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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
SEARCHING THE GuEsTs

From the New York World
 To a New Jersey country club is due an interesting innovation in house rules in the matter of the treatment of guests suspected of theft. This at enee from the allegations that when woman lost handbag at club dance there walters and guests were alike subjected to an inquisition to. dis cover who had taken it.
 Such a procedure involves awkward conditions of publicity. To obviate 1t country club guests might be bonded for good behavior by surety companies, or the hotel custom observed of re- the clerk. But if the duty Is to de- volve on house committees of search ing guests in such circumstances, they ought to be appointed with a view to their peculiar fitness. An experience with the customs inspection ordeal. at the docks might qualify them, or a certificate of competence rom Coiiec- tor Loeb. Some of the objectionable features of the inquisition might be avoided by reserving a special room at country clubs for administering the third degree"
 But there is something more than a surface suggestion of humor about the Lakewood episode. Is the veneer of social responsibility as thin as this ex- traordinary occurrence would imply? Are social credentials of so little ac- count that they afford no guarantee against suspicion of vulgar theft in company of ladies and gentlemen?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
CHAIRMAN uNDERwooD's WARNING
r-ron inc Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 The guiding hands of democracy. rep resentng every state in the union, could do the party and the people no greater service at the national conference here today than by giving due consideration to Chairman Underwood's statement as to ban.1rupting the treasury The demo- cratic leader in the House has set his face against the programme or exeraVa- gance which the House majority mas fairly entered upon, but that ms hahus need strengthening is manifest from the
 fact that his is the only voice that IS raised against extravaganza in appropri-
 ations While he declares that the rad on the treasury will be checked by side-
 tracking pork barrels measure not yet acted on the way the chairman was vot- ed down on the public buildings bill de- notes the true situation.
 Resolute man that he is, Chairman Underwood is helplessly in the minority. Aid from no powerful quarter has been rendered him. None of the favorite sons whose presidential candidacy might suf- fer by reason of party extravagance has seen fit to utter a word of warning. Even MT. Bryan has given the raiders the nod of approval that silence signi- | fies Perhaps, though, Bryan scruples at lambasting others for doing what he himself would do it if he could have his
 way about the tariff. The Bryan ele ment forsooth, is lined up In favor of
 the 50Oo.0Oo pension bill, the s50,000,000
 public buildings bill. and the S5o,000,000
 rivers and harbors bill. any one of which would cripple the treasury, as Under
 wood fears and any two of which would | close it's doors.
 The pension grab alone. as Underwood
 says, would come pretty near bankrupt | ing the Government;' not only that, but
 as Underwood goes on to say. 'it Is wholly out of the question to think of
 any other legislation. meaning the tar if among ether things, ''except to make
 provision for such expenditures as are absolutely necessary for the conduct of
 tho government"
 | The situation as 1t confronts the demo- cratic national committee, in the light | of Chairman Underwood's unchallenge- able statement. is that the issues which were paramount in the congressional ' campaign of two years ago-nationai I economy and tariff revision-have been
 sacrificed to the new policy of national l loot and bankruptcy. If the commit l tee has a desire for additional proof of I the criticism that it has cut loose from ] it's Fundamentals, let 1t scan the topics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

The record crop of Alabama was grown as the boil weevil was crossing the western boundary of the state in large numbers, and the insect will be apt to keep future crops of the imme- diate future from going to record breaking figures. This years crop bids fair to stand as the states record crop fully ten years. The crop of 1904 was the record seven years, and the great crop grown last year will stand even longer as the state's greatest effort in cotton growing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
PAUL COOK.
ALFRED TENNYsON DICKENS

very remunerative, but noods durin gi three successive years, when valuablel crops were destroyed, made him turn his attention to sheep raising Money from home enabled him to start on his new enterprise, which was so successful during the first year that he was en- couraged to stake all he had in it. AL most immediately bad seasons began and after three years of continuous drouth, during which every head of stock died, Dickens had once more been. conquered by nature in one of her evil moods. All who had witnessed Dick
 ens plucky fight against irresstible odds now stood by him and fitted him up in a new role This was as a stock and station agent, near Hamilton, Vic toria. Hardly, however, had Dicken5 got into the swing of business than the drouth seized the region in its de stroying grip; the stock was all deadA and, there being no produce, there was
 no money. To add to Dickens misfor.
 tunes his beautiful wife, nee Develin
 the daughter of British officer. was
 thrown from a pony carriage and killed against street curb. That was more than 30 years ago. and the shock to tht
 bereaved husband was so great tha
 it manifested itself by intervals of mel ancholy during many years succeeding
 As lecturer 1t cannot be said that h q was either brilliant or that he had al
 agreeable delivery. His enunciation wal
 poor and at times stammering, but \ his fathers son he was most interest ing since he was able to give verba ] pictures of the great novelist in tn | intimacy of the family circle.
 When one considers Charles Dickens rise from obscurity and poverty to tn
 niche of fame he holds in the Pantheo4 of distinguished men, 1t Is pathetic ts reflect that the fates, who were s4 prodigal of their gifts to the fathelz should have been so sparing in giving
 even a fair chance to that son who i lying at this moment dead guest with in our shores, and on the eve of tn 4 much talked of Dickens centenar which he had come among us to celez brate as our welcome guest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
The Late Richard T. Crane

Those sturdy men of the old school in America's industrial life, known as distinctly constructive and eminently successful, are fast passing away. Richard T. Crane of Chicago, who died on Monday in the eightieth year of his age, was the last, perhaps, of the developers, who, starting in an hum- ble way, had by industry, pluck and brains amassed a vast fortune, and who continued in active business to the end.
 Mr. Crane was a benefactor as well as a remarkable man. His personal ity was unique. Starting in life as a mechanic with limited education and meager opportunity he soon became an employer of men and gradually built up an extensive manufacturing industry-a business that never stopped growing. MT. Crane was proverbially straightforward and hon est. and, according to those who knew him best, he accumulated every dollar of his millions, not only legitimately as the laws go. but with generous regard for the welfare of the wage earners on his pay rolls. The Crane company's largest plant is in Chicago, but it has many important branches, including one in Birmingham. MT. Crane visited this city several years ago and spoke enthusiastically of the great possibilities of the Birmingham district.
 Several of America's multi-million- aires have distinguished themselves by their munificent gifts for human ity's sake through certain channels familiar to all. Andrew Carnegie, who once said that it would be dis grace for a man to die rich, or words to that effect, is giving his mammoth fortune away. His hobby is libraries. John D. Rockefellers gifts to col leges and to Baptist churches within the past few years have been enor- nous. J. Pierpont Morgan has done a grand work in collecting art treas ures, which will ultimately become the property of the public. He has built and endowed at least one large chari- table institution.
 Mr. Crane accomplished something large and enduring by establishing and maintaining manual training schools. Remembering the crude methods employed in shop work when he was youth he long had in mind a purpose to improve conditions by promoting the education of appren- tices, and as a result of that benevo- lent desire untold numbers of young men have been fitted to pursue me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
ONE THING MEN CAN DO

From the Buffalo Commercial.
 While in Richmond recently for the performance of "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin was asked how she stood on the votes for women question.
 She replied she didn't stand at all" and told story about New Eng land farmers wife who had no very romantic ideas about the opposite sex, and who, hurrying from churn to sink. from sink to shed, and back again to the kitchen stove, was asked if she wanted to vote. NO, certainly don't. say if there's one little thing that the men folks can do alone, for good ness sake let 'em do it!' she replied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
DeIirhted xisI, Denny

Everybody in Tuscaloosa is delight ed with Dr. Denny stated Judge Henry B. Foster, one of the trustees of the University of Alabama. who spent yes terday in Birmingham
 Since the new president has taken charge of the university, the old insti- tuition has taken on new life, and there is every reason to believe that it t now entering upon it's most suspicious period
 In my estimation. pr. Denny IS q big man and one Of the greatest edu- with the students, the trustees and the people of Tuscaloosa. In him Alabama has acquired a real asset of incalcuia- ble value"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
general disarmament among

sire a general disarmament among the nations.
 In 1907 the socialists polled 3,26O,- 900 votes out of about 12, 2,000,006 votes in the empire. Their vote next Fri day will rise to 100000. Neither the center nor the national liberals will poll that number of votes, but the two last named parties are fa- vored by the gerrymander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 THE irony of fate is strongly illus
 trated in the two generations of
 \ the Dickens family since it's rise to eminence in the person of the famous novelist, whose centenary occurs just one month from the present time. And, unhappily. the contrast anything but verifes the vlrtuous aphorism that work, hard work, sooner or later brings it's own rewards, and that victory is to the hardest fighter.
 To rise from obscurity into the daz- zling light of great popularity has always been much more difficult in Europe, with it's many class distinctions, than in America and it was all the more so in the days of Charles Dickens. Yet, from the period of his first literary successes, his measure of popularity in- creased from day to day, and temporary embarrassments he became involved in later were brought on by himself-the Nemesis of his extravaganza.
 On the whole, Dickens enjoyed many of the good things of life, and his many triumphs made up for other less agree able episodes. Not so the son. The re- verse of the medal has been the portion of Alfred Tennyson Dickens since early manhood and until a few days ago when, in New York, death terminated his earnest and worthy efforts, through long years. to achieve success against persistent misfortune.
 And the fate of Alfred Dickens has been more or less the luckless sort of nearly all the other children of the nov elist although 1t was the ambition of each one of them to maintain the name of tie family on the high literary and social level to which it had been ele- vated by their illustrious father But they failed in commerce, in finance and in every other undertaking for the bet torment of their material condition. It seemed as though i'll luck dogged with vicious glee the heels of Alfred in all his operations When little more than 20 years old he went to Australia and em- parked in an agricultural venture of a kind which had. up to that time. been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
JOLT FOR BRYAN
rom the Alabama Courier.

From the AidDdHlt Coutiei.
 Underwood gave Bryan the severest jolt that has ever been administered to the Commoner last week when he de- feated his open caucus proposition by a vote of 1o3 to q in the democratic Con- Gress Bryan will learn after while that he is not the democratic party, but only a small particle of 1t. which if lost would not endanger the life or well being of the great cause for which Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland stood. Underwood is the leading man of the party today and is making good. Bryan had his try. Let him step aside for some other safer and saner leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
"GoNernorv KoIb Here

Reuben F. Kolb, commissioner of agriculture, who, for well known req sons, is called governor by his friends, spent yesterday in Birming- ham.
 q am en route" stated he. Ito Lin coln, Talladega county, where l am to make an address before a gathering of farmers. We will discuss the best methods for acquiring higher prices for cotton next season.
 My idea is for the farmers to re- duce the cotton acreage 25 per cent, and then raise everything needed for the upkeep of man and animal Should this method be pursued, the farmer will soon acquire all the wealth of the universe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
southern Development

"The Seaboard Air Line is doing a systematic industrial work" said J. A. Pride of Norfolk. general industrial agent of that road. "The south Is at tracing more and more attention each year. It is most inviting field to home seekers. Every southern state is ex- ceptlonally well adapted to farming on profitable commercial scale, and the manufacturing interests of the south are increa sing every year.
 Birmingham looks more prosperous than ever. It's rapid growth will con- tinue, and in the next census another phenomenal showing will be made.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
Last Years Commercial Mortality

In the southeast only two states had fewer failures in 1911 than they had in 1910--Alabama and North Carolina. Alabama had last year 175 failures, as against 166 in the pre- vious year, and North Carolina had POP, as against POT in 1910. But the liabilities of North Caroiina's failures last year aggregated $4,056,281. The 165 failures in Alabama last year presented but s2,423, ,O12 in liabilities.
 All sections had more failures last year than they had in the previous year, and Alabama stands out in the printed list remarkably strong and solvent.
 To make as good record this year great care will have to be taken, es- pecially in the districts ravaged by the boil weevil. The merchants in the black belt and canebrake counties have had ample warning, and they should be in position to combat sue cessfully the pest. Much depends upon the enterprise and wisdom of the large land owners who will have to face in the next three years all the damage that the insect can do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
Wanted 1000 snch Men

"so much is being said and written about good roads, 1 would like to make a suggestion on that subject" said d man who once lived in the rural district. During the time I lived in the country parts l sometimes paid my road tax and other times I worked the roads. but the reads are just as bad today as they were 10 years ago.
 Now, I know one man, Karl G. Daly. who has a farm beyond Irondale, and if could find in Jefferson county 1000 men like him the good roads question would be settled. He may have never read the lines of Byron
 Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike
 the blow,
 but he does know that if the farmers of Jefferson county want good roads they are the men to make them.
 "Dr. Daily runs truck farm, and know ng it is to his interest to have good roads, he never lets an opportunity pass to fill rut or open culvert or do some thing which requires doing right there and then If, there were 1000 such men in this county there would not be all this trouble over the road question.
 "I would suggest that at certain time of the year there would be 'roadmaking day and that afterward every farmer be required to keep the road for a half mile on each side of his farm in good repair for the rest of the year It is for their own good and benent, and it will solve the problem"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
THOSE BIRDMEN

From Puck.
 Country Cousin-Blamed if t fust time I ever saw flreflies wila ts was snow on the ground.
 City Relative-Those are not arefie They are cigarette butts fall ng From aeroplanes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
Guest of Judge HundIey

Ormsby McHarg of New York, former assistant United States attorney general during the Roosevelt administration, and lately assistant secretary of commerce and labor under the Taft administration, is the guest of Judge oscar R. Hundley. MT McHarg says that a majority of the delegates from New York state to the republican convention will be instructed to vote for Theodore Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
wooDRuN WILSON

fTom JuuBe-
 At any rate the country can admire the versatility of Woodrow Wilson. As president of Princeton university he taught the most conservative econom- ics, and wrote books in which doubts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

by the speakers at the Jackson day bar quet. Everything else under the su has a place on the programme sav revision of the tariff. Will it dawn upo the national committee, which, while dues not write the platform, sets the bal rolling, that in footing the treasury tn party bankrupts itself?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
WHILE WAITING.

WHILE WAITING Dream of flowers. Vernal showers And the songs of spring; Blue skies over, Bees and clover. Birds taar blithely sing. Dream of closes Sweet with roses, Breathing rare perfume Glad upstakings, Merrymakings, Unlike winters gloom. Dream Of morrows Free from sorrows Free from cold and blight. Till the May time. That's ous play time, Comes with beauty brightl
 USING HIS GOOD RIGHT. "I'll kick you out, sir!'' You can't do it singfe-handed. T don't intend to do it singled handed. I'll do it single-footed."
 TOO MUCH.
 Of good advice
 We have no lack;
 There's some. in sooth,
 We'd fain give back.
 SMALL ESTATE. "A press humorist died the other day" Did he leave any property?" "Onl. couple of bathing suit jokes, which his executors will not be able to dispose of before next summer"
 NOT WEI The milkman's daughter dresses we'll The reason why we shall not tell. We're not the sort of heartless chump TO say half s milk comes from pump
 A COMMON TYPE. What Is the secret of Browson's un- popularity He says that he strives to please" That's true. but he only strives to please himself"
 A TRYING TRIP. Make way! Make wayi The water cart Is coming down the street. Greer up, cheer up, oh, dropping heart, And hang on to your seat! BR FER WILLIAMS HAS A WORD We'll said Brer Willimas, "Br'er Dickey-he done gone an pears like I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

got ter take his place 1 lsnowed him um fur back-long fo' freedom brokel out-an him an me, " en We heit camp meetin an 'sputed an spounded theI word, made mo eonvlets in one night than any two preachers in de country | reckon We has preached fun Glnnisis fer Regulations. an made sinners howl like d harricane what knowed its blsi- nessl We use ter take up a collection alter ever hymn, an we sho' did go thoo' de hvmnbookl Dem days is gone an sol is Br'er Dickey-des like we all got ter 90 boppia' high or wall<in' wid stick an cirtch Der aint no standin' back orI hidin' out wen de call comes; It's rise up an fly high, or take de elevator what goes fur down! Min what l tellin yoa' an watch yo ways. Atlanta Constitu- tien.
 A PERIL. More deadly than rabid pup, Behold the public drinking cup! Although I'm not scientist, My name is on the knocking list. Good people, let us form a clan And knock it. knock it all we can
 SOON ANSWERED. - t"What do you consider the best dietl for a man?' "The best he can afford"
 CONSIDERS IT WASTED. Does Biffels like egg-nog?" 50 much so that every time he seesI a scrambled egg he sheds tears"
 THE FIRST STEP. She wished to be q famed actress Applauded everywhere; And just to be sure of success, She shot a millionaire.
 HIGH LINKS. Twenty-two units of New Cambria 'sI| young masculine nobility and feminineI| loveliness partook of their second an-l| nual progressive dinner Tuesday. SoupI| q la Angelioue and superbus was served. Magnadorable pie was deyoured and theII dessert was declared to be simply grand-lI iloquentissimo.-New Cambria, Mo-, In-l| dependent. III
 A VICTIM SPEA "Old man Skinnm has ger. tl ward"
 T hope he gets it-with npounl ins terest."
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

the damage that the insect can do.
 ---------- Miss Keeler, the new superintendent of the public schools of Cleveland, O., gets 5000 a year, and presumably Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of the Chicago pub lie schools, gets at least double that sum.
 ---.z-- In the Gaynor gallery of fame Fronti- nus now .ran.,s along with Epictetus, and no one is permitted to outrank either of these ancient worthies.
 --.~.--- The Yang-tse- -kiang is the potomac of the Chinese civil war. The hold of the imperlalists on the north bank is, however, insecure. The Huuson river was closed by ice on January 3, the latest date in it's has tory. In 1881 it remained open until January 1.
 The Italians who were sent to Tripoli are having a warm time of it. They are not suffering a bit from the cold.
  Aviator Fowler has been forgottei- oy the general public, although he is still flying toward the Atlantic ocean.
 --.s.-- England .s going to the bow VOWS. The lords have said it and that seems to settle it in their own minds.
  fc nickname of Fighting Bob. His coun- trymen thought it good fit
  The man who casts bricks at direct primary laws Is a man ,disliked by his fellow countrymen. No Mabel, you should not think Colonel Roosevelt would rather write than be President. Governor Wilson may have referred to Jacksons cooked hat when he wrote that Jolne letter. Abdul Hamid was a wise old guy. As Sultan of Turkey he never signed his name to letter.
  Those who are slipping off the water wagon say an ice wagon is not what they bargained for.
 The Manchu family in China is striv- ing to secure a long drawn out old home week.
 ---.s----- Ostriches should be taught to willow their own plumes before they are sent to market.
 
 Winter has a right to do its worst in January. and it is working up to full capacity.
  Few children will be able to memorize the names of the presidents of China.
 ---.s.-- Straw votes are being taken on every train that crosses contested states.
  The Manchus and the man with a frozen water pipe are in a sea of trouble.
  Beware an autograph collector who never destroys a letter,
  New Mexico has joined the sisterhood. She is No. 47.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
A TRYING TRIp.

1A T IN IINI IItII. Make way! Make wayi The water cart Is coming down the street. Greer up, cheer up, oh, dropping heart And hang on to your seat!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

The Manchus and the man with frozen water pipe are in Q sea of trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

BR'ER WILLIAMS HAS A WORD.
 Well, said Br'er Willimas, "Br'er Dickey-he done gone an pears like I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

Few children will be able to memorize the names of the presidents of China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11

Straw votes are being taken on every train that crosses contested states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-11
A COMMON TYPE

What Is the secret of Browson's un- popularity He says that he strives to please"
 That's true, but he only strives to please himself"