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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
From the Providence Journal.


 K q ANY a charming lyric might have MI been lost but for the loving zeal A Of the Elizabethen anthologists and to capture and hold foreyer fugitive verse is rious duty for every worship per of the Muse This duty has been well performed by the Evening Wiscon- sin, which reprints in full the noble lines read by Col E. C. Townsend of Shuls- burg lat the Darlington homecoming in l99S'' Tile Evening Wisconsin calls them stirring and adds that they 'are good in themselves. irrespective of their source'' States often have official songs as well as official flowers. Colonel Townsend's poem, to which he has given the simple but sufficient title, Wisconsin, should engage the attention of composers, if it has not already done so. Sung to a stirring air. it would be grand. 'It fair " glows,' says our Milwaukee contem- porary, with the enthusiasm which all Wisconsin people feel. but not all are able 10 express in flowing verse;" The colonel vas S1 when he read hls verses to the Darlington homecomers. "If he wrote them at that age" observes his friendly critic truly, they are marvellous" They have the vivid enthusiasm of youth rather tiian the coldly analytical spirit of age. "'fhe sun never shone on a country more
 fair
 Than beautiful, peerless Wisconsin; There is life in the kiss of her rarefled
 air. Wisconsin, O lovely Wisconsin. Her sons are all valiant and noble and
 bright.
 Her beautiful daughters are just about
 right;
 Her babies-God bless them-are clear
 out of sight
 That crop never fails in Wisconsin," state after another colonels own heart, indeed! No race suicide there, but crops of every kind in perpetual suc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
From the New York Press.

Y lOiu ttie 4NcW pik IISSSs ~ oEs the literary life conduce to longevity? Apparently it does. in women at least, for Londoners nave just been celebrating the birthdays of two notable women writers, one of whom is "A and the other SI.
 Miss Braddon is perhaps the more Ia nous. She celebrated her 74th birthday q few days ago. In private life she is Mrs. John Maxwell the wife of her pub isher and one of her three sons-William P Maxwell-is also a novelist Of note. Miss Braddon has given up writing now ard devotes her leisure to collecting oid silver, curios and bric-a-brac. One or her proudest possessions is the little table at which the great Duke of Wellington wrote his dispatches. Miss Braddon's first popular success was achieved so long ego as 1861, with Lady Audleys Se- cret,' which has given delight to suc- cessive generations of readers, and IS still a popular seller.
 Tle other remarkable literary lady IS Mrs. Katherine s. Macquoid, who IS apout to publish her new novel, Molly Mon tague's Love Story,' at the ripe age or ST. and is hard at work completing an other. which will be called "Susanne." Mrs. Macouoid published her first novel in 1859, and since then she has turned out 50 works of fiction and about a dozen, hooks of travel and children's stories. She is just as keen a worker as ever, and is rather dsgusted by the fact that her failing eyesight limits her working hours to those of daylight.
 Mrs. Macuuoid is the wife of Thomas
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to defeat Tammany's candidate for sheriff and it's nominees for judges. Nebraska will elect county and local officers.
 The results when taken and read together will certainly enable the close observer and political student to form an opinion as to what the voters will do next year. Kentucky and Massachusetts will certainly af- ford room for comment and even predictions.
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Friends of Underwood

'I read with interest in The Age Herald the other day that Judge Q !. Banks wa9 organizing an Under- wood club in DoHyer,' said an en tilusiastic democrat Judge Banks was formerly Of Birmingham, but for son,, years he has been a prominent cit izen and lawyer of the Colo-=-o nc tropolis. I have just received a letter from friend in Denver who tells me mat Underwood is beirS much talk Sed of there for the presidency. J. N. Shelby, another Birmingham man now living in Colorado, is taking live iy interest in the Underwood boom. He and others are assisting Banks in en- rollins q large membership in the Ln- iorwcod club.
 T had . letter three or four days
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TERRIBLE SITUATION, THIS

From the Chicago Tribune.
 This from Arnold Bennetts "Hilda Lessways'':
 She passed quietly up the stairs. When she was near the top her mothers voice, at once querulous and amiable, came from the sitting room:
 Where are you going to?''
 There was q pause, dramatic for lioth of them, and in that minute pause rhe very life of the house seemed for an in- stant to be suspended, and then the waves of the hostile love that united these two women resumed their beating and Iiilda's lips hardened.
 'upstairs.' she answered cailousiy.
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A WISCONSIN BARD

cossion. Nor is the guarded statement Shat the girls are just about right" 10 To taken as implying a restriction upon their power to charm.
 In another stanza the author refers to them as sweet models of maidenly grace" and calls attention to the fact that they wear the best shoes on their dear little feet.". They are perfect Of figure and lovely of face" as we'll Just about rightly This seemingly cold ap- praisal does not conceal the rapture they arouse in q poetic heart. It is no won- der that ihe homes of Wisconsin "are aiight with the halo of love- lad the colonel not moderated his transports what night he not have said? As it is he feels tat Wisconsin is preferable to heaven:
 And when the last trump wakes. the
 land and the sea,
 And tho tombs of the earth let their
 prisoners free
 Ycu may all go aloft if you choose, but
 for me,
 I think I'll just stay in Wisconsin
 Yet the poet may also be a man n, affairs. Colonel Townsend does not 1Inoer
 ". reirinds us that in Wisconsin ..Switzers make cheese of the richest of cream" that the dairying interest," is best under the sum-" and that the mines .are the richest. exceeded by none." There are two omissions in the catalog, how ever, which are applicable only upon the Assumption that Darlington is a no-license town and that politics were barred on the 'ccason of the homecoming. A poem on Wisconsin with no allusion to her fay oiite beverage or her favorite son falls something short of perfection. If the colonel was restrained by the proprieties when he read his glowing lines, he should certainly repair this serious omission be- fore they receive their final imperishable form in all future anthologies of Amer iCan XerSe.
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tongue; s And Jura answers, through her misty
 shroud,- t Back to the joyous Alps who call to her
 aloud! And this is in the night-Most glorious
 night; Thou vert not sent for slumber; let
 me be .f Fsif A sharer in thy fierce and far delight. A portion of the tempest and of theei. How the lit lake shnes-a phosphorfo And the big rain comes dancing to the
 earth!
 And now again 'tis black-and now, the N glee s. A. of the loud hills shakes with its moun-
 tain mirth, q As if they did rejoice OCT a young earth.
 quake's birth.
 Sky. mountains, river. winds. lake,
 lightnlngs! ye
 With night and clouds and thunder,
 and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well Things that have made me watchful-s
 the far, roll Of your departing voices is the knoN CT what in me is sleepless-if I rest But where, of ye. 0 tempests! is the
 goal?
 Are ye like those. within the human
 breast? T~HF Or do ye find. at length. like eagles.
 some high nest? The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek
 all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful
 scorn,
 And living as if earth contained no
 tomb
 And glowing into day; we may. resume The march of our existence: and thus I. still on thy shores, fair Leman. may
 find room, @.- Ard food for meditation, nor pass by Mrcn that may give us pause, If pom.
 dered fittingiy. Tss 'sT e''sss-rasf fsrrsls sxrt'
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mines of, Ballarat. Afterward he was a reporter. Then he went on the stage and made world tour in Shakespearean roles. Later he found his forte in the. portrayal of that new discovery which has for lcng occupied a prominent place on the stage and secured place in a phase of literature wherein the treatment has been immeasurably superior to it's sub'ect-the social highwayman, the 5eudo-philosophcal thief, Claude Duval, brought down to date, given an oblioue reflective quality, and made acquainted with a school of perverted sentiment that mas missed all of Moliere, embraced The orliile Gautier, and taken the worst that Dalzac had to give.
 Kyrle Bellows presentations of his chosen parts were all that could possibly be eXacted by the most critical of the audiences that like that sort of thing It was probably not his fault that the characters themselves simulated virtues they did not possess, and that the gen eral effect produced was weakening rather than strengthening to the moral fiber of men and women.
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REFLECTIONS OF A pAcHEL0R

From the New York Press.
 Politics begins at the exact spot wheGe principles leave off
 A girl who marries a man to reform him usually has to support his children as well.
 What makes girl believe in the brains of q man she loves is for him not to have any. a
 A womaa can rent bungalow Tor six weeks for $40 ard speak of 1t as her coun- try estate.
 A trip around the Wofia' n.q7l.nS oni5 st.aps gers, isn't half as much to woman cs three hours in an opera box wl.- ass down ln the drcs= circle to zee ilcr.
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 LAFOLLETTE LOVES THE STAGE Senator R. M. LaFollette in the Amer- ican.
 Senator LaFollette tells how, when a poor young man in Washington, attend- ing his first session in tha House, both he and his wife had to slave until late at night addressing and mailing thou- sands of speeches to his constituents. He writes.
 We do not look upon those days with any self pity. We were both young and vigorous and they were among the hap- piest and most hopeful years we ever spent. We gave ourselves comparatively few amusements, but those that we did take we enjoyed supremely. Our interest in the drama has always been keen, and I remember that whenever Booth and Barrett came to play in Baltimore-they never came to Washington owing to Booths aversion to the scene of the tragedy with which his brother was con- nected-Mrs. LaFollette and threw dls- cretion utterly to the winds and went over to every evening performance while their engagement lasted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
Fees of Back Tax Commissioner

"The duties and emolaments of the back tax commissioners office are not fully understood" said a citizen familiar with it's workings.
 "On the first day of May in each year the tax assessor must close his books for the tax year. One June 1 he must have his books ready to submit to the board of revenue to be passed upon Now the old rule of the tax assessor calling upon known property owners to make returns of their property has been done away with All property, real and personal, not returned before May be- comes penalized and can be assessed only by tue back tax commissioner.
 "The back tax commissioner also has to search for escaped licenses due the state and county. On all such there Is penalty of 10 per cent added, which goes to the tax commissioner, and Is paid to him by the probate judge when the license is collected If a man re- fuses to pay his license he may be ar rested and the fine is three times the amount of the license.
 On all sales by the tax collector for imposed taxes the back tax commissioner receives 20 per cent, up 10 S10, as fees but no fee beyond that maximum.
 "On all escapes the back tax eommis- sioner receives 10 per cent; on all raises of taxes already returned but undervai- ued, 10 per cent of the tax received from the raise.
 ''The fees thus far paid to the back tax commission by the tax collector are in round figures about $500. Only small rart of the taxes have been paid. It IS said that Back Tax Commissioner White gleaned the field closely, and that the returns of fees to the back tax commits sioner this year will be at low water mark; this is also partly due to unfamii- iarity with the details of the office
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
\ Glorious Autumn Day

How perfect day has been this one''' said a man who was enjoying the halmy Sunday afternoon. "I do believe that old Jack Frost is the greatest friend the people have in the school of meteorom- sncy. When he comes, goodby to ma laria, hay fever and many deadly germs. The typhoid purveying flies dodge indoors, but his days and breed are numbered, for they can no longer find warm and fertile spots outdoors to hatch in. The fever dispensing mosquito no longer sends tn his bill to poison and make man dis- tempered.
 And now, the 'ehrysanthemum is in her golden glory; fair faced like Q bride, or perhaps has purpled like the clouds sometimes may be seen at sti1i- sets, such as this afternoon. Color has come to the faces of maids and matrons as they walk abroad and drink from the crystal cup of dame nature, filled with health giving ozonep
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ago from a correspondent in St. Paul. who writes Ihat Underwood stock is rising in that city. l see from the papers that our popular and able con- gressman is being discussed seriously everywhere as prospective Presi- dent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
HE DID NOT

From tie Chattanooga Times.
 Hope MT. Underwood didn't find his presidential boom adorning telegraph pole on the morning after Halloween.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Mayor Shank of Indianapolis contln- ues to undersell the retailers trust. He is now handling pork and apples.
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The high cost of living in New York is Cu;done by the high cost of dying. and reforms are demanded in both.
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Princes are going out of fashion. Por- augal drove them out, and now China wants none of them in her future cab inets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

China's boy Emperor takes to compo- sition marvellously early. He may prove to be real Shakespeare later on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Prince Chun, the Chinese regent, does not see the sense of committing suicide for the purpose of atoning to his an- cestors. He declines to pander to his ancestors m that manner.
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The coal sellers and the clothiers are plainly getting into the good graces of the weather man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

rhe infant Emperor of China is cer- .ainly very precocious. He knows a lot for one of his age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Mayor Shank of Indianapolis might be- come presidential possibility if he were ndi a standpatter of the most inyeterate Snrt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Alr. Taft is convinced that western tours do not come up to expectations. He considers them deusion and snare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

The modern trunk holds everything a person needs when travelling except a bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Earthquakes in Alaska are digging more, or rather bringing more, gold in sight than the Guggenheims can ex- ploit.
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After all, nobody planes the Chinese Emperor for anything that has occurred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Six hats are never worn out except by presidents seeking renominatons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

The eagle gives place to the turkey this month as the national bird.
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The Manchus are simply standpaticrs ill distress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
LONGEVITY OF AUTHORS

Robert Macquoid. who at 91 has the dis tInction of being the oldest working Eng fish artist. He is still regular exhibitor. of water color and black and white draw lngs at the London exhibitions and an oc- easional contributor to the illustrated papers. One of their sons-Percy Mac Gucid-is famous designer and deco- rator, and another-Glbert S. Macquoid- has collaborated with his mother In a number of travel books
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

Few habies can issue edicts with the facility of the Emperor of China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06

China is enaeavoring to apply the re- call to the head of her government.
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Secretary Meyer has a navy rarely equalled in this world.
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The Manehu dynasty is ready to ac- cept anything except an order to quit.
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ROAD EXPERIMENTS

If this be Indian summer. . small aR lowance will answer.
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China's Emperor is in no frame of mind 10 enjoy the sacrifices or anything else
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-06-06
HUGH H. DORIAN
HIGHLY H0N0RED
POPULAR OTTUMWA TRAVELLING
MAN IS ELEVATED TO CHIEF
OFFICE IN Y. c. r.

Hugh H. Doran, one of the best
known and most popular travelling men
OF Ottumwa, was given the highest
honor in the United Commercial
Travellers Of Iowa at the state meeting
in Clinton Saturday. Mr.. Doran was
elevated to the post of grand senior
counselor and was also named as one
of the state representatives to the SUI
preme council meeting in Columbus.
Burlington secured the next meeting of
the U. G. T. The other officers elected
follows:
Grand junior counselor = D. G..
Thompson of Burlington. @
Grand treasurer-O. K. Palmer of
Des Moines.
Grand secretary-H. w. Conant of
Sheldon.
Grand conductor-C. A. Rosemond
Of Independence.
Grand page-W. B. Emerson of At
lantic.
Grand sentimel-D. F. Scribner of
Clinton.
Executive committee: j. B. Snider
of Mason City, and w. A. Johnson Of
Council Bluffs.
Following are the delegates elected
to attend the supreme council, which
will meet at Columbus, O., the latter
part of this month:
D. P. Moore of LIE Mars, H. H. Doran
of Ottumwa, l.. I. Edison of Council
Bluffs, W. c. Hillhouse of Red Oak,
and William Gray Of Des Moines.
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FREDRlc.

Rev. Burns Of Fairfield will condu2t
the service at Pleasant Corners Sun
day morning June 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Miller visited
Sunday at the parental John Bescoe
home near Oskaloosa.
The lecture that was to have been
given Monday evening at Pleasant
Corners by Rev. F. L. Roper was post
poned on account Of the inclemency of
the weather until Friday evening June
%.
The Children's day program at
Pleasant Corners will be held Sunday
evening June 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. e. McDaniels visited
at the parental Bert Sullivan home on
Sunday.
konta visited Sunday at the home OF
the latter's sister Mrs. Alva Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs Jas. Griffin and
daughter visited at the Joe Himelick
home Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. vern Moss who were
married at st. Edwards. Nebr., May
Gath and Elmer Moon Of Abba visited
at the j. W. Moss home Saturday.
Mrs. A. r. Pendarvis and Mrs.
Ralph Duffy were callers at the home
,of ePter Miller Thursday afternoon.
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Pew ANTolNETTE4 b sL&cKWELL! 90:

| Elizabeth, N. j., June 1.-Once 8
month at All Souls church, the mem
bers gather to listen to the powerful
eloquence of magnificent public
speaker, real humorist-a woman
beautiful in her sweet simplicity and
motherly love.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell is
one of the most striking personalities
on the American platform. Eighty
six years ago on May 20 she was born
in frontier cabin constructed of logs
at Henrietta, N. Y. AS girl she be:
gan to teach school before she was
sixteen, earning wage of 81 per
week. In the early forties she was
graduated from Oberlin college where
she made the acquaintance Of Lucy
Stone. Later their friendship was
cemented by their marrying brothers.
Being forbidden by the faculties to
take part in the debating exercises OF
the young men, the two young women
students organized the first debating
society ever formed among college
girls. After leaving college she did
social purity and missionary work for
a society in New York. In 1850, at
Worcester, Mass, she spoke at the
First National Woman's Right conven-
ton OF all the other speakers at this
gathering she Is now the soul survivor.
Horace Greedy and Charles A. Dana
offered to provide her with hall and
give her $1,000 year and her board
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If she would preach regularly in New
York City, but instead she accepted an
offer from Congregational church at
South Butler. NJ Y, at $500 per year.
Here she was regularly ordained as an
orthodox Congregational minister in
1853. This was the first time that a
woman had been ordained in any de-
nomination, and it called down ire
mendous denunciations. Her church
appointed her delegate to the
Worlds Temperance convention in
New York, made up largely of minis
tiers. Her credentials were accepted
but when she arose to speak the con-
vention howled and hooted for two
days to drown her voice. Despite the
efforts of such men as Neal Dow who
was presiding, and Of Phillips, Garri-
son, Powell and others, she was not
allowed to be heard. Later she re-
signed her pulpit and became Uni
tartan. At the age of ,seventy-eight
she visited Palestine and in 1905 at
tended the National Woman's Suffrage
convention in Portland, Ore, going on
from there to Alaska.
Remarkably beautiful as young
woman, she has always retained fine
presence. Her faculties are unimpair-
ed with the exception of her hearing.
Her disposition is as buoyant and opti-
mistic as girls. She is loved and
admired by all with whom she comes
in contact.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-06-06
CLARK BOOSTED
FOR. MARSHAL JOB
OTTUMWAN SAID By REGISTER
AND LEADER TO BE A FORM
IDABLE CANDIDATE. y

The appointment of United States
court officials, which is due the latter
part Of this year, is already attracting
attention by various candidates for the
plums' in the state. The office OF dis
trict attorney, now held by M. L. Tenn
pie of Osceola, is striven for by four
Des Moines candidates and three
others. H. w. Terrill of Mt. Ayr IS
opposing Frank B. Clark Of OttumWa
for the marshalship. H. II. Stlpp, Z.
IC. Dowell, Frank S. Shankland and
7. A. Dyer are the Des Moines lawyers
after the attorney post.
A. T. Smith of Mount Ayr, James w:
Wilson of Centerville M. l.. Temple OF
Osceola and Thomas J. Bray OF Grim
nell are the other candidates.
Messrs Smith, Wilson and Temple
live in the eighth district. which has
had the attorneyship for many years.
Mr.. Bray lives in the sixth distract.
The ether four candidates reside IN the
seventh district
Concerning the marshalship, yester-
DAVIS Des Moines Register and Leader
said:
Frank Clark of Ottumwa is candl-
date for reappointment to second
term as United States marshal for the
southern district and is said to have
only the opposition Of H. w. Terrell OF
Mount Ayr, whose candidacy is over
Swallowed, of course, by that of Mr..
Smith for attorney. Marshal Clark's
administration has been Of a character
to make his candidacy for reappoint-
ment formidable Incidentally. it has
the effect of overshadowing the can
didacy of Mr.. Bray Of Grinnell, which
is in the sixth district for the attorney.
ship.
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ASH GROVE.

Mrs. Willis McCarty and son visit
ed Sunday at the parental Wolfe
home.
Miss Cora Selman returned home on
Thursday from Ottumwa.
Dee, Ora, Florence and Irene Lowe
home.
Thurman Cassill and James West
spent Thursday in Ottumwa.
John Hunter and wife spent Sunday
with Mrs. Lou Cassill.
Yes Sapp visited the Ash Grove
school Friday afternoon.
The M. E. church will observe Chill
dren's day.
Walter Kinsinger and family spent
Sunday at the Wintermote home.
Rev. Snyder preached two interest
ing sermons at the Christian church
Sunday. The ordinance of baptism
was administered at the close of the