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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
Concerning Campaign Funds

The republican party has black record in the use of corruption funds. While the money raised by the late Mark Hanna in 1896 struck the high water mark perhaps, the republicans, in many previous campaignA did not hesitate to buy votes in blocks; some times in blocks of five and some- times in blocks much larger. The re- publican corruption fund was very much in evidence in 1880, 1884 and 1888. No campaign chairman was supposed to have any scruples when it came to debauching the electorate.
 The democrats never set out to buy votes, but in the 70's and sos the dem ocratic campaign fund was large con- pared with what it has been in more recent years. If Woodrow Wilson is elected this year-and everything points to sweeping victory for the democrats-it will not be by the use fl money. The national democratic
 ance committee will do we'll to raise .~. ything like enough to defray legiti-
 ate expenses-printing bills and the railroad fares of campaign orators.
 IfPresident Taft's followers thought that the republican nominee had any possible chance of being elected they would raise a large fund no doubt. But from the way things looks now repub- lican contributions will be small.
 Roosevelt, the third termer, has al ready spent great deal of money and will spend great deal more. Il is safe to say that his campaign fund will be larger than Wilson's and Tafti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
BEAUTIES OF SOUTH AMERICA

By far the most interesting and beauti- ful regions in South America. says a writer in the October Wide World Maga- zine, are in the lap of the Andes, where the rivers hurl themselves relentlessly through mountain gorges or in the less grand but fascinating watershed between the basins of the Amazon and Paraguay. The dreadful monotony of fiat forest with banks of alluvial clay, which is peculiar to the Amazon in all its lower waters. is here replaced by wonderfully fine seem cry
 In the Matto Crosse watershed the sav- ages, who are still in the stone age of de- velopment, are unequivocally hostile. There is no method of entering their country successfully without boldly sus- taining an attack to which 1t is impos- sibIe to reply: and the risks of such a proceeding are very great. It Is an at titude on their part of self defense. mixed with revenge for the merciless ex- petitions which in days now mainly past destroyed their outer villages, carried their men into slavery, and butchered their women and children. Savages who will always attack are the Parcels and Nhambiguaras of Matto Crosse and the Guarayos of Bolivia. An expedition in boats may be subject to an attack by hundreds of savages itself patent ob- jective in a narrow stream or on sand- bank. and the savages invisible In the forest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
The Centennial Exposition

1t is gratifying to know that interest is being manifested in the Alabama centennial exposition project. Dr. Thomas M. Owens. the state archlvlst, who is chairman of the Alabama ex- nosition committee, recently apointed bv Governor O'Neal, has received a number of encouraging letters with reference to tentative programme.
 pr. Owen has called his committee to met in Montgomery October zo' The first question to be considered IS whether the one hundredth anniver- sarv of Alabama in 1919 should be celebrated by holding an exposition If if is decided to undertake the ex- nosition. of next importance Will De the general plan and scope of the en- terprise. and then win come the mat fer of selecting the city. Chairman Owen Sald to lHe ASc-iioi"'A
 montgomery correspondent:
 have received many enthusiastic offers of assistance. The commercial organizations of Birmingham, Mont yomery. Mobile Huntsville and other oa+;es of the state have assured me or ' tbair hearty support and cooperation and I believe we shall have large
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 The movement for holding a cen tennial exposition originated in the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce m May, 1911. The idea was to have an exposition on large scale in this city. A resolution was adopted Ia voring the idea, and the committee appointed under that resolution will attend the meeting of the Owen com mittee.
 As The Age-Herald said before, if the exposition is to be on scale of much magnitude, Birmingham IS obviously the place TOT It. It requires great deal of money, to say nothing of talent for organization, to get up successful exposition. During the past 25 or 30 years many industrial fairs have been held. Richmond, At lanta and Louisville have had attrac- tive exhibitions, but the country is now used to worlds fairs and expositions approaching the worlds fair class. Nothing, therefore, but big show will attract wide attention.
 The Seattle exposition was a large affair, and if it is decided to cele- brate Alabama's centenary in Bir- mingham we should not be satisfied with anything less extensive than the Yukon-Pacific exposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23


 Herbert Kaufman in Womans world for October.
 The courage of criminals Is the reck- lessness of fools. Brave men are never lawbreakers. Honesty is not afraid tc fear the wrong. Crime Is an acknowl- edgement of inferiority. Thieves and murderers are low types--weaklings un. able to control their impulses and pas sions--cheats who by their misdeeds in fair contest
 With organized society aiding and encouraging law and order, he who be- lieves that he can pit his wits success fully against 99 per cent of his fel- lows, is either an ass or an imbecile.
 No example more firmly establishes this truth than the recent footing oi an express car by rattle bra1n who after plundering the safe. remained upon the train and calmly ensconced himself in Pullman berth, where within g few hours he was discovered sound asleep and with the evidence of the robbery upon his person.
 Any experienced jail bird will tel you that the wages of sin are not only poor but uncertain The greatest safe robbers of the century died in poverty There is no record of swindler oi forger who was able to bequeath ar estate to his family.
 When one considers the fact thai stolen goods must be sold to fences on such terms as to justify the risk of receiving them-when one estimates the furtive, secretive life enforced upon the criminal. and considers 1T how few places he can spend his H. legitimate gains-when one substract. from his periods of liberty the years which the average crook" drags ou in prison, and contemplates the few pennies he receives for his daily grint in the shot shop. on the stone heap. II the chair works, the income of thu meanest laborer is far greater his bur den of effort far less, and his enjoy ment of the good things of life i'm measurably beyond that of the mos adept gun
 Viewed from every standpoint ant from every tangent. deliberate crime il the height of folly. It is the poores paying and the most precarious pursui under the stars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Great Industrial Activity

Prom all appearances the Birmingham district has witnessed greater fndustriai activity this summer than at any time since the. summer of 19O7," said member of the Chamber of Commerce. Indeed, 1t is safe to say that the pay rolls are larger now than at any time in Birmng- hams history, because the larger expen- sion here in the past five years has ere ated larger demand for labor, skilled and unskilled, than ever before.
 But as active as the coal, iron and steel business is now, industrial operations will be much larger before the end of the year. It seems to be generally under stood that soon after Judge Gary, chair man of the United States Steel corpora ton, returns from Europe during the pres ent week, announcement will be made that work at the wire mill at Corey will be resumed. Preparations are being made now, I understand. for work at the wire mill on or about October 1. It Is more than likely that the Steel corporation will make a large appropriation this fall for great deal of new construction work in this district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
LONG LIVE MUTSUHITO!

| fioated to the heavens, nor did the ear.
 On July 2s, 1912, 50 years after his
 birth and 45 years after his ascent to
 the throne, Mutsuhito breathed his last breath upon the mightiest miracle in all the astounding anpals of history. Within the span of one life, he viewed a progress such as no other nation ever attained in 1000 years. The ciangor of trip hammers. the puffing of trains, the hum of trolleys. the whirr of printing presses, the click of telegraphs, the jingle of phone bells, the buzz of 100, 900
 looms resounding in a triumphant paean to celebrate the closing of his reign. Dreadnaughts lay at anchor in his harbors. new social order pervaded his islands; democracy had leveled alf ranks. Armed bullies no longer strutted the streets. Samurai and the sons of samurai bent over ledgers and held the throttles of locomotives and trafficked in market place and shop and stock exchange.
 Shoulder strapped peasants and peas- ants children, risen to estates un- dreamed of by their humble sires, pa- ltrolled the decks of cruisers and planned maneuvers for great army corps. Within his time, two mighty nations,
 the Chinese and the Russian, had tasted
 the valorous and unconquerable steel of his forces. Hospitals. schools. colleges.
 universities, libraries, lifted their roof against the skies of every city. The first powers of the universe had sued for alliance with his subjects. He dreamed greater dream than any
 mortal mind had dared, and lifted mil lions as high as his ina gination scared. Fame does not know his counterpart.
 Pericles, Philip of Macedon, Genghis
 Khan, Dareios, Solomon. Saladin, Caes- ar. Peter, Napoleon, are pigmies in his company.
 His name is traced in the star dust his glory is imperishable. He was the
 most colossal milestone on the road to achievement.
 | His memory is immortal. It will per- sist until the last sun sets upon chaos. to fire men upward and onward, to spur
 endeavor, to enthuse and uplift human kind.
 With Mutsuhito standing upright in his grave, let no man dare discount human possibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
THE VAMPIRE
By Rudyard Kipling

udyard Kipling. FOOL there and me made his prayer (Even you and ID To rag and bone and hank of hair eve called her the woman who did kpt caro-, But the fool he called her his lady fair
 tEven as you and ID Oh the years we waste and the tears we waste And the work of head and hand Belong to the woman who did not know And now we know that she never could know) And did not understand. A fool there was and his goods he spent (Even as you and ID Honor and faith and sure intent lAnd it wasn't the least what the lady meaht, But fool must follow his natural bent tEven as you and ID Oh. the toll we lost and the spoil we lost And the excellent things we planneo' Belong to the woman who didn't know why, (And now we know that she never knew wny) And did not understand The fool was stripped to his foonsn mus (Even you and ID Which she might have seen when sne tn5sw uua ff3ut it Isn't on record the lady ried) So some of him lived. but the most or nm e'se- f(Even you and ID And it isn't the shame and 1t isn't the biame That stings like white hot pfeno- It. coming to know that she never knew why (Seein6 at last she could never nov VI And mover could understena
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
Herbert Kaufman in womans World f

1ctt ihd ulnidh III w OiudH " ptid loi
 October.
 lN R. JOHNSON, the most profuse Fl of sourmets and profound of
 scholars, lived, achieved and died
 with ha'penny of knowledge concerning
 the distant and mystic isle of Japan
 Talleyrand, Bonaparte, Give. Jefferson, and Washington possessed by the haz-
 fest of ideas about the little brown men
 of the Pacific.
 l Isolated and hermitized by religion and by law. Nippon pursued her course
 through the centuries, unnoted and un- coveted; her Mikado, a mere figure ] head, the Tycoon In supreme command and her Shoguns schemng, plotting and intriguing; a medieval people even when steamboat and locomotive were precursing the revolutions of the great age of wheels.
 Dutch traders occasionally ventured into her ports and at the peril of their lives trafficked with her potters and
 weavers; but Japanese mariners were restrained under penalty of death from @@"oS AAoii llcE CDdsl. Junks were limited in size by decrees, so that even though the spirit of a Columbus or a Marco Polo stirred within the
 breasts of her sailors none dared chal- lenge the great wastes and pursue his imagination beyond the forbidden hori- zons
 Tradesmen were despised; only fight ing men possessed caste; the Samurai or warriors ravaged the island, clan fight ing clan and baron despoiling baron Blood stained every sunrise; the music | of swords contending rang perpetually | When the American Commodore Per ry steered his tiny frigates into her hostile waters, Japan was as primitive as the England of Arthur's day. Nut suhito, the Mikado, was barely year old. At the age of IS. the burden oi
 state was thrust upon him.
 | His childhood had been lived in the
 shadows of mysticism. The soldiers
 surrounding his palace, weird creatures panoplied in lacquered mail and armed with bow and lance, maintained vigil ant watch lest some sacrilegious sub
 ject might chance to look upon the
 holy face of the Scion of the Sun" As he gazed out of his prison win-
 dow, and looked upon the toy like city
 of paper houses. not one wisp of smoke
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
THE ELECTRIC HOTEL

In inc October Strand there is an in- teresting article descriptive of the Elec- trfc hotel which Georgia Knap is build- ing In Paris.
 Every room in the hotel, he says Is In direct communication with the pantry which is situated in the basement Around the combined kitchen and pantry you see the electric cookers and the va rious switchboards controlling the electric currents. But the apparatus to whieh would specially draw your attention are the electric lifts-I cannot think or a better word for them-which are placed on the numerous little tables seen here and there. What happens? An occupant in one of the rooms desires breakfast. lie rings a bell placed near his bed heao' and immediately a voice, issuing rom the chandelier, where one of my loud speaking telephones Is hidden. asks what monster desires. Without going to the trouble or seizine A telephone and speaking lnto a receiver he gives his orders. Every word he says, though it is spoken in quite an ordinary tone, is heard by the invisipie servant First of all, he wishes the smut ters to be opened and the blinds drawn. All such things are controlled from the servants quarters. The room he finds too hot: its heat must be modified. Ihen he will be glad to have his morning coffee and rolls, his newspaper, and his corre- spondence No sooner said than done that is to say, in five or six minutes his wishes are attended to. How does he re- ceive his breakfast. etc.? Through the door, to which 1t Is carried by ser want? No, no. have changed all that. It comes to him through the top of the little bedside table which is to the right of his bed This table is in communica- ton with one of the lifts in the kitchen below. All the servant has got to do is to place the petit dejeuner on the round tray of the lift and turn on the electric current. On the trap and its con tents reaching the top of the table, the top opens automatically, and the tray, se- cured by a catch, forms the top or the piece of furniture. The reverse of this happens when the occupant of the room has finished his meal. He touches a but ton, and immediately the tray and It's con tents descend to the office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
stage People

Actresses and actors on the road look ahead to stops in their travel of more than one day and night to enjoy some rec reation and opportunity to participate in some of the popular forms of diversion,' - said a theatre goer. They occasionally enjoy a private dance, but getting so much of the light fantastic on the stage they do not seek the ballroom. But when 1t comes to tennis, bowling. billiards and pool, gofing and other sports, they are to be found, in many instances. happy, jolly people. Miss Florence Webber, the star of Naughty Marietta to be at the Jefferson theatre Tuesday and Wednes- day nights, is fdnd of golf, and she re- members visit two years ago to the golf links at Lakeview, this city. She has acquaintanceship among several of the well known golf players of the south and mentions her former visits to Birming- ham and the opportunity that was accord ed her to see the well kept links at Lake view. Just as pleasant off the stage as or it, Miss Webber made charming im- presson dn those who met her."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

put together. Before we had ballot reform in this country it was easy to purchase votes. It is difficult now to buy votes outright, but there are other ways of using corruption fund. The public has become disgusted with the poodle methods, however, and the day is here when no party can buy it's way into power. Publicity has done that much at least for the coun- try
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
Democracy in the wireerass

There is nothing but Wilson sentiment in the wiregrass,' said J. l.. Acree or Dothan yesterday. ITO talk national poll tics in my part of the state one could not glean the information that there are other candidates in the field beside Mir Wilson.
 "The people down there, or the largest majority, are and always have been loysi democrats, and when the time comes for voting this fall each and every one of them will fall in line as usual and vote for Wilson and Marshall I can see no other result"
 While in the city MT. Acree was reg istered at the Metropolitan. He leaves this morning over the Alabama Great Southern for points in Texas, from where he will go to Kansas City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
ON THE WOMENS' FASHIONS
By BILL VINES

vHATE to join the rabble and take a
 knock at womens clothes just because \ 1t is popular. am not in politics. and if was, would refrain, because the ten- dency of the times is toward the suf- fragette, and as matter of fact the ten dency of the times has always leaned a little that way-and so have I. But any way, I hope that the fall styles for the fair ones won't be quite so economical. It is a sad, sad sight to see one of our fair American daughters with such brevity of costume as the recent styles have made arbitrary-and it is so much sadder to see one that ain't fair.
 Hard times or high cost of living has forced our dear ones recently to make their skirts from less material than they used to put in one of their sleeves in the good old days. Still it is a false economy, because it is inconsistent It is a common sight to see a regular American beauty tripping down the street with hardly enough skirt on to flag a hand car, and under hat that would shelter a three ring circus.
 Give us a little less hat and a few more clothes, dear ones, and take it from me, you look good in anything-but make 1t something worth while.
 And besides that, one of the very great est assets of our southern beauties is their small feet. Nothing looks as cute as a pretty foot peeping from under the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
poIitica fin Maine

T was in Maine just after the ie- cent election and the opinion among many
 was that Governor Plaisted, the democrat would have been re-elected had he come out souarely against constitutional prohi- bition." said H. N Monson of Philadei- phia.
 "ConstitutionaI prohibition in Maine may have been effective long years ago, but II Is A farce now, and has been for several wears past I am not much in favor or saloons, but. being democrat 1 ai"ass , expect to favor local option. am decio- edlv opposed to drastic statewide proiii- bitioli. brt aside from my own views. the democrats in Maine made constitutions prohibition an issue in 1910 and won. IL was A great democratic victory. While Plaisted's plurality was not quite @oo' u was a wonderful winning for the oeiiio- crats in that rockribbed republican state
 ..The anti-prohibitionists, when the vote was taken on the question of resubmittlng the constitutional prohibition, were oe- feated by a close shave. l suppose 1oF- ernor Piaisted Is as much opposed 10 cur stitutional prohibition in Maine as ne was when he first ran, but he deemed It ao- yisable to keep the liquor question if the background In the recent campaign. It was political mistake, as everyone couio se after it was all over.
 "Wison has a chance of carrying Maine
 The republican party and the bull moose party worked together in the state cam paign, but in November they will split the vote, and if the democrats manage wei the electors will be democrats"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
REFLEcrIoNs OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

Politics yells louder than 1t hurts.
 Being good is an awful lonesome job. The biggest pain a man with mill lion has is over the fact 1t isn't two.
 It's queer how conscience bothers only people who mostly try to do right. No matter what he does man is a good husband when his wife tells 1t to a woman with a better one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

The latest song, '"Teddy's Bin Away Awhile, But He's Coming Back Again, was written by Capt. T. A. Hendricks. Wonder what asylum the doughty captain escaped from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

A machine has been invented that makes 150 cigarettes minutes. Good news for the ultimate consumer who IS Wart- ing himself to the great beyond on ci- garette smoke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
PLAY THAT ALWAYS LURES -op Collier's Weeklv

From Golfers Weekly.
 An elaborate revival is about to be made by the Favershams of Julius Caesar"-than which none of Shakes peare's dramas more steadily stirs the ap- preciative mind. It is one of the few plays in the world that remains steadily popular with no love motive; and the only other one of Shakespeare's that is very frequently revived without this interest is Macbeth
 Caesar captivated Shakespeares imag- ination, as can be seen in tke splendid ref erences to him in Hamlet" in Antony and Cleopatra in Richard Ill.," In "Cymbeline," in so many other of the plays: and it is standing mystery why he did not choose to show any of his greatness in this play, but only his super stitution, boastfulness and fiber corrupted by fiattery. Others are drawn with the most magnificent success, while of Caesar we get only an exaggeration of theA de- generacy which comes from too much power. Yet even at this morally weak ened period Brutus can say of him in praise:
 to speak the truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections
 sway'd
 More than his reason.
 If the character of Caesar is unsatisfy. ing. what makes the play so great? For one thing its structure. Shakespeare has taken from Plutarch an interesting story, as SO many other playwrishts have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

Our pampered American suffragettes should rejoice that they don't live in Wales, where the militant sisters are sometimes stepped on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

Those white Eskimos, recently discov- cred, are an interesting people. They don't appear to be subject to crime waves, political unrest and other disadvantages of a more advanced civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

A Jap who clings to the traditions of his people doesn't seem to mind diving into eternity any more than some people mind plunging into cold water
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

Wilson says he believes in the honesty of President Taft. Much better than call ing him liar and 8 thief, after the fash- ion of a certain strenuous one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

Although dollar bills are to be made smaller, we arc not so anxious to be in fashion that we would turn down a bill that's little out of style.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

They are trying women for street car the sign, Don't talk to the conductor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23

Some SIP a week clerks spend all their spare time arguing about the respective merits of the latest models in motor cars.