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Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

full swing the quicker partisanship vii change from plums to principles.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

President Taft is to make his home in the city of Films. That means a Taft home and Taft hotel in New Haven and in both hospitality will reign.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

The chances are that the Balkan trouble will be settled before Mexico gets her revolutions silenced.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

If any grating has been overlooked in New York it isn't the fault of the police and gunmen.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

So successful is South Norwalk's municipal lighting plant proving that some of the city officials in that place are advocating free street lighting. At present the city pays ss,000 for street lights. If this were deducted from the lighting plants net earning of s25,000 there would still be left net earnings of
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

Bryan has been to Trenton to have talk with Mir. Wilson. It seems to be difficult to locate just where the Peerless One will land. Possibly he has his eye on the court of St. James.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

Mexico may yet realize that it does not pay to snap her fingers to her best friend.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES,

England is doing full honor to Am bassador Reid and it is fully deserved.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24
with sggs steadily dropplnE through

keen competition in the big cities it is time for the consumer to break forth in thanks. Phey are always heard from when the price goes up but fail to see the need of giving thanks when prices are turned in their favor
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

enlisted men which she built close tC the Brooklyn navy yard.-Springfiel6 Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

You can't have an omelette with out breaking eggs and it looked for a while as though we couldn't have eggs without breaking ourselves. But for the price of eggs if we only get mad enough about it.-Hartford Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

Occasionally we meet man who has no more friends than baseball um- pire.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

In continuing to take seriously his present job of governor of New Jer- sey, Woodrow Wilson is showing his wisest and best attitude. Should the reforms which he has inaugurated fall down as soon as he removes to Wash ington the imputation on the real vii tality of the movement he has inaug- urated in New Jersey would at once be established. IL would be a move ment for a personality not for a cause.-Waterbury American.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

Speaking of the woods, reminds us that we have a new automobile law to propose to the next general assem- bIy. When anybody is killed by an auto, the license of the driver shall be hit by an auto, the drivers license revoked for all time. If anybody is shall be suspended for year. There ought to be some limit to the number of people an automobilist is allowed to bag-Waterbury Republican.
 We have never denied. nor has the management of the New England rail- road system, that there is room for improvement both in the equipment and direction of the property, but for the time being these have necessarily been laid aside to meet more effective ly the malicious and demoralizing as- saults upon the road which threaten the industrial welfare of this section O fthe country.-New Haven Journal Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

$16,0OO a tolerably good showing.-An- sonia Sentinel
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-24

An exchange mourns the decadence of the pretty custom of hanging up the stockings of the children. It at tributes the change to the spread of steam heated houses and apartments. The chimney used to be big enough to take in Santa so that it seemed a perfectly natural avenue of entrance to the youngsters. In half the modern houses the children perhaps never know there is a chimney.-Meriden Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02

and they cannot plead the need of g
club or lodge as substitute for the
home circle.
Another objection to high school
fraternities is found in the fact that
they are apt to be exclusive, to be
governed by clique, and that many
boys and girls sensitive to the last de-
gree are hurt when they get touch
of social exclusiveness, for in all such
fraternities there are many outside
of them.
All in all the Chicago board of edu-
cation sees no place for secret socie-
ties in the public schools, and the rule
recently adopted is to be enforced un-
til they are altogether eliminated in
that city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
Passing of the Convention

The Philadelphia North American
saws the funeral sermon of the con-
vention system was preached in the
Chicago coliseum, and here in Ala
bama the Mobile Register says: why
not have all the procedure of naming
candidates placed under state control
and supervision? The democratic
party advises that national commit
teemen be selected by party vote in
stead of party convention. That is a
movement in direction of better ex-
preston of the party will. Why moi
as to selection of candidates? Why
have this four-year contest, shouting
wrangling and display of bad feeling
among party men in an effort to as
certain what the party wants done
It seems only reasonable that the re-
publicans and democrats should elect
their candidates by vote, and let thai
vote be cast under state law and SUI
pervision and be decisive. This
would do away with national conven-
tions and scenes of great enthusiasm
and excitement but that would be nc
great loss to the country. It would dc
away with two-thirds of the political
activity also. And that would be a
positive gain"
This is the great question of the
next four years, and the more the
issue is pressed the quicker the peo-
pie will get a nationwide primary,
not only for the selection of national
committeeman but also of presidential
nominees. The days of conventions
governed and controlled by dickering
bosses are rapidly passing away and
Baltimore does but confirm the ver-
dict that Chicago brought into plain
view. The disorderly convention has
outlived its usefulness, and the time
for popular rule has fully come in
this country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
ALMA-TADEMA

From the ST. Louis Times.
With the death of Sir Laurens Alma
Tadema PASSED an artist who has rather
outliyed his vogue, though not his fame
in the higher sense.
hlma-Tadema may be described as a
genre painter in the classic style. 1reeh
and Roman life and manners was his
study and his pictorial theme. HIS art
therefore, exquisite in finish and color,
was sort of hybrid between paintihs
and archaeology-a Characterization
which may remind one of Leslie Ste
phen's German professor who emptiea .he
contents of a classical dictionaryS1nto the
form of a novel. Alma-Tadema trans
ferred his erudition TO canvas
Alma-Tademas work was matches IN
its kind Thought the technicians tell us
his figure drawing was not impeccaole.
His Immense English popularity was IN
part due to the English liking for the
picture that tells a story His tech
nique displayed itself in the wonderful
textures of the marbles and mosaics In
the classic interiors and garden colon
nades which formed the setting or mise
en- scene for his groups.
If he worked in a narrow range of
theme and treatment, and developed a
somewhat stereotyped mannerism, he ex-
celed in his province. did what he could
do best, observing the useful maxim OF
Candide. Zone must cultivate ones gar
den.''
Alma-1ndema cultivated his own fair
garden with substantial results in ready
sales and great prices. With his set
pieces in classic genre, as AN Audience
at Agrippa's s. Reading From Homer.
etc, the public Is familiar to safety
through the multitude of engraved and
Photographic reproductions. A character
stie painting enrici.s our excellent Lay
ton gallery. Alma-J iema died full OF
years and hcnors, and ais canvasses in
the foremost public collections will per-
petuate his name.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
Convention Cities

Baltimore is not giving satisfaction
as convention city, said j. c. Dill
worth of Philadelphia. Il spent a part
of Friday in Baltimore and scores of
democrats whom l met there were COM
planning of the inadequate hotel ac-
commodations and the exorbitant
prices that hostelries, cafes and
saloons charge. Some persons have
compared Baltimore with Denver and
Kansas City from a convention view
point to the dispara cement of the first
named. Now here is a fact lost sight
Of While Baltimore is a vastly larger
city than some in which national con-
ventions have been held, its proximity
Ito the great centers of population
makes it easy to fill up. No western
city has ever attracted the crowd that
has gathered in Baltimore. Under or
binary circumstances Baltimore is a de-
llightful city. Certain of its cafes are
unsurpassed and the usual prices are
below those we are used to in New
York. But the convention crowd has
overrun the hospitable city and many
visitors have Jared poorly"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
Cuba and Mexico

The killing of General r,stenoz and
the defeat Of his g%.ny has put the
insurrection N Tuba on it's last legs.
Inc negrSs.s and mulattoes who are
10 p< cent of the population will
rp9.nain discontinued because they
get none of the offices, but they will
not be able to stay in the field against
both the Cuban government and
Uncle Sam. This country has landed
1900 marines in Cuba and it is af-
fording President Gomez an oppor-
tunity to get all the arms and am
munition he can pay for, and the
negro 'insurrectionists will soon be
compelled to disperse, leaving Gomez
to contest with Menocal for a four
year term of the executive office.
Many desire annexation, but it will
not come this year, for peace will
soon prevail in Cuba-peace but not
contentment among the negroes OF
the island.
| I'm Mexico another battle and the
capture of Juarez will put an end te
the Orozco movement. AS soon as
that movement collapses the Zapats
bandits will be surrounded and hung
up, and then peace will reign in
Mexico. The Madero government has
many promblems to work out and il
needs peace. President Madero pa
tiently bided the time to strike and
then he delivered blow after blow I'M
til he has well nigh wrested victory
from all armed opponents. He is now
the well established head of the re-
public.
He has land problems, peonage
problems and school problems to work
out, and if he solves them with any
degree of satisfaction to the people
he will deserve more praise than Diaz
ever did, for the latter's long service
was personal and essentially selfish.
He was an autocrat and car in dis
guise.
Best of all, actual Intervention on
the part of this country has been
avoided in both Cuba and Mexico.
True, we did interfere in both cases,
but it was not, technically speaking,
| intervention in an international sense.
How different the situation would
have been if the Rough Rider had
been in the White House!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
IBsEN AND RJoRNsEN

From "Chronicle and Comment in the
July Bookman.
From Professor Christian Molbech Mr..
Gosse heard of the antagonism between
Ibsen and Bjornsen, in the younger days
in Rome. Ibsen, about 1865, was exceed
ngly poor and smarting under obscurity
and obloquy. Instead of Haunting it in n
velvet coat with row of orders across
the buttonhole and neatly shaved, as he
was doing ten years later. Ibsen then
wore long black beard and had a single
coat of shabby leek-green cloth. He used
to stalk sullenly up and down the Scan
dinayian club in Rome, not speaking a
word to any one until supper time, when
he would empty flask of thin red wine
and slowly brighten up. not into genali-
ty exactly, but into loquacity, and dart
the scathing bolts of his sarcasm reck-
lessly in all directions. According to
Molbech, things were at their worst when
Bjornsen Joined the party. "oh!" said
Molbech, ITO be In Rome with Ibsen and
Bjornsen together, my dear young friend,
1t was a weary weary thing! They could
not keep apart; they were like two tom
at each other, yet each bored to death
If the other were not present. They col
lected their adherents behind them; there
were two we'll defined parties. | assure
you, If it amused the Norwegians, 1t was
death to us, easy going Danes and
Swedes. At last Bjornsen took himself
off. oh! what sigh of relief we gave.
And 1bsen came into the club. glanced
around, and snarled, and there was no
one to snarl back at him. Then followed
the publication of Brand, and money came
In. and Ibsen grew to be celebrated
character; SO he smiled and stretched out
his legs and was quiet. But agreeable?
Oh. no! Let us use words in their true
sense. Ibsen has never been an agreeable
man, and he never will be. But he is
great genius, and a very honest person."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
FARRELL DID NOT FALTER
rom the wall street Journal.

From the Wall street journal.
James A. Farrell of the United States
Steel corporation has reputation for
courage He learned the steel business
from the beginning. and is thoroughly
familiar with the dangers the mill, blast
furnace. and mining Yen are called upon
to guard against.
President Farrell, recently. was making
a tour of inspection of mining properties
in Klondyke coal regions in Pennsylvania,
At the Lambert mine of the Prick Coke
company he was about to step aboard
the cage leading to the mine when tho
superintendent warned him that slate
was falling in the mine and advised hin
not to take such risk.
Are the men working In the mine?
MIR. Farrell asked of the superintendent.
Yes replied the superintendent.
Then l do not see why | should hest
tate to enter the mine,' replied the Stee
corporations president. concluding with
an order to lower the cage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02

THE federal government is making
shipments of young game fish from It's
hatcheries at Warm Springs. n. c." said
a sportsman. land Alabama is getting
it's allotment.
"A few days ago shipments arrived
for two or three parties to stock pri-
vate ponds. The Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company received two or three
cans containing many thousands of
trout and Dream. l understand that
some of these were placed in the pond
near oxmoor and others in the big
lake at Corey.
1T is to be regretted that many per-
sons recklessly take with hook and line
thousands Of young trout from Lake
Purdy. For some time the Birmingham
Waterworks company has been oper
handed in giving permits to fish in this
lake. which was stocked with fish fur
nished by the government hatcheries
but there was such reckless disregard
of all reason and sportsmanship by
many, who took the yearling trout by
the hundreds. that the company has
stopped giving permits. There should
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02

Comedy of Errors.
Galleries in National Conventions

The Springfield Republican is in
clined to think "the gallery privilege
enjoyed by the public is one source OF
the madness of national conventions.
ANY deliberative body" it says, that
subjects itself to the frenzied influ-
ence, the crazy Interruptions and the
general bad manners of 10000 spec
tators does its best to commit suicide,
and the wonder is that the system
works at all. Experience, no doubt
has trained delegates to let the gal
leries howl without being much I'M
pressed themselves, but it is all very
absurd, very idiotic and very danger
ous.t The delegates themselves act
like maniacs in their performances
over their favorite candidate, and this
reacts on the galleries. The art OF
making a demonstration in a national
convention-such as were made at
Baltimore for those to be placed IN
nomination-has become so well ano
widely understood that no one needs
to be told what mockery an hours
bowling and marching around the hal
really is. Breaking the cheering rec
ord has become merely question o1
careful organization and a stor
watch. In this business the mana,
gers use the public in the galleries
for vocal effects and the public gets
its fun in being used as syndicated
uproar."
All this has small relation to gov
eminent by the people, of the people,
for the people. The people no more
nominate their own candidates in this
country than they do in Mexico or the
other Latin American states. The age
of direct nominations in straightout,
well-regulated primaries is, however,
coming, and the convention system is
playing its farewell engagements.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
wHrrEcHArEL OF CARACAS

Charles johnson Post in the Century
Magazine.
In these struggling. shabby outskirts
Of the old part of Caracas one may still
trace the necessities of the strenuous
days when a mans house had literally to
be his castle, and no mere legal theory
could protect it against the lack OF physi-
cal invulnerability. One may still see
the disheveled angles of defense, the en-
notched wall, and occasionally an over
hanging machicolation. through the floor
of which hot oil, water or molten lead
colud be trickled on the heads of the in
vaders.
Often there are loopholes, now plas-
tered up with sunbaked mud. while here
and there the faded, stained walls show
the gouging spatter of some bullet, the
souvenir of a stray revolution or per-
haps merely the remnant of some brief
but conflicting love affair." The once gay
red-tiled roofs are blackened and askew
with age. and wisps of desicated ver-
dure sprout from between tho cracks;
ranks of shabby, rusty-black buzzards
gather on the walls, scrutinizng in SOL
emn vigilance the Gathering slatterns
about the patio we'll curb. nursing their
charcoal fires OF beating clothes. while
their plump and naked babies shuttle to-
gether contentedly in the dirt. 1t is the
tenement house district, the White Chapel
of Caracas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
swEATED WRITER'S
From Chronicle and Comment in the
July Bookman.

From Chronicle and Comment in the
July Bookman.
Now that American authors are solid
flying into a guild or league or phalan-
stery, or whatever the thing may be
called. it seems proper to ask il some
sort of special labor organization cans
not be found for those pen workers of
lower grade who are actually
sweated. We refer to the Underwriters,
especially to the reference book hacks,
class about whom little is known in
this country, and in whom no public
philanthropic body has ever shown any
interest. The authors who. took that
momentous step In May toward the
formation of serried phalanx In de-
fence of a prompt and living wage,
comprised chiefly the rich and power
full. They have our good will, but not
our pity. 1t is impossible TO regard
Mr.. Winston Churchill, Mr.. Jack Lon
don, Mr.. George Barr .McCutcheon. Mr..
George AIDE. Mr.. Augustus Thomas.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. or any others OF
that illustrious roll, as among those
whose faces society with it's iron heel
is grinding. On the other hand, a
proposal for a hackwriters' union or
photographers holy league or even for
Ia hackwriters' vehmgericht or black
hand confraternity would have appealed
very strongly to our emotions. Nobody
who knows how encyclopedias are
made or dictionaries happen, no one
who has ever seen a compendium of the
worlds best literature exude, could
blame the hackwriter for any sort of
reprisal. An uprising of hackwriters.
however bloody, would seem, after all,
only natural.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02

From the New York Times.
London-AIr. and Mrs. p. Amavry Tai
bot have just returned to London from
Central Africa. where they had spent two
years in an anthropologieal. botanical and
geological survey. from the Gulf Of
Guinea eastward across the continent. In
statement issued to the London press
Talbot declares that cetrain territory he
and his wife traversed had never been
visited by a white man before.
One of the most interesting discoveries
was that ofsthe Lake OF the Dead in the
Oban country.
1.-The name of this lake. said Mr.. Tai
bot, occurs in many of the tribal songs,
but for long time could not discover
the meaning of the word, and all inquiries
failed to elicit information. and when
heli}ved was in the neighborhood of thi1
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02

NNE reason why there have been
so few really great patriotic
- poems written may be because in
order to do the subject justice the
poet must be under strong emotional ex-
citement such as inspired Rouget de
Isle and Francis Scott Key. In an art-
Gle on Key, in the July Lippincott's, Mrs.
La Sale Corbell Rickett tells of the dra-
matte, circumstances that led him to write
1.-THE Star ,Yangled Banner"
at was. ON this house that Key set
out September 4, 1914. to negotiate for
the release of DIR. Beanes, one of his
friends who, after having most kindly
cared for British soldiers when wounded
and helpless, was arrested and taken to
the British fleet as a prisoner in revenge
for his having sent away from his door,
yard some intoxicated English soldiers.
Key, in company with Colonel John s.
Skinner, United States Agent for Parole
of Prisoners, arrived at Fort McHenry,
on MILESTONE Point. in time to witness
the effort to General Ross to make good
his boast that he did not care II 1t
rained militia, he would take Baltimore
and make it his winter headquarters.
"They were received on the ship Sur
prise, and, upon making their plea for
their captive FRIEND were told that he
had inflicted atrocious injuries upon Brit
ish soldiers. and the Admiral had resolved
to hang him from the yard-arm. The
eloquence of Mr.. Key, supplemented by
letters written by British officers to DR..
Beanes, thanking him for the many kind
nesses which they had received from him
finally won Admiral Cochrane from his
vengeful decision. After the release Of
the captive the Americans were not per-
mitted to return to land, lest they might
carry information detrimental to the
British cause Thus Admiral Cochrane,
who enjoyed well-merited distinction for
doing the wrong thing, placed his unwill-
ing guests in their own boat, the Minden,
as near the scene of action as possible,
with due regard for their physical safe
ty, In order that they might suffer the
modification of seeing their flag go down.
For three days Key and his compan-
ions watched the landing of nine thous-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Made n Fine Impression

Il was sorry I could not remain In
Baltimore until the convention adjourned,
but business In Birmingham demanded
my attention and I just had to come
home" said r. A. Brown. the well known
real estate man and Underwood booster
1T made me proud to hear the compli-
ments passed upon the Underwood March,
ing club. We had nearly 200 men In line
from Birmingham and the discipline OF
the club was most admirable. Our club
collectively and individually acted with
dignity on all occasions. Not one un-
seemly act was committed. The excel
lent bearing of the Birmingham contingent
was praised on all sides. We mixed on
the frlendliest terms with the parti-
sans of the various candidates. but never
argued Yes, the Underwood Marching
club certainly reflected high credit upon
Birmingham and upon the Alabama
statesman whose cause they espoused."