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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
Turner on Underwood

''I have just returned from Tennessee and Georgia" said Oscar Turner yester- day, land in both states found strong sentiment fin favor of MT. Underwood's s candidacy for the presidency.
 Tn Nashville Mayor Hillary Howse will head one of the largest and most enthusiastic Underwood clubs in the south It is said in Nashville that the oppor- tunity which Underwood presents of heal ing the differences between the two dem- ocratic factions fin Tennessee will be hailed with delight. I feel confident In predicting that Underwood will receive the vote of the Tennessee delegation.
 "Underwood sentiment in Georgia Is also fast crystalizing. I do not believe that there is reason for doubt but that Geor- gla will indorse the Alabama candidate" ]"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

while it promotes trade with South America.
 To this plan of MT. Barrett two ob- iections are heard. The entire burden should not needlessly be laid on shoulders that will not be benefited. Nor should the transcontinental rail- roads be subjected to too severe com petition. We need both, and a fair adjustment should be made.
 Congress has a very difficult prob lem to consider. The proposition of on dollar a ton may prove to be too heavy tax on vessels. The entire subect calls for careful consideration and speedy treatment, for the ship ping world desires to know what it must conform to. It wants at least years notice, and the expectation now is that the canal will be opened in 1913
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
EooLIsH TABLESPOONS

Fred c. Kelly in the Cleveland Plain
 Dealer
 John Sharp Williams, senator from Mis- sissippi was walking along the street with a constituent in dry town.
 By the way" Inquired Williams, all of a sudden. would you care for a small drink?"
 The man stopped right in the middle of the sidewalk and stared at him.
 MT. Williams he began, when he had recovered his speech they say you are smart man. After you were graduated here you went and got yourself gradu- ated at Heidelberg. over in Germany. But with all your education. you can ask more blamed fool questions than any man I know Of course. I'd like a little drink. but where can man buy it down here?' 'T know where there's limited amount of the stuff,' replied Williams. "Then, why didn't you tell me that in the first place. said the constituent. breathing normally again, '.and not waste so much time with foolish Questions?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
neeardInr RepnbIIcan AspIrants

'tThe candidacy of ex-President Roose- welt for the republican nomination next June may appeal to hero worshippers and those who prefer the man on horseback to plain civilian, but l think the chances are still good for President Taft so far as the nomination is concerned" said John L. Upton of Pennsylvania.
 T do not recall Colonel Roosevelts ex- act words, but he has made 1t appear in several utterances that under no circum- stances would he accept the nomination, even if It were rendered to him. Notwith- standing his protestations, however, he is undoubtedly going to run, or rather, to be accurate, he is running.
 'HThe ex-President will always be a fac- tor in national politics, and while he has many fine points I do not think 1t would be well for the country to put him in the presidential office again. He has served seven and a half years as Pres ident, and another term would suggest Very much a dictatorship. It would have been well. think, if the fathers of the republic had made the presidential term seven or eight years with provision that no President should be eligible Tor sec- ond term. But as we have the four year term presidency and a renomination prac- tice, comparatively few people, I imag- inc. would care to change the custom. Any exceptionally strong President can count on two terms, but l never expect to see the day when any man will be honored with more than eight years of AL. friends are ardent admirers of Roose- welt, but I think 1t Is safe to say that President Taft will be the nominee of the republican party. If it turns out that way the democrats will have to be more harmonious than they have ever been since the war in order to beat him. believe that almost any democrat could defeat a third-term candidate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
JACKSON STOPPED HIS ARMY

From The Long Roll, by Mary Johnston. TNHE head of the column five regi-
 mentso coming to byroad, found
 A awaiting 1t there an old plain coun- try woman in folded sunbonnet and a faded check apron. She had basket on her arm and she stopped fin the middle of the road before Little sorrel.
 'Air this General Jackson?''
 stonewall Jackson checked his horse. The staff and a division general or two stopped likewise. Behind them came the infantry advance, long and jingling.
 "Yes, madam, I am General Jackson. What can do for you?"
 The old woman put down her basket anI wiped her hands on her apron.
 General, my son, John, air in your company, an I've brought him some socks an two shirts an a chicken, an a pot of apple butter. An if you'll call John I'll be ebleedged to you, sir"
 A young man in the group of horse men laughed. but stopped abruptly as Jackson looked around, The latter turned to the old woman with the gentlest blue eyes and the kindliest slow smile. i've got a great many companies, ma'am; they are all along the road from Gordonsville. l don't believe know your son..
 But the old woman would not have that. My Ian, general reckon you all know John! I reckon John was the first man to jine the army. He wuz chopping down the big gum by the crick. an the news came an he chopped on till the gum wuz down, an he went. He's about your make an he has light hair an eyes an he wuz wearin' butternut-''
 ''What was his last name, ma'am?"
 His middle name's Henry, an his last name is Simpson"
 Tn whose brigade is he, and in what regiment?"
 But the old woman shook her head. She knew only that he was in General Jack sons company
 We never learned to write. John an, me. He wuz powerful good to me-en I reckon he's been in all the battles, coz he wuz born that way. Some socks an two shirts and something to eat-an' he's scar over his eye where a setting hen pecked him when he wuz ittle-an' won't you please find him for me, sir?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
OUTING THE MAGISTRATE

OUTING THE MAGISTRATE Magistrate John J. Freschi, in Harper's
 Weekly.
 They still tell of a resourceful Irishman of bibulous propensity who, over period of months, continued to hoodwink the dif- ferent magistrates sitting in an East Side court He was paid every two weeks and as regularly used to get rip roaring drunk, which invariably landed him in the police station. Always he was tear fully penitent; and always close at hand there was a sniyeling boy of about 14 with a child little more than baby, also sniveling in sympathy.
 ,If ye sind me away, judge" the man used to plead, For fine me heavy, it's the childer, here. as'll suffer-thim and the poor wife at home with the sick baby.
 Invariably he promised to reform. in- variably he was discharged by the sym pathetic court, and invariably he was back again in two weeks.
 Then one morning, immediately after he and the offspring had trooped out, there arose a terrific uproar in the hallway. Investigation showed the boy stamping about, crying. and also cursing, in veri- table whirlwind of fury. The erring fath- CT, he beloved, was trying to sneak off without paying him his money. This led to the Illuminating disclosure that the father" was not his father at all-was. in fact, a bachelor who boarded in the neighborhood. He had permanently re- tained the youngster to come to court whenever he was arrested, and as a fee for the boy posing with his little sister as the prisoners offspring, he had been paying a quarter each time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 Hope never gets around to paying divi- dends.
 A girl can't even be frank with her own mirror.
 Just as soon as man gets into poll tics he seems to hate anything that's re- spectacle.
 The reason men ought to want women to vote is so everybody could then find fault with the government.
 It's impossible for man to make his family understand how bad business is when he keeps getting fatter and fatter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
Politics In Ohio


 'I read with interest an article in Fridays New York Sun contributed by Howard D. Wilmington of Columbus, O., on the various issues that are affecting politics in President Taft's state," said an old voter. MT. Warrington says in part:
 Ohio promises to be very lively state
 politically during 1912. quite apart from the question of the presidential nomina-
 tions There is to be a constitutional
 convention, to meet early in January; 1t
 will continue in session for some months,
 and possibly for year. It is not unlikely
 that this gathering will eclipse in in terest the presidential campaign itself Many important questions are on the programme The initiative and referen dunn, the recall. license of the liquor traffic in opposition to local option, wom ans suffrage, reform of the tax law and changes in the judicial system art some of them.
 "'As to the license question, the proba
 bility is that there will be a separate submission to the voters apart from thu
 main body of the constitution. Within | the last few months county local optioI | electionshave shown a decided wet ten dency. The anti-saloon element is get | ting alarmed over this tendency and tn prohibition tocsin will be sounded again '" There is not much interest in wom
 ans suffrage, and the disposition seem to be to let the question take it's chances on, tn
 ' Tt is already apparent that the init ative and referendum will be the ques tion of overwhelming interest and impor tance before the convention. The situa ton in regard to this question is rathe remarkable. with possibilities which ma. affect the presidential election. ''Certain it is that no one can tel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
Church and Education

"In the United States alone,' stated the Rev. W. c. Claiborne of Sewanee, who was in Birmingham yesterday, 'is the expression successfully used that the church is unablelto educate. In this coun- try there is a sentiment prevalent in no other country to the effect that the church is not broad enough for educational pur- poses.
 Such an expression could not be used in Europe, for the existence of Oxford and Cambridge in England the Univer- sity of Paris, the University of Rome, and the great denominational unversi- ties of Germany furnish too strong de- nial of the assertion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
Musical Culture

"There is much more appreciation of musical art in this country now than there was 20 years ago, and 1t would be strange indeed if it were otherwise, for in nearly every large city symphony or chestras and virtuoso soloists may be heard each week, to say nothing of other high class attractions" said an old music lover.
 Tn cities that have no local concert or chestras or chamber music organizations many opportunities are presented during the season for hearing fine music given by virtuosos, trios and orchestras en tour. And since a great deal of high class music is heard in this way in the smaller cities musical standards throughout the country are being raised. Atlanta, Bir- mingham and Nashville are certainly more musical today than they were 10 or 12 years ago, but there is yet great room for improvement.
 Every concert given under high class auspices has afforded great pleasure to discriminating audiences, but some of the distinguished artists who have appeared ltcIo Wlliitil lHG past lND UT thAOC f7De'0Otio have played to small houses, simply be- cause of the indifference of music teach CTS who not only failed to impress upon their pupils the importance of hearing good music, but who themselves failed to buy tickets. The Pasmore Trio, which gave a delightful concert at the Jeffer- son few Sundays ago, drew a fairly good audience, but I am told that con- paratively few members of the Music Study club, and fewer still of well known teachers. were present. The Bernstein Trio, which will be heard at the Jef- ferson theatre Sunday afternoon, January 21, is famous organization, and the pro- grammes that these artists present are full of gems. bespeak for these mu- sicians full house.
 "Spaulding, the famous young violinist, will give a recital here In March. and Kubelllz, the violinist of worldwide pop ularity. will probably appear in Birming ham before the season is over. I am told that negotiations are pending for an appearance of the Berrere Ensemble of wind instruments. If these attractions, educative and morally elevating, are we'll patronized Birmingham will be further along next year as a musical city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
MANNEQUIN GIRLS OF PARIS

From the New York Sun.
 nARIS-Paris mannequin girls-of
 what contrasts is their life made A upl They are the true Cinderellas with the difference that they are always recommending. Cinderella won out. Man nequin girls know they must keep at it.
 Princesses of an afternoon, they man. ago to enjoy Illusion. Mingling in couples with the elegant public of the race course paddock. they delight in the fact that they are unknown to most of the admir- ing men. Especially lone men take them for heiresses and grandes danes. How they shrink when rich woman customer of the firm tells with assumed indifference their real identity and reveals that they are perambulating clotheshorses, third cousins to the sandwich man.
 Sent out by their employees to the races in immaculate victorias or limousnes with pocket money for their entrance fees, race cards. iced orangeade or hot tea and tips to the boys who place their chairs, they watch rather the real women than the horses.
 They miss not a gesture nor a move ment nor an expression of the faces of tho rich and elegant spectators. 'Thus must bow slightly, thus look up, scarce smiling,' they note. They perfect their department, seek to acquire the repose that stamps the caste of We're de We're, and often come to outdo their teachers.
 In turn the real women watch them with mixed envy and disdain. They are but poor girls. wearing clothes to earn their living; but how charmingly they wear them. It is not so much that they are beautiful of face or ffgurej no, their charm is that of the exhibitor of new styles, easy, supple, unsurprised and delft. It is islander to call them. wax show fig ures.
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how Ohio will go in the presiden- tial election. The very fact that so many issues are exciting the people makes the situation a puzzle. If President Tar. should be renominated he would possibly carry the state even if Governor liar mon happened to be his opponent. II Roosevelt is nominated, which seems ike ly, Ohio stands to go democratic. really do not see how Roosevelt could possibly carry Ohio, for friends of President Taft would resent at the polls the ex-Presi- dents attitude which is now manfestly antagonistic to the man he helped to elect fours years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
Jackson Day


 of the battle of New Orleans, and is popularly known as Jackson Day. While it is legal holiday only in the state of Louisiana, it is celebrated by democrats in many cities throughout the country. On this Sth of January the most notable celebration in honor of Andrew Jackson---"Old Hickory will be in the form of dinner in Washington which will be attended by the members of the national Demo- cratic committee.
 Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in Union county, North Caro- lima, at that time supposed to be in South Carolina. As youth Jackson, in destitute circumstances, worked for a time in saddler's shop, but at the age of IS began to study law. He removed to Nashville in 1788 and two years later was appointed United States attorney in the Tennessee ter ritory by President Washington. He was active in politics, having been elected Tennessee's first representa- tive in Congress. He was afterward chosen to the United States Senate, but resigned in 179S to accept a seat on the bench of the supreme court of Tennessee. In 1894 Jackson with drew temporarily from public life and settled on the plantation near Nashville called "The Hermitage"
 On the outbreak of the war with Great Britain in 1872 Jackson tender ed his services to the government, and in 1913 embarked for New Or leans at the head of Tennessee troops. In May, 1874, he was appointed a major general of the army and began campaign against the British in Florida, conducted the defense of Mo- bile, and after seizing Pensacola transported his troops to New Or leans, then threatened by large na- val force.
 On the Sth of January, 1915, Jack son won his famous victory which ....do L;,,, +l,o er,na+ boro of ,,,o,;oo He first ran for President in 1924 and received the largest popular vote among the four candidates, but John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives through the influence of Henry Clay. In 1928 General Jackson was elected President over Adams by decisive majority after campaign of bitterness unpar. alleled up to that time. His election was the point of departure of the modern democratic party. In his early political life the party was stylee "democratic-republican." During Jack sons presidency the division of tho democratic-republican party, whicf manifested itself even before he took his seat in the executive chair, was consummated, andtwo parties arose the followers of Jackson, known as democrats, and his opponents, the na. tional republicans, who, with other anti-Jacksonians, came to make up the whig party. Jackson served as Presi- dent two terms and died on June & 1S45. He was a great fighter in the political arena as well as on the field of battle. He was a stalwart demo. crat, loyalty to party principles as formulated by Thomas Jefferson be. ing a distinguished characteristic throughout his two administrations.
 Democrats will always draw inspi. ration from "Old Hickory's" career and will never cease to celebrate the 9th of January so long as Jacksoniar democracy survives.
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office room that the ladder, frail con- eern at best, broke and let Nozzcmen Gene Schweer and Leslie Chisman fall. The former was up at the top and fell some 16 or IS feet, Leslie falling only about two-thirds of the distance. For tunately for Gene, he fell upon his side and thigh and on a pile of ashes, bare
 y missing the iron picket fence inclos1 ing the basement stairs. For a time il was feared that he was dangerously hurt, leg broken and perhaps injured seri- ously internally, but such was not the case. He was considerably bruised and shaken up, but no bones broken.
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In word the mannequin girls are sent out into Paris to show the newest stylesll yes, of course, but also how to wear them. Great houses cannot trust their customers entirely they might msrepresent a new mode.
 Yes, of course, the women know them, otherwise there would be no use in send- ing them out. Rich women frequent the shops of all the great dressmakers and become as familiar with the faces of the mannequin girls as with the styles and workmanship of each establishment. The girl they see lolling in her landau stood yesterday patiently, walked, turned, raised her arms to show off a dozen cos. tunes for them. And the eye of the fash. ionable woman grows so expert that she can tell an unknown mannequin at 20 yards, whatever the simple perfection of her manners.
 This is the cause of despair to the man. nequins none the less because they know it is their very reason for existing. Such great woman will not hesitate to step up to them or bec1on and ask with polite insolence what firm employs them. And Whenever new mannequin is taken on the establishment sends her out with d well known sister that the public that counts may not be ignorant for a moment whose creation it is she wears
 They are sent to salons, expositions, aeroplane meets, roller, rec rink and nat ural ice skating in the Bois and at Ver- sailles. They are sent to fashionable tea houses, the afternoon promenade of the Bois, the flower fetes, charity fairs and even to London and New York, con- tihually changing wonderful travelling and dinner gowns on board ship, where the rich are idle and receptive. But chiefly they are sent out to the races, which in Paris are the rendezvous of fashion, wealth and beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
HE CUSSED GROVER

From the Anderson (N. CD Mail.
 Ball Caine," who is being tried in the federal court in Spartanburg, is the old duck hunter from Georgetown who .cussed" the President of the United States. He remarked to Grover Cleve- land, Damn you, quit rocking this boat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
HANDSOME OSCAR

From the Jackson News.
 There's no gainsaying the fact that Os- car Underwood would make handsome occupant of the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

King George made Rider Haggard baronet but he overlooked Rudyard Kip ling when he was handing out titles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Bob Evans played we'll his part, and his departure from this worlds stage is wide ly mourned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Mir Taft needs a peace treaty with Sag amore Hill much more than he does one with England or France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

It is a dull day in which the colonel does not hand down decision reversing something MT. Taft has done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

The current weather is an argument in favor of the revision of schedule K. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

A man is killed in New York city every 34 hours, and the prudent men shorten his stay below the unit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

One fellow who had received necktie as a Christmas present tried to hang himself with 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

One citizen in the United States in every 300 is in prison, and goodly num- Der ought to be there who are still free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

The Chinese republic should be kind to little Pu Vi, who meant no wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Salt Lake City has commission govern ment. and the wonder grows that any city clings to bosses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Some insurgents prefer eyeglasses and smiling teeth, while others prefer pom- padour hair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
UNDERWOOD AND THE BANQUET

Many a New Years resolution is veal and wobbly in the knees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

The next holiday is known as grounding day, but no human being is allowed to- star in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

snowfakes and straw votes are increas- ing in the contested states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Yuan Sha Kai told the Manchu princes to put up or shut up, and some of them did the former.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

New Mexico is No. 47 and Arizona No. 4s will soon be along to close the main- land list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Robley D. Evans parted his hair in the middle, and yet he was a man of achieve ments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Philander Knox should look east far enough to recognize President Sun of China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

This weather is rendering the coal man as smiling as a boy before Christmas tree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

The sheriff of New York city has ap- pointed several suffragettes deputy sher- ifs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08

Brave conquerors,-for so you are That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the worlds de-
 sires --Loves's Labor Lost.
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Leap year proposals should be made early to avoid the rush.