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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-22

Now I want to make little statement that is the meat of this whole tale. The Virginia state central committee, that is dominated by the Martin machine, re- gently met in Richmond to arrange for the primary of September :. A resolu- ton was offered before it which provided that Glass and Jones between them should have the privilege of naming one of the three judges at each election precinct. This was defeated, every machine com mitteeman voting against 1t.
 Now Goebelism in Kentucky provided that the adversary should have one of three election officers. Is the manhood of Virginia less virile and less resolute than that of Kentucky, that was made by Virginians? We shall see
 Why was that request refused? 1t was a moderate request. Now l do not believe the machine wants to steal the election; but if it intends to steal It, if it must steal it, the action it has taken on that proposal is conclusive proof of it. Get 1t honestly if you can, by chicanery if you must.
 Can you make anything other of it.? And there it behooves MT. Jones and Mir Glass to be very vigilant when the count is had.
 Why not equally divide the election of dcers? Let the machine answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-22
Train the Children Right Start a Savings Account

Nothing better cSn be taught a child than the habit of saving.
 Start them young and they'll grow up with the habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-22

You ask what business 1t is of mine?
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
FREE ADVERTISING.
Wellington News).

" EAlAAEltA 4NEM eV-
 Some time since we quit giving advertising to those who are able to pay. We have opportunities ey- cry day to give away space. but all of these fine chances are now de clined with thanks. Several fair as .sociations have furnished US with entertaining stories about their amusement enterprises, asking that we kindly give them several dol lars worth of space that others pay for. Also there would be inclosed two complimentary tickets
 Now we have tried compliment ary tickets fried, stewed, on toast and smothered in onions, but found them unpalatable in every style. Chopped fine they might make good breakfast food, but we have no chopper. And at the end of the week we are unable to unload them on the payroll, the obstreDerous em- ployes seeming to prefer cash. And SO, much of the time in days agoue the help got all the money, leaving the boss to subsist on compliment ary tickets and commentary reso- lutions. It's a poor diet, and we quit it some time since.
 A baseball team will pay rent for grounds to play on-hand ont men ey at the drug store for a ball give the hardware store the price of a bat-fork over to the olothier the cash for a suit-lay down the coin for a pair of shoes-and then ask the newspaper to donate space to- get a crowd out to see the game.
 A church society will give a chicken pie supp-r, dishing up a bunch of antiquated hens encased in indestructible crusts, and the news papers give sufficent free adyertis ing to bring out a crowd of custo ners. Maybe they say, thank you, and maybe they lay down couple of tickets. In the latter case it is nine chances to one that when Mrs Jones sees the editor approach hei nose curls into a. 7pretzel and shs says spitefully: Well there comes ' Deadhead Brown to sponge twC meals off the church"
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
ONE CENT LETTER POSTAGE
The Movement WlI Take Pace this WInter

ton is preparing to wage an active campaign at the winter session of congress for the passage of the nee. essary legislation to bring about the required reform.
 Postmaster General Hitchcock, who has wiped out a Si1000,O ,OO0 deficit and created large surplus solely by businesslike methods in the admins, tration of his department looks for ward to the establishment of a one cent rate for letters as the next i'm portant change in the department. This sentiment he gave expression to in New York recently when furnish. ing testimony before the postal com mission which is investigating the question of adjusting carrying charges fer second-class mail.
 In the conduct of our postal system certain fundamental principles of ad- ministration should be closely fol. lowed. Mir. Hitchcock said, The op- eration of the service should be on a self-supporting basis, maintained by the imposition of such charges as vii, yield an income equal to expendi- lures. Such adjustment of postal charges as will provide for each class of mail matter rate equal to the cost of handling and carriage should be made.
 At no time should the support O. the postal establishment be left to the changes and uncertainties of gen. eral taxation The present self-suP porting condition of the service is made possible only because other classes of mall. particularly the hrst class. are taxed excessively to make up for the loss caused by the made quate charge on other matter"
 Going into statistics. BIr. HitehcocR said that in 1910 S.S10.164,623 pieces of first class mail matter were car ried in the mails. The cost of hand. ling and carriage, he said, was SS6, 92,511.35. The postal charge was Sl54,796. 66Sy08. leaving a clear profii to the government Of s68,004, ,156.73 In the year before 4,3S6, ,259, ,S64 pieces of second class mail matter were ear ried. The cost of handling and car riage was Ss0, ,791 ,615.03. while the pos tage return was only siO,6O7, ,271.02.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23

Active steps looking towards the inauguration of one cent letter pos tage are to be taken this coming win ter by the United States postoffice department It is expected that such a reform will be he next one at tempted by Postmaster General Hitch cock, and that it will meet with gen eral commendation at the hands Of congress.
 Many significant reforms have been inaugUrated in the postoffiee depart ment during the past year. resulting in the wiping out of a huge deficit and the creating of a surplus. One of far reaching importance is the shipping of magazines by freight in stead of in mail cars. Beginning July the new system was inaugurated and it is proving quite successful. IL makes it necessary that the magazines and trade journals should go to press few days earlier than formerly so that an extra day or two may be given to their distribution. It is ex- pected, however. that millions in money will be saved this year through this reform alone and that. during the closing months of this year and the early months of 1912. 8 much larger surplus will pile up than has ever be- fore been shown in the entire history Of the department.
 With such a surplus available with which to meet expenses, 1t is planned 10 cut the existing rate on first class mail matter in two, charging one cent an ounce instead of two cents. This means that every time a letter is mailed the cost will be cut exact ly in half. To business men and oth- CTS having postage accounts of eonsid- erable volume this will mean much
 It is claimed that enc cent rate can be inaugurated without difficult ty by simply readjusting rates now in operation in the postofice depart ment and letting each class pay near CT the costs of it's service. Full data concerning the situation is being sent out by the National One Cent Letter Postage association from it's head quarters, 5O6 Chamber of Commerce Building, Cleveland. o. The associa-
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
A lIri.sa Edition.

Privately printed books constitute very interesting bypath of litera- ture. One produced by the Prince Consort is a subject Of inquiry in the current Notes and Queries The Court Journal Of September 2S. 1885. men tons that the Prince consort made a special study of Balmoral.
 By bis directions and largely with his assistance a book on the BaE moral country, typographical. botan- fcaI. geological, descriptive and remi- niseent, was compiled. It was beauti- fully printed by an eminent London firm. but by the Princes strict orders only six copies were struck of. Is there a single copy now in existenee7 The British Museum. the Windsor Li- brary and the Baimorai Library have been searched in vain.-London Chronicle
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23


 Forty.four states have adopted an age limit for the employment of children.
 The average wage of school teach CTS In Kansas has mere than doubled n the past ten years.
 During the last two years the h. 5e-national Brotherhood of Stationary fremen has gained 9,90O members.
 Organized labor in Atlanta, Ga, has purchased a site and will soon begin tho erection Of a $31.00O labor temple
 The highest oriental wages are paid n the Philippines, where the ordinary .aborer gets from twenty to fifty cents a day.
 Fewer women over sixteen years Of age are employed in the southern cot -on mills than in the mills of the New england states.
 During the last year the Boot and Shoe Workers International union las paid in sick. disability and death UeDefts a total of SS9,29723.
 In the various metal industries of 3elgium nearly half the men work rom nine to ten hours a day, and he majority of the rest from ten to eleven
 Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Ken ucky, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee all have laws requiring all employers to provide seats for their -emale employees.
 In the United States the average productivity of the workingman Is s2,- Q a year, while in England the aver age productivity of the workman is only $556 year.
 The American Brotherhood, an in ependent organization of blacksmiths n New York, has by unanimous vote ecided to affiliate with the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers.
 The average rate of wages paid to skilled women sewing machine opera ors in the United States varies from sI.50 to S2 a day. The same class of labor in France, Germany and Switzerland receives from 30 to 50 ents a day.
 At a recent meeting of the United JebTew Trades, in Manhattan, N. r., t was decided to aid the tailors in he organizing campaign they are now -arrying on to get all the trades in the sountry into the union, as a prelimin- ary preparation for general strike T 1912.
 The action of the Cigarmalgers' h. .ernational union in adopting a label O distinguish it's products from these of ill-paid convict, Asiatic or chilu ahOr, was gradually followed by oth- sr labor organizations, until nov there are seventy-nine union labels n use in the United States.
 On the average the workman who receives S2.43 in the building trades in the United States receives ST abroad; the man who receives S2.13 n the engineering trade in he United States receives S1 abroad, the man Ebn receives S246 as a prinrer or compcsitor in the United States. re ceNeS 3si Si abroad fo. the ssiIa kinI # work. However, it must be taken into consideration that the cost of liy- ing in the United States is far great CT than in any other country.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
LIFE nE THE cRAREuINE

There are some who contend that the life of a grapevine is longer than that of the oak. It is rare that wild grapevine is found that has died of old age. Pliny mentions a vine 600 years old. There is a vine at Hamp- ton Court, England, planted in l769. while here in America there is a wild grapevine on the shores of Mobile Bay. within a mile of Daphne, Ala, commonly known as the General Jackson vine. more than 6 feet in circumference at it's base. There Is a grapevine in Carpenteris, Cal, un- der which more than eight hundred persons may stand. Its trunk is eight feet in diameter at the base and it has borne as high as ten tons of fruit It is said that this vine was planted in 1S42.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
JOHN WILSON ROSS
TUCSON WILL HAVE
 FIVE STORY STRUCTURE

That Edward Davis, owner of the building on the corner of Stone ave nue and Congress street, will arrive in Tucson today or tomorrow prepared to go ahead on the plans for the i'm provements he has planned to make on that site is the gratifying news business circles here have just receiy- ed. The building planned will raise Iucson's Sky line materially, says the Star.
 Those who have resided in Tucson Tor several years are familiar with the plans for the construction of a business block on the corner mention ed and also with the resultant litiga- ton. Mir. Davis planned to put up a business house on the corner and en- tered into an agreement with the Leilner Plane company concerning a lease. Circumstances arose which pre- vented the construction of the build ing and the Zellner Piano company lled suit for damages. The action is now pending in the district court.
 Some time ago the Davis building was considered to he on the market, but after the extension of the Fl Paso and Southwestern railroad was def- aitely decided upon Mr. Davis refused large offer for the site and with irew the property from the market at any price. Statehood added another inducement for carrying out his orig nal plan on an even larger scale, and now the fulfillment is anticipated. Mir. Davis present plans contemplate a q inc rsrifb cfn oelow and an ofice building above. de may decide to make the structure even larger than originally intended
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
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INDIFFERENT VOTERS. (Chicago Daily News)

Last week there was a special cleo tion in Omaha to decide whether the city should pc governed under the commission plan. One would imagine that the proposal to revolutionize the municipal government would have brought an unusual number ot voters to the polls The commission plan has been so widely discussed during recent years that few who read the papers could have been in the dark about the question 10 be voted on or unaware of it's importance. Yet of the 1f.000 registered voters only 7,6SG marked their ballots. Of these 5,34i or less than one-third of the total cleo torate, voted for the plan and carried it.
 If there had been a tinge of poli- tics in the election. if it had been a question as to which man should fill particular office, there would have been a much heavier vote. An im- portant measure, a question Of pubic policy. proposed radical change in the form of local government. inter ested less than half the legal votes. Tho passive majority allowed the to be settled for it by m intelligent progressive minority.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
William Riggs
ELoDRADo.
Astehsd out rhrushes, Eaas.

An interesting experiment with thrushes' eggs in an incubator has teen carried out lately at Norfolk. England. The little grandson of a farmer who owns an incubator. plead ed with the farmer to put the three little eggs in the incubator To please tho child he did so though he did not think the experiment would be successful. as be was running the incubator at a heat of I02 degrees. But the eggs matched. and they were then placed ia a bIackbird's nest which contained four eggs, The fos- ter parents cared for the nttls strangers, and now both the young thrushes and the blackbirds have flown.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23

they were willing to adopt children to cure the curse Of cbildlessness that hung heavily upon their homes seem likely to have to back water or become as well fitted out with children as the old woman who liy. ed in the shoe.
 4 Milwaukee orphanage rushed q telegram with an offer of 200 or more,' and offers from various sources have flowed to Pasadena in a broad stream. There are now TO-. .o0O perfectly sound infants offered to a small colony of rich persons, and the end is rot yet There will be 100000 in a little while, and at ter that the news will have perco- lated to the remoter sections and more will be offered.
 Even the rich cannot afford to adopt babies in shoals. and vast majority of those that are held out as home-brighteners for the Pasa- dena millionsires will fail to land. One lesson is taught by the bearish conditions of the baby market. + Pasadena cannot absorb as many babies as are offered immediately upon the dissemination of news that there is a modest demand no home need be lonely. There are certain .ly enough unparented infants to go round if that kind appeal to others as they do to the childless of Pasa- dena.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
FREQUENT ATTACHMENT OF PARTY LINES.

The Review sits like a watehman on a tour, warning the democratic party of the ruses as well as the open movements of the enemy. and it is kept busy. Plots for the discom- fture Of the party are being hatched by the Phoenix newspapers. that is. by the republican and the semi-repub- lioan newspapers.
 Only the other day the Review ex- posed an insidious invitation by the Arizona Republican to keep an eye on the legislature. the while the re- publicans were grabbing all the of fees worth having.
 Now, comes the Arizona Gazette with the declaration. Party Lines Gone. though in smaller type, which it doubtless expected would escape casual attention, there was a modiaca- ton of this declaration in the state ment that the party lines were going.
 We do not desire to be unjust to- ward the Gazette, and, we will not except upon further evidence, accuse. 1t Of a purpose to throw the democrat. ie party of its guard. The Gazette may sincerely believe, that since it is outside the republican party and not yet inside the democratic party, par, ty lines have been practically extin guished that it's course within the last year. has effected an eHacement Of party distinctions throughout the nation.
 But this is a dangerous thing for the democratic party or any recog- nized political organization to believe. The history of our own country from the beginning has shown it to be un- true, though for more than hundred years. estimable gentlemen from time to time have believed that they saw party lines disappearing. The trouble with them was that they were stand. ing in the wrong place. It is all in the point of view.
 Every 'mugwump.7 every half breed" of a quarter Of a century ago was sure that party lines were dis solving. Earlier than that the men who composed the liberal republican Iarty, and later. the liberal party were sure that there were no party lines except those in process of iorma- ton about their own parties.
 The peoples party and later. the populists Of the various shades had no doubt that they were looking for the last time upon the democratic and republican organizations, and our pro bitition friends have never lost conf dence that in a short time they will absorb one or the other. or both the great parties.
 So it has been with every so-cailed  new party in which men have met as in a Cave of Adunman Without a beautiful confidence that theirs were the only correct principles, these mughroom parties or movements would never take shape. This conf dence has been held in turn by me socialist party. the silver tho silver gray the "greenbackers," the ~grangers," the .knownothings," the 'tarnburners" and the score or more of other parties which from the be ginning of the republic have sprung up from time to time as small groups of men fancied they they saw the na ton going beadlong to ruin.
 Such parties and such movements have a proper place in the economy of government, just as a boil has [ proper place on the human body Through them. or rather. into then those elements which disturb th' great parties from within are dis charged. Tho effect is purifying an' strengthening-
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
NOTICE 10 All ELks

All members of 671 and visiting Brothers desiring to attend the fun 'eral of deceased Brother J. N. Hink-
 ley are requested to be present at the Hall, Sunday the 24th, at 100
 p.m., to be present at the services at .2O0 pm. All local members are re- qDested to endoavor to be present
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Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
JUST THINKI

First, somebody told it, Then the room wouldn't hold it, Sc the busy tongues rolled 1t,
 Till they got it outside. Then the crowd cane across it, snd never once lost it.
 Till it grew, far and wide. This lie brought forth others Dark sisters and brothers, And fathers and mothers
 A terrible crew. While headlong they hurried, The people they tlurried, And troubled and worried
 As lies always do. :. Hyacinth Loun
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
PecuIjaritv Q, cum Tree.

It has been ascertained that gum tree in Australia is the highest tree in the world, and stands 415 feet high. Gum trees are the most rapid growing plant life known. There is one in Florida which grew 40 feet year for Jour years.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
ALONE, ALONE ALL, ALL ALONE
 (Tucson Citizen.)

bChOA NAliEHHJ
 Stating with great confidence that he is Co be the first attorney general Of the new state administration George PUrdy Bullard, district attor. ney of Maricopa county, arrived here Saturday from Wilcox where he at. tended the fair and builded political fences.
 So far as I am able to learn am not to have any opposition what ever on the democratic side, he said, On that assumption l am not going to canvass the entire territory
 He left Saturday evening for Phoe- nix.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
THE AVERAGE COLLEGE BOY
 C<fw York Worlda

The average college boy cannot spell correctly or write a letter n good English; as Mcdowell the composer discovered. he has little use for the fine arts. being young and naturally a barbarian; he is freqJen-- ly coltish and a nuisance in rutlc. But he has a high sense of honor along his own lines, prodigious energy and often a surprising amount of practical learning. He often attends church. He has debating and literary clubs, language clubs and other ad- mirable cooperative interests. Eve3 in behavior he is a vast improvement upon his kind in previous generations. He goes wrong nearly as af;en es the general average of young men; and when he does, people are likely to hear about it.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
(copyright 1911. by George Matthew Adams.)
OF DOUBTFUL EFFECT
 EEFEAT OF RECIPROCITY.

What influence. if any, the defeat Of reciprocity in Canada will have upon American politics, will be diff cult of determination. Even after the election Of 1912 is past, it can be only a matter of opinion as to whether the fortunes of BIT. Taft were in any way involved in those of Sir wnned laurie.
 If it should happen that the events cf Thursday in Canada should turn cut to have been eontributory. to the ovcrurning Of the Taft administra- ton, and if it should further happen that Speaker Clark should be the ben iaciary of all this cataclysm. his lit tic joke in the house last spring would appear to have had more of a point than he CT anyone else suspected at that time.
 Inasmuch as reciprocity is now Of the past and is as if it had never been an issue and, inasmuch as there is left behind no trail of benefit or disaster to this country. it might be presumed that the defeat of it would have no effect at all upon American Iolitics.
 Another way of looking at it is this: Mr. Taft has met defeat at the last ditch after signal success in the preliminary fighting on this side of the line. Defeat carries with it loss Of prestige and that is always weak. enins.
 sun, another view is this: the op- ponents of the president and the reel procity agreement who were all either sJandpatters or insurgents, urged chiefly against the treaty that it was advantageous oaly to the manufactur- ing class in this country; that 1t was intended to remove what little protec- tion the farmer now enjoys without any compensatory advantage; that al. together. it was a bad thing for the United States.
 The Canadians, farmers and manu faeturers. by their votes have now declared that it is their belief that the convention was a Lad thing for Canada and. therefore. we must con. elude. they believed it to be advan tageous to this country.
 Thus, either side. by tle exercise oi a litae imagination, may draw some comfort from the Canadian landslide
 That republican, conference at Phoenix. we believe. stuluned itsell in giving to the national and territer- ial administration a half-hearted en- dorsement and in the same breatl consenting to those radical provisions Of the consultation which the repub lioan party so vigorously opposed 2 year ago. If that was dangerous aut ! foolish radicalism at that time 1t l. just as dangerous radicalism today ] ? the republicans thought they wer,