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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
HIGHEST BUILDING COMPLETED

From the New York World.
 From the top of the lantern dome on the new Woolworth building, 775 feet above the street level, the Stars and Stripes VIII be flung out to the breeze for the nrst time tomorrow at noon.
 The last bit of steel is in place, the last riyet on the titanic structure has been | headed. and there remains only the addl- tion of a few thousand tons of terra col'a and a few thousands more of steel trim 10 make the greatest building in the world reality. 7 The men who have made this builder dream an actuality haven't much to say about it. It has been long, steady, quiet fight for them-the romance and the pie turesqueness of 1t all is too much part of the instanct that makes them deyotees of their hazardous calling for them to readily give tongue to 1t.
 But when one of them climbs to the dizzy height of the fifty-fourth story-as yet but swaying iron skeleton, 'seeming- ly miles above the street-an expression of almost reverent satisfaction comes over his face that tells the story well.
 Were 1t not for the hurrying people and the gliding ships. one might imagine the view from that ffty-ffth story to be painted on a great canvas stretched at ones feet.
 Even on a hay day, there are many miles of straight stretching streets, count less buildings that appear modest in di- mensions even when one knows them to be really giants of their kind, endless car fne,1ty Iaf1 xryith a matical order and precision-in fact, for the first time does one really get an ade- quate conception of the tremendousness of New York.
 The vast panorama is beautiful in its poyglot material way-it is New York as some mad, inspired impressionist might have got it on canvas in one wild splash of light and color and shade.
 Work for the foundations of the build ing was begun on November 15, 1910. and the building is expected to be ready for occupancy by an army of 10000 tenants by January next. The first caisson was be- gun on January 1e, 1911. and then in rapid succession the 60 piers of thesfoundation, the largest of them being 10 feet in diam eter. were sunk 125 feet into the ground, and the building was fairly under way.
 One thousand five hundred men, drawing an aggregate wage of $50o0 day, are rushing 1t to completion under the direc- ton of Architect w. R. Sumter, the per sonal representative of the designer, Cass Gilbert and Superintendent of Construc- ton Frank Holmes. These men have put in place 25.Oo tons of steel. which required 800 freight cars to haul it; they have set SO,0O000o bricks. 250O0 cubic feet of stone, and 4O,0O0 square feet of terra cotta.
 Other figures that are equally too big to mean much to the average man are such items as 4 miles of steam pipes. 50 miles of plumbing, 75 miles of electric wiring and 126,000 electric lights-aIl in one build ing. There are s9oooO sSuare feet of floor space.
 The estimated cost of the building is. S14, 4,00o,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Bull- Moose;sm in a Hole

~ "In the full candor of truth" says the New York Sun, what has been troubling Oyster Bay far more than the uncertainties of Baltimore is the Auestion of cash. The attempt of Colonel Roosevelt to make himself President for third term has already cost his angels-not only the visible but also the invisible host-a sum of money probably approaching if not
 yceeding s2,0OO,0O0. We have heard
 .uch higher estimates, but few of the ,cognoscenti would venture to put the total under S2,OOO,00O." l.
 One feature of the trouble is the publicity that would attend a regular- ly organized party. The contributors to campaign fund in that case would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
4 Denocrafie Year

T cast my first vote 20 years ago, and I voted for the winning ticket-Cleveland and Stevenson-and believe I will have the pleasure of voting for victorious ticket again when I deposit my ballot for Wilson and Marshall next November" said P. J. Whitehead of Chicago
 'I always vote the democratic ticket, but in presidential years I have not been hopeful since 1892 In 1896 it looked at one time as if Bryan might be elected but long before November came ] saw there was no chance for him Since 1896 I have never looked for democratic vic- tory until now.
 T hear many democrats older than my self say that this is democratic year. Some of the old political prophets say that they feel victory in their bones. It Is all well enough to feel this way and talk this way, but it will not do to be overconhdent. would be willing to make a wager. however. that democrat would succeed President Taft in the White House."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
ADVANTAGES OF A QUEUE

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 Although modern. China has sacrificed the queue on the altar of liberty, many Chinese look upon the pigtail as an ob- ject of veneration.
 The pigtail had its advantages, and these are five in number It protects the ears. for if two Chinese quarrel. if they have tails, they seize one another's and thereby spare the ears. The plait is q fine aid to rescue T one falls into the water the riverside men jump in after the person who has met with the mishap, seize him with their hooks by the tail and then hitch him up to tree.
 Their energies being thus free, they can lend assistance to any other person in distress, and when such be saved the sescuers can unite the man hanging from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Alabama True to MT. Underwood

AIaDdmd lfue LO INIT. OnueT TWoOu
 Alabama stood solidly behind MT. Underwood,s candidacy, and all signs point to a renewal of that candidacy by this state until her favorite son is placed in the White House. This should become the declared policy sof the democrats of this state, for this is a duty that Alabama owes to herself and to all the rest of the south, and no other state is so we'll prepared with a candidate who can break down for ever all sectional barriers.
 The effort may be prolonged. It is not bit personal. The issue is the abrogation forever of sectionalism and a complete restoration of southern rights and of the union of states.
 A declaration to this effect should be made. It is not necessary to wait until 1914, when state convention will probably be held. A resoluIon by the state executive committee would convey to the rest of the coun- try the determination of the democ- racy of this state. Let it be told far and near that Oscar Underwood will remain Alabama's candidate for Pres
 
 ident, and that his name will be pre- sented until the rights of southern democrats are fully restored.
 Formal action by the state commit tee may be considered unauthorized, and it may be withheld, but whether it be had or not the democracy of the state will remain true to Underwood, and his name will be presented to future conventions until he is made the standard bearer of the national democratic party. This is the de- mand of the south and the time will come when it will be conceded, simply because it is just and patriotic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Proportional Representation in Oregon

Proportional Representation in Oregon
 In the November election Oregon, the most advanced of all the states, will vote upon plan of proportional representation. This plan has been much discussed in France, but thus far it has not been advanced to the point of law in that country. Oregon may lead the way, outdoing in this respect New Zealand, which is gener- ally to be found at or near the head of the progressive procession.
 The plan is briefly this: The state senate is to be abolished, and single assembly of so members is to be chosen. Any candidate polling one sixteenth of the total vote of the state the assembly will cast not one indi- vidual vote, but the total votes he received. A man elected with 25,000 votes will have five times the power of man elected by but 5000 votes. This is called proxy voting. Not only the governor elected but his defeated
 ivals are to be .ex-officio members of
 he assembly, each casting the vote he received in the election. Members of
 he assembly of the plain sort would, # is plain, be elected on state tickets, rather than in districts. The object of this newest Oregon plan is declared to be to make popular government a reality. It is not probable that any . other state will accept it until it has been fully tried on Oregon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
USEFUL INVENTION

From the Washington Star.
 A Yorkshire farmer was paid by check for some cattle he had sold. It was the first time that it had ever happened.
 Whats this?" he said.
 why. money for the beasts" said the cattle dealer.
 The farmer stared, and had to be as- sured that if he took 1t to the bank they would give him gold for it.
 Well" said he. .Aw'll try. but if it's a wrong un thou'll hear about it.''
 The check was cashed, of course, and the farmer went home happy, but he could not sleep. He had seen wonderful thing, and it had excited him. As soor as day broke he made for the cattle dealers house, and woke the dealer
 Its me-" he said. "Where's tha go' thim bits of paper from? Aw cud do " half dozen myselfps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
IT OFTEN HAPPENS.

IT OFTEN HAPPENS. know a college graduate Whose head is full of lore, Who knows the wisdom of the great And learned men of yore. He knows the fourth dimension well, And how the world began; Tn fact the youth can even tell How old is famous Ann. He has a high and bu1ging brow, deep. poetic 'soul, But still, he has to live somehow, And so he shovels coal.
 Milwaukee Sentinel. I know college graduate, Who's very, very wise; His knowledge sof the earth is great And also of the skies. He peadeth Greek with scarce a pause And speaketh many tongues; To hear him plead for learning's cause, You'd think he'd leather lungs. But while his wisdom's most profound And he's nobody's chump, He has to live, the seasons round, So doth a counter jump
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 VXYlTHDRAwING the name or os-
 NXf car Underwood of Alabama from
 w consideration by the national democratic convention, Senator Bankneao thus expressed the keynote of an epochai sorthern and Amerean achievement;
 "1 desire to say for him that his frst and greatest hope was that through ,iiis movement he might be able to ehhiiha'e and eradicate for all time every remaining vestige of sectional feeling in this country
 eve have demonstrated here, my friends in my Judgment. that section feel ing no longer exists. The liberal support that MT Underwood has had from the east satisfies us that if an opportunity were offered to nominate this spienalo man they are ready and would hasten 10 his aid"
 If is A. source of pardonable pride to the Constitution that 1t may speak In un- eo,liyocal indorsement of the judgment or the senator from Alabama. The Constitu- tion was one of the first representative daily newspapers in the southern states 'o conduct an organized warfare against the outvorn superstition that the gnosts or civil war prejudice condemned the south to hew the wood and draw the water TOT the democracy and at the same time suner the ban of accommodation as concerns aspiring to the highest office in the lano' The fight ante-dated, even, the national looming of Underwood. But we saw In ms splendid party leadership, his acceptance bv the nation as the embodiment of the hest type of statesman, and his identifica- tion with the paramount issue now before the country, the psychological opportunity to drive home to the south the hour of its political deliverance.
 We maintained that the nation was ready to receive the south into fuil' as well as nominal, citizenship; that whereVss- the embargo of seetionalism was raised against southern statesmen of presiden- tial size. it originated solely in southern tinidity that stultifed; that the panshee of the bitterness of the sixties was a apment of southern imagination, born or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A lot of wisdom wouldn't be if it wasn't all labeled up to look so.
 Feeling potatoes right is more of pa- -triotie service than playing politics. What makes a girl so furious when her brother musses her hair is she isn't when it's her best beau.
 Trying to keep his own money never seems as important to a man as trying to get somebody else's.
 If man is intelligent. he can learn a great deal while trying to teach a woman q very little.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A LESSON LEARNED.

LESSON LEARNED. A weary pilgrim travelled far In search of happiness, And led by many a wandering star, Did ever onward press. But all in vain. His empty heart Continued empty still; In open plain. in crowded mart Was naught that void could fill. At last, forspent by weight of years And sadder-wiser grown, Far seen, as through a mist of tears, He came into his own. The toilsome quest was at an end For glory and for pelf; Henceforth he stood his neighbor's friend And ceased to think of self.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

self that day didn't look like a man who cared for bit Of joking, so I sim n,v told him Houston was a fine city.
 Don't understand me to mean thae Houston isn't a fine town. It Is me town, but it's long ways from heay- eulv't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
TO REMOVE FACE POWDER.

"Nhat will remove face powder from the shoulder of your blue serge coat?- Anxious" Pip Daniels answers: Well. Anxious, hang the garment on line and beat it like a rug. Then carry a small whskbroom with you and carefully dust off her chin and cheeks before proceeding in the usual manner. Whiskbrooms and horsebrushes may be procured at the hardware store.'
 in Howard, Kans., Courant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
STILL GROWING.

The fame of the Memphis man who pre- sented his wife with a gold medal for full of pert paragraphers. The consensus in ever increasing waves over land full of pert paragraphers. The consesus of opinion seems to be. How few, how very few women are like that model Mem- phis wife!" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

pr. Harvie W. Wiley announces that he will Support the democratic presi- dential ticket. The antics of the interests over the pure food and drugs act made him weary. Tama Jim Wilson represents the interests in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
A FOREIGN AFFAIR.

A Milwaukee man named Mikalenjen- ski was fined for throwing kisses on the water to Pearl Deilkicwicz and Mary wapszar, in Kosciusko park. If com- positor had to set up many names like that he would feel like throwing a fit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

the tree and devote themselves to his
 resuscitation, whereas if there had been
 no tail the second man might have been
 drowned while the first one was being at- tended to. A The third use of the pigtail is to the police, who do not require handcuffs, for they can tie up the offenders with their tails or lead them by the plait. Fourthly,
 the pigtail is guarantee against moles.
 tation from the police. for. citizens bear
 ing this sign of responsibility are never
 suspected without good results. On the other hand, if row is in progress or a fire is raging, those who are arrested are always those who have lost their plgtails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

decline to bolt the g. 0. p. is increasing daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
SHEEP MILK FOR BALDNEss

Marse Henry watterson's rooster may never crow again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The old torchlight procession as a stirrer up of political enthusiasm has gone out of fashion, but there will be no lack of ginger in the pending campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Embalming fluid is about to be applied to the convention system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The government is again on a cash basis. The appropriations have been ex- tended to cover July.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
PRosAIc THEMES.

Behold the brave commercial bard Who balks at naught, ween. He blithely trills of breakfast food And sings the canned cardine.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. And doth the brave commercial bard For laurels madly dash? And doth he strive and hustle hard For glory7 No. for cash.
 Youngstown Telegram, AMONG THE MISSING. One question more,
 As along we jog:
 What has become
 Of the Clark houn' dog?
 A DESIDERATUM. Who tries to be content, Yet cannot raise the rent, Will find his way beset By woes he can't forget. It does not need much gold. Nor must ones wealth be told In figures six or eight, To keep his heart elate. But, truly. now and then, Most philosopbic men A little change require, Or else of life they tire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The bull moose is better emblem any day than a bandanna handkerchief
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The houn' dawgs from Missouri will never see their home again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

A bull moose movement started in a Florentine salon is certainly mixing of things ancient and modern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Champ Clark had a majority on seven ballots, but the two-thirds rule took the crown away from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Baltimore had no sudden psychological moment. It was simply long drawn out battle between-well, what was 1t be- tween?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Birmingham is a pleasanter place iu summer than many of the summer re- sorts. Excessive heat is the exception to the rule, and the hot wave is followSd by a delightful cooling spell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The campaign button is in demand and all busy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The colonel claims that s5,OOO,OoO has been new party. But who did it, colonel?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The ghost continues to walk in the gov ernment offices at Washington, even if are neglecting the duties they are paid to perform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

July is almost as abnormal in the mat ter of rainfall as June was in its clos ing days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Mir. Taft is wl%ng his campaign speeches. but no revisions of Winona will be presented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The personal gossip at the summer re- sorts will now take an inning, for no bull moose convention can restrain our best sassiety when it goes on a vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

George Wingfield, a multi-millionaire, declined the appointment of senator from Nevada, and Judge Massey took it. The millionaire club is losing it's attractive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The gloved hand of Col. J. Ham Lewis ruled the convention at times when Sen ator Ollie James needed a rest or drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

All the Wall street papers are Loyalty supporting William Howard Taft. Eighty nine millions of people are on the other side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

The English "boomg'' is gaining ground in political gatherings made. up of the plain people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

There is a surplus in the treasury but none as a rule in the pockets of ultimate consumers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Now that there is lull in political agitation business will have a chance There is every indication of this being a good summer in the commercial world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
WHERE UNDERWOOD WON

a fear long ago abandoned by the north, the east, the west.
 These contentious have been abundantly sustained by several of the southern. states; they have been absolutely verified by the action of delegates from state after state from all sections in casting votes for Underwood's nomination; by the virtually unanimous consensus that Un- derwood could have had second place on the ticket by the barest nod of his head. For the first time, therefore, since recon- struction. the south emerges from na- tional convention with the right to look all America in the face with the knowl- edge that our citizenship Is national and not sectional; that, by it's own courageous initiative, it has stricken the shackles that bound 1t to a dead fetich; that henee- forth and forever the southern statesman of national caliber may aspire to any of- flee in the land, without prejudice of geography or bias of a sectionalism that no longer exists.
 For it's part in this attainment the Con- stitution can feel no emotions other than those of legitimate qualification. The south has made history at Baltimore. It has written the vindication of its ancestral manhood and it has hand<d down worthy | inheritance to posterity. In the passing significance of the moment the candidate put forward by the south has lost at Ball. timore. Viewed from the detached van tage ground of ultimate effect he has won won gloriously.
 It is upon the record, the discipline and the cohesiveness builded by Oscar Under- wood that the national party places it's reliance for victory. He has made demo- cratic success possible. Young in years. sane in mindp indomitable of spirit, fate wills for him yet, we believe, more ex- alted honors than those he has already att l tained.
 The reception of Underwood's candidacy by the nation, the indorsement of that candidacy by his own people, today make | it possible for every southerner to echo, with truth, the words of Benjamin Harvey Hill of Georgia:
 I've are back in the house of our fath- l CTS, and we are here to stay-thank Godl'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
NOT AT ALL.

'Tts no reflection on a mans ability as a hustler to live in a one-horse town" "No?"
 'If the town happens to possess a thousand or more automobiles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

Congress has been doing nothing and working overtime and all sorts of times at that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
The Little Lady hath smile thot

The IltIIe Lady hath smile tEot
 seems Like light nndreamed of in a maze of
 dreams. The Winter chills the bloom and brings
 the blight; She kisses all to red and gold and white. Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta Con- stitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
AMONG THE MISSING.
THE LITTLE LADY.

The Little Lady hath such perfect grace There are no wrinkles in n=r -"earain5
 face. It never seems that Time is fast in flight Her eyes are Morning in the deeps of
 Night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
TELEPHONES

TELEPHONES Hell (private exchange connecting all epnrtments1. No. 1900. Peoples. Editorial rooms, 23I; busI- ess office, 230.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-09-13
MOTOR CARS
FOR N. D. 8 G.

Muskogee, Okla, Sept THE first
passenger service to be inaugurated
over the NJ, o. e G. on its northern
extension will be quick motor car sery.
ice between all points on the line. Two
OF the company's fine new motor cars,
OF the gasoline-electric type, will be
delivered about the middle of this
month, and will be placed in service
October 1st between Henryetta and
Muskogee, and Muskogee and the
northern terminus of the extension. in.
creasing the northbound run as the
line is completed.
The present contemplated terminal
of the M, o. G. G. on the north is
Baxter Springs, Mo, where trackage
over the Frisco into Pittsburg, Kans.,
may be obtained. Baxter Springs is
about ITO miles from Muskogee, and
the NJ, o. & G.'s new line from this
city to Baxter is one of the prettiest
in the country. Natural rock has had
TO be blasted out practically all of the
way for the new line, yet a grade of
% of one per cent compensated has
been maintained About ten miles
north of Wagner, on the east side of
the Grand, the roadbed ascends the
side of the bluff towering about the
Grand, and runs along natural rock
ledge for mile after mile. In scenic
beauty this run has no equal in this
part of the country. and by inaugur-
ating motor car service, the NJ, o. &
@. will keep in touch with the various
towns along the route, at the same
time draying big passenger business
from pleasure seekers, and travellers
wishing to transfer to Frisco and Rock
Island trains at the junction points
in northern Oklahoma, Kansas and
Missouri