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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
ARTISTS BLUNDERS

From an old Scrap Book.
 T never saw an artist yet who could correctly paint a horses.ioe," remarked a friend of mine pausing before a Broadway picture store
 They invariably paint it with an equal number of nails on each side. sometimes three, sometimes four and even five nails. As matter of fact. there are four on one side and three on the other, the extra nail being on the inside of the foot, where the greatest strain comes"
 Which reminds me of the lines of a distinguished American poet in which he sweetly depicts the drowsy cattle on a summers day laziy tapping the cooling waters of the crystal stream. The same peculiarity is also poetically attribut ed to the hores and other animals, the model of the poet having probably been the house cat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
PRINCE JOHN. VAN BUREN

Hilton; Funny Side of Politics.
 John Van Buren, son of Martin Van Buren. at one time generally known as Prince John,'' having undertaken tho representations as a lawyer. of a certain cause before the courts, very much to the disgust of one of his friends, the lat ter expostulated with him in vain, and losing his temper. exclaimed:
 "Van Buren, is there case so low: so vile, so filthy. that you would decline to represent it?' sAasea
 q do not know Van Buren replied, hesitatingy, and quickly approaching lis ear close to the lips. of the inquirer he whispered: What have you been doing i. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

ener than any other living operatic star.
 As the festival is to be held in the National Good Roads convention week there will be an unusual rush for tickets. The advance sale of seats will begin some time in April and citizens with out town friends who will come to the festival had better speak for reservations early"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
RAIN ON THE ROOF

By Coates Kinney. When the humid shadows hover
 Over all the starry spheres, And the melancholy darkness M
 Gently weeps in rainy tears, N What a bliss to press the pillow
 Of cottage chamber bed @ And to listen to the batter s6
 Of the soft rain overhead! R Every tinkle on the shingles H <. Has an echo in the heart; W And a thousand dreamy fancies
 Into busy being start. And a thousand recollections @
 Weave their air threads into wool As I listen. to the batter Of the rain upon the roof a Now in memory comes my mother,
 As she used long years agone. To regard the darling dreamers
 Ere she left them till the drawn; Oh. see her leaning OCT me,
 As I list to this refrain Which is played upon tho shingles
 By the batter of the rain. Then my little seraph sister,
 With her wings and waving hair, And her star-eyed cherub brother A serene angelic pair Glide around my wakefui pillow.
 With their praise or mild reproOf As I listen to the murmur
 Of the soft rain on the roof And another comes to thrill me.
 With her eyes delicious blue; And I mind not, muSing on her,
 That her heart was all untrue; remember but to love her
 With a passion kin to pain, And my hearts quick pulses vibrate
 To the batter of the raln. '''f Art hath riaught of tone or cadence
 That can work with such spell In the souls mysterious fountains.
 Whence the tears of rapture we'll As that melody of nature, { That subdued. subduing strain Which is pIayed upon the shinelep
 By the batter of the rain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
A "POTPOuRRI."


 It has been remarked that Mrs. Polk Daniels is not nearly so blonde this year as she was last. Most pianos are bought because they look we'll in the house. Mrs. Hanch Glover, who weighs at least a hundred and umpty-four pounds, takes great pleasure in saying she only weighed 9S pounds when she was married. If man believes in simplified spelling. let him alone. Same way with vegetable diet and sleeping outdoors. Some folks will be cranlSs and reformers in spite of all that sensible people can do, so don't worry over it. *S" It's all right to be sociabe If you aint too dog-goned sociable. * Doesn't it generally strike you that somebody always gets the best part of the steak and leaves you the stringy ends? That's the reason I like hash, for I feel that I am getting an even break.-Howard Courant
 NO WAR GAME FOR THEM
 J. Caesar is dead one
 And so is Alexander;
 Along the Rio Grande
 They never will meander.
 A SKEPTIC SAYS. Credulty's the primal cause
 Of hocus- -pocus: I don't believe there ever was A diplodocus.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

T Ioln the NeW I Ofk fFesS.
 Girls can exercise a lot of influence over men by not marrying them.
 A woman can rule her husband without being able to do it to the children.
 Telling the truth is not so difficult; it s rot telling lie instead that is so hard.
 People will ask you to let them do you asked them to.
 Lots Of women are ashamed to have their husbands so unartistic they can't help being successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The man who had no political pull what ever has been found. Although innocent he served 20 years in prison in Pennsyl- vania. He should have declared himself a machine supporter, but as an innocent. man he could not bring himself to do that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Champ Clark will soon swing the gavel and the umpire will soon shout "Play ball" Stirring times in these parts as we'll as in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Twenty-six thousand men are out of work in socialistic Milwaukee, and the city government is not furnishing em- ployment to any considerable number of the unemployed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

President Diaz declines to talk peace. He prefers to whip the revolutionists into non-resistanee, but he may be biting off more than he can chew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Eve at any rate was never stripped in order to be searched for smuggled jew elry. She certainly escaped some of the endorsements of modern life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The socialists and the suffragists are trying to get together. Both are icono- clasts in matters political.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

New York Is really trying to be repre- sented by two senators In the extra ses- sion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
About Persons

R. F. l.. Neil, editor of the Selma Times, and one of the best known young men in Alabama, is in Birming- ham,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The huge estates in Mexico must be broken up before the people will become content and peaceful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The Georgia peach crop Is to be abund- ant south of Macon, whatever 1t may be north of that central city of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Danish warship has gone to Green land. She will be the first one flying that flag to enter the Arctic Circle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Senor Limantours statements to the press in this country and his statements in Mexico City do not jibe well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Jose Yves Limantour is not making good in Mexico, and Aldrieh and Rockefeller are deeply touched in their pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The Maderos are trying to sell their rubber lands to the Aldrich company for s20 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The mistakes made in legislative en- crossing rooms always happen in room alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The Roosevelt dam has been authorized to begin at once its life work, and big work it is to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The Honorable Hinky Dink is support ing Carter Harrison for mayor. Both are regulars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

St. Louis has a goose 2S years old, and it Is still in good working condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

No one likes top room because it has no elevator service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Portugal's general election is to take place April S0 It will be the republic s first appeal to the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

The job of secretary to the President lis of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Nero fiddled while Rome burned be- cause no golf links had been established there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

We've seen the harem skirt Momentous was the day, Who'd ever try to flirt With a woman dressed that way?
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Nobody, we should think; And we venture, then, to say That's a reason for believing That 1t hasn't come to stay
 Rome Tribune Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

TAKE WARNING. "On homemade wings" Said Williams Bings, .1'll aviate.'' He fell, kerp1ump! Methinks the chump Deserved his fate.  Who seeks to fly Up in the sky
 On sticks and strings, Is more than apt To meet what hapt To William Bings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
ADRJFT WITH THE TIMES

oFTTIMEs. Ofttimes a maid Of tickle mood'lI Be constant to A pesky poodle.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Ofttimes man Of foolish noodle Stick for just one More dollar roodle.
 St. Louis Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
The Music Festival

"Birminghams Music Festival will open Monday night, May 2o. and will continue Tuesday and Wednesday, clos ing wednesday night" said member of the festival executive committee.
 Ut was proposed to have the fes- tival begin Tuesday, May 23. but in securing Victor Herbert's orchestra 1t was found necessary to take the dates just named. It Is we'll for Birming- ham people to keep these dates In mind and in writing to their friends throughout the state to call attention to the high character of the forthcom- ing festival project. Schumann- -Heink. Evan Williams, and half dozen other vocal artists have been engaged, and this number will be added to by still another popular singer. Schumann- Heink has long been one of the hish- est paid artists in the world, and as q box office proposition she is eaualed by few and surpassed, perhaps, by none She is as great an attraction today as she was 10 years ago. She has sung to larger audiences and oft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
UNCONSCIOUS ADMIRATION.

q didn't know that you were interest," ed in ceramics dear" cooed Mrs. Whif- fer. .szs5a7s
 What makes you think I am?" asked MT. Whiffer, uneasily.
 "I heard you talking in your sleep last night about a glorious pot. P
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
PA EXPLAINS.

"Pa what is meant by the current craze?"
 Trying to run everything by electric ity, son."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
Railroad Ticket Device

British railways have generally livened up and become more alert to labor saving devices of recent years" says a writer in the Railway World. "A case in point is the adoption of a ticket-printing ma chine of novel and interesting type by the Northeastern railway. The salient features of this machine are that it prints the ticket inside the booking office. as well as issuing them, in addition to au- tomatically recording the number sold For each variety of ticket required to be printed, an electro is inserted in the ma chine, together with a revolving disc on which is found a roll of cardboard sufficient for 10000 tickets. The pressure of small push button switch sets tine mechanism in motion and the ticket IS printed, cut off the cardboard roll, and deposited in a trap outside the machine in less than a second, whilst the trans action is registered on an automatic counter.
 "The machine is actuated by a small electric motor consuming so little cur rent that it can be connected iup- with the ordinary lighting circuit. The ap- paratus installed at Newcastle prints and issues five varieties of tickets to stations to which there is continuously heavy traffic, but the machine can be adapted to the issue of as many as 30 kinds of ticket without increasing the size. us advantages include the economizng of booking office space due to the obvia- ton of the necessity to keep stock of ready printed tickets, the elimination of the risk of theft or fraud through the same cause, absolute accuracy and time saving in accounting for sales, and cheapening of the cost of production. The cost of 1000 tickets on this machine is cents, as against about sS cents in tho ordinary way, and electric current costs only 1z cent a 1000.
 Another type of machine. especially adapted to the requirements of under ground and suburban railways, prints and issues a ticket on the passenger placing penny, pennies or pennies in the slot. This machine has distinct advantages as regards both cost and certainty of work ing. over the usual slot machine in which the tickets are inserted ready printed. whilst a counter automatically records the sales"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.

Tell man he's level-headed
 And he'll thank you much for that; But will deem him ill-besteaded,
 If you say his roof Is flat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
MORE woRLDLINGs.

MORE WORLDLINGS. In this old world there's many a wight Who thinks he knows it all; And yet, in foolish pride bedight, He's riding to fall.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. In this old world there's many a jay Who thinks he's pretty slick, But after he has sold his hay He buys a gilded brick. E.
 Louisville Post. In this old world there's many & -crffmp Who thinks he's pretty shrewd, Till with mine stock he gets a bump And finds that he's been glued.
 St. Louis Times. In this old world there's many a day When things go slow, you wis, And then the weary writer-jay Must fill his col. like this.
 Houston Post. In this old world there's many a dunce Who. thinks he has good sense, But, having bought on a margin once, Is robbed of confidence.
 Chicago Record-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
TOO MUCH.

that little Jipson boy again."
 "'Deed I haven't, ma. He said I'd vote for Bryan when I grew up an I just had to punch his face"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
HOTEL SUICIDES

All our mobilized troops are now Texas Rangers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
HOW. INDEED.

HOW. INDEED. How can a poet still be gay, When woodland paths where sunbeams stray, Still call and call, and he can't go Out where the first spring blossoms b ow?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
NO WONDER SHE SUES.

NO WONDER SHE SUES A Kansas City mancurist wants s15,00O damages for four kisses forcibly taken and a ''roughing up.'' The fact that she always was the lady, explains why she feels so terribly hurt. Besides, she may have lost three or four ''rats" in the "roughing up," and may have had several unsishtly holes rubbed in her complexion.
 IN A BLAZE. "She tried to make her husband quit smoking"
 What was the result?" 'He fiared up."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
 Age-Herald.
WAR CLOUDS.

The editor of The Bee in New Orleani has challenged the editor of The Wasr to fight a duel. Somebody is in a fail way to get stung.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 14f6 New York avenue.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
WILL TRY BLACK HAN0ER
Fox Brains" of Organization Is
Charged with Carrying Bomb
and Threatening Detective

New York, Sept s.-Guiseppe
Costabiles, "the fox" brains Of the
black hand in New York. the police
say, was held this afternoon without
bail on the charge of carrying q
bomb. Since Costabiles' arrest not
far from headquarters several days
ago, the police say that the explo-
sives In the internal machine were
potassium chlorate and black sui
phate of antimony and of great de-
structive power.
Costabiles viii probably face the
jury tomorrow.
Under the newly enacted Sullivan
law, the possession of dangerous
weapons by an alien constitutes a
felony,
In addition to this Costabiles may
have to explain an alleged threat OF
death made by him against the de-
tective who arrested him.
An Italian interpreter testified at
teday's hearing that Costabiies NUT
tered at the time Of his arrest, IF
go to prison | will XIII you when |
get out"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
HELD PRISONER
BY ELECTRICITY
Lad Leans Against Motor Box Of
Holbrook Car and Is Badly Burned
Before Motorman Can Remove
Trolley Pole.

Glenn Coombes, the 14-year-old
son OF Mr. and Mrs. Voorhees,
Coombes of 3115 Washington ave
nue., was seriously burned by cleo
tricity while riding on a street car
yesterday about 12:15 o'clock, He
was on his way to dinner rom the
grocery store OF Logan & Walters
where he Is employed. When he
boarded a Holbrook car at Eighth
street and Washington avenue he
went to the smoking department I'm
the rear, where, leaning against the
motor stand on the platform and
grasping the brake handle he form
ed a current of electricity which
passed through his body and held
him SO tightly that he could not re-
lease his hand from the brake. He
Immediately cried for help and II
was fully half minute before the
people in the ear realized his situa-
'AN''i ."hPppoibE nf NdN praying u
boyish prank, When he screamed
pull Off the trolley" in an agoniz.
ing tone Of voice the passengers
rushed to his aid, but were afraid
to touch him for fear of getting
shocked themselves. Some one rush
ed out of the front end of the car and
pulled the trolley off
Coombes was found to have been
badly burned on the parts OF the
body where he had leaned against
the motor stand: his hand was not
burned, He was taken to his home
by OfficerJones who was on the car,
where a physician attended him. He
did not realize at the time that he
was So seriously burned His pa
rents, who were at Dawson Springs,
were notified by wire of the accident
and returned home last night.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
L'FOLlETTE IS DOOMED
Banquet Formally Opens Wisconsin
Senator's Campaign for Presi.
dent in Minnesota.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. s.
Senator LaFollette found an ardent
champion and avenging insurgent in
Congressman Lenroot of Wisconsin
at banquet of Minnesota progress
sive Republicans tonight
The banquet formally opened the
LaFollette campaign in Minnesota
for the. nomination for president on
the Republican ticket, there were
three hundred men at the banquet
table Resolutions pledging support
to the Wisconsin senator first, last
and all the time" In the contest for
the presidential nomination were
adopted.
Cummins Praises LaFollette.
Des Moines, la. Sept S.--Charac
terlzing Senator LaFollette rs {
patriot with an eye single to thu
good of the country as any one t.
whom Providence has given a strong
and inflexible purpose. Senator
Cummins addressed the Iowa Cop
pecanoe Club here tonight I'm wha
was called the opening of 1912 cam
paign in Iowa.
Cummins had not intended to dis
cuss LaFollette but his opinion wa,
called forth when member of tn,
club insisted that he state his opin
ron Of the Wisconsin senator.
The speech was mainly devoted
to a discussion OF the peace treaties
pending before the senate.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
NEGRO MURDERER CAUGHT
Alf Moore, Who Killed Will Turner,
Captured at McGhee, Ark.

calf" Moore, who killed Will
Turner, has been captured and two
other negroes who were witnesses
to the murder are also In jail They
were caught at McGhee, Ark. Chief
Egan received a message from Ben
Brown, the sheriff at that place last
night, telling him of the capture.
The murder was committed about S
O'Clock on the morning of July "a,
on board the steamer Rees Lee, ly-
ing at the Cairo wharf Moore es-
capped. Chief Egan will send for the
negroes at once If they will come
without requisition.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
SEES CHAUFFEUR IN ROAD
Detectives Working on The Theory
Wennerstrom Was Killed By
Safe Blowers.

Chicago, Sept. 7-Detectives con-
tinuing their search for the murd-
erer Of Frederick Wennerstrom to-
day with Enoch Lunstrom, a farmer,
who says he met four men in an auto
mobile quarreling on a lonely road
near Parry, ILL.,, the morning the body
of the chauffeur was found in the
river.
One of the men appeared to have
been wounded and was lying pros
trate in the road when he came
along and was warned away by the
other men,
Liuerstrom believes the man ly-
ing in the road was Wennerstrom
and the others the safe blowers, be-
Iieved by the police to have murder
id him.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
TRAIN BEATS COMMITTEE
Gov. Stubbs Arrives In Argentine
and Later Band and Autos Come
To Meet Him.

Kansas City, Kan, Sept. Mis-
understanding the arrival time of a
train at suburban station almost
caused a brass band, a reception com
mittee and an automobile parade,
which went out to meet Gov. Stubbs,
of Kansas. due to make an address
at a fair here today, to miss their
guest entirely.
The parade of fifty automobiles
reached the station in Argentine in
which was believed to be ample
time. The band struck up a rous-
ing tune to usher in the train. The
tune finished, but no train.
Train in?" somebody finally ask
ed
Sure" said the station agent.
Fifteen minutes ago"
Away went the parade and the
band to catch the governor. A man
with hair slightly red was seen sit
ting on bridge rail, his hand on a
suit case and q straw in his mouth.
"IIcy there" the man shouted
The line of Automobiles pulled
up, 1t was the governor of Kansas,
who, finding no reception committees
to greet him, started unescorted fol
the city.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
MRS. l A. HADEN DIED
Complication of Diseases Following
.~~ Heat Stroke Kill Pulaski
County Resident.

Mrs. r. A. Haden died Thursday
at 8 D m, at the residence OF her son,
j. P. Haden, 511 Twenty-first street
Mrs. Haden was overcome by heat
about two months ago at her home
at Pulaski, ILL.,, and was brought to
Cairo for treatment, She was 72
years of age. She leaves her hus-
band, G. O. 7 den, two sisters, Mrs
Julia II. Farrin and Mrs M. ] Har-
vey OF 722 Twenty-third street and
one son, j. P. Haden.
The funeral will be held Saturday
at 1880 p. m. at the residence. Ser
vices will be conducted by Rev. AL
fred M. Eells and Rev. r. d. Ken
nedy. Interment will be at Villa
Ridge cemetery. Funeral train
leaves Fourteenth street at 2:45
o'clock.
4
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
HEARST|SN" HAS
DEMOCRATIC FOE
Meeting of Progressive Democrats Is
Enlivened When Editor Demands
to Know if Hearst Is Factor in.
New Anti-Sullivan Movement.

Chicago, Sept. What he term
ed "Hearstism" was repudlated by
H. w. Wheeler, Democratic state
central committeeman and editor of
The Herald of Quincy III, at the
roundup of Hearst Democrats hold
here today.
Editor Wheeler from the floor OF
the conference asked:
"What are we here FORT" ! wish
there was some one here who had
nerve enough to tell us. We all
know Andy Lawrence who was in
strumental in getting the meeting.
We all know Hearst and the more
we know of Hearst the less we want
of him"
This utterance proved the sensa-
tion of the gathering.
Sullivan Is Opposed.
The meeting was called by pro-
gressive Democrats with the object
of reorganizing the Democratic par
ty in Illinois and wrestling the ma
tional committeeship from Roger G.
Sullivan of Chicago.
Several hundred Democrats from
all parts of the state attended
An organization was affected by
the election of the following officers:
President, Carter H. Harrison, may
or of Chicago, vice-presdent, James
M. Graham of Chicago; secretary,
John l., Pickering of Springfield;
treasurer, Milard r.. Dunlap of
Jacksonville.
The declaration of progressive
Democratic principles was read and
improved and 1t was decided to hold
a rally at Springfield. H., Oct 4.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-08
DEN0uNCE KIDNAPPING
National Convention Of Farmers
Closes at Shawnee, 0kla.--Want
Closer Cooperation.

Shawnee, Okla. Sept THE
convention of the Farmers National
Union adjourned late this afternoon
after electing officers and hearing
committee reports. The executive
committee was still In session to-
night to select the next convention
city
A delegation of twenty-five was
named to attend the cotton con
gress at Montgomery, Ala, Sept. 12.
Resolutions were adopted favoring
closer cooperation between farmer
and urban workmen and denouncing
the kidnapping" Of persons charged
with crime,