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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

From the Savannah News.
 The steady growth of the sentiment in favor of MT. Underwood is convincing answer to the falsehoods the managers and supporters of Governor Wilson's cam paign are publishing about him. On Tues day, for instance an Underwood club was formed in Macon with approximately 1900 members. Those who are saying that he is Wall streets candidate, that he is the son of a yankee, that he betrayed the interests of the Farmers union and that he is altogether unworthy of the support of southern men are not fooing the peo- pie one bit They know very we'll that the democratic House wouldn't have named him it's leader unless he were able and worthy and had a spotless rec ord. By adopting such unfair tactics they are simply hurting their own can didate and making friends for MT. Un- derwood.
 A couple of weeks ago they were loud in their assertion that MT. Underwood wasn't southern man at all. They don't make that assertion now, and why? Sim ply because the facts have struck the falsehood squarely in the face and krocked it out.
 They thought to weaken MT. Under- wood in the south by claiming that Gov ernor Wilson ought to have the support of the south because he is southern born and passed his youth in two of the south ern states. They forgot to mention that his father was an Ohio man and his mother an English woman, that he long ago left the south and that whatever fame and fortune he has were won in the north. These things are not to his dis credit, but are mentioned simply to show that his claim to being a southerner rests upon very slender foundation.
 Mir Underwood was born in the south, his ancestors having been southerners for generations. He was educated in the south, married a southern woman, has spent all the years of his life, with the exception of about 10 years of his boy hood, in the south and for F years has represented a southern district in Con gress. It is no wonder therefore that his opponents have dropped the story that he isn't southerner. It was doing the cause they are supporting harm. The people can be fooled some time, but not all the time.
 But the main reason why the south is turning from Governor Wilson to MT. Underwood is that they don't approve of Governor Wilson's liking for the initiative, referendum and recall, doctrines which thinking men of the south regard as threatening the overthrow of representa- tive government. Where socialism is rampant these doctrines mainly find their support. MT. Underwood is against them, strongly against them. and hence in this and other southern states the movement to him is so strong that the indications now are that he will get the delegation from every southern state. It is report ed that Governor Wilson is coming to Georgia to try to stem the tide that is running so strongly against him, but his visit will be useless. His record cannot be changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
Regarding Democratic Principles

''The democratic party has declared over and often that it's principle on the sub ject of the liquor question is local op- tion," said an old lawyer. Tt follows that every man who participates in pri- mary as well as the other principles on which the party is founded. As voter of that party, I know of several candi- dates now before the people who have been and are straight-out prohibitionists. Some of these I shall vote for-not be- cause they are prohibitionists. but be- cause they are democrats and are well qualified for the places they seek.
 But it is fact that many prohibition ists will vote in the coming primary and for nobody but prohibitionists. In other words, they say that they will not vote for local optionst under any circum- stances Is this fair? Is it moral for a man to vote in primary of party that is pledged to local option and make it sine qua non, that a candidate must op- pose his party or principle before he can obtain his vote2 If voter Is agalnst party's declared principle. in good con- science he should aspire to participate in that party's councils or primaries. At least this is the old fashion idea of nor ality and political candor."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
Nearly Three Inches of Rainfall

It rained on Thursday in Fountain Heights, where Observer Horton of ficially lives. He admits it did, and as a result he further admits that the excess in moisture since January l is actually something better than two inches.
 Rain fell freely on Thursday throughout the cotton belt and this ] gives promise of good crops, for when the season of growth is started with a soil well filled with moisture an early drouth becomes improbable.
 The task now is, however, to get the seeding completed. Much corn and smuch cotton are to be planted, but 5the month of April may be favorable, and either can be planted at any time in that month. As a rule cotton IS not planted in Northern Alabama until April in any year.
 The crop prospects are by no means marred, always provided the proper preparation of the land can be accom- plished The fruit trees are full of promise, and altogether there is noth- ing in the agricultural situation that . is at all distressing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

drowned on the Johnson-J effries prize fight pictures, and the Beulah Binford pictures in the Richmond tragedy of last year, are cases in point.
 But no precedents are needed to ex- plain that the Hillsville tragedy should not be reproduced to poison the minds of those who constitute a good part of the patrons of moving picture shows. These shows are pow erful educational agencies, and all pictures that are degrading and de- moralizing should be kept out of them. 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
SITN BAKED MERCURY

Garrett P. Serviss' in the Outlook Mag
 azine.
 Close around the sun plays the tiniest of it's planetary children, Mercury. Judg- ing from it's size only it might be sup posed that Mercury was also the young est member of the solar family, But seen with the telescope, little Mercury shows the face of a time wrinllled dwarf. Its agility in it's orbital movements, due to it's nearness to the sun; the extraordi- nary eccentricity of its orbit, causing its speed to vary in the course Of six weeks from 2S to 35 miles a second. and the amount of light and heat that 1t receives from the sun to be in the same brief period alternately more than doubled and then more than halved; the apparent absence of any considerable quantity of atmosphere, and the probable total ab- sence of water; it's unparaled density, perhaps equal to that of lead, or even or the metal mercury, the fact that 1t has lost, if it ever possessed, the ability to turn on it's axis with sufficient rapidity to produce an attenuation of day and night on it's surface the barren and sun dried condition which its nearness to the solar furnace would imply, and which is ap- parently certified by it's telescopic appear ance-all these things have led astrono- mers generally to conclude that Mercury is in an advanced stage of planetary evo- hltion, and entirely unfitted for the sup port of life.
 It does not follow that Mercury Is the eldest born of the sun's family, for it's relative lack of mass would alone suf- flee to account for It's rapid consolidation and the escape of It's gaseous envelopes. Mercury's diameter is only about JU miles. It's year Is only ss days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
 UNDERWOOD'S POPULARITY

From the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger.
 House Leader Underwood is growing in favor with the people in all sections of the country, if press comments count for anything, and the brilliant Alabamian is sure to loom up even larger before the assembly of the great democratic conven- ton in Baltimore.
 Throughout Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and many other southern states the press is almost unanimously in favor of the House leader for President. The papers of the states bordering the line, and even number in the north and east are pronounced in their advocacy of Underwood. This is a good sign.
 Underwood appears to he the man of the hour. Watch the able House leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Coal Mining situation

If the northern coal miners go out on strike Monday it will not cause a paralysis in the general business of the country, because there is an impression that the strike will be of short duration, ' said a prominent citizen. "The coal op- orators have accumulated large stocks of coal and they will be rather glad than otherwise to have a stoppage Of work for a few weeks so as to sell their ccal on hand at good prices. 1 have had some experience with labor troubles and Will predict that by the middle of May the operators and miners in the northern coal regions will come to terms
 ''It has been nearly four years since we had a miners strike in the Birmingham district. But the last one was so bloody and so distressing in every way that law abiding people will pray that we may never have another one. If the wage worker, especially the miner, is unjustly ti ca ted and is working at starvation wages then he may count on the genuine sympathy of the community. But when mine workers in Alabama are well paid, and the more intelligent and industrious of them are doing better than usual, any labor agitators who try to stir up trouble would have the weight of public sentiment heavily against them. Birmingham is just getting into full proserity swing and the prospects are that we will have a boom throughout the balance of the year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
HYPSIPYLE

By Maurice Hewlett. Remembered joy! An, stormy nights. Oh, the mad revel when wind fights With wind. and slantwise comes the rain And shatters at the window pane To wake the mind, who little knovs Whose fingers drum those passionate
 blows,
 Nor what swift indwellerS of air Ye be who hide in forms so fair Your wayward motions. cruel to us, While lovely, and dispiteous. An, nights of flying scud and rout When scared the slim young moon rides
 out
 In her lagoon of open sky, Or. older, marks your revelry, As calm and large she scars above Your drifting lives of ruth or love Boon were those nights of dusted pold And glint of fireflesl Boon the cold And witching frost Alrs one. all's or. To thee, whose nights and days ro m Now in one span of changeless dusk On one earth cracking like the 5husk Of the dropt mast in winter wood. Remembered ioy-'tis all thy food. Hypsipyle, to whose fond sprite VOW my praise while I have light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
HOW PULITZER PREPARED FOX
 SLEEP

In the April American Magazine theie is an amazing account of the late Josep" Pulitzer, the blind proprietor of the Ne" York World, who spent the last 20 years of his life at sea on private yacht' where he kept up his work with the as sstance of a corps of readers and secre- taries, whose combined efforts could scarcely keep pace with the tremendous intellectual energy and capacity of tneir chief. Following is an interesting ex- tract:
 After lunch MT. Pulitzer always retired to his cabin for a siesta. l use the word 'sesta,' but, as a matter of fact, it is quite inadequate to describe the peculiar function or ceremony for which l have chosen it as a label. What took place on these occasions was this: MT. Pulitzer lay down on his bed, sometimes in pa- tamas. but more often with only his coat and his boots removed, and one of his secretaries, usually the German secretary, sat down in an armchair at the bedside with a pile of books at his elbow. AL d word from MT. Pulitzer the secretary be- gan to read in clear, incisiVe voice some historical work-Suetonius' 'Lives' Greens History, Macaulays 'Essays'-or some German play or novel, After few minutes Mr. Pulitzer would say, 'Soft- ly,' and the secretary's voice was low cred until, though it was still perfectly audible, it assumed a monotonous ana soothing quality. After while the or der came Quite softly At this point the reader ceased to form his words ana commenced to murmur indistinctly, giving an effect such as might be produced by a person reading aloud in an adjoining room, but with the connecting door closed. If, after 10 minutes of this murmurlng' MT. Pulitzer remained motionless 1t was to be assumed that he was asleep; ana the secretary's duty was to go on mur- muring until MT. Pulitzer awoke and told him to stop or to commence actual reading again. This murmuring might last for two hours, and it was very dlf- fioult art to acquire, for at the slightest change in the pitch of the voice, at sneeze or a cough, MT. Pulitzer would wake with a start, and an unpleasant, quarter of an hour followed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
ANOTHER STATE "GoNE WRONG"

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Mississippi, another state that, like Kan sas and Maine, was to go caroming into the Wilson column, has been caught up by sthe resistless Underwood tide. Sena- tor John Sharp Williams, a Wilson lead CT, has frankly confessed that Oscar Un- derwood will sweep the state.
 It is exactly as the Constitution predict e1 about 10 days ago Underwood wins in Mississippi, first, upon his splendid and impregnabe record as a leader, a states man and democrat; second because he is the son of Mississppfs sister state, as he is the son of Georgia's sister state.
 On May l these two considerations will make Underwood sweep the state from the Chattahoochee to the sea. It is not strange that the Wilson enthusiasts in Mississippi have virtually abandoned the fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
The Iron Market

Matthew Addy & Co.,. Cincinnati report this week says in part:
 Good buying of pig iron is still the order of the day. While the advance in prices last week somewhat checked the heavy purchasing which marked the earlier part of the month, yet it did not stop 1t. Trade has been excellent.
 But the furnaces are beginning to be distressed by the consequences of the coal troubles which for them mean short age of coke. This is further augmented by the great scarcity of cars. In the coal and iron districts there is an alarming car shortage-a regular famine-and the worst thing about the ease is that there is no promise of any early betterment.
 The pessimistic talk of six months ago has disappeared. Manufacturers are feel ing that the year will be better than any year since the disastrous period ushered in by 1908. As matter of fact, there has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
STILL THE UNIVERSAL SOLVENT

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 A dispatch from Macon relates that all political factions of Bibb county have submerged their differences and are unit for Oscar Underwood The lion is ly- ing down with the lamb, oil and water are mixing-and the answer is "Under> woodi'
 It is not strange, after all, that the man who could quiet discord in the dem ocratic House majority, cast out old and bitter rival jealousies and disappoint every jubiant prediction of disruption made by the republicans, can do the same thing in the country at large. The magic that worked in one place could not fail in another. It is simply the magic of splendid political sanity and an upright and just attitude toward friend and foe
 Once in decades there happens a man with this faculty for dsarming antagon- ism and carrying conviction by sheer force of brain and leadership. Is it wonderful that so impartial and competent a critic as the Washington correspondent of the independent Springfield Republican should say of Underwood, Had he come from the north, he would have been ifresisti- ble?'
 k is only southern timidity, southern kotowing to the dead fetich of section alism, that prevents him from being "ir- resistibe." The sooner the south casts out this self insulting superstition the better for it's self respect and manhood before the nation.
 It is reflection upon southern intelli- hot should be heard today the name of any candidate other than "Underwood.' Any other section would jealously acclaim the opportunity of supporting that democrat who, more than any other since the civil war, has labored to the end of disproving Grants maxim about the ability of the democratic party to blunder itself into oblivion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Perpetual motion is easy enough with a scandal that once starts.
 When a man begins to talk poetically about the spring flowers, what he is think ing of is baseball.
 You could never convince man that wagon load of coal ought to cost as much as box of cigars.
 The only way you can convince some men they aren't right in an argument is by giving in to them.
 If girl is going to the mountains she feels nervous to start without a yacht ing suit, and if she is going yachting, without riding habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
Good Roads Convention .

Miss Alma Rlttenberry. who is at the head of the Jackson highway movement
 in this section of the country, and who has labored faithfully and with much sue cess in working up interest "all along the line," has received this letter from Mrs Elmer F. Kendall chairman of the pro- gramme committee of the Womens Good Roads convention to be held next week in Chicago:
 Dear Miss Rittenberry:
 "Congressmen, mayors of cities, college presidents and many distinguished men and women will address the six sessions of the Women's Good Roads convention on April and 4 We shall all feel hon. ored to have you with us and make an address.
 "Trusting you will attend and partici- pate in this great gathering of women for great cause, we are, sincerely yours" etc.
 In view of the importance of the conven- ton Miss Rittenberry hopes to accept the Chicago invitation. But she says there are no funds in the local treasury It is proposed by some of the good roads people and members of the Daughters of 1872 organization, under whose auspices the Jackson highway movement is being pushed that sum of money be raised to pay Miss Rittenberry's expenses. "rhe cause for which l am working | comments itself to the people of Ala bama," said Miss Rittenberry yesterday. "The Jackson highway is to extend from Chicago to Mobile, and ultimately to New Orleans. In Kentucky the Jackson road has been completed and a good deal has | been done in other states through which l the line will pass. If I go to Chicago l shall stop on my return in Vincennes, and probably one or two other Indiana cities which have invited me to make addresses under the auspices of their respective
 boards of trade. We have no money in our treasury, and if friends of the Jack son highway movement here raise an amount adequate to pay my actual ex- penses I will leave here Monday. l think $ioo will be sufficient"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
Busy Headquarters

T was in Atlanta this week and called at Underwood headquarters there," said Deputy Sheriff Thomas P. Patterson. 'Things looked pretty busy. Eight or nine clerks were at work.
 Underwood undoubtedly has a good or ganzation in Georgia. Atlanta is full of Underwood sentiment and 1 was glad in- deed to find so many Georgians whoopins it up for our distinguished Alabama statesman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
No Hillsyille Pictures Wanted

The district commissioners of Washington, D. C., as well as the chairman of the board of censors in New York, have expressed their dis approval of an exhibition of films in motion picture shows representing be- fore many young people the tragedy at Hillsville, Va.
 There is plenty of precedent for this action. The public sen pent that
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on longer

Colonel Roosevelt left his pajamas in him by mali. He is also short of a mis- laid judgment, and no one seems to have found it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
OYER IN GEORGIA

From the Houston Post.
 Boiled down, the Atlanta Journal puts it this way: For President, Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey; platform-He was married in Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

been a gradual improvement all along the line. Things have come sio"ls, put they have improved. and there Is a rear ization of the fact that the tide has reaiS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
GLACIER GIVES UP ITS DEAD

the boy of one and twenty sleeps there with his bride of 63; his young frame with her old one, his yellow hair beside her white. And I do not know there is not some place not here, where they are still together, and he is one and twenty and she is IS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

A new malady Is attacking the treas ury clerks who count money in Washing ton. It will not, however. become epi- demic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

Colonel Roosevelt gets so angry in this campaign that some fear he will prove himself to be only human by losing his head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

There are not a few who think the Roosevelt idea should be applief to the decision of that jury that tried the Chi cago packers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The Sherman law should be fitted out with a set of store teeth. It has no grip at present and is a delusion and snare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The poor old Sherman law is ineffective in Chicago when the packers are brought to trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The beef packers are not displaying fierce competition in rates or allotments to any alarming or conspicuous extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

Colonel Roosevelt's last resort may be the Abernathy kids. who have not yet beea called into action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
SHADOWS.

Whatever the hearts fair hope endues. We'll shed some bitter tears For the dreams that glow with heavenly
 hues
 And fade in after years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

stephenson's narrow vote is a warning to Lorimer, whose case will be taken up next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

stephenson's majority of six is all he wanted. bare majority is all he ex- pected H
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

When one prices handbags he begins to think Florida alligator farm would be good investment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

Yes, indeed, there are states in which the bosses outrank the people, and in those states no primaries are held.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
WA STED

My wife went through my pockets last night
 Thrilling. What did she find?"
 Nothing but a pipe and a pouch of to- baoco, which she couldn't use."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
A CRUCIAL MOMENT.

"Flibbitson claims to have hypnotic eye"
 Tt didn't help him any yesterday" How was that?"
 "He was suddenly confronted by a land- lady to whom he owed six months board.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
BEATIFIC sAUSAGE.

A butcher in Hutchinson advertises that he makes a speciality of sausage made from little pigs who died happy. kan sas City Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The meat packers of Chicago are bigger than the law and the government com bined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The mailing of campaign lies is an in- dustry that always thrives in presidential years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
THE TRAIL IN VIRGINIA.


 I have just been reading, Watson, the latest reports from the Allen hunt in Vir- ginia," observed Sherlock Holmes. "Henceforth I shall never be able to con- sider my experience well-rounded un,il I have 'combed mountain side.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The switching off of blzzards may yet become a piece of high art in the wild west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

Carnegie's taste in looking for a beauty in Pittsburg has been called in ques- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
A SHORT TRIP.

"Dbbles started to church last Sunday ~'That was step in the right direc- tion."
 True, but unfortunately step was as far as he went"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30

The packers ef Chicago now whistle merrily as they pack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
YOU M

YOU MAY. Tho golden sun is shining, The skies above are blue; Oh, cease your sad repining And rid your heart of rue There's no need of bewailing The futile past-tis gone; You may have fairer sailing Life's summer sea upon!
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The turmoil of this campaign will be re- called 50 years afterward.