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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
A PhxsIcian,s Test

T have applied several well known medical tests to Dollo at the Orpheum this week and have not been able to discover as a result of these tests whether she is girl or doll," said a well known physician. T tried pass ing a lighted match to and fro in front of the eyes, but there was absolutely no dilation of the pupils. This is con- sidered one of the severest tests that can be tried on the eyes, and I have never known anyone who had will power or self-control enough to keep from dilating the pupils at this test. Dollo doesn't. Neither could I get any signs of dilation in the pupil when I covered one eye with my hand and then removed the hand quickly. This sudden light will dilate the pupils of the eye immediately.
 q felt of Dollo's pulse to see If there was a pulse, and If there was a beat it was so slow that 1t could not be found. and am expert. I couldn't find any pulse in the forearm. the usual place for testing the pulse. I also saw a man stick pin in Dollo, without any apparent effect. If she Is doll. she, of course, wouldn't feel the pin, and therefore couldn't jump, but if she is human, she certainly has won derful control, for not a muscle moved or a twitch showed any evidence that the pin had punished her at all. If Dollo is human she has the most won derful control of her features, muscles and eyes that I have ever known"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
PERSONALITY OF TENNYsoN

Annie Fields in Authors and Friends"
 There was natural sublimity in Ten nyson's character which gave him, as he has himself said of the poets mind, a power for scorn of things fit to be scorned; but his capacity for friendship has been proven again and again.
 There was an inconsistencies of out ward things. of the furniture of life, which left him freer than most men to face the individual soul that approached him. There was also a fine consistency in his personality-no tampering with the world; no trying to serve two mas tcrs. The greatness of his presence was felt. we believe, by all who ap- preached him; he seemed to be invested by a strange remoteness from the af- fairs of the world. Yet it was easy for the spirits to draw near to him who really wanted what he could give. His hospitality was large and sincere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
Postponement of a Freight Depot

1OSIpOnemeHt OI rTelBhL DepOt
 It is announced that the new freight depot of the Frisco lines to be located on Avenue A, between Fourteenth and Eighteenth streets, will not be built until late in the fall season. This is a disappointment to the entire North side, for at present the use of the Ninth avenue yards delays people us- ing the crossings at Nineteenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth streets. The heads of switches are To- cated at or beyond Nineteenth street, and the inconveniences at that cross- ing are serious.
 The abandonment of railroad yards in the heart of the city should be promoted by the commissioners in every possible way. The withdrawal of the Louisville and Nashville to Boyles was step in the right direc- tion, and the other railroads should be encouraged to do likewise. Freight houses must remain in the heart of the city but railroad yards need not and should not be kept where every shifting of cars inconveniences many people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
SMALLER JAoKRABnIrs WANTED

According to the current issue of Farm and Preside, New Mexico homesteader received from the depart inent of agriculture a quantity of dwarf milo maize seed. with a request to plant it and report the result. Here is his re- ply:
 " MT. Wilson
 "'Dear Sir: I planted your dwarf maize, and 1t did fine. It was the dw arfest maize ever saw.
 "'But the jackrabbits ate 1t as fast as it got ripe.
 "'Piease send another lot of seed. and send along a lot of dwarf jackrabbits to match the maize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
PASSING OF HOMER DAVENPORT

From Affairs at Washington" Joe
 Mitchell Chapple. in National Magazine
 for July.
 The passing of Homer Davenport re- calls my first meeting with the celebrated artist whose cartoons fairly took the country by storm during the strenuous in- fancy of the Hearst newspapers. It was during the early days of the St. Louis exposition, and as I plowed my way through the deep mud, I came upon a brother in distress He was using good expressive western language, and l learned that he was to speak on the ex- position grounds. That is,' he quail fled, shaking the mud from his boots, If can ever navigate to theaplace."
 We wallowed along together for a way, and I found that 1t was Homer Daven- port. We talked of many things, and in speaking of Oregon, Davenport grew rem iniscent and described his early exper- fences as a member Of the Silverton Cor net band. He told about conditions at home, and of the home folks, with a ten der word of the dear old father in Oregon. whom he proceeded to represent in car toon.
 At the beginning of his career, Homer Davenport went from Oregon to San Francisco and very soon attracted atten- ton by the virility of his cartoons. In presidential campaigns he did much in moulding public sentiment. Although he gave Senator Mark Hanna the famous dollar mark suit" he afterward made the acquaintance of Uncle Mark" be- came one of his best friends, and when Senator Hanna was dying in Cincinnati pictured Uncle Sam as standing in silent grief above the couch of the dying sem afor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
Won Class Prize

Joseph A. Tomeriin of North Bir- mingham, who was one Of the s1 grad uates of Mount St Mary's college, Elm mitsburg, Md, this month. is at home for the summer. He was the class winner of the cash prize for the best examination in mental philosophy and ethics and in addition to that he was in the honor list for his examination In science. His friends here are natur- ally proud of him.
 MT. Tomerlin will return to Emmits- burg in the autumn for the study of theology.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
Money on Hand Tomorrow Night

Money on Hand Tomorrow Nlght Upon the Senate, aided in one re- ect by a veto of the President, rests D responsibility for a government Id up. The Presidents message ring the passage of a joint resolu- h continuing appropriations until l supply bills can be passed was de- led and when it was sent in the use had adjourned. It will be pre- ted on Monday and will no doubt be sed.
 the meanwhile the last sands of fiscal year are running out, and
 old up operates to increase the
 S that the administration ora
 III soon crow over. That sur
 s already passed $12,000,00o, a rapidly accommodating. Some ay the surplus will be equal th Noration tax law, or possibly 5m D0,0O0 to $3O,0oO, ,0O0. The
 urpius the louder the boast as lican orators on the hust-
 1eak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
REFLrcT1oNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Having an affinity is merely having a streak of the devil.
 It seems almost as hard to keep money as a good name.
 The shortest cut to private interest is by the road of public service.
 Like charged waters. the danger of q temper disappears when the cork pops out.
 A nice thing for a girl about being en- gagged to a man Is she can kiss him, but 6 they weren't he would have to do 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
MT. Bryan's Anti-Privilege Resolution

When the Nebraskan sprang his resolution on the Baltimore conven- tion it contained second section de- manding the withdrawal from the con- vention of any delegate representing the privilege-hunting class. This sec tion was aimed at Thomas F. Ryan of the Virginia delegation and Mir. Belmont of the New York delegation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
SWEET, BE NOT PROUD

By Robert Herrick.,
 Sweet. be not proud of those two eyes. Which starlike sparkle in their skies; Nor be you proud that you can see All hearts your captives. yours yet free. Be you not proud of that rich hair. Which wantons with the lovesick air: When as that ruby which you wear. Sunk from the tip of your soft ear. Will last to be precious stone
 When all your world of beauty's goaA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
ADVANTAGE OF NEW YORK
From The Argonaut.

From The Argonaut.
 A New Yorker had occasion to phone from one suburb to another while visiting in western city. Upon asking what the charge was he was told 50 cents. Fifty cents! For that distance? Great Scotti In New York you can call Hell up for 50 cents" Possibly coolly answered the operator. Its in the city limits.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
lhy Beef Is High

ional Packing company is to ed, but like other dissolutions
 nature it will not put an end
 ulation of beef and other . ducts. It will not put an sA restriction of trade or open
 It's to competition. A meat as proven to be feasible, and be one so long as the repu-
 .rty stays in power, at any jutside of manipulation there
 act that should be taken into ration, namely, there are to-
 5.000,000 more persons in this
 ry to be fed thaV there were ten Is ago, and the number of cattle ess than it was ten years ago. n. too, is higher on the average, it costs, therefore, more to bring le to marketable conditions than sl i'd ten years ago.
 hese facts, together with modern ed and manipulation, account for fact that beef is from 35 to 40 cent higher than it was one year :. An annual rise of 35 to 40 4 cent will, however, bring a rem edy, and the faster the beef trust runs up prices the quicker will a remedy be found. If all duties were taken off meats a supply from other lands would soon appear in refrigerated ships, and this alone would be great relief to the victims of modern manipulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
people.

The steam roller got no tickets to Balti-
 more. It is still in the keeping of the republican party, and it may be freely used until November to hold the ragged ranks in line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Representative government. such as the fathers had in mind. is progressive enough for the average patriotic Amer ican. Most of the progressive talk is hapdoodle,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
THu ORACLE

One of the handsomest college annuals it has ever been our pleasure to glance through is the Oracle for 1912, issued by the students of Athens college. The book is bound In limp leather. tinted blue. The pages of the book. the illustrations and the typography follow the same color in artistic variations. and the result is highly pleasing to the eye. The Oracle is dedicated to Miss Mary Cowper Pitt man. dean of Athens college. The Oracle board for 1912 includes the following young ladies:
 Kathouise Walston, editor-in-chief; An- nie Buchanan, business managers; Mary Key, assistant business manager; Eliza beth Pride. assistant business manager; Eunice McDonnald. art editor; Ruth An derson. Nellie Hatchett, Pearl Marlowe. Marie Toney. Sarah Rives and Mary Whitman, associate editors.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE DREAM AND THE SONG. The dream that we dream may never
 come true And the song that we sing may be lost
 on the air. But they give us a glimpse of heavenly
 blue And lend us new strength for the bur- dens we bear. The dream that we dream may be ever
 so vain And mock us alas. to the brink of the
 grave, And the song may be only an idle re-
 frain, But the dream and the song have power
 to save.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
The Band Concerts

T am glad to know that we are to have seven open air concerts a week this summer" said citizen.
 "The ladies of the Music Study club who raise the money to pay the band were able to give us only three concerts a week year before last, when the concerts were inaugurated. Last year the number was increased to six a week, and as we are to have one every evening during July and August, the Music Study club Is to be highly commended for their good progressive spirit. The concerts are great ly enjoyed by thousands and it should be an easy matter to raise enough money by popular subscription to continue the music until the middle of September
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The Rooseyeltistas do not hesitate to steal the machine and all the officers in the republican party in the states they control-Kansas, for example.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Colonel Roosevelt will in a few months cease to be the only ex-President of the United States. He will have a colleague whom he has pronounced thief and a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Baltimore made mistake in putting up the price of beer. The next time it bids for a national convention beei drinkers will enter protest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Al1er o. Thurman was the original ban- danna man, and he never rose to the pres idential rank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The Baltimore convention has kept late hours. This has been hard on rural delegates, but the Tammany braves revel in all night sessions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Lillian Russell is 47 years old and she has been married four times, and yet shs is not trying to make a new record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

One undertaken out west advertises: why pay rent when Jones will bury you for s5o?" This is new solution of tho problem of living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Henri Bernstein, the playwright, has 147 pairs of trousers, and he should come over and shake hands with Tim Woodruff. the owner of unnumbered weskits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
publlc conveniences At po.tofice

"The new stamp section constructed in tho postoffice building is quite an attrac- tive and convenient arrangement" said box renter.
 Heretofore there has been an unneces- sary trip from the Second avenue entrance away back on the Eighteenth street side to purchase stamps.
 Uncle Sam is very exacting rental agent. The box rent is due and payable quarterly January l, and thereafter on the 2Oth day Of the last month of any quarter the postoffice officials begin a systematic bombardment of the box renters. First there Is slender type written slip placed in each box on the goth, saying that the next quarters rent Is due and payable. In fact. 1t isn't. Then there are notices printed on red cardboard and other printed matter to prod the boxholders.
 ''The postoffice officials are very con sidearte. however, and beyond the> red tape red cards, etc.) they never invoke the strict letter of the statute, but in dulge to a very generous degree those who for one reason or another do not respond at once to the demand for pay ment of box rent before the first of the month."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The socialists of Washington have nomi- mated a woman for governor, and she will make the race in a hobble skirt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

There are now 5S1 electors. and the win ner must have 2ss Don't forget these basis facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

July will be all the more enjoyable be- cause 1t will be post-convention month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
LAST WORDS.


 In a New York hospital. a cadaverous spaniard. with the aid of oxygen and a pump, was staving off the final moment of exit
 Rallying temporarily, he stretched out a hand and clutched the arm of the nurse. motioning her to lean over and put her ear to his mouth.
 My doctor go?"
 .'Yes, he's gone"
 ..Sfut e door"
 She walked over and pushed it to.
 Lock him." he begged-it was the cus- tom to humor the dying
 He beckoned her closer and pulled her down to him again. You make prom ise7e
 Yes. indeed: what is it7"
 Get paper. pencil. and--what you call? envelope"
 Shielding his writing with one hand. he managed to scrawl a single line on the notepaper and to address the message, but before loosening his hold on the pa- per he called her to him once more. Now you promise for me again? You promise you not show this to doctor ?-1ot show 1t to night nurse?-not to anybody? Just mail ft-you promise?l'
 She nodded.
 He slipped the sheet from the envelope and read the short scrawl once more, grinning with what had every appearance of fiendish exultation.
 That fix him. he whispered. "That-flx him."
 An hour later, when the doctor re- turned. he found the nurse crying.
 He died 15 minutes ago, and don't know what to do. I ought to mail this. but I'm afraid it's some Black Hand business or something Would you be willing to look 1t over and see if it's all right to send? You read Spanish" She handed him the letter.
 'Is 1t 8 Black Hand message7" she whispered.
 No" he said piain.ively, tits to his brother. Ills just wrltes, Don't pay tho doctor July Lfplincott's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Chance Day is about to emerge from the storm cellar He will be heard from frequently no doubt until November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Las Vegas is preparing to wind up on Thursday next the spectacular season. Seats are as high at Las Vegas as they were in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

George w. Perkins place in the bull moose campaign is clearly that of pay master. He may, however, have assist ants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

An aviator can win a place on the first page top of the column-when he breaks n record and when he breaks his neck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Mrs Nicholas Longworth Is devoted to conventions. She takes them all in ex- cept possibly the prohibition convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The man who wears tall silk hat in the sultry heat of Baltimore gets his punish ment as he moves along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
Aence Alma -Tadema

of 76 the famous Eng s dead at Wiesbaden,
 t in vain for a cure for 4 in the Netherlands, se vas 16 years old his .aa egan to show itself. # h artist was sent to '. Antwerp, and his " ,ful almost from the
 great achievement
 and in 1862 he was gold ledal at Amsterdam.
 ved to London, and spa5d became information suea died a British sub e llways be included in f nd's great artists.
 ght in studying and W nd of Isis. The court
 an ancient civilization
 subjects of his best
 Is. Possibly no one had tanners and customs of had. He brought before 2 of 5000 years ago, and hll honor his memory be- ] feature of his incompara- He was a classicist who lack the ancient world well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The steam roller is tied up in, Chicago. the property of the repuoAican old guard. It Is about all they have left.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Push on. MT. Clayton, the six year term for presidents and no come back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The bull moose Is driving the Teddy Bear out of business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

The Taft smile has resumed business on the same broad face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Alabama colleges prospered last year and they will be even more largely att tended the coming year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
ADREAM- OF YOUTH.

Whene'er the trees toss in the breeze, As only trees in summer can. We lift our eyes to cloudless skies
 And dream a dream of Peter Pan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

A man in Kansas goes barefooted and without hat He goes to extremes for his health's sake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
FAR FROM EASY STREET.

AK FtfOM tAoI oIft1EI' T understand Scribbles writes great deal of fiction"
 "Yes."
 Docs he get well paid for his work?" s'No. If he were to write a check for g he would still be writing fiction"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

Harry K. Thaw favors the recall of judges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
ILLUMINATING.

More than 1000 people claimed a s10 bill that was lost in New York, which mere Iy goes to show the percentage of people who would steal if there were no risk of punishment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
TELEPHONES

!. marry, now my soul hath elbow
 room. KING JOHN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29
MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS.

/ MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS. A stranger rose Now who is he?" Why, don't you know? That's our V. F."
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Another comes ''Ah, there you are!' The husband of A famous star.
 Youngstown Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-29

NEVER FAILS. Do you think there will be 8 chorus girl famine this year?" 'Do you think the sun will rise tonor- row?"
 VALE.
 A jolt,
 A Jar:
 Farewell,
 T. R.!
 Birmingham Age-Herald- A slam,
 A spill;
 Farewell,
 Big Bill.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. HUMAN NATURE. A man may wear pleasant smile, And be villain still; A man may preach on honesty And later tap a till.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-15
A REVELATION FROM GOD.
He 81 IS
Sandford Writes from hi, Prison.

Limited by strict prison rules TO
only one letter in TWO weeks. and that
letter TO single sheet, Rev Frank
Weston Sanford has at last made
known to his friends and followers
here in the north the reason Of his
silence and the apparent indifference
to messages of sympathy which had
followed him to the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta, Ga.
The former leader OF the Holy
Ghost and S society. who is serving
a 10-year sentence there for having
caused the death of one of his follow
ers through neglect, has now been
separated about six weeks from his
flock of coo at Shiloh The prisoner
of the Lord as he styles himself in
Il letter to one of his friends in
Maine, finds occupation in the printing
room of the prison, working shoulder
10 shoulder with a southern editor, a
man OF prominence, whom he describ-
es as "one OF natures noblemen."
On the whole | am doing well,
writes Mr.. Sanford. AT times ! SUI
fer the awfulness of being immersed
in iron as it seems-thp iron of law
iron laws, cold, relentless and in a
sense mercless.
on the other hand We have at the
head of this institution two rare men
the warden, a man with a big warm
heart; and the deputy warden, a
noble looking official. tender hearted
as a woman and yet quick, powerful
and unyielding in controlling his men
according TO law.