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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-21
NO. RUNAWAY RACE
Vast Wilson Majority in In
diana Declared Impossible.
HE MAY CARRY THE STATE
Predictions of $4,000 to 10000
Characterized as Bosh.
BEvERIDGE'S FOLLOWING BIG
Believed That Former Senator's Vote
Will Be Greater Than Roosevelt's.
Reluctance to Register.
HE MAY CARRY THE STATE
BEvER1DGE's FOLLOWING BIG
BY A. w. TRACY.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. October 21.-The
talk floating to Washington from the
Hoosier state in the last month or two
about Indiana going for Wilson anywhere
from 5000 to 10000 is all bosh. People
of all parties out here ridicule such fig
ures. and say such q thing is absolutely
impossible. 1t is not impossible for the
state to be carried by Gov. Wilson, but
the figures are ridiculous.
If this fight were a straightout cam
paign between the President and MIR.
Wilson, and without any third party con-
sideration. most people here believe that
the President would win. But Col. Roose-
welt has always been a strong factor in
Indiana, having carried this state in a
presidential race once by something like
10000. The margin was abnormal. and
was so regarded at the time. But the
Roosevelt following in Indiana is still
very strong, and it is absolutely certain
that he will get sufficient votes this year
to defeat the President, so far as Indiana
goes in making up the vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harper's Magazine.
 | It was in 1874, during a famous trip to Boston with pr. Twichell that Mark Twain saw for the first time what was then brand new invention--a type writer-or 1t may have been during a At all events, he had the machine and was practicing on it on December g, 1874, for he wrote two letters on it that day, one to Howells and the other to Orion Clemens. In the last letter he says:
 T am trying to get the hang of this newfangled writing machine, but am not making a shining success of 1t. However, this is the first attempt I ever have made, and yet I perceive that I shall soon easily acquire fine facil- ity in It's use. saw this thing in Bos- ton the other day and was greatly ta- ken with it."
 He goes on to explain the new won der and, on the whole, his first attempt | Is very creditable performance. With his usual enthusiasm over an innova- tion, he believes 1t is going to be a great help to him and proclaims its advantages.
 This is his letter to Howells:
 You needn't answer this. I am only practicing to get there; another slipup there; only practicing to get the hang of the thing. I notice I miss fire and get a good many unnecessary letters and punctuation marks. I am simply using you for a target to bang at. Blame my catsl but this thing requires genius In order to work it just right" 1 In an article written long after he | tells how he was with Nasby when he first saw the machine in Boston through "a window and how they went in to see | 1t perform In the same article he states that he was the first person in the world to apply the type machine to literature and that the story of Tom Sawyer" was probably the first l typewriter manuscript.
 The new enthusiasm ran it's course and died The typewriter was not per feet in those days, as it is now, and the keys did not always respond readily.
 He declared it was running his morals that it made him want to swear" He offered it to Howells because, he said, Howellsi had no morals, anyway. How els hestated, so Clemens traded the machine to Bliss for a sidesaddle. But perhaps Bliss also became afraid of the 1 influence for in due time he brought 1t back Howells again tempted, hesi- tated, and this time was lost. What eventually became of the machine is not | history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Strong Iron Market

The Birmingham iron market continues strong and the tendency is for higher prices Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report for the past week says:
 "While sales have been comparatively light the market, if anything, has grown A trihe stronger during the past week. Southern iron is undoubtedly firmer thau it was a week ago, and with the high cost of fuel and the uncertainty of Its supply, northern ironmasters are growing more rigid in their ideas of price.
 "A careful canvass of the situation shows there is still a large quantity Of iron to be bought for the remainder Of this year. and considerable tonnage even for the third quarter. Consumers are most of them carrying only limited supply of iron on their yards. and some of them have really no stock at all, but are only ordering the iron in as they must have it. Reports from all of the big iron producing centers show that stocks are declining. Low grade iron is in short supply-there is very little No or forge to be had-and in the south there is a great scarcity of No. 3. There are comparatively few holdups on ship ments, and iron is coming along nicely on orders, very much better than is usual at this time of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Biz Corruption Funds

George B. Cortelyou was chairman of the republican national committee in 1904, and he recently testified be- fore the Senate committee investi- gating campaign subscriptions that the Roosevelt campaign fund of that year was $1,9OO,06O. He admitted that the Harriman-R Roosevelt sum of about S250,000 was not included.
 The total sum raised in the states would probably add another million to the grand total, bringing it up to a sum exceeding three million dollars. These vast funds are practically col lected from the Carnegies and other magnates and from the protected manufacturers and the trusts and monopolies of the land.
 It is generally believed that the Mark Hanna fund of 1896 was the record breaker. The truth as to the exact size of that fund will never per haps be accurately ascerfained, but all known facts point to a fund of $10,- 100000, or more than twice the size of the fund of 1904.
 These vast funds gathered large ly in New York city are to all intents and purposes corruption funds. Hartman boasted before he died that the sum he raised three days before the election at the request of Theodore Roosevelt turned 50,00O votes in the slums of the east side of New York. No campaign fund above s500,000 is honestly expended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
HOW TO PACK

From Answers. London.
 People often dread the packing of luggage consequent on the holiday sea- son, though if method is exercised packing is not nearly so formidable a job as it is thought.
 Sometime before the holiday make out a list of things to be taken sub tracting from it and adding to it as time goes by. In this way fairly sen- sible list is finally arrived at. Set aside for packing a day-or part of a day--when you will be sure of being undisturbed, and do not allow anything to interfere with the work in hand. First of all. collect together everything upon the prepared list, taking off the things as they are brought out.
 Then get ready the trunks or boxes, keeping the number down to as few as possible In every case. pack very heavy things at the bottom of the trunk. graduating upwards. so that the very flimsiest goods are on the top. Use plenty of tissue paper, or crumpled newspaper for packing among clothes, and divide all layers" of things with plain linen cover. Pack bottles. first securely corked and wrapped in grease proof paper. between clothes-nut into the corners. Directly each box is packed, lock it, strap 1t, and label it.
 Beyond the heavy luggage. a small bag. or holdall, should be packed with such things as will be wanted immedi- ately on arriving at the journeys end clean handkerchiefs. toilet soap and so on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
NAMES OF ENGLISH INNS

From the Westminster Gazette.
 Many explanations have been given of curious signboards for inns The .Goat and Compasses is supposed to be a corrup- ton of motto set up over inns during the Puritan period, Good encompasses us;" Bags of Nails of "Bacchanals.' Why Not and Dew Drop inn are described as invitations to the wayfarers; Bird in Hand and Last House, or Final sugges- tions that he should not waste his oppor- tunities to imbibe. The Bull and Mouth is said to be a corruption of Boulogne Mouth, captured by Henry VIII. Bull and Gate, it is suggested, may possibly be q similar vulgarism for Boulogne Gate. Great battles fought and fortresses taken are commemorated by Gibraltar Water loo, Battle of the Nile and Trafalgar. Ad- miras range from Blake to Napier, Gen erals form Marlborough to Wolseley-wel- lington. Nelson and Keppel being most common. It is surprising how many of the Nelson inns are buildingsNthree or four centuries old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

The national committee may not be directly guilty of corruption, permit ting the state or county committees to do the dirty work. The money is used in any event to buy votes-that is to say, all money above $500,000.
 The subject is of special interest at the present time, for the tariff beneficiaries will try as never before to buy enough votes to carry New York and Ohio and Illinois and any other states that have purchasable voters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Five Presidential Nominees

The list of presidential nominees is well nigh complete. The socialists nominated MT. Debs; the old guard republicans named Mr. Taft; the dem- ocrats made Governor Wilson their standard bearer, and now the prohi- bitionists have put in the field MT. Chafin of Arizona. The race will be fully made up when the bull moose party puts up MT. Roosevelt in Chi cago on August 5. Here is the list as it will stand at that time:
 WOODROW WILSON.
 WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
 EUGENE V. DEBs.
 EUGENE ". CHAFIN.
 A voter will be exacting who can not find in this list name that fits his views. The reactionary and the progressive, the man who wants a great deal of government and the man who wants minimum of it, the "wet" and the "dry'-all will have a chance to vote for representative nominee. The slate will "be made up just three months to day before the justly celebrated "ides" of November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Mode n Education


 "Pedagogy has developed into some thing of an exact science in these modern days, and good results have been obtained. but cannot help thinking that some of our modern educational methods have been a bit overdone," said professional man. <
 "The work of technological schools and classical institutions has reached high state of efficiency. In some respects the colleges and universities in this country have broadened and gone forward in many ways, but in the matter of prepara- tory institutions I cannot put believe that the closer such schools keep to old models like Rugby and Eton the better
 Nowadays we find many machine made scholars who have a good deal of book schools and colleges too much text book schools and colleges too much tetx book psychology and useless casuistry are crowded into the heads of boys and girls. "In speaking of girls, it was refresh- | ing recently to meet young woman who had graduated In a private school in New York city. I found her uncommonly bright. She had had all the advantages of breeding home culture and foreign travel. Having read in recent years that l lcomparatively few college men and women were familiar with the Bble-even as lit erature-I asked this New York woman about the curriculum at the school she had attended. She had not only been a close Bible reader, but had memorized many chapters of the Old Testament. She was highly accomplished in belle-lettres, and the most surprising thing of all, she was a fine mathematician-c work any example in algebra and could talk inter- estngly of her work in geometry and | trgonometry. She laughed and said, No, I am not going to be an engineer, but at our school mathematics was insisted upon because 1t developed and braced the mind as no other branch of learning could.'
 q asked her about her studies in sociol- ogy, logic and metaphysics. She said these were tabooed branches in the school The faculty held that sociology and mental and moral philosophy were all right for men and for postgraduate wom- en- but that such studies had tendency | to make girls fighty.
 DO you mean to say l asked, that you received your diploma and knew noth- ing about inductive philosophy; about a priori and a posteriori; about the illative sense about objective and subjective?'
 "'We got all those terms in our liter ature, she answered.
 After talking with this charming wom- an 1 would have thought it safe to say that she knew more about psychology than 90 per cent of the graduates that | "A school, but although I am somewhat anti quated in my notions, I will always be
 free to admit that modern pedagogy as we find it generally in the educational world. has practically everything in its fayor''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Oil Mills Here and Elsewhere

It' is not easy to see what good is gained by letting the Montgomery oil mills purchase cotton seed in the boil weevil district, while the Birming- ham mills cannot do this The state board of horticulture has drawn a line that confines the Birmingham mills to seed grown east of or north of Tuscaloosa county, while the Mont gomery mills are free to buy seed in any part of the cotton belt.
 The mills of Birmingham will not be able under, the new quantine regu- lations to procure supply of seed, and the farmers in weevil territory will be pretty sure to lose customers that would pay good prices. The new quarantine line strikes, in other words, at both the farmers in boil weevil dis tricts and at the mills in this district.
 If Jefferson county were included in the weevil district the problem would be solved, for then the Birming- him mills could buy seed in counties south and west of this center.
 The subject is one of considerable importance and it should be carefully considered. The oil mills are no more interested in the solution of it than are the cotton growers, and the two should be given rehearing by the state board of horticulture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Suicide Record of 1911

In 100 American cities there were last year 4460 cases of self destruc- ton. The average rate is 196 in each 100000 of population. Mobile had r; Augusta, ?; Charleston, 6; Savannah, T; Richmond, 25; Nashville, IS; New Orleans, 46, and Knoxville, 5. Bir- mingham is not listed by the Specta- tor of New York, which assembled the figures.
 In Mese cases of self f-murder in- sanity is involved in by far the larger number of cases. Mercier says that a person who commits suicide is not necessarily insane at the time of the act. Some conclude after careful review of attending circumstances that life is not worth living. A man, for example, afflicted with some hor- rible and incurable disease, may con- clude that it is better to shorten his remnant of life. Such a man is not always insane. He takes bis choice of evils.
 In the entire United States about 15, ,000 suicides take place year. The rate in this country is somewhat low CT than it is in European countries, but still it is large enough to call for serious attention from all who have to do with the moral and spirit | ual welfare of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
GERMAN RULES OF ECONOMY

From the New York World.
 The German housewife spends very little of her time worrying over the high cost of living. according to Mrs. Anna Kirchstein, a member of one of the German women's clubs of Chicago.
 "The German. housewife" she says. "adjusts her expenditures to her in- come. If she has less money she uses less in her home and contents herself" Mrs Kirchstein's rules for economy in the home are:
 Pay cash for everything.
 Do your own buying and marketing.
 Be careful in your selection of food.
 Study out, at the beginning of the week, just how much you can spend that week.
 Manage your own household; leaving nothing to the servants. Figure out system of utilizing all materials; even the left-overs from Q meal can be made into something the next day.
 Do not regard this system of econ omy as burden, but as pleasure and the duty of wife to her husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
THE TALLEsT TREE

From the Dundee Advertiser.
 Australia claims to have the tallest tree
 in the world. It has long been thought
 that to California belongs this distinc-
 tion, but while California trees are of
 gigantic dimensions, they do not come
 up to Australias eucalyptus trees. The
 Californians are noted not so much for
 their height as for their girth and diam- eter. The tallest tree in California yet discovered was found by actual meas
 urement to be $40 feet high Australia's feet Baron Mueller, formerly govern ment botanist of Victoria, is stated to have said that Australian gum trees at- tain height of 800 feet. but the tallest tree even the Baron measured was a prostrate one on the Blacks Spur, 10
 miles from Healesvile, totaling 4So feet. This tree was S1 feet in girth near the
 root. Another, found in the same locali-
 ty, was 415 feet high, with circumfer-
 ence of 69 feet at the base of the stem.
 Mueller, refers to this species as the
 highest tree on the globe, surpassing the famous California sequoia and Well lington pine.'' In 1889 G. w. Robinson. civil engineer of Berwick, in a journey from Gippsland to Mt. Baw, measured tree All feet high The height of this specimen had previously been estimated
 at not less than 800 feet. The eucalyptus is oenus of the tree If the na at,1ra1 or- der myrtaceae, mostly. if not all indi- genous to Australia and Tasmania Aus tralia has 400 species of the euca1ytus,
 or. as it is more popularly known, the gum tree"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Popular Election of Senators

Those who are opposed to the direct election of senators and general re- form of that body which has long been the chief defender of the monopolies, can consistently oppose the proposed amendment now before the states, but they should be frank in their opposi- ton instead of insincere and un- truthful. The proposition does not add an iota to the power of Congress over elections for senators and representa- tives. It expressly permits the states to designate the voters in the pro- posed primaries when it says "the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature" When any one says the proposed amendment is an attack upon the south, ask him to point out the line or lines that constitute such an attack, and then read to him the sentence calling upon the states to de- termine the qualification of voters in the proposed senatorial primaries.
 Mr. Underwood took the best reso- lution that could be secured from the Senate and put it through the House. He did not stand alone. The vote in the House was 237 ayes, 39 nays.
 Those who are opposing the pro- posed amendment are reading them selves out of the democratic party In two places the Baltimore platform distinctly and fully indorses the pend ing amendment for the popular elec- tion of senators. It was regarded by the Baltimore convention as one of the great achievements of the democrats in Congress.
 And Woodrow Wilson himself has a record on this subject, for it was he who induced the New Jersey legisla- ture to pass primary law under which the members of each party selected nominee last year for United States Senator James E. Maritime secured a small plurality on the democratic side of the house, and when the election came on in the leg- islature Governor Wilson supported Mr. Maritime and he was elected, de- feating ex-Senator and ex-Boss Jim Smith.
 When Governor Wilson is officially notified of his nomination for Presi- dent, he may in his acceptance take up this subject, and if he does he will handle it frankly and distinctly. He will unqualifiedly support the pending amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
puCKPooKETs FOLLOW ROOSEVELT

(New York Telegram to the Chicago
 Inter Ocean)
 Colonel Roosevelt received the com pliment par excellence as a crowd drawer from Kid Shaffer. pickpocket, who was taken in hand by the plain clothes men.
 Teddy is a great one for drawing crowds" said the Kid. stick with him and you'll always have plenty of suck CTS to work. All the dips I ever met read the papers and keep track of Col onel Roosevelt"
 Shaffer, a young man who has early attained prominence in light fingered circles, was spotted by two detectives today. They remembered that he ought by right to be serving a sentence in the Elmira reformatory
 Hello. Kid" said one of the "1y cops" How did you get out of the 'ref?"
 Shaffer pushed back his Panama hat and explained that he left via rope ladder. Then he showed a bunch of time tables and told his plans for fol- lowing Colonel Roosevelt this summer. now.
 I'm only 20," philosophical the Kid, but I've had careful education. l know how to think things out. It didn't take>me long to see that men are inter ested in money and politics more than anything else. When they get to think ing about politics, they forget their money, and then comes my chance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
THIS ENGLISH OF OURS
, Musical American.

From the MUSICAL Amerlcan.
 Otto Goritz, most amusing of operatic barytones went into a haberdashery re, gently to purchase a flannel shirt, but found nothing to his liking.
 ''Wass ist das darunter?' he inquired Of the salesman, pointing to some goods on a lower shelf.
 underwear. explained the clerk.
 "Under dere," said the singer with some impatience.
 "Underwear." repeated the clerk.
 ''Dummkopf,' shouted the exasperatet barytone, q keep showing you under here and you keep asking me under vhere.' and he left the place in higi dudgeon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
The Park Concerts

T was glad to see that the Chamber oi Commerce took action cornmendatory oi the open air music enterprise fostered by the Music Study club, and 1t IS hopeo that some practical steps will be taken to raise at least 5000 more than the concert management can now count on,' said citizen who is frequently attracted to the park by Nappis band.
 "The summer is fast passing by. The fund has been made up chiefly of two or three large subscriptions-the Birmins- ham Railway Light and Power company and the Tennessee company making up at least half of the amount now in haha. There should be popular snpscriptloi'' If 500 men would contribute $2 piece the concerts could be continued until the middle of September. As 1t is the musicians have been employed for only eight weeks, beginning the Fourth or July
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
RErLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 There's no sense in giving up to de- spair on a pleasure trip, for it has an ending.
 Making your own money Is an ordi- nary business; getting other peoples is fine art.
 The only way for two people in a family quarrel to settle it is for one of them to die.
 Fools try to teach their wives how to keep their bank balances straight, wise men praise their wives biscuits.
 Sense about 99 things out of 100 will never keep anybody from being fool about that other one.