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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
TRICKS OF POETS TRADE

From the New York Times.
 The minor poet was disclosing the tricks of the trade, for, strange as it may seem, there are tricks in the trade of even the minor poet.
 q make it a rule to write at least one poem a day." he said. Tt doenst make any difference what other work have on hand, stop long enough 10 grind out bit of verse. It may be pretty bad verse, and after it has been salted away for a month-I always put these things away for month before l finally decide to use them-I may throw it into the discard. But the poem a. day habit is a strong one with me. find it necessary to keep my hand in.
 q used to send my verses around at random, accepting without question whatever the editors felt inclined to pay for them. I once received a check foi $4 for a poem that took up two pages in one of the popular magazines. Il was featured in large type and embel- lished by an illustration in color, the work of an artist who happened to be friend of mine.
 'I spoke to the artist about IL. asked him how much he had been paid for the drawing that had been inspired bv my muse When he said s25 nearly had a fit. I confided that my check had beeu for s4. and asked his advice.
 ".I<ick,' he said. So I kicked. sent back the S4 check and in vitrionc tones told the editor that it wasn't even fali rate for a patent inside country weekly he replied very humbly that he was sorry I wasn't satisfied, and inclosed another check for $2, which he hope9 would be satisfactory. That brought my work up to the munificent sum oi s6. hut unfortunately the editor failet to inclose the original check for $4, st was really $2 out by the operation Six letters passed between us before
 finally got back the original s4 check l for this magazine isn't published in New York, and, to be absolutely truthful hadn't the price of car fare to Spring field, Mass.
 After that experience I determined to apply commercial methods to my wa, | of doing busnes Sounds crude ant inartistic, doesn't it? Pop a la pop which is as near as I can come to th
 expression used by the up-to-date Ger mans, meaning pffle. Why shouldn't | man who sells poems protect his owl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

ment of new peers will be created, and the bill will be put through. The chances are that the lords and their special interests will surrender. The King and the people are against them and they know when the time to sur render has fully come. But a month or two of veto power is left to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
nErLECrloNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 good deal of courage IS several part. fear of being called coward.
 Even going fishing would lose it's fas cination for a man if it was on salary.
 The orly thing needed to make any sun of money look big to us is for it to b, somebody clsc's.
 Give d girl the moonlight. patl through the trees, and man, and sr' will lead him home engaged. A man has an exceptionally sweet dis position when ie doesn't blame his wifi because he. forgot to take his latchke. when he went off in tine morning and sh' iidnt know he was going to stay out til arly breakfast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
From the New York World.

From the New York World
 ~ LANG has reared it's head in high
 places lately. Only Wednesday the N United States Supreme Court was puzzled oyer what railroad conductor meant when he said to the engineer; "Oh, hell, back upr' Justice McKenna suggested that he might have meant: "Oh, cheese ft!'
 The newspapers spoke of "slush fund" that had been raised "to put Lori mer over.'
 A reporter went to the sources of slang and asked what 'the people, thought about it. When he expounded his problem to a chauffeur the chauffeur promptly replied:
 "Oh, quit your skidding!"
 But the reporter protested that he was in earnest, and then the chauffeur made disrespectful remarks about the quality of the reporters mixture" which fed too much gas" A policeman said: Beat itr' and looked as though he might. Comptroller Pendergast absolutely re- fused to make any more puns upon Hyde, and Big Bill' Devery was out of town
 So to learn what tho custodans of language thought about slang. the re- porter went to Columbia University. Prof Brander Matthews indorsed slang heartily in the very phrases in which he declined to be interviewed.
 'They always put me among the freaks when they interview me-" said he. land I don't want to be put among that bunch Anyway, I'm all for slang and believe in it heartily. If you Will go out and buy my book you'll see that ndorse it.'
 Miss Virginia c. Gildersleeve, the new dean of Barnard and professor of Eng fish, said that she wouldn't attempt to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
SPRING

From "The World-Soul.' Emerson. Spring still makes spring in the mind When ssixty years are told; Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old. Over the winter glaciers -
 l see the summer glow, And through the wild- piled snovdrift
 The warm rosebuds below.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The big maneuver camp at San An tonic is still asking, What are we here for?" Put the question in writing and send it to William Howard Taft Wash ington, D. C., with a stamped return enVelODe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The Congressional Record has resumed at the old stand with many changes in its staff of contributors. It is pronis- ing old periodical with some reputation behind it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
THE TRUTH ABOUT SPRING.

THE TRUTH. ABOUT SPRING.
 Poets warble in praise of gentle Spring. It is the fashion to speak of her in the most rhapsodic terms radiant queen who comes to deck the land with blos- soms and steal our cares away by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

And now indictments for vote selling are being found in the mountain coun- ties of Kentucky. The politicians have learned how to suppress such efforts in Danville, Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

Chicago may never overcome it's Carter Harrison habit, for Carter Harrison 3rd is a grown-up. and he may soon want to be mayor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
DISTRESSING PLIGHT.

The Muse declines to lend me aid, Pieria is far away; In vain to sigh, Draw near, sweet
 maid.
 And smile upon my task today" She will not heed. Confound the luck, How piffling seems all poesy! When thus daily bard is stuck, Well may he mutter, .'Woe is mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The war correspondents on the border are running in too many Maderos on the public to enable the average man to keep up with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
NOT AT ALL.

this year who handles her husband as if he were an infant"
 'Pshaw, It doesn't take a strong wom- an to do that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

witchery of her smile Her countless ne-x iections have been told in numberless rhymes, her presence has been imnlored by previous bards as early as December Si Of the year preceding her annual vis- It, In 1act, Spring has been given so much honor and such splendid encomium that only the boldest person would dare to utter word of Encouragement. How ever there are times when iconoclasts hit the mark so squarely that there ia no gainsaying the truth of their remarks. Arthur Aull has rent the false fabric of Spring in twain, as it were, and we can not help but admire the trenchant way in which he shows her up as a ficlSle jade tremendously overrated. He writes as follows:
 We've figured it over a good deal. hut we have never been able to satisfy our- self why this raw, fckle and excessive ly 'dIsagreeable season we call Spring has ever gotten into poetry and litera- ture as the delightful time of the year. A warm day in Spring, instead of be- Ing a time of good promise. is a solemn warning and a sad portent It merely means that the hostile and tempestuous forces of Nature are taking a brief breathing spell in which to gird their Joins, as 1t were, and unload upon the helpless earth some new outrage in the shape of weather. Spring abounds in chill, cloudy days. There is much east wind The rains are all cold rains, or else they usher in long dreary spell of camp chilliness that makes the anglers shiver around the throne. It Is not quite cold enough for fine, roaring fires, but it is too cold to do without them. Sum Il 1iosa Autumn is serene, splendid and the time or plenty. Even winter has a peculiar charm of it's own But Spring Is the time of bleak days, house cleaning and a diet of prunes. Who is not glad when it has given way to summer?'
 NOT TO BE FOOLED
 "A crafty girl is Elaine"
 You think sop
 Yes, indeed. She knows domestic sci. erce' includes dish washing"
 PARTIAL ABSTRACTION
 He seems to be a very busy man."
 That's true, but you will notice that he never forgets where he puts his pipe"
 CRUEL.
 How do you like my latest marine sketch?"
 "Finel Which is land and which is water?'
 A SLIGHT DIVERSION.
 'I have just been reading about a pop ular story writer who never takes any exercise"
 "'No exercise at all?
 Well, he rolls his own cigarettes"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The fad for sleeping outdoors is lessen ing the profits of rooming houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The city of Hunnewell, Kansas, Aas elected woman mayor, and the Kan sans say she will fill the post with credit to herself and the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

College professors should not be dis couraged. They can not always rush into the breach to save their country. The breach may not be willin'.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The British house of lords is to be packed into submission to radical de- mands. King George has said it, and he is the boss in this matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

A whole session of perfect political harmony would be simply marvellous, and MT. Underwood need not expect such a miracle this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

Mexico is rid of Vice President Corral and it hopes Diaz will have the good sense to follow suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

One person in every PTS in New York city is insane, and Tammany itself be- comes a trifle looney at times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The weather was unfavorable and Champ Clark's mule ride was called off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The French postal savings banks hold a billion dollars and they earned s2,- 0oo,o00 last year for the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

The first ward in Chicago is to be represented in the city council by States man H. Dink. He has been there before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

There is neither q pauper nor ;nil- lionaire in North Ddkota-nothing but ultimate consumers and plain peepll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

Senator OGorman's popularity is in creasing so fast he may be mentioned for president even if he was born in Ireland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

New York's new senator has a wife and six grown daughters, two of whom are married. There is nc race suicide CT other evil in his makeup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
APPRECIATION

IT "Aeroplane costumes are hideous." That's true. but they are not quite as ugly as diving suits "Umphl The kind Miss Kellerman wears are all righti'
 THE HAPPY ANGLER. His only wish
 Is just to fish,
 Then take a slug
 From $ little jug
 And sleep a while
 Where blossoms smile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

interests just as legitmately as a man who sells soap?
 "I began by sending three copies of the same poem simultaneously to the editors of three different magazines. l won, the first crack out of the box. In the same mail I received two accept ances. I at once wrote to one editor that 1 was glad he liked my poem that I had neglected to state in submitting the manuscript that I valued it at $50, and
 that if he wasn't prepared to pay that
 much, to kindly return it to me, as l was satisfied I could find a ready market for it's elsewhere He sent it back, but it had a wholesome influence on him, for he saw it appear in rival mag azne Of course, the rival magazine, didn't pay me anything like $50 for 1t. | but he thought it did, and after that was in a position to name my own price.
 worked the same game with every poem
 I sent cut, until now, instead of accept
 ing anything that the capricious editor nay choose to pay me, mark the price on every poem I send out, and my in | come has quadrupled. And the strang-
 est Dart of it is that I am not ashamed | of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

A scientist says that a normal man has large feet and a normal woman small feet. This seems to settle the question outside of Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
ACTRESS WHO SMOKED

The extra session came in like lamb even if April did not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

Even Oyster Bay went democratic this year. It is the fashion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
SEASHORE POEM.
THE WAY WITH POETS.

"A poet says he once got s4 for a poem."
 And I presume he has been bragging about 1t ever since.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
IDLE CURIOSITY

There Is a family in Missouri named Toothacher"
 q wonder if the head of that family is called Old Molar'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
MERITED HONOR.

Why do you call him Colonel? He isn't really a colonel, is hep
 ''No, but any southern gentleman who can tell story as well as he can de- serves some kind of title."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

NOT TO BE FOOLED "A crafty girl is Elaine" You think so?" Yes, indeed. She knows domestic sci. erce' includes dish washing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
THE POETRY OF SLANG

draw fine line between what was slang and what wasn't It was all question Of taste.
 Prof. George Clinton .Dinsmore Odell, professor of English in Columbia, was willing to discuss slang, as he regarded it as a great menace to the language.
 'I believe it originates" said he, among tile people who have not the words to express abstract ideas. They are accustomed to many physical ob- iects, and they try to express abstract ideas bypKs~Ihs of -r1fese images applied to som 5 they were not meant to express.
 "A man sees flagman stop a train and he then says flag it. when he wishes to stop anything. The feet in running strike the ground hard and so he says beat it.
 q believe that slang retards greatly the expression of ideas, since it gives a limited and very crude idea of what is in the speakers mind. Foreigners can not understand it because much of 1T means absolutely nothing. A young man tells me something, and then adds: Now what do you know about that?" I d. ways reply: T know nothing about it except what you have told me- And this seems to nettle him very much.
 'There is at the present time a cer tain movement toward slang in the liter- ature of the day until it is a question whether literature shall be written in the language of ideas or that of the crude images that are used to express those |ideas.
 q do not think that slang will ever force its ways into polite society, though in way the originator of slang is sort of poet, since he expresses things through symbolism"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
RATHER

RATHERi It's rather tough To spend ones life Earning enough To dress ones wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11
PARTIAL ABsTRAcTIol

PARTIAL ABSTRACTION. He seems to be a very busy man"
 That's true. but you will notice that he never forgets where he puts his pipe" c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-11

How do you like my latest marine sketch?" "Finel Which is land and which is water?
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14

ESeWIy fuFnlShed, large IrOll1 room. Rent reasonable. Tele. phone 283. For Rent-Furnished front room, 415 Walnut Street. Apply at Independent office.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
No Interest For Judges.
Special to Independent.

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Aug. 1.-The circuit judges of Arkansas who were relieved by the last legis- lature, by a bill making an ap- propriation to pay them back salaries, will receive no interest on the back accounts, even though a sufficient amount was appropriated to pay legislators no doubt provided for the pay ment of interest, but they did not say so in the bill, which states specifically the appropri- ation is for salaries, and Audi tor lobe declines to pay interest.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
Hog Again The Issue.

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Aug. 1.-The four legged hog is going to have another day in Waldo. Some time ago the people of Waldo had an election and voted the hog out of the town limits. The city council now desires to pass an ordinance repeating the ac- tion of the voters, and objection has been raised by one of the progressive citizens, who has ap- pealed to Attorney General Nor wood for a legal opinion in the matter.
 Attorney General NorN cod says there is nothing binding in the town election and tlie codA- cil can act as it sees fit, which means it can repeal the log law if a sufficient number oL the council favor it's repeal.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14

More people, men and women, are suffering from kidney and bladder trouble than ever before and each year more of them turn for quick relief and perma- nent benefit to Foley's Kidney Remedy, which has proven itself to be one of the most effective remedies for kidney and bladder ailments, that medical science has deyised.-W. E. BEVENS. |.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
Loss of Time Means Loss Of
 Pay.

Kidney trouble and the ills it breeds means lost time and lost pay to many a working man, M. Balent, 1214 Little Penna St., Streator, H., was so bad from kidney and bladder trouble that he could not work, but he says: T took Foley Kidney Pills for only a short time and got en- tirely we'll and was soon able to go back to work, and am feeling we'll and healthier than before." ;" Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in action, quick in results-a good friend to the working man or woman who suffers from kidney ills.-W. E. BEVENS.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
Rival of Radium Is Found.

Birmingham, England, Aug. 12.-Radium, welcomed only a few years ago as without a par allel in the realms of scientific discovery, has a rival. Already it's fame is being challenged by a cheaper substance which is be- lieved to possess all it's wonder ful properties. So said MT. Dean Butcher, in an address to one of the sectional meetings of the British Medical Associations Congress.
 Happily" he declared, "in treatment of malignant growth by election bombardment we are no longer restricted to the use of but one radioactive sub- stance.
 "The recent work of Dr. Hahn has shown that some of the de- rivatives of thorium-especially mesothorium-are even more active than radium. We may hope that in a short time we may be in possession of a radio active substance which is not only much cheaper, but also much more plentiful than it's ri- val" '+-.--e~~s se>-
 The lecture was amazing from the layman's point of view. MT. Butcher talked of quantities which not only defied measure ment, but were too small even to be thought about by the untrain- ed mind.
 He spoke of the machine unit the quantity of radio-activity, which causes a leak of one thousandth of an electrostatic unit per second.
 Some idea of the smallness of this quantity" he said, may be
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
dence conclusive.


 forms convincing proof of merit.
 w. I. Hall R. F. D. 2, Newport, Ark, says T have never lost aD opportunity during the past six years to praise and recommend Doan's Kidney Pills for what they have done for me as we'll as other members of my family. They have made such complete cures of kidney trouble that 1t has not been necessary for us to take them or any other kidney medicine during the past three yeas. One member of the fan1- fly took Doan's Kidney Pills for trouble with the kidney secre- tions, together with a weak and painful back. They cured her later l used them for a similar complaint. Their action in my case was just as satisfactory and l was quickly cured. Deans Kidney Pills were obtained at Dutton's Drug Store and have always been so beneficial that l willingly verify our former en- dorsement of them"
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,. l Buffalo, New York, sole agents 1 for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's $ and take no other.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14

If you should hear, incident ally, that your favorite store had held an unadvertised spe- cial sale of something you've been wanting to buy, you'd feel that it had not protected YOUR INTERESTS-wouldn't you?
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14

Foley Kidney Pills will check the progress of your kidney and bladder trouble and heal by re- moving the cause. Try then1.- w. E. BEVENS.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
Another Fined Fer Swearing.

AEUtIEVF F IE!eU TUT 'oWtdI HE.
 John Roe answers also to the name of Cotton, found "cuss- ing" somewhat costly in New port when he was fined $10 dol lars in the mayors court Mon- day.
 It was testified by the only witness that Roe did his cursing in front of hotel when the knife which was taken frow him in a previous difficulty was not given to him on his demand.
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14

gathered from the fact that all atmosphere of one mache unit
 per litre contains one part of emanation in 500,000,000, ,000,- 900 parts of air
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
Hay Fever, Asthma and
 Summer Colds

CulliiCI SOAOHo Must be relieved quickly and Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound will do it. B. M. Stewart, 1884 Wolfram St. Chicago, writes: "I have been greatly troubled during the hot sum- mer months with Hay Fever and find that by using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound l get great relief" Many others who suf- fer similarly will be glad to benefit by MT. Stewards ex- perience.-W. E. BEVENS.
 When you decide to sub-let one of your rooms, don't be "stin- yy with words Fin telling ad-read CTS what it t's like.
 What sort of an impression of your store is your next ad- vertisement in The Independ- ent to give to the person WHO HAS NEVER BEFORE READ OF YOUR STORE?
Newport daily independent., 1911-08-14
For Sale.

One 12 horse power Fairbanks Morse Gasoline Engine. Apply at the Palace Jewelry Store and see it run. 81btf.
 For Sale-One new glass front safe or china closet, cheap for cash. Apply at Independent of- flee.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-12
NEWS FROM SCANDINAVIA
principal Events That Have Trans
pired IN the Old Countries
Within Week or So.
DENMARK.

i've reindeer have been imported
- set free on the heath. q waste
h4A, near Fredriks. There are four
1aMes and one male. s.
J6e state railways at Denmark have
hsaght the ground ON which the K0ld-
~ cooperative packing houses are
lsoated. the price being $4,000.
The United States ambassador has
Astified the minister az foreign affairs
that the government Of the United
MATES has awarded q gold medal to
Peter G. Peterson in recognition Of
- bravery In saving the crew Of the
American schooner George Sturges
0ct~ .. 1908.
ME tailors of Copenhagen are grow
Ag tired of selling goods on trust with
80 getting interest. A short while
ago the master tailors' union resolved
- apply the law of April 6, 1906, which
provtdes that II payment is not made
- the date agreed upon when the
goods are bought the bill shall draw
I've per cent interest from such date