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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
RELIEVES UNDERWOOD srRoNGEs'

RELIEVES UNDERWOOD STRONGES' From the Washington Post
 James N. BlalSly of New York and Bin mingham is confident that the democrat1 convention at Baltimore will name Repro sentative Oscar w. Underwood as tha party's standard bearer. At the Willard MT. Blakely said:
 T think that Representative Underwoo has just as good chance for the nomina ton as have Mir Clark and the other poa sihiities who have been corralling vote] I believe that the republicans will nomI nate Colonel Roosevelt. If they do. it vii force the democrats to nominate MT. Ur derwood, because he is the logical con servative democrat. Representative Ur derwood will have the south behind him The country at large likes him. and whe he needs the New York delegation to sd cure his nomination 1t will swing into lin]
 have travelled through the south, anI I am convinced that every one Of til southern states is going to support tn southern man.
 Neither Speaker Clark nor. Governd
 Wilson will have sufficient votes to secu1 a two-thirds majority in the eoilventIoi
 believe Representative Underwood vi
 be turned to as the logical man.
 There $ no denying the fact that tf1
 tarinl is to be the issue in the comin| campaign, and it is equally as weH estaf lished that there is no man who is d
 familiar with. the issue as RepresentatiY | Underwood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
UNDERWOOD IN NORTH CAROLINE

 From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Once claimed vociferously for Wilson, as were also Georgia, Florida and Mis- sissippi, North Carolina now gives promise of being swept by tidal wave into the Underwood column. The Tar Heel state holds it's primary on the 18th instant. For some weeks Under wood clubs and Underwood sentiment throughout the state have been well organized and militant. But the four successive victories of the Alabamian have imbued his North Carolina sup porters with new enthusiasm and in the scope and fighting spirit of their plans 1t is easy to see victory fore shadow> i.
 This development is as it should be, considering that in North Carolina as previously in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi-the issue is that of political manhood as against political serfdom. As the Constitution has reiterated, we are not supporting oscar Underwood because, per SC, he is a southern man. Our whole fight has been based upon the contention that he is, pre- e-eminently, the logical nominee of the democratic party and that the time .1as arrived for the south to go on record, for all time that 1t will not be deterred from advocating it's states men of presidential size out of. cring- ing fear of the fictitious civil war bogie. The north has displayed, incontestably, a spirit to welcome the south back into it's full American citizenship-which includes legitimate aspirations to the presidency. Should the south crayenly maintain that it is not yet sufficiently purged to enter upon that inheritance, all the remainder of the nation can do Is to wash it's hands of the whole mat ter and leave us to our ancient fears and our self-imposed Isolation.
 If northerner, customer or westerner loomed as indomitably as does. Under wood, the Constitution would be found supporting him, irrespective of section. We claim and press upon and for><he south the same right regarding its own statesmen-asking no privilege not ac- corded other portions of the country, but demanding the same privileges without handicap or bias.
 These reasons should conspire in North carolina-as they dld in Ala bama, Florida, Georgia and Missis- sippi--to sweep the Old North State for the Alabamian With it's courage ous Mecklenburg declaration of inde- pendence. North Carolina blazed the trail toward the worlds greatest re- public. The state has, therefore, unique and added incentive to proclaim by one act that its American citizen ship is henceforth real. and not ex- pressed in label only.
 Underwood--and Underwood only offers opportunity for making that declaration. Alabama, Florida, Geor- gia and Mississippi call to the Old North State to make the answer Underwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
Republlcan Mud slingIng

"The republican national convention is only a little more than month off, and the public will no doubt be glad when it is over," said an old voter
 q used to think we'll of Roosevelt. There was time when I would rather have seen him President than to have had a pop ulistic democrat in the White House. MT Roosevelt has been so unfair in his utter ances and so self seeking as to lose him many of his old admirers in the demo- cratic, as we'll as in the republican, party. MT. Taft has not been as strong a Presi- dent as some of his republican prede- .cessors, but I think the country at large would 10 times rather see him continue in office than to have a man like Roose- welt at the head of the nation.
 'The democratic prospects grow brighter every day. I feel certain that if Under wood is the democratic nominee he will win at the polls no matter who heads the republican ticket. But his victory would be all the easier were Roosevelt the re- publican standard bearer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
Political Warfare

Several insidious attacks have been made on President Taft by the Roose- welt faction. but one of the meanest was that in which it was sought to put Pres ident Taft in the attitude of especially favoring the Catholic church. and in triguing for Catholic influence" said a man of large political experience.
 Some weeks ago the charge was made tha; President Taft had sent his aid, the tate Major Butt, to Rome with an au- tograph letter to the Pope in which ref erence was made to the political situa- ton in this country In other words. 1t was insinuated that President Taft asked .the Pope to help him in his struggle for Fthe nomination. Such a charge was ab- surd on the face of it, but q semi-official denial was made just the same. So per sistent, however, were these rumors that the President has felt constrained to issue a signed statement
 "Of course. any man with two grains O. sense knows that no aspirant for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
--------7---7---'o'-=--= DAUGHTERS OF TO-DAY

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Before you go, dear, l wish you'd take the broom and sweep that litter from the sidewalk" rs
 George is in a hurry.
 I'm due at the office at s:3o, my dear. Let Myrtle sweep it
 Myrtle is the daughter of the house. hold, aged 9.
 why, mercy me, George, would you want to see your only daughter out in tho street with g broom'
 Overwhelmed by the thought of such a fr.ghtful vision. poor old George sweeps the walk.
 Moral?
 SnnnlX II NOurSelf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
A Popular Measure

Henry D. Clayton of Alabama, chairman of the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, is being strongly supported by the press and by patriotic Americans generally in his resolution aimed to extend the term of the President of the United States to six years and making the executive ineligible for second term.
 Congressman Clayton hit upon the psychological time for such propo- sition. The resolution will be adopted by both houses, it is thought, and then the constitution will be amended accordingly. It is most popular measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
Improving Crops in Illinois

The mail order concern known as Sears, Roebuck & Go. has handed over to the council of grain exchanges S10O,000 to be expended in the 100 counties in Illinois this year. Upon this expenditure of 5000 per county will depend gift of $900,O0O more, making million all told.
 President Merrill of the council of grain exchanges explains that this gift means that demonstrator or teacher will be sent into each Illinois county to instruct the farmers. He will endeavor to show the farmer how he can get more from a given amount of land and how he can make what he produces of better quality. Crop production in Illinois is, in other words, to be improved both in quality and quantity. To use President Mer- rill's own words, "we want not only double the production of grain from a given amount of land, but we want the grain to be twice as good as it has been." This is definite and business like, and if it's results can be obtained it means reduction in the cost of liv- ing. The farmer must get more prod ucts for his money end labor before any material check to the advancing cost of such products can be estab- lished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
TO THETls

By Kent Packard. oft, with closed eyes, in silent reverie 1 lie and conjure shapes, some sa
 some gay;
 Half caught, their ghostly bodies m'
 away And vanish in the mists of memory, Until at length your face appears to II With soundless lips that. parting, sha
 to say,
 ''Hopeiess tomorrow. and dead is V
 terday. And all you longed for then can ney So, passing, as cloud that garbs
 queen
 In hidden rapture from forbidden ey, You slip into the shadow that denies My yearning glance to keep the face I
 seen. Dead is the past. but from it's grave borrow Rose petals one by one. for each tom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
VERY FIRST DUTY OF PATRIOTISM

f rom the NeW 1OTk oun
 | We concur with the Journal of Civil | lization in the opinion that the great est measure of reform now in force is contained in the resolution introduced
 last week by the chairman of the House committee on Judiciary Rep
 resentative Clayton's resolution pro- vides for the submission to the states, I in due form, of a constitutional amend ment to make the first section of Article II read as follows:
 "The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office dur ing the term of six years and shall be ineligible to a second term"
 It will be observed that this pro- secutive as we'll as the consecutive third term. It is direct and effective. It's adoption could not be obtained in season to apply to the election of 1912, or to the term of the President chosen next November; but it would remove forever the menace of that revolution ary change in the character of our institutions and the life of our republic which is present when personal am bitlon is boundless and demagogy tri- umphant.
 For more than six score years such q safeguard in the organic law has been unnecessary. The republic has been protected by that unbroken tra- dition, that unwritten law. which has been described accurately by Colonel Roosevelt as the wise custom which limits the President to two terms
 The wise and unbroken custom Is no longer protection enough. Colonel Roosevelt himself has had the unspeak- able distinction of showing the country how quickly an able and popular poli- tician of interruptions ambition can kick it into desuetude if he is allowed to have his way. The barrier must be put into the constitution,
 MT. Clayton's proposed amendment is in the interest of both parties and of all the people--even the Rooseveltian imperialists, if any such there really are. The resolution should be passed by the votes of all patriotic republi- cans and democrats in the House as soon as it comes before them. The Senate should adopt it without a days unnecessary delay. The President should sign 1t with the most rapid pen he possesses. The principle should be affirmed in the platforms of both of the great political organizations when they meet in convention few weeks hence. All candidates of all parties excepting Theodore Roosevelt of the new third and fourth term party should signify their adherence. And then, with the Clayton resolution before 1 the states for ratification, if any candi- date wants to test public sentiment by running for a third term on the ticket of bolting or independent organiza- ton, the Lord have mercy on ms soul
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
RurLEcTroxs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. sone lie makes another and the two make several hundred.
 A woman doesn't mind getting fat If it isn't in public spots.
 It's better to be d sham hero alive than a real man dead.
 The less reason there is for it the more a. mans head can swell
 Anybody has to marry an awful lot of money to get very little of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
Open Air Music

"Thousands of citizens were glad to read the announcement in The Age-Her- aid recently that the Music Study club had entered into a contract with Signor Nappi for band concerts daily for eight weeks, beginning Sunday, June So. said citizens "It seems that the concert fund is only sufficient at this time to provide for season of eight weeks, but it is the intention of the committee in charge to appeal for popular subscriptions with the hope of raising fund large enough to pay for concerts extending we'll into September. Most of us who attend the summer concerts should be only too glad tc contribute something to the fund. There should be many sl and s2 contributions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

EXPLAINING THE MATTER. ~ T want some hose for my husband" What kind. madam?" Garden hose" T beg pardon. Did I understand you to say that you wanted garden hose for your husbandg Yes, young man. That's what I said. want some cheap. thick socks, size eleven. My husband has already spoiled several pairs of his best silk hose While working on his onion bed"
 HOUSEWIFEBY CARES.
 Feel better now.''
 Said Mrs. Jay.
 Our winter clothes
 Are packed away N
 But soon she was
 Once more quite blue,
 Just thinking what
 The moths might do.
 IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. What would you do in case of seasick- ness?""
 I'd lio flat on my back. close my eyes tbAiu tilc lHstl l WAS OH uIS laIlQ. , But suppose my imagination won't work?" Then. it's all up with you"
 THEY DREAD IT so.
 Some men must think
 Ambition
 Is next thing to
 Perdition.
  NOTHING TO DO. "Jibbs has an eesy time" "Is that so?' Sure. His wife even makes up his mind for him.
 MADE HIMSELF UNPOPULAR. There was man In our town Who bought his boy a goat. Should that man eer for office run, He wouldn't get vote.
 ALLS WELL. s.The fish are biting fine during this nice weather,' says the Whitsett Courier,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

and we have plenty of wild fowers fai the girls to trim their summer hats wifE lots of alligators laying out on the loz. stunning, and every darkey has chane| to run a race with 6 blacksnake and th< rattlers have not ceased to furnish rattle| for the babies. For all this, we ars thankful, for we shall not have to patron. ize the spring millinery stores. and bus rattles for the baby.-Atlanta Constitu. ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
TEMPORARILY cI1REn-

 TWO small boys puffed on cigarettes And frequently they spat; Ere long, consumed by vain regrets, Upon the ground they sat, The while their little brains spun round In most confusing way. Alas, no further use they found For nicotine that day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Tom Mann, the English labor agitator, was sent to jail for six months for teach ing sedition, although tories and Ulster men have been doing this freely for at least a year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Senator Dillingham; dislikes to toss his Lorimer report among the rude insur- gents who have crowded themselves into seats in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Germany punishes all those who speak disrespectfully to central" It is safe to say that central over there is 90 per cent better than she is in some coun- tries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
CHINESE IDEAS OF LOVE

and from now on there likely will be mol love in our courtships and divorces in ou matrimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

At it's second reading the home rule bill had a majority of 40 outside Ireland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

The farmers of Illinois are getting more irrigation than they feel they need.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

The plot to restore ex-King Manuel to the Portuguese throne is about as progress slYe as a snail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

It is sad but true that members of Con gress were actually dragged last week away from baseball game when they were greatly enjoying themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

A sand boil in levee shows anew that there is no good place to have boil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Mr Taft is not at all sure it is his Ohio this year, and hei has even more fears concerning California, which votes todav
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Justice Hughes has been requested to get ready for an emergency call by comb ing and moderately trimming his whiskers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

All eyes are turned toward California and Ohio this week. Next week New Jersey will have an inning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Ohio is the political center spot this week, and it will hold the place until next Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
AN EARNEST WISH.

Oh, that MT. Browning That dwelis in thu futurities- Would take a day off and come back To clear up his obscuritiesl
 J. A. T. in the Boston Transcript. Oh. let him stay away. old chap. We're not disposed to hiss him, But if he never did come back. By jinks, we wouldn't miss him.
 ODE TO THE USELESS. How can a man
 Bewail his fate,
 Who still has time
 To dig some bait,
 And fishing go
 Down sunny lanes
 Where birds uplift
 Their glad refrains?
 Birmingham Age Herald How can men
 Think life is hard
 When he can seek
 The basebcll yard,
 And gloat upon
 Each two base whack
 And live on pop
 And craekerjack?
 Milwaukee Sentinel. EXAMPLES OF SHRINKAGE. Dr. Wiley ia credited with saying tha nothing shrinks as fast as ham, But how'abo chicken in an unguardet coop?-Cleveland Plain Dealer. How about a bank roll when you ar, wandering around with two old colleg chums?
 A SAFER STREAM. The Mississippi fills our souls With wonder, so to speak, But when, as now, hia flood he rolls. We'll hie to Village creek.
 MILITANT. What do you suppose has become O the old-fashioned woman who used t brag about the fruit she canned?" Shes out after a vote now and want to can two-thiros of the politicians.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Maud Muller frequently recalled a judge without any misgtvings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Not a single ship flying the Stars and Stripes has entered the Thames this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Everybody seems to think he has a right to kick MT. Taft's commerce court aroun'.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

There are 11,4ss lawyers in New York city, but all of them are not overrun with clients.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

The John Ja-op Astor will would not show up well in referendum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Congress prefers to recall the whole commerce court rather than one of it's members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14
Al SAFER STREAM

A SAFER STREAM. The Mississippi fills our souls With wonder, so to speak, But when, as now, his flood he rolls. We'll hie to Village creek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

c E. Morgan and w. G. Wharton are the only authorized travelling represeh- tatives of The Age-Herald in It's clreu- lation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

No communication will be puoilshedi without it's authors name. heJeSsee manuscript will not be returned untssS stamps are enclosed for that purpose'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

Hell turiyate exchange connecting aii departmental, No. 49OO. ,
 Peoples, Editorial rooms, 2Slj pusi- ness office, 23O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

EUNIcH.-The condition of King Ot- AH to of Bavaria, who has been re- ' 4 ferred to as a crazy monarch, is
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-07-11
DOGS GUARD SECRET

day by heavily armed guard with
four ferocious dogs.
The bacteria, which are key to the
whole discovery. are kept in safe
which it would take an intruder twen-
ty minutes to open even with the best
engineering appliances, and so con-
structed that If forced open an thrush
of superheated steam would immedi-
ately destroy the bacteria
An Anglo-French syndicate Will
form a company with a capital OF
$2,500,000 to purchase the patents.
which forestalled by three months
German scientists, who had been work
ing on the same lines and had spent
$1,25O,O00 In experimenting.
In order to insure the staff keeping
the secret loyalty the Anglo French
syndicate retained the services of the
two principal chemists, Profs. Perkin
of Manchester and Fernbach of Paris.
for 19 years at a salary of S., 900 each
yearly. Twelve other chemists have
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-07-11

is another way of saying that there
was a warm time in the old town on
more than one night, Judging by the
imperial fiddler's liking for splendid
orgies. That the goddess of love en-
joyed a special popularity among the
Ostienses,. as the Inhabitants of the
city were called, is shown by the large
number of statues of Venus, including
one particularly fine one, which have
been discovered there. There is evi-
dence, too, of the cronistae, the re-
porters of that time, that the life i'll
the season at Ostia was, in the words
CT H:n Nyc, q continuous round CT
torchlight professions and Mardi Gras.
1t is pretty hard to say how many
years before the foundation of Rome
Ostia was in existence and flourish
ing as the seaport of Latium. Virgil
says that Aeneas, escaping from the
burning Troy, stopped with his fellows
at the mouths of the Tiber, where he
'unded the New Troy, afterwards
called by the simpler name of Ostia
This poetical account is not wholly
supported by historical Investigations,
however. But there is no doubt that
Ancus Marcus, who lived some 400
years before the birth of Christ, estab-
lished himself at Ostia after having
defeated several Latin towns
1t was the foundation of Rome and
;ts rapid Development that caused an
equally rapid and marvellous develop
ment of the port of Ostia This, ow-
ing to the short distance from the
city. was often called the port of
Rome, and it provided for the city the
greatest part of the many requisites
for its existence. From the corn of
Egypt and Sicily to the marbles of
Greece and Asia Minor, from the
wines Of Falernus and of Naples to
the gold of Africa and Spain, every.
thing brought to Rome was landed at
Ostia and thence by the Tiber was
shipped to the capital. Ostia followed
Rome in its splendor and it's magni-
| tude; when the Roman empire was at
its zenith Ostia was also at the maxi
mum Of it's glory. Not only was it a
commercial center, but military base
for war expeditions. Claudius, the
emperor. sailed from Ostia to the con.
quest of Britain.
Excavations at Ostia had never
been successfully and scientifically
carried out until few years ago
The world owes to Professor Ian
ciana, the Italian archaeologist, the
first scientific research of the ruins
of the town. This savant was also the