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Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
From Tuesdays Daily

Assessor Ed Hughes and family left for Bisbee today in MT Hughes recent ly acquired Ford auto.
 President Douglas Grey of the Mschomich Mer. Co, returned today from Bisbee where he has been iD cOn.- stsnt attendance at the sick bed of his wife who recently underwent an oper- stion at the Copper Queen hospital. Mir Grey reports that his wife is doing nicely and her condition much i'm proved today, which is pleasing news to the many friends of the family in Tombstone.
 The liet of new Ton bs,one auto enthusiasts of the past week include Assessor F. A Hughes. Deputy Asses- sor H $ Ross, Druggist E A Flsch, Secretary Poipdex:er of the T c NJ Co and Assayer V G Melgren. all of whom have purchased new autos and may Ic cectt ht 'tc "bSei Ou tue Tom D. stons boulevsrds any day. Mrs Steele and Miss Jeanette D vey returned today from brief visit witt friends st Phoen'x
 The board oi supervisors will meet on Friday end continue in session several days. Bids will be let for feeding prisoners, county supplies and for a 5 passenger county auto. G K hiatshali of Tucson arrived i' fomb.tune on few days business visit.
 The stockmen and rapchers through. out the county are iubilant over the bright prospects for the year, since ,he grornd has received moisture shund- antly.
 Pat Byrne was an outgoing psssen- ger today for Douglas today on bus iness visit.
Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
To Divide Into
 Six Districts

Arizona delegates to the democratic national conveneion will ts chosen by the presidential preference primary plan on May 24.
 It is proposed to divide the state into six districts. with one delegate snd one aiternste'from each district, The districts are ss follows:-
 First-Gils. Graham and Greenlee counties.
 Second-Cochise county.
 Third-Pims, PinaI and Santa Cruz counties.
 Fourth-Yums. and Mohave ooun- ties.
 F;fth-Maricopa county,
 Sixth-Yavspsi, Coconino, Apache and Navajo counties.
Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
Ready for Burial
 Discovered to be Alive

A Duluth Minn. dispatch ssys,-
 After being prep tied for burial and apparently dead for two days, the three.year old daughter of Mir and Mrs Michael Maholleoheh, who live near Black Duck. was discovered to be alive ss the burial services were being held. Three days ago the child fell into bucket of water end was nearly drowned. It was noticed at the grave that moisture had gathered on the glass of the coffin, and the body was removed. By the Use of stimulan,s the child was resuscitsted.
Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
Col. Roosevelt
 May Visit Arizona

Washington dispatch says:-
 Keen interest Ia taken here in the unofficial announcement from New York that Coi Roosevelt will visit Ari- zona within 6 month. |, is assumed the trip. fl made. wi not be without ite purpose Tn respect 10 the preei- dential nomination. Aiai anna and Alaska have lined nr for Taft. Al, the 90 delegates thus fsr elected in all parts of the country arc pledged to Taft. To di.intere-ted observer it | oks as tbnngr President Tsi''s nom- inst.On is assured.
 Indications are that Champ Clark will te the Democrat nominee.
Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
Hard Storm Hits
 Tucson Pest House

Excitement reigned at the city pest house at Tucson Friday night when the stor m struck. The house itself was full Of smallpox patients, while others were sheltered in numerous tents surrounding the nest house. When the crm and sleet reached it's greatest violence, all but one Of the tents was battered down and blew away, leaving che smallpox sufferers to the mercy of She beating rain.
Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
Will Be Given
 a Fair Hearinq

Three Americans. Frank Elliott, H. W Smith and John Kelly, are in jail ., Agus Priets, charged by the town authorities with highway robbery.
 It wac currently reported in Doug- las that the men would be shot with out 6 hearing but the Mexican author. itiee deny this and state the men will be given c fair hearing.
Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-03
List of ArIzona's
 Ex-Governors

Arizona's list of ex-governors now living are as follo~s:-
 Richard E Sloan, Phoenix. Joseph H Kibbey ,Phoesix. CMyer Zulick, Avon by the Ses. New Jersey.
 LC Hughes, Tucson. J P Holt, Seattle. 40 Brodie, San Francisco. JM Goodwin, Indiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
Improving a Post Road

The offer of the federal govern ment to meet the counties of Alabama half way, or one-third of the way at any rate, should not go unutilized. Through Governor 0'Neal the federal government offers to furnish $10,O00 whenever the counties interested in improving a roadway of about 50 miles in length will furnish $20,000. The sum of S30,000 would go far in the south where upheaving freezing, is un- known to make a good road. The condition of federal aid is that the road selected must be one used by rural carriers.
 The road from this city to Gadsden is about fifty miles long, and every foot of it is covered by rural carriers. The boxes in which they deposit mail matter are to be found from one end of it to the other.
 The commissioners of Etowah, St. Clair and Jefferson should get to- gether at once to act on the federal proposition. The sooner they can in- form Governor O'Neal that they will jointly contribute to the improvement of the Birmingham-G Gadsden road $20,000, the sooner will the governor be able to lay the subject before Post master General Hitchcock. Surely the three counties can well afford to pay in just proportions $20,000 in order to secure 33 1-3 per cent more from the federal government. The people in the three counties would then have good road with Gadsden at one end of it and Birmingham at the other.
 The Gadsden proposition should have early attention. The state may not in fact have another stretch of highway about 50 miles long over which rural carriers go and come every week day of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27

employed in 1909-two years after the Roosevelt panic-17,941 officials clerks and wage earners, of whom 10,260 lived in Greater Birmingham A census taken in 1912 would have disclosed much larger figures.
 The products of the district were valued at $50, ,448, ,O63, of which ag- gregate $24, 4,128, ,214 was produced in the greater city. The pay roll of 1909 was $1O, ,748, ,OOO in the district, and the greater city's share was S5,- S27, ,59O.
 These facts are interesting even though they be three years out of date. Unfortunately they were gath cred soon after the panic of 1907, when all industrial work was in a de- pressed condition. Due allowance should be made for that condition. These totals were not approached In any city in the south in 1909. Three years of activity and large orders have wonderfully changed affairs through out this district. The opening of the Panama canal will prove to be, no doubt, an additional boost which will be reflected in the next report of the census bureau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
Presidential Pensions

A good deal of tommyrot concern ing Andrew Carnegie's offer of pen sions to ex-Presidents is being printed. It is no more of an insult to pay a pension to an ex-President than it is to pay one to an ex-supreme court justice when he reaches the age of TO.
 The Carnegie fortune may be, as is alleged, the net result of rebates and robber tariffs, but in the abesence of government pensions for ex-Presi- dents there is no reason why even Andrew Carnegie may not step up and fill the breach. If his act leads to government pensions for ex-Presi- dents, well and good. The terms of his gift anticipate such a result. The New York World sums up the case when it says: "Mr. Taft should not have to practice law. It should be unnecessary for MT. Roosevelt to act as contributing edltor or the outlook, however tempting the salary. Ii should have been unnecessary for Mir. Cleveland to serve as a Ryan trustee, or for MT. Harrison to act as attorney for a street railway com pany, or for General Grant to lend his name and fame to a crooked Wall street financier like Ferdinand Ward. "
 Until Congress provides for ex-Pres- idents as it has for ex-judges of the supreme court, the Carnegie gift will stand, and it is no more an insult to the nation than are the pensions paid to some of the recipients of Carnegie hero honors. The prevailing folderol in the press is misleading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
THE HOOsIER POET

From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Walt Mason, the prevailing prose poet of the day, celebrates the fifty ninth
 birthday of James Whitcomb Riley in
 characteristic tribute. which includes
 the words:
 70. comfort flows from Riley's pen
 like water from a sprinkling can, for
 Riley knows the heart of men. and Riley loves his fellow man. The people living now on earth are they of whom Jim Riley Sings" It is such a homely tribute as this that Riley will like best He has never striven for fame among the learned. though he is member of the Amer ican Academy of Arts and Letters. He is not literary poet. Like Will Carlton and Eugene Field, he has made his ap- peal to the plaiR-- folks, and simple domestic scenes in the America of the day, phrased in the rustic vernacular
 are his choice. not the majestic legends of ancient mythology.
 That is the kind of poetry that wins
 the public ear and the public heart; and who shall dispute the assertion of his thousands of admirers that Riley Is the leading American poet?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
ENGLANp,s ROYAL DAUGHTER

Tn the December Woman's Home Companion appears an interesting ac- count of the little Princess Mary of England who Is the only daughter of the King and Queen of England She is now 15 years old. She has five brothers, George. Albert, Prince of Wales. John and Henry. An extract from the article follows:
 At the age of the little princess began her studies, first in charge of governess, and later, with her five brothers. under direction of MT. Han sell. At 8 she could sew and knit, and wrote a bold, round hand. It is curi- ous that, while all the women of the British royal family have a clear, ele- gant chirography, the men, even King George himself, write boyish, un- formed hand.
 At first, as in the case of most girls who have only brothers in the family. Princess Mary was rather inclined to regret not being born a boy; but she soon learned that she could emulate her brothers in a majority of things, and do some others beyond their mascu- line power. Not only physically, but mentally, she has managed to gain their boyish respect, not a light thing to master, as any girl with a group of sturdy brothers we'll knows. The Prince of Wales himself once. upon be- ing asked if he liked the prospect of one day being King, answered frank ly, Yes then added with boyish earn estness, but all the same it would be good thing if I could turn the job over to Mary. She is so very clever. you see.'
 There is nothing precocious about the princess. What she learns she 1! learns by hard application. At 8 she was a passable linguist; at 1e she re- celved the compliments of the French ambassador on her mastery of his lan- guage; German she speaks well. She | has yet to learn Italian, but she is getting a fundamental knowledge of
 Latin and Greek and the piano and singing. Books of adventure recom- mended by her brothers proved her | introduction to literature, but her own | tastes have now assumed definite form, with Tennyson as her favorite poet.
 The Queen once found her reading his | Idyls' when she should have been
 asleep. History, in particular all per l taining to Great Britain, is part of her training. entailing visits, together with
 her brothers. to the British museum for
 research among it's manuscripts So. all
 in aIl her outlook on the practical side
 of education has been both broad and
 serious, as befits one who some day
 may be a queen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
EURHYTHMICS

There are similar exercises in Plastic counterpoint--in which the themes Is re- alized with the arms. and the counter point simultaneously marked by the rect in crotchets, quavers, triplets, and semi ouavers-and in expressing nuances, pa Tthetic accent, and developing the sense or hearing and presence of mind. At trst the time and rhythm only are expressed, but as the pupil becomes more prac- ticed emotional movements of the body are added until the exercises melt into one graceful series of harmonious postur- ing. The. difficult themes, the rhythm and emotion of a nocturne by Chopin, for axample or a sonota by Beethoven may thus be expressed in rhythmic gymnas- tics.
 The eurhythmic ideal is closely akin to the Greek ideal of dancing, the dance gymnastic' of Plato, the sphere in which soul and body meet" It is claimed that this common training of body and mind, has so thorough a re- action on the sensory and motor nerve systems that an increase of vital force and an unfolding of artistic feeling are brought about most naturally. The system has already been introduced into girls schools at Eastbourne and Weybridge, and MT. Ingram has been in communication with the board of education to try to induce the authori- ties to send out a small commission to examine into the work at Hellerau, with the idea of adopting the system as a regular part of the educational cur- riculum in this country.
 Much of the practice work at the col- lege is done in remarkable theatre,
 in which 400 people may engage in eurhythmic exercises simultaneously, with seating capacity for an audience of 700. The walls" of the theatre ara of white cotton, behind which are ar ranged 450O electric lamps worked by the biggest and most elaborate switch! board in the world. The lamps may be turned on singly, one after the other at fixed or varying intervals, or in groups of different sizes, or all at the same instant; while each lamp, by means of a complex system of resist ances, may be made to come to its full Illuminating power very slowly, first glowing faintly, and gradually bright ening to it's highest brilliance. By these devices. Professor Jaques-Dal- croze obtains remarkable lighting ef- fects for his demonstrations the room flashing into dazzling brightness or glowing darlxly with the effect of fallen light, at the will of the single artist who operates the switchboard. No shadows are thrown, and no lamps are visible. Ell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Investlsate. Communication Government

Investigates Commission Government
 Milton Bronner, editor of the Kentucky Post, Covington, Ky, was in Birming- ham yesterday getting information on the commission form of government.
 q have been visiting various cities of the south said Mir. Bronner, and find generally that commission govern ment is pronounced very satisfactory, es- pecially in Oklahoma and Texas. Calves ton Is really more enthusiastic about 1t than any place else and they really have accomplished a great deal there.
 From what l can understand of the situation in Birmingham. commission gov ernment has hardly been in effect long enough to give it a fair trial. Some or your best known citizens tell me that the people must have an opportunity of electing the commissioners before 1t can be said that genuine test has been made of the system.
 The subject makes a very interesting study, and I find in my investigations that there are two sides to 1t, and that In all cities there are good men on each side of the question:"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
MAKING GHOSTS
Anna Alice Chapin. in December Aims lse's

Anna Alice Chapin, in December Aims
 lees.
 When" went on Pippa, you let man make love to you just little-not toe much-just enough to be exciting, with one eye on the door lest some one come in unexpectedly-yo are making ghost
 How can youi' cried the woman, look ing away. Pippa knew that she had judged her fairly.
 .'when you go somewhere with man, to dinner or supper-all right fin itself but something that you don't exactly want to tell your sister or your husband, or your best friend about. just the same-you are making a ghost
 The woman was looking frightened. How did you know?" she whispered. and bit her lips for having said it.
 Every single time,'' the older woman went inexorably on, that you let yourself go a little. even though you have no real intention of wrongdoing. you are making ghosts. And as surely as l sit here. ghost ridden, in front of you this afternoon-the will come back to haunt you some day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
iollows:

It will be noticed that these figures elate to heavy products only, for 1t such products that would be moved i part at least by water were slack o,ater navigation extended to Besse- Ter.
 After discussing the probable in ease in coal mining and the stim- ation of production by the opening
 the Panama canal MT. Radcliffe rives at the conclusion that an ex- asion of the waterway to Bessemer ,uld be used in shipping 4,S38,351
 outbond tonnage and 650,000 of in-
 und tonnage. Coal and pig iron I'd their products would Dc shipped out and lumber would be shipped into the district.
 Secretary Radcliffe's estimate of the tonnage of the Bessemer exten- sion is considered within the bounds of providence. Heavy products every where seek waterways. This IS the story of all waterways, and no doubt it would be repeated in this district in case the Warrior improvements are extended to Bessemer, which may be said to be the central point of in- dustrial activity in this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
Statistics of City and District

The census bureau presents re- port of the industrial establishments in what it calls the Birmingham dis trict and also in Greater Birmingham. The totals are creditable, but the fact should not be lost sight of that they are the totals of 1909. The totals of 1912 would be considerably larger, at least 25 per cent larger.
 The district in question consists of nearly all of Jefferson county, with . few precincts of Shelby county added, while the city is Greater Bir- mingham-the city proper and 10 miles of territory beyond.
 In the industrial plants there were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27

my boyhood. For the matter of that, no country ever looks like the country one reads out of a book, however really Il i may be that country. The trouble prob ably is that one carries out of ones read
 ing an image which one had carried into it. When l read Don Quixote. and read
 and read 1t again, put La Mancha first into a map of southern Ohio, and l then into that. after an interval of seven or eight years, of northern Ohio; and
 the scenes 1 arranged for his adventures
 were landscapes composed from those
 about me in my earlier and later boy
 hood. There was then always something soft and mild in the Don Quixote coun- try, with a blue river and gentle uplands, and woods where one could rest in the shade, and hide oneself if one wished,
 after easily rescuing the oppressed. Now, instead, a treeless plain unrolled itself from sky to sky, naked. dull, empty. and
 if some azure tops dimmed the clear line of the western horizon, how could have got them into my early picture when l had never yet seen mountain in my life? I could not put the knight and his squire on those naked levels where they would not have got a mile from home without discovery and arrest. tried to think of them jogging along in talk of the adven- lures which the knight hoped for; but could not make it work. l could have done better before we got so far from Aranjuez; there were gardens and orch ards and a very suitable river there, and those elm trees overhanging it; but
 the prospect in La Mancha had only here and there a white walled white farm
 house to vary it's lonely simplicity, it's dreary fertility: and I could do nothing with the strips and patches of vineyard.
 It was all strangely African, strangely Mexican, not at all American, not Ohioan enough to be anything like the real La Mancha of my invention. To be sure,
 the doors and windows of the nearer houses were visibly netted against mos quitoes, and that was something; but even that did not begin to be noticeable till we were drawing near the Sierra Mo rena. Then, so long before we reached the mighty chain of mountains which na- ture has stretched between the gravity of New Castle and the gaiety Of Anda- lusia, as if they could not bear immediate contact, experienced a movement of per feet reconciliation to the landscape as really wearing the face of that La Man. cha familiar to my boyish vision. Late
 in the forenoon, but early enough to save the face of La Mancha there ap- peared certain unquestionable shapes Tn the nearer and farther distenre winch I joyously knew for those windmiTs which Don Quixote had known for giants and spurred at lance in rest. They were waving their vans in what he had found insolent defiance, but which seemed to us glad welcome, as of windmills waiting. that long time, for a reader of Cervantes who could enter into their feelings and into the friendly companionship they were offering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27
HOW MAMMOTH CAVE BREATHEs

From the Mammoth Cave Magazine Mammoth Cave breathes once year.
 That is to say, in summer, when the
 temperature of the external air is above
 that of the cave. the current sets from
 the latter to the former. In fact the
 cave is the entire summer making an
 expiration.
 On the other hand when the order/is
 reversed or the outer atmosphere Is be- low 54 degrees, the cave makes an in- spiration, or draws in it's breath. This is accomplished during the winter:
 Charles w. Wright in describing the
 respiratory mechanism. of Mammoth Cave says this mechanism ceases to op- crate, or in everyday language the cave holds its breath, when the thermometer l stands at 54 degrees in the outer air; i; that is the average temperature of all parts of the cave, winter and summer. Hence it Is frequently observed in the spring and fall that there Is no motion | of air in either direction at the mouth I of the cave
 | In summer, when the temperature is near 100 degrees, the air rushes out at the entrance to the cave with such force
 as frequently to extinguish the lanterns
 carried by visitors. This condition pre- vails, however, for only few yards. At | a distance of about half a mile from the entrance the motion of air is hardly perceptible at any time from the fact that the main avenues enlarges so rap idly that it plays the part of reservoir
 where current of air from any direc- ton is speedily neutralized.
 If a current of air blows from with out inward and is below 54 degrees, 1t does not pass more than a quarter of a mile before it is brought up to that point. Air above the average tenn perature of the cave never blows Into 1t.
 The element of change inevitably en-
 twined with the passage of time above ground is singularly absent in the pas sage of time underground In Mammoth Cave, where there is no variation of temperature no water and no light, the three great forces of geological trans formation cease to operate, and even Father Time must perforce pass through some parts of Mammoth Cave and leave not the slightest imprint of his journey. A change of seasons is un- known; day and night, morning and evening. have no existence in this sub- terranean world In fact, there is an ! external sameness here which has no known parallel.
 The proportions of oxygen and nitro gen bear the same relation to each other in the Mammoth Cave that they do in the external air. In those ave- nues of the cave that are at a great distance from the rivers, upon the walls and floors of which there Is deposit of nitrate of lime, the air is almost en- tirely destitute of moisture owing to the hygroscopic properties of the salt, ! and animal matter mummifies instead of suffering decomposition. And for the same reason no matter what state l of division the disintegrated rock may attain, dust never rises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-27

vention of tuberculosis is urging the legis- lature of that state to pass a law to pro- hibit dry sweeping in public places. The commissioners in this city do not have to wait upon legislative action, for by an ordinance they can in a giffy stop the stirring up of dust which holds the germs of tuberculosis.