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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-04

London, Sept That the 5Oo.OoO ma tives who form the population of the Indian state of Jhalawer are to have a chance of trying constitutional gov ernment, is due largely to their rulers desire for a new sensation. The Ma haraja of Jhalwar, is enlightened despot who is allowed a pretty free hand by the British authorities. and while in London he amused himsel4
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-04
EASTON

Those who attended the dance giv- en at Eastwood's hall in Stepney on Monday night from here were Miss Edith Logan, Aurel Human, Dorothy Mallette and Alice MaIIette.
 Miss Edna Leich of Brooklyn, has returned to her home after a few
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-04

A really effective kidney and blad- der medicine must first stop the pro- gress of the disease and then cure ley Kidney Pills for all kidney and bladder troubles and urinary irregI-. larities. They are safe and reliable. They help quickly and permanently. In the yellow package F. L. Cur fiS =S
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-04

PhiladeIphia-Grace Mason had ts pay a fine of S7.50 for tickling Police. man Kent under the chin she saft he showed no resentment.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-01

Imports are decreasing and ex-
ports rapidly increasing, which
sounds note of prosperity for
American goods.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-01

of a gale the crew saw the iron
bound cases tossing about on the
waves. -.
A wave dashed bottle from
a broken case on board the
Francisco. 1t was caught by a
sailor and retained (empty) as
proof of the story.
The Forty-second street Coun-
try club and the Indoor Yacht
club have united in organizing a
salvage expedition. Last week
these clubs planned a voyage of.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-01

If the champagne island is dis
covered, graphing irons will be
thrown out and the crew will
make extensive explorations,
armed with wire cutters and
corkscrews.
The project has aroused great
interest and enough men have
volunteered to equip 10 such ex=.
petitions. The men are being
carefully selected and only strong
fellows, capable of carrying big
loads, are being signed. The
captain is a retired tank of great
capacity, whose name has not
been announced.
Each member of the crew must
provide himself. with. headache
medicine and glasses.
The Jolly Juelp will leave New
York Harbor before the end of
the book beer season.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-01
REASON FOR CHANGE

First A. B. (mess cook)-
Wot'll we give 'em tomorrow for
afters7 Tapioker?
Second A. B.-(mess cook)-
That'll do; bung it down; you'll
want four pounds.
First A. B. (spelling audibly as
he writes)-Four pounds t-a-b-a,
t-a-b-f'- (hesitates) wed bet
ter ave macaroni.
Second A. BAH right; bung
it down, then.
First A. B.-Four pounds ma
k-a-rn-a-k-i-oh, we'll ave rice!
Four pounds rise! = Punch,
London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
STEEL THE BAROMETER
From the Augusta Chronicle.

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 Stocks break under the force of lear raids, but steel and iron are being con tracted for in large transactions, far ahead Wall streets nerves are un- steady but the market for steel is firm and active.
 In this age steel and iron are the true test of the business world, crops excepted, and everybody knows that the crops are all right. Rural America is sound and strong in a degree never be- fore attained.
 While business in steel is being done on a vast scale, well into the future. little attention need be given to the fur ries in the market which show that Wall street is weary of waiting for something to happen which will start stocks strongly in one direction or the other. On the foundation of the crops and the giant metal industry of the country there is room for a volume of trade never yet seen in the United States.
 Steel is king of the cities and grain. hay, cotton, potatoes and other great staples of agriculture in the country. Both together make a sure barometer telling the business weather months ahead,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27

to serve the canners instead of the consumers. This is what we got by putting a poor farmer at the head of the department of agriculture.
 Those who favor Dr. Wiley insist that it will even things up by put ting a chemist in the place of Farmer Jim of Iowa-a chemist whom the country admires and who will as suredly see that pure food and drugs only are sold to consumers. The country needs such man, for pure food is the great need of the country.
 Dr. Wiley is not narrow-minded man. He is a scientist who can grapple with any question. The peo- pie desire to see him placed at the head of the department of agriculture in order that the contrast between his work and that of the Iowa farmer may be brought out and accentuated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
A STRENUOUS DAY

From the New York American.
 Finley J. Shepard, assistant to the pres ident of tie Missouri Pacific, Iron Moun- tain and the Denver and Rio Grande rail roads, who is to marry Miss Helen M Gould next month, spent yesterday in a manner which stamps him as a most energetic man.
 Despite the fact that he had a weari- some journey, arriving here from St. Louis Saturday and visiting his mother in New Haven the same afternoon. he was up early yesterday and attended church with his fiancee.
 Unncticed by the morning throng on Fifth avenue, MT. Shepard and Miss Gould walked from and back to her resi- dence 579 Fifth avenue. He presented the same consuming appearance that he cid when he arrived in New York. His Was enc of the few derbys among the shining line of silk hats that character izes the men in Fifth avenue on Sunday Neither did he carry a stick
 After luncheon he made a hasty trip to his new offices, at 165 Broadway. and, after looking over a few letters which he had to lay aside Saturday evening, he and Miss Gould entered a limousine mo- tor car and started northward through Central park.
 At the Gould residence it was said that he requested to be excused from inter- views for the time being. Miss Gould S secretary said that no date had yet baen set for the wedding
 The members of the Young Mems Christian association of Fort Wadsworth ara preparing to send Miss Gould an elab- orately designed set of Christmas greet ings. With this token will he congrat, ulatory letter to MT. Shepard. Instead of subscribing to a general fund to purchase a wedding gift for Miss
 Gould, it has been resolved at Fort Wadsworth that each of the men shall make some individual present. All of these gifts viii be made in the work rooms of the Young Mems Christian asso- ciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
The Imnortnnce of Smelling

"A woman who fills the position of superintendent of education in a western state made an address recently in which she advocated the revival of spelling bees !" said a professional man. "She recalled the interest that was manifest ed in the bees some years ago and gave it as her opinion that spelling was a very important part of education, and that anything calculated to promote cor rect spelling should be encouraged. The remarks of this educational superintend- ent have been indorsed editorially by one of the leading New York papers
 Some years ago 1t was not unsual for men of high standing in the intellectual world to speak slightingly of spelling but today all educators and persons of cul- ture in general agree that the time will never come when spelling is not regarded as one of the tests of scholarship.
 T am glad to see that colleges in the south are paying more attention to spell ing and grammar than formerly. Every technological school in this country is insstent on good spelling fin entrance examinations. No one without an or derly mind can do acceptable work and the foundation training for orderly men, tai processes includes spelling, grammar and arithmetic. Then come the arts and sciences"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
Convicts as Road Builders

Congress has a joint commission on good roads headed by Sena- tor Bourne. Unfortunately Senator Bourne's term expires on March 3, and he will not be able in two months to perfect a system by means of which all can pull together in creating good roads throughout the country. The task is a stupendous one, and the states are inclined to lean on the fed eral government and vice versa. But a workable scheme will yet be de- vised and when it is good roads will begin to appear in all of the states. At present they are largely confined to the eastern states, more particu- larly to Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. New York voted last month a second $5O,000,00o bond is sue for that purpose.
 But all parts of the country fully appreciate the economic value of good roads, and everywhere something is being done in that direction. On April the board of revenue in this county will put about 100 convicts having short terms to serve at work on the roads of this county. This effort will be watched with deep in terest in all parts of the state. And yet it is not a bit tentative, for Georgia has worked all her convicts on the public roads for sometime, and the results have been highly sat- isfactory.
 The time is fast coming when all convicts, state and county, will be placed on the public roads. The in dustrial companies do not favor them as they once did, and the state and her 67 counties may as well get ready to use their convicts in the construc- tion of better roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
Why a Chemist Is Desirable

Why" says the Washington Her aid, should Dr. Harvey W. Wiley be boomed for Secretary of Agriculture |? Do we need a chemist at the head of this most important department, which, under MT. Wilson, has made record strides toward a never before heard of prosperity of our farming communities
 The answer to this is easy. An Iowa farmer was put, and has been kept 16 years, at the head of the de- partment of agriculture. During that time the cans of food purchased by the many have been filled with ben zoic acid and various other poisonous preservatives. He invented McCabe and the Remsen board to enable him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27

in.s those who were more fortunate. In all these years he has never taken va cation. Especially in summer has he stood at his post, for he holds that it is during the heated term the devil gets in his work, being accustomed to the heat.
 '.The Rev. MT. Bryan and his church on Avenue G and Twenty-second street suffered severely in the cy- clone of several years ago. The Commercial club gave MT. Bryan, the minister. $500 from it's relief fund, and then appointed a committee to see that he did not give it away to those he thought more needy than himself. one Sunday afternoon MT. Bryan was seen with his Bible under his arm returning from the cotton mill district A friend suggested that the mill district was good missionary field. He replied with a touch of sly wit that the South High lands was the best missionary field in the city. MT. Bryan is assisted in his good work by Mrs. Bryan, sister of Judge A. c. Howze. and is member of an old Marion family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
Woodrow Wilson at StauntOn

Tonight the President will rest in the Presbyterian manse in which he was born in 1856 at Staun- ton in the beautiful Shenandoah valley. It will be the homecoming of Virginia's eighth President. An old time torchlight procession will greet him as he arrives and is escorted to the manse which his father once oc- cupied and in which the President elect was born.
 He was born on December 2S, and Saturday will therefore be a great holiday in Staunton, with the Presi- dent-eleet as the guest of honor. His father was in 1856 the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Staunton, but later he accepted charge at Au- gusta, Ga, where the President elect grew up. Governor Wilson is not only southern man by birth, but he is also southerner by education He began his active career by prac- ticing law in Atlanta and in Georgia he found a wife, the present Mrs Wilson. New Jerseys claim to him is not extensive, for he was a man grown and educated and married and distinguished as an educator and author before he ever became citi- zen of New Jersey.
 The homecoming at Staunton will be long remembered in the Wilson fam. fly. The old manse has been care. fully repaired, but not rebuilt, anc Governor Wilson and Mrs. Wilson anc the three daughters will, no doubt spend there delightful holiday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
THE POET AND HIS DEAD

Posthumous Poem by Richard MiddieioS. in English Reyiew) I've lit my tall, white candles and placed
 them by the bed, Two by her little dancing feet, two by her
 nodoins head; Ah, feet that dance not eyes that see not,
 Love forever dead. I've picked my tall, white lilies and lined
 them by her side, In either hand a lily droops, lily for
 my bride; She cannot feel them, no, nor see .heu,
 they watch her open-eyed. And all the love God gave me, to spend
 in knighty quests. In pomp and pride of living, with her.
 with her it rests, Tn her silent lips and quiet eyes and the
 stiffness of her breasts. The earth yet fingers with me, and yet
 I see the sky; The winds are here, and the sdn and
 moon. anu the stars that multiply; And sometimes sne is cold and dead, and
 sometimes it is l. Between us now there stretches a dim
 unmeasured space The loving dead can bridge not nor any
 living grace: - cannot hear her breathing, she cannot
 see my face My poor hands touch and tremble, nys'
 poor lips kiss and yearn For a little sudden fmin-but the dead
 shall not return; The lilies droop itod falter, the tall, white
 candles huru.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27


 From the Engineering and Mining Jour nal.
 The decision of the supreme court in the case against the anthracite companies under the Sherman law was given on De- cember 16. It was on an appeal from the circuit court decision and was of mi1ed character in part sustaining and in part reversing the Iower court. It holds that the organization of the Temple Iron com pany and the use of that concern to control the Independent operators and to prevent the building of an independent outlet for the anthracite mines was au illegal combination in restraint of trade and that the injunction against the man agement and control of that company by the large anthracite companies must bs enforced. The well known fact that the directorate of that company formed con venient means of consultation among the heads of the large companies did not ap- pear in the case.
 The contracts with the independent op- e,ators, whereby their coal was bought at 65 per cent Of the tidewater price, are also pronounced illegal as in restraint of competition and are to be enjoyed ir the future. Tncso contracts gave the large companies the entire control of tho selling and marketing of anthracite
 With regard to the general question of combination, the court finds that the gov ernment has produced no evidence suffi- cient to prove tte existence of any trust or agreement to control the trade. The court, therefore, takes no action and makes no decision on this point except so far as it's sets aside the decision of the lower court on this point. The ques- tions as to the existence of partial and minor pools and their effect in restraint of trade is left open for further investiga- ton.
 This decision again shows the uncer- tainty of the Jaw Probably no great trade in this country is so closely con- trolled and unified as that in anthracite There is, however, nominally no trust, and there is no tangible agreement or combination among the companies The control is through stock ownership and common interest, and is exercised in ways the law does not reach and which 1t can not be brought to touch without the greatest difficulty under existing condi- tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
Our Mexican Policy

President Taft displays his cus- tomary good sense when he proposes to take no step looking to interven- ton in Mexico without first consult ing the President-elect. Whatever IS done by this country in Mexico will therefore be done with the practical approval of Governor Wilson.
 It is indeed difficult to say just what should be done toward inducing the Mexican government to strive to restore order and security in that country. The country is really bank rupt. The recent effort to float S25, ,000,0 of bonds met with no re- sponse from bankers. The disturbed condition of the country together with the vast sum that will be de- manded by foreign investors because of the acts of revolutionists, have practically put Mexico in bankrupt condition. The financial condition aggravates the military or physical condition, and the prospect for peace is not promising.
 On the other hand, intervention means a long war against guerrillas, and possible annexation of an unde- sirable population, and it should not become the policy of this country un- til all other expedients have been eX- hausted. Madero should be afforded every opportunity to conquer his foes; and even when he has done that no one can see how Mexico can meet her obligations to foreign investors and escape bankruptcy. The people in Mexico need Diaz rather than a Madero. The latter stands for re- forms, and the former did not, but peace without reforms is better than anarchy which admits of no reforms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
SANTA CLAUS LIVES

From the New York Sun.
 Dear Editor: I am years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
 Papa says, If you see 1t in the Sun, it's so.'
 Please tell me the truth, is there a San ta Claus? VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
 115 West Fifty-ninth street.
 Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepd- cism of a slleptical age. They do not be- leve, except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehen- siple by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be mems or chll- drens, are little. In this gerat universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, III his intellect, as compared with the boundles world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
 Yes, Virginia. there is Santa Claus. He exists as ertainly as love and sener- osity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life it's highest beauty an joy. Alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no San ta Claus, It would be as dreary as if there were no Virgnias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry no TO- nance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinsuished
 Not believe in Santa Claus, You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch ir all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they Sid not see Santa Claus coming down. what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things ir the world are those that neither chil- dren nor men can see. Did you ever sec fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not. but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or i'm agine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
 You tear apart the baby's rattle and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
Business Outlook for 1913

The business outlook for 1913 is far brighter than was the outlook 12 months ago. It is exceptionally bright.
 In the winter of 1911-12 there were no signs of boom or of any unusual prosperity in this district. The iron market was very dull and the price was under $10. But since last sum- mer the country has been remarkably prosperous. This has been a great crop year; all told the greatest crop year of all, and the farmers have got big prices for what they had to sell. The last half of 1912 has witnessed new high records in the industrial world and marked activity in every line of trade.
 During the holiday season business concerns take account of stock. There is lull in both wholesale and retail mercantile trade. The iron morket, which has been active for months past, is quiet and will be for the next two or three weeks. But there is fine outlook for all lines of business in the new year. There is no sign of the iron and steel trade Tagging. On the contrary, everything points to increased activity.
 Business is in a most healthy con- dition and the probability is that in month everything will be booming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
THE FoRLoRN LOVER.

THE FORLoRN LOVER. Upon a maidens name he sighed And often swore If she denied
 Her love to him. the nearest lake His frenZied fora in death would take Alas! how soon did grief dismay The girl, when he proposed. said Nay. A while he stood. in deepest thought, As one whose mind was much distrausht Then speeding from her presence fair, With rolling eyes and rumpled hair, He sought the lane in quest of peace, Where all life's fretful cares would cease. Rut Fate had other plans that night The lake was frozen hard and tight; Into the wave he could not dive And so was forced to stay alive A little while at least, until
 He found some way his blood to spill, Or else with potion doubly strong Escaped from life's hard-hearted throng. But soon his brain began to cool, He even called himself a fool And as the moments fitted by He vaguely gan to wonder why He'd ever wished to pass away, When life might still be wondrous gay. There's little more we need to tell The wight once Noe-begone, is well And has today a laugh so loud, It roars above the noisy crowd. His family's extremely large, But ne'er will be a public charge. Ard often when he lies awake At night and thinks about that lake. He's glad the ice was thick not thin, When once he thought of plunging in!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
THE CUNMAN

James Forbes in the OUTLOOK.
 The New York gunman has no fight in him. He is a parasite upon the outlaw industries, and those whom he bleeds by iiquor drugs and similar eXcesses as to be able to oppose no resistance even to his feeble will. It is the gunman and not the gun that talks. That he actually ever pulls a trigger, except to shoot a man in the back, is matter for in- teresting psychological deduction-in fact, he presently becomes the victim oe his own long continued buster. As result of excesses, his inhibtory pow CTS fail as the force of impulse increases, and presently the instrument of death in his hands comes into use-whether or not Swinging his gun with finger through the trigger guard, swaggerng, bragging of "croak- ing this one and "croaking that" he comes to believe himeslf desperado.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Larger Wages

"The United States Steel eorporationshas always been disposed to be liberal in the matter of wages" said a member of the Chamber of Commerce. land I was not surprised at the Christmas announcement of Chairman Gary that So.eo0 employees of the subsidiary companies of tho cor poration would participate in an advance now being planned.
 'The increase in wages, it was stated, would apply particularly to common la bor. Although unslxilled labor receives much higher pay than 1t did a few years ago, yet In view of the increased cost of living the toilers will receive none too much no matter what the raise may he