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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
Smooth runs the water where the brook
 is deep. - King Henry Fi'
Bribery in Danville, Illinois

The grand jury in Vermillion county endeavored to uncover its po- litical rottenness but it found coun- ty full of politicians who were con- spring against any investigation of the sale of votes. Fourteen indlct- ments have been returned against po- litical workers, including William c. Brown, a city election commissioner. The grand jury asks the county judge to separate Brown from the office he dishonors, and then it goes on to say: "We condemn in the strongest terms the politicians and the public officials who have obstructed to their utmost the efforts of the grand jury to investigate crimes against the ballot and who have committed perjury in many in- stances in order to protect their fel- low criminals and we would impress upon our citizens that corrupt bal lot is the greatest menace that threat ems representative government and that the courts alone cannot afford protection to the people, but that the courts must have behind them the support of a wholesome and vigorous public sentiment"
 The grand jury asserts that brib- cry is general in the politics of Yer million county, and it proposes to meet again on April to resume the effort to expose the corruption that confessedly exists in the county. Un- like the unsophisticated people of Adams county, Ohio, the politicians of Vermillion are determined to squelch any exposure of political cor ruption. Large sums were expended in the bribery of voters, and yet says the grand jury, men prominent in political and business circles did not desire an investigation of the evil. This is the worst feature of election bribery in that county. No one seems to consider the buying and selling of votes reprehensible or de- moralizing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

From the Kansas City Star.
 Luke Emerson, the Pike county mule man, once visited England and in an at- tack on him by a gang of ruffians he killed a man. In refuting the story re- gently printed that it was a Paris Apache" he had killed, Emerson gives this partial report to the Mexico Intelli- gencer: "The ruffian who attacked me had followed me all the way from Liver pool to London and it was there one night when I was walking down the street that Brummington Bill, alias Henry Johnson, and his gang fell on me. The streets were slippery, as they always are in London, and I fell. l hit the ground shooting, though. and I killed Brum- mington Bill and winged one of the others. Did they turn me loose when l told my story? Not much. I was haled into the police court. where my barris- ter, Mir. Atkinson, pleaded my case. Then I went to Holloway prison, where pr. Crippen was incarcerated last sum mer Then I began sending cables to Champ Clark and his influence helped me, nightly, too, when my trial came up. I went to trial in Old Bailey, the same court in which Crippen was convicted. They don't have lawyers there like we have here. They called them queen S counsel Well, the queens counsel did their work and I was acquitted in a hurry. had recommendations from Champ Clark and all the leading live stock men in Chicago and St. Louis. They said afterward that I broke up one of the worst gangs of thieves and murderers that infested London. They caught the rest of the gang and put them in prison. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
N ECHO FROM BYRON

From Byro1An. '"The Bride of Abydos.' Know ye tS the land where the cypress ara Are epsSor..,lems of deeds that are done in
 thessn1reir cline.
 Where sp the rage of the vulture. the S:e
 A. of the turtle,
 Ndtoyw melt into sorrow. now madden to Kn9S Nv we the land of the cedar and vine, WhAaIsre the flowers ever blossom, the
 r,,l beams ever shine; WheO Ere the light wings of Zephyr, op-
 fr uressed with perfume, WaT $4 faint OCT the gardens of Gul In her whery e the citron and olive are fairest of And the svoice of the nightingale never is Where n 1l the tints of the Earth. and the
 hu bes of the sky, In colof@ though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye; Where t0 1hc virgins are soft as the roses
 they v 1ktwine.
 And all, sa I've the spirit of man. is divine: 'Tis the ell lime of the East; 'tis the land Can he snT hile on such deeds as his chil- dren t Ceave done? :. Oh! wild a4 s the accents of lovers farewell Are the hJ Aarts which they bears and the
 taley> szs which they tell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
"Go South, My Boy, Co South!"


 Congressman Champ Clark had oc- casion to go to Chicago this week, and while there he advised the news paper men to reverse the famous say- ing of Horace Greeley so that it will read, Go south, young man, go south!" And he told them the req son why. Living as they did in the middle west they needed to be shown why.
 "The south," said MT. Clark, lis the place, and my advice is to go there. You won't eat as much as you do here in the north. If you do, you'll die. Your clothing must be lighter and therefore less expensive; you won't have to buy fuel to speak of and you can allow your horses and cattle to graze out of doors the year round.
 "Believe me, tbe south is the poor mans land, and you'll live to see the day when the south is going to be the richest part of the United States.
 "Why, say, know man who made $15,000 in one year off three acres of lettuce. Sounds fishy, doesn't it? 
 True, though, for I took the pains to find out. It's great country, boys, and if you want a tip, follow my advice. That is, go early to the southland and grow up with its progress"
 Advice of this nature is becoming general in the more crowded sections of the country where land is high priced. Soon or late great wave of population will turn southward, and a good way to hasten it's coming to this state is to form pools similar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
rulI of Intense Interest

q have rarely seen play that had SO much intense interest in it as the one appearing this week at the Bijou thea tre," said a regular amusement goer. Tt is the story of frenzied finance in which a woman and her accomplice play prom inent parts. She has an ability to whee- dle money out of the big men in much the same manner as did Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, the famous woman financier.
 "It is rare that such elegant produc- tions come to the popular priced theatres. and it shows an inclination on the part of Mr Wells to send a higher class of productions here. In this connection IS an interesting fact that several of the nem- bers of the company are noted stock people, and I am inclined to believe that they will be seen in a great stock com pany in Birmingham later this season. I like stock, such as will be presented, and believe it will pay"
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to the one just formed in Marengo county. It is very important to fill the blaclbelt with white men who will become proprietors before they become Alabama farmers. The tenant system must be driven out of the state and this can be done by taking early advantage of the soon-coming tide of farmers from the central west headed toward the south with its cheap lands and genial climate.
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winter, and efforts will be made to pass it. It will encounter opposition, chiefly because the practical control of the central bank will almost neces- sarily gravitate to New York; but a campaign of education will, it is be- lieved, greatly minimize opposition. Each national bank will take stock in it in proportion to it's own capi- tai stock and the weight of national bank ownership is heaviest in the east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
WHAT NEXT?

Mrs. Elinor Glyn has made arrange ments with one of the magazines to sup ply a series of articles on the proper bringing up of young people. "The proper bringing up of young people," forsoothl It was Mrs. Glyn who wrote that naus- eous novel, Three Weeks" Once in an idle moment the perpetrator of these trifles picked up copy of "Three Weeks' and casually perused about three para graphs descriptive of the heroine and her lover. Such inane drivel lacks even the power to corrupt any but those imma- ture persons for whom Mrs. Glyn would appear solicitous.
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 The visitor to the Lehgh county saloon log as the foregoing falls on his ear now adays. For the habitual drunkard the county is going to be the most doleful place on the entire map. Even Kansas. with it's prohibition, is going to look bet ter to him. It's all on account of the new ruling of the quarter sessions court. made recently.
 The court has been busy considering ap- piications for liquor licenses. In handing down the list of successful applicants the court has sent to each list bearing the names of 30 men, alleged to be habitual drunkards. With 1t is notification that if the dispenser of liquor sells any of his wares to a man whose name is listed the calcon license will be immediately re- volsed and the place closed
 The list is the result of a crusade start ed by the anti-liquor people of Allentown For a year past they have had detectives calling nightly at saloons and clubs, with instructions to make 8 list of persons seen under the influence of liquor twice in month. The sleuths worked industrious ly. The list handed down by the court shows the names of some of the best known politicians of Lehigh county. Sev- eral business men are listed also.
 Following the announcement of the li- censes the saloon-keepers held a meet ing and decided to post the list in promi- nent places .n their saloons. It was rur- ther agreed that, should any man whose name Is on 1t try to buy a drink the man behind the bar shall point to the list and refuse to sell. Damage and libel suits may follow. Thirty men. according to the method of counting used by the census, means a total of 12O people in a community. It is expected that Lehigh county's popula- tion will be reduced by about 12o people soon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
HEINE BY THE SEA

TfelHe
 I walked alone on the shore in the twi- light. All about me was solemn silence The high vault was the dome of Gothic church. The stars hung there like count less lamps, but they burned low and flick cred. The waves of the sea roared like a hydraulic organ; stormy chants, full of sorrow and despair, but triumphant with all Above me was bank of white trail- ing clouds that looked like monks, all passing with bowed heads and sorrowful faces, melancholy procession. It looked almost as though they were following a funeral. 'Who is to be buried? Who is dead?" said I to myself. 'Is Great Pan dead?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
TWO MEN Or ABILITY

From the ArgOnaut.
 man left his umbrella in the stand in a hotel recently, with q card bearing the following inscription attached to it.: This umbrella belongs to man who can deal a blow of 25o pounds weight. I shall be back in 10 minutes. On return ing to seek his property he found in its place card thus inscribed: This card was left here by a man who can run F miles an hour. I shall not be back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
oKLAHe DmA,s PROHIBITION

From the ,,r ,M,r,as ashington Post
 "Oh. ya,,ss; Oklahoma is 8 prohibition state" to remarked John R. Flynn of Mus kogee. fLc at the Willard, but it's like some other c'prohiibtion states-one can get about all II .e wants to drink for the price. And that reminds me of the latest prohibition story q. An easterner who had arrived in one q tSf Oklahoma's towns got up pretty good D thirst. but his host had not thought to as sls him to take drink. Finally, the yisitol IF suggested that he wouldn't mind haviri wig something to drink. and asked if therS c, was any place near at hand where it col nuld be had. The Oklahoman took out his watch. Let's see.' he said, its o'cloc1 K, and the banks closed, but guess we cat1 n get one most any place else. Sup pose w9l | go into this dry goods store.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
AxrIculture in yireinia

Virginia, like Alabama, is prosperous both agriculturally and industrially. and was glad to see by recent statistics that last year was one of high records in crops," said memper of Birmingham's Virginia colony. ''The Old Dominion is known generally as tobacco state and so it is, but the valuc of her trucking products in 1910 totaled $15,00o,000, as com- pared with s11,2Oo,Goo worth of tobacco grown. The value of live stock raised in Virginia in 1910 was sSO.opo,ooo and the combined value of her agricultural and fruit crops was s200,00O,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
The Iron Market

"The pig iron market is decidedly firmer than it was a week ago." said broker "and while there has been no change in price within the past few days, the quo tation schedule Is 50 cents a ton higher than it was a month ago.
 Tn February there was considerable tonnage contracted for on a basis of $10.5O for No. 2, but do not believe any iron can be bought now for less than $11. The improvement. therefore. is quite substan- tial."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
NEW LEADER OF DEMOCRATS From the Atlanta Constitution

NEW LEADER OF DEMOCRATS From the Atlanta Constitution.
 In Oscar Underwood of Alabama, the new floor leader of the triumphant demo- cratic majority, the party has spokes- man who will inspire the country with confidence and his associates with cour- age.
 Not since the Walker tariff act was framed, in 1S46. has there been a greater the fiscal affairs of the nation and re- forming it's tax measures and greater need of real statesmanship.
 Representing constituency similar to that of the Pittsburg district. and whose interests are largely identical and strong ly competitive, MT. Underwood has cour- ageously set out to demolish the high protective tariff principle in tariff making of which that district and that contsitu- ency are the most conspicuous defenders
 The last citadel of protection is the Pittsburg district, which has given to Congress Representative Dalxell, the high priest of protection. The ramparts have been taken and the rest of the country is gradually yielding in the defense of the prohibitive tariff exactions. But Pitts- burg will be the last to fall.
 Yet we find this democratic representa- tive of the Pittsburg of the south charged with the major responsibility for the new tarifr measure the democrats of the house will enact. His name will be added to that of Walker, Mckinley, Dingley and Payne as the author of one of the most important measures in the nations his tory-the taxation measure which the revenue of the republic is to be raised. The quality of courage possessed by the new democratic leader was shown when the leading commercial body of Birming- ham urged him to vote for a $4 duty on pig iron during the consideration of the Payne -Aldrich tariff bill. MT. Underwood sent back word: 1T am a revenue tariff democrat believe in competition and | not in prohibition. A $4 duty is high protective duty. I shall vote for duty I of $2.50 as a revenue measure
 Yet, after taking this stand. Oscar Un- derwood was returned to Congress with. out opposition, as testimony of the regard in which his honesty. integrity and ca pacity were held by the people of his home district. l The success Of the next national cam. 1 raign will largely rest upon the record ol accomplishment of the democratic houst : in the sixty-second Congress. which vii
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the distinguished honor of breaking the knees of the ex-president of the United States, and for while the war clouds looked very ominous. Might was right in that instance. however, and Big BilP won the distinction over Little Rill'n
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A pp1EE pEsp1rr

How sweet Is the thought of a tropical
 isle, And the shade of sheltering palm, Where the sun and the sea and the land
 scape smile In mood of perpetual calm. Aand never care from the work-a-day
 world
 Dulls the golden glow of a dream. Afar from the strife where humanity s
 whirled
 On the tide of a pitiless stream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

The sun got up this morning bright
 And found me still in bed, But he wasn't out so late last night As I was, be it said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

X-SendCOT AlurlcH VIII cOHIlHue
 i've to revolutionize the United
 currency system by establish
 t Washington central bank
 capital of $4OO, 100000. This
 capital is to be subscribed for yy tire national banks and there is no provision in the plan against the concentration of control in Wall street after the central bank has been established
 This central bank is to have 15 district branch banks ,and Atlanta has already pre-empted the one to be located in the southeast. The dis trict banks will have their own di- rectors, and these district directors wY9f in turn appoint the directors of the central bank at Washington.
 Neither the central bank nor the district banks will do business with the public. They will receive deposits from the national banks and will transact an exchange business for them. They will receive deposits, too, from the government. But the chief business of the central bank is to consist in the issue of national currency certificates. In case of panic it would issue enough certifi- cates, it is claimed, to prevent any monetary stringency in any part of the country.
 The object of the proposed plan is to give elasticity to the currency of the Country. It is proposed, too, to make international bills of lading ne- gotiable-to render them in other words as good as currency provided they are indorsed by the national hanks in which they are first depos- ited. The hope is that this plan would place the currency system of thin country on level with that of England, Fran:e and Germany.
 The plan, ttough complex, has many rood pointsft will not be presentedat the extra ession, but it will be laid bsfore t regular session of next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
SOME "LANGwIpGE." "

In one of the recent novels the author tells how his heroine stified "a mutinous impulse of her pupils to rifle into amusement" If you don't get your moneys worth in a "best seller" 1t is your own fault They are brimming fun of unconscious humor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

The insurrectos in Mexico are now be- tween martial law on the one side and the United States army on the other. It is new form of the devil and the deep blue sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New YOrk PfcsS.
 A woman never gets old enough to ex- press it in years.
 bride begins with being sure and ends with being hopeful.
 A costly thing about marriage is putting 1t off and spending more being engaged.
 If a woman can't be appreciated she Il be just as grateful for 8 word of thanks
 It's easy to get money and put 1t into your pocket; the hard thing is to make it stay there.
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The Canadian Pacific is going to start mer is a good time in which to start Canadian towns. No snow shovels are needed then.
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Italy is trying her Cammorists in wholesale lots-H at a time-for murder, and there is no chance in that country to plead any form of insanity.
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The United States is now bounded by possible reciprocity on the north and by practical intervention on the south. But neither has yet been carried to the limit.
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When the pay stops on the fiftieth leg islative day our lawmakers will feel the lure of spring and Montgomery will have no charms for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

If Senator Cullom becomes the repub- lican leader of the Senate, it will fall lower in public esteem than it ever did when Aldrich ruled it.
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The Guggenheims are said to be behind the Rio Grande movement. They own a good share of the interests affected by the insurrection.
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Let us hope the typhoid and other Alger mistakes of 1898 will not be repeated this year along the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

Germany does not seem to care whether the United States annexes Mexico or not Japan has not been heard from.
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In St. Louis the daffodil bloomed this year before the crocus, and the scien- lists of that city are puzzled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

England proposes to build five Dread noughts in order to meet the German and Austrian naval increase.
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Some think Lorimer will frame up resignation by April and take an ap- peal 10 his people in Illinois,
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San Francisco is rejoicing over two events-the Panama canal exposition and sending of Ruef to jail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
AMONG THE FIRST.

Some say it's most too early, but, Gosh ding What do I carer" He spoke, and shortly after put
 On summer underwear
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Beans are now rivals in Boston of sleeping porches in the prevention of tu- berculosis
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San Antonio should take a census be- fore the army movement colapses or passes beyond the Rio Grande
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Texas now considers herself safe against Jap invasion, and she does not care how far the present movement is carried.
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Ambassador Reid has the gout. and this is sign that he has become completely Anglicized.
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Even General Keller in his jimswinger offers to go to the front-the Rio Grande ito fight for his country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16

No member of the Hohenzollerns seems to rest easy until he has had appendi- citis. It is family that keeps up with the fashions
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One sees them Sn London. in Paris and in New York. BuNt, in the great centers Of population, they kare scattered more or less. In Monte Carlo they are concern trated and pass in hourly review before the eye, and the neinds eye. Perhaps, here. too, their weaknesses are more in evidence. They feel that they are away rom home. BesidesI there is deal of go-as-you-please on kthe Riviera, which, however, is not to sayf that they do not do as they please whefever they go, alto gether regardless, asVa rule, of appear ances
 Some years ago cdDrtain dissertations with what was knowh in those times as the Smart Set for thdkir text, appeared in these columns and | Dad what might not unfairly be describted as their day in court. They raiseM a pretty howdydo in society and in ,5fhe newspapers. By the light of sufAequent developments they seem to hd ave been rather underwritten than overwt tritten. By the light of Monte Carlo they Sread like lessons in one sylla- ble for Sun%1ay school children.
 The spreafa of discontent, expressing It. self in varioSs Jus ways and in many lands may be tracend to single origin. In Eng land the popqular raid upon the house of lords has bSrought it directly home to society. With e.us it may be observed in the spread of ttihe various forms of so- cialism lying betwecen the new nationalism of Theodore Roosevleelt and the regenerate upheaval proposede by Emma Goldman. Slowly but surely 2. the levity of money more or less tarnisfs bed is working the in- evitable revolution nfforeshadowed by uni- versal education eand universal suffrage.
 We are teachingg everybody to read and nobody to t5inadk. Meanwhile, the holders of privils' ge largely predatory through legislatiQrpn state and national bought and paid f@e,r, are doing all they can to make the posessession of money odious in the popular tes mind and heart. This odium is not thept ofspring of spite. It is resent ment tot ostentatious insolence.
 conveneeE in extraordinary session next month; %end the record of the House will depend uSipon the activity and ability of Chairman Sl Underwood of the ways and means comfrs,.ittee more than upon any other single factH,or.
 He has the patrs. .iotism and the courage the unselhshness md broad devotion, the equipment and caerpacity for the work of effective leadership lp. ..... s-