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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

own head the brutal violence of the gt- gantic ruffian. In that then lawless coun- try he knew that his life might be sac rifced unavenged. He knew himself to be physically unequal to the contest, and he thought, after all, it was not his duty to risk his life in so chaotic manner.
 Clay was settling back with pity for the insulted and disgust for the insulter, when suddenly. but very quietly, the clealSed figure in the corner assumed an upright position. parting the furred mantle without a particle of excitement, thereby revealing the small. well knit. muscular frame of man plainly dressed in close ly buttoned frock coat, with face rather pale and pair of bright gray eyes that gleamed like polished steel-and those strange eyes quickly attracted the atten- ton of the feroclous Kentuckian.
 With terrible calmness this man passed his hand under his collar at the back of his neck. and deliberately drew forth long, glittering and ugly looking Knife from sheath in that singular place.
 Stranger" he said, "my name is Col. James Bowie, we'll known in Texas and
 
 out of the window in less than 15 seconds I'll put this knife through your heart as suro as deathl"
 Clay said he could never forget the ex- pression of the colonel's eyes at that mo- ment. They told, as unmistakably as signs can tell that the threat would cer- tainly be fulfilled; and this conviction evil dently impressed itself upon the mind of the offender. During a very few seconds his eyes met those of Bowie. With all his brute strength he was the weaker man and he quailed. With a muttered curse he threw his cigar away, upon which Colonel Bowie coolly returned his knife to its sheath, and, without another look or word. refoded his cloak about him and lay back as before. At the next stop ping place the Kentuckian got out and took a seat with the driver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

from $20. 1000, 600 to S25,000,O00 The value of a goat skin is about 50 cents It is de- clared about time that we raised all the goats we want ourselves instead of per hitting Vera Cruz, in Mexico, and else- where, to raise them for us. And goats are declared 10 have a value apart from their skins. Indeed 1t is asserted that the meat of the goat Is even of greater value as food
 And the goats can be raised on land that is not adapted to agriculture. Those in Mexico are raised on the dry plains of Nueva Leon, where the brush, though of scant growth, supports large focks. The value of a goat depends upon three things; meat, tallow and the skin. The flesh alone would be a profitable indus try, it is pointed out, and tallow and the skin could be considered as by-products We get one-third of our goat skins from British India, whence 100000 of them came in 1911, and about 6,oo0.00o of them from China. 100000 from Mexico. about 100000 from Arabia, 2,5000O0 from Eng land, 1.5oO,o0 from Argentina. 100000 from Venezuela, and about the same number from France and Russia. and smaller amounts from Turkey Italy, Ger many. Feru. the Dutch East Indies and French Africa.
 The success of one goat farm fin Mexico is cited. On one farm not so long ago were 66,000 goats, which at s1.50 each were valued at s99,ooo In three years they produced 5000 head. which were sold at 8 each, yielding s250 GOO. and the owner had Ss000 head left. or 23.000 more than the farm had started with. The result was that the original investment of s99,000 in three years had yielded s2S3,- 600. and the original stock of goats. 66,- 600. was still intact
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
WHEN AN AUTHOR WRITES "FINIs,

From Thackeray's 'DeFinibus"
 So you are gone. little printers boy. with the last scratches and correc- tions on the proof and a fine flourish by way of finish at the storys end. The last corrections? I say those last cor rections seem never to be finished. A plague upon the weedsl Every day when I walk in my own little literary garden plot, I spy some and should like to have spud and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind. Would you not pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of them? Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages! Oh. the cares, the ennui the squabbles. the rep etitions. the old conversations over and over again. But now and again a kind thought is recalled and now and again dear memory Yet few chap ters more. and then the last; after which, behold. finis itself comes to an end, and the infinite begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
IMMORTAL FAME"

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 T am a celebrated character" wrote Bonnot in a will he executed while the bullets of the Paris police hailed upon the walls of the garage in which he had taken refuge France is trumpeting my fame to the four quarters of the globe. The renown bestowed upon my humble person would fill with jealousy all who, seeking fame, fail to achieve it."
 A little while afterward the Paris out law. who fancied himself famous, was dead Now, when the translation of his ridiculous bombast gets to America and finds its way into reprint columns the four quarters of the glove have almost forgotten that Bonnot lived. Not one reader of newspapers in ten could tell what his first name was, what crimes he con- mitted, or where he was killed. Nine out of ten were mildly amused, at the time of the killing of Bn oon, ,thm hmtaihmtaihm the killing of Bonnot, by the fuss that was made over it in Paris, and by the size of the army of myrmidons of the law that undertook his capture or timely talk ing off. Three or four policemen or de- tectives, or a sheriff and few deputies have attended to many bits of similar business in America and counted 1t part of the days work.
 A large proportion of the worlds "bad mem are spurred to action by exagger- atted ego. The border outlaw, the noun tain feudist, the Apache" of Paris share a common fatuity. Each considers him. self somewhat a hero, and wholly cele- brity. He gets into the headlines with the cheap pulpiteer who makes a village sen sation by declaring that modern women are a disgrace to their sex, or that every ballroom is a gateway of hell; with the unbalanced married women who bolt with the chauffeur; with the neurotic society girl' who seeks excitement on the stage; with the suffragette who throws bricks and the college professor who advances queer theories. And in his simplicity he believes himself notable.
 .'The immortal fame of Bonnot, which amounted to a newspaper sensation for the day it occupied a column of space, has been shared by innumerable outlaws who have died violent deaths after having lived violent lives, only to be forgotten by the middle of the week succeeding. This celebrated character" was a man of a very common type. and the type is common to nearly all countries. If Bon not, when he was writing his foolish opinion of himself. had known the light in which the world really regarded him for the brief period in which it paid att tention to his existence he would have missed the pleasure of dying what he con
 sidered glorious death. If his kind could know how the world regards their kind perhaps few of them might realize that the game is very far from being worth the candle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
KING ALFONSO IMPULsIvE

From Answers, London.
 King Alfonso of Spain, who celebrated his twenty-sixth birthday last month. Is certainly the most versatile monarch his country ever possessed. and he has done much thoroughly to awaken his subjects to the needs of the twentieth century
 Quite apart from his kingly person. ality. there is human side to King All fonso that appeals strongly to everyone In many ways he is so boyish, so im- questionable. so unconventional
 Not many years ago the Kings sister intrusted him with the purchase of a hat, and his majesty spent the better part of an hour in shop trying to make a selection for the infanta.
 At the end of that time King Alfonso suggested that as he and his sister were so much alike. what would suit him would also suit her. He then gravely tried the toques on his own head. till he came upon one that took his fancy.
 Whether the infanta was equally satis- fled the story does not tell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

in tone is three-fold. First. our indus
 trial and financial leaders seem to have
 decided by common consent to cut loose
 from politics. It is felt that agitation
 has brought the worst to the surface. and that an estimate can be placed
 upon the worst that Is likely to hap
 pen. It is felt also that the high tide
 of radica1ism has been reached and that henceforth more rational and normal Judgment is likely to prevail. There IS also less uncertainty as to what can didates will be selected as standard bearers for either party. although nothing definite has yet been made pub lie regarding platforms. Of course, the political barometer may fluctuate vio- lentIy during the next few months, but in spite of such uncertainties the worst to be expected is already known and the feeling Is abroad that no extreme policies are likely to be adopted dur ing the next administration.
 "A second and more practical reason for business betterment is continued Improvement in the crop outlook. Grain has progressed very satisfactorily for the last three or four Weehs. A DIS hay crop Is practically certain, and the fruit crop in many sections Is also ex- ceedingly promising. At present 1t looks as if the agricultural classes were go- ing to have another year of excep- tional prosperity If this prove true 1t means good business next fall and winter throughout the interior, and cOnseouent increase of industrial ac- tivity; especially after the hand-to- mouth policy which has been pursued for some months Continued activity in the steel trade is also having wide spread effect"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
LAWYERS
From Life.

It is the greatest mistake in the world legislature under the impression that they will be good lawmakers. Lawyers know comparatively little of what laws should be. They only know little about a few of the laws that are. In addition to that. they know, the machinery of finding out and either upholding or evading-any particular law or set of laws in which a client is interested. They begin where congress and legislature end. Govern ment by lawyers is comparable to a cat chasing it's tail
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
Good Words for Lewisburg

"I was glad to notice in yesterdays s Age Herald that a good word was said about Lewisburg." said former citizen of that community
 "So much has been said about the awful conditions that were prevalent in that district a few months ago that one not familiar with the true situation would shudder at the very mention or the name.
 ''As @ former resident of that com munity I heartily indorse the state ments made in the article referred to- and I am sure the company who oper- ate the mines and the people who work and live in the little town would well come those who would care to visit the place and to show them that the great majority of the people who i've in Lewisburg are hard working and law abiding citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
WE NEED MORE GOATs

From the Washington Go. Boston Adver-
 tiser.
 It would seem that if there were enough goats in the United States to go around this country would be every ten years $250. 1000 the richer. That is the tale told by the governments bureau of sta- tstics while saving that the people of the United States imported 50o,00o. coo goat skins in the last decade and paid a S25o, 0000 for them.
 The annual importation ranges in yalus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
SOCIAL LIFE IN CIRCUS TENT

Wallace, wife of the superintendent, and herself an experienced wardrobe woman, came upon a turbulent scene, there was a talk worth hearing It was in Madison Square Garden at the start of the long tour. Girls" said she sternly, you're witt. circus, not hall show" (The cir- GUS people call any form of indoor amuse- ment a hall show) We don't quarrel and talk like this. We're used to trav- cling together in peace and good manners nine months of the year. If any of you think you can't do the same, you'd best hand in your notice before we leave New York. We're ladies and gentlemen among ourselves, and you've got to be as we are."
 The circus woman who is fond of music generally finds kindred souls among the performers. You'll find a group here play ing cards, another playing chess In towns where the sights are worth seeing, like Washington, Colorado Springs, Niagara Falls, you will see them making up small parties and hiring sight seeing car.
 Circus women are great readers. The daily papers come first. Then each wom- an has her favorite family magazine Next comes popular fiction in novels or maga- zine form, plenty of action. romance, good. sound, wholesome love. The prob lem novel, particularly the sex problem. interests them not at all. Neither do they care for undertaking. Of votes for women they seem to know little or nothing, and, if possible, to care less. They are happy because they are clean of body, mind and soul, primitive in their passions and pleas ures, and are never idle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
Classical Play. nt Picture show.

That there has been much to criticise in the picture shows heretofore goes without saying, but that there has been shows is now evident" said a man of family.
 T think the production of such pictures as The Discovery of America by Colum- bus The Tale of Two Cities Longfel- lows 'Hiawatha' and many others are of the highest type of educative and instruc- tive entertainment. I understand that the public schools are to be given oppor- tunity by Dr. Phillips to see the Colum- bus pictures this fall.
 "The coming week one of the popular picture shows is to present three films of Scotts beautiful. romantic and his torical poem. The Lady of the Lake The actors who played before the cam eras for this classic are of the highest rank. note that Ellen. The Lady of the Lake who rowed James Fitz-James as a guide to the cave of Rhoderic Dhu, is portrayed by Edith Story. The whole dramatic picture Is laid amidst the grand est of scenery. Tie duel between James Fitz-James is one of Scott's finest pieces of word painting and quite Homeric in style. And this beautiful photo-play will call to mind to many a man the days of his youth, when, as a signing swain he strolled in the moonlight. quoting pas sages from it to his lady love.
 And. by the way, speaking of the picture show business, 1t is not generally known that Birmingham has a company with a paid up capital of $l0o.o0o that owns and operates a chain of high class playhouses on an outside circuit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Sun.
 A girl isn't a bit afraid of hammock unless there is no man in It.
 Sometimes man inherits his gout, but he always earns his stomachache.
 A man won't even try to make a name for himself if his grandfather did it for him.
 Because everybody knows how to do a thing better than the one who is doing 1t nobody does.
 A woman can think her husband has a fine mind because he can know enough to be president of his company without getting the job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Instead of Elihu Root, why not make Joe Cannon temporary and permanent president of the Chicago convention? The man who was good enough in 1904 is still standing pat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
F,uamc,.I sItuation

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 "Financial conditions are positively changing for the better. more con- fident undertone prevails both here and at the interior This new wave of cheerfulness Blows in from the west where unrest for long time has been deep seated. The basis for this change
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The battles in Cuba are not even re- srectable skirmishes. The negro insur- rectionists believe that if they pretend to fight and run away they will live to fight in like manner another day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The weather yesterday was ideal and great throngs of church goers turned out in the forenoon And vast crowds, men, women and children, indulged in in noeent afternoon outings. Street cars running in every direction were filled to their capacity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

oscar Underwood will have on the first hallot just about as many votes as Abra- ham Lincoln had in 1860. Lincoln had lO2 on the first ballot, and he was nominated on the third ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

history of the Senate. It is part of the change in public sentiment, and the verdict of history will be that progressivism led up to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

After 125 years of experience under the constitution the time came at last when presidential contest was waged between the abusive Roosevelt and the undgnified Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

This should be a year of good road building in Alabama. Many counties are going to make new high records in im- proving their highways. Public funds cannot be better expended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Colonel Roosevelt is very angry at Con- gressman Gardner, who is Senator Lodges son-in-law The ex-President calls upon his supporters to defeat Gard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

It is said that either Governor Hadley of Missouri or Governor Osborne of Mich igan will be Roosevelt's running mate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Instead of showing the heart action of turtles the operators with the X-ray have been requested to try their apparatus on loan sharks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The G. o. P, represented by the big ling before the nominating convention. and then getting together afterwards. but republican harmony will be con- spicuous by its absence this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Californias Roosevelt delegates to Chi oago will come fortified with a carload of wines. This will make them noisy to say the least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Praise of Wilbur Wright and his work is world wide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Kansas wants 5000 men for the harvest fields and she should conscript that num- Der at Chicago and Baltimore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
Amateur. for Luck nt Fishing

"The fishing sport, like all other sports, has it's peculiar lunches and odd hap penings," said Percy Clark.
 "A few days ago party of four or us sped in an automobile to the reservoir for an afternoon try after trout My friend George Mabry, who can do many things well, drive a machine and fish. for instance, said, as we started; I've got an amateur with us and I'll bet he catches more fish than any of us Well he certainly did give us startling ex- hibition. His pole was rigged for him first, he being company. as 1t were. The first thing we knew he had the hook in the water with no bait on it. George said to him, Hey therei What do you expect to catch with a bare hook? and then proceeded to put a live minnow on his hook. Would you believe it, he dropped the baited hook in the water with the cork IS inches above the water and, by the ghost of Nimrod, before either Mabry or myself could get our hooks in the water the amateur pulled out a small trout. Back into the water went his hook, the cork still high. and blest if he didn't hook another and snatched 1t out of the water straight up. but back the fish fell I liked to have fallen Into the mad, rushing torrent that flows through the S6 inch pipes into the reservoir as l was astride one of them. And then it was all over with amateur for the afternoon.
 I've caught 10 trout and one of them was about two pounds in weight. And SO as of old, in poker, In horse racing and fishing, the amateur for maiden luck.
 And then there is the drunken mans luck A friend tells me that good fel- low full of grog was fishing at a popular lake He set his hook. fell asleep and a man kept five pound trout from car rying off his pole and line by landing the fish. No one else of many fishermen had any luck that afternoon. And so there you are"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

All roads now point to Chicago except possibly the one from Oyster Bay. The wires at oyster Bay will do the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

A s5,oOo.oU taxi trust in New York is be- ing organized. and taxi rates may bring out great many walking clubs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The Lincoln Gettysburg speech did not suffer any damage from the Roosevelt Gettysburg speech.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The delegates to Chicago carry their money in their socks and really enjoy the picking of their pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

Judge Hanford's rejection of a citizen because of his political views is to be- come minor issue of the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

In the Ohio preference vote Bryan re- ceived 24OO votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The cappers and gowners stand ready once again to solve the problems of a distressed world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The Whitewashers' union has black balled Senator Kern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

This is a month of weddings, conven- tions and big ice bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The Kaiser selects his wife's hats, and the hats of the Kaiserin are very com- monplaee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
ROCKEFELLER's INCOME s12s,o00 4 DAY
From the Chicago Examiner

When it developed in the suit now being tried in New York of Henry Clay Pierce against the Standard oil com pany that the fortune of John D. Rocke- feller now amounted to $900,oo0,000 stu dents of statistics began to figure out just what that meant. The result Is startling. It speaks for itself This Is the way it figures out
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10

The supply of June brides is not slump
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-29
JEFFERsONV1LLE.

Mrs. Pearl Shaver and son Of Danver
Mass. Is spending several weeks with
her parents, MIR. and MIS-. l.. ;. Morse -
NyeS farm the past two years has
moved to Morrisvle. Ira Morse. who
spent a short vacation al home. has re-
turned to school AT SaxtonS River--Mrs,
Pearl Shaver spent Monday and Tues
day in BurinEton.-Jos Roberts has
Nye's farm, vacated by Mr.. Huntley.-
Mrs r. J. Pond was called to Glover by
the sudden death OF her father who was
found dead IN bed Tuesday morning
The town of Cambridge has three free
libraries. At the crescendo club library
at Jeffersonville. Miss Carrie r. Carroll,
librarian has loaned its patrons > 3O vol
umes the past year, Forty-fou volumes
have been added TO its list by gift and
purchase. making a total of $50 volumes.
A. NJ. Rice. librarian Of the Wilson Mem
orial library at North Cambridge. has
loaned its patrons 4n volumes. No new
books have been added the past year.
There is in the treasury $500 to purchase
new books The Cambridge Free library
which contains $50 volumes, having add
ed to it's list during the year dS volumes,
Mrs J W. Raymore librarian, has loan
ed its patrons 927 volumes, and reports
that after paying expenses there will be
nearly $3.50 in the treasury to purchase
new books