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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mir. Hnrding Refurns


 W. P. G. Harding, president of the First National bank, has returned from a two weeks outing which included visit to the Bermudas.
 q had pleasant trip said MT. Hard- 1 Ing yesterday. "The Bermuda climate is delightful and the town of Hamilton, which is the capital of the Bermudas, is clean, prosperous and beautiful. The total population of the Bermudas Is about 2O,- GOO, of which 700O are white and 130O0 col ored. The negroes were slaves down to the year 1888. and they are today very much like the better class of our southern negroes. The lines between the races are drawn very much as they are here Ne groes, no matter how well educated they may be, do not mix with the upper class of white people on anything like social equality.
 The Bermudas,. as every one knows. constitute an English colony. The Church of England is very strong on the islands. There are several Anglican churches there The negroes attend the white churches, but sit in pews set apart for | them. The tourist business is very large. III iilOiO9J dtOoibtH6 bo SSNt mates of s25OO,OoO year. Trucking is a valuable industry. Potatoes alone-four crops a year-bring a large volume of money to the islands.
 "The government of the Bermudas seem to be model in every way. ghe best of order prevails year in and year out. There has not been a murder in the Bermudas in 40 years. An election campaign was !n progress while I was at Hamilton and It was quite amusing. The principal officer to be elected was coroner. There were several candidates and a great deal of in terest was manifested on the part of the voters-all this, notwithstanding the fact that the coroner has practically nothing to do. I am told that there Is the same stir at every election over the office of coroner. The office is looked upon as one of high honor. But the people themselves must laugh to themselves at the cam paign excitement when the coroner seems a useless institution in that law-abiding colony"
 MT. Harding said that he was glad 10 see on returning home so many signs of business prosperity here in the Bir- mingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
CONTINUOUS MIsREPREsENTATI
.orn tha Montrnmerv Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The Atlanta Journal, the Old Reliable of Georgia, says:
 MT. Llttleton says Mir. Underwood Is real American. Well, nobody accused him of being a Russian.
 It is a wonder that the Journal nas not accused" Underwood of being Russian However, we are not twitting 1t, and dar- ing 1t to call him one. One thing Is cer- tain. if the Journal should say that MT. Underwood was a Russian or Jap, and the facts were immediately forthcoming to show that the Journal had mlsrepresent- ed him, we don't believe 1t would correct the impression 1t had created, Notwith- standing the statement Mr. Underwood is- sued a few days ago, showing clearly that he was all southern blood-a fact which should never have been consideration in this campalgn-the Journal continues to let it's "charge" stand. We said at the beginning that the Atlanta paper would not correct this impression, no matter what facts may have been presented to the contrary. We were right.
 The Journals crowd Is now trying to array the Farmers union of Georgia against him. because Underwood Is sup posed to have favored the election or MT Lamb of Virginia as chairman Of the com mlttee on agriculture. man whom 'ho farmers are supposed to have been asaihst and this, too, in spite of the fact that the Underwood free list. which passeu the House last year. promised more reiiel for the American farmer than any pili offered in Congress during the past :" years.
 We find in the same issue of the Jour nal this isolated paragraph;
 ..Mr. Underwood says the democrats ,,,,st win on the issue of the tarifr. but hs doesn't say what kind of tariff he him salf would make the issue
 Why don't you tell the truth when writ ing about Underwood. particularly when yon know the truth about him? We And that very paper no longer than Janu- ary 27, 1912, was praising him to the skies. to-wit:
 "Congrcssman Underwood as House leader of the democrats and as chairman of the ways and means commmittee. has mengured up to the standard of true craftsmanship. He has rendered incal- culable service to the cause of honest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
Roosevelt Looking 10 1916

Colonel Roosevelt is considered a shrewd politician, and it is not reason- able to think that he does not see where he stands He knows he can not win the republican nomination. It Is believed that his scheme is much deeper and broader. He intends to organize before 1916 a new party. To do this he must first defeat Mr. Taft. By wrecking the republican party he would then be in position to organize new party of progress made up of progressives from both of the old parties.
 But there are obstacles in the way, and the new Moses will have a hard road to travel. A wise and just dem pcratic administration led by Oscar Underwood may correct the evils now In evidence, and then the colonel would lack followers. A political rev plution and the formation of new party is no light task. Even if he should be able to organize a third party, he would discover at last that no third-termer could rise to power in this country. That is the rub after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
The Spring Season and Business

''rhe goose bone prophet, who predicted that when spring did set in about the middle of March that good weather would be continuous, has been diseredited; but 1t is reasonable to think that after this depressing rainy spell spring will come to stay" said a merchant.
 What we now hope to see is a warm, bright week leading up to Easter. If we have summer-like weather next week we will soon forget the backward spring. Business conditions are better in the Bir- mingham district than they have been in several years. We are having a great building boom and every branch of busi- ness will be active throughout the com ing summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
Southern Commercial Congress

The second meeting of the Southern Commercial congress is to be held in Nashville April 8-10. This congress relates to all kinds of enterprises in the south. To use the words of the Washington Herald, it is no more commercial than it is industrial; no more industrial than agricultural; no more agricultural than educational.
 By building up greater south it hopes to see arise a greater nation. The national importance of the south will be plain to all when the Panama canal is opened, for it will then be- come the gateway of the products of the Mississippi valley. When those products seek gulf outlet no one will longer have any doubts concerning the national value of the south as a section.
 Nashville itself is in the Mississippi valley, and it's call for delegates should be needed in all parts of the south. Every city should be repre- sented. From beginning to end the coming session of the Southern Com mercial congress will be an inspira- ton to higher and greater develop ment of the south as a means to a higher and greater development of the nation and the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
OUT FOR UNDERWOOD

From the Shreveport Journal.
 All of the big politicians in Mississippi. including Governor Brewer, Senator Elect vardaman. Senators Williams and Percy and ex-Senator Money, have announced In favor of Underwood of Alabama as the democratic nominee for President. The announcement Of MT. vardaman for Mir. Underwood was sufficient, however: the other politicians no doubt thought it might be just as well to get into the bandwagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
uErtECTroNs ow A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A dog can be more grateful than& a man because he has less to make him SO.
 The easiest way for young folk to get into trouble is to have parents sure thy won't
 A gili wants a full moon when sine gets engaged to man so they can keep out of it's light.
 There's poth;ng humiliates young woman so much as to think of the clothes she wore when she was little girl;
 Men seem to think that if they could earn their own fortune it would be more worthy to get somebody else's away from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29


 Whether we think that man Underwood little too conservative or not we all like and respect him. He Is about the most prominent example of the efficient man in our public life today. AS Barclay suggests In his cartoon this morning. he knoks how to lead a donkey without getting either himself or the donkey tan gled up In the reins. The course of the democratic majority in the House of Rep resentatives. since he has ben at Its head has been marvelously straightforward and sensible and patriotic. Real leaders in America, as elsewhere, are too scarce for the people not to make use of them when they find them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

A DELIGHTFUL appreciation of
 A Joel Chandler Harris and his 4 \ work, by Mrs. LaSalle Corbell Pickett, is one of the most pleasing fea- lures of the April Lippincott's.
 "Mr. Harris had no objection to talking in sooiable manner of other writers, , says Mrs. Pickett, but if his visitor oid not wish to see him close up like a clam and vanish 10 the seclusion of an upper room it was better not to mention Uncle Remus Neither had he any fancy for the kind of talk that prevails at pink teas and high functions of society in gen eral. Anything that would be aGpropri- ate to the topics to him, and the vapory nothlngness was so filled with mysterious terrors for him that he fled before them in unspeakable alarm"
 We are told of his early life both before and after the war; of his fondness for the slave quarters where he found so much literary material for later use; of his love for books and his first essays into the fields of literature.
 Ut was sunny, happy day when visited Snap Bean Farm, Mrs. Pickett tells us "A violet bordered walk led me to the pretty frame cottage, built upon a terrace quite a distance from the street a shady, woodsy, leafy, flowery, fragrant distance-a distance that suggested infinite beauty and melody, infinite fascination When the homo was established there the rumblins and clang of the trolley never broke the stiffness of the peaceful spot. A horse car crept slowly and snttly to a nearby terminus and stopped, ;ts if having reached Uncle Remus and his voodsy home, there could be nothing 'e- yond worth the effort. There were wide reaches of pine woods. holding illimtable possibilities of romance, of legend, of wildwood and wildfolk tradition. It was a country home in the beginning. and i' remained country home, regardless oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
A VISIT TO JUNGLE REMUS"

the outstretching of the city's influences. Joel Chandler Harris had a country soul, and if he had been set down in the heart of a metropolis his home would have stretched out into mystic distances of greenery and surrounded itself with linn tiles reach of cool, vibrant amber atmos- phere and looked out upon a colorful and fragrant wilderness of flowers, and he would have dwelt in the solltudes that Gcd made.
 AS l walked a fragrance wrapped me al ound as with veil of radiant mist. It came straight from the heart of his many varied roses that claimed much of his time and care. The shadow of two great cedar trees reached protecting arms after me as I went up to the steps of the cottage hidden away in green and par pie and golden and pink tangle of bloom and sweet odors; ivy and wistaria and jasmine and honeysuckle Beside the steps grew some of his special pet roses Their glowing and fragrant presence sometimes afforded him congenial topic of discourse when a guest chanced to ap- prosch too closely the subject of the liter ary work of the host, if one may use the term in connection with a writer who so constantly discaimed any approach to literature, and so persistently declined to take himself seriously.
 "In the front yard was a swing that appealed to me reminiscently with the force of the olden days when I had a swing of my very own. As let the old cat die we talked of James Whitcornb Riley's poem, 'Waitin fer the cat to die and MT. Harris told me of the visit Riley had made to him not long before. Two men with such cheerful views of life could not but be congenial, and 1t was appar- ent that the visit had brought joy to them both.
 'I did not see the three dogs and seven cats-mystic numbers.-but felt confident that my genial host could not have been satisfied with any less"
  , tariff revision, the great issue in the pend- ing campaign, and by his splendid poise and mastery of affairs he has exalted his partys name In the minds of thinking Americans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
Economy Becomes Party Policy

By two-thirds vote the democratic caucus has again declared that there shall be no dreadnaughts authorized at this session, and no public build Engs bill shall be put through. Leader Underwood readily secured two thirds vote by which both were elimi- hated from the party programme.
 No harm whatever will follow from e,is action. A halt in battleship con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
CHANSONNETTE

Clarence Urmy, in Harper's Bazar. The joys that we have missed
 The broken tryst The friend we never knew, The harp and lute unstrung,
 The song unsung- A little toast to you! The joys that we have missed
 The lips unkissed, The dreams that ne'er came t-,,s The homebound ships that sle
 In havens deep A little toast to you, The joys that we have missed
 Life's unground grist, Hopes unfulfilled-a few, The days and nights unwres fsd
 The love unbreathed- A little toast to youi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
roo YOUNG FOR THAT

From the Chicago EVening Post,
 An old man was hanging on strap in a street car, and with difficulty. With the usual lack of street car considera- ton, no man offered to give him a seat, and woman was impelled to get up,
 He pushed her back iH her seat gently, but with symptoms of resentment. She feit bit embarrassed until, after & lapse of minute or so, the old man bent down and whispered;
 "I won't be S3 until June.i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
A FLIGHT OF FANCY.

A FLIGHT OF FANCY Ye poet, in a mood sublime, Doth dream a dream of fishing time And all In summers golden glow Ho sits beside the riYers flow. The rlpples sing his soul to sleep, He reeks no more where troubles keep, But with a pleased and tranquil eye, He scans the flood. he notes the sky, So blue above, where cloud-ships sail; He hears the birds sing in the vale, Where violets rear their lovely heads And Natures vernal carpet spreads ''All's well,p he thinks ''the worldllng
 hate
 Doth in this paradise abate. Here doth the weary heart find peace And futile strife and turmoil cease"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

SOPHRoNIA IS A CRAFTY GIRL.
 "Sophronia Patch" observes Arthur Aull of Lamar doesn't deny that she's rather proud of her figure. But when she has real live one in the parlor she's careful not to let him see her mother, who weighs 193 in her kimono."- Kansas City Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
A Visitors ISaec:Ss

T have been in Birmingham several days looking over conditions with q view of bringing capital here ta in- vest in manufacturing enterprise,H said man from Moline. Ill: registered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

An Italian professor has de.issd Chi nese alphsbet that has but is characters msuad of S3,.9o slsns. l. hss not vet bees adopted ia CsSns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Ingalls, sonnet on opportunity is Colonel RooseVelt's favorite poem, and he keeps copy of it near him at all tines. 1t was a mlsit in North Dakota, low aN.er
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Senator Cullom's votes in favor of Lori mer will soon drive the former out of of- flee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
BREWER PRAISES UNDERWOOD

Those first sweet violets of early spring In Chicago are raised in hothouses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

S. tness2ad of Americans have visited the azzAins cSnai since January l, and the who.s ta.aS is HoW boih s resort and q louta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Do the people about here like BiffersY' "Oh. Biffers is the most popular ab- sentee in town.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
WILSON RINGS THE BULLS EYE

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 At last, and dismissing chimerical and irrelevant subjects, Woodrow Wilson has rung the bulls eye with regard to the paramount issue in the impending cam paisn. He has also, unconsciously, ad- vanced the most invincible argument why Oscar Underwood should and will be nom- mated at Baltimore. The governor says in an interviews
 "The tariff is the one central issue of the coming campaign. It is at the heart of every other economic question we have to deal with, and until we have adjusted that properly we can settle nothing in a way that will be satisfactory and lasting
 Governor Wilson's admission that the tariff is to be the sink or swim presiden- tial issue clinches the consensus. Both democratic and republican leaders had long ago sensed that fact and fitted their plans to suit it.
 If the tariff is to be the lone central issue" who is the democrat best adapted to carry the party to success upon it? Oscar Underwood. who made the demo- cratic tariff and whose labor and brains and leadership are written upon every schedule-or the man who has just made and announced the belated discovery of the battle ground of the coming contest !
 The question answers itself as 1t is be- ing answered with a whoop by the flood tide of Underwood sentiment in Georgia and in every section of the country which must be won if victory is to perch 1Il democracy's banner.
 Whoever is nominated will have to ex- plain and defend the tariff throughout what promises to be the most grueling campaign in many years. Who is the man best qualified? Oscar Underwood He will have already explained, defended and vsualized every schedule and every item of every schedule when the record Is completed. Is not the man thus equipped the man to carry the party to success upon Governor Wilson's central issue?" If he Is so saturated with the subject, so indomitable in leadership, that he can steer every bill through each eau GUS shoal, each house breaker-bringing even republicans to his viewpoint-can he not with infinitely greater chances of suc- cess than any other democrat repeat the process before the country?
 The tariff the central ssue,' according to Governor Wilson. But there is no Wilson tariff! There is an Underwood tariff. Why say more?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Vancouver in the Dominion has the sim gle tax, ard it is content to keep it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
ALL PRESENT.

The Culture club did late convene
 Decided buzz was in the air, But no ones name was blacked, ween- The total membership was there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

In the light of some modern oratory Colonel Bryan begins to feel that he Is reactionary standpatter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

sonatoF I.sEolletts got all the advertis- ing and Tar. and Roosevelt got all the bumps that North Dakota could hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
WHEN HE STOPPED.

I'm sorry you had such a bad fall, sir"
 Ut wasn't the fall that hurt me so much as it was the finish"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

The Mississippi is beginning to spill It. self over the levees, and spring is really beginning to appear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

The backward States that have no pres idential preference primaries are subjects of pity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Certificates oS health will vie with cer- tlheates Of bank deposits hereafter In weddings in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

All men may be created equal, but when it comes to the payment of an income tax the line is drawn unevenly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE BETTER BRANDS. (Keep your machinery well oiIed.-Lillian
 Russell) We try to, Lii. When we have dough; But liquor costs f A dime a throw.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. To live in. Gin. Must be immense; Down here a drink Costs twenty cents.
 Birmingham Age Herald. But regulars Expect rebates, And so we get Excursion rates.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. It ali dependsi Some stay at home, And let their friends Supply the foam.
 New York Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Jupiter PIuyius is ever all early arrival Wien the baseball folks begin 10 come in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

The Panama canal is not cluttered up with contractors, and It's completion on time is predicted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

The war in the republican party easily cutrsnks tine war between Italy and Tur- key.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

The destruction of the peach crop will take plaee next July and many will have a hand in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

All canned goods are regarded with sus- picion now that Dr. Wiley has left the public service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

at the Hillman, land would like to say this to the Chamber of Commerce the water rate Is 100 night It Is higher than in any city in the United
 States. House rent Is as high as 1t IS in Boston or New York Why is thisf
 Ninety per cent of the restaurants lh
 Birmingham are controlled by Greeks
 am a stranger In Birmingham but
 want 10 say that the city will pros
 per 10 times more if f; will cut out
 the things that are complained of'
 If house rent is his. it is because Birmingham is growing rapidly and there is an unusual demand. If the fact that a large percentage of the restaurants were controlled by Greeks is intended as a knock 1t. is altogether unjust. The Greek colony here is large and the members of the colony have proved themselves law abiding, indus trial and desirable citizens In every re- spect. They know how to conduct the restaurant business successfully. They serve good. meals at reasonable rates. But the field Is open to Americans. and any native born person Is well comed to try the business of caterer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
THE STREET OF THE vIOLETs.


 Evidently the Springtime Ananias' came under the influence of the Street of the Violets, yesterday, for he dreamed this wild dream:
 Life glimpsed the Springtime Lady, from the Street of the Violets, in swing made all of the honey -suclIe vine, shak- ink pink blossoms from her hair; her smile was that of the Morning coming up from a bank of golden clouds; her rip bling laughter was that of the rills, soft singing in the sunlight; the birds knew her, and joined in a chorus of praise; the rose garden breathed her name and violets sent messages of welcome. Like thrilled to Love and Light, and little children came from near and far and played in the Street of the Violets. At lanta Constitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

MIGHT BE A ROAD-BUILDER. Here is a man who is evidently going out of politics"
 What makes you think SOP" "He advertses a steam-roller for sale"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Early ballots at Baltimore bid fair 10 be not much better than those of the straw variety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
NEPENTHE.

NEPENTHE. Of life and love the poets sing, While Fancy scars on golden wing. But when they wander back to earth, The scene affords but little mirth. Realities do hedge them round, In troubles letters straitly bound, Until they fain would slip away And dwell in Lotus Land for aye.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
A WAR CRITICISM.

"A newspaper writer wants to know how goes the Turko-Italian war"
 'I think it must go in circle. It doesn't seem to get anywhere"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Tine Illinois legislature is expected to put throusa $ presidential primary law in the doae.a Gt..~.s. T:ls Taftites are, However, staading ig the way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
MODEST MEANS.

MODEST MEANS. There's Dibbleforth Who still inquires About the price Of auto tires, When, if the truth Were known, I ween, He couldn't pay For gasoline.