
flower, with the President aboard, will
pass in review. 1t will be President
Taft's first review of a big fleet. Ma
rines and soldiers are expected to add
color to the occasion. Among the 9TH
er big things will be luncheon to the
distinguished guests, when there will
be covers for over 1000.
The monument to the Pilgrims is $50
feet high, and stands on a hill itself
more than 100 feet high. President
Taft when Secretary of War was a
member of the Commission which made
plans for this monument. The corner
stone was laid by former President
Roosevelt.
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

Twenty thousands dollars was paid
July l to Richard Parr. the New York
customs emplOye, whose vigilance in
detecting frauds in underweighing su-
gar imports saved the Government more
than $2.000,000. PARIS total reward
is to be 100000.
For the remaining $500 Secretary
MacVeagh will ask Congress to make
the necessary provision. The money
came out of the moiety fund
The National tribune., 1910-07-28

Postmaster General Frank NJ Hitch
cock sailed on the Mauretania for Eu-
rope a week ago, expecting to remain
abroad about two weeks. He was look
ing very tired, and is making the trip
more for the salt water part of it than
for anything else. He expressed good
deal of satisfaction over the work of
his Department for the last few months,
stating that he had saved $4,000, 900
in the past nine months, an average of
over S1,000,000 a month.
The oasis., 1910-07-30
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"It is said that selected samples will show ninety-fve per cent graphite carbon and others can of course be picked that will run lower than the average as it is shown by the analysis quoted"
 "The graphite is apparently wholly amorphous and shows no flakes like that mined in Pennsyl
 (continued on page B.
The oasis., 1910-07-30
GRAPHITE MINING IN MEXICO.
Continued from page 1.O


 limestones. The surface of the ground is strewn with quartzite boulders which are hard and glassy. Some of the boulders con. tain pebbles one inch or one and one-half inches in diameter, but most of them are much finer grained material. The rock in places is much softer, so soft that it can almost be worked with pick, and is apparently the same material as the boulders which everywhere cover the surface. It seems probable that the boulders are hardened by exposure to the hot sun.
 "The headquarters house and the main shaft are situated upon a hill perhaps one hundred feet above the valley. Aneroid baro- meter readings show the house to be four hundred and seventy-6ve feet above La Colorado. The eleva- tion above sea level is about one thousand three hundred feet. At present work is being carried on from two shafts known as the west shaft, about seven hundred feet west of headquarters house, and the north shaft, about the same distance northeast of the house. A number of beds of graphite occur, at least seven. Only one is ex- posed in the west shaft, but in the north shaft six beds have been cut, Around both of the shafts every thing is covered with a metallic Iuster in the bright sunlight. Ever the mems clothing, hands anc faces take on somewhat of the same metallic sheen.
 "The west shaft is an incline sunk at an angle of about fifty de grees, with levels twenty-five fee apart. The shaft is driven beneath a granite bed which here runs ap proximately east and west dipping north. The shaft is dug on th' under side of the bed so as to avoi( as much as possible the slipping of the rocks. Upon descending th' shaft a rise in temperature is a once noticeable at this time of th year. By the time the bottom i reached lone hundred and seventy five feet) clothing becomes a bur den and the precipitation flows pro fusely, so that the men work clat only in a pair of trousers with san dals made of thick pieces of COW hide having a thong passing be tween the first and second toes an others from the heel, all tied abou the ankle. However the tempers ture is said to be gratefully COG compared with that of the outsid air during the summer, and in tn winter there is considerable con petition between the native miner who are very sensitive to the colo as to who will first get into t. warmth of the mine. Here an there niches are cut in the wal and in them are rude woode crosses decorated with pieces ( newspapers before which the mir CTS pray for safety.
 "Both the west and north shaf have struck wet ground, thoue there is not enough water to mal pumping necessary.
 "The graphite bed, as at presel mined, reaches from nine to tt feet in thickness. It is extreme irregular in strike, sharp curv coming closely together. Probab fhere are more of these folds alb,