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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
CARBON LETTERS TO WIVES

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Friendship among newspaper men
reached its apex of usefulness several
days ago. IL the story told by the af-
a,cted correspondent concerned is as
truthful as it IS characteristic
.sYou know, we men here from the
eastern papers have to write ike the
very dickens during the afternoon ses-
sions of the convention he said. There
are interminable strings Of copy to be
ground out for transmission by telegraph,
and on such occasions 1t is usual for sew
eral of us to form a combination and
tighten the work by writing alternately
and preparing carbons for the others"
The correspondent who tells the incl
dent and four others occupy suite Oh
communicating rooms at the Congress ho-
tel. The others all had thrown them
selves YEARLY upon their beds and were
dozins off the other night, leaving the
fifth still pounding on his machine.
Suddenly the flying click Of the keys
called out to one Of the near sleepers.
The sound spoke vaguely through MS
dreams of a duty undone
whats v writing?" he called, shifting
on his pillow.
The query was the signal for semi
awakening of the others. Something was
being written; perhaps the fifth man was
putting one across.
whats " writin'f" they droned IN
chorus.
"a letter to my WIFE,
..c,va MS carbons,, came the chorus
from the beds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27


Striking figures, which have just been
made public by the Pennsylvania Railroad
system, show that it has in the past %
years paid in wages, more than 5000 ,0OO, 900
to be exact, s2.22O,OS4 1885, This is prac-
tically double the debt of the United
States" remarked local railroad official.
THE Pennsylvania railroad has more
than $1,000 stockholders. Its system has
IL ,503 miles of line, and 25,236 miles of
track, and about $4,000 employees 1t hauls
the largest tonnage of any railroad sys-
tenn in the world. 1t operates in 10 states,
in which are located fully 70 per cent Of
the industries of the United States, where
700 per cent of the coal, iron and steel are
produced and where approximately 50
per cent of the total population of the
country lives
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
MARK ANTONY WAS sPEEcHLEss

From the Kansas City Star.
When James O'Neill last appeared In
classic repertoire in Kansas City he gave
Julius Caesar at the Saturday matinee,
James ONeill. Jr., son of the distin-
guished actor, had asked his father to
permit him to play the part of Cassius.
but the elder ONeill thought that the
role would be safer in the hands of a
more experienced actor.
1t was in the days of the old Midland
hotel and it was after the matinee, which
had been largely attended, that young
o'Neill and a friend met at the cigar
stand. A few. feet away stood James
o'Neill sr. Young O'NeiIl saw his father.
but pretended not to notice him.
Big audience this afternoon. re-
marked the friend to O'Neill, the
younger.
YES. but we could have had 500. more,
easily" said young O'Neill.
'How's that?" said the friend.
why" replied young ONeill, "the
doorman told me that at least 800 women
came up this afternoon. asked If young
o'Neill was to appear as Cassius, and
being informed to the contrary, went
away without buying seats
o'Neill. the father. heard it all, but the
humorous thrust was too much. For once
Mark Antony was speeches..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
One Term in the White House

The New York Tribune vies with
TEMPORARY Chairman Parker in adj
vocacy of single presidential term.
The country seems to be a unit over
the proposition. President Taft favors
It, and democrats of all shades of
opinion say it is a desirable reform.
AS soon as Congress meets Chair
man Clayton of the House judiciary
committee will report a single term
resolution, and the judiciary commit
tee in the Senate has already favor
ably reported such resolution, and
Congress will pretty surely put a
.asolution before the states. It bids
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
sr,NGy LANDLORD GAVE IN

From the Youths Companion.
Prince Bismarck was famous. of course.
for his iron will. Austria, Denmark.
France and the German parliament all
had occasion TO recognize this quality in
the great statesman; so did the landlord
in the following anecdote:
while in Frankfort, as Prussian repre-
sentative in the diet, Bismarck lived in
the house of a particularly sulky and
tight listed man.
One day Bismarck asked that a bell be
put in his room, SO that he should not
be obliged to shout for his servant when
he wanted him. The landlord declared
CURLY that he would go % no such ex-
pense; that it was entirely his lodger's
affair.
A few days later the inmates OF the
house were startled by a succession OF
pistol shots coming from Bismarck 5 COON.
The landlord. imagining all kinds OF
fearful disaster, rushed to the room from
which the shots had come. Trembling
with fear, he threw open the door. There.
70 his establishment. be beheld Bismarck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
AMERICANS IN ENGLAND


From the Louisville Courief-Journal.
TINE London Standard, which has In
vestigated the question of why
i there are so few Americans at Eng
lish coast resorts, hears Americans de-
scribed as being loud, mean and I'M
couth~ at one of the seashore hotels. But
other innlxepers find them desirable as
guests, but not numerous.
The Standard says, editorially that
while there are no doubt many Americans
who arrive at great wealth without pick
ing up much culture on the road, the
old school millionaire who Unfortunately
dropped gold and his his is rapidly be-
coming extinct and nowhere more rapidly
than in the United States.
The reason should be apparent. To be-
gin with, there are fewer illiterate young
men In America than there formerly were.
A common school education is getting to
be the common heritage, and many sons
of humble parents go to fresh water
college at least, If not university. Ana
then money making upon a large scale
depends, as a rule, upon ability to play q
rather complex game in which men or
strong mentality and good educational
equipment are players. OF course, mod
est independent incomes are arrived at by
means requiring no great amount of mind
or information, but the millionaires who
have made their pile" are usually fairly
equipped at the beginning. They are about
like the British lords of modern MAX
ing, who owe their titles to success In
business. They are rarely uncouth, al
though some of them lack the finish that
might be demanded in the politest draw
ing rooms.
1t is safe to say that no English coast
hotel actually discourages American trade
because of the uncouth appearance or
manners of the travelling American. But
there are a great many travelling Amer
leans who prefer holiday resorts at which
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
HApLpY SURVIVES VERSE

Chicago Telegram to the St. Louis hs-
public.
A bit of lifting, mellow verse, dashed
OFF In O moment of deep Inspiration by j..
Ignatius Tinnigan, bon vivant, literary
connoisseur and man of parts, Is respon-
sible for the Hadley for President boom
launched at the republican national con-
vention.
Today F'innigan, accompanied by his
verse, boosted the boom throughout Chi
oago. With him in the movement were j.
I. FTnnigan, Joseph 1. Finnigan, Joseph
Ignatius Flnnlgan, Colonel Ftnnigan or
st. Louis. and just plain Finnigan.
The verse, which has caused a great fu-
rore not only In Chicago. but in such dis
tant places as Waukegan, Ill, and the
National stock yards. listens somewhat as
follows:
Hadley! Hadleyl
Needed badly,
Offered gladly,
VIII run madly.
Beat them sadly,
With Herb Hadley.
George AIDE was one OF the first to hear
the verse.
How do you like it7" George was
asked.
TITS short, isn't it?" replied AIDE. Fur
ther than that he would say nothing.
Governor Hadley, when asked about the
verse. said. WHO is the authorT'
When told he was none other than J..
Ig1iatius Finnigan, ne replied:
II can't imagine how 1 offended him."
Finnigan, when asked how he happened
to write the verse about Hadley, re-
marked nonchalantly and yet with dig
nifty:
We'll, If you can show me another cam
didate whose name rhymes SO easily III
take him on. 1t comes easy for me-
Clamp your lamps on this:
Root, Root,
Amt he cute.
For pluto
He's a beaut.
Some astute
And can get the
Votes with loot.
Some poem. eh, what? Pipe this one:
Hughes, Hughes
Don't drink booze,
Z Has sane views
He won't refuse,
Bet your shoes
He's the guy
That cannot lose.
With this Joe walked down Peacock
alley TO a portion of the Congress hotel,
where the women goeth not and where
the southern delegates (white) wendeth
with exceeding frequency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

LUCKY RASCAL.
A darling theft Jack wrought last night
On charming little Rose;
He stole the thing he wanted right
Beneath her very nose.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
But Rose, although she was petite.
Would not be robbed by Jack;
She faced him with the theft SO sweet
And so he put 1t back.
Boston Transcript.
But when he'd put 1t back again
And saw what he had done,
From such sweet theft could not refrain,
So took another one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
THE PULLMAN BLANKET

Simon Ford in "a Few Remarks
Bret Harte says a sleeping car blanket
is of the size and consistency of cold
buckwheat cake and sets equally as well
upon the stomach. Certainly they are
composed of some weird. uncanny sub
stance hot in summer. cold in winter. and
maddening in spring and fall For a man
of three foot six they are of ample pro-
portions; for a man six feet three they
leave much to be desired, and the tall man
is kept all night in suspense as to whether
he had best pull up the blanket and freeze
his feet or pull it down and die of pneu-
monia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
THE "roUcHING, OF .pAppyv

Chicago Telegram TO the Pittsburg Post.
f'Oh, you daddy; you dear old thing.
I've watched the convention every day
for you," tSmack, smack, hug, hug. bust
ness of deep emotion.) A sweet slip of a
girl with china blue eyes and baby face
held Samuel Baum, convention visitor
from Waterloo. Ia. in most embarrassing
embrace.
Young lady, you have made a mis-
take said Baum, prying himself loose.
"Oh, am so sorry, you are the image
OF my dear, dear daddy" said the i'm
pusive young thing as she FASTENED away
to hide her confusion.
Ten minutes later Baum discovered that
his wallet containing sl0e had also de-
parted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
Temporary Luu

Most lines of general trade seem to be
at standstilI. but this inertia IS onry
temporary" Said prominent representa-
tive of large northern business concern.
THE two big national conventions com
ing close together have caused the lull
in commerce. 1t is generally thought
that July will be good month for bus
mess. 1 look for a brisk, healthy trade
throughout the summer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
RErLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
If a woman had through ticket to
heaven she'd lose the train to look at
some new hats
When you are trying to go right every
road is a cross road, with no guide posts
there.
People who say more money has been
sunk In gold mines than anything else
forget amateur gardens.
What makes it so easy for girl to fool
a man is it would be just as easy for her
4 it was harder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
New EngIand's Preference

Il hope the Baltimore convention VIII
place Mr.. Underwood at the head of the
democratic ticket" ssaid W. B. Raines OF
Lowell. Mass. II do not usually give
much attention to politics. In 1903 7 voted
the republican ticket, but am inclined
to vote the democratic this year I would
gladly vote for Mr.. Underwood. From
what I have read Of him / would say
he was an ideal man forsthe presidency.
The tariff will be the paramount ISSUE
and Mr.. Underwood is conceded to pc
the master of the tariff question. II the
democrats should ignore the chairman
OF the ways and means committee OF the
house and nominate an inferior man, they
will not deserve to win.
Mr. Underwood is to the democratic
party what William Mckinley was TO the
republican party. If the republicans had
such finely equipped statesman as I'm
derwood at the head of their ticket they
would surely win at the polls
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
My mind lets go thousand things,
Like dates of wars and deaths OF kings.
And yet recalls the very hour
Twas noon by yonder village tower,
And on the last blue moon in May
The wind came briskly up this way.
Crisping the brook beside the road;
Then. pausing here, set down its load
OF pine scents. and shook listlessly
TWO petals from that wild rose tree.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
rhc Indu.trlnI Situation

1.-The stiffening up of the price of iron
will contribute very much TO prosperity
in the Birmingham district" said MEM
Der of the Chamber of Commerce.
"The coal trade was exceptionally ac-
tive in the early part of the year and
it is in good condition today am told.
And now that pig iron is selling for s1l rs
and S11.50 on a No. 2 basis. instead of
$40 little while ago. the entire indus
trial situation here is brighter than any
time since 1907
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE CALL OF THE SEA.

over the waste OF a trackless sea.
Where the wild waves toss and the winds
are free
And the souls in accord with eternity,
An inland thrall would roam;
And the blazing sun and the star-lit
nights
And the storm that the timorous soul af-
rights.
Would minister rare and sweet delights,
On the restless rolling foam.
All the petty cares that vex the day
Would slip from his anxious heart away
And never a shadowy thought would stray
To the grief that was left behind,
But only the spell of the solitude
And the charm Of oceans changing mood
And the tang of the spray that is good,
SO good
For the peace Of a troubled mind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
SHE HATED IT-sURE

From the Chicago Record Herald.
II hate flattery." she said.
"Of course you do" he replied.
Every pretty girl does"
Then she drew a long. deep sigh and
permitted him to press her cheek
against his own
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The steam roller will call in vain to the
voters to rally to Taft and Sherman. Only
those will rally who have something up
their sleeves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

II Sunny Jim is reelected he may con-
clude that a third term is good enough for
him. The size of the 'if is. we admit,
the trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The vice presidential candidates at Bal
timore have been requested not to block
up the streets. They are expected to move
steadily on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Washington school teachers must re-
sign at once If they marry. This is hard
on the young men of the district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Last week George Taylor, better known
as Cinnamon" was promenading the
streets with girl who was just about as
black as O'Clock on a rainy night In jan
uary. AS they passed the News office
Cinnamon" gazed upon her ebony-hued-
countenance and affectionately exclaimed:
You is the most fictitious looking gal
ever seed in my life. "-Sheperdsville. KY,
News.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
PET AvBRsIoNs.

An Ann Arbor professor maintains that
certain words are capable OF arousing
aversion; like sounds, tastes, colors and
forms A test shows that words are dis
liked, first. because the sound is displeas-
Ing second. because their printed appear
ance displeases. William James pet
aversion was postal card for post card
What is YOUR p. a. ?-Chicago Tribune.
Dope.-Boston Globe.
smug-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Kid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Governor johnson of California Is the
most ferocious politician of the period. He
stops at nothing that he considers pro-
gressive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Henry Gassaway Davis, at the age OF 50,
is a member of the Baltimore convention.
and ne is as ebert and active as the next
40
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Not every one thought Taft had
chance to win a denomination, and now
the crowd is saying that Jim Flynn hasn't
a chance at Las Vegas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Five governors, unmindful of the fate
of the seven. are fighting Tor CHAMP
Clarks nomination.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Tim woodruff carried his vests to very
poor market when ne fiopp& to the
colonel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Harvard gathered IN during the past
year more than 100000, and 1t was not
n good year for gifts In that locality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The republicans used up all the cuss
words and the democrats at Baltimore
will perforce be polite to one another.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The colonel Is still thinking of work.
ing up new party money or no
money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

A court has decided that woman who
gets off a street car backward has no
claim for damages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
Great british General

ION reading In the London Times few
days ago a paragraph setting forth the
fact that Field Marshal viscount Wolse-
ley had just celebrated his seventy-ninth
birthday recalls to my mind the distin-
guished British commander as an attache
OF Gen. Robert u. Lees STAFF in the early
part of the civil war" said Confeder-
ate veteran.
"As was a young man In the ranks !
did not meet Wolseley, who was during
our war, think. a captain In the British
army; but after the war heard the late
DIR. Hunter Mcguire, the late Rev. DR..
Moses D. Hoge of Richmond and other
prominent yirginians speak in high praise
of the man who had even then won honors
on the battle field. Wolseley has often
referred to General Lee as the grandest
man he had ever known. He was also
great admirer of stonewall jackson.
while wolseley was commander In
chief of the British army Or. Hoge was
in London as the guest Of the United
States ambassador, Mr.. Bayard. At
dinner given by his royal highness, the
Duke of Connaught, at Aldershot, Wr.
Hoge had the pleasure of meeting Wolse-
ley and renewing his acquaintance with
him. The soldier showed the Virginia d.
vine much attention and told him of his
high esteem for the southern people and
especially for the leaders of the Con-
federacy
Field Marshal Wolseley has been on
the retired list of the British army good
many years, but he is said to be still Wig
orous in body and mind. Great Britain
does not pay its enlisted men or its junior
officers anything like SO well as the
United States pays for the same service
or pays the same grades, but it pays its
high officers better than we pay ours.
Lord wolsley, as commander in chief, re-
ceived a16,O0o year-equal to about $780,
900. He occupied an official palace kept
up by the government. His retired pay
is about aS00o, or about $4,000 a year.
Wellesley is a native of Ireland"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

1t must be a warm race between Mary
land, My Maryland" and the houn' dawg
song at Baltimore.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The storm wave b now central over Bal
timore. but no cyclone or eruption is ex-
pected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

China is a very respectable borrower
when she can scoop in sSoo,oooooo in sin
gle loan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

From Fields.
A New England woman once wrote a
great novel while beset with difficult
ties, pinched by poverty and surrounded
by hard work from sunrise TO midnight,
year in and year out She was palld,
earnest, tired little body. who sat in her
white cottage down in Brunswick in the
state of Maine. She had been busy all
day, perhaps painting room. for her
means would not allow her to hire it done.
Besides that labor she cooked for the
family and did all her other household
duties, without assistance and without
fiEching or grooming. The children were
hushed to sleep; all was still about the
house and she trimmed the solitary lamp
for long session at her writing table.
Thus she sat many a night and wrote,
and wept, and wrote again, until she had
poured out her soul before the Lord for
hrmanitys sake. And then came, a little
slowly at first. but rolling surely with
an awful sound, the great universal re-
sponse; the voice of the people of the
whole earth speaking as one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Not few of the progressive republicans
are seeking the pontoon bridges in the
rear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

A cold June usually means a hot
July, to say nothing of August.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The people who elect will soon demand
the right to nominate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

General business promises to take lit
tie notice of politics after this week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27
THE SOFT ASTRONOMERS.

He followed the trail OF wandering star
Over the vast OF the heavens afar,
And deep at last in the lore OF. the skies.
Succumbed to the light in a womans
eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Congress and baseball will get back
on the map next week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

No red bandanna can stay an onrushing
fate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

The hotel receipts in Chicago during the
week totalled S1142,l69.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-27

Baltimore may be tame in comparison.
but it will be safe and sane.