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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

IN justice to MT. Roosevelt this paper
 should be called "The Importance
 of the Colonel" It was not so long --cgo that the writer assumed the atti- tude of critic in a paper on "The ''Unimportance of the Colonel; and while this can be in no sense an apol- ogy for our survey at that time of his colossal lines, it Is clear now that his services for the democratic party have been manifold. It is clear that democ- racy owes him something, if it be no more than the embassy to Dahomey. However much he may have damned things democratic. however much he may have appealed to the mob spirit with his stereotyped diatribes against things as they are (the best of which have long since been outworn by MT. Eugene Debs) his service has still been similar to that of MT. Debs. He gave a stir-u2 to national campaign which might have been terribly huTndruT1i.
 Though Big Business may not be
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the western army, where 1t won great distinction for It's fighting qualities. In the memorable campaign of 1862 in Ten. nessee and Kentucky Colonel Shelley's regiment shared throughout. Subsequent ly the regiment was transferred to Mis- slssippi and attached to Traceys brl- gade, which saw hard service at Port Gibson. The first hard fight on the field in which the Thirtieth Alabama regi- ment shared was at Bakers creek, or Champion hills. where Colonel Shelley received special mention at the hands of Gen. stephen D. Lee, the hero of eat battle. Later still the regiment was at Vicksburg and shared in the result O that ill-fated city.
 In the series of conflicts in northern Georgia and in all the fighting between that region and Atlanta and on to Jones' boro the Thirtieth Alabama regiment was. At Jonesboro, Ga, Colonel Shelley was placed in command of 9 brigade which position he. held for a few weeks and was placed at the head of Canteys
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ToR solid worth, substantial and en-
 during results and patriotic service 4 no Alabamian enrolled among the lsSorthies of the state excelled Gen. Charles Miller Shelley. He was built for service, and was endowed with an en- ergy practically boundless and uncon- querable. Denied the boon of an educa- Nion, excepting to a limited degree, he appropriated readily examples and sug- gestions, built them into practical force, which he yielded with apt execution as soldier, citizen and patriot. The state. ment of these qualities furnishes an out line of the character of this worthy cit izen and brave soldier.
 Seized by the enthusiasm which pos sessed so many of the Alabama youth when first the cloud of war fecked the national horizon, MT. Shelley joined him. self to a military company which went of it's own will to Fort Morgan before the war had actually begun. The forts
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all of these represented democratic suf- frages?
 It is Q curious 'tiiing that a change In party government >.Ame at this most prosperous" time. SO tenderly mentioned just now by MT. Taft in his ThanAsgiy- ing proclamation. And yet not so curl ous. neither, seeing that what MT. Taft takes for pure gold is but sort of gold plate veneer covering a shoddy misery and commences. A Martian flying at near range in some high-powered hydroaero- plane might note the glittering cities and the millions of acres of grain unreaped, and judge that life on Earth In such cities and with such bountiful harvests to be had for the gathering, surely must be happy. But if he returned to Mars without nearer glimpse of Earth and her people than he got from an air car, he could possess no truer news of the folk n these cities or of the ltdicFous manner in which we apportion and dls- tribute these harvests than his neighbors
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feet and went to live in London be- cause the social atmosphere for liberals in Belfast wasn't pleasant and he in particular was regarded as an apostate from unionism. In his unionist days he was twice Lord Mayor of Belfast and might have had any office in it's gift that he desired.
 Recently. however. business recalled him to Belfast. The death in the "~Rtanic' disaster of Thomas Andrews. the organiz- ing genius who was relied upon to fill Lord Pirrie's place at Harland & wolff's left gap that could only be filled by the return of the head of the firm. Bel fast was perhaps little ashamed of it. self for It's treatment of its distinguished citizen and received him civilly if not
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1E WITH CONSENT OF ULSTER-By F. K Gu

Henderson, q great leader in Belfast unionism. were social rivals and thel- mutual dislike spread to their husbands The parliamentary representation of South Belfast fell vacant and MT. Pirrie was approached and asked if he would run. He said he would if the invitation were unanimous, but when this came to the ears of Sir James Henderson, he put forward a man of his own. Pirrie re- tired in disgust and Sir James Hender- son's man was nominated. Then -. ". Sloan. a foreman in Pirrie's shipyard. appeared as a unionist labor candidate and won. Pirrie joined the liberal party shortly after and soon got his peerage. Now he is in a fair way to make peers himself of the men who cast him out.
 Be1ff.zt
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safeguards that will satisfy the Protest- ant minority in and about Belfast
 There is another and more interesting rumor which may be given for what 1t Is worth, but which bears the stamp of high authority. This Is that Lord Pirrie is authorized to play with regard to home rule the part played with regard to the union by Lord Castlereagh. castlereagh sllenced the influential opposition to the union by a liberal distribution of peer ages and other honors and in some cases even of money. Lord Pirrie, 1t is said, Is authorized 10 do the same now, and there could be no man better fitted for the task. His commercial and social connections with Belfast enable him to know every mans price. He knows who
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enthusiastically. Lord Pirrie at once re- sumed his old business relations and some of his old friendships and last week Bell fast was buzzing with the rumor that he was about to turn unionist again. He lad been seen in conference with Lord Mayor MeMordie, Belfasts staunchest
 of unionists. He had spent two hours with George Clark. M. F., Of the rival shipbuilding firm Of Workman & Clark aud one of the leading spirits of the Orange order. He had sent for the lead CTS of the Unionist and Orange clubs among his own men and conferred with them for hours. and to crown all, he had promised large subscription toward the building of a clubhouse for his Orange workmen. The Belfast gosslps put two
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

1 the utmost restriction if you would have success come to you.-David Belasco. Not long ago I stood on the banks Of the Mississippi. near Keokuk, where the giant dam. costing several million dol lars, is being completed.
 The work is second only to that of the Panama canal. and when the waters are harnessed thousands of horse power will be utilized.
 | Looking at the army of men, the great dredges and cranes and the locomotives, and thinking of the expenditure of money and labor and nervous energy, one nat urally asks why? Power! And what is power? Nobody knows. The engineers know how to get it, but they do not know what | 1t is. Hod do they get 1t? By restricting the flow of the waters The electrical forces are generated by bling up the waters and pouring them onto a turbine. Left free, the power escapes.
 | It Is so with humans. They get power only by restricting themselves. He who by "subdued, en- chained and sclamped restrictions limits himself, denies himself, becomes pow | erful There is no other way. The difficult way is the successful way You pay the price of selfhood by deny Ing self.
 | If only the young could see this They want the easy way. They choose the line of least resistance because they shrink from the pang of self sacrifice They want ease and indulgence and las situde and the sunshine way. | Only that is worth while which is hard to get.
 When some poor youth struggles up ward to success we are surprised, wher as a matter of fact we should expect It. Having his way to make, the pool youth restricts every appetite but thai of duty. and he develops power, char acter. success.
 Do you want power2
 It must come through hardship and sell denial, by subduing unwholesome appe tites, by restricting your self to youl one chosen field of endeavor.
 Power came by restraint. l Arthur Brisbane tells how the turnini | or screw one-thousandth of an incl made hundreds of millions of dollars. l It was the turning of the screw tha delicate fraction of an inch that mad, possible the telephone
 Before Professor Bell perfected the tel
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ephone Refs, a German schoolpSster, had contrived a phone over which he could whistle and convey certain noises. but 1t would not transmit human speech
 Refs believed the two electrodes should be close together without touching. Bells idea was that the electrodes should bare- ly touch each other. After years of ex- perimenting one day. he turned the screw the thousandth part of an inch and
 Lo, the telephonei
 Editor Brisbane draws the conclusion that many persons fail of success by the thousandth of an inch. They fail to con meet
 Continuing his sermonette, one might add the exhortation concerning the needs of perseverance. Though he had missed by the thousandth of an inch. Bell kept on trying. The final fortunate twist of the wrist brought success and fame.
 He succeeded because he kept on. As the homely lines of our old school books put it:
 If at first you don't succeed,
 Try, try again.
 hdIlg d man mas missed success De- cause he got tired and quit trying.
 The patient Edison kept on trying sub stance after substance-hundreds of them until he found-th right sort of wire for his incandescent bulb.
 But he kept trying.
 It required years of trying on. the part of Oliver to make the first chilled steel plowshare, and Mccormack grew gray headed in perfecting his grain cutting de- vice.
 They kept on.
 Darwin built up his theory of evolution bit by bit and only missed demonstra- tion by a fraction-the missing link.
 But he kept on.
 For, mind you, whether you succeed or fail by thousandth of an inch, the thing worth while is to keep at it. and
 Die trying,
 It is not for all of us to command suc- cess, but it is for all of us to make the effort. And so, whatever the outcome may be, pray God that hope die not in your heart, and
 Keep on tryingl
 of the unspoken word I am master, but the spoken word is master of me.
 How. true It is.
 So Tong as the word is unspoken it is your servant. Speak 1t and 1t is your tx rant. The spoken thing is thing alivS not kill it.
 A
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and two together and made 1t five-ths five being that Lord Plrrie was returning to the unionist fold.
 The writer can state on the very high est authority that Lord Pirrie Is as staunch a liberal and ss good home ruler as ever and that these conferences have nothing to do with any change in his own convictions. but rather with a change in those of Belfast.
 He has been discussing, as an official agent of the government. the possibility of the acceptance by Belfast of the home rule bill. It Is no secret that neither the English liberals nor the Irish nationalists look with equanimity on the prospect of rioting in Ulster and they are willing to insert in the bill any
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wants peerage, whose wife is ambitious to be my lady" who Is in financial difficulties, who Is keen for government contracts and so on. With this knowl- edge he knows what to offer and to whor and the psychological moment at which to offer. it. Don't be surprised If you hear of large creation of Ulster peers before long and see au9the same time the withdrawal of Listers opposition to home rule.
 recall the history of Lord Pirries se- cession from unionism. As the story goes in Belfast, 1t was due primarily to a quarrel between two women. Lady Pirrie. or Mrs Pirrie. as she was then. and Lady Henderson. wife of Sir James
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4 NJ one who would have predicted a month ago that within less 4 A than three weeks of the sign ing of the famous Ulster covenant, Belfast would have lbeen seriously con- sidering the overtures of an efifssary Of the liberal government for a scheme of home rule with the consent of Ulster, would have been called insane. I am in- formed. however, on the highest author fly that this is the case and that the emissary is no less parsonage than Lord Pirrie, Belfast's foremost citizen. and head of the great firm of Harland & Wolff.
 Lord Pirrie is liberal and some years ago shook the dust of Belfast off his
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X"/HAT do you owe your world Nx/ Certainly you owe as much as w has been given you. if not more If the world has given you much you owe much, if little you owe that little. Nature has endowed you with some gift or grace or talent. You were given your talent to serve your day and generation To illustrate: Edison" was born with genius for in vention. Think you that genius was given him for selfish uses, merely to make money? Certainly not. Primarily Edison invents for the socia benefit of this world. Incidentally he makes money. But his best reward comes In other ways than money. It comes in The joy of invention. In the satisfaction of doing a social service. And in the esteem and favor of those whom he serves. Or A woman like Melba or Nordica is born with a gift of song. She cultivates fei voice and delights vast audiences anc Twins a fortune. But her best reward is fin the delight of the song itself. in the pleasure she gives, in the appreciation of her public. She is paying her debt. The composer of a sweet song, the painter of d great picture, the architect of a fine temple, the publicist who serves the public-money to these is the least oi their reward. Or  One is born with gift of great lovs for his fellows. a genius for sympathy and good cheer. By his large and noble nature he strengthens the spirits of mer and women and children who come tt him.
 He pays his debt by giving himself ir service. How much do you owe? You owe what you are able to do anf be. If you are able to speak or to sing or to paint or to write or to build you must give to that one thing the bes that is in you. If you are able to sympathize anc .help, to encourage and cheer, even in
 mal way. you owe your world tha
 much.
 1 Where much is given much is required where little is given that little is re eured. Are you paying your debt? ' nave learned that every appetite ex cept the appetite for duty must be sub aued and enchained and clamped ts
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No Sinecure

From Harpers Weekly. .
 why do you keep pestering me for money all the time?" delranded old Close- fist, as his son begged for few dollars extra. Why don't you go out some- where and work for it?''
 Gee, dad" replied the boy. ~is the "a sny harder work anywhere than getting dollar out of your
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science. The men at the head of munich pal affairs in German cities are men trained for their work, and not merely the men who wanted the offices and the sal aries and managed to secure the support of the majority party. Thus it Is that
 in the German cities the highest ef- ficiency of administration is seen And yet the Germans are not content; they are going right ahead to improve things still further. Even such 6 great maQ-
 ufacturing city as Dusseldorf. which if
 situated in America would be a foul,
 dirty and neglected place, is really B beauty spot and model-one of the best groomed of the well sroomed cities of new Germany. Dusseldorf has just
 started a municipal school for giving higher instruction to municipal officers
 The course will cover the numerous sub jects which the men In charge of mod
 ern city administration have to be fa-
 miliar with in order to act intelllgently. The Germans rightly consider that city
 government Is complicated and deli- | cate machine. and they would no more
 think of putting greenhorns and experi-
 mentors or political spoilsmen in charge of 1t than they would think of putting boys in charge of giant ocean steam-
 CT. The result is that in Germany men
 are trained for municipal government as for any other special calling. and they
 have to deliver the goods.
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the compensation afforded by lifting out tho stomper and scraping from it's bottom the delectable shavings7
 And thus proceeded the making of the kraut, each layer of some four inches be- ing sprinkied with salt and tamped until the barrel was full and mother said:
 You children should have been in bed two hours ago."
 When you get up in the morning a layer of brine covered the top of the barrel. Father put a wide board over it, with a rock for weight, and in ten days you could relish that rare delicacy that epicures never know
 Pigs knuckIe init kraut." M4
 Mostly nowadays cabbagea,are raised in big fields and the kraut is made in fac, tories and sold by the grocers. but what would yon not give could you go back to those days--and bring back from that echoless shore the dear onesi-and live over again the fun and the fine family spirit and the homely feel of the kraut making?
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who had not journeyed within bomb throw of this star. He would, however. have about as much news to carry on his far flight as Mir. Taft had to bring to the Americans of their favored aIp happy condition.
 But what I set out to say. and what may as well be tagged on here as else where. Is this: That we are really-truly thankful for the Colonel's bogie- and hob goblin stories-for the parts that were true and for the parts that were not so true; and chiefly thankful for his help in morally policing these states. We are much. obliged. Though his elamor may all have been prompted by hope for another White House stay, and though history may estimate him as monumen- tai faker. he has served the cause of men, we believe. He has been one Of the servants-unwittingly perhaps. but nev- ertheiess servant. And withai ne is the cleverest juggler of political tools the nation has produced.
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Two friends quarrel One of them forgets himself and the re-
 spect due his friend. Losing his self con
 tros, he says bitter things. His words
 are barbed and his friend is stung to the
 quick. And then In a few days, perhaps, the quick tenn pered speaker meets the other. When he
 sees, his friend the impetuous one regrets his nasty speech Impulsive in saying the
 kind word as well as the unkind, he holds
 out his hand to say: q beg your pardon. I was wrong and
 thoughtless. Let us be friends and for
 get it.''
 whereupon the other: Surely I shall
 forgive you and with all my heart, but 1
 only wish I could forget. I cannot" Is he relentless? Mo-. He q frank and
 honest. It might be kinder no doubt, certainly
 more polite, to stop with forgiveness and
 say nothing about forgetting. But this
 man knows that 1t Is impossible to for
 get. He merely states fact when he says so. The tear may be forgotten, | But the hurt stays in the heart | That is it. The hurt stays in the heart. You cut your flesh. It bleeds. The wound l finally heals. But there is the scarf Al ways it will be there to remind you eof | the wound. | You may shatter the vase and mend it, but the cement will show. | Human hearts are more easily injured than fragile vases or human flesh. Forget? There is no way to forget. It
 is a psychological fact that the more you try to forget the more do you remember. Therefore you should be careful of the
 wordo that, once uttered. will be your master
 | Be careful how you lift the spear of
 passion to thrust it with clumsy hands Into the heart of friend You may with
 draw the spear and bind up the wound, | but
 1 The scar!
 Oh. the oIden. golden glory of the days gone by Riley. 1 You old boys of 50 or over, dwellers mid brick and stone inclosures. close your eyes and start the film reels of your l fancy on
 ! The old orchard. Wide branched and ungainly stand the
 gnarled old unsprayed. unpruned
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vice. and if MT. Roosevelt were anyone but his own stubborn self. we would label him democrat and do our best to keep him busy proselyting the social ists. say, to a reconciliation with this demoeracy with the new purposes-the new aims. And yet we may be quite cer- tain he will stand for no labelling or adoption or rank service whatsoever.
 For MT. Roosevelt is nothing if he is not upioue. He has tho nature of a backwoods preacher I knew in boyhood days down in Sumter county With his last breath this good and earnest man was hurling invectives at pretty nearly everything in sight in thls vale Of tears" from which he would never all low himself to emerge.
 We have no quarrel with Mir. Roose- velts strange and near-incendiary doc trines. for they are in vital sense dem- ooratie. Those other doctrines or social ism. too are in vital sense democratic.
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Arthur Brisbane tells how the turning or screw one-thousandth of an inch made hundreds of millions of dollars.
 It was the turning of the screw that delicate fraction of an inch that made possible the telephone
 Before Professor Bell perfected the tel
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Oh the oIden. golden glory of the days
 gone by, Riley.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-07
ITALIAN KILLED BY
HIS NEGLIGENCE

Rocco Maffa. an Italian. employed
In dumping overburden cars from
the steam shovel pit at Copper Flat,
died at the Steptoe hospital last
Tuesday from the effects of injuries
received by being struck on the back
of the head and near the base of the
brain by a heavy iron crank.
The deceased was standing by one
of the ore cars which had been
dumped without his being aware of
the occurrence. Through ignor-
ance of the mechanism of the car,
the Italian threw the dogs of the car,
but neglected to get beyond the
danger point of the crank. which
caught him within its sweep.
The coroner's jury returned a
verdict Friday that Maffa came to
death through his own negligence
in trying to close the door of an open
ore car.
The jury consisted of p. j. Gour-
mond, foreman, j. l.. Noonan. A. II.
Burhans. August Munter, Peter st.
Peter. and Louis Frazer