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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 INIFTEEN years ago the scientific n world was startled by the an- 4 nouncement that Minnesota man had invented rotary engine so powerful that though it could be placed inside a large trunk it would have force enough to drive big liner across the Atlantic ocean. Every scientific organ ization of note and every large railroad company appointed commission of ex- perts to investigate. Learned scien- lists arrived from foreign countries on almost every steamer, ready to study this wonderful invention of an Ameri can. Newspapers devoted columns to the subject and the air was full of reports about the millions of dollars that capitalists were trying to force into the pockets of the young inventor.
 It was fully month before the sci entifc world was able to convine itself that the invention was valueless Then one of the greatest fakes of the kind ever known went down into history.
 The story Is recalled at this time be- cause of the appearance in Chicago of H. G. Hays, president of the Hays Weaver Milling company, of Brainerd, Mnn. MT. Hays was responsible for this scientific upset, though he insists that at first he was taken in as much as any one else. He was so convinced of the inventors sincerity that he dreamed of becoming a multimillonaire.
 At the time the inventor. became fa- nous he was a telegraph operator in a railway station Hays was the editor of the Sleepy Eye (Minn.) Dispatch. Probably not more than a dozen people in the town knew the inventor, but in- side of a month he was known to ev- cry one and was elected mayor by ac- clamation because of the fame that he had given Sleepy Eye. The residents had to open their private homes to accommodate the throngs of scientists and newspaper reporters who poured into the little place.
 Sleepy Eye papers were singing the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
ANOTHER COLOSSAL FAKE

inventors praises daily and the young inventor was reciprocating by offering the aspiring city thousands of acres O land for park purposes with at least $l, 000,000 in cash to improve the property Sleepy Eye is still waiting for the i'm mense park.
 'It was easy work" said MT. Hays who is in Chicago on business con nected with his flour mills and a new railroad in Wisconsin in which he is in terested Ut is so easy to fool evei scientific people that one cannot but bI astonished. There was nothing but fakI to the engine, and yet we could hav| sold out for more than s1,000.000 al one time. And I could go in and al the same thing right again today il spite of the warning of the past.
 T believe in the man, especially a| he had a United States patent. It ayI pears that a clerk in the patent offid made serious mistake in his papeII and really gave government indorse| ment of the invention. That was whs' fooled the scientists. The operato would never permit any one to see h : anu clu lO ulSCuSS IL W1u any one. I was his manager and he r ferred all questions to me. He d ! clared that the German governmei. had purchased the rights for $17,O00, ,Ot and showed telegrams to the effect tn; advance payments amounting to 3a o00,000 were on the way
 Tt was the failure of this money arrive that caused the exposure of u fake. Of course he might have had , invention of ordinary merit, but tn was all. Sleepy Eye was full of sd entists.
 'In order to make as strong shoJ ing as possible the new engine wi placed in high chair and photograph in that position. I first became s, picious when the inventor baked at lowing me to have small model. wanted to have an engine that I cou wear as watch charm, and if wh he said was true, 1t would have be large enough then to run a sewing m chine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
Improvement of Valley Creek

The report of Engineer Ripley sub- mitted to Congress on December IA, 1898, is full of details concerning a equalization of Valley creek to Bes- semer and thence up Possum valley past Birmingham to a reservoir site on Five-mile creek. Valley creek rises in Birmingham and though it's mouth is but twenty-four miles away, yet the stream is sixty miles long. The proposed reservoir site on Five-mile creek is eight miles northeast of Bir- mingham. McAdory creek is eigh- teen miles southwest of Birmingham, at the head of the proposed canaliza- tion of Valley creek. Here it was pro- posed that great reservoir fed by McAdory creek should be located. The second reservoir was to have been located at Five-mile creek.
 But the Ripley report is not en- couraging. General Hines, then chief of the engineer corps, says: "In re- spect to the river division, namely, the part from the Warrior river to McAdory's creek the district en- gineer, Major Rossell, regards that as both feasible and advisable. I do not concur in this opinion" The chief of engineers thus condemned the en- tire extension scheme.
 Engineer Ripley reports the canal ization of Valley creek sabove Me Adory's mill to Birmingham as feasi- ble, but "the water supply" he says, lis insufficient and the saving on transportation of probable commerce will not warrant the expenditure of three or four million dollars" In oth- CT words MT. Ripley recommends the building of the canal from McAdory's mill to the river, and the chief of en- gineers adversed even this. But even chief engineers are liable to err. The estimated cost of the work from the river up to McAdory's mill is put at S4,500,000, and the cost of completing the extension to Five-mile creek is put at $4,0O0,000.
 The building of a canal from the river to McAdorys mill would reduce the cost of freight to tidewater as against freight carried by train to the river but 2 cents a ton. In the one case the estimated cost is 51 cents a ton and in the other 49 cents.
 It is all right to seek a equalization of Valley creek to the limit. It is what undoubtedly we should do. But it would be impossible to induce the government to complete the work in less than ten years, and in the mean while this district should lay inde- pendent rails to the river. A railroad to the river would always be useful, for all mills and mines cannot be located on the proposed canal and the products of mills and mines not located on the proposed canal would have to be loaded on cars, and when once loaded on cars they could be wheeled quickly and inexpensively to the river. No one objects, in other words, to a maximum of water trans portation, but while we are waiting for it let us build railroad that would serve well in the interim and be useful ever afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

plicants. The Jew for centuries h
 been a dweller in the shettos of grd cities and had anyone predicted thd facts 15 years ago he would have bel scoffed at.
 At Farm school. near Doylestown, P| 363 acres of land have been reseryI for the exclusive use of the NatioI| Farm school, a -sectarian instit tion which was founded in 1898. ItI dedicated to the encouragement of al riculture among those who would othd wise be condemned to life in swd shops. Though all creeds are WI comed and the religious services a| non -sectarian, most of the lads s| Jews. The boys are taken from the fluences of the ghettos which inevi bly, stunt their lives. They are \ mitted on their own application afI a grammar school training The schX has good instructors and modern equN ment There are 20 splendid horI which gives each boy a chance
 plough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
OSCAR UNDERWOOD
From the Gadsden Journal.

TOIN IHe GdUSUtH JOUTIIdI.
 Oscar Underwood is coming rapidly into the full focus of the public eye. The Sat urday Evening Post features him this week in it's Great and Near Great" col umn and calls him the ''unruffled Under- wood" It says that it matters not what the excitement nor how others may rant and rave, Underwood remains peaceful. pacific and placid. Should he rise and in ject a few well chosen remarks into the situation he generally brings home the bacon.' That's not a bad sort of states man and just the kind needed to fill the important place of chairman of the ways and means committee in the coming con- greSs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
BALLADE TO THEOCRrTUs

By Andrew Lang.
 An! leave the smoke, the wealth,
 roar
 Of London, and the bustling str, For still, by the Sicilian shore, The murmur of the Muse is swee Still, still the suns of summer gr The mountain grave of Helilxe, And shepherds still their songs
 peat
 Where breaks the blue sicilian What though they worship Pan more, They chatter of the rustic lore, That guarded once the shephel
 seat, They watch the wind among
 wheat: ef Cicalas chirp. the young lambs blI Where whispers pins to cypH
 tree; They count the waves that idly H Where breaks the blue Sicilian Theocritus. thou canst restore The pleasant years, and over fee3 With thee we live as men of yorH We rest where running waters m9 And then we turn unwilling feetE And seek the world-so must 1t We may not finger in the heat Where breaks the blue Sicilian
 ENVOY. Master. when rain. and snow, and sx And northern winds are wild, to t. We come, we rest in thy retreat, Where breaks the blue Sicilian sd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
MAUPAssANT pLUCkED A GOOSE

From the Boston Herald
 They are telling stories in Paris now of Henry Roujon, who was elected one of the 40 immortals recently. When a young writer known for his clever ar tlcles in certain Parisian journals, which he signed "Ursus" and "Laujol,' ,'' he summered one year with Guy da Maupassant at the village of Chambon
 in the department of Puy- de Dome, Auvergne. newspaper of Clermont- Ferrand, the Gazette d'Auvergne, had made sport of the municipality of Chambon because of a piece of local administration. and the town council CTS visited the inn where Roujon was living to ask him to lend his pen to their defense.
 Roujon cheerfully undertook the task with the result that the municipal coun- cilors were fully vindicated and the enemy was made ridiculous. The sim pie Auvergnois were delighted with Roujon's performance. They expressed their gratitude. and added that in view of the fact that any champion of the local press would have charged them at least 100 sous floor such an article they begged him to accept the sum- They counted out the money under Rouions eyes, and unwillingly carried it way when he protested that in vacation time he wrote only for love. All the same they insisted that every man must live by his business and withdrew much dis satisfied with their state of indebted ness. Next morning when he rose he found Maupassant plucking a goose. which Roujon learned had been sent thus early by the municipality in pay ment of it's obligation to the defender of the local honor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man might get rich by trying not to.
 Too much money inspires a passion for more.
 You can even get used to being n good example.
 Swindle man out of hundreds and he despises you; out of thousands and he admires you. wrong he planes himself; after that he knows the world Is at fault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

The Italian novelist F'ogazzaro lived to see one of his books put on the in- dex of the holy see, but outside of the notorietv that came with this action he stod high among cultivated people throughout Italv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
PLOUGH BOYS FROM THE GHETTO

Joseph Krauskopf, in the Survey.
 A convention of Jewish farmers met in New York city recently. There are two agricultural schools maintained by Jews both of which are crowded to the doors and are obliged to turn away ap-
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u,rmon for the Pre.Idency

q spent several days in the east, and nearly every democrat happened to n,eot expressed himself strongly in favor of Governor Harmon as the democratic standard bearer in 1912" said Joseph Fl. Newton of Chicago.
 'I am business man and not poli-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Speaker designate Champ Clark was 61 years old last Tuesday but he is still able to guide span of mules down Pennsylvania avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

of course, l know it is the former home of Mark Twain
 MORE ABOUT GABY. Tcmpus fugit,
 Hully geei
 Whats become of Gaby? She = At whom poor King M Manuel Took one look and
 Straightway fell.
 Birmingham Age-Herald Hoky poky
 Why should you Keep the dancing
 Girl in view?
 Tempus fugit-
 Let her fly;
 You'll forget her
 By and by.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer. Intra mintra
 Cutra corn,
 This talk fills our
 Soul with seorn! What's the Gaby
 Girl to us
 Since we are
 Married man?
 Houston Post Tempus fugit,
 Now do tell
 What's become of
 Emma? Well, She stirred up a Hornets nest.
 Now the papers
 Do the rest.
 St. Louis Times. MOST LIKELY. "A western editor wants to know what has become of the old-fashioned mother who washed out her boys mouth with soap when he used a bad word" T guess she is trying to improve her game of bridge now.'
 CLARA.
 Of Clara Bell
 I'm very fond. A brunette once
 She's now a blonde. SOUND PHILOSOPHY. "Men who chew tobacco seem a content ed lot.'' That is probably because they have| learned one of life's most valuable les sons'' "Meaning?' "They never bite off more than they can| chew" PARK PLEASANTRIES. The merry, merry spring-time Will end our winter woes; For lovers twill be cling-time, As everybody knows.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Among the new books is one entitled Adventures of the Modest Man. At first sight some thought it was bi- ography of Theodore Roosevelt, but it Is not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

The extra session will no doubt take a hand in the Mexican business that the administration has precipitated It needs looking into.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

The Rev. pr. Aked seems to be angry because his congregation did not build him a new church. The subject is still hanging fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

A Boston clergyman says women have lost the art of blushing, and this may be why some are wearing the hobble and some the harem skiiS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
 WHERE LIFE LINE IS DIM

From the New York Herald.
 Chief figure in a funeral in Philadelphia arose and announced that he was not dead In Philadelphia 1t seems that tho mourners cannot tell the difference un- less they are told.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

West Virginia has no debt and she can readily borrow enough to meet her obligations to Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Many chairmanshps go to southern democrats Northern democrats are as a rule beginners in legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Commander Peary cannot conscienti-
 ously say that republics are ungrate- full He will soon be a rear admiral for life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Speaker designate Clark has not been uncleed and this is a good sign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Ex-President Roosevelt proposes to speak in 40 states on this, his last speaking tour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

A March snow Is said to be the poor mans fertilizer, but down this way fer tililers with tags on them are preferred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Walter Lowrie Fisher is the first new conner in the Taft cabinet All the others went in at the start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Absolute independence consists, says one writer, in eating onions and not giving a-darn who knows it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

The coming of the extra session no doubt led to an acceptance of the Bal finger resignation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

Colonel Roosevelt, too is headed for the border of Mexico. and the insur- rectionists should take notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

The Maine democrats more than held their own in the springs local cleo tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

All look forward with hope to the month of April, the baseball month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

ranks MT. Bailey. The former made his stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

The troops have been mobilized, and Congress will be on April 4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
THEN HE FLED.

THEN HE FLED.
 Do you care much for history, Miss Gusher?' ''I dote on it, MT. Simpson,"
 And what do you think of Hannibal?' ?'' ''Oh, I thought we were discussing his tory. I've never been to Hannibal, but,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
ADRJFT WITH THE TIMES
DENIED.

DENIED He strove for wealth through weary years And paid the price of grief and tears. To find at last the prize he sought With all lffes bitterness was fraught; And gold. though piled as mountains nigh. From Love could only win a sigh, sigh so sad, it seemed to say, Beyond your reach for aye, for aye"
 A LEARNED PARENT. Pa, what is a hedonist?" "A hedonist, my son?" "Yes. pa." "Ahem! Let me see. Do you remember my taking you to vaudeville show last week." ''Yes, pa." And you saw man there who walked down flight of stairs on his head?" "Yes, pa." Well he was a hedonist".
 A MERE SUPPOSITION
 Oh, do not wear
 The harem skirt:
 l cannot tell
 You why, sweet Cert,
 But do not wear
 The harem skirt.
 You still insist?
 Won't be denied?
 Insinuate
 I've hurt your pride?
 I sure do wish
 You would subside.
 Ahem Now please
 Give careful heed;
 I'll speak and then
 Depart with speed.
 Suppose-suppose
 You were knock-kneed? 
 MORE LIKE A PICNIC. q believe 1t was Sherman who gave the most famous definition of war on record' ''Yes, but he didn't know at the time that United States troops would ever be called on to play leap-frog along the Mexican border.
 ICONOCLASTIC. A scientist declares that Eve Did not an apple use To make old Father Adam grieve And give the world the blues. These scientists, we do believe Still study to confuse; They've always something up their sleeve To jolt accepted views.
 THEN HE FLED. Do you care much for history, Miss Gusher?" - ''I dote on it, MT. Slimpsonl" And what do you think of Hannibal?' ''Oh, I thought we were discussing his- tory. I've never been to Hannibal, but,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

All tongues speak of him. and the bleared sights are spectacIed to see him. -COrioInnus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
VICTOR HERBERT,s OPERA

It is now Mexico's turn to be good.
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MORE LIKE A PICNIC.


 q believe 1t was Sherman who gave the most famous definition of war on record" ''Yes, but he didn't know at the time that United States troops would ever be called on to play leap-frog along the Mexican border.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

sigh so sad, it seemed to say,
 Beyond your reach for aye, for aye"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14

No communication will be published without its authors name. Rejected manuscript will rot be returned unless stamps are tnclose6 for that purpose
The Washington herald., 1911-05-29

Every one admits that summer has
come when Memorial Day is reached, and
with the opening Of summer the season
OF the cool and tempting resorts is on.
This year is no exception. for the un-
usually early coming OF hot weather has
caused many places to open ahead Of
average schedule date.
The formal opening Of beautiful Mar
shall Hall will take place on Tuesday
next, with Schroeder's augmented mill
tery band in concert programme. The
steamer Charles Manchester will make
three trips on that day. at 10 a. M, and
2:3o and $50 p. m. New amusement fea-
lures are added. and there will be dane
ing as usual.
Another delightful trip down the river
ic offered by the steamer Queen Anne to
Colonial Beach. The boat leaves Seventh
street wharf at a. m. The Beach ho-
tells are now open. Cool breezes. sea
food, sea bathing, and permanent at
fractions are offered.
The fast, frequent trains to Chesapeake
Beach are now running to that popular
resort. The mammoth boardwalk fur
nishes a variety Of amusements. while
music, dancing, and salt water bathing
supply a never-ending source Of comfort
and pleasure.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-29

70 violation of the constitutional rights
Of Congress- an interference with perfect
religious freedom. makes honorable busi-
ness and legitimate labor Q crime on Sun
day. and that such distinction is an in
fringement upon civil liberty.
In moving the resolutions. Pro- H.
ming dwelt upon the influence that the
United States has exerted In helping
other countries to divorce religion .r...,
the state.
The resolution Of protest was seconded
by W. A. Colcord. who gave twenty-five
additional reasons why the measure
should not be passed. and then the audi
ence by a rising vote passed the reso-
luton unanimously.
In the invocation which preceded the
meeting, It was earnestly asked that
those who will have to pass upon the pro-
Iosed bill may. under divine guidance, be
led to see the limitations Of legislators
sphere.
A Boom for Laborers.
Rev. Zed H. Copp, at Bethany Pres
byterian. In his sermon last night urged
the passage Of the Johnston Sunday bill
as good legislative stay to weak backs,
as well as a boon to every honest la
borer."
The Washington herald., 1911-05-29
GERMANS OPPOSE
JOHNSTON BILL
Heyburn's Idea F!avors Per.
sonal Liberty.

German-American taxpayers in Wash
inston are bitterly opposed to the John
ston Sunday bill now before Congress.
Absurd" "un-American," "fanatical.'
were some Of the terms used by promi-
nent Germans last night when asked to
give their opinion Of the piece Of in
tended legislation.
Albert Lepper, president of the Wash
ington Saengerbund, said the bill Is un-
fair in more than one respect.
THE bill permits a certain class OF peo-
pie to do business, while others must close
up shop" said Mr.. Lepper. That is
class legislation, pure and simple. There
are many wealthy people who go to
church in their automobiles and car
riages, and make their drivers and
chauHeurs take them there. Why should
the drivers and chauffeurs be compelled
to work on Sunday? There are many
other absurdities in the Johnston bill.
which Is a narrow-minded attempt to
foist upon the District a piece Of legisla-
ton which he would not dare offer to
his own Congressional district.
Heyburn's Right Idea.
Senator Hepburn has the right idea
when he says, let every man work out
his own salvation. as long as he doesn't
do anything wrong"
Dr. Kurt Voelckner. president Of the
United German Societies, a central body
in which are represented the twenty-four
German societies of this city, stigmatized
the Johnston bill as an attempt to legis-
late out Of existence the personal rights
Of the American citizen.
why should any man have q right to
prescribe for me what I should do or not
do on a certain day OF the week. as long
as I conduct myself orderly and accord
ing to law?" asked DR.. Voelckner. The
Johnston bill is the outgrowth Of fsnati-
cism and intolerance, and should never
be permitted to be inscribed upon the
statute books Of the United States. 1t
would be a national disgrace II It ever
became a law"
John wischhusen, president OF the
Arion Gesangverein, said the measure
would be at least fair to all, even though
II the performance Of every
kind OF work were prohibited under It;
II there were no exceptions made by