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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
A MEMORY OF NOGI

Richard Barry, in Harpers weekly.
 I remember one day al Port Arthur when boy from the rice paddles, well under 20. dull faced, ordinary, huinan- ly casual boy. was brought to headquar- ters by Nogi's command. They intended to shoot him the next morning under military order which decreed that any soldier convicted of drinking water from A roadside stream should be executed for his careless disobeyance of the sanitary restrictions which demanded the drinking of boiled water only.
 Nogi was in his garden when they
 brought the boy in to him. He was sit
 ting under a pear tree russing with some
 little red and yellow pegs on a topo-
 graphical map of the surrounding coun-
 try. As the boy approached, stiffened with fright and military rigidity. Noei removed his spectacles. Except for his uniform, and the guards who stood at a respectful distance, he looked like a kindly old schoolmaster. He smiled. In a quiet tone. half pleading. half ex- planatory, Nogi talked with the boy a few minutes. He told him his hospitals
 were filled with typhoid, dysentery. and
 beri-beri patients. This was disgrace, not to the soldiers so much as to the general himself For many of the pa- tients had been brought to the hospital
 through their own negligence, and yet the general had to bear the humiliation. It was easy to tell the Emperor that so many soldiers had been killed in battle. but it was very difficult to admit that some were incapacitated because they
 did not obey the orders of the surgeons. ! And he. Nogi. the general. was person ally responsible.
 ] Now, therefore, would the boy please remember that when he drank the for /, bdden water he was making the burden I of his general just so much the more diff 1 fcult to bear? And would he, like good l boy. go back to his command and be ! more careful in the future? A pardon! Certainly Nogi knew that boy would
 never make that blunder again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
One Presidential Term

Governor Wilson is pledged by the platform he stands on to a single term. The words of the plank are plain and straightforward. If there IS any ambiguity in it the casual reader at least will not find it. "We favor, it says, "a single presidential term, and to that end we urge the adoption pf an amendment to the constitution .4naking the President of the United States ineligible for reelection, and we pledge the candidate of this con vention to this principle"
 Mr. Bryan calls attention to the plain truth when he says that only a superman could avoid playing politics while he is a candidate for a second term. Congress hesitates to lay be- fore the people single term consti- tutional proposition because it does not want President who is independ- ent in patronage distribution. A sin gle term President would be indif- ferent to many influences that now dominate politics.
 Governor Wilson stands on the plank above given, and all may be sure he accepts it. A platform pledge is to him a personal promise, and he so considers it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
IRON WITH THEIR FEET

A. W. Cutler in the November Wide
 World Magazine.
 One of the most curious sights which I beheld in Cairo was men ironing with their feet! They had not been mixing their drinks; it is simply a custom of the country. These men were employed in the native tailoring establishments. Ex- cept for a long iron handle, the irons were shaped like the ordinary fatiron, only larger. A solid block of wood rest ed on the top of the iron, and on this the men placed one foot. guiding the iron in the direction desired by means of the handle. For the sake of convenience the ironing boards were raised only a few inches above the ground The men ironed with great rapidity, and, however strange the method may seem to our ideas, it eer- tainly does the work very well and expe- ditiously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
Talk. About New Orleans.

Harold w. Newman of New orleans has been the guest of his brother-in- law, Edgar L. Adler, for several days. He was chosen a city commissioner on the organization democratic ticket in the recent primary in the Louisiana metrop- oils. The regular municipal election Will take place November and he, with his colleagues, will go into office some time in December New Orleans is trying the commission form of government for the first time, and MT. Newman while here called on the Birmingham commissioners to pay his respects and "get points
 New Orleans, already a city with a population of about 350,0oo has taken on fresh start and will grow rapidly from this time on," said Mr. Newman. Among our best people we have a singularly con servative element. This element has had old fashioned notions and it has been hard for young man to get start. but all of a sudden we are striking out on new lines. The Texas and Pacific has paid over 2,0oo,OO0 for a terminal site and will proceed at once to expend slo,- 0o0.ooO in terminal facilities. There is now a general awakening among the people of New Orleans and a great rush to get ready for the opening of the Panama canal is plainly in evidence. Everything is pulsating with new life and New Orleans will show great record in the census of 192o.'
 MT. Newman is a banker as was his father before him. The family is noted in New orleans for it's culture and for It's high Standing in the financial world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
Rosentha's Murder Avenged

It is victory of justice when a
 semi political prisoner can be brought
 to trial in 100 days and verdict of
 murder in the first degree be rendered
 by jury in eight hours. Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of New York belonged beyond reasonable doubt to the ring of police officials who were shielding and protecting the gambling houses of that city. Herman Rosenthal threatened to expose his acts in that direction. and he was
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murdered. Becker did not actually kill Rosenthal, but he and his accom- plices did request and direct the kill ing, and Judge Golf, a white-haired judge, charged the jury that Becker should be held responsible for the acts of every one who acted in pursuance of his request or instructions. He in- spired and counseled the actual kill ing.
 The wonder is, that court and a jury were found that brought out a verdict in such a complex case. The leading witnesses against Becker are considered accomplices in the crime of the killing of Rosenthal, and the whole matter had a political side to 1t, and yet verdict was secured.
 This would not have been possible 10 years ago--certainly not, 20 years ago. The country is becoming more conscientious and just in sentiment and this public sentiment is felt in the jury box as well as in the Clapp committee and at the polls.
 An appeal will be taken, but the verdict of the jury in the Becker case will be deeply felt irrespective of new trial Becker's accomplices are to be tried, and they bid fair to share the fate of the principal of- fapJor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
More skyscrapers.

Although Birmingham is well off Tn tall office buildings 1t can be safely predicted that ground will be broken for one or two more in the near future, said clubman We are already In the 20-story skyscraper class. We thought we were doing well when we got up to l 6 story buildings, but the American Trust is 20 stories and the Jefferson County Savings bank building will have 22' stories
 Tt will not be long before we see, in course of construction, buildings taller than any now contracted for and the time will come when 30 story building will be a familiar sight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
THE nDoR HE MISSED
he November strand

From the November Strand.
 A good illustration of the wit of Bishop Weldon, the popular dean of Manchester is afforded by the following story. once at luncheon given by the lord mayor of Manchester, the dean sat next to Sir Herbert Tree
 Well, MT. Tree, what have you been doing today?" he asked.
 .I went for a long motor ride this morning and lost bet replied the fam ous actor.
 Indeed said the dean. And may ask what the bet was?'
 "I made bet that we would pass through i0o different odors, and we only encountered 80"
 "Ah," replied Bishop Weldon. promptly you missed the odor of sanctty.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26

From "The Surf-Board Riders of Hawaii in the November Wide World Magazine. Waikiki beach, where surf board riding
 may be witnessed in it's perfection, is some three miles from the center of Honolulu. and is easily reached by tram. It Is virtually a curve in the short front ing directly upon the vast Pacific ocean, yet protected by a great coral reef nearly a mile from the shore. Against this bar
 rier the mighty rollers from the sea stub their toes, so to speak, and pitch
 headlong in foam crested ridges across the lagoon and on to the coral sand of the beach. The great trick is to ride upon the first or outer wave and be car red by those that subsequently, form right on to the beach.
 The boards used are of light mahogany, some six feet in length by IS inches wide.
 Upon this frai craft the heaviest man may stand, if he knows how, while the force of the wave Is behind him, but in quiet water it will readily sink under the weight of child. Like every other kind of sport, surf board riding requires a certain knack, and the knack here is 
 water at the right moment and at the right speed. To do this really success fully you must develop certain muscles in the arms and shoulders. You must learn first how to lie flat on the board in deep water, how to balance yourself when there, and how to send the frail craft forward by using your arms like pair of wind mills and working your legs like the paddles of canoe.
 Having mastered these points, you start for the long rollers beyond the breakers. As the waves roll over you, you dip the
 bow of your board ana go through them. Once out where the big rollers begin to form, you mount your board just as Q wave with feathered edge comes along The moment before it reaches you throw your arms round rapidly pushing your craft forward as fast as you can, as if to escape the wave behind. If you
 have judged the right moment and are speeding your board rast enough, the oncoming pillow will carry you before 1t, and on that great sloping wall of water you keep slipping down and down, but never quite reaching the bottom of the briny abyss. Then the wave breaks, and you are flung before it with the speed of cannon ball toward the sandy beach. You throw your legs to right or left ac- cording to the direction you wish to go. and keep your arms rigid, graspng the edges of your board, if lying down. If you wish to rise to your feet you must do so in the flash of second, and then balance yourself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A PROMISE OF THE FuTUR

PROMISE OF THE FUTURE. The dumdum bullets are flying,
 Opposing armies clash, The Balkan states are trying
 The Turkish horde to smash. Meantime The Hague is dreaming Of the time when war will cease, But the shells go screaming, screaming And there's little hope of peace. Some day the world may banish
 The bloody gods of war, Those vengeful hosts will vanish
 Who now spread ruin far; The brotherhood of races
 Won't be mere fancy then, But ere that comes, our places
 Must be filled by supermen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
Trees Along the Highways.

''The civic committee of the Alabama Federation of Womens Clubs is doing a good thing In starting a movement for the preservation of trees along our high ways" said a prominent citizen. Mrs Aston FHtts of Tuscaloosa is chairman of the civic committee, and she has is- sued an address in circular form which should stir up interest in this work. After calling attention to the nation wide movement for shady ways and an ap- peal for a general rally for their pres ervation, she says:
 Every drive through the country gives evidence of the need of prompt ae- ton, for the trees are at the mercy of ever changing road workers and are ruth lessly cut down. These shady highways are a great asset to our state. Increas- ing numbers of tourists are motoring over them and are thereby awakening to our wonderful resources. Our own people are finding on these highways the play ground needed for recreation and relax ation. The farmer finds comfort and pleasure for himself and his horses in the days work, to and from market, field and home.
 Let every womans club in Alabama join in the crusade .without delay Talk about it in your homes and in your clubs and have your schools champion these God-given forest trees, true friends, alike to rich and poor, young and old, Every school improvement association in Ala bama is asked to call meeting and frame and sign a petition and present it to their county commissioners asking their authority to prevent roadworkers from cutting down these trees. Let us all together arouse such interest and love for these trees, that when bill is pre- scented in the next legislature for their legal preservation it may be passed unan~ imously.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
INSTRUCTIONS OF \ BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It takes a woman to know a thing is going to happen because there is no req son for it.
 The thing a woman can be surest of Is that if her husband would buy her a House they wouldn't be paying any rent
 A woman who has been out to an even ing reception, undressed. has to dress all up when she gets home. to go to bed.
 There's nothing that hurts mans feel nes 90 much as for his wife to dig up an old photograph of him in queer collar and tie.
 What made woman know beforehand thing was going to happen is she would have known if it hadn't been going to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
WON BY X YELL

From the St. Louis Republic.
 There are always sufficient honors to go around at the Missouri university. No student is in danger of being sighted. All one has to possess is the right sort of talent and recognition comes, bows and pins on the big fluttering badge. Re- cause his sample of coiiege yell was the best among the other competitors. Rob ert Lakeman has been able to write hope to doting parents watching his career that he has been made head rooter for the term. Young I.akeman has named two assistants in case he shoudl get hoarse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
AN AMERICAN BOOK PRINCE

Joseph Jackson, describing, in the cur rent Worlds Work, the most splendid of the private book collections of the world, says that one of the most costly and im- portant general collections iat present owned in the United States is that gath cred by Henry F. Huntingdon. Mr.
 Huntington, only year or so ago. bought the great collection of Americana of Dwight F, Church, for which, it is gen. orally reported, he paid s75o,0o0. At the Hoe sale he was a munifcent buyer, and carried off some of the greatest treas urers. Indeed, it is generally understood that MT Huntington was so magnificent collector that, at this sale, his special agent must have received considerably more than SSO,oOo for his two weeks at tendance-perhap 10 per cent of the value of his purchases. Mir. Huntington also has gathered a fine collection of Amer icana, or books about America, that is generally regarded as the finest in a private library i'm this country Among it's treasures is the only known copy of the first printed laws of Massachusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
AND THEN TT BROKE A RIB

From the New York American.
 l. A thick overcoat.
 ?. A rusty black broadcloth frocS coat. the one the colonel has worn through this and apparently through many other cam paigns.
 8. One hundred thicknesses of heavy typewriter paper, containing his speech for the night in Milwaukee, 50 pages, folded double.
 4. gunmetal spectacle case, contain ing the big tortoise shell spectacles the colonel uses for reading glasses. The bullet grazed one of the lenses, but by some miracle left in intact.
 Q. A black vest. lined with silk.
 6. madras shirt.
 L A wooden undershirt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
The rattle of his money
WOOING OF TOM SAWYER
From "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

From "rhe Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. WEES FEN s school 9 ss eFoss Thatcher up d, noo@ o0@
 W whispered in her ear:
 Put on your bonnet and let on you're going home; and when you get to the corner give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down throug4, the lane and come back. I'll go the other way and come it over 'em the same way"
 In little while the two met at the bottom of the lane, and when they reached the school they had 1t all to themselves. Then they sat together, with a slate before them and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house. When the interest in art began to wane the two fell to talk ing. Tom was swimming in bliss. He said:
 ''Do you love rats?'
 NO, I hate them''
 "wel, do, too-live ones But l mean dead ones, to swing round your head with a string
 "No, I don't care much for rats, any way. What ] like is chewing gum"
 "Oh, 1 should say so! I wish 1 had some now"
 ''Do you? I've got some. I'll let you chew it a while, but you must give it back to me-"
 That was agreeable. so they chewed 1t turn about and dangled their legs against the bench in excess of content ment.
 Say, Becky. was you ever engaged ?''N
 What's that?"
 why, engaged to be married.
 "No."
 NO"
 Would you like to?''
 q reckon so. I don't know. What is it like?"
 Like? Why it aint like anything. You only just tell boy you won't ever have anybody but him. ever ever, ever, and then you kiss and that's all. Any body can do it.
 Kiss? What do you kiss for?'
 "Why. that, you know, is to-well, they always do that
 "Every body?'
 Why yes. everybody that's in love with each other. Do you remember what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
MANS MOST DEADLY WATER FOE

From the November Wide World Maga- | zine.
 1 Probably one of the most dangerous and least known of mans watery enemies is | the canderu, or caneru, q fish three to
 eight inches long. and guilty of the ex- | traordnary habit of diving suddenly into
 the human economy by the most conven- | lent channels.
 | There are two distinct species, one ell- l like in appearance, blunt headed and | smooth bodied, the other armed with a sharp, bony snout, two to three inches 1 in length, swallow tailed. and covered from snout to tail by small barbs. It is particularly attracted by the orifices of the human body, into which 1t dives sud- denly and with great force, producing a shock somewhat akin to a powerful electric discharge. In the case of both types a serious surgical operation Is in volved; but in the case of the Veni va riety the more the fish or the victim wriggles the farther the fish penetrates-
 and it cannot get back. It frequently causes death, for a surgeon is rara avs in these wilds I saw two cut out of a woman in Riveralta, South America, where victims are common. The fish is bloodsucker, and can be easily caught with a lump of raw meat, into which it dives in a much similar way-the probos-
 cis being probably it's usual means of se-
 curing blood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
AN UNEQUAL FOOTING

Why is it, Twobble. that you don't run with Bilfkins? Aren't you members of the same lodge?' "Oh, yes. We are members of the same lodge, but our capacities differ" HOW IT APPEARS TO THE MASSES George W. Perkins gave his occupation before the Senate Investigating commit tee as retired worlxingman,' and the consensus of opinion seems to be that George fiatters himself.
 A GOOD SPENDER.
 Each time he opes
 His pocketbook,
 He gives ten bones
 A farewell look
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
Great Future For Birmingham

"The more 1 see of Birmingham the better I like it." said Horace R. Taylor, the Baltimore banker and broker, who is associated with Morris Bros. of Philadel- phia, the financial packers of the Tide water line.
 ''I have been here several times and on each visit l have noticed wonderful improvement. After being here several days this week 1t is plain to see that Bir- mingham is growing at very rapid rate. It will not be many years before it's population turns the 300000 line.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
Interesting Alabama History.

"Col. J. w. DuBose is writing a most interesting and instructive history of the reconstruction period in Alabama,' said a Birmingham pioneer. Tn reading his articles I have learned great deal about Alabamas history from the close of the war until the early 70s. I was a youth during the reconstruction days and Colo nel DuBose makes clear many of the political 'doings' that I only understood vaguely at the time His paper numbered s4 on Finding a Site for Birmingham, was extremely interesting. It was in Fri days paper and those who failed to read 1t should look 1t up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
LOVELY POLLY STEWART

By Burns.
 o lovely Polly Stewart
 o charming Polly Stewart. There's not a flower that blooms in May That's half so sweet as thou art. The flower it blaws, it fades and fa's. And art can ne'er renew it; But worth and truth eternal youth
 Will give to Polly Stewart. May he whose arms shall fauld il
 charms,
 Possess a Teal and true heart: { To him be given to ken the heaven yS He grasps in Polly Stewart. o lovely Polly Stewart! There's ne'er flower that blooms
 That's half so sweet as thou arp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
POOR CO-EDs WILL DARN SOCKS

POOR CO-EDs WILL DARN SOCKS Columbia, Mo, Telegram to the Chicago
 Inter ocean.
 Mems hose darned; ones with ordi- nary holes, cents, a pair; ones with particularly large holes. cents pair
 This is the announcement of the darn ing and mending bureau of the Young Woman's Christian association at the Un- iversity of Missouri. Poor girls who are earning their own expenses while attend ing school here will do the work. The first orders have already been secured and the bureau is expected to be running at full speed soon.
 The man students and bachelor men.- bers of the faculty need no longer wear hose with holes in them, the girls say All hose left at Y. W. c. A. office will be promptly darned and the owner can get them a day or two after they are left
 Posters will be put up soon all over the south end of Columbia in the university district advertising the work of the girls.
 The young women will mend button less shirts, torn clothing and other articles of clothing which need mending. Young women who are flush with money are asked to send their mendng work also. The secretary of the Young Woman Christian association employment bureau will see that all the alarming done is first class. so there will be no complaints about the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
PORTER "sAssEs" WRONG MAN

Minneapolis Telegram to the Chicago Rec
 ord-Herald.
 When an aged woman crossed the main waiting room of the union station, a heavy valse in one hand, a nearby porter made no effort to assist her. A man with sandy beard approached the woman, took the burden and helped her on 8 train. He then returned to the porter.
 Could you have carried that va lse?" he asked.
 "yen. what do you carer was the re. ply.
 Indignation blazed in the others eyes.
 "I have some interest in the matter. am Louis W. Hill"
 The porter knew the man with that name was chairman of the board of di rectors of the Great Northern railway and immediately began a still hunt for an other job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
A SUGGESTION.

Down with Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger!' cry some hypercritical, latter-day read. Much ~ado about nothing. They would work to better purpose if they would exclude about nine out of ten of the latter-day novels with which grown up people are accustomed to stultify their minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
CuTTERs-IN

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 say said the man from Providence, T want to register a violent objection to that mathematical .automohilist who cuts in ahead of lot of law abiding cit