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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
MAsTERPIECE GONE TO WASTE

From the Twice-a-month Popular Nigga
 zine.
 The very seedy looking young man made his way with difficulty down the corridor on the ninth floor of one of New York's best hotels, and knocked loudly at his friends door. Anguish was writ ten on his face, and wrinkles on his clothes. He was a walking sign of what it means to spend a hard night.
 What's the matter?" called out the sleepy friend.
 Matter? It's a tragedy, death, the end of all things-ruination and grief!'
 'Well, what is it2' lazily inquired the drowsy man, without opening the door.
 Whereupon the seedy looking young man, leaning against the door and lift ing his voice to a howl, replied:
 T called up my wife on the long dis tance telephone last night and told her why I had not returned. I gave her perfectly good excuse. And now I can't remember what it was!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
ONLY POSING.

A ''highbrowed" book he keeps at hand, The which he never reads. The visitor, you understand, To wrong conclusion speeds, In that he thinks the crafty wight Loves knowledge wondrous deep, When if he'd con that book at night He'd soon fall fast asleep.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. A "highbrowed'' play he talks about, Of Ibsen and the rest, He turns the drama inside out Performs the acid test. You marvel every time he~speaks At all he seems to know, But when alone he always seeks A moving picture show.
 Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

TWO FAMOUS ONE EYED MEN From the Twice-a-month Popular Maga-
 zine
 There have come out of Edgefield coun- ty, South Carolina, two brilliant and fa- nous one-eyed men-United States Sena- tor Benjamin R. Tillman and D. A. Tompkins, the manufacturing genius of the Piedmont section.
 While Tillman has done his work and fighting In the arena of politics, Tomp- kins has confined his energies to manu- featuring and the commercial develop ment of the south.
 As a young man, Tompkins went to Pennsylvania, and became a mechanic. After a trip to Missouri, he returned to the south and gradually worked up to his prestige of the present day. He is now an eminent authority on all mat ters affecting the trade of the south, and has written many books on such subjects as good roads, chimneys, immigration, child labor, cooking. manufacturing, and cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
WHEN THE HEN EMBALMS HER EGGS

Apropos of recent discovery com mented on in the Journal of the American Medical association, to the effect that an- tiseptics, given in the chickens food, af- feet the egg, we wonder what pr. Wiley will do with a hen that embalms her own eggs By the aid of science it seems, she can now do it, and. from what we know of this perverse fowl, we fear that she will do it. Such a discovery as this can scarcely elude the grasp of the astute poultry producers and egg embalmers. Win it be applied practically, and if so, will it's effects be pernicious or beneficent l? Shall we be poisoned by both the nam and the eggs, or will it now become pos sible for every farmer to stock his own storage warehouse and hold down the winter prices on hen fruit?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
Regarding Municipal Ownersh1p

The advocates of municipal owner ship ought to begin with such things as bath houses, lodging houses, news rooms and the like instead of grabbing after waterworks and lighting plants, ' said an amateur publicist. The man agement of municipal institutions Is something it takes time and experience to learn and men must be trained up to it.
 Birmingham has pressing need of many municipal institutions. the estab- lishment of which, would serve the dou- ble purpose of promoting the public welfare and training a corps of men to undertake greater duties in the future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
DAME VAN WINkLE's TONGUE

By WaShlngtOn irving.
 Rip Van Wrinkle, if left to himself. would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept contin- ually dinning in his ears about his idle ness, his carelessness and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon and night Dame Van Winkle' S tongue was necessarily going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lec- lures of the kind. and that, by frequent use, had grown into habit. He shrugged his shoulders. shook his head, cast up his eyes. but said nothing. This. how ever, always produced fresh volley from his wife, so that he was fain to draw off his forces and take to the outside of the house-the only sioe which, in truth, be- longs to a henpecked husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
NAVIGATING THE MOUNTAINS ,rop, tho Popular Maeazine

When the Armenian massacres were commanding the interest and sympathy of the civilized world, newspaper corre- spondent rushed excitedly one day into the office of Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Adee with the question::
 MT Secretary, will you tell me defin- itely whether or not the United States government will send any battleships to Armenian
 "No ships will be sent there," replied Adee, with great gravity. Navigation. I am informed. has not been good in the vicinity of Ararat since the time of Noah's ark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
SONG

By Sir William Davenant. The lark now leaves his watery nest. And, climbing, shakes his dewy wings, He takes your window for the east, And to implore your light he sings. Awake. awake, tn emorn will never rise. Till she can dress her beauty at your
 eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's
 star.
 Tn ploughman from the sun his season
 takes; But still the lover wonders what they are. Who look. for day before his mistress
 wakes; Awake. awake. break through your seils of lawn Then draw your curtains sand begin the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
REFLECrIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Much feathers. little meat under them.
 What can improve some peoples tenn per is for them to be sound asleep.
 A nice thing about knowing how to carve well is it doesn't make you swear so much.
 Lending money to a man is about as easy way as there is to find out he has bad points.
 Even in these days of short skirts it's better for a woman to begin to grow stout from the ground up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
RATHER ROUGH, THIS

Fl om the Louisville Courier-Journal
 The great taxicab robbery moves the World to oborve that New York is safer for criminals than for law abd- ing people, Well, what'N more truly democratic than the greatest good of the greatest number?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Talking for Underwood

''rhe travelling men are doing good work for oscar Underwood" said Harry Jones, "and not only are the travellers in. Alabama enthusiastic supporters of Underwood for the presidency, but they are using their influence with the travel ing men throughout the. country and the result will be widespread Under wood sentiment as direct result of this active effort originating among the local drummers.
 "Underwoods chances are looking bright and I believe he will be nominated by the national democratic convention, and will be elected in November"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

HIS medHs d very COHSiueid dpic uSi- icit on the first day of October next. If the sum paid for park land, $14,- 900, be deducted, the deficit of four months was just about $100,000, and the deficit of the fiscal year would be about S300,00O. No branch of the city government is keeping within the sum named in the budget, and the aggregate deficiencies are leading straight on to new deficit.
 The report of the city comptroller, taken all in all, is an excellent doc ument. It discloses the situation in the most compact manner. There were excess expenditures in the four months in every direction.
 It is true the city comptroller does not say how receipts are coming along. Possibly they are exceeding the estimates of last October. Fossil bly, more money is coming in from liquor licenses than had been looked for. In this one respect the city comp troller's report is lame. He simply compares expenditures with the Octo- Der budget. Let us have statement of receipts placed in comparison with the figures of last October. This may be difficult, but the city comptroller knows a great deal more about re- ceipts and expenditures than the av- craze workaday citizen does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
Thc Garhage Cann

'I understand that Walter Moore the we'll known coal operator who is re- ported as having begun a referendum on the garbage contract, has been kept busy with telephone calls and personal visits from Birmingham citizens re- specting that new contract" said a well known railroad man yesterday.
 "The execution of contract dealing in such an express way with the use of the city streets is certainly and un- questionably subject to referendum. MT. Moore, I personally believe. first started the petition more in fun than otherwise. However, l am told that certain very prominent men who resent the proposed garbage can business have appealed to him personally to keep the petition going.
 Tn Ensley and East Lake as we'll as North Birmingham and elsewhere in Greater Birmingham I am told that the greatest interest is felt in the refer endum on the garbage contract The referendum may be funny to some per- sons, but viewed calmly and boiled down to the last analysis the situation is not attractive by any means. We may have to gaze upon any character of adves- tisement on the garbage cans to be placed on our streets. Then again Bir-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
coMPULsIvE VERSE.

z COMPULSIvE VERSE. Oh, life may be
 Brimful of bliss, But not when we
 Do work like this. A yard of rhyme,
 Day after day, If feeling prime,
 Or far from gay. Our stock in trade Mere foolishness, Howe'er dismayed
 When sorrows press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

of the arm, a backward and downward thrust of the pole.
 'Gottim,' said the cook. in his casual voice, and tossed the blight of the warp over the rail, and impassively bent on k new warp for the slippers pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Praesident Taft rushed his latest nomi- nation to the supreme bench to the Sen ate before the record of the nominee on the trusts could be looked up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

If Roosevelt is merely a stalking horse for Taft there is many man who will be very angry when he is bamboozled to make a standpat holiday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
ARNoLD's LOVELY DISPOSITION.

ARNOLD'S LOVELY DISPOSITION.
 One keeps hearing stories of that most unpleasant person, MT. Arnold Bennett Most of the magazine men who met him here, while not decrying his talent. have nothing good to say of his manners. Just before he was to return to England Mr. George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, gave a luncheon in his honor. MT. Lorimer makes eating a science, as well as a pleasure His idea of a proper luncheon is to ransack
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
Expenditures Outrunning the Budget

The city is still getting into debt. The city comptroller shows that in the first four months of the fiscal year expenditures exceeded budget appro- nriations as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

T. R. has got all the politicians guess ing, and then no light is thrown on the subject. On Monday the curtain is to be raised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The trapping of bribetakers by dicta- graphs may yet become an industry of great skill and success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

New Jersey should not expect to fur nish in single year supreme court jus tice and a President of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt go to Panama for long visit. The decks at home are being cleared for a hot fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Colombia has no desire to complete the canal. but she does want pay for the zone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The backbone of winter still remains firm ill the upstate counties of New York, and it laps over into the adjoin- ing states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Connecticut feeds her prisoners on 9.45 cents a day, and Massachusetts has cut the cost down to cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
THINKING IT OVER.

"Is Pillwur a lazy man?'
 Well, I hardly think Pillwur is the laziest man in the world, although he hesitates before getting up in the morn ing longer than any other man of my ac- quaintanee.'' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
MOST LIKELY.

T see where a Kansas editor dropped his false teeth into keg of news ink"
 "Tn bet he was snarling at an early spring poet.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Uncle Joe Cannons presidential boom is stuck deeper in the mud than the bat tleship Maine ever was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Winter overcoats are reduced in price. but that fact does not mean that spring has actually come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Some people are so pessimistic as to say that winter will finger in the lap of spring up until after St. Patrick's Day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The Elgin butter board slips the price down peg as each rumor of an invesu- gation reaches it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
A LENGTHY WAIT.

Arter courtship that lasted 29 years, an Indiana couple decided to get mar red. Mature consideration does very well at times, but not when it has one foot in the grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
Water Fountains

Before the semi-tropical weather of summer comes some better provision than now exists should be made in the way of water fountains and horse troughs,' said citizen. "A man does not like to go into a soda fountain and ask for a drink of water, but if he feels he must spend a nickel he pre- fers a glass of beer to coca cola.
 "A woman with four or five children cannot afford to spend a quarter giving them soda water when plain water would do just as we'll Let us have some moree free water in the town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
THE SHOE PINcHEs.

THE SHOE PINCHES. You'll ne'er find philosopher A picture of content Who's just so sick he cannot stir And all his moneys spent. Although he may have patience taught To others in distress. Ills tranquil. soul is soon distraught Wheh woes on him are pressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Only those who favor woman suffrage are progressives with capital '.P."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

MORE BLIZZARDS. We take this chance To rise and say, Wed welcome Spring Most any day. Though crocuses Are peeping out, They'd better mind What they're about. The end is not
 As yet in sight; Old Winters far From taking flight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The Missouri dawg song may be adopt ed by the democracy and turned into a campaign ballad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
HOW IF SOUNDED TO HIM.

 T see where a rich man paid large sum of money the other day for Corot.' For crow? He must have been blamed anxious to own one of those birds.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
DEcEITFUL wRErcHEs.

She let the news be noised abroad
 That she could make the finest pies: Came thronging suitors to applaud.
 And swore tn attraction was her eves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
TWO FAMOUS ONE EYED MEN

Who says that the groundhog didn't know his business?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
CREDIT

Poor Jones is in an awful fix And bitter is his cup; He's always paying something down And never paying up.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. From what you say about his fate, He seems luckless man. We also know how life is lived On the installment plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The dictagraph renders life still more complex and tangled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Sarah Bernhardt is coming back t, smash what is left of the osler theory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The scarcity of counterfeit money is noticeable. and the same may be said of the genuine sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The back bone of winter may not yet be broken, but it soon will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

Senator Ike Stephenson's vindication is one of the kind that does not vindicate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
Eirsf Trin soufh

M. P. Mockridge of New York spent yesterday in Birmingham 'This Is my first visit south," said he "and am more than pleased with this section of the country.
 .I founds Montgomery a fiourishing city and I find Birmingham a marvel. I had heard great deal of the Alabama me- tropolis, but 1t is ahead of my expecta- tions. Considering it's youthful age it is nothing short of a phenomenal communi- ty. I have not had time to visit Corey. but have heard good deal of it In the north. It has been big advertising fea- ture for the Birmingham district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The red on the breast of the first robin will be flannel if it be a bird of great sense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

The high cost, of butter and eggs is soon to be outdone by the high cost of Easter bonnets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
DIscoURAGING.

T have come here determined to collect this bill, MT. Jipson."
 My dear MT. -"
 Jones'"
 Thank you. My dear MT. Jones, I hate to disagree with you in this matter, but greatly fear that you are face to face with an insurmountable difficulty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

No chicken dinners await Secretary Knox in Bogota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23

mingham should be too important and of too much character to confess an inability to buy garbage cans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
Music Festivals

The official preliminary announcement of the Cincinnati music festival, to he held May to May Il inclusive, has just been issued.
 Birmingham's music festival will be held May 3 and {, and as the Cincinnati event will be several days later many music levers of this city will be in attendance there.
 Cincinnati, while not the oldest festival city in this country, is the musical pio- neer in the middle west. It has been hay ing festivals since 1S73 For the forthcom- ing festival the Thomas orchestra of Chi cago has been engaged. Notwithstanding the excellence of the Chicago organiza- ton, some surprise has been expressed that the Cincinnati orchestra, now one of the first class symphony bodies. is not to be used for the festival. There is a strong sentiment attached to the name of Theodore Thomas. however. for the late distinguished conductor had been the musical director of all the early Cincin- natl festivals, and with one or two ex- captions, had been the director of all up to the time of his death
 The soloists for Cincinnati are: So- pranos, Gadski, Corinna Rider-K Kelsey and Mrs. Werner-West; contraltos, Schu- mann-Heink, Christine Miller; tenors. Signor Alessandro Bonci, 'Riccardo Mar tin. Ellison Van Hoose; bassos, Clarence Whitehill, Herbert Witherspoon and Douglass Powell.
 The Cincinnati festival chorus is one of the largest and one of the best drilled in the United States. Among the works to be performed are Mendelssohn's "Elijah,' Caesar Franck's "Beatitudes, Liszt's "Dante" Symphony, Strauss "Henldenle- ben, Beethoven's "Eroica,'' scenes from Wagners Die Gotterdammerung," and Berloiz's requiem mass with augmented orchestra and four brass bands.
 At the Birmingham festival the Minne- apolis orchestra, Emil Oberhoffer, conduc- tor, will make its first appearance in this part of the country. It ranks with the best and music lovers here who have net had an opportunity of hearing it are looking forward to it's coming with eager interest.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-10-18
POSTAGE STAMPS
WILL ADVERTISE
Big EXPOSITION
UNCLE SAN TAKES HAND IN Ex.
PLOTTING CELEBRATED 1915
CELEBRATION

SAN FRANCISCO. oct 1s-Post-
master General Hitchcock has ii
rected that s9.Oeo.00 one-cent, 49,
oo9.oss t~O-oeat and so.0a.e9o five
cent and 100000 ten-cent Panama
Pacific international exposition post
age stamps b. prepared and placed
On sale in the Postofflces beginning
January /. 1913 The stamps are
about threefourths q an inch high
By one and a sixieenth inch vide
Al The TOP appear the sorss. II s
Postage and san Francisco. 1915 r
The one-cent stamp Is green In
the center appears within circle a
bust Of Balboa. diseoverer Of the Pa
cine ocean
The tWo-ceat stamp IS red. Il rep
resents the la,un marks q The Pa
mama canal
The flvecent stamp i oiae ard
represents the Golden Gate Of san
Francisco harbor
The ten-stamp is dark yellow The
subject is THE Discovery Of san
Francisco Bay
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-10-18
SAVED HIS SON
FROM CONSTITUTIONAL DECLINE

So many cases like this are com
ing to our attention. For the benefit
OF fathers and mothers Of weak.
sickly. ailing children in this vicinity
We publish the following letter.
Mr. Richard Rush OF Columbus. Ind.
says: Il believe am indebted to
the valuable medicinal properties of
Vinol for the health of my little
son Dale He had severe attack
OF whoOping cough and measels,
which affected his lungs and gen.
eral constitution. We tried several
other remedies without benefit, then
commenced using yinol and / take
pleasure in acknowledging my conf.
dence in its restorative and recon.
structive virtues. for my little son is
the picture of health now. all due TO
the use OF Vinol"
This is because the child needed
the strengthening cod liver elements
and the tonic iron that Vinol con.
tains No oil. delicious taste. Child.
rem love it. We give back your
money if vinol does not do all we
claim Miners Drug Co. Inc, Tono-
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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-10-18
SERIAL NUMBER OI7S9
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

L. S. Land Office at Carson City.
Nevada, October s. 1912.
Notice is hereby given that Sam.
uel F. Mount of Keystone. Nevada,
who, on April 10. 1908, made desert
land entry No. $50. serial No. O17ss.
for NV =. NE. =. NE. 4, NV. i.
S. Y. NV 4. n. =. Sw. Z, SE.K,
SW.A and Sw. i. Sc. 4, section
q, township 10 north. range 40. f.
NJ. d. meridian. has filed notice of
intention to make final desert land
proof. 10 establish claim to the land
above described. before the county
clerk of Nye county. at Tonopah. Ne
vada, on the 10th day of November
1912.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Joseph T Williams of Hot Creek
New; Lloyd F. Mount OF Keystone
New; J. NJ. Douglass Of Keystone
New Louis Hempel Of Tonopah. Ne
yada.
LOUIS J. COIN. Register.
Date Of first publication Oct. .
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-10-18
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF
THE STATE OF NEVADA IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NYE

In the matter OF the estate Of An
tone LeOni, deceased.
Notice to Creditors
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly appoint
ed and qualified by the district court
Of the fifth judicial district of the
state of Nevada in and for Nye
county as administrator Of the es-
tate OF Antoine Leoni. deceased. late
Of the said county OF Nye.
All creditors having claims against
said estate are required TO file same,
with proper vouchers attached, with
the clerk of the above entitled court.
within three months OF the first
publication OF this notice
Tonopah. Nevada. Sept 80. 1912
FRED A. PLYMIER.
Administrator Of the Estate Of An
tone Leoni. deceased. o7t4