The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

Joseph D. O'Brien, secretary of the New York National League Baseball Club, has resigned. It is reported that bis name has been favorably considered in connection with a high executive position in baseball.
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 "The community must be shocked to know that there are such beings as these scribblers out of the treadmill and because every exposure of tKe rag gamuffins gives to foreigners addi- tional proof that there have crept into the press of this country a number of seoundrels, who are not only unfit for the society of gentlemen, but who would be a disgrace to the vilest CO., teries of Europe.'
 It was the noble Earl of Limerick whom the hard hitter of Printing House square labeled a thing with human pretensions, and for this lapse from courtesy the printer of the Times did month in Newgate prison and the newspaper also had to pay $500 dam ages to his lordship. If one can judge by the speech of n member of parlia- ment named Roebuck however, the founder of the Times feared q thrash ing more than suit for damages for this M. r. declared that If anyone were attacked by the Times and did not wish for a repetition of the attack he would suggest to them at once to horseWhip the proprietor. Mir. Walter and they might depend upon 1t the at tack would not be repeated"
 Not Always Times
 It was not always called the Times, by the bye. When 1t came Into being In 17S5 its name was the Daily Uni versal Register but even in those leis- urely times that title made too large mouthful and people asked for the Register-all short, as the French say As result, they often were handed the Court and City Register, the Old An- nual Register, and sometimes, so Wal ter declares, If the coffee house be within the purlieus of Covent Garden or in the hundreds of Drury the waiter slips Into the politicians hands Har- ris' Register of Ladiesl
 For these and other reasons" it's founder added "the parents of the Universal Register have added to It's original name that of the Times, which. being a monosyllable, bids defiance to corruptors and tutilators of the lan- guage."
 Horrors!
 Write and tell us what you think Of Lydia Penfold and Claude Faversham ' says the editor of the London Budget, ingratiatingy, to his readers this week.
 Who do you suppose Lydia and Claude aref Well, they are respectively the hero and heroine of Mrs. Humphry Wards new novel, the English serial rights of which were secured recently, to the hor- TOT of Mrs. Ward when she found it out. by the London Budget. which is the Sunday newspaper owned by w. R. Hearst, and which is just as yellow as MT. Hearst thinks the public here will stand.
 The Budget started publishing 'The Mating of Lydia" this week and won't Mrs. Ward be pleased when she hea. that its intelligent readers have bsen asked to send in their candid opinion of her work? She had several cat fits to begin with when she heard that the American periodical which originally bought all rights in her story had dis posed of the English ones to the Hearst paper, and tried hard 10 have the deal declared off, but the saffron ones de- clined to give up Lydia" Perhaps to- ward the finish of the story, the readers of the Budget will be invited to guess how it comes out. with prize for the best forecast and if they are. the dis tinguished authoress is not likely to sur yive the indignlty.