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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
Rejection of the Unit Rule

When the Baltimore convention re-
fused to adopt the unit rule it set
aside, probably for good and for aye,
a rule almost as old as the two-thirds
rule. The vote in the convention in
: favor of rejection was sos to 491--a
pretty close result, and yet large
enough to become precedent. Con-
ventions are passing away, and it is
altogether safe to say that between
the primary movement and the action
at Baltimore the unit rule has dis
appeared and will never come back.
The vote in the Alabama delega-
ton stood 91a against the rule and
14A in it's favor.
The rejection of the rule by the con-
vention is revolutionary, but it by no
means presaged an overthrow of its
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
BLACK BOOK GIVES SPY LIST

From the New York Herald.
Entries in the BLACK Book of the Rus
sian secret service figured in. testimony
by Leonid Menshikoff. witness for Via
dimir L. Bourtzeff who is being sued in
the United States district court for $780,
600 damages for SANDER by Alexander NJ.
Evalenko. The suit is Il result of charges
made by Bourtzeff before an investigating
committee in 1910, when Bourtzeff said that
Evanleko had given to the Russian police
information about political refugees in
this country. Evalenko denied the charge
and challenged Bourtzeff to submit proof.
Menshil<of, whose testimony was given
through an interpreter, said that for 20
years he had been one or the seven chiefs
of the Russian secret, police but that he
became tired of prosecuting revolution
lists and resigned, going to Paris. He
took with him, however, a copy of the
"Black Book containing information
regarding spies and secret agents through
out the world
He met Bourtzeff at Bordeaux, he said.
and read to him entries from the book
about Evalenko and his alleged activities
among the Russian Reds in New York.
Evalenko was designated in the book by
the letter e. he SAID All entries re-
garding Evalenko were read into the rec
ord.
The case does not come to trial before
October, but Mensi1ikofr was heard at this
time, as he wishes to return to Europe.
Herbert Parsons and simon o. Pollock
are attorneys in the case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
Good Advertising

THE proposed issue or sf,f00,000 of
bonds by Jefferson county Is a splen-
did advertisement for Birmingham and
the Birmingham district" said w. C.
Woodall. representing the Industrial
Index, of Columbus. Ca. who is in Blr-
mingham.
"The very fact that such an issue Is
to be voted on will in itself give Bir-
mingham some valuable publicity and
IL the bond proposition carries 1T Will
be a still greater advertisement. Per-
sonally I have been impressed by the
fact that such a large and growing city
as Birmingham, typical as few cities
are of progress and solid prosperity
should always seek to cash in on every
advertising opportunity. and the
thought naturally occurs that If such a
place as Birmingham finds this profit
able 1t should be an incentive to small
err and slower cities to utilize all pub
licity agencies and opportunities.
Jefferson county will have ample
precedent for the proposed bond issue.
Just this week Augusta. Ga. voted ST.
25t,0o0 of bonds for leyee construction
and other improvements, the election
coming as the climax to a campaign
that was marked by wonderful public
spirit on the part of all classes of peo-
pie. Down In Tampa, Fla, an ordi-
nance has been introduced calling an
election on the issuance of s1,700, 900
of bonds for various municipal improve
ments And we all recall the s2,Soo,
900 bond issue voted by Atlanta just
after the panic. providing public i'm
provements and additional pay rolls at
a time when they were peculiarly well
come"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
MYRIAD NOISES OF LONDON

Lewis Hillhouse in the Cincinnati Times
Star.
TIME society for the Suppression of
Noises would certainly have a wide
1 field for action in London. Ameri-
cans who complain of the occasional
screech of a trolley car as It whips around
a poorly oiled curve, or who have nine
fits whenever milk wagon rumbles over
the holes in the pavement, should try to
sleep along some of the more frequented
thoroughfares in London.
Take. for instance. any of the hundreds
of shorts streets which connect the main
arteries of travel. The overture or the
days Industrial symphony is played by
thousands of motor trucks. and the rum
bling steam lorries on which the citys
produce is transported.
The number of these steam traction en-
gines. with their trailing wagons. is as
torishng. While they are reliable and
often swift, they are noisy. and their
putting and rumbling adds a resonant
double bass to the symphony. They come
under ones windows Just about the time
one is getting in his best ticks on the
pillow.
They often come by at that psychology
ical moment during which one is deciding
whether to get up good natured or cross.
Probably just before that there has been
terrific clatter in the streets from long
procession of red. business like wagons
from his majesty's postoffice.
1t seems to person who wants to sleep
that the postal authorities hold all
wagons at the general postoffice until the
maximum noise possibilities have been
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
TOLD BY HARAHAN.

They tell the following as a story that
the late J. T. Harahan, former president
of the Illinois Central railroad, was fond
of telling on himself
Mr. Harahan was sitting in his Office
one day, while president of the road.
when a burly Irishman entered the Of
fee.
Me names Casey" said he. ''oi want
a pass to St. Louis. OF worruk in tn
yar-r-ds."
THAT is no way to ask for a pass" said
Mr. Harahan. "You should Introduce
yourself politely. Come back in an hour
and try it again.
At the end Of the hour, back came the
Irishman. Doffing his hat. he inquired:
"Ar-re yez Mr.. Harahan?'
Il am
ME name is Patrick Casey. DIVE been
workin' out in tn yar-r-ds.,
"GIad to know you, Mr.. Casey. What
can l do for your
"Yez can all go to hell. Owe got job
an pass on tn Wabash. "-Everybody 3
Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
GETTING At THE FACTS

From the London Sketch.
Before l forget 1t, I must place on rec
| ord a little conversation that had with
maid of Kent on the first morning of
my present visit to the delightful town
of Folkestone. Southern conversations
are very different from northern CONVEX
sations. have no desire TO labor the
point, but I am quite sure that neither
this dialogue nor the one with the
waiter given on this page a couple of
weeks ago could have happened in the
North of England. The gentle climate of
Kent. I fancy, is responsible for such
events.
rs the bathroom disengaged2' l asked.
Yes, SIR
a"There lis nobody In it?"
eyes, sir"
Then it is not dsengaged?"
"oh. yes, SIR
"But you said there was somebody in
It'll"
YES. sir"
Not wishing to go mad, tried another
set of rails.
How many are there?'
"Only one, sir
"Only one bathroom
"oh. no. sir. only one gentleman in the
bath room"
love Kent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Busy Summer

Business has been much more active
the first half of this year than was pre-
dicted five or six months ago, and there
is now promise Of an exceptional brisk
trade the last half of the year. said H. e,
Hartley of Chicago.
Just at this time there is a 1uil in the
commercial world. owing to national poll
tics. AS a matter of course, the two ma
tional conventions. within a week of each
other would have the effect of calling
halt on business. but 1t seems to be. gen
orally thought that prosperity will be in
full swing again after the 4th of July.
The intense activity in the steel trade GER
tainly points to renewed activity in all
directions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
FEATs OF REPORTING

From the Kansas City Journal.
Great national conventions always pro-
vide profitable pickings for that horde of
magazine journalists who hover about
the scenes of confusion and write pro-
foundly of their impressions" The pres
ent republican national convention has
attracted an unusual number of these
tiresome persons who find ready market
In those newspapers that confess their
own inability to handle important news
when they give space to these syndicated
articles. 1t Is hopeful sign that most
of the great newspapers send their own
trained reporters to the big conventions
and print the news as it Is developed
without effort at "fine writing and sense
less rhetorical loquacity.
In Chicago are congregated dozens of
f1edgling authors. reckless "muckrakers'.
and professional funny men, who might
write their stuff quite as we'll In New
York or Kansas City as far as the news
value of their product is concerned In
deed, it may be taken as fact that the
people right here In Kansas City have
as good, II not a better, knowledge of
what is going on in Chicago than these
unframed dilettanti who are hanging
about the outskirts of the crowds and who
write wisely of things they know moth
ing about.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
Factory Growth in Ten Years

Factory GrOWtn IN len ieaIs
The capital invested in Birmingham
factories was but s4,314,o00 in 1900;
in 1910 the sum had been increased to
$23, $4,000, a gain of 449.8 per cent,
against an average gain of $40 per
cent in cities containing more than
$4,000 population. Birmingham has
but one successful rival in the list, and
that is Oklahoma City, which had
scarcely begun to exist at the begin
ming of the century. It's rate of gain
is therefore larger than Birming-
hams.
The products Of the Birmingham
factories was $8,599,0 in 1900, and
$24,12s, 900 in 1910, gain of 1S0 per
cent.
The investment of capital in Ala
bama enterprises is as follows: Lum-
Der and timber, $25, 058,000; cotton
goods, s22,212,00O; iron and steel,
blast furnaces, $21, 1886, 900; foundry
and machine shops, $11 100000; cot
ton seed and oil cake, $9,178,000.
These are the five leading Industries
of the state. Alabama needs more
fertilizer factories and cotton mills.
And there is not a glass factory in
the state, although there is an abun-
dance of glass sand in the hill Sec
tons of the state.
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bv ". scoresby Routledge, NJ A., VINO
viii be accompanied by his wife, geoio-
eist a scientist connected with the brl'-
ish museum. and a navigation officer and
crew of IA.
The Mana, whose name is Polynesiai
for good luck" is a $50 ton motor auNii.
larry yacht. It is expected to san aOoo'
August !.
In the island, which has an area OIL 10
square miles, there have been raisee
immense platforms. facing the sea toriiieu
of huge stones fitted together without
ment. Some of these stones welsh nFe
tons. Sometimes the sea walls are ~ leee
high and 200 feet long.
On the land side of these platforms
there are broad terraces, also of stone,
containing the pedestals on which STOOD
huge figures carved out of trachitie lava
from an extinct crater eight miles
away
Most of these images have been thrown
down, but there are 800 Of them IN the
island. They vary in size, the largest
was measured by the commander OF the
II. NJ S. CambrIan in 1906, and was oS
feet long. The length of its nose was
III feet.
The figures extend down to the hips ana
the faces have receding foreheads' broad
adzelilze noses. thin lips, and powerfui
chins. Some of the colossi weigh $50 tons.
It is evident that the work of making
the images and dragging them to the
platforms suddenly stopped. One of the
theories to explain this Is that the island
is the last pinnacle of a submerged con-
tinent which occupied the greater part OF
the South Pacific and possibly Joined Asia
and America.
Vast numbers. of skeletons are under
the platforms. The bones are probably
those of people who we're sacrificed to the
great stone images.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
NO MORE THAN FAIR
Inc SATURDAY. EvenIng Post.

From the saturday ENenlhS rust
A noted lawyer of Tennessee. who la
bored under the defects of having a
high temper and Of being deaf, walked
into a court room presided over by a
younger man, of whom the older practi-
toner had a small opinion.
Presently in the hearing of a motion,
there was a clash between the lawyer
and the judge. The judge ordered the
lawyer TO sit down. and as the lawyer.
being deaf, didn't hear him and went on
talking. the judge fined him $40 for con-
tempt.
The lawyer leaned toward the clerk and
cupped his hand behind his ear.
What did he say?H he inquired.
HE fined you 49," explained the clerk.
For what?'
For contempt of this court said the
clerk.
The lawyer shot a poisonous look to-
ward the bench and reached a hand into
his pocket,
I'm pay it." he said. ITS Just debt"
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elder brother, the two-thirds rule. The
latter is as old as the convention sys-
tenn itself, and it will no doubt stand
as long as the convention system does.
Majority rule may be more American
than the two-thirds rule, but the anti
guilty of the latter will preserve it
until indeed the coventoin system is
supplanted by nationwide primary
plan in which the democrats who elect
ticket will first nominate it by direct
popular vote.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
SONNET TO ROOSEVELT

BY William Watson.
hear mighty people asking now,
Who next shall be their captain and tin
chief.
Amidst them towers a man as Tenerib
Towers from the ocean, and that manlri
thou!
Thou of the shaggy and the craggy bN!
The day of fate comes on; the time gifs
brief;
Round the great ship is many a luhg
reef;
And would'st thou drive once more ii
giant PROV?
Perhaps thou shalt and must, but ifhe
choice
Fall on a lesser voyager, thou shalt III
Be what thou art by national living We,
Wherewith she speaks in thunder-ad
thou art more
Thou art her fiery pulse. her ccnquas
will;
Thou art America. dat utie4
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
THE DIFFERENCE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The woman was talking to the pro
sional chauffeur.
Did you ever run over dog?"
asked.
"Yessum." ne answered, cheerfully.
Goodness. Wasn't it awful?"
1T sure was, ma'am."
"D-d-did you ever hit . cow?''
"Twicet."
UGH And--er-did you ever strlk
human beins2"
Meaning q man? Yessum-oncet."
Heavens Did you faint?''
"No'm-I stuck to my Wheel
But how did you feel? What wa
like? w-what-when--'
We'll. it made bigger bump tina
dawg. but 1t was lots softer than a
Otherwise, it was sorter betwixt an
tWeeni''
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Singular Coincidence

1T Is a singular coincidence that the
two republican delegates from Alabama
that left the Taft supporters were one
from Ozark and one from Dothan, and
that in the democratic convention one
delegate from Ozark and one from Dothan
refused TO vote as Underwood requested
on the temporary chairmanship, although
the entire delegation was supposed to be
loyal to the Albanian on every PROPOSE
tion.'' said well-known republican.
ut might be a good idea for the repub-
licans and democrats to unite to raise a
missionary fund to be used In the two
towns named. Education in political
ethics is evidently needed
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JUST LIKE A WOMAN

Prom the New 7 ork Telegraph.
A certain we'll known theatrical man
wanted to take a business chance last
week He went to his wife and told her
about it.
II want to use our Joint savings" he
said. IF l lose Ill pay your share back;
II win I'll give you half the profits"
She told him to SO ahead. He did and
made s499s4 The day after the deal was
$3.50.
"It's all yours" he said. feeling highly
delighted.
She looked at the check a moment as
though puzzled. well, who gets the halt
of that "a cents?" she asked
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
Joy IN TIE JUNGLE.

They're dancing in Mombasa,
There is laughter, there are smiles;
The roaring of the lions
Can be heard for twenty miles.
The chatter of the monkeys
Wakes the echoes round about;
The Jungle knows the colonel
Has at last been counted out.
The hartebeests are waltzing
Round the hippos fat and fair;
The elephants are marching
With the springboks debonair;
The rhinos join the cheering
And the zebras raise a shout;
The big game knows the colonel
Has at last been counted out.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
MONKEYS At A WEDDING

From the Youths Companion.
l was married in India; and rented
little house IA miles or so from any other
habitation of white men. The morning
my wife and I arrived, the servants laid
breakfast on the veranda overlooking the
river. At the clatter of the plates there
began to come down from the big tree
that overshadowed the house and up the
tree that grew in the ravine behind 1t,
from the house roof itself, from every
where, a multitude of solemn monkeys.
They came up singly and in couples
and in families, and took their places
without noise or fuss on the veranda,
and sat there, like an audience waiting
for an entertainment to begin. And when
the breakfast was all laid and the mon
keys were all seated, I went in to call
my wife.
Breakfast is ready. and they are all
waitingl" 1 said.
"who are waiting?" she asked. in dis
may. II thought we were going to be
alone. and ! was just coming out in my
dressing gown
Never mind" I said. The people
about here are not fashionably crossed
They wear pretty much the same things
all the year round.
And so my wife came out. Imagine her
establishment In the middle of the YER
anda stood our breakfast table; and all
the rest of the space, as well as the rail-
ings and the steps, was covered with an
immense company of monkeys, as grave
as possible, and as motionless and silent
as if they we're stuffed. Only their eyes
kept blinking and their little round ears
kept twitching. My wife laughed heartily
at which the monkeys only looked all
the graver-and sat down.
''Will they eat anything?" she asked.
"Try Them I>said.
So she picked up biscuit and threw 1t
among the company. Three hundred mon
keys jumped into the air like one. and
for an instant there was riot that de-
fies description. The next moment every
monkey was sitting in its place as SOL
emn as If it had never moved. Only their
eyes winked and their ears twitched.
My wife threw them another biscuit,
and the riot broke out again. Then she
threw them another and another and an
other. But at last we had given away all
that we had to give, and got up to go.
The monkeys at once rose and advancing
gravely to the steps. walked down them
in a solemn procession and dispersed for
the days occupations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
REFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
1t doesn't take such very loud voice
to shout down a big thought
The more money we try to save on ne
cessaries the more we want to spend on
luxuries.
A girl could learn in day how to
make dress for q dance, but not in a
year for school
The average mans idea of being fair
when he trades a horse on another is "a
be sorry for him.
Next to her husband a woman can be
most suspicious about the veracity OF
scales when she is growing stout.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
Our foster-nurse of nature Is repose.
King Lear.
Mrs. Pankhurst Is Free Again

MIS-. fanknurSt is rIee Again
1t is plain the British government
feared the effects of forcible feeding
in the cases of Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, for
they were released from Holloway
prison, although they had served but
little over a month of sentences of
nine months. They were innocent of
all crime except the political crusade
of window smashing. In prison they
adopted the hunger strike, and when
they were forcibly fed serious heart
action followed. The government was
forced in other words to release them,
lest their death would arouse a move
ment in favor of woman suffrage of
unequalled vigor. ~
In prison Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs.
Lawrence were considered and classed
as political prisoners, and their treat
ment and their release in about a
month is further evidence that the
government preferred to be relieved
of heavy responsibility. The process
of fasting seems to be efficacious if
the prisoners that adopt it have a big
public sentiment behind them. A
demonstration in London is planned
for July 1, and the male supporters
of suffrage for women are expected
to turn out in great numbers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
No Funds for Government Use

The new fiscal year will be entered
upon on Monday next, and the United
States government is without funds
it can legally use. There is plenty of
money in the treasury-in fact, con-
siderable surplus-and yet Congress
has not authorized the withdrawal of
a dollar of it. Congress has been for
many weeks so political it could not,
or rather would not, pass the regular
or even the deficiency appropriation
bills, and any payments made on Mon
day will be in direct violation of law,
and the'officials who take part in such
payments are subject to fines and i'm
prisonment.
1t is hoped that a deadlock can be
avoided by the passage Of resolution
this week that will continue appro-
priations for temporary period. Con-
gress should after this week cease to
be so political it cannot pass appro-
priation bills. 1t is over four months
to November 5. The present cata-
clysm is, however, more official than
momentous, more on paper than in
fact. 1t is furry with little real
meaning in it.
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the inside work, the bad air and lack of
exercise got me, so | was mighty dad
to quit Then l went to ranching on nv
own hook, buying an undeveloped plica
on faith and going in without much OF
an equipment or anything else. So here
am, in two room log cabin amid he
sage brush, pinon and cedar, $500 feetup
IN the foot hills of the western slIpe
IN southwestern Colorado. l am outdoors
practically all of the time.
Everything is in favor of good heath
wheer the air is pure. the sunshine abud-
ant, the water cool. The air of the south
west is stimulant; the appetite increases
and general nutrition improves. The
health seeker can live out in the Glen
most of the time. In Denver, for inssaite.
there are only 45 cloudy days in the yqr.
while Jacksonville has 81 and New YIrk
no. Excepting 80 days the sun was ,si-|
bic, some part of the day, at Denver lor|
period OF IS years. In the southwestern
have annual precipitation of 10 to 20 indes|
against so, 60 and higher in the east. he
humidity is great deal less in the 'gAat
sanatorium' than elsewhere"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
FAMILIARITY AND CONTEMPT

From the Popular Magazine
There is in western town a judge who
occasionally hits the flowing bowl until
it puts him down and out. One morning,
following an unusually swift encounter
with the alcoholic foe, he appeared in his
office, sad and shaken up.
How are you this morning, Sam?" in
quired friend.
Worse than I've ever been," replied
the Judge, with groan. I'm In bad al
home. When 1 left the house little
while ago the children were calling me
Sam and my wife was addressing me as
Mister"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
MYSTERY ISLAND

From the London Mall.
A vessel called the Mana, which was
launched at Whitstable recently, will
take to the Pacific an expedition which
will try to solve the problem of the gi-
gantc prehistoric remains on Carter
island. about $500 miles west of Chill.
The party. says the Star. will be headed