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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS"

fire gunshots through them, and soon 2 fountains of wine gush from all sides to the loud peals of laughter of thos. present. Should 100 casks be in the cellar they would have the same fate.
 Napoleon is the one man who knev how to make an army march,S declared Captain Blaze. When you see regimen1 marching rapidly on the highway" hs continues. you believe perhaps that noth1 ing is more easy than to direct it. Al the command of sMarchr it starts. yoi say, and if it walks long time straishf ahead it finally reaches it's destination @
 "A colonel who should take no otb & care would leave behind half the soIdie, or his regiment. The non-commissione officer who marches ahead must have
 short and regular step, for if the rig t,& walks at an ordinary pace the left wir gallop. The slightest obstacle on the roadj were 1t only rut to cross, causes alH the soldiers of the last battalion to ru, if they wish to make up the distance. II the first which meets the obstacle slow
 down for only half second the las
 will have to gallop for a quarter of Al Hour. All eAperlenceu cnle1 Sees the8& things at a glance; he orders a short halt and everything is restored to it's accus. | toned course.
 When regiment has walked for an hour it stops five minutes to light pipes. this is called the halt of the pipes.' In the middle of the day there is the long halt, which lasts an hour. Each one lunches on what he has in his knapsacls then the march is resumed with a halt d five minutes to each league" "The whole French army was intoxi, cated on the night of the battle of Wag1 ram," he cheerfuliy vouchsafes. Tt sler In the vineyards and, in Austria, the win n< callars are located in the middle of th1 f1eld where the vine is grown. The wind was good, very abundant. the soldier| drank beyond measure and if 10000 Aud trians had attacked us during the nigii we should have been totally routed. F. would have been wholly impossible t make one-tenth of the soldiers take u arms s
 "On what does the destiny of empire2 derend! All might have been changed that day; the fifth act of the great dram which had been playing for so long tim in Europe might have had cellar for a ending."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
Mr. Roosevelt's Recall Proposition

At the very outset of bitter fac tional fight between Messrs. Taft and
 Roosevelt question has arisen as to what the former said in relation to the
 capacity of the people to govern them selves. It now appears that MT. Taft did say, not in his Lincoln day speech, but at banquet of the State Bar as- sociation in New York, on January 20: Popular government we all believe in. There are those of us who do not believe that all people are fitted for self government. The fact is we know they are not. Some of us do not dare to say so, but I do; and the question whether a people is fitted for self government so as to make that gov ernment best for that people is de- termined by the ability of the majori- ty to place upon itself the restraint by which the minority shall receive justice from the majority. It is the epsstion of self imposed restraint
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
Governor O'NeaI Grieved

When the governor reached Birmingham Friday night and entered the Morris hotel he wore long face. He said nothing un- til he had reached his room and divested himself of his coat
 'I am thinking of poor George Scoville," said he. "When I was in Birmingham some time ago he showed me every pos sible courtesy. At that time he had every appearance of being well and hearty. In his death have lost good friend in- deed.
 And grieve, too. for Maj. Pat Kirk land. He was another citizen of the Magic City who always seemed glad to see me- He generally said very little, but without an open statement he let it be known that in case l needed him I had but to call"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
A Bit of Satire

"The following has been prepared by
 member of the Chamber of Com
 merce for attention and resolution
 copies to be sent by President Sibley
 to Senator Johnston and Congressman
 Underwood" said man of joking pro |clivities.
 "eWhereas, The weather of late in
 many parts of the country has been acting strangely, as though undue in fluence in effect greatly interfering
 with some of our leading industries,
 such as agriculture, golf, spring clean ing. fishing and the sale of insurance stock to farmers. Be it resolved, that it is the sense of this body that the matter be made the subject of inves- tigation either by a special committee appointed by Congress for the purpose or by the honorable committee that
 has now in hand the investigation of the money trust-unless special com
 mittee is insisted upon by w. J. Bryan "'Be it further resolved and recom-
 mended, that for the purpose of ob- taining reliable information on this i'm portant subject the said committee be
 empowered with special authority to summon before it any and all persons suspected of having any Knowledge touching this matter. including Nep- tune, Pluto. J. Pluvius. Aurora. Bor- calls, J. Pierpont Perkins, Ananias and others. it being especially requested that an early report on both the exact location of the money trust and the probable condition of the weather ur ] to and including April be made tc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
From the Kansas civ star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Now comes a Chocolate Soldier" book. So much has been written of the heroism Of Napoleon's troops, and the shouts they spontaneously uttered in admiration of their leader, that it is almost refreshing to see the other side, even though the au- thor. Elzear Blaze, one of Napoleons cap tains, may have stretched the truth.
 The New York Times pritns excerpts from the "Recollections of an Officer in Napoleon's Army" recently published in English for the first time by the Sturgis & Walton company. It was printed in French some years ago.
 HLZEAR BLAZE was born in 17Ss, E went to the F'ontainebleu Military - school and joined Napoleon's armies early in 1907. in Germany, after the battle of Eylau. He plunges into his story with a vivid picture of what a bivouac is like.
 'The time of awakening at the biv- ouac is never amusing; one has slept be- cause one was tired; but, on rising, the members of the body are benumbed. the %--eSe~NiANS hoNO Oi tdCu idlE &lOpS Ol dew: the teeth are clenched; one has to rub ones gums to establish the circula- tion.
 Those who have never been to war will never be able to form an idea of the ills 1t brings with it. We lived on what the soldiers found and living would have been impossible otherwise; our rapid marches prevented our stores, when we had stores, from following US.
 ''The soldier lives from day to day; yes- terday, he lacked everything; today, if he has an abundance, he forgets the pri- vations of the evening before, and does not worry about the morrow; nor does he consider that the following days other regiments will come to the position he Is going to leave, that. while taking what he requires. it would be well to leave something to those who are to follow.
 Not at all; one company of 100 men has already killed two oxen; it is suf- ficient. After this there are found four cows, six calves. dozen sheep. Every thing is pitilessly put to death.
 "A cellar is entered wherein 20 casks stand in battle array, imposing and ma- jestic. There are no tools to pierce them, but soldiers are never embarrassed. They
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hang the vest 1t has never done any, | thing but make trouble for the democ- racy ,anyway-ask of whom you please, | and you will find sentiment the same among conservative democrats, liberal re- | publicans and independents
 | Give us man like Underwood, and wa will vote for him without asking, or car- | ing what state he Is from.
 1 It is just as we stated 1t four years l ago in our dispatches to the Chronicle l from Denver-the north and east name | the candidates, while the south furnishes l the votes. Yes, the south is simply put | down as safe and solid' for democracy; | therefore it's no use to waste anything
 on her. Why, Tammany Hall can have more voice in a national democratic con- ivention-with district chairmanship, or a
 deputy collectorship as the price of it's | support-than is accorded to the whole
 Of the Georgia democracy.
 l To say that such a situation is humil-
 ating is putting 1t mildly. But it is SO
 only because Georgia, like other southern
 states, does not assert herself We can- not blame Tammany, or the little demos cratic contingents from Pennsylvania or Vermont or New Jersey, if the states of the south continue to take back seat | and permit them to name the candidates | for 1t is our own fault
 l This is no new idea with us. It was I not born with the Underwood boom, or with any other boom. For eight years or
 more we have felt it, and four years ago wo promised ourselves that we would ! never again fail to advocate southern man for President if an available man could be found. And we believe such a, man is just as apt to be found this side | of the now obliterated Mason and Dixon line as on the other side of 1t. In fact, l he has been found fin Underwood of Ala- lbama-and he is right now democracy's only hope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
"sHAKEsPEARE AS AN ACTORv


 Brander Matthews, in the March number
 of The North American Review.
 It was probably in 159S that Shakespeare first appeared as Adam and as the elder Knowell, and it was probably in 1902 that he first personated the ghost, being than 3s years old. He was to remain on the stage 10 or 12 years longer; but there IS no reason to suppose that the parts he played in later life were any more impor- tant, We do not know what characters he undertook in the plays which he wrote after Hamlet" nor do we know what parts he assumed in the many pieces by other authors which made up the roper tory of the company. That he continued to act we need not doubt; for instance, he was one of the performers in Ben Jon sons "Sejanus," probably produced in 1902 or 1e03. But the absence of specific infor- nation on this point is evidence that he did not impress himself upon his con- temporaries as an actor of power. AS Lewis declared, ''the mere fact that we hear nothing of his qualities as an actor implies that there was nothing above the line, nothing memorable to be spoken of" The parts which we believe him to have played did not demand or admit various excellencies.' Shakespeare may have had lofty histrionic ambitions, but probably he was not allowed to gratify his longings, and certainly we have no tradition or hint that he ever failed in what he attempted in the theatre. Per haps we are justified in believing that ..,1f,r s1,< easiest means of immediately earning his living, that he did not greatly care for acting, and that he was satisfied to as- sume the responsible but subordinate parts for which he was best fittedN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

the President of the United States and the nation.
 "rhe above outburst of patriotic wis dom has evidently been suggested by the success which has attended the operations performed by Congress upon the beef trust. egg and butter trust, peanut trust and various other works of art such as the octopuses yaseline and Nicotine, which, after 20 years of legal conflict, are now in complete subjugation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
The obsery'd of all observers.
 Hamlet.
Unpaid Troops in Mexico and China


 The anarchial condition of Mexico and China is largely due to the fact that the soldiers in the two republics have not been paid. This very natur- ally leads to revolution and footing. Both countries are suffering from this condition. The troops of Mexico were promised a good many things and these promises have not been kept. In China the government has not been recognized and it cannot procure a loan with which to pay off its troops. These troops demand no more than their just pay.
 X If the powers would recognize the
 these republic it could, no doubt, -w money and thus escape further fiPRoInd massacres and footing. The cassMpesy asMiPrsyy no means beyond remedy, and tnL<epublic will no doubt come out of tie trouble before foreign in- tervention can do it any harm. In Mexico the people have at length be- come disaffected and there seems to be no way out of the unrest and fer ment except to set up new president in the place of Madero. The sooner the latter goes to Vera Cruz to sail away the quicker will peace be re- stored. How long it will last remains to be seen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
HE WAS UP LATE ALSO

At St. Andrews on a Monday recently visitor who had performed respectfully on the links on the previous Friday and Saturday seemed to De completely oat of sympathy with every club that he han dled. After hole or two he felt that some apology was due to his aged caddie. Dear me- lie said (using the golfer $
 pronunciation of the words Dear Me-. T can't play for nuts this morning. You see. Alexander. I sat up very late last night"
 To this Alexander replied, stolidly and quite respectfully:
 Aye. sir; wis gey flu last nich' masel."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
MT. Grace. Tribute

"The appeal of Captain Hobson to his constituents of the sixth district for renomination rings true and is couched in the eloquent language for which the distinguished congressman is noted" said D. B. Grace.
 If his constituents fail to return him to Congress they will rob the nation of his valuable services and will stand convicted of the grossest fngratitude in the eyes of the world and it will be reflection on their patriotism.th in telligence, and their sense of justice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
RErLECrIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The way to make a Inistake'is to be sure you aren't going"to.
 The more the baby can cry the more 1t didn't inherit it from either family.
 Maybe votes for women wouldn't be any more misvoted than votes for men are.
 A man has an idea he would look 10 years younger if he hadn't done so much thinking in his life.
 The reason girl is so astonished that her new hat startles you is she would be more astonished If 1t didn't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
Foundation.


These are all that the bulletin con- siders urban centers in the cotton belt. In the case of Birmingham Bessemer is included, town now possessing two trolley line connections with Bir- mingham, and a third trolley line will soon be opened. A dozen municipali- ties are included by the bulletin in the figures for Scranton, but Bessemer is the only large municipality that the addition of adjacent territory brings in to swell Birmingham's figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
AMBITIOUS TOWN

From the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
 icle.
 Birmingham. Ala, is the fastest growing city in the south It must also be given credit for being the most ambitious. The Birmingham Age-Herald announces that Oscar Underwood will be nominated for President and also that the Birmingham team will win the baseball pennant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
STEVENSON'S FRIENDS

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 N IR SIDNEY COLvIN. the friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, to whom 0 the "vailima Letters were dedl- cated. has been talking about the novelist at afternoon teas in London. The lecturer,
 who was formerly the keeper of prints in the British museum, largely owes his elevation to knighthood to the fame that was brought him by his collection of the missives sent from the distant plantation of "Tusitala'' at Apia, Samoa. In his loyalty to the author of Doctor Jekyll and MT. Hyde," "The Child's Garden of Verses" Treasure Island" other stories and wonderful essays, Colvin sharply diff ferentiates himself from that other friend whom Stevenson visited in the hospital, who afterward turned on him in that ex- traordinary article printed in the Pail Mall magazine of December 1902 As one who stood close to him made brutal discov- cries about Lafcadio Hearn, after -his death, so William Ernest Henley said that he proposed to strip from Stevenson that aura of quasi-seraphic sanctity that in- vested him. He would tell of the true man, the Stevenson he knew. and it would then be found that he was no 'tbarley sugar, chocolate candy'' figure, but some- thing of an egotist, ingrate and poseur. The temper of the article grieved those who had thought they read in Henley's own poems a soul that was above cruel and almost groundless animadversions. Stevenson was human, and he would have been the last man to care for fulsome laudation, but the wound was dealt by the
 hand of Brutus, and it was dealt when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The New York Tribune advises Oscar w. Underwood and Champ Clark to let some one else hunt for delegates in Louis- jana. The Tribune is a poor judge of Louisiana sentiment,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

Sarah Bernhardt is convinced she can solve the problem of the cost of liv- ing by appearing in vaudeville in this country at s7O00 a week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The armed forces of the British empire havc succeeded in thrusting Miss Chris tabel Pankhurst into prison, but the king dom Is not proud of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The biggest movement of the day is the coal strike in Great Britain. America has many big thingss but cannot monopo- lize all of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

Lillian Russell and Mary Garden are supporting Roosevelt, and their bonnets are in the ring, but their votes will not be put in the ballot box.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

Polar hardships were not confined this year to polar regions. New York city got a slice of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The republicans are preparing to present a bis crop of sulky non-voters next No- Yember.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The St. Louis Baseball club went to West Baden, Ind, to practice, and it did not take it's snow shovels along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The clubbing of women and children in Lawrence, Mass, by the police stands to the discredit of that city and the textile corporations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

What is needed now is & joint debate in which Taft and Roosevelt will play star parts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The Panama canal will necessarily es- tablish a size for steamships that cannot be exceeded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

Remnants won in training camps are rarely hoisted to the top of the flag staffs on the home grounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The colonel has not word to say about 1916, but he will be here then,' and will be heard from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The globe trotter who thirsts for excite ment is hestating between Picking and the city of Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The glazers of London are lining up behind the suffragettes in all their theories and acts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The man who doesn't owe dollar in the world is not as rule a power In business,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The gfoundhog is casting off his snooze habit. He is billed to reappear on Friday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

the victim was no longer able to returl some such caustic reply as that of thu famous "open Letter. on the subjecl of Father Damien and his work anon the lepers.
 Stevenson's friends today are legion. Hi1 books and his manful personal examplI have made them for him. He requires nj apologist. no defender against aspersion and calumny. He is, perhaps, even al much of person as an author. Any invalid is encouraged bly the gallant fight he made against hemorrhages, which hd jocosely styled "Bluidy Jack" as he dic1 phabet. Any professor of religion cad approve the household prayers he wrotes which have found their echo in homes afar from his tropic isle where "the intending season smiles" The brave example of the fine art of living is worth even more than the pattern of his literary style as an example to thsse, who Awould learn ,how1 to write English that is picturesque and expressive and accurately pointed. Tte Stevenson who wrote is scarcely to be disengaged from the Stevenson who lived. Some of the best writing he did has gona into the letters to his friends, in which he depicted the life of day to day in his insular exile. He longed to see them- 'my heart remembers how''--but since he could not, he brought before them vividly in ardent, tender, graphic lan- guage the whole force of his buoyant. sensitive, many sided personality, and those who have perused his letters have become not merely his readers but his friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

The army is sent to Texas each year at the beginning of the strawberry season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

These houn' dawg days may last until next November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

Doc Cook has no finger in the Antarctic pie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

Insurrecting in Mexico is easier than working.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11

We give below list of the larger cities of the cotton belt, and their rank as stated by the bulletin of the census bureau as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
DRENNEN co.
A Speciality! Mourning Waists

We have the most com plete line of Mourning Waists shown in the city. Beautiful Crepe de Chine Waists, daintily tucked, with net yoke and collar. Dnll Jap Silk, trimmed in crepe; gr a c e f Il and dainty.
 All black chiffon and com bination of black and white chiffon for those who demand a bit of white. These are exclu- sive models, fashioned to meet your needs. Prices ranging from S3.e8 to 5000 each.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-25

for cause he certainly went, and the
Priest of Plattsmouth could give no
reason otherwise. The train and
track forces were treated with equal
justice.
Later the China tea traders tried
to add the ST. P, M. & NJ. to the c.,
B. & G., and, l was told, actually
bought a controlling interest in the
latter. But the alert Morgan, Hill
and - issued enough construction
and other securities to swamp the
China tea traders. The latter were
later admitted into full partnership
with the mixed unholy and holy alli-
ance, when they sold out the c., B.
& Q. at good profit, and also be-
came chummy with the tropical De-
trOit and ST. Louis Rajahs.
Now these funny patriots are try
ing to get Panama Canal legislation
for their own exclusive benefit.
American coastwise vessels are to go
through the canal free. Morgan,
Hill & -- can have coastal line
from Halifax, N S., to Alaska under
patriotic name. 1t can have a COM
munity Of interest with ocean lines
in all directions, and be in close alli-
ance with Romanism, which will
ALLEVIATE every nation on earth.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-25
RULES FOR GUESTS.

Reply to all invitations immedi-
ateIy.
In your acceptance make it plain
that you understand the length of
time for which you are invited, and
be definite as to the arrival of your
train or boat.
Even though it is impressed upon
you that you may have breakfast at
any hour you choose, be sure that
it entails no hardship before taking
advantage of the opportunity.
Don't permit your hostess to feel
that you are burden and that she
is under a constant obligation to en-
terrain you.
Try to make yourself as helpful
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-25
THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR APP.
PRECIATES THE PATRIARCH.

Regia Ambasciata D'Italia.
Washington, June 25th, 1912.
Mr.. Edward Clayson, ST.,
Editor of 'The Patriarch
1920 Arcade Way,
Seattle, Wash.
Dear Sir:
I beg to acknowledge, with thanks.
the receipt of your kind letter Of the
14th instant and of copy of "The
Patriarch" -June 9Th, 1912,-con-
tanning the article of Mr.. Tom Wat
son on "The Greatness of Italy,"
which 1 have read with interest
Sincerely yours,
SUSANI,
Italian Ambassador.
The Patriarch, Seattle, Wash.