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sons from England were coming to build homes and make history in America.
 Quite the most interesting chapter of | this interesting volume is that given to | the life and times of Alabamas war | governor. John Gill Shorter. A stirring portion of Governor Shorter's inaugural address is given: of his wise rule in a | time of the greatest events of our history Miss Walker writes: Governor Shorters s war papers are statesman-like far seeing. intuitive. He grapped with tremendous issues. The assembly met amid scenes unparalleled in history. There were ex- tra sessions made necessary by the ex- agencies of war. The insuficiency of Alabamas militia system was one of the many grave problems of Governor Short CTS administration. When the military authorities of the Confederate states, in order to accomplish important works of defense within the state demanded slave labor, he again urged the necessity of some well regulated plan as should ena- ble the state authorities to command this labor in any emergency that might arise. The rengthening of coast defences, the acute situation caused by the scarcity of salt, the conscrpt law, the Confederate war tax, the manufacture of arms-wth the ever insstent call for the enlarge ment Of the militia-each issue was fear lessly met by the war governor" At length is given Governor Shorter's reply to the famous "Choctaw Resolutions" This was preserved and is quoted by the author from copy of the Alabama Bea- con, of Greensboro, under date of Feb ruary 21, 1862. The writer sums up the
 life history of our war governor with this tribute: Governor Shorters command of language was remarkable. His facility of expression was noted and commented upon, stood out conspicuously even Tn a day when the public mind was swayed by torrents of eloquence and when pollti- cal prescience went hand in hand with oratory. Through the whole of his dis tinguished career he exhibited lofty mor- al attributes that commanded the highest confidence and regard If any man had moral courage, that noble quality be- longed to John Gill Shorter. His private and religious life was in keeping with his public career It is difficult when all the noble traits of human character meet and blend harmoniously to do justice to the man."
 The book is illustrated with pictures of
 historic old homes and with reproduce tions of portraits of noble men and beau tifu women.
 At the end of the book is tabulated list of the descendants of the two Shorter brothers, Reuben Clark and Eli Sims, and Of their cousin, James Hurt Shorter.
 Therein are the names of many whose deeds have heightened the pages of our history. There are found the well known names Battle, Herndon, Lomax Roque- | more, Alexander. Dupre, Rogers, McKle- | roy, Flewellen, Fry, Courie, Fannin, Leftwich Lamar, Rilingsley, Conner,
 Jelks Kob, Graham. Pope Thornton, Watkins, Preston, Moore, Hargreaves,
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flats in the west end of London, with much experience of flats occupied by bachelor women, would advise no woman to live alone.
 "If I had daughter" he said, "I should very much prefer that she shared a fiat with young woman of her own age and similar experience.
 q certainly think that women living alone become morose. In a sense they lose caste, for they lose conversational power, and also a certain amount of re- spect for themselves.
 Tt needs a wonderful sunny nature to exist in fiat alone and cheerful for if any one spends many hours alone ev- cry trifing worry is thought over and magnifed.'
 well-known soprano vocalist of a happy disposition who occupies fiat to herself. said she considered a woman could be perfectly contented alone pro- vided she had plenty of work to do.
 q am quite happy she said, because I am so busy and interested in my pro- fession. In fact, my flat is a little more than a place to sleep and work in.''N
 ''The reason why so many of our women prefer to live alone,' said a woman in- terested in problems concerning bachelor house frequently quarrel. A great deal of forebearance is necessary on both sides, and there must be some mutual tastes and interest for two women friends to live in peace.'
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NNcE there ,,ssu was @ s5aid 4an' and n@m. Tfr, O dab of Steak, wrapped up in Brown paper nearly every Evening, and found his excitement by working on the Puzzle Column in the Church Paper.
 In order 10 run out to his Farm and save the Expense of keeping Horse, be purchased a kind of Highway Beetle, known as Runabout. It was a One Lunger' with a Wheel Base of nearly 2S inches and two Coal oil Lamps.
 When standing still. it panted like a Newfoundland Dog and breathed Blue Smoke through the Gills.
 It steered with a Rudder the same as Canal Boat, and every time it star ted up a 1 per cent Grade it became Black in the Face and tried to lie down.
 When he had recovered from the first Frenzy of Joy over his successful effort to exceed the Speed Limit of twelve miles an Hour. he began to notice that all the large brutal-lool1ing Cars with the swollen Wheels came along and tried to Ditch him, and showed him the same courteous consid- eration that would be lavished upon a Colored Republican orator in Tusca- loosa, Ala.
 When he pulled up alongside of the Road to adjust the Buzzer and jiggle the Feed and clean the Plug, the idle Spectators would stand around and re- mark that the Mixture was wrong and the Ignition was Punk and the Trans mission was a Fliy. Sc he knew he was In Wrong.
 He traded for a dashing ? Cylinder Affair painted Red. with a Tonneau as wide and roomy as a Telephone Booth, and approached from the extreme Rear by a small Door, as in the case of a Blind Pig. When he turned in the Run about he was allowed one Outer Casing and a Jack in Exchange
 He was Some Motorist for about Three Weeks after the delivery of Juggernaut Number Two. He wore Leather Clothes, the same as Barney Oldfield. In the absence of a Speedo- meter he told what the Car could Do and get away with it.
 But when he bumped up against the Owners of the Big Touring Cars he was just as much at home as a One Armed Man at a Husking Bee
 He began to discover that in the Gasoline Set a Man is rated by the number of Cylinders he carries.
 At the beginning of the Third Sea son we find him steering a long, low, rakish Chariot of Fire, with a Clock. Trunk-Rack, an Emergency Ice-Box and all the other Comforts of Home. He had learned to smell Constable Mile off and whenever he ran up be- hind Pewee Coffee Grinder he went into the High and made the Cheap Machine look like Fish,
 Whenever the Bobber pointed to anything short of GO he felt that he was just the same as standing still. He loved to throw open the Muffler and hit the High Spots, never stopping until
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man, the glory that was New York and
 the grandeur that was Newport-has | been, in her ow1 words. born and ele-
 vated in Europe" This is a constant souce of regret to the ardent young American. At IS under the guard of the French ambassadress to Washington she comes for the first time to her beloved
 America, She visits her grandmother,
 Mrs. Darlington. Her first experience of young love as permitted and encouraged by our American customs was an en- gagement to a Lieutenant Hill of West Point "who had the air very nice" At
 one and the same time the youthful sol dier in reparation taught love and Amer ican history to his fair pupil But he was all unable to teach to the full under standing of his eager pupil that elusive, incomparable thing, American slang. "I
 am afflicted to speak so differently from others, and above all, not to underst tand the-peaches, and daisies and dates, and chestnuts, and rats and corking, and rotten, and search me and so many
 other expressions that in my dictionary
 mean fruits and flowers and nuts and
 animals and actions so different" ex- claims the fair Yvonne. From West
 Point and the dear grandmother, Yvonne went to visit aunt at Newport. On ] the way she was to meet an adventure. and after many and varied adventures | fate. After Newport experience, de- i lightfully depicted by the little foreign
 bred girl there is a week or two at Bar Harbor. A glimpse of work in a college
 settlement on the east side of New York
 follows. then Lenox, then Stockbridge. West Point again and then back to the Wildesheim Schloss-the only souvenirs of
 fate which Yvonne carries to the home
 castle is a withered pansy and forget-me-
 not, and the remembrance of a big Amer
 ican that makes 1t impossible for the | little countess Yvonne to accept the love | of even a ''mediatised nobleman whose children might be permitted to marry
 royalty" The emperor is being enter
 tained at the Wildeshem Schloss when
 the little countess makes her escape and
 starts alone with 330 marks and $20 and
 string of pearls, the gift of the grand
 mother, to try the world in America. The events that befell are told with rare
 tenderness and sweet humor. Surely no
 more charming little run away princess ever set foot on American soil Nor can
 more delightbful book for summer reading be found than this story of An | Ardent American"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
WOMEN OF LONDON
 ARE LIVING ALONE Writer Says It Only. En- courages Their Bitter
 ness Against World

London, September 2.-(Special)- tendency of London women to live the life of a virtual recluse has raised the question, Should a woman live alone?" The preponderance of the female popu- lation in the city makes the problem of serious consequence.
 There is danger in women living alone, for nine out of ten of them grow morose and bitter against fate,' stated a well known writer who advises that lonely woman should share her rooms with an- other woman of about her own age.
 A superintendent of a large block of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
BOOKS OF STRONG INTEREST

"Old Shorter Houses and Gardens" by
 Annie Kendrick Walker (Tobias A
 Wright New York. Edition of lOC
 copies
 A beautiful little volume that is de- light to the eyes. the mind and the heart. It has about it the fragrance of old gar dens, the glamour of old days, the great ness of lives of those who have gone be- fore who lived strongly for the good of their country
 Miss Walker has written this book with deep sympathy with wise understanding. Truly she makes the reader catch the odor of the lilac walks, breathe the vol atie fragrance of the beds of rosemary catch the glints of the gay borders of hollyhock and crimson peoples in those twin gardens on either side the Chatta- hootchie river. Heuben Shorter, the pio- neer br~ther from Virginia built an am pie ma sion on the Alabama side of the river at Eufaua, while the younger brother, Eli Sims Shorter, built his equally imposing villa on the Georgia side at Columbus. These two hospitable and historic houses were destined to play a very important part in the social history of Alabama. These two brothers, both men of highest intellect and loftiest character, were destined 10 play more Important roles in the history of our state. The descendants of these two yet bear prominent part in all the higher walks of endeaVor in our state Miss Walker begins the story of this family, so we'll known to all in our state and country, with Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London who held that place of honor in the 17th century Of one most memorable act of this Lord Mayor Miss Walker writes thus: "It is recorded that It became the painful duty of Sir John Shorter of Bybrook to sentence one John Bunyan to the debtors prison for failure to meet his obligations. Sir John was shocked at the mans improvidence and did posterity an unwilling service by consigning him to jail The prisoner, fed by his creditors who kept him immured found the leisure to write the Pilgrims Progress
 The Shorter family was in England con- nected by marriage with many of note and oame.. Robert Walpole married Lady Cath Crime Shorter, eldest daughter of befor- mentioned Sir John Shorter of Bybrook She was first wife of Lord Walpole and mother of Horace Walpole, whose life and letters so enriched English history and English literature.
 Horace Walpole placed the monument to his mother in Westminster Abbey, to 'the Lady Catherine, the first of the Shorter women of whom history speaks That monument may be seen today by all visitors to Westminster Abbey" Miss Walker reviews the history of Eng land at the time that the Shorters helped to make it's history. She gives a stirring resume of the great events of our own history at the time that many younger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Tennyson,s Bird Sounds

Perhaps the best word for the cry of the cricket is that of Tennyson. Not a cricket chirr'd." he writes in "In Memo- rlarl." But Tennyson was, always cu- ricusly exact in his vocal rendering of the songs of birds. What could be truer 10 sound than "the moan of doves in i'm memorial elms"? Then, too, the linnet, the robin and the thrush "pipe'' rhe wood- becker ''laughs'' and 'mocks," the lark, and the pdiver 'whistle,'' the jay
 'scritches,'' the parrot screams the peacock. squalls" the blackbird "warbles.' while the ocean fowl s'shrek'' and the eagle "s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Southern Farms Double in Value

From the Manufacturers RecOrd.
 Between 1900 and 1910 the value of lands in farms in the south more than doubled, increasing from $2,3Ss, 592, 900 to s, POI, 200 OoO, or by $2S1S. eos, ,0oO, equal to 11S per cent. The rate of increase in the south was slightly greater than the rate of increase in the rest of the country. which shows an increase from s1O,669. 456,- 900 to s23 176, ,661 GOO. or by SIP, ,z05 GOO, equal to 117.2 per cent.
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The other choice a woman has is to live in one of the big hostelries built for lonely women. Some of these are ex- cellent, and here she has many advan- tages, but the intelligent woman kicks against a kind of return to the nursery life and being told she must get special permission to stay out after il o'clock at night, to go to the theatre, receive a male visitor, or keep dog"
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Power to jump Small Streams and Climb Trees.
 At last he appeared on the Road with the Real Thing. It had Armor Plate all over it and a 10-foot Cow Catcher in front, and the Driver had to sit on the Small of his Back and wear Hell met
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the Wheels became clogged up with Live Stock and Poultry.
 One day while he was breeding along the Pike at the easy Clip, usually mar king the Schedule of the Twentieth Century Limited, he heard behind him low and sullen Roar, as if the Wind playing through 1000 Pine Trees,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Rts1 ANp HEATH TO MOTHER ANp cHIf6.

MRS. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLO, and solutey harmless : Be sure end ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents Bottle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Fable of the Logical Finish of the Progressive Maniac

Trust and imbedded in solid Concrete.
 A Neighbor went to the Widow and Said T have Sad News for you. Your Husband has gone to his Reward. U
 When did he start?" asked the Rereaved Woman.
 At Ten Thirty Eight" was the Re- ply.
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and Something Cray and about as long waisted as a Torpedo Boat shot past him and went over the Hill. He fell forward on the Wheel and began to Weep
 He had been Shown Up.
 He knew that he could never look his Fellow-Man in the Eye until he traded in and got a Six with enough
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

fWhat Time is it Now?"
 "It lacks Four Minutes of being g Eleven O'Clock
 We'll" she remarked, in a Relieved Tone, He must be There by this Time, unless he has had a Puncrure." Moral-The Cocaine and Morphine Habits can be Cured.
 Copyright, 1911, by George Ade.)
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| The Morning he ran it out of the Garage a Prominent Insurance Com pany foreclosed on the Farm, but he was in a cheery mood for he knew he could cut Rings around any other Bal loon in the County
 One Morning he went around Curve on Two Wheels and tried to dislodge q New Bridge turned out by the Steel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

ssn Ardent American,' by Mrs. Russell
 Goldman. Century Co.,, New York, 's1 2o)
 As light as thistle down. as bright as scarlet peoples, full of quaint conceits md fetching fancies. A beautiful gill
 daughter of a mother who has quite for gotten in a marriage to foreign noble-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-29

ident Taft as a part OF their ma
tional campaign Is publIshed I'm the
editorial columns Of the clarksburg
Ixponent. Here/it q:
'fDfscuSsing the statement In At
torney General Wtckersham's dec
1aratIon against the United States
Steel Corporation, colonel Roosevelt
IL reported to have said:
.I misled? I deceived2' Here
he gesticulated earnestly, pointing
his dnger at his breast. accused
by these men at washington or
having been mfsled2 Why I con-
suited fully with E1ihu Root. az
terward consulted fully with my
attorney general, Charles ]. Bona
parte. went over the whole mat
ter thoroughly with my cabinet, not
one of whom doubted acted for the
best. And that man Taft sat at the
cabinet table without expressing
any dissent, apparently approving
my actions, and row his attorney
general asserts IN the bill OF COM
plant that / was misled.'
This is a plain case OF prevarica-
ton and OF trying to drag president
Taft's name into the steel corpora
ton case with the Interior purpose
of betittling him. so far as Mr.. Taft
is concerned, it is unnecessary 20
comment on former President
Roosevelt's connection with the
case, as that constitutes an entirely
different subject. except to remark
that the facts disclose Mr.. Roose-
velt's purported utterance to be slim
ply manufactured story.
las a matter of fact, Mr.. Taft, then
secretary of war departed from
washington late in August, 1907.
presumably with the knowledge and
consent of his superior, for trip
around the world. He reached Ma
Mia october Is; November 10 he
was at vladivostok; December I he
reached MOSCOW, and twenty days
later he reached home. The panic
of.11 so7. began October 90 and the
transactions concerning the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron Company deal
were between that date and :Novem-
Der I.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-29
Or to COUNTY Committees.

Be It remembered by newspapers
that are INDUCING in adverse. criti-
cism of the Republican State Com
mittee In ordering a statewide pri-
mary, election that that com
mittee delegated It's powers al
most completely to the various
county committees. The state COM
mittee does not tell the COMPRESSION
al, senatorial and county committees
that they shall have their primary
elections when the state primary Is
held. The committee merely sug-
CESS that they hold them at the
same time. The state committee
does not even tell the other COM
mittees that they shall have pri-
maries at all. The latter, should
they see At, could hold conventions
instead. What the state committee
really does do OF signal importance
Is to authorize the county commit
tees to look after the conduct OF the
primary election of state candidates.
and the committee invokes the cleo
ton laws OF the state and makes
special precautions to prevent fraud.
II seems to the Telegram. that If
fraud be practiced. 1t must be
charged up to the county committees
and their conduct of the primary
election and not up to the state com
mittee.
Il is true that the state commit
tee is to be the final tribunal in
case OF contests the same as con-
sgressf6naI, senatorial and county
committees would be appealed to in
their respective jurisdictions; but
II those who are entrusted with the
conduct OF the primary election are
vigilant and diligent in seeing that
fraud is not perpetrated-in this
class are the county committees
there WILL be no necessity to appear
to the state committee. If the coun-
ty committees and the election Of
acers appointed by. them do their
full duty as provided for in the rules
and regulations adopted by the
state committee. the latter will have
only the perfunctory duty of can
vessInE verified election returns and
declpring the results, 1t matters not
how the committee might stand as
to candidates.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-29
CHILD labor
Laws Are to Be Strictly OBJ
served in Coal Regions
Here.

MT. CLARE, Nov. 29-In compli-
ance with the extension OF the child
labor laws enacted BY the last legIs-
lature, superintendents OF the varI-
Gus mines Of this region have been
instructed to dismiss all boys In the
service who are below the age OF
16 years. This includes those who
work inside and outside OF the
mines, and means that about thirty
boys will be thrown out OF employ
ment. Under the former statute the
minimum age limit was IA years,
and many youngsters were given
work as trappers, car greasers and
other light duties about the mines
when not in school. The only way
BY which persons under the specified
age limit may secure employment is
by sworn statements to the state
humane officer that the applicants
family is solely dependent upon him
for support. BY some OF the local
operators it has been decided that
the places OF the boys will be filed
by men. This will require the pay
ment OF larger wage, but 1t is be-
lieved that 1t will prove more salts
factory.
Abraham Hulderman. who is en-
pIoyed by the Byron oil and Gas
Company, met with a very painful
and serious accident Monday even
ing between and o'clock, by fall
ing over a stone wall near the de-
not. DIR. owens was speedily SUM
moned and upon examination the
knee cap was found to be seriously
Tuesday morning physi-
clans were called in from sclarks-
burg and consultation was held
as an operation was deemed neces-
sary.