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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Dcmocrntlc r,re.ldential Nominatlon

Governor Harmon will get the vote of the Alabama delegation in the demo- cratic nominating convention next year, said a lawyer who is not actively en- gagged in politics, ''but I am inclined to think that either Woodrow Wilson or Governor Marshall of Indiana, will be chosen to head the democratic ticket. l do not know whether Governor Marshall has begun to organize for 1912, but feel sure that when the time comes he will be a very formidable candidate for the nomination.
 ''I have been voting the democratic recall but one campaign where the democratic prospects for victory were so promising as they are for the next na- tional election. I feel 1t in my bones that the democrats will win. And again, do not recall any time in. the past 15 years when the democratic party had such good presidential material to select from as now.
 'If Governor Harmon is our next pres- ident he would fill the bill most admir- ably, and so would Wilson and Mar shall. to say nothing of others. On ac- count of his conservatism Governor liar mon seems to be particularly popular in the eastern states. He is highly es- teemed by the large business interests, and that always counts for a good deal But when 1t comes to the nomination the question will be raised, can Harmon carry his own state in presidential o1a nR 0raf f1 n times on state issues, but when it comes to a national campaign 1t is strong in its republicanism"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
ncEriINc RICH QUICK" IN CHICAGO

From the Washington Post.
 q was glad to read that my old friend James l.. Townsend, had been chosen president of the stock exchange" said Robert l.. Watson of Chicago, at the Dewey. "He has had a remarkably suc- cessful career since he came to Chicago as a lad of 15. He ran away from his home in Lima, Pa, because he did not care to continue in school, but he has made good in Chicago, and hustled from the very moment he arrived. His first employment was as helper in blacksmith shop, and that was only 22 years ago
 ''1t is an old story, of course about the wonderful careers of lads who come to Chicago, but no doubt other towns have just as many examples of success from small and humble beginnings. Pos sibly we make a little more fuss about it in Chicago. and 1t nerves every poor lad who comes to us when he Is told of men, now rich and powerful, who srr- rived in Chicago blessed only with youth and ambition.
 "Another lad went from my boyhood home in Ohio to Chicago, and was glad to get a $5 a week job in big depart mert store. Somehow he did not fancy the counter work, and looked about TOT something that offered better future. met him at the Waldorf in New York the other day, and he is at the head or a big corporation in Canada, using ms pri- vate car, and counting his fortune up to the million mark. He did not make 1t in Chicago but he got the start there. ant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
SYLLABLE TYPEWRITER

From the Boston Globe
 A Milanese mechanic, Giuio Crespi, has made marked advance toward supply ing one of the great wants of the com mercial and literary world
 He has invented a typewriter having a keyboard of AS keys which are so de- signed that each may be employed to write, by a single touch, either one let ter or syllable. according to the will of the operator
 From the syllable machine. to the ma- chine that will imprint whole word on paper with a jab of the index finger is but short step further, which, now that the way has been blazed, will be taken by some inventive genius, to the over whelming joy of the multitude who can't spell. #7
 But the most pressing need of the pres ent is a typewriter able to think as well as to inscribe ideas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
Madero as a Politician

In Mexico at present there is a great deal of politics to the acre. Scarcely had Madero arrived in the capital and the earthquake had sub sided than he went into executive session with General Reyes, who had just arrived from Havana, and with De La Barra, who is provisional presi- dent. When the doors were opened Madero announced that, if elected in October to six-year term as presi- dent, he would make Reyes secretary of war and De La Barra secretary of foreign affairs, and that both had &C., cepted. This puts all known rivals out of the running and Madero will probably have a walkover on Octo- Der s.
 Francisco I. Madero has grown rapidly in public estimation in Mexi- co. He was formerly regarded as an idealist-a theorist with limited ex- ecutive sense. But the man who organized a revolution that won from Diaz 90 per cent of the people in Mexico in six months is no longer considered a mere enthusiast or wind mill. He is gaining in popular strength daily, largely because he has become a private citizen and will remain one until October. This is not the way revolutions have been con- ducted heretofore in Latin America. Madero is in fact vast improvement upon any other revolutionist Latin America has ever known. He is standing strictly by the constitution. De La Barra became provisional pres ident under the terms of that instru- ment, and the special election is to be seld according to it's terms.
 When Madero goes into office he will stand pledged to this programme:
 No reelection of president.
 Governors of states to be elected, not appointed.
 Curtailing the powers of mayors of cities and making their offices cleo tive.
 Free ballot in all elections.
 Preservation of individual rights.
 Extension of the school system.
 Reform of the land laws, so that farms, now as extensive as from 100000 to 10,000,O00 acres, may be divided and sold in small lots to the people.
 He will go into office as reform CT, and if this theorist stays in office until he carries out these needed re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
Samuel G. Blythe, in Saturday Evenin.

odinuel G. BlyLne, III saturday ENenlns
 Post.
 AFOLLETTE is a strong man. Like
 every other strong man he cannot A--A occupy a middle ground. His con victions are positve-so positive there can be no palterng. You must believe either with I4aFollette or against him. There can be no neutral zone-no place where a half-and-half conviction will serve Thus 1t falls to LaFollette, as it fell to Roose- welt and as it has fallen to every other strong man since time began, to be al- ways either the best or the worst. His friends and supporters consider him the abest, the wisest, the most important public force of the present day. His ene- mics say he is a demagogue who has no sincerity of conviction. but seeks new is- sues for his own aggrandizement
 I hold no brief for LaFollette. I have known him a littlo since he came to Washington, have watched him a great deal and have lampooned him oftener than I have praised him-whenever I have written of him at all. I had doubts of his sincerity at the start; but I have seen him grow from an anti-machine and necessarily an anti-rairoad governor-the terms were synonymous in Wisconsin, who came to the Senate, to a position of commanding importance: from a state figure to a national figure; from a lone crusader to the leader of a cohesive, mili- tant. fighting force that comprises one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
Local Rains

Before Birmingham spread out and increased it's area to AS square miles, when it rained in the city all sections within the boundary lines got the bene- fit of the precipitation" said Colonel L.. W. Johns. whose home, ''The Films" in the West End district is situated in- side of Birmingham. "but now there may be a downpour in any one part of Birmingham and no rain in other parts as was the case Sunday
 About p. m. Sunday we had great wind storm at my place. Telegraph poles and trees were blown down and then came an electric storm which resulted in a heavy rain. The hot spell we have been having is made endurable by all most a constant breeze, and the rain Sunday cooled off the atmosphere very much at The Elms.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
FAYORITE FICTION

From the Chicago Tribune.
 q Never Like to Talk About My Neighbors, But
 We Will Begin Our Worship This Morning by Singing Hymn No. 14.''
 Art of Public Speaking Taught in Six Easy Lessons ute While You Were Away
 Automobiles Rented at Reasonable Rates"
 Feeling. as We Do, a Just Pride in the Achievements of Our Party"
 "Dr. Rybold's Sure Cure for Rheumatic Gout"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
IMPORTANCE or UNDERTAKES

Paxton Hoods Uses of Biography"
 During the American Revolution it is said that an officer, not habited in his military costume, was passing by where a small company of soldiers were at work making some repairs on small redoubt. The commander of the little squad was giving orders to those who were under him relative to a stick of timber which they were endeavorng to raise to the top of the works The timber went up hard. and on this account the voice of the little great man was the oftener heard, in his regular vociferations of "Heave away, There she goes ITeave ho!
 The officer before spoken of stopped his horse when he came to the place, and seeing the timber sometimes scarcely move asked the commander why he did not take hold and render little aid.
 The latter appeared to be somewhat as- tonished, and turning to the officer with the pomp of an emperor, said: Sir, l am a corporaln
 "I was not aware of that" the officer said and taking off his hat and lowing, q ask your pardon, MT. Corporal Upon this he dismounted from his elegant sted, flung the bridle over a post, and lifted till the sweat stood in drops upon his forehead When the timber was ele- vated to its proper station. turning to the man clother in brief authority; MT. Cor poral Commander Said he. 'when eyou have another such job, and have not men enough, send to your commander-in- chief, and I will come and help you a sec ond time" The corporal was thunder struck. It was Washington!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
A CANADIAN BOAT SONG

By Thomas Moore. Fairltly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and out oars keep time.
 Soon as the woods on shore look dim, we'll sing at St. Anns our parting hymn. Row, brothers, rowl the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's
 past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl?-- There is not a breath the blue wave to
 curl.
 But when the wind blows off the shore, O, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight S
 past.
 Utawa's tide. thisgtrembing moon Shall see us foattbver thy surges soon. Saint Of this green isle, hear our prayers o, grant us cool heavens and favorlng
 airs E Blow br1ses blow the stSam runs fast. The rapids arg near, and the daylig|ks 2
 mast. ' e~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
Mr. Taft's Running Mate

The nomination of MT. Taft for President by the republican party in 1912 is assured. There is in fact no other aspirant There were one or two but they have disappeared in the gloaming. Between the colonePs declaration that he will support MT. Taft and the referee machine in the south the incumbent is as secure of nomination as Diaz ever was.
 There, however, the Mexican par nllel ends. for Diaz knew how to re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
LAFOLLETTE A STRONG MAN

1 fourth of the republican strength of the Senate. I have seen him thrown out of one republican national convention; have seen his amendments to pending legisla- tion contemptuously defeated or laid on the table; have seen him fight doggedly and determinedly for his principles; have come to understand his character-in a degree at least-and to admire his cour- age, his patience, his persistence, his in- dustry, his ability, and his sincerity. It is not necessary to agree with LaFollette | in every particular in order to admire him; but whether one admires or not it is impossible to ignore him as a vital fac tor in the politics of this country La- Toilette is far past the ignoring stage He is big, virile reality-even his ene- ments stare them in the face.
 LaFollette is. a small man, with a long body and short legs. He has a big head. a high forehead, and accentuates the height of that forehead by brushing his hair straight up. He is not a slight man, but is stock and solidly built. He has q mobile face attractive when it is lighted with smile--as it most frequently is-but stern and set and impressive when he is fighting--a real fighters face. His voice has an agreeable resonance; his gestures are graceful and appropriate his earnest-4 ness is so intense it makes you feel rather ashamed because you do not agree with him-if it so happens you do not
 
 is glad 10 visit the old town and tell others what struggle he had in the old s5-a-week days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
LITTLE SURPRISES.

John, let's not take any long, eXpen- sive trip this summer. The girls and will be satisfied to rent a cottage or bungalow anywhere you like and have an easy, comfortable tme.'
 'I can fill that prescription for you if you insist on it, MT Wiggins, but it will cost you a dollar. Here's exactly the same thing already bottled, that I can sell you for thrty-flve cents.'
 "Bransford, if that cat of ours keeps you awake at night with it's bowling and caterwauing. shoot the beastly nuisance and save me the trouble"
 "The cause of the trains stopping, gen. tlemen, Is an accident at the power house. We shall be delayed about 10 minutes"
 'There are no slot machines on this boat, sir You can throw a nickel over board once in while if you feel like get ting rid of your money.'
 "Dr Fourthly, we are going to give you two-months' vacation this summer, with a trip to Europe thrown in"
 Quit yer chinnin, you boobs; de um- pire's right. I was out mile!'
 "Hello What is 1t? Yes, we are having a party at our house this evening, but we don't care to have any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A SUBJECT FIT FOR TEARS. There was a man in our town Who often took a drink; He knew soda water clerk
 Who understood his wink. But when the soda clerk got fired This poor man heaved a sigh And for 0 week, or thereabout, His throat was very dry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It's the big brag that gets the high horOrs.
 A woman can get an attack of the blues just for the fun of it.
 No substance in the world ever utterly disappears except money.
 All men look alike to a girl except the one she wants to marry.
 If man can't think of anything more boresome to do to you he will try to read you something funny out of a clipping he carries around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

forms in his country he will outshine Diaz and even Juarez, both of whom were typical autocrats of the Span ish-American pattern. Madero seems at least to be a man of another and better sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

room for a towering structure. Atlanta has been a skyscraper town for some time. In this respect it led other south ern cities. but today in the cost and number of big buildings Richmond is surpassing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
FELL RESULTS,

With trappings due And heart elate, He takes unto
 Himself a mate. A year goes by,
 His woe begins; He hears the cry
 Of husky twins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

The only coronation service we can have must be fitted to new wheat king, or to w. P. Brown, a cotton king, or to some winner in the Wall street game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
A TRAITOR

Watch that man on third base, Clara, I believe he's going to steal home."
 He ought to be ashamed to think of deserting his team before the game Is over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Senator Bourne wants the Senate to as- certain the feasibility of a parcels post. He is now up against the four great ob- jectors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
AN ISSUE. {

thing in the papers about it. Goodby."~- = Chicago Tribune.
 AN ISSUE. A topic warm Just now we note No more, no less
 Than Hobson's coat.
 PHEW.
 It really is
 Too warm, wen, H To read a book
 By Laura Jean.
 Birmingham Age-Herad. On days like this
 Iris far more cheery To read, I wis,
 The works of Peary
 Youngstown Telegram.
 VALUABLE FUEL The saddest man
 I've lately seen Had lost can
 Of gasoline. WORTHY OF REMARK. ofttimes some wondrous sights are seen. As through the world we jog I once behelS an actorine Who didn't own a dog.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Today a picture caught my eye; GA funny one at that. I saw college boy about Who wore a derby hat Red Stranger and more deserving fame Than any change relates, I read about big league game In plain United States.
 Newark Union- Gazette
 SOON BROKE. He's on vacation now, we hear, And feeling prime. He'll spend the savings of year Tn two weeks time
 TOO HOT NOW. Here Is a book that will make you think" "Ill read it when the frost falls" HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE. "Dibble is one of the most imaginative persons I ever saw" 'Why do you say that?" "He can loaf in a hotel lobby and im- agine he's a tourist"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Congressman Berger, socialist, is the only man in Congress who pays postage on his mail. He considers the franking privilege as a piece of graft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

No one should become heated in this weather, for summer is still distant. It does not really begin until June % See almanac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

The republican papers are publishing odds against Woodrow Wilson. This shows whom they fear-nothing more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Vivid and graphic description is billed for great stunt at the coronation, and it will doubtless All the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

All pitchers blow up occasionally. None escape the vicissitude altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

New York city is to have a potsal sav- ings bank and Birmingham may get one before the century is ended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

The little rains do not fill a long-felt want as a gully-washer would do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Texas Is now shipping new oats and new grapes to market. As state she is never lacking in previousness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
NATION OF CANE T-wIRLERs

Many fly remains unswatted and the people should do their duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

All the trusts are being investigated and the magazine trust may yet have to stand up and be searched.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Our army is still on the Mexican bor- der, keeping very still. All glory has de- parted from the movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

No one would object just now to con- signment of Canadian weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

The lumber and paper trusts are pre- pairing to tell Mir Taft to look elsewhere for campaign funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
BEANS

From the Kansas City Star.
 A. D. Button, 92 years old, who at tributes his longevity to his regular habit Of eating beans, was married to Miss Rebecca Jane Gateway, 24 years old here today. Dutton farms his property. He is as hale as man half his age-Dispatch from Muldrow, Okla, to the Star.
 The secret for which Ponce de Leon sought in vain is revealed at last Here is the meaning of that mystic chant of the nursery: Bean porridge hot, Bean porridge cold,
 Bean porrdge in the pot,
 Nine days old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

No wonder New England is full of spry old ladies and gentlemen. getting around as briskly as ever at 97 and 103l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Will England become modern enough to overcome her Derby-day habit2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Castro is looking for trouble In Vene' zuela. and he is pretty sure to find it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

After the people have built a city they should for decency's sake keep it clean
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

To secure a cool wave the papers of some torrid localities are mentioning Fairbanks for the presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

Properly muzzled dogs bite nobody. This fact should not be overlooked in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

The sea serpent is giving seances again and the summer is certainly entirely nor nal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
Progress of southern Cihc.

'I have been coming south every year
 or two during the past fifteen years, and
 in that time I have remarked the steady
 growth of the large cities" said w. B. Hampton of New York.
 ''In most of these southern cities the greatest progress has been in the past five or six years. 1 have been partic- ularly impressed recently with the large Improvements in Richmond. Norfolk, At lanta, Birmingham, Nashville and Mem- phis.
 "Richmond has long been a substantial and wealthy city, but it is only within the past few years that it has developed
 the skyscraper habit. The First National
 Bank of that city isP now erecting a twenty-story office building on the site of
 the Chamber of Commerce. The Cham
 Der had a very eloCant five-story building, erected only eighteen or twenty years lago, but Richmond has got such a move on it that the First National Bank bought and pulled down that building to make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13
Almost il Domestic Tragedy

Man always is to be- but sometimes he overloolSs very important items in the details of domesticity," said man who has taken furnished house for the sum- mer.
 Well. we moved out bag and baggage on Saturday, and thinking all tine points of household comfort fully covered, wc anticipation of a good breakfast. We inherited a good cook one noted for her biscuits. and that is the real index ler- ter, you may be sure.
 NOW. all the years of my life I've had my coffee; often in bed, but always soon after arising I asked Nancy if she could make good coffee, and she conn- dently declared she could
 "'weIl. I said, don't wait for break fast, but just jump me up a cup right quick After quite a wait, and no soul soothing odors floating on the air, went to investigate The ebonized embodiment of the divinity that rules our digestion solemnly informed me that There aiut 'peaved,' l boldly declared I had made coffee in camp in an empty can. Alas, those who went before, shut the door on place with not an empty can in it, ex- cept a fifteen-pound lard can. So all on a Sunday morning, had to come to town and get cup of coffee; and it was Il O clock before I found my equilibrium ''
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thing in the papers about it. Goodby."- Chicago Tribune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

is glad 10 visit the old town and tell others what struggle he had in the old $5-a-week days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

"The cause of the trains stopping, gen. tiemen, Is an accident at the power house. We shall be delayed about 10 minutes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-13

"Dr. Fourthly, we are going to give you two-months' vacation this summer, with a trip to Europe thrown in