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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Shakespeare-Its none of your busi- ness how old Ann is.
 Tantalus-They told me to come on in the water was fine.
 Robinson Crusoe-Gee Baedeker must have missed this
 Romulus-Im building chicken house, Remus; you keep away from it! Solomon--Young man, let me give you a few words of advice.
 1xion-Don't talk to the man at the wheel
 James Monroe-Keep off the grass. Man in the Iron Mask-That's one on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
Easier Music

The music at the Church of the Ad- vent on Easter Sunday will be espe- cially brilliant and enjoyous," said Fred l.. Grambs. choirmaster and di- rector.
 The members of the choir have at tended rehearsals regularly for weeks past, and every singer knows his or her part. The members of the vestry have been liberal in voting for or chestral appropriations. and the picked the Easter choir music at the Ad- vent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
OH, NOT AT ALL,

From the Randolph Star.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks it rather out of order for a railroad to pass through Alabama and not go via the Magic City. But if plans now on foot in Pensacola, Fla, are carried out a railroad will be built from the latter town to Jasper, Ala, and not pass through Birmingham. We hope the Age Herald will not. like the Atlanta papers, think everything should be headed for it's town to be reckoned with the pro- gressive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
R.iIwny DeyeIopmcnt

."The extent to which the railways of material development of this section may not be generally understood {. said a railroad man. Some interesting light is thrown upon this by the report of the Southern Railway company to the inter- state commerce commission for the year ended June 3O 1910, which shows that the company expended for the work of It's land and industrial department in en-operaton with communities, commer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The hardest habit to acquire is having money.
 more like it's father every day it doesn't
 If woman is displeased with mans flattery it's because there isn't more of it. The more anybody could improve on his own morals the more he would think 1t was somebody else's turn. A man could make al the money in the world by nventing for women looking glass that would show only good figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
Intensive Farming

Intensive farming will mean much to the practical farmer of the south," said a man in close touch with the agricultural department at Washington.
 Fifteen or 20 years ago witnessed old fashioned methods. One bale of cotton to three acres was considered a pretty good crop. We have progressed since then. The best farmers in the south now make something like bale to an acre Of cot ton.
 Tn Alabama we make alfalfa and corn in proportion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
The Trucking Interest Interests

Anyone who travels through the northwest will hear a. great deal said in favor of Alabama as a trucking country" said John H. Creigborne of St. Paul.
 During the past five years there has been much of interest in the south. Hundreds of truckers of the northwest have moved southward. I feel sure that within the next five years the trucking interests of Alabama will be thoroughly established"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
Commercial Prosperity

Since the first of January I have spent several weeks in Texas said Humphrey Johnson of Philadelphia.
 Texas. in one of the thriftiest states in the south. It is stirred just now over the amendment prohibition ques- tion, but the anti-amendists will win the day.
 "A few years ago unsophisticated q persons were ready to believe any thing they heard. Not so now. Pro- hibition does not prohibit, and l would say nothing short of a numskull would vote a prohibition ticket today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The good old summer time is coming to make the wanderlust in your veins. and if summer cannot dos it the railroad agent can and will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
The City Commission

"When the people of Birmingham got
 wind of the first act of the commissioners
 looking toward retrenchment every throat
 set up it's political babble,' said a com missioner. There were those who were glad that this man had been deposed from his place in the city's old government,
 while there were as many more friends
 who set up their lamentations at the seeming discrimination made against such
 a good man.
 Each of the deposed officials had his
 enemies and his friends, and so it will be with the new members who receive ap-
 pointments. There are men who are ready this day to revoke the system of commits sion government, and there are still otn- CTS who are more firm than ever of faith in this form of administration. 'The very fact that the commission form of administration is an experiment in this city Is reason enough to start the tongues of political Babel wagging at
 would be well for the people of Birming- ham to bear in mind the admonltion given them by Colonel Roosevelt during his speech last month at Capital park, just bit of homely advice that no sen-
 sible man in progressive republic should
 have needed to be reminded Of. It Is rnis Don't expect any form of government to succeed without your support. It will not succeed unless you make it.. ;So matter what action the new commissions CTS may at present be guilty of the sen- sible and conservative citizen who has
 the welfare of the community at hearl will refrain from too unfavorable com
 ment until he has considered to what op-
 jective point, to what results the first steps of the commission are leading''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The sale of a Brooklyn collectors liz brary at something over $1,O00,OoO is fur ther evidence of an age of cultivation and luxury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
RESULT OF RICHES
POOR SPORT.

'I understand baseball umpires are treated with the greatest respect by the Martians.'
 'If that's the case, baseball on Mars must be about as much fun as pinochle."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Never mind the weather. All may be well by Easter Day. The legislature certainly will adjourn before then with out day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

P. A. B. Widener gets the famous Rem- brandt, "The Mill," at s5O0,0O0. Pictures come high but the traction magnate must have them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
THE UNEXPECTED.

THE UNEXPECTED. Charley Sappington and Willie Piffe had failing out last night at the club" "Any damage done?"
 q should say sol They used billiard cues and both are now in the hospital. "Well, well. And I thought you were going to tell me they slapped each other on the wrist.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
MOST WOMEN DO.

"A Spokane woman took a peep into the future" Well, what did she see there?" "A lot of wrinkles, I suppose
 RESULT OF RICHES. No doubt she has a soul I speak of Mrs. Nile; But thanks to hubby's roll, Her mind Is set on style.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

It is said you can't throw stone in h. diana without hitting a poet or novelist. but it is a state that has few or no stones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The feet of American women are not growing larger They are simply wearing shoes that fit them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
.AFTERMATH,

poet sings his lady's eyes And sweetly tunes the Tyre; Methinks twould cause him sad surprise, To see them flashing fire. And that dear voice. so tender now, How 'twould his soul alright Thus thundered forth, with wrathful brow Where have you been tonight?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The Princess Irene unloaded her pas sengers and took on three inches of snow before she slid back from the Att lantic graveyard to the water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

President Diaz seems to be in favor of having all his associates resign while he himself keeps right on at the old stand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Illinois is really beginning to think that senators should be chosen without the intervention of slush fund. The way to do this is to send the slush sub scribers to the penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The Krupps are now lined up against the Wrights. The former claim to have a projectile that will bring down the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

A horse show cannot be held in a sky scraper placed where Madison Square Garden stands, and society would feel lost without a horse show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Underwater Hines is. one of those who have had an unsavory fame thrust upon him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The California legislature has adjourned after passing 12o0 laws, good, bad and indifferent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Nearly every man is willing to lend you his ears but not his money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
THEY FORGOT

From the washington Star.
 What some men manage to mistake for a clear conscience" said Uncle Eben, lis merely loss of memory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

President Lincoln had to be an oppor- tunist and he knew it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
MAUPAsSANT KNEW JOYS OF LIFE

could hear him murmuring under his
 breath: Forty Forty Forty s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Chicago will be grateful if one out of every three of its campangn pledges is kept.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Wet weather accompanies army move ments and the opening of baseball sea- sons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
Where have you been tonight ?"
THE WISDOM OF SIM sILo.

l THE WISDOM OF SIM S1LO.
 | Have one on me-" said old Sim Sio as | he came into the office and prized the lid open with his jacknife off'n box of To- cent cigars. We looked with astonishment 1 at his extravaganza, which he noted, and
 said: That's all right you think I'm | gone crazy, no doubt, but I havent-Im | just coming to my senses. I settled on a claim in this county in the spring of TO so did Old Bill Whipple, whose claim jined
 mine, and lots of times we didn't have
 money enough to buy Old Style smoking | tobacco. Bill Whipple died last spring | he'd never bought a half dollars worth | of cigars at one time in his whole life.
 He left three-quarters, big bunch of cat tie and quite a wad of money in the bank. As soon as the probate court let 'em get | the property one son bought gas wagon-and he runs it mighty fast One of the girls got a sealslSin coat. set of earbobs and a pianer, and her husband sent to Kansas City for barrel of bottled
 beer and he bought q whole box of 10-cent seegars-Old Man Whipple never smoked 10>cent cigar in his life. 'kase he couldn' afford it he said. But his son-in-law can and he plays pool, too. I've ordered a case of pop sent up to the house for my ole woman-shes powerful fond of pop though I never thought before that could afford to buy as much as two bottles of pop in enc day for her But. say don't you think it's bad for young folks health to have time after the estate is settled? Say, have another one of these ere seegars." Then Sid slid out of the office with de- termined. though quite resigned, express sion beaming all over his countenance.- Concordia I<ansan. M
 NOISY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Smallpox is intervening in Mexico even if Uncle Sam is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

I.orimer needs another coat of white- wash, and even that will not. cover up that slQ0.C0o slush fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The underwriting of senators is branch of business that has long been conducted secretly, and MT. Hines is the first man to let a scheme of that kind come to the surface. He was simply clumsy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
SOMEWHERE.

Somewhere, in field or stream; Somewhere, in deed or dream; Somewhere a sweetness clings Round us with wandering wingsl
 Baltimore Sun. Somewhere our dreams come true, Somewhere we part from rue; Somewhere all life is fair I wish I knew just where.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
WAITING

" O. The summer girl will soon be here To steal our hearts away. We'll all confess she's just a dear, Whate'er the price we pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

The great carpet for the coronation cer- emonies in Westminster Abbey will be of two shades of blue throughout it's 800 yards The designs in it will include the rose, thistle, shamrock and lotus. The maple leaf of Canada was overlooked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12
ON THE MAP

ON THE MAP. Rather a small town you have here,' remarked a man who was standing on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

Let me be that I am, and seek not t, alter me.
 Much Ado About Nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-12

NOISY. "A reformer. you say?'' Yes" Militant" NO. Merely magalophonous.
 PAUL COOK.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27
ADDS $4,000, 1000.
Senate Committee Increases River and
Harbor Appropriations.

Washington. Jan. 27.-More than $5,-
100000 was added to the aggregate APP
preparation Of the rivers and harbor bill
by the senate committee which today
completed its amendment of the meas
ure as it passed the house. The house
bill carried $29, 262 938 and to this was
added 81, 795,461 in cash and So, 389, 282 in
continuing contracts. The bill provid-
ing for material increase in the en-
gineer corps which had been objected
to by many senators and which Mr.
Bailey of Texas said would not be
passed through this session was added
to the bill as an amendment Among
the items of increase are: TeXas-Beau-
mont and Orange channel 5000, 900 cash
and $371,500 continuing contracts; Ar
ansas pass, $125,000 cash and $3.50 900
continuing contract; mouth of Brazos
river, 100000 cash; Trinity river lock
and dam, $4,000 cash; San Pablo bay,
California. 100000 cash and $3.50 900
continuing contract; Humboldt bay,
Cal, $4,000 cash and $717,400 continu-
ing contract; lower Columbia river, Or
egon, 100000 cash and $500, 900 continu-
ing contract; Willapa river and harbor
Wash, $4,000 cash and $118, 112 contin-
uing contract; Bellingham bay. Wash,
$4,000 cash and $525250 continuing con-
tract; Olympia harbor, Wash, $40 900
cash; Illinois and Mississippi canal,
$215,000 cash; Missouri river, between
the mouth and Kansas City, $500 900
continuing contract.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27
TO DECIDE DEBATES.
Sixth District Winners Will Be ChOs-
en- at Hill City Tonight.

Hill City, Kan, jan 27.-Tonight
the debate held between the high
schools of Logan and Hill City, will
decide the championship debating
team of the Sixth Congressional dis
trict. This debate is the result of the
series of debates held in the Sixth dis
trict on December 16, between Hill
City and Stockton, and between Lo-
gan, Phillipsburg and Beloit. Hill City
won the two debates with Stockton,
and Logan won one each from the
Beloit and Phillipsburg high schools.
The debate will decide the winning
team to contest with an adjoining
district sometime in the early part of
February. In the debates over the
district in February between district
champions, four winners will be choS-
en- These four winning teams will
then enter another contest in March
or April and two winners will be pick
ed. These two winners will debate at
the Kansas university in Lawrence
sometime in May. This final debate
will decide the high school champion
team of the state.
The Kansas university has arranged
the series of contests over the state
and has selected a question for each
district. The question for the Sixth
district is: Resolved that the nations
should reduce their ornaments to
the minimum necessary for police du-
ties" In the contest between Hill
City and Logan tonight two debates
will be held, one at each place.
Each school will discuss both sides
of the question, thus no choice of
sides is given. Hill City's affirmative
team will meet Logan's negative team
in Logan and Logan's affirmative
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27
Stirring Things
Up Wonderfully

A well known lady. who for social
reasons does not wish her name pub
lished, said: "Root Juice is certainly
doing lots of good and stirring things
up wonderfully all over the country.
know OF more than a score of peo-
pie whom the great medicine has
cured They were persuaded to use it
because of the great good it did for
me. I was in poor health several
years. The doctors gave me medicine
for catarrh of the stomach. gastric ul-
GERS, indigestion, dyspepsia and stom-
ach troubles generally Ny appetite
was metimes hungry as
wolf, then sickening at the mere
thought of food. I was subject to dizzy
spells and sick headaches. thin, weak,
respondent and nervous, and had to
take some kind of medicine all the
time on account of my badly consti-
patef condition. A lady friend told
me that she had suffered very much
as 1 did but that Root Juice had
completely cured her, so / concluded
to try it. and before 1 had used the
first bottle I was rapidly improving I
continued taking it about six weeks,
and If there is anything the matter
with me now don't know it I sleep
well and am no longer constipated,
weak or nervous, and have plenty of
flesh and strength
Good reports of the great medicine
are being heard daily in this locality,
and those who are in need of it can
learn of the many wonderful things
it is doing by going to Arnold's drug
store, 523 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27

less as 1 stated in the report" said
Commissioner Bone. ''It was stated
in the paper that the reason the ex-
penses in December 1909 were SO high
was because $3.50 in the general i'm
provement fund of that month had
been spent for the vacation of an alley,
the mon ey being returned to the fund
eventually when the taxes came in
This is the case under the commits
sion form as we'll as the council form.
We list as regular expenses money that
is advanced out of certain funds even
if the money is to come back in taxes.
Take for instance, the Seward avenue
fire station, the College Hill sewer and
of funds that would be repaid in taxes
but in my monthly report 1 included
them in the general expenses.
1.-The law doesn't state that I shall
make these monthly reports. 1t is a
scheme of my own that have adopted
to give the public the direct informa-
ton concerning the expenses of the
city. 1 am not trying to pad the old
council expenses and am not trying
to cut down the commission ex
penses.
ct think that the commission form
of government is saving the city
money.
Eyes, it is true that the salaries I'M
der the commission form are costing
the city from $1,000 to $1.400 more
a month than under the council form.
But a big part of this is on account
of an increase made by the council
before they left Office. The salaries of
the commissioners average about $40
a month more than the old city Off
Gals.
1--WE can't save much in the oper-
ating expenses of the city under the
new form. That is almost impossible
But I do believe that we are saving in
other ways
Commissioner Bones system of
monthly reports on the financial con-
dition of the city have given the pub
lie an inside information on municipal
conditions that was not known before
his time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27
PAYS FOR SEED GRAIN.
Seward County Wipes the Old Slate
Clean.

State Treasurer Mark Tulley this
morning received draft for S175.46
from the county treasurer of Seward
county, being the last payment on the
old seed grain account of $3.50. 900
due from the various counties of the
state for aid rendered in the early
nineties.
There was appropriated 100000 at
one time, and 100000 at another. to
be distributed among various western
counties, to enable the farmers to buy
seed grain, and the most of the $780,
600 appropriation was used
The counties receiving this aid is
sued and delivered to the state f
Kansas seed grain warrants in pay
ment of the amount each county re-
ceived. So this payment this morning
reimburses the state for every dollar
In aid rendered those counties for the
above named purpose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27
BARRY FORCEDOUT
After 40 Years Duty in the
American Navy.
The Admiral Is Fired ''FOr
Good of Service"

Washington, Jan. 27.-By direction of
the president Rear Admiral E. 3. Barry
the former commander-in-chief of the
Pacific fleet, today submitted his res
ignation for the good of the service.
1t was accepted.
The enforced resignation is the out
growth of charges wt@eh have been in
circulation affecting the moral charac-
ter of the naval officer. Secretary Meyer
announced that on instructions from
the president he photographed last
night to Admiral Barry asking that he
submit his resignation. The resignation
covering the officers connection with
the American navy after As years of
service, was received today and his
name was at once stricken from the
list of naval officers. This act natur
ally terminated his salary from the gov
eminent.
In response to a Geographic request
Admiral Barry was placed on the re-
tired list of the navy on January IA
several months in advance of the date
on which he would have retired by OPP
Grafton of law. His right to seek vol
untary retirement was his privilege
under the law permitting such action
after 40 years active service. The Sec
rotary of the navy took up the request
with the president and it was promptly
approved.
Later, however. reports began to
emanate from San Francisco that Ad-
miraI Barry's retirement was forced by
a demand that he resign owing to al
legged scandalous conduct. 1t was add
ed that the officers of the cruiser West
Virginia Admiral Barry's flagship,
were not satisfied with the retirement,
but insisted on his resignation. The
secretary of the navy took cognizance
of the reports and called on Captain
Orchard of the West Virginia for a
formal statement. meanwhile ordering
Admiral Barry to remain in San Fran
ri FIR Cantain
Orchards report was received several
days ago, when it was submitted to
the president and the enforced resig-
nation followed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27
THEY CENSURE JAPAN.
Socialists Meet in Los Angeles and
Pass Resolutions.

Los Angeles, Jan. ga resolution
censuring the government of Japan for
the recent hanging of - japanese So
cialists was adopted at a meeting held
in Labor temple last night under the
auspices of the Protetarian club, the
Socialist Labor party. the Social party
the Liberals club and the Industrial
Workers of the World and was tele-
graphed to the Japanese ambassador
The resolution demands that our
representative in congress call on the
department of state to demand of the
government full explanation of the
atrocity and the same be repeated with
reference to the remaining Ia now in
jail and calls upon the workers of the
world to use all their Industrial power
by way of sabotage, the boycott and
refusal to handle raw and finished pro-
ducts destined for Japan so as to Grip
pie the economic power of the capital
lists of that country"