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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
.uxpERwooD AS AGAMEMNoN"


 From the Mobile Item.
 Louisiana produces from 60o,ooo.0oo to 7,0O, 100000 pounds of cane sugar year and contains less than 5000 republican voters out of a total population of over 1,6O0,ooO. The free sugar bill therefore, is proba- bly, pretty good campaign document. Cane sugar is very decidedly democratic industry. Whatever benefit the south gets from protection comes largely through the duty on sugar; and we rather admire MT. Underwood. in the role of Agamemnon. sternly leading de- mocracys little Miss Iphgenia Sugar abling the party to point out next sum mer that it was perfectly willing to take it's own low tariff medicine.
 sThe bill is to be considered. of course, as a campaign Recommendation there Is hardly the remotest possibility of its be- coming law"
 The foregoing is from the Saturday Evening Post. It is hardly necessary to state that it embodies the republican viewpoint of the democratic tariff pro- gramme In this aspect it is neither more nor less than one-sided political comment, but it suggests democratic insincerity in tariff reform and is, therefore, sub ject for the newspapers which recognize MT. tTnderwood's qualifications to carry out the tariff policy indorsed by the great majority of his party. As against the supposition of the Saturday Evening Post regarding the campaign document in the sugar tariff stand, the Item desires to point out that MT. Underwood stood as firmly on the basic blanks of the dem oeratic platform when his own congress sional district opposed him on reductioh of the steel schedules. That was not ,he creation of campaign document Il was political honesty. There was no op- nortunitv for the suggestion of insinceritS then. why should there be any now? TO all fair minded men the best illustratioh of MT. Jnderwoods $ sincerity was ""ei he refused to sacrifice the clearly oe''Hei policy of his party for the beneht oi 'iis Alabama district which elected nm to Congress. The pressure to receae was powerful and urgent. but he held ms ero,,rd and thereby described his fitness for the democratic leadership
 The saturday Evening Post is strong on ron,ance. but weak on politics. It Is a good family paper but in it's discussion of men and measures, as directing the leading political parties, apt to take the smaIl end of the glass without telling its readers why In the estimate of Under wood and the democratic party, based on what it considers will be the outcome of sugar tariff revision the Saturday Evening Post exhibits republican suspi- cion rather than democratic reality. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
THE DEATH OF RoBEspIERRE

John S. C. Abbott: "The French Revolu-
 tion.'
 The day was just beginning to dawn as the long file of prisoners was led into the Place de Greve to be conducted to the hall of the convention. First came Robe spierre borne by four men on a litter. His fractured jaw was bound up by q handkerchief, which was steeped in blood. He was laid upon table in an anteroom, while an intermnable crowd pressed in and around to catch a sight of the fallen dictator.
 The unhappy man was overwhelmed with reproaches and insults and feigned death to escape this moral torture. The morning was intensely hot. Not a breath of pure air could the wounded man inhale. Unsuitable thirst and a burning fever consumed him. enduring the intensest bangs of bodily and mental anguish
 By order of the convention. he and his confederates were then removed to the committee of general safety for examina- ton; from which tribunal they were sent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
From Current Literature for April.

From Current Literature for April.
 "HERE is nothing better for our men
 tai health than to have our firmest
 and dearest opinions sharply chal- lenged now and then. Robert Blatchford, editor of The Clarion, London's socialist paper, discourses in a recent number on Poetry, Poets and Mere Men" To read his discourse Is like facing strong March wind that buffets you from all sides, but stimulates you. MT. Blatchford is, he says, lover of poetry, but he has been awakened to the reason why, as Arnold Bonnet says, "the profound ob- lection of the average man to poetry can scarcely be exaggerated.' The way of his Awakening was this He had desire to compile a little book of verse on new lines, and for this purpose went gem hunting in the Milky Way of the stand ard poets" He found himself shocked. He discovered big volumes of standard poetry that contained no poetry at all. He found none in the works of Byron or Tennyson or Moore Then he came with shining hope to Shelley and began his search anew He found an abundance of rhetoric but he could find hardly any poetry,
 except the Indian Love Song," T Arise From Dreams, of Thee" and part of the introduction to ''Alastor.' He went through GAO pages of small type, and he says: ''No wonder the average man is afraid of poetry I would not read those 600 superfluous pages for 500 guineas.' Others of the standard poets he finds ''stodgy and discouraging Wordsworth and Coleridge, as we'll as Byron and Ten-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Flne AmbuInnce servIce

Birmingham has the best ambulance service of any city in the south" said a travelling man. q have been in nearly every city of any consequence south of the Mason and Dixon line and east Of the Mississippi river and I find this state of affairs to be true.
 Tn most of the cities the hospitals may have one or two horse drawn ambulances between them and now and then you will find an auto ambulance. But here the ambulance business has become a profess sion and ease and dispatch of business have become the slogan.
 "At the recent street car wreck on the North Besemer car line. I had occasion to notice this quite forcibly. It seems that the passengers had hardly gotten out of the car and were looking at the wreck before four auto ambuiances and a. horse ambulance or two were coming to the scene at. breack-neck speed. They got their patients without asking any questions and whisked them away to hos pitals without any delay. This kind Of work saves many lives"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Fight on smoke Nulsancs

"The efforts of Commissioner. Weather
 y to abate the smoke nuisance will meet the hearty approval of almost every res dent of the city said citizen Much can be accomplished toward that end by the installment of smoke consuming de- vices wherever steam boilers are used within the city limits. Such devices can be installed at little cost and without de- creasing the efficiency of the boiler.
 Possibly the laundry people might ob ject to this. as the smoke evil is a val uable adjunct to their business. for under the present. conditions change of linen is necessary twice a day. We are all glad to see the smoke belching from the stacks of our many industries, as that is a sure sign of industrial prosperity. yet if this nuisance can be abolished it ought to be done, especially if it does not decrease the efficiency of the steam hoiI- CTS or add to the cost of producing steam"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

the general assembly. It is not only illegal and improper, being discrimi- nation in favor of one class, but is in- defensible because it is means of compelling the railroads to help the state pay the salaries of it's public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Statues Galore in Washington

About a dozen bills are pending in Congress proposing appropriations for new statues to be set up in public places in the national capital. And yet Washington is full of effigies of famous or near famous Americans. Every slightly street or square in that city has been given over to statues, until some are beginning to say that washington would be better off if it could get rid of all, or nearly all, of ita alleged works of art.
 The time to call halt on national Appropriations for such purposes has ertainly come, and no new bill will be ermitted to go through unopposed. he civil war added heavily to the
 mber of statues in the streets of
 e capital, and as things are going
 e streets of that city will soon tell
 story of the war without consult
 any history of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
THE KING AND THE MUSIC HALL

i From the New York Times.
 i King George and the Queen Consort,
 having bestowed the royal sanction
 with much ceremony, upon foreign opera
 and the British drama in it's highest
 surviving form, are now to lend the lustre
 and authority of their presence t. that
 most enduring of English institutions for
 popular entertainment, the music hall l This Is as it should be. The music hall.
 if not essentially of English origin, was
 developed in England. and there first se- cured institutional Importance. From the 'alls American variety and the continental brand both received their earliest inspira-
 tion! Out of the 'als grew British bur
 lesque in it's latest form and the fashion, able musical comedy" which satisfies 1 the theatrical ideals of a vast number of
 the best fed and best dressed Britons
 | The music hall, too. has held its own, and never lost one iota of its indvidu- | alitv. in spite of the transfer of so many l of its artists to pantomine, in its mod | ern state and to the more or less 'legit- l imate' drama, and in spite, too, of the invasion of it's precincts by so many iuustrious actors who have found drama unprofitable. The King and his retinue, when they "patronize" the Palace theatre as they intend to do, according to the
 Times Marconi dispatches. will be lend- ing the royal sanction to a form of popu- lar entertainment thoroughly British, which the opera of Wagner. Puccini and Massenet surely is not and truer to the i traditions and ideals of the British stage | which has comprehended farce, buretta l ballet and acrobatism in it's time, than the
 modern drama tinged with the pessimism of the German and the Dane, or Shake- speare rendered pictorialIy rather than
 with just and stirring delivery of the | splendid cadences of Elizabethan verse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
The Genus Fan

Birmingham is certainly the best baseball town in the south,' said an ar dent fan as he pushed his perspiring way out of the crowd around Redwood field. T have been in the other cities of the Southern league circuit and in no place have 1 found the response to the base ball spirit, which is the spirit Of falr play and true sport, so overwhelming as it is in Brmngham. It Is always a pleas ure for me to go to Redwood when there is going to be an extra large crowd. l like to watch the crowd almost as much as I do the game and that is saying a good bit When l go to a ball game am always in a dilemma-trying to watch the crowd and the game at the same time. There is nothing more democratic than baseball crowd and under ordinary circumstances nothing more good na- tured That is one reason that l like to watch them so.'
 With a sprint and a leap the fan caught car for town and for few mo- ments his reflections were interrupted by trying to cling to a handhold with one hand, reach in his pocket for his nickel, ask for transfer and receive it. When he finally got settled he breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
 Well, spring is here. I have seen two signs that never fail. I saw my first straw hat today and also my first ball game-that is a really and truly ball game. I admire the nan who has the moral courage to appear on the street with the first straw hat. I envy him. He seems so nervy. Yes, spring is sure Here's my corner. Tough luck today. wasn't it? Going out tomorrow? Am f? Sl1re
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A girl can learn to love a man simply by teaching him to love her.
 Life is a journey; and the fare is col lected every mile of the trip.
 A woman doesn't go to church to show he- own hat, but to see others.
 The reasons so many people are super stitious Is they always say they aren't
 One of the great trials of life is to have to show off in a restaurant by ordering a very fancy dessert when what you want lis squash pie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
INDICTING STANDARD POETS

nyson and, after a careful search ex- tending over weeks, he comes to this con- clusion: "The standard poets, with a fewi exceptions. are great bores. They got swelled heads and reeled off interminabley | pages of the cheapest padding. It cannot be done-the thing they thought they were doing. Only very few men in the world s history have succeeded in writing long poems that were not like currant loavesN : with very few currants" MT. Blatchford still retains his enthusiasm for Keats, William Morris >Swinburne and Shake- speare. He also says a good word for Bongfelow, whom he places above Ten- nyson He admits that all this is sac rilege, but he is very much in earnest about it. By poetry he writes. T mean song. I mean any song that is at once passionate and musical
 Now to us all this is positively refresh ing. Not that we think for a moment that no poetry is to be found in the standard poets," but that we love to hear man say just what he thinks about poetry. There is such a drearisome lot of pretense about us when 1t comes to art The first thing to do is to get rid or lnlS pretenSe ana De Just as lldHh about our likes and dslikes of poetry and painting as about our likes and dis likes of olives and caviare and baked beans. First get rid of cant" Let us dare enjoy what we really enjoy. That is the only way to grow into enjoy ment of what we ought to enjoy. There is no real growth in pretense and sincerity and self delusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
AS THRo' THE LAND

From Tennyson's "The Princess As thro' the land at eve we went,
 And pluck'd the ripen'd cars, We fell out, my wife and l., O, we fell out I know not why,
 And Rissd again with tears. And blessings on the falling out
 That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love
 And kiss again with tears! For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave. O. there above the little grave.
 We kiss'd again with tears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
PARADISE LOST.

PARADISE LOST. When Eve held forth in Paradise She found much pleasure in it; For when she did her Monday wash It only took minute.
 Milwaukee Sentinel. And when the washing blew away [, Eve didn't fret or whine: She merely sauntered forth and picked New garments from the vine
 Springfield Union. Eve never sassed the laundryman Who brought her washing back, And didn't growl because no starch Was in her dressing sack.
 Scranton Tribune-Republican. And Adams life 1t was a cinch- No Easter hats to buy; No bills to pay for high-priced gowns. Ad was lucky guy
 Boston. Post. By all of which we must conclude There were no crowds to gape If Eve should hap to hobble by Clad only in her shape.
 Fall River Globe. bQl lHlilk DI Cdln anu ADels they At night could horneward prance, And neither Ad nor Eve would say: How did you tear your pants!''
 Houston Post. An. those were very happy times, That long since passed away. Adam and Eve ne'er asked themselves, What will the neighbors say?'
 WE SYMPATHIZE. Alas for every chorus girl Who trips upon the stage And wears a smile, night after night, To earn her weekly wage.
 Mf No matter how her head may ache, How much in need of sleep, She has to simulate joy That isn't very deep. And while 'tis true she seldom gets The public sympathy, Her initiated merry moods Are often sad to see.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

eve slugged them over the ropes said the colonel when he heard the news from Illinois. This Is the new classicism, and the colonel should stop crying fraud when he is slugsed over the ropes him calf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The proceeding against the meat pack CTS cost them s50O0cO. The government will not foot the bill, and the packers are compelled to collect the amount from q sNmpathetlc people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Shelby Cullom admits that his vote to keen I,orimer in the Senate is what drove himself out of that body, He says the Roosevelt sweep of Illinois was due to the same issue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Chicago squelehed Lorimer and refused to indorse woman suffrage. One reform at a time Is it's rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The egg rolling on the White House grounds was watched by the President, but he was really thinking about the log rolling and steam rolling going on elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Schools of journalism and medical col leges are located in large cities where they can procure subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
A PHXGIcA

A PHYSICAL EFFORT. ''Self-sacrifce is noble.' Do you really think sop T do, indeed" Well, I'm quite willing to let you take my exercise every day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

pretends to know a condition that does not and cannot exist as long as MT. Un- derwoods sincerity and honesty point the way like a beacon light to the democratic party, now a united body sinking the selfshness of locality for the benefit of the entire republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

George w Wickersham announces that he will not serve in the next Taft oabi- net But there is no second Taft cabinet in sight. It does not loom even on the horizon. a-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
IT WOULD.

Most lazy men console themselves with the reflection that their intellects, at least are not torpid"
 That's true. but a straw vote taken among their friends and neighbors would. often disabuse them of that fond belief.'t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
POPULAR BEGINNERS.

The daily bard, it seems to us. Deserves to wear some sort of crown, Who never starts a jingle thus: There was a man in our town"
 Birmingham Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The Missouri river has another big rise coming to it in June. and the June rise is sure to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
GRATITUDE.

He is a humble looking citizen" Quite so. And yet, he has achieved what he considers his masterpiece." And what is that?"
 "A row of spring onions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The graduate will spend four years in the Pulitzer School of Journalism to be told at the end of it by the first city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

1 The button industry is booming. wom- ems dresses are to have buttons this sea- son almost without number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
OH, THE IDEA,

OH, THE IDEAL T saw woman doing the jelly wab- ble' on the street yesterday" How shocking! Do you suppose 1t was because she was intoxicated?" 'Nc. I suppose it was because she wad so fat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Captain Amundsen admits he ate his dogs and Captain Scott will probably eat hts ponies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The mill will never grind with the water that Is past, but the next mill down the stream will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Dr. Mary Walker is getting well. She promises to outlive all of her obituaries and the men who wrote them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

There is nothing at Magdalena bay ex- cept the bay. The land holds the bay and that is all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Illinois has told Lorimer to take his hat and go, and the Senate should do likewise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The patent monopoly decision stands, and it is up to Congress to change a vicious and oppressive law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

If candidates for marriage are to be ex- amined as to their health, why should not candidates for office undergo test as to their morals?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Hay is selling in Cincinnati at So a ton, the highest price since the war. Now is the time to plant in Alabama more al- falfa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
UNDERwooD sENTIMENT

Primaries without towlines are what every state needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

reads how they are kicking Maderos dawg aroun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

shelby M. cullom may have outlived his party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
THE ARRIVAL.

THE ARRIVAL. Who is that sad and sorry wight
 Descending from train?
 Ods-bobsI can I believe my sight?
 The umpire's back again!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

When some one asked him why that was
 Who hadn't any roll. He said. T finger here because
 It satisfies my soul"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
INSPIRING,

Now, Jipson surely is a crank,
 And though I hate to tattle, He often loafs around a bank
 To hear the money rattle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
PLEASURE NOT APPARENT.

.'Dibbs plays the trombone for plea ure'
 Judging from the expression on IA face, thought it caused him great pain.',
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
THE WRONG INrrRppr

v 1so-FI TN IsINI fEs AI IOlN. ' Is Dibble man of quick apprehet sion2"
 Sure. He's afraid of his shadow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

HEAR! HEAR,
 A crooked brand of politics We're facing here of late
 Is what the Roosevelt henchmen call
 The stolen delegate" a PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The daily bard, it seems to us, Deserves to draw a princely check, Who never starts jingle thus; "The boy stood on the burning deck.~
 Milwaukee .Senfiue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

The daily bard, it seems to us. Deserves to have raise in pay, Who never starts jingle thus: Maud Muller on a summer day."
 Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
ITS so

ITS so. M To wait, alas, Is very tame. 'Tis hard to play A waiting game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
The IluInOur

The humOur Twas nothing but mutation; Ay and that From one bad thing to worse.
 -Cymbeline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

No communication will be published without it's authors name. ReJecteu manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

I THE TIMES
 GRATITUDE. He is a humble looking citizen" Quite so. And yet, he has achieved what he considers his masterpiece" And what is that?" "A row of spring onions" THE WRONG INTERPRETATION. "Is Dibble man of quick apprehcn- sion2" Sure. He's afraid of his shadow"
 ITS so. To wait, alas,
 Is very tame. lis hard to play
 A waiting game.
 IT WOULD Most lazy men console themselves with the reflection that their intenects, at least, are not torpid" That's true. but a straw vote taken among their friends and neighbors would often disabuse them of that fond belief.*
 POPULAR BEGINNERS. The daily bard, it seems to us, Deserves to wear some sort of crown, x Who never starts jingle thus: There was man in our town"
 Birmingham Age-Herald.. The daily bard, it seems to us. Deserves to have raise in pay, Who never starts a jingle thus: Maud Muller on summer day" <
 Cincinnati Enquirer. The daily bard. it seems to us, Deserves to draw princely check, Who never starts a jingle thus; "The boy stood on the burning deck.~
 Milwaukee ssentinek
 OH. THE IDEAi T saw a woman doing the jelly wab- ble' on the street yesterday" How shocking! Do you suppose 1t was because she was intoxicated?" 'Nc. suppose it was because she waa so fat"
 THE ARRIVAL. Who is that sad and sorry wight Descending from a train? Ods-bobsI can I believe my sight? The umpires back again!
 PLEASURE NOT APPARENT. "Dibbs plays the trombone for plea ure."
 Judging from the expression on IiA face, thought it caused him great pain.'j
 HEARi HEART A crooked brand of politics We're facing here of late Is what the Roosevelt henchmen call The stolen delegate"
 PAUL COOK.