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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
WILL NOT INTERFERE
WITH JOHNSON-FLYNN FIGHT

laws, the governor declares that "all the
power that possibly can be brought into
use, will be directed to destroy the evil,
and vice attendant upon the gathering .
In view of the absence of specific legal
prohibition, Governor Mcdonald adds that
all he can do is to enforce strictly ex-
sting laws regarding gambling.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
PERSONAL

J. II. Crawford, the prominent Jasper
banker was visitor in Birmingham yes
terday-
Horace Johnson is confined to his
home. 900 South Twentieth street, with
an attack of rheumatism.
The friends of Miss Juliette Odom will
be glad to learn that her operation for
appendicitis was successful and that she
is doing nicely.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25

Santa Fe, N. NJ, June 24.-There will
be no interference with the Johnson
Flynn battle for the. worlds heavyweight
championship at Las Vegas July 4, by
Governor Mcdonald. This was made
plain In an official statement issued by
Governor Mcdonald tonight. But should
the civil authorities fail to enforce the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
American Association
STANDING

At Toledo: Toledo 6. Louisville Z.
At Kansas CITY: Kansas city 4, Min
neapolis 3.
At Milwaukee,: Milwaukee Z. ST.
Paul 10.
Al Indianapolis: Indianapolis .. Co
lumbus Ga innings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

Must SEII@This means you get 1
bargain If you act promptly; acres
choice suburban property In town
site at station, $500. owner. 522 Em-
pire Bldg.
BARGAIN-1o acres choice
suburban property cat station for,
quick cash at $500; will sell half
same rate. make appointment. see e.
Box sis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
IVONET WILL QUIT
UPON INTERVENTION
Satisfied That the Cuban
Government Will Never
Repeal Law

Santiago. Cuba, June 24.-Gen. Pedro
Ivonet, the rebel leader, according TO
report, based on good authority, de-
oiared today early that he Will not
surrender until Intervention by the
United States. which he desires. as he is
convinced that the Cuban government
will never repeal the Moura law. pro-
hibiting the formation of political par
ties on racial lines.
Havana. June 24.-coIonel Piedra.
who recently took battalion of $50
volunteers from Havana to Oriente. has
returned with most of his command. He
reported to the President that insur-
gents have in the field about 1000 men.
divided into small bodies.
Colonel Piedra expressed the opinion
that the end of the uprising would
come within Is days Military opera
lions in Oriente, however. are appar-
entity at a complete standstill and the
government is without news of any
movement of the troops.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25

Baltimore, June 2I.-Coi. James NJ. Cuff
fey, leader of the Pennsylvania denocra-
ey for many years. was overthrown to-
day when the Pennsylvania delegation
voted to Dust him from the democratic
national committee and elected in his
stead Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer.
progressive member Of the party.
Baltimore, June 24-The Texas dele
gates met tonight and after brief discus
sion adopted motion asking their ma
tional committeeman to vote for pro-
gressive candidate for temporary chair
man of the convention. The Texas pri-
mary convention instructed for Wilson
for President.
Baltimore, June 24,-Although sentiment
in the Georgia delegation was said to be
practically unanimous in favor of Judge
Parker for temporary chairman, the eau
Gus of that delegation today accepted the
advice of its national committeeman,
Charles Howell, and declined to adopt a
resolution pledging its support. The Geor-
gians agreed to follow the lead of Mr..
Howell in the ehairmanship fight
Mr. Howell will be proposed by the deli
egaton Tor the vice presidential nomlna-
ton. Earlier in the day they had pre-
scented him with loving cup,
Baltimore, June pam attempt to break
the unit rule in the Illinois delegation
made. 1t is believed, in the interest of
W. J. Bryan's fight on the selection of
Judge Parker for temporary chairman,
was defeated AT a caucus of the dele
gates tonight.
Baltimore June 24.-Mr Bryan and
United States Senator Hitchcock both
members of the Nebraska delegation and
formerly intimate friends and political
allies, crossed swords In a meeting of the
state delegation tonight. Mr.. Bryan drew
the first blood.
Mr.. Bryan made o motion expressing
the sense of the delegation in favor of a
progressive, as against Mr. Parker.
Mr.. Hitchcock opposed the motion and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
DAY IN CONGRESS

senate-Met at 10 a. m. Adjourned at
1882 a. m. until 10 a. m, Thursday
House-Met at noon. Received Pres
idents message asking appropriation
xor army maneuyers.
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Mrs. j. r. Saunders of Epps, formerly
of Bessemer, died Thursday morning after
a long Illness, and thS body was inferred
at Mount Hebron church at York. Mrs.
Saunders death Will be deeply grieved
BY her many friends and relatives In and
around bessemer. Before her marriage
Mrs. Saunders was Miss Elizabeth Mar
tin.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Vastness of Stellar Depths
By EDGAR LUCTEN LARKIN

n o dig hole in the ground and
T set a post five or six feet
high. Nail a stick across
the top. Tie a fine string to a ring
three inches in diameter and sus-
pend it from the end of the stick.
Break up a diamond-if you
make the error of wearing one
and centering your mind on the
useless bauble rather than upon ma
ture and her majestic laws; select
minute fragment so small that
if spherical II side by side would
make a row one inch long, and sus-
pend the tiny globe by means of a
fine fiber of silk in the center Of
the ring.
Then walk away on a straight
line 9.31 miles. turn around and
look back The ring would be in
visible, and it would require the
keenest eye to see the post, if in
deed any could see it.
Get good telescope and you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

might just see the ring against t'.
sky on a white background; lou.
the diamond would be invisible.
Come up here, get the 16-inr'
telescope, try 1t and the damon
sphere could not be seen. Go gel
40 or 60-inch telescope, still the
diamond would not come into view
Then get 100000 candlepov'r
electric arc searchlight, and by
means of a big lens concentra,'
the light on, the diamond: then
much smaller telescope would re-
veal it.
Go to the giant star-sun, sirius
the dog star; take a very large Ls..
escope with you, turn around ana
look back this way.
Then the orbit of the earth :
ring 1S6,OOO.000 miles in diame'1.
would appear to be as three ineA5'
in diameter viewed from 's.
miles. And the sun as the l-,'''
of an inch in diameter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
By THOMAS TAPER.
No. 7.---raxes

fewer of them in the streets"
This is paying taxes on vanity.
Many a man at Ten Thousand
Dollars a year is farther behind in
the game than the economical la
borer who puts a dollar or two a
week aside from his wages. An
unwise man, with a love for dis
play, can be awfully foolish on Ten
Thousand Dollars a year. and
man on Fifteen Dollars a week can
be very wise. II all depends on
whether self government has been
set up and the man knows how he
stands every night.
III.
Don't pay useless taxes. but tax
today for tomorrow. By following
this rule you can not remain poor.
It braces up the mind, and the re-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

suit OF that is that you will get on
better in life, for the mind is the
motive power.
Don't believe in influence, in pull,
in better days to come unless you
make them come. Be your own
banker, and account for all that
comes and goes. A man earning
Ten Dollars week. or Five Hun
dred and Twenty Dollars a year,
is an investment representing
per cent on Ten Thousand Four
Hundred Dollars. That is, if he
should die his family would need
this sum to keep on as they had
been going
This shows how necessary it is
for a ten dollar a week man to be
a banker, and keep joint accounts
with present and future
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
SIRIUS
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright 1912, by American Journal Examiner.

Sirius Milky Way sixty g,
p Serviss)
ONCE Sirius crossed the Milky Way,
~ Full sixty thousand years have gone,
Yet hour by hour and day by day,
This treless star speeds on and on.
Methinks he must be moved to mirth
BY that droll tale of Genesis,
Which says creation had its birth
For such puny world this.
To hear how One who fashioned all
Those solar systems tiers tiers
Expressed in little Adams fall
The purpose of million spheres.
And witness of the endless plan
TO splendid wrath he must be brought
By pgmy creeds presumptuous man
Sends forth as God primeva thought
Perchance from half hundred stars
He hears as many curious things;
From Venus, Jupiter and Mars
And Saturn with the beauteous rings,
There may be students of the Cause
Who send their revelations out,
And formulate their codes of laws
With heavens for faith and bells for doubt.
On planets old ere form or place
Was lent to earth may dwell-who knows? p
A God-ke and perfected
That halls great Sirius he goes
In zones that circle moon and sun
'FwiXt world and world he may see souls
Whose span of earthly life is done.
Still journeying up to higher goals
And on dead planets gray and cold
Grim spectral souls. that harbored hate
Life after life, he may behold
Descending to darker fate.
And his grand majestic course
He may have caught glorious sight
OF that vast shining, central Source
From which proceeds all life all light.
Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way
Full sixty thousand years have gone
No mortal may bid him stay.
No mortal man may speed him on.
No mortal mind may comprehend
What is beyond what before,
To God be glory without end
Let man be humble and adore
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
HOW TO BUILD A FORTUNE
No. 7.---Taxes

T.
u OMETHING has already been
said about the value of small
sums Of money saved resu-
larly. TO cite one instance again:
Five cents day amounts in ten
years. at four per cent compound
interest, to a trihe over Two Hun
drcd and Twenty Dollars.
But there is absolutely no way in
the world of making a man prefer
to have Two Hundred and Twenty
Dollars ten years from now, at the
cost of five cents day. as against
the remembrance of having swal-
lowed three thousand six hundred
and fifty glasses Of beer. The
choice of this is, you see, entirely
up to the man.
Some savings banks have tried to
encourage thrift by printing tables
that show the growth of money
regularly deposited and left at in
terest. Few of them however. take
the trouble to rub in the principal
fact hard enough
The principal fact is this:
When you deposit money at in
terest you must also deposit
Time, For Time is that which per-
mits interest to get moving. to
create a momentum, and finally to
work up good total for you.
Any one can build a fortune. ac-
cording to his status in life, if he
will begin early enough in life and
give time a chance, Even men of
40 and so can begin TO save small
sums for pension at 20, for there
are 30 or 20 years available for in
terest to do its work.
Difficult at Forty.
But 1t is hard for a man OF 40 or
30 to accomplish this. and for this
reason:
1t is difficult to establish a new
habit. that demands regularity. so
late In life. But If a man of so has
Job. and Is i'll fair health, and is
scared to death lest he be in want
at 20, he may be able to brace up
and give time a chance to work its
wonders for him on his nickels and
dimes.
Much old age poverty and want
are due to waste in early years.
We complain OF taxes. But the
Willingness with which we pay
taxes of our own assessment is
amazing. We pay willingly for
countless things we do not need.
When want pinches, in later years,
We grumble at the times. at hard
luck. at never having had a chance.
And Vet few of us are such fools
as to believe the lying reasons we
give for our own poverty.
Back Of countless old people who
have nothing stretch years of i'm
providence. So it is true. as one
writer says Society suffers more
from the waste Of money than from
the want OF money" To be we'll
TODD is the result of self-denial
and daily economy. Self denial and
economy are common sense applied
to everNbodys money transactions.
\ man with a little extra change
I'm his pocket can buy lot of
things he does not need II he does
buy them he has paid tax on his
habit OF waste. He may be skilled
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

T-IAVE received letter from
young woman, who says:
Il am a working girl 1t is
absolutely necessary for me to earn
my own living. ! have had several
good places since | left school, but
| have lost each one because my
handwriting is so bad. What shall
Ido?"
Learn how 10 write, little sister.
Get you copy book, and pen and
ink, and sit down at a table and
never get up until you have mas
tered the art OF chirography.
Spend hours, and days, and weeks,
if necessary, acquiring a plain and
legible handwriting. Eat pot
hooks; dream upward slants and
downward slants, and curves, and
curlecues. Give every particle of
intelligence you've got, put every
ounce OF determination in you to
learning to write, and, my word
for it, you will soon have Jim the
Penman looking like a carver of
Egyptian hieroglyhics.
You're not going to sit down be-
fore an ink pot and pen, and give
up, are you? You're not going to
admit that you have so little in
telligence that you can't learn how
to write decently, are you? You
haven't SO little ambition that you
are going to be a gutter the first
time you strike a real difficulty in
life, are you? When we find out
what Is our handicap in the race
for success there is just one thing
to be done, and that is to over
come that particular drawback.
There's just one way to get on in
the working world, little sister, and
that is to do good work, and the
sooner you master the fact the bet
ter 1t will be for you. There are
plenty of good places for the com
petent, but there's no room for the
clerk whose sales slips look like
chicken tracts, or the bookkeeper
whose ledger won't balance, or the
stenographer who can't spell.
Therefore it's up to you to decide
whether you are going to be one of
those invaluable employees who
climb up to situations of trust and
honor and profit, or whether you
become one of the shifting army of
incompetents who are always look
IN
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Gypsy LUCK.

% n a
dropped Then though all earth an heaven
Sends none to help or heed ".
Mex. list
a sur-.at clover the Gypsy 1nos1l ye
We an interested when somebody talks Of luck
Probably individuals told they
most" sailed the Titanic and how luck saved them
Luck" did nothing of the kind of They simply
not SAIL
Almost every human being has superstition!
Gamblers made of superstition because gambling
quires real effort of the intellect.
Ignorance is made of superstition because superstition
places knowledge place grain in an
abandoned field
Ninety this newspaper
''luck"
If should proceed tell what lucky what not
lucky if should describe the wonders of lucky i'll luck
through end beley
ing, perhaps but still Interested
article were change talk about How to be
healthy instead of How be lucky half stop
reading it.
Yet easy for the be healthy if he
she will There such thing good HEALTH and she
get it. There $ such thing good luck
pity talk, emotion
knowledge
$ easily obtained
the old days when the pague-probaby
England thousands had their
the mystic word 'abracadabra"
Those that had the cholera and died the anybody
else IT, aooing abracadabra their arms they
drunk carefully boiled only exposed
contamination they would have been safe SWAI-
Low the cholera n order to get the cholera.
LUCK has nothing to do with it
East today the natives fight cholera
and religious appeals They battle Holy
swallow it.
they go Mecca pray the Holy Stone which
Mohanmed when he up heaven,
with the disease down there and catch it.
When European scientists among the miserable inhabitants
along the banks of the Gauges the ignorant Moamme
try replace heather religious
actual knowledge the fight the scientists
and them of murder
realize however when you
reprint the of this column what hold superstition and
the lucky idea have upon the mind
That due to the fact that only yeserdayas time goes
this world few hundreds of centuries at the moseverythng
attributed to luck magic to good or evil spirits.
savage about loaded charms
different kinds keep off evil they hired magcians
take evil away from them and unload on their enemies
The thunder in the mountains the lightning in the clouds
noises in the all attributed evil spirits
And there always cunning individual
ignorant ready invent explanation ready
gion ready the evil spirits and quiet them for fixed
price.
build up great fortune the United States today by advertising
The sale of lucky other tamans But if should
knowledge of facts regard
health education and work that will actually the results that
NEVER gives he might death He would at least
little
That teaches that still very to ancestors
the holes the hills that believed in fairies
COLLINS and that imagined god gods will
ing be bribed cash basis
We far still from the real civilization and knowledge which
destiny.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Dorothy Dix
Writes on
Doing Things Well
By DOROTHY DIX

learning to spell and that they can
find the whole art of how TO pe,
there in the dictionary l know
cooks who have cooked for 40 wears
without ever learning how to make
bread, or boil a potato properly. ana
will still wonder why they are al
ways changing places.
know dressmakers who admit
that they are bad filters. vet tbey
go on running peoples, cloth vca.
after year, and complaining abou.
the f1ckleness of customers who
never come back
These women know where their
fault lies, but they are too law and
too indolent to correct 1t. And
they are always poor and i'll paid
for there's just one kind of WORT,
that commands high price IN the
market, and that is first class vo.k
If you can do that you can write
your own price tag for it.
Why can one dressmaker gel T.;
for making gown while another
can only set IS?
Because one woman turned GU,
sloppy work and the other turns
out perfect job.
Why can one cook command
salary of $4,000 year while an
other can only get IS a week. Be
cause one has raised the art Of
cookery to a science, and the Other
never takes the trouble to learn
even the rudiments Of It.
Willing To Pay.
Why can one stenographer com
mand a high salary while the town
is oyerrun with girls who are all
ways advertising for a Job? Be
cause busy men are willing to pay
for expert work that is Away
right, and nobody wants to pay for
bungling, laundering work that g
full of ill-spelt words and crasuuos
and that can never be depended
upon for accuracy.
1t pays to learn how to do things
well, little sister. 1t pays to be ON
the job, and if you know wherein
you fail to make good you've got a
signboard pointing you to the way
of success. Just correct your fauI-
and make of your weakness your
strength.
Don't say you can't write, or You
can't spes. or you can't add up fig
ures. or you can't cook, or YOU
can't sew, because you can if You
want to. Any girl with ordnaay
bone in her body can make hersc'
an expert in any of these lines If
she will give it half the time and
trouble and serious thought that
she does to the way she combs her
hair.
or course, girls are Ike boys
they succeed best in the occupation
for which they have a natural apti-
tude In selecting ones lifework
it is important to pick out some
thing for which one has turn and
liking, and which one enjoys do
ing, but having once made this So
lection, stick to 1t and learn to do
that thing supremely well.
That's the open sesame to sue
cess, little sister. It's just doins
things we'll and whether it's learn
ing how to write a legible hand, or
singing grand opera, It's up TO the
individual. If you have the deter
mination and the energy, and the
courage to work, and work, and
work until you conquer your diff
ficulty, and learn how to do tina
particular thing just right You
will succeed. Otherwise you vii.
be failure, It's all up to you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Why They Fail.

People who fail in life always lay
the blame on circumstances, or
fate, or the state Of politics, or
heredity, or some other convenient
scapegoat. This let's them down
easy and gives them a chance to
sniffle, and cry, and make a bid
for sympathy when they strike us
for a loan But the truth is that
we make our own luck, little sister,
and we are the architects of our
own misfortunes just as much as
we are of our own fortunes. The
drunkard and the beggar on the
street are sef-made men, Just as
much as are Mr.. Rockefeller and
Mr.. Carnegie.
1t doesn't make a bit OF differ
cnce what we choose as a life work
If we do 1t well. Success or fail
ure in any line depends upon the
kind of handiworl1 that we turn
out, and this is something that wo-
men have yet to learn.
I know dozens of girls who have
chosen stenography for a profess
sion, who blandly say, 81 never could
learn to spell" and it never seems
to occur to them that their whole
future success depends upon their
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-26

Mr.. Ismay said It was arranged be
tween him and Captain Smith OF the
Titanic not to arrive at New York
lightship before a. m, Wednesday
There would have been advantage In
arriving earlier" he added.
He did not see the Titanic go down,
he said, and denied that any of the
lifeboats were lost In launching.
Turning to the construction Of the
ship. Mr. Ismay declared the ship was
specially constructed SO that with any
two Of the larger compartments full
OF water she still would float.
If the ship had struck head on she
probably would be afioat today" he
added.
The seriousness OF this inquiry was
disclosed Friday night when Senator
Smith, acting as chairman of the
committee, at first fatty refused to
let any OF the officers or the 200 odd
members OF the crew OF the sunken
steamship get beyond the Jurisdiction
OF the United States government.
The men were all to have sailed Sun.
day on the Red star liner Lapland.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-26

old, genial, brave smile was on his
face. The picture he, made as he
stood there, hat in hand. brave and
smiling, is one that will always linger
in my memory"
Mrs. Washington Dodd of San Fran
cisco says: Yes, l saw Major Archi,
bald Butt. know him, because he
was the handsomest man on the ship.
saw him standing by Captain Smith,
alongside of Colonel John Jacob Astor,
and it seemed to me that those three
men were in command of everything.
Il looked into Colonel Astor's face
and into that of Major Butt and l
could see no fear. The last recollec-
ton l have of getting away in boat
was that Major Butt and Colonel AS
tor were standing by the side of the
gangway assisting the second cabin
passengers into the remaining boats"