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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
UNDERWOOD MARCHING CLUBS
From the MontgomerY Advertlser..

From the Montgomery Advertiser.-
 The Age-Herald makes good suga ton when 1t says the several underWtoi l marching clubs in Alabama should 7 1te with the Birmingham club. They can do that and still maintain their Identity, says oup contemporary. Let there be Montgomery section, a Mobile section, Selma section, a Cullman sectior
 Gadsden section, an hnniston sect
 and so on," says the Birmingham pa
 The presence in Baltimore of eys man in Alabama, no matter how ST might be his enthusiasm for Alr. Y derwood, would no. assure that q tlemans nomination. but "it wouldH
 long way in achieving the end in fs when a candidacy Is based Oil I merit" and five thousand UnderWo0 marchers from the great state or
 bama would certainly have telling effect in Baltimore There is no get ting around that fact.
 For tho benefit of those who may bs in doubt on the point. we may say that the "Underwood marchers'' are not ex- pected to walk to Baltimore. provided they can all save up railroad fare be- tween now and June, but the marching is to be done after the crowd gets to the Maryland city. Special trains VII! carry the Alabamians cast, and they will probably sleep in these special cars after they get there. brass band will prob- ably be along to enliven the situation, the marchers will be adorned with Cn- derwood banners, watch fobs and but tons, and their voices win hc in good trim
 Baltimore should be literally stormed. Enthusiasm is contagious, and if we take enough of it along we should be able to impart much of it to the people and delegates from other states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
PUGILIsTTC REPARTEE

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 Johnny I<ilbane the two ounce lad from Cleveland, who will hold the feather weight title until some one pinches it, has his own ideas about the fighting game. Hs doesn't think it is any fun to have his prov slued two inches. to the south. or go around wearing blue bumps on his wishbone. ''Ill take no. punch that can dodge" said he. What do they make a 2i foot ring for, if it isn't to run around in? 1 don't like to get hurt any better than anyone else does-and you can take it from me that none of em like it. Those who say they do have a leak in their states
 He told little story to illustrate his petition One of his competitors at one time was Tommy kilbane, who happens to be no relation. Tommy Kilbane wanted to impress Johnny Kiibane that he was the original glutton for punishment. He smacked his lips gloatingly as he talked of the wallops he had given and taken. "I'd rather fight than eat. - said he bend- i ing severe look on the Johnny of the Kilbane tribe
 'Mebbe so. Tommy said the other. But if that's so, you must have 2 mighty punk boarding house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
UNDERWOOD AND KEYNOTE PLAT
 FORM

FORM
 From the Atlanta Constitution. The democrats of New York state, in convention assembled, have adopted a platform the
 principal plank of which is tariff re- vision~ and the further declaration that the democratic party stands "un- alterably as against destructive inno- yations and vagaries which would weaken and destroy the courts which are the safeguards of our liberties In all probability, the New York plat form is an accurate forecast of the Baltimore platform. Oscar Underwood is the one presiden- tial candidate who fits its paramount requirements with the nicety of glove. Governor Wilson has himself admitted that the tariff is the central issue oscar Underwood is making the dem- oeratic tariff as completely as Mckin- ! lev made the republican tariff in the defense of which he twice led his party to victory.
 So much for the central issue" While Governor Wilson has conceded
 the tariff as the central issue." his lname has, nonetheless. come to be in- 1 extricably identified with the vagaries that will cost the party every doubtful state with him at the head of the ticket.
 That is why New York is against him. | Underwood embodies the tariff and Is not an "isnite."
 l Wilson. perforce, accepts the tariff. but, unfortunately, cannot get away from the freaky doctrines to which he
 has committed himself in an effort to
 perform the lightning change from
 the conservative to the extreme radt- cal
 No test could more fundamentally or
 hnaliy demonstrate the strength of the
 man from Alabama and the weakness of
 .he man from New Jersey. l The New York platform performs two l services for the party IL forecasts Underwood's prodigiou us
 and inevitable strength before the Bal timore convention, and the weakness
 of Wilson's appeal. It forecasts that in national eIec-
 ton Underwood would sweep New York by perhaps 100000 majority, that Will
 son would lose the state by tidal
 wave!
 No wonder New York Is against Will
 son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
BIRD MEN ARE FATALISTS
Edward Lyell Fox in the Century Maga

Edward Lyell Fox in the Century Maga
 zine.
 h oxsEY was a fatalist. one of ths many whose strange temperament has helped make aviation possi. ble
 of it's after me. it'll get me" he used to say.
 This symbolic "it" is recognized and feared by all They feel there's a thing lurking in the clouds-a death dealing thing that patiently awaits their day. Tc this uncanny feeling. this gruesome pre- monition, their fatalism is traceable.
 There is something beautiful and ter rible in the conception that even the most unimaginative aviator holds of the thing that waits for him up in the sky Often with supreme fatalism he talks indiffer- ently On the subject. huddled in a tent or on the lee side of hangar when the wind Is booming and the canvas fiapping heavily at it's straining ropes.
 It'll get us yet" he says when the wind whistles its loudest; '1tn get us as It did Johnstone. Hoxsey. Moisant, Rolls Le Blon-all of them"
 That's his way of referring to the thine luck, chance, fate. death. But we. whom the air has not transformed into fatalfsts can subject the matter to cold analysis We can separate the elements of this weird compound that has made these men more indifferent to life than were evei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
Arthnr FrIedhelm Tonight

The celebrated piano virtuoso, Arthur Friedhein, who gives recital at the Jefferson theatre tonight, should attract a large audience of musicians and music lovers. His programme is full of va riety.
 High class musical artists have drawn very well here in recent years and 1t is hoped for the reputation of Birmingham, that large audience will greet Fried heim," said a concert goer. No musi- elan is so big as not to be benefited in his or her musicianship by listening to a master player like Friedheim, and yet in looking over our musical audiences have remarked the absence of many piano teachers. I have remarked, too, the ab- sence of advanced pupils. This should not be so. one reason why amateur pianists are so deficient in musical art is because they do not hear the best in musical interpretation.
 Every girl who is sufficiently ad- vanced to play at a sonata or a noe turne should by all means hear Arthur Friedheim. Tn hearing him the student will find in familiar compositions-such familiar composition as the Mendels- sohn Song Without words'-new beau ties that had not been imagined or dreamed of Teachers should by all means urge their pupils to attend the recital at the Jefferson theatre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Hest Shom Town

Birmingham is the best town in the south for high class shows and out door attractions" said W. B. Wilson of Chicago. "The people, however, demand the very best and are liberal in their patronage when such entertainments are provided. I have been connected with the show business for many years and have yet to find a better town than this for the production of high class amuse- ments.
 s'The aviation meet and auto races at the fair grounds should attract large crowds. The interest in the wonderful air machines is growing every day There IS not the least doubt that the perfection of the aeroplane is the greatest event Of the century, and marks an epoch in scien- life progress. and as such the exhibition flights that will be given at the talr grounds will have an educational value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

the swarthy soldiers of Mohammed. We can see, instead of the vague shape that somewhere behind the clouds is .ek- ing those who once yield to it's damp. misty terror, the many causes of aeci- dents in the air.
 For clarity, let us place these causes in groupings:
 First, there is the strange psychology of living. Accidents to themselves do not make aviators careful; rather, they have an opposite effect
 Lightning does not twice strike fin the same place iu the same way they reason j and if it's going to strike us in anothe- place, it will. that's all"
 Also, accidents to other aviators hs no effect on them. Remember Hoxsey Denver and Los Angeles. 1t was turn" is the attitude. E
 Second, there is the carelessness of F ing. which is best subdivided in this VI.
 l. Relaxation of nervous tension.
 ?. Momentary loss of balance. 3. Overeonfdence.
 1. confounding recklessness. ignoran of danger and fatalistic indifference wi r bravery
 Lastly come the mishaps that nt fall the aviator, like air sickness 2 \ porary paralysis from the cold. - failure or mental collapse. The ms too, may break or be pitched ab& air currents VI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
nErLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The bigger the brag the smaller the fact behind it.
 woman's faith is that anybody's made over gown is perfectly evident except her own
 The way for man to believe in the principles of his political party is not to know what they are.
 Some girls are so clever at making eyes they could do it if they didn't have any eyes to do it with.
 .Wfat woman likes about reading over old love letters is how queer it would seem TOW II any of 1t had come true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
Lewisburg,s Gruesome Record

The confessions of Walter and Arthur Jones are practically an in- dictnnent of the authorities of this county, The murderous work of the Jonses went on until they had killed three white mer and five negroes, and it was begun way back in 1905 when George Shoemaker, white man, was killed on bridge over Five Mile creek. Detectives should have been engaged at that time and 6 strenuous effort made to ascertain the source of the crime. Nothing, practically speaking, was done.
 It was immunity from punishment that encouraged the Jones brothers to go from one crime to another until they had given Lewisburg a reputa- ton for crime beyond any other To- cality in this state. Circumstances in Lewisburg may have favored as- sassinations, but if the well paid au- thorities had done their full duty the entire series of assassinations could have been stopped beyond reasonable doubt. If an effort had been made in 1905 similar to the one that has been made this year, the work of the Joneses would never have occurred.
 Look at the matter as one may the weight of the responsibility for the as- sassinations confessedly committed by the Jones brothers rests upon the of- ficers whose duty is was to find crim- inals when crime had been com mitted. It was their inaction that led on to the awful series of tragedies in Beat 22 in this county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
.JoHN's GRACE

rrem Norman D. Mack's Naticnal
 Monthly.
 John is a small boy, the youngest of minister's family. As a punishment for some misdemeanor at the table, it was decided that John must not eat with the family at tue next meal.
 So his dinner was placed On small table at the end of the dining room.
 When all were seated, the minister said:
 Now, John, you should ask blessing before you eat
 This was d new duty to John. but he bowed his head and said reverently:
 "Our Father in heaven. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies Thanks for the food. Amen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
Big Plants and Their Records

The seven Rankin furnaces long held the record of months production. They kept on producing more iron until last year they stood pat on a production of 93,00o tons in a single month.
 Then the six South Chicago furnaces entered the race and they carried the worlds record up to 8,260 tons. This was the record up to last month, when the six Duquesene furnaces piled up in the 31 days of March 106,041 tons of iron. The average production per day was 3420 tons, and each furnace aver aged 570 tons. No. 6 of the Duquesne furnaces Jagged not little. If it had held up well the record of the Dupuesne furnaces would have been one that promised to stand many years.
 These furnaces used ore exceeding probably 50 per cent in metallic iron, and they were made ready for the contest in every possible way. No other country offers record that approaches that of the six Duquesne furnaces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
youTH AND LOVE

By Stevenson. Once only by the garden gate
 Our lips we joined and parted. I must fulfill an empty fate
 And travel the uncharted. Hail and farewell I must arise.
 Leave here the fatted cattle. And paint on foreign land and skies My Odyssey of battle The untented kosmos my abode,
 I pass, wilful stranger; My mistress still the open road
 And the bright eyes of danger. Come III or well. the cross, the crown, The rainbow or the thunder, fling my soul and hody down
 For God tc ploueh them under.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
SIGNIFICANCE OF SOUTH POLL

From Current Literature for April.
 A T least three branches of science.
 "A 1t is hoped. will derive important 4 A benefits from the conquest of the south pole reported last month-meteorol- ogy. geography and seismography. More immediately important than any other re- suit is to be, it is probable. the influence O. the discovery on meteorology. In no long time, as a consequence of the wealth. CT maps based upon the fuller knowledge Of atmospheric currents in the Antarctic, doubtless brought by Scott and Amund- sen, the prediction of the weather will be made much more exact science. One of the results hoped for is the forecast- ing of the conditions of the monsoons in India and averting thereby a vast amount of damage to property and loss of life.
 To work out the many observations per taiIing not only to meteorology but to the other sciences, and to report on the collections in detail must, as a writer in the London Times points out, be the work of years. It is already possible, how ever, to conjecture from the mass of ex- pert information published here and abroad regarding Amundsen as well as Scott what are the outlines of great section of the globe of which only the fringe has heretofore been touched by the explorer. Captain Scott has himself worked out in a tentative way, accord- ing to London Nature, the configuration of the Antartic continent. Te begin with it is seemingly a real continent. Cap tain Scott is disposed to think that the land rises gradually from the sea to an immense altitude farthest south and con tinues practically unbroken until 1t reaches Graham Land to the south of Cape Horn. The question is; How far does the plateau extend toward the Ant arctic circle? A German expedition, in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
The Late pr. Funk

Isaac Kauffmann Funk, D. D., IL. D.. president of the Funk<& Wagnalls Co.,, and editor in chief of all it's publications, including the Standard Dictionary, Homi- letc Review and the Literary Digest, who died recently in his 73d year, was a re- markable man in many respects said an educator He was most remarkable in his versatility and his prodigious energy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
RECoGNIzED AUTHORITY

From Norman B. Mack's National
 Monthly.
 A little lad was desperately i'll, but re- fused to take the medicine the doctor prescribed. His mother finally gave up. "Oh, my boy will die. my boy will dier' she sobbed.
 Presently voice piped up from the bed. Don't cry, Mother, Father'n be home soon and he'll make me take it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

| ". Bourke Cochran acclaimed to a World reporter with smiling emphasis the first stanza:
 The dark eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old Rebellion, rapine, hate,
 Oppression, wrong and greed, Are loosed to rule our fate By Englands act and deed.
 Ever since the British governments infamous attempt to destroy the Boer re- public" MT. Cochran said 'ISipling's verse has sounded a shrin feminine note the decadent voice of the Roman woman who turns down her thumbs for the death of the warning gladiator the strident shriek of the harpy. filled with the pas sion for blood. It is not formidable, sim ply nasty. but it gives one creepy sensation.
 "The alleged poem will produce no effect whatever on the issue. The only result to be expected is feeling of nausea among all healthy minded people-the same as Kiplings caterwaulings have caused for years past-like other unpeas- ant objects in life from which we turn our heads aside in disgust and loathing.
 T never speculate as to the specific results of presenting any given measure to any deliberative body such as the par liament of Great Britain But I am as certain as that am here that home rule for Ireland is imminent. Perhaps the most unpleasant incident that the long drawn out contest will provoke is this last manifestation of decadence." The fourth stanza of the poem partic- ularly aroused the indignation of John D. Crinlmins as an appeal to narrow religious feeling. The lines to which he took ex- ception run: We know war Is prepared On every peaceful home; We know hell is declared For such as serve not Rome.
 The terror, threats and dread
 In market, hearth and field
 We know, when all is said,
 We perish if we yield.
 "Vicious," Mir Crimmins exclaiHed. This is an Illustration of the old hatred and enmity that are largely to blame for keeping Great Britain perennially dis united. That bitter hatred seems to be in- born in the English for the Irish people. Only a strong minority entertain it. But I am surprised that in this twentieth century an intelligent man like MT. Kip lins should express himself in such dan guage and hold such views. l believed him to be bigger, broader, more gener- oitsu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

Pennsylvania has sounded another key note that MT. Taft cannot afford to over look.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

lead to the very destruction of the tne
 tre, glowing reports come from Moscow of the success of Craigs production af Hamlet" at the Art Theatre there. T ne Russkoye slavo declared that Craig $ visualization of ShalSespeare's great tag
 edy was the most formidable event i present day scenic art It would ssenr that Craig has succeeded in making is future piercing idealism practicahleesfof the purposes of the present day theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The Lorimer touch is fatal to anything that comes in contact with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The Titanic will remain the largest ship in the world until the super-Titanic is built
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The business of putting over senators in Illinois has been called off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

It is the glad spring time at the base. ball parks at least
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

In Chicago the man who discovered the first robin is now looking for the first straw hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The strawberry crop and the peach crop and the watermelon crop may all conio in July.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

ons state convention or primary follows another. and life would not be much else if baseball had not fortunately appeared on the scene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
Four Democratic Aspirants

"The Literary Digest of April B prints in it's department Topics of the Day a snapshot of four democratic aspirants to the presideney-Cham Clark, Governor Harmon. Governor Wilson and MT. un- derwoodv said democrat who boasts oe always voting regular
 Each picture is good likeness. Un- derwood is chuckling quietly over some thing; Woodrow Wilson is laughing heart fly; Harmon wears grave smile, and on Clarlx's face is a characteristieally quizzical expression.
 T have known Mir. Clark personally for many years and he is a good fellow. But being something of a professional humorist he would not fit the presiden- ttal office as well as some of the others. No man void of the sense of humor is a great man. but there Is wide difference between one who tells a good joke and laughs at other peoples jokes and one who tries to be funny on all occasions. Tn the Literary Digest's snapshot, Clark 3 hat is thrown on his head in the devil me care way which is, I think, unbe- coming in a presidential candidate. How ever, if Speaker Clark happens to be the nominee of the Baltimore convention l will be quick to vote for him. The line under that group of four aspirants is Which smile will last longest?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
SCORE KEELING

This Is peculiarly year of contested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The two Aliens may have gone to meet Dorothy Arnold or the Mona Lisa"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

1 about 90 degrees east longitude a.
 outside the Antarctic circle. found a
 siderable extent of continuous coast ,t
 Between that and Cape Adare earlier,
 petitions have charted at frequent ir1
 vals indications of land. Similar in
 tions have been recorded on the othei
 as far as 30 degrees east Is there,,,-is from Cape Adare round at least to |.
 by Land a practically continuous 7. line facing the Indian ocean, with z. ] ice covered plateau lying betweenr
 coast and the coast slxirted by fCads
 Scott in former expedition? Cale ! Scott seems inclined to think that s Is the case. If his theory of the cop,l
 ton between Victoria Land and Grah
 Land be correct, the outline of the e
 tonent is probably completed betweenIa derby Land and Graham Land, ia
 the Atlantic by way of Coats Land, as , stretch of coast discovered by a Scoia expedition has been called. In this aJ King Edward VII. Land, discovered s former Scott expedition at the east
 end of the great ice barrier, mighlf.
 separated from the main continent. ot
 An alternative theory, however faSs
 the view that King Edward Land is ct
 nected with Victoria Land on the one si- and with Graham Land on the other, < l ice barrier being thus imprisoned wi Il great sheet of water or bay. In ar event Captain Seott's- conjecture as the region between the mountainous caal of Victoria Land and the Indian iocea has undoubtedly much to commend it, ; member of the Royal Geographical S ciety writes in the London Times. "1 whatever extent future discovery ma modify the details, we cannot doubt tn the existence of an Antarctic contine. has virtually been proved" Now conn Amundsen from the south pole to yerii the conjecture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

From the New York Herald
 ". Bourke Cochran acclaimed to a World reporter with smiling emphasis the first stanza:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

Senator c,llom accepts the verdict of the primary. and on March he will step down and out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

Andrew carneeic has done about every: thing excepr name the greatest baseball player in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The two missing Aliens may have got away altogether. They may in fact have joined Orozco's army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

Even eastern democrats are beginning to learn that dswg song. It appeals 10 the popular heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The University of Wisconsin intimates that very few of it's co-eds become old maids Pretty soon it may have to throw in husband with diploma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

pr Nu comes back for third term, and all stand ready to welcome him even u ough he be a third teryner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

The London suffragettes were com pclled to stay in jail when the Easter mil llneIy parade went by, They were thus doubly punished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15

Captain Scott knows the south pole will remain where it is until he gets to it. It never melts and runs away.