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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
LOVE LETTER NAPOLEON WROTE

Henri Pene Du Bois. Love Affairs of Famous Men and Women.
 To Josephine at Milan.
 Marmirolo, July r, 1796, 9 o'clock p. m.- Since I left you I have been con stantIy depressed. My happiness is to be near you. necessarily I live over in my memory your caress, your tears, your affectionate solicitude. The charms of the incompara ble Josephine ldndle contin- ually a burning and a glowing flame in my heart. When, free from all solicitude, all harassing care, shall l be able to pass all my time with you, having only to love you and to think only of the hap piness of so saying and proving it to you?
 I will send you your horse, but I hope you will soon join me- l thought that loved you a thousand fold more. Each day since I knew you I have adored you yet more and more. This proves the maxim of La Bruyere, that love comes all of a sudden to be false. Everything in nature has it's own course, and different degrees of growth.
 An! I entreat you to permit me to see some of your faults. Be less beautiful, less gracious, less affectionate, especial y be not overanxious, ana never weep. Your tears rob me of reason and inflame my blood Believe me, it is not in my power to have a single thought which is not of thee, or a wish which I could not reveal to thee.
 Seek repose. Quickly re-establish your baaltI Come and ioin me that a leas st before death we may be able to say: "We were many days happy" A thousand kisses and one even to Fortuna notwith- standing his spitefulness.
 BONApARTE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
Regarding Moral Agencies

At this present time,' said an observer of events, "when our grand jury and our ministers are looking disagreeabe facts squarely in the face, and acknowledging the inadequacy of existing agencies, mak- ing for public morality, attention may be called to much neglected agency known as the public library and situated in the city hall.
 "Crime and illlteracyl in people seem to have some subtle connection and hence the most progressive and law abiding peoples provide educational agencies, even for their adults. &ssE
 "Our public library. limited as it is and solely dependent for growth and ex- pansion on the liberalty and the foresight of our private citizens, is doing it's un- ostentatious part-its important part. It remains with the thoughtful, in the face of these acknowledged conditions, to de- eide whether they will devote a portion of tteir donations to this institution that elsewhere in the world is so highly re- garded as a moral agency"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
Mir. StephensOn's Notorious Barrel

The Investigating committe sent to probe Wisconsin's barrel campaign will return, it is said, Scotch yer dict, Not Proven. And yet Stephen son acknowledges that he spent $1O7,000 in order to secure the seat he holds in the Senate. Congress has since put the maximum of candi- dates expenditure at $10,OOO, and Senator Stephenson overran this sum by nearly $1O0,0OO.
 If the Senate accepts the verdict of its committee it will stultify it's own action in declaring that $10,000 is as much as candidate for senatorial seat should expend.
 The only way the Senate can square itself in this matter is to de- clare that the confessed expenditure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
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MIR. UNDERWOOD

From the Providence Journal.
 T shall not pose as candidate for
 the Presidency or any other office" is the remark made by MT. Underwood of Alabama to the Washington corre-
 spondent of the New York World. It
 has particular interest in view of the
 growing belief that MT. Underwood
 may prove to be a formidable candidate
 by the time the democratic national
 convention assemblies. There is no
 occasion now to disc,fss the possibility
 with other candidates whose chances
 have been more generally discussed. It
 is well for the democratic party in
 this crisis that it has so large a num-
 Der of men who may fairly be re-
 garded as worthy of the highest honor
 it can offer. Even MT. Bryan, who is
 not deficient in vanity. can hardly
 longer regard himself as Indispensable. It may be assumed that he will en- deavor to have a hand in deciding the
 nomination, and perhaps his friendship or hostility to a candidate. will be a
 more or less potent factor in the re- suit. He has already tried conclu- sions with MT. Underwood and has come off second best. Since he is not a forgiving person, this fact might throw
 his influence against the representa- tive from Alabama; whether that would be sufficient to defeat him is
 perhaps an open question.
 | Meanwhile MT. Underwood has a | work to do in Washington for which he has revealed remarkable aptitude. It is not too much to say that the existing harmony among the demo- cratic members of the House, and the ability they showed at the last session to work. together. are largely due to his skillful leadership. He proposes to resume the task of tariff revision at | the point where 1t was interrupted by 1 the Presidents vetoes. It is encourag- | ing to find that no narrowly partisan spirit is likely to animate him and his colleagues as they reassemble 'The democrats of the House." says the World correspondent, will play fair with the President They will revise the wool and cotton schedules if the
 President indicates that they should be revised downward" In view of the
 Presidents own attitude, as expressed
 in the Outlook interview, there ought
 to be no o\great difficulty in making a ] beginning in the onerous labors of tar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
The Cotton Situation

Henry Clews in his cotton circular of December ? says in part:
 There was a noticeable increase in bearsh sentiment as is usually the case when the volume of trades, as in this instance, is enlarged at the ex- pense of values. This was assiduously fostered by the bear contingent who, it would appear. are directing every ef- fort in an endeayor to bring about as low prices as possible prior to the next ginning report which will be published December s, and the government esti- mate of the crop which is due on De- cemper II. The importance of this later report cannot be over estimated Spinners the world over will be in- fluenced to a great extent by the gov ernment's figures in shaping their buy ing policy for the balance of the seat son, for it is admitted that greater dependence than ever can be placed on the government report this year, owing to the extraordinary care that has at tended it's compilation. In our opinion the official figures will be a disappoint- ment to those who are pinning their faith to the extreme estimates of the crop.
 'The daily ginnings are at last on a descending scale and this in the face of a declining market when naturally every pound of cotton possible is being rushed to the gins, especially by the tenant farmers, ip order to take ad- vantage of market conditions that have all along reflected lower price levels. This in measure accounts for the extraordinary activity of the gins which in most sections have until re- gently been working 24 hours a day.
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 if reduction. That the tariff board will find figures to justify Schedule K or any other of the worst excesses of the Payne act is highly improbable Nothing should stand in the way, then, of relief from the economic burdens now laid upon the people.
 It is interesting to note that Mir. Un- derwood is not favorably impressed with the doctrines which the more rad, pose upon it's political creed He says truly that the initiative, referendum and recall represent a partial abandon- ment of the principle of representativel government. Their adoption wouldI place power in the hand of the people, to be sure but it would be power tool irresponsible to be exercised upon ln-I pulse. MT. Underwood's- experiences aS. a legislator leads him to believe that | legislators are in the long run con-l trolled by enlightened and maturel public sentiment"---as in the very ma T ture of the case they must be. If therei are evils in our government as it existsE today" MT. Underwood adds, they are2 not in its organic form, but are due toI the failure of those in office honestly y fairly and justly to perform the dutiesf imposed upon them. The masses areh far more likely to select an honest man than an honest measure. The time has not yet come when we should abandon3 the house our fathers built" | The people are apt to like a ma rk l Fl lessly as this. Whether MT Under1A wood is>ever President or not, he seemaH to measure up pretty we'll to the speci-A fications for a statesman. 6st
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
WASTE OF BREATH

Washington Correspondence New York
 World.
 Former Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska found Marse Henry Watterson in the Willard cafe the other day taking a "snifter'' all by himself.
 Come over, John, and have nip said the famous editor. John, tell me something. Where have all the orators gone, the men who used to sway multi tudes and lift audiences off their feet? |? There arc only three of us left--myself, you and George Peck of Chicago"
 "Why mention Peck?' asked Thurston; "lle's not here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
From the San Francisco Argonaut.

From the San Francisco Argonaut.
 ~ OMETHING will have to be done to
 curb the ardor of hotel managers o who try to impose sumptuary laws upon their lady guests. And something will be done as soon as the wave or civilization spreads eastward from Call fcrnia to Chicago. Let the manager of the Hotel Breslin beware. A day will come. He may live to see law passed against such as he.
 Mrs. Olga von Nilsson was the victim of this arrogant tyrant He may urge in his own justification that he thought Mrs. von Nilsson had nothing whatever on above the equator, but that plea VIII not hold water. Did he suppose that nature had colored the lady yellow? Now if she had shone with delicate pink a momentary perplexity might have been excusable. But seeing that she was yellow he might have known that she was clothed, and a closer inspection would have disclosed the fact that she was wearing a rubber costume. But act ing with headlong precipitancy that he will have cause to regret he said that the offending garment must not remain in the dining room, and as it was evident that Mrs. von Nilsson could not remain without it there was speedily vacancy at the table.
 Thanks to the scientific spirit of in- ouiry that was displayed by a reporter we have some fuller details of this de- lightful costume. The reporter in ques- tion followed Mrs. von Nilsson home' and it need hardly be said that he found the lady in a state of prostration, but still talking She said 1t was an out rage, and when the representative Of free and independent and incorruptible press asked to see the outrage she ex- planed that she was referring to the treatment she had received, and not to the rubber costume. Nevertheless she was graciously pleased to show it. The reporter says that it was made of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
New Railways in China

Tien Tsin, the port of Peking, was last year linked with the European system of railroads, and Shanghai soon will be. Many lines have been planned and work upon them begun, allswith one exception being based on home capital. The one exception be- came a leading cause of the present revolution, and the chances are that the foreign money will not be used. The Chinese are very ambitions to build and to own and to operate their own railroads.
 At the end of 1910 they had 5137 miles in operation, and that mileage will be handsomely increased this year despite the revolution. The country is very large and 100000 miles of roils would be none too many. Every province, 19 in number, needs at least one railroad, giving it connection with the entire system and with the railroads of Asia and Eu- rope. The country cannot be SUD- piled with railroads in a jiffy, but comprehensive plans have been made, and every one of the provinces will soon be supplied with a railroad ex- tending to and from the general sys- tenn. The development of railroad system in China is well assured, and all intelligent Chinamen know it is needful and must be had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

was governor of New York, and as such was conspicuous person. He had na- tional reputation, of course. And it was the same with Grover Cleveland. MT. Cleveland was governor of New York when he was elected President in 1881. l am democrat and am looking forward with great hope to 1912. believe that if the democrats will only put up a strong man they Will win Within the past two weeks have heard men on the trains and in the hotels talking in favor of Under- wood A striking thing about it is that republicans as well as democrats have q good word to say about him. As chair man of the ways and means committee and democratic leader in the House Un- derwood has made more than good, and it does seem to me that he is the logical man for the nomination"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
\ Prosperous Industry

H. H. Hit of Fa1kvil1e on the Louis vile and Nashville. eight miles above Cullman, was in Birmingham yester- day. He has~jus incorporated the IT.. H. Hit Lumber company of which he is president This concern has paid up capital of s25o,000 and operates a large blaming and band mill at Talk vile; also a mill at Decatur. J. l. Seeley, formerly general manager Of the Santee River Cypress lumber com- pany of South Carolina, is secretary and treasurer of the Hit company. MT Hit has leased the seven miles of the Cullnaan Coal and Coke company's rail- road just completed. This road runs through fine timber lands and will be operated in connection with the Hit Lumber company.
 MT. Hit is native 1 the state of New York and came to Alabama four years ago. engaging in the lumber bus mess, which he has developed along large lines.
 T am pleased with my investments in Alabama. said MT. Hit. Our in- dustry at Falkvil1e has been in every way successful and we will continue 10 develop it. I consider myself for tunate in having MT. Seeley associated with me as secretary and treasurer. He is a man Of large experience in the hardwood business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
LOVES WILL

By Shakespeare.e
 Being your slave, what should | do bu.
 tend
 Upon the hours and times of your desire . have no precious time at all to spenu, No services to do, till you require Nor dare I chide the world without end
 hour Whilst l, my sovereign, watch the clocl
 for you,
 Nor think the bitterness of absence soui When you have bid your servant oncd
 adieu; SIS Nor dare I question with my jealous
 thought Where you may be. or your affairs supI
 pose, But like a sad slave, stay and think oil
 nought Save where you are, how happy you max
 those. 4s Nj So true a fool Is love, that In your wilt Though you do anything, he thinks ul
 dll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
Red Cross Seals

Every Red Cross seal attached to a letter or package or wrapper puts 1 cent toward supplying the needs of the victims of the White Plague, the greatest menace of this climate and this country. If every letter or package sent in December should bear one of the little red seals a great sum for the afflicted would be secured.
 To certain extent the government authorizes the use of these seals. Those of the present year were de- signed by the treasury department, and the postoffice department au- thorizes their use on mailable matter, but not, of course, as postage. The little red seals simply show that the sender has not been forgetful of those who lie stricken by the dread disease of this climate. The -Tubercu- losis society needs funds, and every cent sent to it through the use of the red seals goes to the right spot.
 When you put postage stamp on a letter or package put red seal also. Each one is gift to the un- fortunates who lie stricken with the direst disease that the race and the country is subect to. Do not forget them in this month of joy and house. hold happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

of S1O7,O00 is a confession of im- proper expenditure, and the seat should therefore be declared vacant. The effect of such a decision would be salutary. It would clear the air. It would put an end to many viola tions of the law. It would cut out the man with bulging pocket and nothing else. The Senate should do its duty, regardless of senatorial courtesy and all other nonsense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
nEEI.ECTIoNs Or A BAcHEIoR

From the New York Press.
 Manners pay exclusive attention to money.
 People looking for trouble mighty soon find it is also looking for thep.
 An extra easy way to lose a good job is to be sure you know more about it than your boss.
 man can be pleased about being run over by an automobile if it was driven by a millionaire.
 The more a girl can talk about helping with the housekeeping the more she can be thinking of going to some dance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
Much Talk of Underwood

q do not recall any politician or states man who has risen to high distinction in a comparatively short time as Congress man oscar w. iUnderwood,' said Joel M. Fox of Chicago. "A year ago in the north only those persons who read con gressional proceedings closely knew of MT. Underwoods existence. Now every body is talking about him in conhection with the presidency.
 'The first presidential election in which voted was that of 1876. when cast my ballot for Samuel J. Tilden. MT. Tilden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
Governor o,Nears Increasing Popularity

"Since the governors organized them selves into an association, or house, they have come prominently to the front" said an old citizen who takes a keen interest in public affairs.
 "As a rule every chief magistrate of a state is a man of force, and many of them are real statesmen. But until the governors began to have meetings a state executive seldom achieved national repu- tation, the exception being in states like New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and In diana. Very few states have had gov ernors who got into the spot light on their individual merits. It was largely because of a lack of opportunity. Now that they all have opportunity the coun- try finds that the governors, taken as a whole, from a brilliant galaxy in the public life of the United States.
 Governor ONeal is now recognized as one of the best speakers in this country, and he is in great demand for large pub lie occasions. His conservative states manship and his splendid equipment for discussing political questions combine to make him pre-eminent in the public view. I am told that at the Chamber of Com- merce banquet in New York Governor ONeal fairly surpassed himself, and I am sure he will make a great hit at the gathering of governors in Baltimore next Friday. In state politics I had not been a partisan of Mr. O'Neal, but he has grown in my estimation since his election, and I think Alabama has great cause to be proud of the fact that he now stands conspicuous in the list of national fig ures."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
TO BE SURE.

'It is announced that the former Mrs. Nat Goodwin, number 4, American se- ries, will sing the title role in musical show entitled, Tantalizing Fanny.
 'The box office receipts would prob ably be much larger if she would ap- pear in a piece called Tantalizing Nat'n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

i. Pennsylvania has 67 counties and SO has Alabama, but in the Pennsylvania counties a vigorous campaign is to be waged next year by the suffragettes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
TRUTHFUL PAPER

From the Pensacola Journal.
 Birmingham has city market now, but then Birmingham has lot of things that some cities must secure to become up to date
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
A CASUAL READER.

"All of his boks are de luxe copies I've often seen that name on books. A New York publisher, I presume?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Vice President Sherman should have worn his s7 tariff suit when he opened the Senate yesterday He should not be ashamed of his principles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Secretary Wilson says the southern farmers are more progressive than the northern farmers. The northern farm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

In five months more the baseball season will be opened and then politics will not be so expressing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Mother used to cook Thanksgiving din- ners, and she never cooked one in paper bags. That kind of nonsense was not relished in her days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Yuan Shi Kai is at present doing stunts of light rope walking. Few at this distance know how he will come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

The men who dislike T. R. now call Senator Crane of Massachusetts, who of fered him the crown, "a wasp Waisted busybody." Politics is beginning to get warm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

There is a good deal of life left in John Bull yet It is question whether Eng land ever was more powerful than she is today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Senator LaFollette has a. following of progressive republicans in New Jersey, and MT. Taft will have to hustle in the May primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

It is Sir Edward Grey, not Lord Grey who handles foreign subjects in the As quith cabinet, and the general opinion in England is that he handles them to the kings taste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

The department of justice is now self sustaining. It collected last year more than S4.OOO.OO0 in fines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

The Maine was blown up from the out side, and the fellows that did it brought Ia good whipping on their country, and that ends it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05
CAN'T ESCAPE.

The turkeys paid for, and in full,
 But pa still wears a troubled brow To make ends meet is quite a pull
 He's face to face with Santa now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Just why Andrew Carnegie omitted Ty men has not yet been explained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Almost any man can live to be 100 years old if he can dodge the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

A contributing editor is new member of modern up to date news papers. Few, however. can afford to en- gage an ex-president, although the coun- try will soon have another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

The fear in administration circles is that T. R. is a candidate under the skin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Mayor Shank would be green grocer out and out if he had tub sof pickles and some kale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-05

Don't write "motorety for tnoto- 1iety," however great the temptation may be.