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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

pressed with the progress which is being made in this part of the world, especial ly in agriculture" said Nathan c. Charle- ton of Chicago
 Fifteen years ago I made southern trip for the first time. T travelled ex- tensively in several states. including Ala bama. Agricultural conditions then were very poor. My next visit was four years later I noticed little change. But about eight years ago I was in every southern state from Virginia to Texas, and I re- marked very decided progress in the rural districts. I was in Texas and found won derful prosperity there.
 Since the first of the present year I have traversed five or six southern states and all of them gave evidence of remark able prosperity. The improvement all through the south during the past eight years has been little short of phenomenal.
 "The only backward feature in the south now seems to be in the matter of good roads. While there has been much improvement in road building the south is far behind the north in this important respect. In the next four or five years, however. the south will probably be abreast with the rest of the country in good road making.
 'T am told that many home seekers from the northwest have found their way to the south within the past F months -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Republicans Depressed

The outlook for republican victory tnis year Is poor indeed" said Ezra F. Hern- don of Philadelphia.
 T think Wilson and Marshall will be elected. There has been a good deal of talk about the probability of the cleo tion being thrown into the House of Rep resentatives. but would be willing to bet that the electoral college will dis pose of the matter.
 T usually vote the republican ticket, but I am thinking this year of voting democratic. As between Roosevelt and Taft I would prefer seeing Roosevelt President, but think that MT. Taft Will get the bulk of the regular republican vote in the strong republican states.
 Wilson, however. is almost sure to carry New York and several other doubt ful states. I have been voter for over 25 years and I have never known a time when the republicans were so low spirited. Yet, it may be that the republican situa- ton will improve as the time of election draws near"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Birmingham Politics

From present indications said a man yesterday who is a close student of politi- cal situations, there will be one of the liveliest scrambles in the history of Bir- mingham when a member of the commits sion is next to be chosen.
 T noticed in The Age-Herald several days ago that the prospective candidates are Culpepper Exum. George B. Ward. J. B. Drake, Tom Mcdonald and M. B. Mo Dowell.
 This list was correct as far as it went. However, there are still others who are looking forward to the glory of yielding the power of a commissioner. w. Mel vile Drennen was overlooked. There is reason to believe that MT. Drennen is feeling the ground. And I would not be surprised were John l.. Parker to enter the race"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
SONG OF THE FAIRIEs

Leigh Hunt (from the Latin of Thomas Randolph) We the fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Though the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk. and peep us. Stolen sweets are always sweeter; Stolen kisses. much completer; Stolen looks iare nice in chapels; Stolen, stolen be your apples. When to bed the world are bobbing, Then's the time for orchard robbing; Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling
 Were it not for stealing. stealing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
ALL WILL BE WELL.

Although the clouds may lower still, And ne'er a glimpse of heavens blue, With purpose firm and dauntless will, Foil on till fortune favors you.
 II. Foil on until the splendor gleams For which you prayed when darkness fell; For him who shapes his shattered dreams To fairer yet all will be well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

''The republican party" says Chairman Hilles, approaches the presidential cam paign with confidence in the solemnity of its cause No filter word than 'sol- emnity'' could have been chosen. MT. Hilles is the undertaken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
PUBLICITY PAYS.

We knew a man of modest worth Who didn't think he owned the earth,
 So people passed him by. We knew another stupid wight Who strutted round from morn to night
 And caught the public eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
My grief's so great,

That no supporter but the huge firm
 earth
 Can hold if up; here I and sorrow sit; Here Is my throne, bid kings come bow
 to 1t. king John.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

The women of Oklahoma propose to public highway. and they say they can educate their boys to let them alone when they are loaded with nuts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

A bill defining the size of barrel in interstate commerce has passed the House. but the size of a barrel in po-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Monticello, the home of Thomas Jeffcr- son, is valued by the tax assessors at s35,oOO It is valued at s2Oo,00o when the present. owners desire to sell it to the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

In about two weeks Governor Wilson will be officially informed that he has actually been nominated by great tri- umphant party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

That oracle of wisdom and Standard oil, Chance Day, has thus far kept out of the campaign. but an outburst from him may occur at any time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Mail carriers need not deliver mall at houses where vicious dogs are kept. but 1t is different with the meter reader and the grocery boy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
Z,e.bd3oaeQ,

domestic ties >fettered a mans genius. So the painter who could paint indifferently well deserted his wife and child, leaving the one to spend heartbreaking years or sorrow and neglect and the other to die without ever again gazing on it's fathers face. At last, sick in mind and in body, word-weary and disappointed. the dying painter crept back to his wife and the only noble thing he ever did was to beg her forgiveness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

The high price of gasoline has induced Jehn D. to cut the number of his auto mobiles down to four.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Eugene W. Chain of Arizona was made the prohibition candidate for President because he lives in the dryest state ir the union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE LORTMER
 CASE AND MONEY USED IN POLITICS

publican committee that they spent s1,- 5oO.OOo in literature alone.
 So one can see that it costs some money to run a successful national po- litical campaign.
 Now that the Senate has unseated Lorimer for the use of money in his election to the Senate from Illinois it would be well for Congress to pass a law requiring every candidate for national office, whether successful or unsuccessful. to file, under oath, with Congress full statement of all ex- penditures of himself and his campaign committee in his contest for election; and further to state under oath from whence contributions were received.
 The unseating of Lorimer will prob ably mean the election by the Illinois
 
 legislature of James Hamilton Lewis as senator from that state. By vote of the people the legislature has been instructed to make him senator.
 Lewis is a Georgian, born and raised in Augusta. He started as a boy in the law office of Frank H. Miller, father of the manager of the Montgomery Journal, and obtained his education in that office. He afterwards moved to oregon where he made a success and quite fortune. Later he moved to Chicago where he Is now a practicing attorney
 Probably a number of senators who obtained their seats by no less corrupt methods than did Lorimer are quaking in their boots, so to speak, but the chances are that the Senate having pilloried Lorimer will let it go at that
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
TROUBLE MAKER8.

That man some trying moments spends, Who has host of foolish friends.
 He never knows just what they'll do To vex his heart and cause him rue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Colonel Harvey is back in the Wilson ranks. In fact, no bolter from those ranks can be found even by a detective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

lars or more in his recent race for the presidential nomination, and 1t Is well known where it came from; but as he didn't get a public office there can be no Congressional investigation
 President Taft spent mint of money in his campaign for renomination, and it has been freely charged by Col. Roosevelt that he bought delegates and stole the nomination. Yet there is no way apparently to oust him from the present occupancy of the White House.
 It was known fact that Mark Hanna as chairman of the Mckinley campaign committee in 1896 spent more than s10.- coo, 900 in electing the lamented Ohan to the presidency. yet there was no investigation.
 
 It undoubtedly takes money these days for a man to be candidate for national political office Even the democratic candidates for the presiden- tial nomination recently made in Bal timore undoubtedly each spent large sums of money. Of course it was con- tributed by their friends and the finan- cial statement of each one would cer- tainly make interesting reading. Yet the public will never have the pleasure of a perusal.
 | Speaking about expenditures in cam paigns, I remember back in 1896 when ! I had charge of the literary bureau of the democratic campaign committee that the entire expenditure of the dem ocratic national committee in that cam paign for literature and printed matter for newspapers amounted to about $21,- 900. I was told afterward by the chair man of the literary bureau of the re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

The men who got up the Johnson Flynn fight say they lost s2O.0Oo on 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

There was a maid, Priscilla Grimes,
 Who now. alas, is dead and gone. She'd change her mind dozen times While putting her complexion on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

As a plain fact, neither Wilson nor Roosevelt nor Taft are pretty It is not a beauty show this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

~Y vote of 55 to 8 the United N States Senate has declared that 1 corrupt methods and practices were employed in the election of William Lorimer to the Senate of the United States from Illinois, and that his election was therefore invalid"
 Thus the Illinois senator is busted from his seat in the United States Senate. He is busted because it is declared that money. was used to bring about his election.
 Lorimer probably overstepped the mark, but there are precious few senators in that august body in washington who did not use money freely to obtain their seats.
 Having started investigations it would be we'll for the United States Senate to go further.
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 As a matter of fact political methods in this country have been about as cor rupt for the past score of years as one can possibly imagine.
 George B. Cortelyou. who was Roose- velt's private secretary at one time, testi- fled before the congressional investigation committee that s1.s00.ooo was used in the campaign to elect Roosevelt President. Cortelyou collected it and spent it. Yet there was no investigation of Roosevelt's s election; and nobody ever accused poor old Lorimer of having used anything like this amount He got some democratic votes in the Illinois legislature. and these votes brought about his election.
 Yet there are democrats in the Senate today who got republican votes in their legislatures to obtain seats in the Senate.
 It is a known fact that Col. Roose- welt spent something like million dol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Judge Hanford, it appears, hastened from bar to bar in his district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

A new drink is called the Roosevelt bolt" It was invented in Kansas. and is of the soft variety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

The season of straw votes will not be declared fully open until August 5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
TwAIN's TYPEWRITER

The g. O. D. of today is simply an in, comprehensible tangle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
KEEN.

It is said that the American taste for pie is on the wane. Not so with political pie. The democratic appetite for political pie is just now whetted to razor edge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

It is easier to read history than to make it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Al LATE REDEMPTION.

There lived once an inferior painter who overheard a great artist say that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
THE PASSING SHOW

1 THE PASSlNG SHON.
 Since the Titanic diaster ocean liners are carrying lifeboats stocked with water and provisions. The stowaways are pleased. "It's an i'll wind" you know. l A certain "ragtime" song is having a great run just now, but it is comforting to think that this particular song, like its predecessors, will soon be as completely l forgotten as a last years laundry list Poets are already tuning the Tyre to 1 sing of autumn and the waning year. 1 Falling leaves for some reason or other, wake funereal thoughts in bards. l There are times in every mans life when he wants to go out and sit by a river and watch the waters flow and think deep thoughts. Some call this long, ing by one name and some by another, but it is merely the world-old desire to get away from the beaten path for a lit- l tie while.
 There must be practical side to every thing. Man could live for a little while very happily in e garden of roses, but after while his thoughts would just nat urally turn to a cabbage patch, or finger ] lovingly around a hill of beans. 1 Some of these days long suffering public will proclaim the crime of the pub fishers who flood a weary world with stupid books And what shall we do with fthe backwater bard who publishes his | noems a his own expense? l Many poor families with insufficient | food and not enough fuel to keep them warm in winter are making monthly pay ments on a piano. Is this a sign of the uplift? We-do not know, but of this we are sure. It is sign of the times. l Sing the hero whose brave deed is en- acted before the eyes of an applauding world, but commend us to the man who plods cheerily along through the by ways of life when he knows all the time | that he is a hundred-to-one shot. HERE'S A FILLER" She sat around in dainty frock l And proudly held her head: | She was the flower of the flock,
 But she produced no bread.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. And when night fell as black as ink, She sat- with looks quite bored. l And while Ma toiled at kitchen sink. 1 She strummed the harpsichord.
 Denver Republican. I And did she come to some bad end Like lazy girls in books? | Not she, man with coin to spend
 She won out with her looks.
 Youngstown Telegram. But soon she went back home to cry, This girl who was so tony.
 But not until shed hooked the guy
 For fancy almony.
 St Louis Times. Ere long, it seemed. another fool
 Would gladly take chance; She sized him up, superbly cool, And slew him with a glance
 NOT AT ALL AMBITIOUS.
 Somehow we do not jingle
 To write a ~ToAstie' jingle.
 PICKLE.
 There was a maid, Priscilla Grimes, I Who now, alas, is dead and gone. She'd change her mind dozen times
 While putting her complexion on. I A LATE REDEMPTION. 4 There lived once an inferior painte who overheard a great artist say tha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

"The black death" is leading to a gen. eral crusade throughout the country against the rats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
TELEPHONES

Bell (private exchange connecting oll aepartments). No. 1000.
 Peoples, Editorial rooms, 231j busi- ness office, 23O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

The man with the hoe thinks" there has been an unnecessary growth of weeds this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Bull moose are wild varmints that cling to the north woods and their own habitat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

A CONFESSION. To tell the truth, We do not know The latest news From Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

while others say it is Roosevelt and re- form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
The South's Great Progress

''One who visits the south only at in tervals of several years is greatly im-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
RICH BLOOMS.

RICH BLOOMS. Some men have piles Of money, Whose lives are far From sunny.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
NOT AT. ALL AMBITIOUS.
PICKLE.

Somehow we do not jingle To write a ~ToAstie' jingle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

2. E. Morgan and W. G. Wharton are the only authorized travelling represen- tatives of The Herald in its circu- lation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

There are times in every mans life when he wants to go out and sit by a
 river and watch the waters flow and think deep thoughts. Some call this long, ing by one name and some by another, but it is merely the world-old desire to get away from the beaten path for a lit- tie while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Nioi NdAiictS nttu IlOl dtllNcE iudAl -tt houses where vicious dogs are kept. but 1t is different with the meter reader and the grocery boy.
 
 In about two weeks Governor Wilson will be officially informed that he has actually been nominated by great tri- umphant party.
 Eusene W. Chain of Arizona was made the prohibition candidate for President because he lives in the dryest state in the union. Colonel Harvey is back in the Wilson ranks. In fact, no bolter from those ranks can be found even by detective.
  As a plain fact, neither Wilson nor Roosevelt nor Taft are pretty. It is not a beauty show this year. A new drink is called the Roosevelt bolt" It was invented in Kansas and is of the soft variety. "The black death is leading to gen. l eral crusade throughout the country against the rats. The man with the hoe thinks there has been an unnecessary growth of weeds this year. Some say 1t is Lorimer and reform, while others say it is Roosevelt and re- form
 Bull moose are wild varmints that cling to the north woods and their own habitat --.s-- The season of straw votes will not be declared fully open until August 5.
 
 Judge Hanford, it appears, hastened from bar to bar in his district. The men who got up the Johnson Flynn fight say they lost s2O.00o on 1t. The g. O. D. of today is simply an in- comprehensible tangle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

There must be practical side to every thing. Man could live for little while very happily in @ garden of roses, but after while his thoughts would just nat urally turn to cabbage patch, or finger lovingly around hill of beans.
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21

Freight carried on all steamers ex-
cept one scheduled for $50 pm. All
freight for outgoing steamers must
be delivered at company's wharf Is
meinutes before schedule leaving time
Take this picturesque route and see
the first settlement in Georgia at
Frederica-the old fort and cannon
used by Oglethorpe. -. 3. WRIGHT,
Manager.
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21
BRENAU COMMENCEMENT
WILL BEGIN FRIDAY, MAY "a
Unique Water Pantomine Will Also
Be Presented on Lake Lanier.

Atlanta, May 20.-A unique anG
beautiful water pantomine will be
pres ented tomorrow evening on Lake
Laniar by the girl students of Brenau
college, Gainesville, and scores of At
lantians are planning to be present
at the event, which marks the open
ing Of the Brenau commencement.
"Hiav atha" is the subject of the
pantomine, and the young ladies will
enact amid characteristic natural sur
roundings the wonderful scenes of
the Longfellow poem.
The commencement proper VIII be-
Gin Friday, May "a, with the opening
Of the art exhibit. Brenau has rep
reseltatives from all sections of the
country, and many visitors VIII at
tend the exercises The graduating
class is composed of fifty young ladies
representing all departments, literary,
musical, oratorical, artistic and do
mestic science.
On Saturday, May 25, will occur the
meeting of the board of trustees, the
annual alumnae dinner and reception
and the presentation of an original
play, THE Awakening by Mamie
Cohen.
The continued commencement pro-
| gram follows: -.
Sunday, May 6-Baccalaureate SER
mon by DR. Arthur Gordon.
Monday, May 27-Domestic Science
Exhibit, Glass Exercises and Grand
Concert in evening.
Tuesday, May 2S-11 a. M, Literary
address by Judge W. A. Covington,
followed by baccalaureate address
and delivery of diplomas.
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21
PEP-A.MO CUfE0 ME.

Atlanta, Ga, April 20, 1912.
Smith Manufacturing Co.
This is to inform you that after
taking three bottles Of your Pep-a-
mo for indigestion l am feeling in fine
trim. Tongue cannot tell what l have
suffered for the past twenty years.
am a travelling man and that means
on the road all the time and after
"catch-as- -catch-can" for meals, and
some kind Of dope all the time for "a
sick stomach. Now for the past six
months | can sincerely and gratefully
say l am well. For a month after
commencing my first bottle l was
afraid to even think I'm better, for
I had taken untold "cure alls." Old
Pep and l stuck together day after
day for two months. 1t has been six
months since my last dose, but my
bottle of Pep-a-mo for indigestion
goes wherever I do. Often l give a
dose to fellow sufferer My sister
procured my first bottle from BENEFITS
drug store, corner Main and Ashley
streets, Jacksonville, Fla.
Very gratefully,
M. G. SMITH.
We would be grateful if all who use
our remedies would give the drug
store and city as above.
SMITH F[FG. co.
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21
A Remedy no Family y
Should Do Without

No matter how healthy a human
being may be it is safe to say that
not many months are passed without
some obstruction of the bowels in other
porary. The boating, the dull feeling
may start after the evening meal. If a
laxative is not taken that night it is
and you will awaken unrefreshed.
Hence, it is important for you and for
all the members of your family that a
good, reliable laxative be always kept
in the house for just such emergency.
1t is sure to be needed, and when needed
you want it at hand. No family that is
careful of it's health can do without such
a remedy. But the question of which
remedy to have on hand is also of vast
Importance.
The laxative most highly recon-
mended by the majority of intelligent
Americans as being best for babies and
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21
J. B. WRIGHT, Mgr.

Though in his 10Th year, Fl. l..
knight, Covena, Ga, was recently
cured Of severe and painful kidney
trouble. He says: Il had to get up
too often at night, and my back ached
terribly. But after taking two bot
ties of Foley Kidney Pills my bach
ache is cured, the secretions have
cleared up, and Foley Kidney Pills
nave given me more relief than any
thing have ever taken" For sale
by Roberts Pharmacy.
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21

sin. It is a liquid laxative-tonic, mild.
and never gripes. is effective on robust
people and can be given with safety 70
an infant. Children like it because OF
these gentle qualities and because it IS
pleasant to the taste.
1t is the best all-around remedy you
can have in the house for any disorder
of the stomach, liver and bowels and
many people like Mrs Lydia r. Thomas
Calhoen, Ca. and D II. Harburg. 251 w.
Wade St, Charlotte. N. c., say they
would as soon be without the neces-
Pepsin.
Anyone wishing to make a trial of this
remedy before buying it in the regular
way of a druggist at fifty cents or one
have a sample bottle sent to the homo
free of charge by simply addressing Dr.
w. B. Caldwell, 405 Washington ST.,
Monticello. ILL., Your name and address
Ion a postal card will do.
The Brunswick news., 1912-05-21
STEAMER HESSlE.

Brunswick to Darien, Ga,
Touching at st. Simons Mills, Fred
erica, and St. Simons