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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
MOST UNGALLANT-
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courer-Journal.
 A WAC or a fool introduced in the "A Louisiana legislature most un- A gallant bill to tax bachelors. Un- gallant because no bachelor coudl pay the tax without virtually saying that his condition of freedom is worth having and worth the price exaoted by the state. sage of the bill without virtually saying that matrimony can thrive only as a choice of evils.
 Other wags, or other fools. have advo- cated the proposed law. It begins to look as if 1t may pass. thanks to either a per- verted sense of humor or mental de- ficiency in a majority of the representa- lives of the people of Louisiana
 The New Orleans Picayune is distressed, ani in the course of its observations says:
 If man shall have reached his thir- ty-fifth year and has not married, unless there is some good cause for his state of bachelorhood. he is failing in his public duty, as well as wronging some good woman who should have a husband to take care of her and place her in proper position before the world. The best women are quiet and modest, and await advances from the men, and some of the finest women in the country are prevent ed from fulfilling the important places they would so much have adorned by the failure of the men to offer marriage.
 .Of course, man who supports aged parents and dependent sisters and other relatives Is to be excused, but men who turned 30 years and have never married, and have no good excuse for their present loneliness, should be made to pay pen elty. Any man who has turned 40, and claim that he is too poor to marry, may be certain that he will never be any rich
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
JUST LIKE AN OLD CROUCH.

"As far as I can gather from talking to my 16-year-old daughter" says Noah Count of Chiggerbite, these slumber parties which are so popular with the younger social set are occasions where a bunch of girls get together and giggle all night over what Tom, Dick and Harry told them. They are called slumber par ties because nobody ever sleeps. kan sas City Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

If the colonel wins a third term Ar maeeddon will become the summer eapi- tai. so that he can continue to stand there every summer during the silly sea- son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
Those Clumsy Trolley Pole.

,"The Tidewater trolley poles on Fifth avenue are only temporary. l am told" said man who had talked recently with Il Tidewater official.
 ''Iron trolley posts would have been used from the start, no doubt, but the city will probably require the avenue to be wdened by encroaching on the side walk. and the poles are on the curb line where everything will be torn up in case the avenue is widened. I am certain that intimately iron trolley posts will be installed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
GETTING EVEN.

No, I don't believe In expensive prac- tical jokes" said uncle-who is a busi- ness man-"except by way of retala- ton"
 Now, last year I received telegram from a friend, who was travelling in Italy and when l opened 1t, all 1 read was, Thank you, l am we'll
 Then 1 sallied forth and sought me out a cobblestone-a nice large cobble- stone weighing about eleven pounds. And 1 wrapped it in excelsior, pink cotton and white paper; and 1 boxed 1t up in a hand some box, and l sent it by express, col- lect to my facetious friend far across the bounding pillows
 And when he had paid his little fifteen dollars, and had opened the box in St. Petersburg, if I remember rightly he found in addition to the precious contents note from me that explained, This is the load that rolled off my heart on re- ceipt of the news of your good health.' From Norman E. Mack's National Monthly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

The Panama canal questions should not be juggled as tariff schedules are. The two houses think alike on the toll qies- ton and the exclusion of railroad owned ships, and they should give us a square hill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
ROSE AYLMER

By Walter Savage Landor. An. what avails the sceptred race
 Ah. what the form divine. What every virtue, every grace
 Rose Aylmer. all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyee
 May weep, but never see, A night of memories and sighs
 l consecrate to thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
A CoME-DowN.

Last spring Susannah Tripper thought Shed star upon the stage, Full many manager she sought,
 Her service to engage, But latterly Susanne opines
 A chorus job would do, Although she's subject there to fines
 And other troubles, too
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
CAN YnII FEAT Ir2

New York woman successfully man. aged her husbands home for 35 weeks with S35. Then he had the assurance to tell her that she was not the sort of wife for a poor man. We hope the gunmen get himl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
A SORE TOPIC.

When militant suffragettes get mad as hornets they won't eat.''
 T wonder why?"
 Maybe food reminds them of the kitch- en and the kitchen reminds them of thralldom.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
CoMPARATIvEIY SPEAKING.

According to MT. Roosevelt, an "old mans walk Is matter of 20 miles. Viewed in that light. we must be about 250 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

The will of a Philadelphia saloonkeeper provides for mausoleum to cost s137,0oo. It is to be modelled after a Greek temple, presumably one to Bacchus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
A Goop HousEKEEpER.

He ought to have little crown
 To prove that he is truly great; The while his wife was out of town He didn't break a single plate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

'rhe old maids of Colorado are prepar- ing to burn the Rev Elmer V. Huffer in effigy. This is unnecessary, for he is already forgotten. Any one who de- nounces Helen Gould is soon forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Senator Mark Smith thinks the Con- gressional Record should be abolished Before so extreme a step Is taken a bet ter lot of contributing editors should be tfieo out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
MY WEEPING FRIEND

My weeping friend,
 Seize on the rope And gaily ring
 The bells of hope" Till all the sleepy echoes wake, And never fear the rope will breakl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
A CINCH.

Two women started out to win a man. Each entered the race with different plan. One put on fine garments to dazzle the eye, the other baked for him an old fashioned pie. The dresser did nothing but giggle and talk; the baker said noth- ing, but won ill walk.-Monett (Mo.) Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Uncle Sam has many big crops to har- vest, and he cannot give much time this fall to politics. It is a dull campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

If the parcels post bill goes through every citizen will be expected to know in what postal zone he lives in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

CT by his own efforts, and he should marry some good woman who is no lcnser in the blossom of youth, but is in the full flower of female goodness and sense of duty, and she will aid him in saving what his bachelor carelessness and wastefulness throws away"
 The Picayune is almost as ungallant as the wits or inibeciles who are wasting time and talk at Baton Rouge.
 Shades of Juliet, Hero. Helen. Jessica, Beatrice! is the "grande passion one with Ninevail and Tyre? Is Cupid as re- mote as the Icthyosaurus. and BenediclS as cold as an icicle? Is the man beyond 30 necessarily beyond the range of the batteries of "eyes of blue, dark eyes, too, eyes of every color and every hue?" They are trained upon none more con srantly. and with surer constancy. than upon the eligible man who has shown by his hesitancy that he is discriminating, and indicated by his indifference his chal- lenge to charmers. And perhaps-just be- tween us girls, of course, and not for publication-proven his ability to earn a little more than a living.
 Thirty is the beginning of the age of discretion, but also of discrimination. And to borrow of a prominent woman author, it is only after he has reached 35 that a man is capable of conversing Before he is S5 he talks. Who, then. is such big game for little mattresses as tho man who is regarded by some of the Louisiana legislators as invulnerable? e
 The Picayune is even more unchivalrous when it recommends to a man 40 years old mate mo longer in the blossom of youth" and, by inference, no longer cap able of inspiring devotion. Cleopatra was almost 70 whea Antony ignominiously fled from Actium in pursuit of her, not be- cause she was thrifty housewife,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

New York does not so much want the man behind the gun as 1t does the man behind the gunmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Nick Longworth is confronted in his congressional race by a bull moose can <lidate as well as by a democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Low grade beef is now selling at high grade prices. Commodities are going up by the dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
MIR. LANG AND THE PH,.lsrIxEs

G. K Chesterton in Illustrated London
 News.
 The sad death of MT. Andrew Lang leaves a gap in many other things be- sides this paper, in which we have so long enjoyed his causeries. At the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

The colonel needs an ubiquitous Ar Ina geddon in the ncxt two months if he intends to E.and at it right along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
A GOOD APPETITE

Though nearly all the time his gait A certain sluggishness reveals, We think tis only right to state
 He always hurries to his meals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

To William Taft the Payne-Aldrich tar fir looks as fair as when he gazed at it in Winona.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
WHAT MAKES A HIT.

'Fanchon is going to marry MT. Til- kins. although she says he is very intem- perate."
 Fanchon wants to marry him.
 "oh, he is only incorporate in his pro- testations of undying affection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
PLAYING SAFE.

r Ila IING SAF E.
 Miss Screecher never consents to sing until she has been asked repeatedly" How many times does a person have to ask her before she will sing?''
 Usually five or six times
 "Then I'll ask her three times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

pr. Eliot, president emeritus of Har- yard, is supporting Woodrow Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

No one really likes to confess that he is for Taft in this campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Senator Gore says the democrats are confronted by only one danger-overcon- fidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
TALENTED.

Miss Isabella Clavis Knott
 Is up to date, 'tis plain to see; No one can do the turkey trot,"
 F'orsooth, one half as we'll as she.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Panama are stronger than those at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
THE WHOLE BUNCH.

sir, I wish to marry your daughter" Are you making enough to support a family?"
 'Why-er-certainly. if there should happen to be family.
 Then, take us, my boy. and be happy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Nc one has said that the bull moose shows signs of the hookworm trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
ROMANCE.

like to read a story-book
 In which the heroines very fair And often wears a naughty look.
 To show she doesn't really care. But when the plot is rounded. out
 We'll say at page 352- She owns with many a pretty bout She loveth long and loveth true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

A man never spends much time in wheeling the second baby around the block.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
Governor wilson's speech of acceI

tance is acceptable in all parties. for no one has a word to say against 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Young MT. Hilles is the Smart Aleck ol the entire campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
TOTAL oF 800 YEARS.

Mrs. Nagg is thinking of visiting the Thousand Islands"
 T understand MT. Nagg would be glad to have her spend six months on each one..'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

Turkey is full of war, earthquakes and polygamy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
FAR FROM TT,

FAR FROM IT. The American people continue to get away with vast quantities of whisky, rum cigarettes and beer, yet nobody seriously believes this country is going to the dem- milton bow-wows.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
RULE OF THE CLUB

From the Washington Star
 Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont. the sunrasist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15
VAIN HOPE.

It seems they ne'er
 Will learn, alack; Now Sharkey thinks He can come back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-15

PAUL COOK.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27

throwing out wings to the west and north of JuareZ, the Vasquista force under command of General Emilio Campa. ceased it's activities at s a. m.
 General Campa, has notified the Juarez municipal authorities to get all rhe foreigners and non-com batants out of the city immediately. Campa's s u.LIrna tum foiIoweC long telephone conference, last night with E. c. Dorente, Mexican consul here. Campa demanded that JUareZ surrender with out resistance and thus avert blooo- shed. Lorente curtly refused, how ever, and Campa declared he would attack at once.
 At midnight, Campa had brought Q part Of his force to the river bank the west side of Juarez. Campa' s men said the attack would be made from that quarter, which would make certain the falling of bullets into Fl Paso.
 Colonel Steever, commanding the United States troops, admits that, should bullets fall into Fl Paso, he is not authorized to take any action. He can only make a formal protes to the Mexican Federal authorities and report the matter to his government.
 United States Consul Edwards. at Jusrez, said today, that practically all Americans had gone to Fl Paso for safety.
 Meanwhile, private despatches re- ceived here from Villa Ahumada. Ss miles below Juarez, stated that Col onel Villa, commanding 800 Federal troops, was apidly approaching Ciu- dad Juarez with the intention of de- lending it. Villas force is reported to be excellently equipped and to have several field pieces.
 Colonel Steever of the 4th United States cavalry. and Colonel Freder- icks of the 22nd infantry, naassed in- fantrymen on the international bridges and cavalry troops patrolled the river bank. waiting for the bat tie to begin. Most of the housetops in Fl Paso were crowded with citizens, eager to witness the scene.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27
WHITE SLAVER'S
 BOND REDUCED
Judge Burpee Decreases
 Amount in Frank Cozza $
 Case from $8,OOO to $1, 300

The bonds in the case of Frank Coz "a, one of the ten alleged white slav- CTS arrested in the raid in the local tenderloin last Wednesday, were re- duced this morning in the criminal superior court from $S,OOO to s1,5OO. Cozza's attorney said he is not in good health and that it would be an injustice to keep him in jail An effort was also made to have Ernest Cozza's bond reduced. but Judge Bur- pee refused to take any action.
 It is said the state cannot prove that Frank Cozza was one of the prin- cipal offenders in the local white slave traffic. In fact he is wanted more as a witness than anything else Cozza and his brother conduct a res taurant on Water street. The trial of the cases of the ten men caugh; in last weeks raid are scheduled to come up tomorrow morning. It is hinted that some sensational testimony will be produced by the state although no information was give out today Jos eph Lagno, the man who slashed Dora Hermann's face, and thereby started crusade against the cadet system was due for a hearing this morning but his case was postponed until to- morrow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27
MOTHERS OF STRIKE CHILDREN TESTIFY BEFORE CITY JUDGE
 OF BRUTALITY OF POLICE

of age. One of these women is in a delicate condition. In an adjoining cell is Joseph J. Ettor, the strike lead corpus and bail following his arrest on what strike leaders declare to be a trumped up charge of murder. An astonishing ruling by Judge Mahoney came during the cross-e a. imitation of Marshal Sullivan. John F. Lynch. had been asking questions when AttorngX ROeweF started Taot to stopped him and Roewer objected to the ruling, saying he represented lit tie Pearl Brown, while Lynch repre- scented Will, her brother.
 Both children are in the same family said Judge Mahoney, "and it is therefore only one case. cannot permit two lawyers doing the ques- tioning.'
 Rev. Clark Carter, city missionary and representing the $. P. c. C., de- clared in direct testimony that Mrs. Brown, mother of Pearl and Will was a public charge and that she had been for seven years. On cross-examina- ton, Rev. Carter was unable to testi- fly to more than one occasion on which Mrs. Brown received help from charity.
 Herbert Vose, police inspector, told of Investigating the Brown home, the ~iqht Neeore the depot riot He said the mother had seven children, one of them married and that she told him she was sending two away to
 
 him the strike committee was in charge of sending children away. .
 Sergeant Timothy O'Brien corro- borated unimportant details of Vose's testimony.
 Mrs. Rosa Brown, next called by the government as it's last witness. proved a strong witness for the de- fense.
 She flatly contradicted Rev. Car ter's charge that she was an object for charity, declaring that she and two of her sons worked until a few weeks ago, when they joined the strikers. The woman became very bitter against the city missionary She answered questions of Judge Mahon- ey's to the effect that she knew about the destination, of her children and knew that they would go to better home and conditions than she had ever been able to give them because of the starvation wages paid by the Lawrence mills.
 Simon Knebel, who was to have been in charge of the children on their way to Philadelphia, told of the preparations which had been made for their arrival in that city and of the investigation always made of the home and surroundings of those who want to take care of the children. He denied they were to be used for ex- ploitation, saying they would natural ly be kept in the public eye as ''driv- en from home by the brutal and in human treatment of the police and military officials"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27
MAY SERVE YEARS IN JAIL
Thomas Bonnecci of Dan bury Given Heavy Sen tence for Shooting Fellow Boarder.

An aggregate sentence of 35 years in States prison was given Thomas Bonnecci of Danbury in the criminal superior court this morning, after the accused had pleaded guilty to assault with intent to murder, on two counts. On the first count Judge Burpee sen fenced BOnnecci to serve not more than five and not less than one year. On the second count he was given from 20 to 30 years.
 It was charged that Bonnecci arose at 4:3O one morning last November with the intention of killing Bernardo Gigleatto. He waited outside the lat ter'S house and fired several shots at Gig,eatto, one of Thich penetrated his lung. GigIeatto was in the hos pital six weeks but finally recovered. The accused was said to be incensed at Gigleatto because of the latter's popularity at the boarding house where both men lived.
 The lesser charge against Bonnecci was for slashing the face of railroad brakeman in Danbury.. Frank Serino, who went with Bonnecci at the time of the shooting affray, was fined $20O and sentenced to one year in jail by Judge Burpee.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27
Especial from United Press.


 Lawrence, Mass, Feb. 27.-In a dingy, ill-sme.ling, courtroom, crowd ed with men, women and children, and with a company of state mili'' a. men drawn up and shouldering bayo- nets in a nearby street, seven moth CTS and their children. some of them mere babies, today, were arraigned before Judge J. J. Mahoney.
 Three young 1awyefs acting for the Industrial Workers of the World, rep resented the children and parents They were George E. Roewer, Jr., c. J. Lynch and J. P. S. Mahoney. Dan- iel Murphy, city solicitor, appeared for the mayor and city marshal, to prosecute.
 under a state statute which defines a neglect of children. It was brought out that the strike committee had purchased tickets for 50 children to to be cared for until the strike ended, by sympathizing friends. While these children and their parents were standing in the depot awaiting train, a detail of police and soldiers swept down on them.
 Prosecutor Murphy declared in opening that the mayor and marshal contended that, in addition to par entaI neglect, there was proof that the children were being taken to Philadelphia for the purpose of union laDOr GxDlOlIaIiOn-- he Salu that d bill was now pending in the Massa- chusetts legislature making the ex- p1oitation of the children by labor leaders a penal offense.
 He called as his first witness Mar ShaI Sullivan, who superintended the famous depot raid and who had pub licIy declared prior to it that ''hs would stop the children, law or no law" Sullivan described how his troops of bluecoats had "quietly" des- cended upon the mothers. He admit ted that each child wore a tag upon which was written the authorization of the child'S parents to make the in- terstats trip. As he descrtbed it, many of the women left the station by the back door while others were arrested. On direct examination he did not describe any of the methods or tactics of the police.
 At this juncture in the proceedings, Pearl and Will Brown, sweet faced little Jewish children, were brought trem bling from the crowd of witness es and identified by the marshal. It developed the law was being tested on the cases of Mrs. Lizzie Urbus, Mrs. Rosa Brown and her husband. Will liam, and Mrs, Katy Maczka. Of the women arrested in the Saturday riots. II are. today, in the county jail where they are spending a week in confine- ment rather than submit to a fine of S1 imposed upon them, Saturday. Of this number, three have with them in jail cells infants under Is months
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27
FARMER" AND
 JOURNAL BOYS
 TO SEE POLPS
Headed by Brass Band and Drum Corps, HuStIing Newsies Will Parade and Then be Guests of $. 2. Poli

Headed by a brass band and the Lincoln School Drum Corps, about 500 hustftng newsies of the New York Journal and the Bridgeport Evening Farmer will witness the performance at Polls theatre, this evening, as the guests of Sylvester 2. Poli, the amuse- ment magnate. Before entering the playhouse the newsies will have a big street parade with red fire and music galore.
 Shevlin, circulation managers of the Journ ! in this district, will act re- spectively as grand marshal and aide de-camp in charge of the procession. mind at press hour, Marshal Maxwell declared that if sufficiently persuaded he will ride a large bucking coach horse at the head of the procession.
 After the band and the drum corps will come a dozen uShers and employees of Polls theatre in cowboy costume, StetSon, chaps, spurs and all, in honor of ''Cahfornia'', the great Lasky act Then vii come the red fire and the newSies who are to be the guests of honor. Before entering the theatre they will line up and have a flashlight photograph taken
 The parade will form at the foot of Wall street at : o'clock sharp. The permit for the procession was issued this morning by Mayor Wilson. Start ing from the place of formation the parade will march to Main street, to State, to Broad, to Elm, to Main to The Stra tfield, and countermarch to Fairfield avenue and then to the thea tre.
 An entire section of the theatre bal cony has been reserved for the boys, who are looking forward with keen interest to the treat.