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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23
SANTA ON SAN JUAN HILL

in that neighborhood. The policemen around there know him because he has smoothed down rows and strengthened riots. Other people know him because of the mortgage from which he has generally been laboring to free his church.
 But best of all do the scores and scores of pickaninnies around there know him it's surprising how well they know him when Christmas is coming and it begins to be whispered that MT. Sims and Miss Jonas are working to get things for tns Christmas tree and dinner.
 Anyone who likes may go to this en- tertainmea., which takes place Christmas Day about noon, and there never was d vaudeville that was funnier or play that was sadder than this thing is. under the mirth. He will see scores and lscores Of little creatures of all shades and from deep black to light yellow, with gleaming white teeth and woolly heads, or maybe pigtails tied with colored ribbon and sticking out in all directions-scores of pickanninies getting themselves delight fully greasy over a dinner the like Of which they fever dreamed of, or rolling the whites of their eyes in glee over some trifie that the white child who once owned it would never have looked at again.
 Because till Mir. Sims came along no one thought about the pickaninnies over there, it was true then. and it's still true of too many of them, what Miss Jonas wrote:
 Nobody ain't Christmas shoppin' Fur his 1tockin.
 Nobody ain't cotch no turkey
 Nobody aint bake no pie,
 Nobodys laid nothin by, Santa Claus don't cut no fgger Fur his mammys little nigger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23
A cELERRATED BAsso.

'When Herr Growler began to sing did not you observe how our hostess glanced apprehensively at the windows?"
 Yes. I dare say she was afraid the window-pa would be shattered"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Wall street IS betting five to one that Roosevelt will run again. but Wall street may not know what the colonel has up his sleeve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

King George would not be inconsolable if back on his job as emperor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

The sopping days are nearly ended. The early shopping days went by month ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Christmas shopping is now engaged in making a whirl%ind finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23
 About Persons

Senator s. H. Sprott of Sumter county is registered at the Morris hotel. He was formerly judge of the Sixth Judicial cir cult.
 Frank Lockwood, the well known ar chitect of Montgomery, spent yesterday in Birmingham. He built some of the handsomest buildings on the campus of the University of Alabama.
 Thomas w. Vert of Decatur, one of the youngest and most popular judges in the state is in Birmingham. He has received much favorable mention for the berth of congressman at large.
 Cecil A Beasley, state senator from Fayette county, passed through Birmins- ham yesterday, en route home after trip to Washington. He was formerly private secretary to Senator Bankhead.
 A. R. Noble, prominent and popular citizen of Anniston, is registered at the Morris hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Kansas per capita wealth heads the list. There IS nothing the matter of Kan sas except turbulent politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Roast camel is the latest novelty in the cafes of Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

As an abrogator, Congressman Sulzer was somewhat too husky and vigorous. The diplomats are not accustomed to plain ta1l-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Alfred Vanderbilt's flat is to cost $40 o00 a year, which is certainly topnotcher in these days of the cost of high living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

No Christmas package is warranted to go straight to it's destination unless it bears a Red Cross seal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

The Russian treaty was so primitive ii almost abrogated itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

If China could come to terms of peace Christmas present given out this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Adamzad who walks like a bear, is up against Cncle Sam, who does not believe in treaties that one side does not respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

The democrats may decide to hold their convention first next year. This was the rule before the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Chinamen are conducting Chinese busi- ness for Chinamen. The Manchus and other foreigners should keep out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

The Russian dancers have not been abrogated, however much the treaty has been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

only athletes are fitted to do shopping at present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23
ADVERTISING FOR A ROOM

Adamzad cannot bluff Uncle Sam, nor can anyone else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

Receive what cheer you may; The night is long that never finds n day. -Macbeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-23

 pay no more tips after January 1. Those fellows are preparing 10 get more neglect per capita than the world has evei known.
 The year 1911 is departing and perhaps no one mourns it's departure. and yet il was pretty good year on the farms. and that means good year everywhere.
  pr. Sun Vat Sen is on the soil and he will soon be in Shanghai, which is the soul and center of the movement to estab- fish republic in China. No invitation to Diaz to come back to Mexico las been sent or would be ae- cepted. The old man is glad to get out of horhers nest.
  Wall street IS betting five to one that Roosevelt will run again. but Wall street may not know what the colonel has up his sleeve.
 As an abrogator, Congressman Sulzer was somewhat too husky and vigorous The diplomats are not accustomed to plain talk.
  Adamzad, who walks like bear, is up against Cncle Sam, who does not believe in treaties that one side does not respect.
  If China could come to terms of peace in her civil war she would get the biggest Christmas present given out this year.
 
 Alfred Varderbilt's flat is to cost o00 year. which is certainly a topnotcher in these days of the cost of high living ----s-- Chinamen are conducting Chinese busi- ness for Chinamen. The Manchus and other foreigners should keep out. Kansas per capita wealth heads the list. There IS nothing the matter of Kan sas except turbulent politics.
  King George would not be inconsolable if he lost his kingship. for he could fall back on his job as emperor
  No Christmas package is warranted to go straight to it's destination unless it bears a Red Cross seal.
  The democrats may decide to hold their convention first next year. This was the rule before the war.
  The Russian dancers have not been abrogated, however much the treaty has been.
 The sopping days are nearly ended. The early shopping days went by a month ago.
 Christmas shopping is now engaged in making a whirl~ind finish.
 -.s.-- Roast camel is the latest novelty in the fashionable cafes of Paris.
  The Russian treaty was so primitive it almost abrogated itself.
  Adamzad cannot bluff Uncle Sam, nor ole
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
YOUR SOUR, Classy, UPSET STOMACH
WILL FEEL FINE IN FIVE MINUTES

You can eat anything your
stomach Graves without fear Of In
digestion or Dyspepsia. or that
your food win ferment or sour on
your stomach IL you will take lit
tie Diapepsin occasionally.
Your meals will taste good, and
anything you eat will be digested;
nothing can ferment or turn into
acid or poison or stomach gas,
which causes belching. Dizziness, a
feeling OF fullness after eating,
Neusea. Indigestion (like lump
OF lead In stomach), Biliousness.
Heartburn. Water brash, Pain In
stomach and intestines or other
symptoms.
Headaches from the stomach are
absolutely unknown where this ef-
fective remedy Is used. Diapepsin
really does all the work Of q
healthy stomach. II digests your
meals when your stomach can't
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17

"A single dose will digest all the
food you eat and leave nothing ID
ferment or sour and upset th1
stomach.
Get a large b0-cent case Oh
rape's Diapepsin from your drugs
gist and start taking now, and IN
4 little while you will actually
brag about your healthy. strong
Stomach, for you then can eat any~
thing and everything you want
without The slightest discomfort or
misery. and every particle OF fm1
purity and Gas that is In your
stomach and intestines In going to
be carried away without the use
lot laxatives or any other assist-l
snce.
Should you at this moment be
suffering from Indigestion or any
stomach disorder, you can get re-
lief within five minutes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
Mandy's Gay Calico Dress Cost Just 90 Cents;
81 Cents of it Went to Aid patriotic" Trust
Wasted Shipping Cotton England
Calico Back to the United States

NEW ORLEANS, Noy. L.
Nine southern governors = and
Mandy!
Nine soft-voiced southern gen.
tlemen gathered here to gee II
they couldn't devise a way OF
raising the price of cotton--and
Mandy, 500 miles away, black by
nature, happy by the same, busily
picking the cotton itself.
The price of cotton Is a big
question for the governors. but
Mandy is much more concerned In
getting enough for her and her
ickaninnies to eat and calico
clothes TO wear.
Let's visit with Mandy as she
picks the raw cotton--the same
kind that went to make the calico
dress which surrounds her gen.
erous frame.
That's the problem the gov
einors ought to take up. But
they don't.
There's IA yards of cloth In
this dress" says Mandy, land
paid cents a yard for the cloth.
That's 90 cents"
1t took two pounds Of cotton
to make Mandy's dress. Mandy
got about cent for picking the
two pounds. The farmer got
aobut 16 cents for it. 1t cost the
manufacturer and merchant 20
cents to get the two pounds of cot
ton into Mandy's black hands,
ready for sewing.
That accounts for 81 cents of
the eS cents which Mandy paid
for the cloth.
Where did the other 81 cents
go. Who got it?
That's the big question that is
most important. But the COVER
fnors wouldn't discuss 1t. What
the governors wanted was to raise
the price of cotton cents per
pound and put $500, 100000 into
the pockets OF southern farmers.
II Why don't the governors strike
at the big evil-at the forces oil
Big Business, politics and high
tariff that took 81 cents out o.
/ Mandy's SO cents, and that holds
up every wearer of cotton in the
United States in the same way
But part of the money goes Il
American mill hands, some on'
may say.
Only a very small part. Mos
of the wages paid, goes to ENG
fish mill hands! The patriotic
cotton trust, after 1t buys the cot
ton, ships most of 1t to England
where, every year, half milIioi
tcheaply paid English mill hand
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
Hay. yy'.,Hair
He b

Restores color to Gray or Faded
hair-Removes Dandruff and in
|vigorates the Scalp-Promotes a
luxuriant, healthy hair growth
Stops its falling out. Is not a dye.
direct upon receipt of price and
Dealers name. Send 10c for sample
bottle.-Philo Hay Specialties Co.,
Newark, N. j.. u. 8. A.
Hays Harfinn Soap is unequaled
for Shampooing the hair and keep
ing the Scalp clean and healthy, al
so for red, rough chapped hands and
face. 26c at Druggists.
REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES.
FOR SALE AND RECOMMEND
ED BY CROWN DRUG CO.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17

weave it into cotton goods!
And these cotton goods are
shipped back to the United States!
The mill hands OF the United
Estates, who were out of work be
cause the cotton was shipped TO
England, and who have only
enough money to buy cotton
clothes for themselves, must pay
extra every year, the $32,00o,0o0
which the railroad and steamship
companies get every year for ship
ping the cotton to England and
)shipping the woven calico back 70
the United States.
4
Why not have an export duty
on raw cotton, instead of an i'm
|port duty?
Why do we allow the cotton
trust to send its work to foreign
countries?
But the governors didn't talk
labout that at New Orleans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
Cook County, ILL.,, Has jury
Worth $5O,OO0,000

Cook county, ILL.,, has the rich,
est jury in it's history at Chicago
the total wealth of the Jurors be-
ing estimated at $50.000,0O0.
The deputy sheriff who sum
moned the men had to fight his
way past doormen, office boys and
private secretaries, but not one
wealthy man escaped.
Court Divides Bigamist's Property
Between His Wives-Sent to jail.
Judge West of Santa Ana, Cal,
believes in brevity and is against
the laws delays. Here is his de-
|cision in a bigamy case:
MRS. Edna Sallinger, the man
you thought married you had a
wife; you will get half his proper
ty. Mrs. Mary Sallinger, you will
get a divorce and the other half Of
the property. James Sallinger,
you will get three years in prison
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
ODD BITS o. NEWS

Col. Frederick Cody of Detroit,
was left for nap on the bed while
the Colonel went for breakfast at
the Waldorf. Fedora mysterious
ly disappeared before he returned.
After the hotel had been search
ed Fedora was found in the laun!
dry. He had been gathered up
in the bedclothing, taken down on
an elevator, dumped into vat of
water with sheets, when he came
to the surface and was rescued.
Two Oceanias, the Oceana and the
Oceanic, Steamships, Meet at Sea.
The Oceania met the Oceana,
Oceania and Oceanic on Nov. /.
last near New York.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
Tried to Push Log out of the Road
Found il Was Grizzly Bear.

There's a log" said Frank
Short to Harvey Adams when
something doomed in the road
ahead of their automobile near An
|aconda, Mont, on dark night.
Lets shove it away" said Ad-
ans. But the "log" shifted and
|grunted, and trotted off. BY the
light Of their auto lamps they saw
it was sleepy grizzly bear.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17

Waldorf Guests Dog Dumped into
Laundry Tub with Hotel Linen.
Fedora, a Splits dog belonging to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17

We wash and starch dry clothes
ready for ironing. " cents per
pound. Call NJ. 1899, A 8245.+**
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-17
HURLED 100
FEET FROM
AUTOMOBILE
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

Cry United Press Leased Wire. }
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. IT,
Hurled loo feet In an automobile
which knocked down a lamp pos,
and crashed through the side or a
building, four men are today In a
serious condition.
They are Chauffeur George
Wood. Charles LeBrant, Henry
Helms and w. e. Butterfield. A
street car. speeding down grade
so fast that IL did not stop for
half block after the crash, struck
the automobile.
GUNBOAT TO CHINA
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
VALLEJO. Cal, Nov. 1.-THE
gunboat Cincinnati. Samuel s.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
"MORY'S" TO BE NO MORE
Yale's Famous Tavern Will Close
It's Doors in May.

New Haven, Feb. o0.-Mory's. i'm case
Won arc unfamiliar with Yale. is a tav
ern-more particularly, college tavern
at Temple and Center streets. New
Haven. 1t has been there since times
which. 20 the undergraduate mind, are
prehistoric. when the next college year
rolls round it will he there no more. For
Louis L.indcr says that changed condi
tions i'm Yale have caused a falling off Of
business and that the doors of the Tenn
pIe Bar must close. Louis ought to
know; he is the proprietor.
During the merry month Of May the
"Hogans' will eat their last dinner
around the ancient board. the Whiffcn-
poofs will sing their last song in front
Of the immemorial bar, and the some
day-to- be- famous sophomores Will carve
their last initials on the SCARED and hal
lowed tables. on September ! sixteen
thousand graduates will put on sack
cloth and ashes and JOIN some thirty
two hundred sorrowins undergraduates
I'm the famous old plaint which changing
times caused Cicero 10 utter two thou
sand years ago. 20 Temple Bar. 0
Mory's,"
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
AMERICAN OYSTERS WIN
An International Trial in London
Forty on Jury.
IMarconlgram to The Tribune.

London, Feb. 20.-An international
oyster trial came off to-day at the Savoy
Hotel, before a jury of forty or more
English and American experts. The first
course consisted of an equal number of
Colchester native oysters of moderate
size and large American blue points,
raw. and the jury failed to agree on a
verdict. Four courses of cooked oysters
from imported blue points followed and
judgment went by default in favor Of the
American bivalves. as the Colchester
oysters were not considered worth cook
ing.
\ deputa.ion Of Colchester eX-mayors,
aldermen and fisheries managers laid
stress on the fact that American oysters
could not be eaten unless they were
cooked, but Newton Crane, Sir Hiram
Maxim and other champions Of the blue
Joints easily refuted the shallow SLAM
der. A series Of bright speeches were
made and the editor of THE Daily Ex-
press" r. ID. Blumenfeld. posed as an
impartial arbitrator. The chief discovery
for the Englishmen was the familiar
American truth that the resources of the
cuisine impart infinite variety to oysters.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
DETECTIVES CATCH A THIEF
He Stole from Driscoll's S Friend,
and $50 Men Were After Him.

After 100 detectives had been on his
trail all day yesterday, Waldemar Knud-
son. who used TO be the butler of Ed
ward A. McShane, Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel, was caught at Third ave-
nuc and 18th street last night and taken
to Brooklyn, where he was locked up in
the Adams street police station.
Mr KnudsOn left his employer last
Friday lie had been working six weeks
at Mr.. McShane's house, Avenue L and
East 1S:h street, i'm Flatbush, and Mr..
McShane said he took ffty-two stick
pins. three gold watches. silverware,
$50 in so gold pieces. which came
fiom the children's banks; 500 in cash
and clothes. about $1,000 worth alto
eethor. When caught he had S1I, but
most Of the booty was later found in
his room. He had sold two pins and a
watch.
The first Of the pins. worth S2U, he
was wearing at ball in East 44th
street A friend admired il, and offered
him 81 for it, IN give it to you for
So" ne said The offer was accepted
The other pin went for little or nothing
tno The watch, valued at 500, he sold
for SIS. .-u
Mr. McShane and Clement j. Driscoll,
First Deputy Police Commissioner, are
close friends.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
SAVED $4,000 IN So YEARS
Thrift of Old Woman Disclosed
in Assessment of Taxes

Marie Christina Spiekcr, who worked
as servant for fifty-two consecutive
years In one family, managed TO Law up
a fortune OF S3l. 900. according TO a
story that was told at the Tax Depart
nent yesterday. Most of this money. It
was said. was in savings banks, and she
had an income from that source alone
of Sl,2O year. Last year she died, at
the age OF eighty-onc years. The Tax
Department put the estate on the per-
sonal assessments lists for tax on S25.-
600. Yesterday Edwin c. Hahn and
Frederick II. Ehler, the executors of
the estate. visited the department and
swore that all Of the estate except $500
had been invested in such a way as to
make it exempt. The assessment was
therefore cut to that figure.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
CLEARED AFTER 80 YEARS
Suspected That Bob Burdette's
Brother Took Letters Now Found
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

lBy Telegraph 10 Inc iTpuHe'J
Peoria. H.. Feb. 20.-The Rev. Charles
Edwin Burdette, brother of Bob Bur-
dette. the hun.orist, has been vindicated'
after thirty years, OF any blame In con-
nection with the disappearance OF $4,000
from a registered letter package sent out
bv the Peoria postoffce when he was its
registry clerk. The $500 disappeared
after It was put in twelve registered
letters by John Comstock, now dead. An
inspector recommended that Burdette
he discharged, but Postmaster Magee,
row dead. refused TO dismiss him.
Burdette studied for the ministry and
now has pastorate at Springfield. Mass.
An old battered mail sack was sent TO
a repair shop in San Francisco few
dsys ago TO be patched. The first man
to inspect the sack decided 1t needed 81
new bottom, and with knife he ripped
the leather. The rip disclosed large
manila envelope. caught by the corners,
which served practically as false bot
tom. He opened the envelope and found
tho twelve Comstock letters and the
missing $500.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
A FINE VELASQUEZ HERE
New York Firm Buys a Notable
Painting in London.

London. Feb. 20--The Parma portrait
Of Philip ". painted at Fraga by Veas-
quez in 1914 and vouched for by the
Spanish critic. Sehor Beruete. as the
original picture of which the Dulwich
portrait was copy by Mazo has gone
to America. 1T was recently with
drawn from the London market tempo
rarily while one of the best customers
Of the Agnew firm was considering its
purchase at high figure. but this op-
tion expired aid the offer from America
accepted
The price is not named. but the pur-
chasers are the Scott & Fowles Com
pany. of New York. America. by this
transaction, has obtained one of the best
Nelasquez portraits in Europe. Sehor
Beruete himself has demonstrated the
authenticity of the picture in a mono
graph privately printed in London and
has described il as the best portrait of
Philip ", with a single exception,
namely. the bust portrait now in the
National Gallery. The picture bought
for America is conspicuous for rapid
brushwork, having been painted within
three days and showing signs of numer-
Gus corrections from the living model
1t is also beautiful in color, from the
combination of rose pink and silver in
the uniform.
Stevenson Scott of Scott & Fowles. said
last night that the painting arrived here
last week, but that it was not on view at
present.
A Nelasquez was brought here last Fri
day morning on the Mauretania by Charles
Romer Williams. along with a number of
other valuable paintings Mr.. williams ex-
pected to get the paintings through for a
few dollars in freight. but the purser dis
covered that they were valuable works Of
art and informed Mr.. Williams that the
freight would be 5000. Mr.. Williams there
upon declared the paintings at fSS,OO0 and
paid the s. 900 freight bill
New-York tribune., 1911-02-21
LAUGHS AT ANNEXATI0NISTS
Mr.. Taft Says They Are Afflicted
with Lively Imaginations.

Washington. Feb. 20.-"1 really believe
that with the consummation Of the Ca
madam reciprocity agreement there Will
be drawing together of two great ma
tons. bat d drawing together by closer
business and social relations and not by
political union" said President Taft to-
night az the centennial celebration din
ner o. the Grand Lodge of Masons Of the
District Of Columbia.
The President followed Henry ;.
Bridges, grand master of New Bruns-
wick. who spoke Of the good Will OF Ca
nadisns toward the United States in the
reciprocity negotiations.
y am delighted TO know sald the
President. that Brother Bridges comes
10 US not panoplied for war but for
peace. lie does not look forward TO an
nexstiou nor the drying up of the 81.
Johns River. nor has he any of those
dreams which aflict certain people with
lively imaginations, some of whom are
only innocent and others of whom have
little different motive rom that OF
territorial gSrandizcment.
The Presidents remarks were greeted
with laughter
i have come to know the people OF
Canada" he continued. ito understand
their aspirations and their belief in the IT
Independence and their future as an m
dependent government. We have Alaska
We hay, Porto Rico. We have the Philip
pines Heaven knows. Nc have enough!
And before NC look out FOR other bur
dens and RESPONSIBILITIES let Us show the
world sc can meet perfectly those we
have
i am convinced that the agreement
will be FOR the good of both countries
blt am not the whole thing. neither IS
The Lower House. There is a great anu
dlgnfcd BODY at one end of the Capltoi
mat moves with due Jeliberation; some
umes il seems a. If ii were too dlS-
nhed and too deliberate to reach any
conclusion or anything; but in the hun
ored years during which this lodge has
existed laws have been passed in the
senate ard being a true Mason. am
sA optimist. ! have every hope that the
issue may be property determined. |
speak with due moderation. would
hurry no one. but time passes and a
su'ch IN timc saves nine