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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

verslty of Alabama is fast increasing in popularity, and I believe that within the next two or three years its student body will number fully 1000 The Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn is do- ing a great work and it is encouraging to know that the attendance is larger and larger every year. Its student body numbered more than 800 during the school year just closed and Dr. Thach. the pres ident, is working hard to bring it up to thousand in the year 1912-13."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Republican Disafrection

"I am one of the vast throng whose interest in politics is only that of a voter, without being a member of any political organization, said John T. Humphreys of the borough of Man haitian, New York city.
 ''In New York elections I vote as national elections have always voted the straight republican ticket and have been voter since 1888 This year. however, I have about made up my mind to vote the democratic ticket. think the republicans have been in power too long.
 Tt used to be thought by some per sons that a democratic victory meant unsatisfactory business conditions. We often hear 1893 spoken of as a dem- ocratic panic year, but the republicans made a situation that caused the panic soon after Cleveland was inaugurated The more recent panic of 1907 occurred while Roosevelt was President While there is a good deal of prosperity in the country at present industrial con ditions are not altogether healthy and according to the way some of us think the manufacturing interests will not be on an absolutely sound basis until we have a readjustment.
 With a tariff-for-revenue-o party in power there will be a readjustment of economic and social conditions. Pres ident Taft means well. but he is at heart, believe, a tariff reformer. Roosevelt seems to have no fixed views about economic questions. He doesn't seem to take to great economic prob lens of state. He is to all intent and purposes a protectionist. l used to be but am so no longer.
 If man like Underwood, with democratic Congress. could be elected it would be a great thing for this country. If MT. Underwood is the dem ocratic nominee for President I should certainly vote for him and so would many republican friends of mine'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Building in Birmingham

Birmingham continues to grow rapidly and one of the best indica- tions of increasing values here is that the improvements are not confined to any one section.
 This city's business district is ex- banding steadily. New mercantile buildings are in course of construction on every street downtown" and great building activity is in evidence in practically ali the residence sec tions. In some cities one part grows at the expense of another. But when all sections are improving, as hap pens to be the case in Birmingham, prosperity is spelled with big P.
 Birmingham has had many pros- porous years, but 1912 will witness a new high record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
THE PRICE OF REFORM

From an EXchange.
 When the circus was in town the other day an inquisitive visitor interviewed the manager of the sideshow.
 You used to have very remarkable glass eater" began the noisy one. "ls it possible that you have discharged him?"
 Alas, yes.'' was the answer. If you remember him. you will recall that he used to eat beer bottles. Well. a few months ago a temperance orator got hold of him and made him sign the pledge. After that he refused to eat anything but mineral water bottles, and they were too expensive. So he had to go. Too bad he was one of our best attractions.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
PITTsBURG PLATITUDEs AT ABER-
 DEEM

From the New York World.
 Andrew Carnegie has performed his duty as Lord Rector of Aberneed uni versity by delivering an address to the students Before he began, the stu dents made an uproar of. shouting and singing. When he closed they made greater uproar and in addition smashed the chairs and flung the rugs arounc.
 The address and the racket were not inappropriate to one another. The lord rector told the students they should have honesty. good temper, ability and asslduity If they would succeed in life. This of course sound ed much like the line they were taught to write in their copybooks at the grammar school: Patience, Practice and Perseverance Work Miracles of Success" He next told them they should "aim high" They should not smoke. He said 1t is easy to acquire habits in youth that are hard to break in after years. He also said that woman should be a refining influence, that she should make home happy.
 To an infant class this address would
 
 would not have been disturbing to gray headed men whose minds had long since acquired a perdurable toughness to the repetitions of plati- tudes. But on young men who have studied for four years the words of the~ masters of philosophy and of science; who have eaten oatmeal, burned the midnight oil, scorned de- lights and lived laborious days; who have had communion with Homer and Plato, with Isaiah and St. Paul. whose mounting spirits have aspired to the starry heights of intellectual attain ment, and who are now hoping to go forth to enlighten a waiting world, surely the talk of the Pittsburg steel maker could have had no other effect than that described. He told them to be good boys and get rich-and they smashed the furniture. It was natural.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
DESERVED REBukE

From the Youths Companion.
 A Salvation Army officer was taking up a collection in the street. One man was heard to say, as he dropped in a dime, Heres 10 cents for the grafters."
 You don't believe there's any graft in the Salvation Army quickly rejoined the woman.
 How do you know?" the man asked her.
 Because you would be in the army yourself if you did," was the sharp re- ply. And the man had the grace and the humor to laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
GENTLEMEN AND THEIR HATS

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Is the conduct of the male person who fails to remove his hat when riuing on an elevator in company with women com patible with the appropriate behavior of a real gentleman, or is 1t an act of such discourtesy as betokens and befts the boor?
 That is the question being discussed in the epistolary columns of a New York contemporary, and the divergence in the opinions upon the subject which the va rious correspondents express is certainly amusing. Of course, the answer is that the propriety or impropriety of the con duct in question depends on circum- stances It depends ,upon the nature Of the relation into which the male person IS temporarily brought toward his fellow pa ssengers. If the relation involves any feeling of a friendly or social kind, IT if communicates any suggestion of pri- vacv. the we'll bred man will instnctively bare his head
 For this reason he will do so in the ele- vator of an apartment house or an hotel, and by the same token he will not do so in the elevator of an office building or railway station. It may be thought that the distinction is fine one. but it is clearly based on reason and on right. AL though in certain sense and to cer- tain extent an hotel is a public place, inasmuch as anyone may enter it, 1t is home to those who for the time being, or 1t may be permanently, are living there, and the persons who use it's elevators are not. strictly speaking, strangers to each other. They. are residing under the same roof and they owe each other special courtesy on that account The barring of the head in the elevator is an acknowledg- ment of this circumstance.
 The same argument applies even more lconvincingly to the apartment house,
 which partakes to greater measure than the hotel of the nature of the home. and for a man to ride in an apartment ele- vator in woman's company with his hat on would be a fragrant breach of good manners. But why should he remove his hat In the elevator of an office building or railway station. where the publicity is as absolute as the publicity of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

Fron, the New York Press.
 Ginger seems to do much better in poli- tics than genius.
 The way a girl tells it. two couples danc- ing in a house to music oox made it a ball.
 More caildren are spanked all the way to their duty than are coaxed any part of the way.
 The way to get woman to read the encyclopedia would be to have looking glasses between the covers.
 The Lord may know the best a good woman thinks. but not even the devil can know the worst a bad man thinks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE LILr OF A SONG.

THE LILT OF A SONG. he sang a song of the morning, lie sang song of the night, lie sang of the old world rolling And always rolling right. And the joy he found in singing, Some gladness to impart, Aiaoe smooth life's rugged journey And eased his weary heart. What more could he ask for guerdon. Though fortune was denied And his lowly name on the scroll of fame Would never be deserted? Wherever life's paths may lead us. Whatever the task to do, The lit of song when things go wrong Doth faltering hope renewl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
GREATEST DEALER IN LIQUORS

small. Large villages have a minimum of two, lest the moujik be wearied and turn home without leaving his quota at communities a strange thing happened a short while back. The elders of the neighborhood in question realized that the seourge of the countryside was not fam inc, but ignorance and vodka which de- prives men, women and children till they can think of nothing else They, there fore, arranged to shut down the saloons and get the people to spend money on a school or two and a few agricultural ma chimes instead. Many communes took up the idea with zest. But the government drove them back to the drinking hells the police ordered the saloons to be opened and the village schools closed, and fined the communes for abolishing drink and starting education. Drunkenness pays too we'll That is what the govern ment said when the communes protested and they were about right. Moreover. fuddled, vodka-soaked brain does not worry about reforms.
 Russia's national drink is distilled from potatoes and cereals in such a way that the proportion of sulphuric acid to spirit is as nine to ten. It is very strong, fiery and always swallowed neat. It easily af- fleets the brains of drinkers who eonse- quently often become vodka-mad Fierce quarrels and stabbings are the common sequels.
 So while the government pays just 2A cents per head for education in one year, each citizen leaves sums varying from s6 cents to s7.50 in the Czar's drinking sa- looms. His portraits hang on the walls to remind all corners of their duties to- ward imperial revenues.
 But apart from the enslavement of the people the advantage is not altogether on the credit side. The Czar's army suffers much from that vodka fiend. General Reopen, who has been trying in vain 10 propagate ideas of temperance among the troops says that 95 per cent of the crimes committed by soldiers are done when they have been drinking heavily Each regi- ment of 2500 men swells the Czars re- ceipts for vodka by S240Oo a year.
 
 street? There is no good reason. It may be said that he should do so to show his respect for his female fellow passengers, but what is there in particular about an elevator which requires such demonstra- ton? In what way does the elevator where some contend that the hat should be raised differ from the corridor, where no one claims that it should?
 The truth Is that some people want to be SO polite that they overdo it, and the excess of civility born of affeetation is al- most as objectionable as the rudeness which results from ignorance. Consider ation for the rights and feelings of others is the secret of good manners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
WEARISoME

Confound his type We like him not.
 Though great things he may do. The man who says that he's forgot
 More than we ever knew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
SOUNDS CONFUSING.

Here is a puff for puffs
 '1 don't quite get you''
 An actorine says Perkins Peerless powder puff is the best she ever used.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
EYES ADvANTAGEs.

EWES ADVANTAGES. Eyes wasn't such sorry case; In her day grocers never cheated. And Ad neer grumbled round the place Because the home team was defeated.
 Chicago Record-Herald. Eyes wasn't such sorry case I'm very sure you catch my meaning; She ne'er showed Ad grimy face As evidence of spring housekeeping.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Eyes wasn't such a sorry case Her Adam never talked election, And every time she showed her face She wore her everyday complexion.
 Youngstown Telegram. Eyes wasn't such a sorry case; There were no girls in her vicinity, And so old Adam couldn't chase Around with some gay. young affinity.
 Springfield Union. Eyes wasn't such a sorry case; For Adam wasn't prone to morning, He ne'er loafed round the Dutchman's place.
 Nor came home soused most every morning. Cincinnati Enquirer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
St. Petersburg Cor. Toronto Mail and Elm

pire.
 XVYHo is the worlds greatest liquor
 w salOonkeePer' ,. I do l not mean can throat irritation business. MT. Dooley'' is an easy first in that galley. But con sidered from the viewpoint of rank and dignity the philosopher of the Archey Road is bad second to Nicholas II, Czar of All the Russias, and despotic ruler of more than 16O,00OOOO subjects.
 Nicholas is not only the man of highest rank ever employed in the lucrative trade. but owns a larger number of wine stores and spirit saloons than any other indi- vidual in the universe. He has over 30, GOO kabaks-Russian for drinking saloon has complete control of 4OO0 spirit fac tories and dstilleries. and rakes in yearly total of between s36O, OO0,oOo and 4oo,oooooO by selling vodka to the, dutiful soakers of his realm.
 He is the real liquor lxing-unique in the history of the civilized world The latest statistics prove that the Czar's vodka revenue of 1910 was just s6,0O000O more than that of the year before. His man. agers expect and hope that the next re- turns will show a still larger increase in the traffic.
 This business is, in fact, the Czar's monopoly. His subjects who are fond of joke call vodka "monopol," and to drink to the Little Father" who farms the liquor trade is an action that covers de- sire with the cloak of loyalty.
 None are allowed to compete with him, under pain of heavy fines, and even, on occasion, imprisonment The poorest sub ject who doles the spirit out of a bottle for money pays $2OO to the Czar, so jeal- ous is he of his monopoly. No distillery in the empire may sell their spirits to anybody else, at home or abroad, without his special permission-which is never granted till the petitioner has spent large sums in greasing the palms of the Cars special officials.
 Drinking saloons are opened by imperial command in Russia. Dhere must be at least one in each hamlet, no matter how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

The Ledgers house warming yester- day was a notable event. The pub fishers and editors were cordially con- graduated on their handsome new home. The Ledger has one of the finest buildings and one of the best equipped newspaper plants in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

Champ Clark is running for President and member of Congress, and the Nash vile Banner suggests that he be nomi- mated for vice president.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

A revolution means intervention and in- tervention means annexation. and this is why funds flow in from the United states to finance the first named in Cuba and Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

The colonel begins to think that the American game trails do not surpass the African. The Coliseum is slipping out of his capacious hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

A walking club in New York holds out exceptional social advantages as an in- ducement to join. To walk into New York society is a new fad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

Chicago anticipates great crowd next week. although plenty of lighting room has been provided.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

An aviator says the aeroplane of the fu- ture will carry 1000 passengers It should be required then to carry 1000 parachutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

instructions are postponed in Cuba on account of rain. The weather is still In 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

The midweek reviews of the steel trade are highly encouraging.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

There will be more of jolt than of a bolt at Chicago next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

Senator LaFolette proposes to stay at homo on his farm in Wisconsin while the Chicago convention simmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

President Gomez swinging in his ham mock does not seem to care how many marines are landed in Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

Even the steam roller has it's limitations Lit cannot vindicate MT. Hines or MT. Lorimer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

Five per cent of the people of this coun- try buy books, and the other s5 per cent borrow them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

It is said Colonel Roosevelt never yawns. He leaves that part of the cam paign to the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

Unemployed actors in New York are not worried by the walters strike. No walters are employed at free lunch counters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

The postmaster machines of the one party states are adding to the sayety of Chicago and other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

The vote is to be taken on the Lorimer case on July 6, and there is to be no postponement on account or weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
A GREAT FEAT.

Some people have marvellous mem ories.'
 For instance?"
 'There is a book reviewer in this town who has been known to remember the names of the principal characters in a best seller for as long as two weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
ALAS, No.

Her graduation gown was simplicity it. self"
 You couldn't say that about her es- say"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

No big stick can demolish steam roller founded on postmasters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

The law should require all steam rollers to carry and to use at all crossings siren whistles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

viiber wright was welded to science only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
THE oLYMPIAN DIALOGUES

Boiling tickets are notoriousiy unluclsy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

DUTY. The good housewife Just thinks she must Wage ceaseless strife With the demon dust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

z. E. Morgan and W. G. Wharton are the only authorized travelling represen- tatives of The Age-Herald in its circu- lation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

No communication will be published without its authors name. HeJecteu manuscript will not be returned unIeSS stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
TELEPHONEs

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 Peoples, Editorial rooms. 231, busi- ness office, 230.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18

luc the money now and nothing will be spared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18

"A special purchase of fifty pieces 7 bleached wide vale pique soft and { Especially good for skirts or coat suits worth 35c. yard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
W0men'S lOc Hand
 kerchief at 4c

Eight hundred women's pretty sheer white embroidered and hemstitched handkerchiefs. They are dainty, fine and magnificent values at Io 1Oc. Choice for "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18

So dainty and fine and as fresh as the first full blown spring rose. These shadow silk striped voiles and the silk corded tissues are beautiful, all colors; worth soc, O1n ward L4N
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
LOUISIANALOU.
The Big Musical Comedy at the Grand
December 81.

Louisiana Lou" the new musical
comedy from the Chicago LaSalle, is
said to differ from all other musical
comedies of the day in that il is en-
tertainment no less for the children
than for the grownups. This does not
mean that 1t is a dramatized nursery
tale, or that it, as other abortive at
tempts to please the children have
been, is a mere compilation of infan-
tile, thoughtfless foolery. To what ex-
tent the children are catered to in
Louisiana Lou" will be noted when
the new musical comedy is disclosed
here by Harry Askin's special COM
pany on December 81, in the Grand
opera house.
Two of the most popular songs in
Louisiana Lou are of special appeal
to the children. They are THE Tale
of a Jumping-Jack,'ss sung by Nixon
as jumping-jacks, and The Joys and
the Glooms,'' which is a clever stage
use of the idea. originated by Tom
Powers in his cartoons. The latter
number is for Della Fair and the
ponies and mediums of the girl
chorus.
But the chief appeal to the. chill
dren, as to everybody else who cares
for what is decent in the theater, is
the utter cleanliness of Louisiana
Lou in all particulars. No word of
double meaning, no allusion of doubt
full taste, no situation at all inde1icate.
is ever allowed in a LaSaIIe musical
comedy; and for that reason every
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The Provident association still has
some bundles of kindling for sale at
ten cents each.
The members of the Boys club of the
Provident association will be enter
tanned at seven o'clock Friday evening
at the Provtdent building
The work of redecorating the parIor
of the Commercial club was completed
today, and the room is now in readiness
for meetings of various kinds.
The cantata. THE Prince of Peace -
will be sung by the Choral society of
the Euclid Avenue church next Sunday
evening under the general direction of
c. A Sloan.
Ed Arnold has purchased the resi-
dence at the corner of Greenwood and
Willow avenues in Potwin from S B.
Rohrer. The house will be remodeIed
next spring.
Attorneys hope to finish the Gordon
Mum partition suit, 3on hearing in the
second division of the district court.
early next week. The eidence may be
finished the last of the present week if
all goes well.
One marriage license was issued this
morning after. The license was issued
to Luberta A Smith. IS years old. St
Joseph. Mo, and Mabel F. Adams. %
years old, Hutchinson.
w. s. McClintock reported to Sheriff
Norton this morning the theft of a
boys bicycle from his front porch the
night of December 90 He says the
bicycle is practically new. a Grendon
model, and offers a reward for its re-
covery.
Six of the Kansas representatives of
the Central Topeka Paper Co. are in
the city today This evening they will
be rendered a dinner at the Throop
hotel after which they. together with all
the Topeka employees of the company
will be rendered theater party at
the Novelty
William Manning reported to the DO
lice today that horse of his was stoI-
en- last night from his barn at SIS East
Third street. He says the horse which
is bay pony, has been stolen several
times before, someone evidently having
borrowed it. He declares his neighbor
also lost a horse a few days ago.
AS a compliment to the little tots
of the Washington school. members of
the first grade, who sang at the state
teachers meeting here. Miss Mildred
HazeIrigg has given the grade a picture