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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
Our kindred. though they be long ere they are wooed, they are constant De- ing won. -TroiIus and Cressida.
Going HeadlOng to Destruction

The republican machine in New York has disregarded the advice of Governor Hughes and Senator Root. and has se- lected one of it's own numbers to be- comes senate leader vice Jotham P. Aids, who is under a cloud Presumably Chauncev Depew stands by a machine he has consistently supported 50 years. and the republicans of New York are thus placed in two hostile camps. This split will become wider and deeper as fhe campaign of this year goes on and the November election will show where the republicans are at.
 The logical nominee of the machine for governor is Speaker Wadsworth, and if woodruff and Barnes dare face the music he will run on a platform that denounces the primary system and the income tax amendment
  had finer chance to sweep the state, and if the party is fully and satisfac- torily led and organized under such men as Theodore NJ Osborne a great vic tory will in the fall fill all democratic hearts with hope and joy.
  After all the chief issue next fall and in 1912 is to be the Aldrich tariff and the trusts and the prices and cost of living it promotes and leads to. No state except, of course, Pennsylvania, at once rotten and content, can be safely counted on to uphold that scheme. New York certainly will not, nor will either Ohio or Indiana Sit steady in the boat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 Since MT. Mallory's advocates are seek ing to create the impression that Mir O Neal is not standing on the Montgom- cry conference convention, in that he is a candidate. we would like for tffese hair splitting gentle to explain how Mir Mallory, who was the chairman of the democratic state committee, could ignore the platform adopted by the state con- vention in 19o6. and which declared for local option. In the face of that decla- ration he came to Montgomery, advocated propositions which had never been be- fore the people, which trampled the plat form under foot and sought to irrevoc- ably bind the state to a constitutional amendment which forbid any effort 10 secure local option He had resigned, 1t is true, from the cbairmanship because he was a candidate for governor, but it will hardly be contended that it released him from the declarations of the party. The amendment and the whole catalog of bills, which the amendment sought to forever put upon the people, was open and notorious abandonment of party dec laration. The only excuse made for this aotion was that the people demanded it. The people had been promised voice .n their own affairs by the last party plat form. and that they considered them selves wronged by departure therefrom vas amply evidenced by the immense ma jcrity they gave against the only mat ter submitted to their vote
 It is common cry that the people want this or that. It Is often used as a means for depriving them of their inalienable rights, and certainly the effort to force the amendment upon them was a striking example of that fact. They did, not want what Mir. Mallory and his associates sought to1put upon them In utter disre- gard of party platform pledges. Yet 1t wss sought to put it upon them under tile spacious plea that they did want t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
RusSIa'S Siberian System

The duma is a poor kind of a parlia- ment in a beureaucratic country, but all appropriations pass through it's hands in order to satisfy the bankers through whom loans have been or are to be placed This power enabled it this week to cut down the appropriation for the administration of the Siberian exile com mittee to sS4.5OO. In making even this small appropriation the committee in charge of the bill declared the system is bad and must be abolished.
 The horrors and inhumanities of Si- berian exile will perhaps never be fully told; but enough is known about it to take the Russian punitive plan out of the list of the methods of civilization and place 1t among about the worst of the middle ages.
 When Russia, however, abolishes the H1DerldH SySleHl, anu uldhtS llci pcdsdHlss proprietors, and builds enough school houses to hold her numerous children, we will witness new Russia, but this prob ably will be 50 years hence. The three reforms cannot be accomplished in a sin Gle generation, and until they are Rus 
 uia will remain a big but helpless giant aAthering debt and not much else. No one fears Russia since Japan licked her on land and sea, and it will be many a year before the proletariat in Russia will fight in earnest for the grand dukes and beaureaucrats of the ancient and dis credited autocracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
The Mills of the Gods

The mills of the gods may grind slow, but they grind sure; the state of Penn sylyania has wiped off the stain upon It's escutcheon in so far as the law is concerned, in the matter of the great capitol graft robbery" said former cit izen of the Keystone state.
 '1he state supreme court has affirmed the sentences of the former attorney general and James M. Shumaker, su- perintendent of public buildings and grounds. The sentence of each Is two years in the penitentiary and a fine of $500
 Seven persons, witnesses, and those indicted for the greatest graft scandal In this country. have died or committed sui- eide. John H. Sanderson, chief furnish- ings contractor, Is dead, as Is William l.. Mathues, who was convicted of con- spiracy. Herbert Stephenson, Sanderson's confidential bookkeeper, committed sui- eide. James c. Jeffers, warrant clerk, an important witness for the state, was found dead in bed. James E. Stott, sec retary of the board of public grounds and buildings, a commonwealth witness, was found dead in a bath room. George Young, who as clerk of Treasurer Berry, allowed ex-Treasurer Mathues access to the treasury books at midnight during the investigation, is dead, as Is the watch man. Berry Thompson, who admitted Mathues to the treasury department. Jo- seph NJ. Huston. the architect, is await ing trial The time covered in the whole matter of the detection of the stealase and convictions, and the deaths, is some four years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
THE GUMsHoE CAMPAIGN

From the Mobile Register
 MT. Ross Blackmon, who was the chief spokesman at the burial of the amend ment' meeting at Anniston this week.
 denied that the meeting had been called
 for political purposes. Replying to Mr.
 Willett's declaration that the nomination of MT. Mallory for governor of Alabama
 would have been as inconsistent as elect ing Lord Cornwallis President after York
 town, MT. Blackmon ewanted to know
 whether MT. Mallory really occupied the
 position of Cornwallis. Was he not rather
 like Confederate? As for Judge WiIlett, would he have had the wearers of the
 Blue bar out forever the wearers of the
 Gray?
 Good point, of course; but in what did 1t tend to promote the object of the har- mony meeting? Also, in what did it diff fer from the usual political argument
 And this in meeting not called for po- litical purposesl
 It is a way of campaigning-a gum
 shoe way. You see it, but do not hear
 anything. No politics, of course; mere- ly, Mallory is repentant and ought to be forgiven-and rewarded! That is the appeal MT Blackmon makes in behalf of the one man most responsible for all that bitter campaign for and
 against the amendment-a campaign that split Alabama in two.
 We do not think Alabamians are go- ing to forget the man or the issue that won out against Mallory and the rest of the amendment crowd. Emmet O'Neal iy the man. If there is anything in logic
 and in personal deserving he is sure winner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
Insurgency Has Come to Stay

No fact is plainer in national politics than that insurgency is permanent up- rising against the Aldrich tariff and its trusts and their combined high cost Of living. And while it is awaiting the op- portunity to overthrow the tarin, with Bosses Aldrich and Cannon thrown in, it is doing excellent work in various di- rections. It fights privilege at every op- portunity. It stands for the rights of the masses, and the masses are beginning to recognize the value of the movement
 Just at present it Is engaged in search ing the railroad bill for hidden passages that privilege had caused to be inserted in it. That bill will come out thoroughly purged. But it's greatest victory was no doubt the elimination of the capitalistic joker in the postal savings bank bill. The magnates had agreed to accept postal savings bank bill on the promise made by President Taft that the savings of the people would be used to buy up the ? per cents which have become drug in the market. This would unload the peo- ple's money in Wall street, and the scheme was to go through with bells on. But the insurgents in the Senate cut this scheme out by inserting an amendment requiring postal deposits to be invested cent interest. The schemers will endeavor in the Cannon branch of Congress to re- store the per cent scheme, but they and every insurgent is against it. The bankers want to unload their per cents, but they cannot unload them on the small depositors in the postal savings banks. That would be downright meanness, and the insurgents will see to it that it is not accomplished.
 We need the insurgents in Congress un- til the people can elect next November a democratic House to stand against the schemes of selfish privilege that the standpatters are perforce committed to | and cannot escape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
WOMEN AND THE SALACIOUS

nine imagination, while it's staleness has the opposite effect upon men.
 If MT. Lackaye has been correctly quoted his observations in Boston bear out the frequent similar assertions of the salacists. Mrs. Glyn is said to boast of having found a greater num- Der of feminine than masculine read CTS for her lamentably stupid, if strenu- ously lascivious, Three Weeks" But while there may be a large enough number of feminine readers of Three Weeks" to net Mrs. Glyn substantial return for prostituting printers ink and smearing clean white paper with muck, a far larger number of women who are readers of books could not be persuaded to wade through the out pouring of the Glyn soul. And. like the indecent show, "Three Weeks fails to interest men chiefly because nearly all boys run across good deal of obscene literature during knick- erbocker days and outgrow it.
 Since all of us must eat our peck of dirt, according to an adage, the salacists are supported by callowness and curiosity. The sum of their labors in the field of literature and the drama Is not large when compared with that of worthier artists, and their influence upon morals is probably less than is imagined by those who assail-and ad- ,vertise-their wares
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
The Mobile Reunion

'The Confederate veterans reunion at Mobile next month promises to be one of the most enjoyable in the history Of our organization" said Capt. J. l.. Daroy, aojutant of Camp Hardee. Ihe BIT mingham reunion of 1908 will be remem- bered as the most brilliant affair in vet eran annals of the past few years, but Mobile will do it's best to equal, if not surpass, this city.
 q am sorry indeed to read of the ill., ness of Senator John w. Daniel Of Fir- ginia. An effort was being made to in ducc him to attend the forthcoming re- union. and we were hoping that ne would not only be on hand. but make speech Daniel has a splendid war rec ord and he is famed for his eloquence. f heard him at the Richmond reunion in 1907. and like all who came under the spell of his voice, marveled at his mas terful oratory."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
HOME
By James Montgomery.

By James Montgomery. There is a land, of every land the pride. Beloved by heaven OCT all the. world
 beside;
 Where brighter suns dispense serener
 light
 And milder moons emparadise the night; A land of beauty. virtue, valor. truth; Time-tutor' age and love-exalted youth; The wandering mariner, whose eye ex- The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting
 shores.
 Views not a realm so bountiful and fair Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air. In every cline, the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance. trembles to
 that pole;
 For in this land of heavens peculiar
 grace,
 The heritage of natures noblest racn There is a spot of earth supremely blest, dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest Where man. creations tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepter, pageantry and
 pride, While in his softend looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother. Here woman reigns: the mother, daugh- ter, wife, strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye. An argel guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic duties meet And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? Art thou a man?-a patriot Hook around; 0, thou shalt find, however thy footsteps roam, That land thy country and that spot thy.
 homA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
HARDEsT-wORKED JOKE
Don't Tell the Elevator Man He Has
 Ups and Downs

From the Chicago Tribune.
 What do you consider the most-used joke in Chicago today?" asked the sales man.
 No one answered for a time, but at last some one mentioned, Great weather for ducks" as being worth while for q leader.
 The barber supply man spoke up: Got my hair cut today l said to friend Why don't you get them all cut?' he re- piled. Seems to me that with all the new hair-cuts in a day in Chicago and all the fool friends of the hair cutees, this joke would be pretty well worn. Let's give It the crown
 The man with the happy face and the red nose to mention the bartender, who invariably inquired: Have it wrapped up?' when you ordered two fingers of rye. It was received in silence. They all drank rye and remembered the noise.
 The man who says, "Good-by, old chap; don't take any wooden money" was next reviled
 Then comes the prize idiot, who gives you a kick between the shoulders with
  grinning vacuously meantime.
 The elevator man, who had stopped to listen to the stories between his tricks on the car. had been standing on one leg and then the other, nervously bitirg the stem of his pipe. One of the crowd noted his excitement.
 Whats yours?" he was asked.
 This is where I get even for ten years injustice" exploded the elevator chauf- feur "Without one single doubt in the world, I am the fall guy for the dumb est hard-worhing man ever stood for. To cap it all, 1t is showed at me hot and cold every day IT. the month, and every month In the year.
 Every man who gets on an elevator after some successful deal, or has the taste of some well-mixed drink tickling his palate, hands It t" me. Stcnos, office boys clerks, salesmen-every one, in fact ladies it out, and each and every rum among them thinks it's brand new
 For heavens sake, what is it? Give it to us. quick.
 ''The elevator man certainly has his ups and downs almost yelled the conductor. That's the only joke that drives elevator men to drink and If there is any prizes given in this contest. win 'em all.
 There are about 800 elevator men in Chicago, and l know from ten years ac- tual experience, that that durn fool joke, moss and all, is cracked five times a day in the presence of each and every ele- yator man in Chicago.
 That means zoo time day. 20,0o( times a month, and 1,440,C00 times a year If that ain't record for one poor, meaS- ly. moth-eaten joke, I'll eat It."
 The crowd tried hard to console the unfortunate man, and kept the waiter husy doing if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
Taking the Last Step In C0rea

While the boy emperor of Corea n attending school in Japan and i'm. bfbine Japarese ideas and ideals, Prime Minister Katsura is beyond reasonable Aoubt taking the final steps for the AnaI and full annexation of the hermit rtnrdom. Japan will then extend to Ahe Yalu river with strong ties and anfuences in Manchuria superadded fhis will make Japan more populous chan France Great Britain or Italy and the equal in population of either Germany or Austria.
 The Japanese newspapers say Jap anese emigration cannot be centered sn corea or Manchuria until their polit- 6aaI status is definitely establish ed and ehav are urging the government to 1o fhis at the earliest possible mo- mont. The signs of the hour show 1hat the Japanese government is pre- 1arfne to act up to public expectation. s noon as several bothersome ques. 21nna ef rank and the like are settled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
VICTOR HUGO

From the Memphis News-Scimitar.
 few days ago the birthday of Victor Hugo was celebrated in France. What a wonderful man he was! A poet, a romancer, a philosopher and a statesman and a genius. His writings are dear to civilization. Les Misera- bles!' Who that has read it once. but must read 1t again! A biographer of authority says of his writings: He is perhaps the greatest compiler and gatherer of words. the greatest master of language that we know. He has formed the rhetorical and poetic taste of three generations of French youth. All schools of French verse that have arisen in the last half century have united to call him their father.
 r'Part of the political career of Hugo was stormy, and for time he had to live out of his native country. At the collapse of the second empire he re- turned, to share the darkest days of the terrible year 0S70-7D. He died in Paris, May 22, 1885, at the advanced age of S3. His body lay in state be- meath the Arc de Triomphe. His funeral became a pageant that royalty might envy, and could not equal. The relics of Saint Genevieve, the patron saint of
 Paris, were removed from the Pantheon that 1t might receive the popular hero. "Hugo's description of the battle of ! waterloo, from his Les Miserables,' is undoubtedly the greatest effort of this character ever written In summing
 up he says: Was 1t possible that lNapoleon should win the battle of Wa terloo? We answer, NO" Why? Be- cause of Wellington? Because of
 Bluecher? No. Because of God! For
 Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not in the law of the nineteenth cen tury. It was time that this vast man
 should fall. He had been impeached be-
 fore the infinite. He had vexed God!
 waterloo was not battle. It was the
 change of front of the universe ]"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

decree will be issued that will en- fold Corea in the conquering Japanese empire and there will be no power to interpose or object. To the victors belong the spells and Japan fought well and bravely when she faced Rus sia single handed on land and sea. She won all battles and she will absorb Corea as a plain and natural result of the great war that was ended at Ports mouth, N. 1T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Birmingham and Atlanta

Although I get over this way once or twice year, Birmingham seems very much larger every time 1 come,' said Evelyn Harris of Atlanta.
 There can be no question about Bir- mingham's rapid growth. Atlanta and this city are alike in the matter of in crease. In the last census Atlanta was far ahead of Birmingham, but in the new census, while Atlanta will still be ahead, there will not be very much diff ference in population"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
REFLEcrIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 There's no education so expensive as experience.
 People miss a lot of fun in life by de- spising 1t because it's not expensive.
 If man can't find any other way to be a hero, he will just escape having pneu- monia.
 A college boy can't even learn how to write a letter home for anything but money.
 The trouble with domestic economies is that for every dollar anybody in the fam fly can save, somebody else can spend 1.-two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

and $3o,00O year from her husband, gave novel divorce dinner"
 What was the most striking featureT'
 "A cluster of incandescent bulbs in the center of the table were cased in tissu9 paper bags decorated with dollar marks.'s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

Summer board and summer cottages are New Englands gold mine, and the out come is well up to that of the nations gold mines. ,--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

Peary can point to the 1500 fathoms of piano wire that he left at the north pole and ask the House naval committee ta.go and get it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
SENATOR BANKHEAD
.n. Wasbinrton Herald.

From the washington Heraio.
 A number of Alabama people seem to think Mr. Bankhead may not be returned to the Senate, but among them is not MT. Bankhead. And, in our humble opin- ion. that latter cifcumstance counts some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
Enthusiastic Chorus

"We have just had fine rehearsal said Prof. Fred L. Grambs last night after conducting the festival chorus through the various numbers of Tschai- kowsy's opera to be sung under MT. Dam- rosch's direction In April.
 "The singers are now attending the rehearsals well and I have never known a more enthusiastic chorus The part rehearsal for ladies' voices will take place Saturday afternoon as usual.
 We have made such good progress in the Tschaikowsky music that we will be ready to take up for practice next week the two Wagner choruses called for by MT. Damrosch-one from Lohengrin' and one from 'Meistersinger.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

Nothing is more popular or useful than a public buildings bill The public money is in that way spent at home, rather than in Hong Kong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

increased voting strength of the demo- cratic party all the politicians are guess ing. It is estimated that between l2'oVo and 15.O0o votes will be cast in the county primary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

The home and center of oleomargarine moonshiners is in Chicago, and all but ter that comes from that city should be well shaken before taking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
The County Vote

"'Are you taking the stump for any of the county candidates?' asked an able and esteemed judge who is not before the people in this campaign" said a citizen My friend replied with gentle smile, T am not taking the stump, but rather the fence
 Seriously speaking he went on to say, 1t is difficult to tell just who will win in the county primary. With few ex- captions 1t is impossible to forecast re- suits. The sheriff's race Is, of course, the most exciting, and I am certainly not prophet enough to say which of the candi- datcs.wil be chosen.
 CT have been an active participant in county politics for some time past, but the situation today is very different from what 1t was 10 years ago, or even Six years ago. I used to know nearly every democratic voter in Jefferson, but know comparatively few of them now. We have many new voters this year; and new corners have been settling here right along during the past 10 years. The greatest accessions have been within the past i've yAars On account. therefore. of the larka
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
AN INTERRUPTED Woo1NG.

AN INTERRUPTED WoolS1. "Do you know, I'd like to marry you," said the travelling gentleman who had scraped an acquaintance with beauteous female across the aisle.
 "Pm afraid that will be impossible an- swered the b. f.
 Please tell me why?"
 'Well, you see, have a husband who weighs 200 pounds and can straighten a horseshoe with his bare hands. He might object to my marrying you"
 'Ha! hal So you have a husky hus- band, eh? Well, I'm glad he's far away" He's not so far away as you think. He went to buy a newspaper from the train boy. In fact see him returning now Perhaps you would like to meet my husband? Tll---"
 But the travelling gentleman suddenly recollected that he had business else- where.
 CONSOLING HIMSELF. J He said he didn't care for fame .s To wish it was a sin. It ~ Appeared he didn't stand a chance, W By hook or crook, to win it!
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
A HAPPY BLEND.

"Oil and water won't mix" "Perhaps not; but there is one com- bination that it seems impossible to pre- vent"
 "What, may I ask?'
 Baseball and blatancy."