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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14

Here Am After Reducing My EnOr- nous Weight Quickly md Without
 Harm With My Drugless Home
 Treatment
 let me tell you how to reduce fat Ma ture's Way" the true way, my way. It is astonishing the thousands of grateful letters l am receiving. J. E. Boi- Selle, Box i22, Great Bend. Kan, writes he lost fifty pounds with my harm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14
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DOLLY-ETTEs

To be born Good is Luck to become Good is Miracle!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14

Looked as Fat ns mn OK Before I Re duced My Weight With My Great DrugIess Combination Treatment THE JOY OF LIVING IS THE HERIT- AGE OF THE LEAN--I WAS STOUT,
 AND l KNOW
 My friends were charitable and called it obesity: others. said l was STOUT. but l know, it was just bulky fat. was miserable. and are you if too stout To reduce your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14

NtlN tilt AOu III hSi bV a' l did. ' FOUND THE CAUSE THE REST MAS EASY. Befcre ! succeeded, ] tried ev- erything within and some things beyond req son. It was maddening, disgusting. alarming.
 All l had to do was to remove the cause, and swear under oath. that by my simple Urea tment, without drugs, medi- cine. nerve wrecking exercises, or starvation diet, 1 reduced my enor- nous weight perman- ently, quickly and posi- tively without harm to myself while taking treatment or after wards. and I guarantee that you can reduce as little or as much fat as you desire. with my treatment just as 1 did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01

Aieos..-e place in the city hall, and 15 or 20 boys met there every night to play innocent games. As the organ ization increased in membership larger quarters were secured.
 Now the Boys club has more than 100 members-m mostly news boys and, thanks to few good men and women who take an active interest in urchins, it is doing far reaching work for good All the refining in- fluences are there. Young boys of good habits take pleasure in their club life, and boys that come before the juvenile court find wholesome and homelike asylum while they are on the detention list. The club, there fore, has a reform side to it, but it is reform of the gentlest and most homelike sort.
 All success to the Boys club, and all honor to the women who form the executive board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
.DEACON JIM,sy WOE

New York Correspondent Cincinnati
 Times-Star
 They had a little chicken frying at Harry Waugh's apartment the other night in honor of his succession to his estate At the age of 30 the men of MT. Waugh S family inherit the title of colonel" Down in Nashville, where Henry P. was born, very robust and early blooming Waugh sometimes comes into his inheritance at an earlier age. 'It doesn't make so much difference what we are called up here," mourned the director of publicity for va rious corporations. Tt makes me think of the old story about the elder of the oolored Methodist church, down in my country. His employer met him one day.
 Deacon Jim,' said his employer. I'm told that your church is having a good deal of trouble in forcing some of the worshippers to pay their share of your salary
 'Dass so, Marster.' said Deacon Jim, sadly. 'Dass so. Ony I wouldn't cali dem trash 'worshippers.
 "'What do you call em, Deacon Jimr asked his employer.
 "'Nem mine what call em, Marster, said Deacon Jim. Mem mine what l call dem folks 1 call em what I call 'em. An when I call one of dem. dis bery mornin. what I calls em, he upn knock me in the head wiv rock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
Events of the Dead Year

A good deal of history was made in 1911. The republic of China was born in the closing days of the year, and this may prove to be the greatest event of the century, for the rise of China may far outrun the rise of Japan in the nineteenth century. Be- sides the conflict in China wars arose between Russia and Persia, between Italy and Turkey. Morocco, too, was handed over to France and it has dis appeared from the map to all intents and purposes. It is now but a part of Frances great African empire. The fate of Mexico hung in the bal ance last year, but Diaz was driven out and Madero was duly installed in his place. Cruel wars sprung up in Portugal, Hayti, Nicaragua and Para quay. All told it was year full of war and rumors of war.
 
 England passed through political crisis last year, and as net result her constitution was changed so that the lords now possess but tempor- ary suspensory veto. The house of commons now rules England and the house of lords is shorn of it's old time power. This is profound change which will be felt while England ex- ists.
 This country was surprised during the year when Canada defeated reel procity, but otherwise the old year was calm and favorable here. The Russian treaty of 1882 was abrogated from December 31 next, and new treaty will probably be negotiated ber fore that time. Nothing spectacular occurred in this country, and when the year came to an end both parties were engaged in making preparations for the presidential election of the present year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
ToLsToI AN IDLE YOUTH

European Letter to the New York Sun
 A pedagogc exhibition now being held in Moscow. contains all sorts of school documents and souvenirs among its ex- hibits. One that has attracted great at tention is a report of a pupil of the Uni- versity of Kasan. which reads:
 Encyclopedia Law-Progress. poor; ap- plication. unsatisfactory.
 Penal Code-Progress, unsatisfactory application, unsatisfactory.
 Common Law-Progress unsatisfactory application, very unsatisfactory.
 General HIistory-Pupil always absent, extremely idle.
 Russian History-Pupil invisible, very idle.
 This report is dated 1s47 and the pupil was Leo Tolstoi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
CARDINAL WHOLLY IN SYMPATHY

From the New York Sun.
 Cardinal Gibbons has written to say that advancing years and his many varied duties prevent him from attending the peace dinner to President Taft.
 His letter. addressed to Dr. Hunsberg- CT, says:
 The most convincing proof of my prac- tical sympathy with the cause which you so nobly champion is to be found in the fact that 15 years ago, in conjunction With the Cardinals Logue of Ireland and Vaughan of England, I pleaded for the establishment of a permanent tribunal of arbitration among the English speak ing races.
 It seems singularly appropriate that you should meet in conference during this blessed Christmastide, whose message to the world Is a repetition of the angels song. "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will" Men or good will are they who strive earn estly for the restoration of the order orig inally instituted by God-and peace is the tranquility of order Men of good will are they who love God above all things for. His own sake and their hciSip as lHtilseiNeS lOr s sake and peace is the Towering of love. Men of good will are they who both work and pray that Christs Kingdom may flourish in our midst, and Christ is the Prince of Peace
 It is also fortunate that your primary appeal is to be to American people, Hu- man nature in its higher instincts Is never wrong. Experience proves that that type of human nature known as Amer can is both ardent and uncompromising in its efforts to secure the principle of right. Then only is right triumphant when the desires of men and the purpose of nations are in accord with reason and reason Is responsive to the law of God. To create such a condition among men is. as I understand 1t, the aim of your effort, and it is the supreme. the only guarantee of peace
 |. The presence of the President of the United States, of Mir. Carnegie and ot other distinguished gentlemen from va- rious walks of life will insure the sue cess of your meeting. Faithfully yours,
 J. CARDINAL GIBBONS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
TRANSPORTATION

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Go away from home to learn the news, is an old adage, and is Illustrated by the following paragraph from the Au- gusta (Ga) Herald:
 The Alabama situation is really very simple. after all Alabama democrats are perfectly willing to give Underwood the compliment--of presenting his name to the national convention, and of voting for him on the first ballot. Alabama demo- crats are not willing to see these votes go to Harmon on the seaond ballot, when five oue of six democrats in the state prefer Wilson to Harmon as the candidate of the party in the next election.
 There has been no effort in Alabama to ascertain the strength of candidates for second choice of Alabama democrats, and they are not disturbing themselves about 1t. They are for oscar w. Under- wood for first and last choice, and from present indications his strength will be enough to keep him among those who will be before the democratic convention on the final ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01

nerity the republicans pretended to pre- serve. It has taken high prices and les sened purchasing power of money, with all that these factors mean in the loss of luxury or the actual reduction of the necessities of life. to teach the Amer ican voters some little of the folly and falsity of republican tariff Legislation. To Mir. Underwood more than to any other living American are the people indebt- ed for the successful and sagacious fight by the democrats against the wool and cotton schedules in the last Congress.
 President Taft. it is true vetoed those bills on the ground that they had not been sufficiently considered, and there Is a very strong probability that MT. Underwood will send them back to Presi- asat Taft and compel his signature with out even remarNing that It was the Pres ident and not himself who was insuf- helently informed last August.
 It is not for his service alone in the democratic Congress of last session. when he occupied the position of leader of the democratic side with such signal and conspicuous ability, that he drew down on his head the impotent wrath Of Will liam Jennings Bryan, that MT. Under wood deserves well of the country at large.
 Rather. we applaud and commend his public action because he has made no demagogic appeal, he has not truckled to the rich; he has not fawned upon the poor; he has not helped to plumber the wage earner in order to catch the vote of the camp followers, and in that long carnival of predatory plutocracy that came in with Mckinley and Hanna in 1s9e and reached high water mark in the Payne-Aldrich bill under President Taft, he has not despaired of the republic. Calmness and courage and good temper and faith in the people when there seemed least ground for trusting them, and steady and wise efforts for bettering eonditions-thees are some of the charac- teristics that the Hon. Oscar w. Under wood has shown in an unusual and inn pressive way
 That is why he stands head and shoul- ders above all other men who are con sidered for the democratic nomination ex- cepting only Harmon and Wilson. It is said that Alabama is too far south for one of her sons to be successful in a national election. But Alabama is a part of the nation. and that state has shown that she can produce sons who are fit to rank in capacity, in service and in pa- triotism, with any sons of any state Such a man is Oscar w. Underwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
The mutabIe rank scented many.
 --CymbeIine.
Would Be National Misfortune

The Montgomery Advertiser is right when it says that MT. Under woods illness, should it prove at all serious, would be "a blow to his own state of Alabama and to the demo- cratic party" He has a work to do in this Congress that no other demo- crat can do so well. No one under stands the ins and outs of a tariff schedule as he does, and no other democrat commands the confidence of lis fellows in Congress as he does. He is level headed in council and ever ready in debate.
 9it would be national calamity" says the Montgomery Advertiser, "at this time for MT. Underwood to have a long and protracted spell of illness which would keep him from his con gressional duties. There is no man to take his place, there is no man to do the work he can do. Good news from his bedside would be received with rejoicing throughout the entire country and nowhere would it be more welcome than in his own state of Ala bama."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
OSCAR w. UNDERWOOD
From the Richmond Times-Dispateh.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
 AflNG aside the heavy and thank
 less task of trying to make the -s-S democrats in Congress keep. as a majority, the promises of economy it made as a minority. the Hon. Oscar ". Underwood has been visiting Richmond during the Christmas holidays. Last night he was a guest of honor at a. large dinner. and those who were for tunate enough to meet and hear him gained clear and lasting impression of the inherent power and forcefulness and good sense and tact that have combined to make Nfr. Underwood the democratic House leader.
 No party is weak that can produce such men, and even in it's days of greatest prostration the democratic party has never been a dying organization. One of the editors of the World ance said to Joseph Pulitzer: "The democratic party is dead" T know it." said Pulitzer, it dies every 10 years or so regularly, but somehow it manages to revive and outllve those new and powerful modern parties which think they have killed it."
 And the reason of the indestructible vi- ta1ity of the democratic party lies in the the fact that it is at heart a party of protest and of liberty. Unjust taxation, the denial of civil rights, corrupt judges. brutal administrators, special privileges and class exemption are some of the causes as old as civilization itself that have bred democrats in every age. In America we have not lacked for such causes or for democrats. In his attitude toward the tariff Mir. Underwood has thoroughly and effectually apprehended the chief source of that discrimination and injustice that have bred and are still breeding class hatreds and socialism. As he has said on the floor of Congress and in his public speeches, the protective tariff levied by the republican party is nothing but high handed robbery under the guise of law. The theory advanced by the supporters of the tariff is that 1t helps labor. MT. Underwood cut through this flimsy pretense when he said: '.There has been no attempt on the part of the manufacturer to give labor its share of the benefits derived from the tariff. They have kept all the profits for themselves"
 We dress in cotton because the wool trust will not let us clothe ourselves in wool. We pay exorbitant prices for everything that the republican party can protect for the benefit of its favored friends and supporters. The result of this policy has been to destroy the very pros
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
The Boys Club

The Boys club, quartered in the stately DeBardeleben mansion, is one of the best institutions in Birming- ham. Saturday was gala day, and it is safe to say that no finer dinner was served during the Christmastide than that provided by prominent women for the boys and their grown friends. And no company of 100 youngsters could have been better be- haved.
 The Boys club, like many other successful social organization, had a small beginning. Judge Feagin and ..few kindred souls were instrumental laHhnstituting it. The club had it's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
Democratic Convention City

Baltimore wants the national demo- but wants it bad. It has raised an ample fund.
 St. Louis has made some stir pre- paratory to inviting the convention to that city; and now some of the lead ing democrats of New York are de- sirous of having the convention meet in the borough of Manhattan. An effort was put forth in New York a few days ago to raise $150,000 as an earnest of its readiness to entertain the great democratic assemblage. The big hotel men of New York are expected to subscribe most of the money;
 New York is not only the largest city in America, but it is most at tractive city in every way. It is estimated that even in the dullest sea- son of the year fully 100000 visitors are registered in New York hotels. Nearly everybody of any get-up longs for a glimpse of Broadway now and then, and the very fact that New York is so attractive to visitors has made it indifferent to public spirit. For years past it has been boast in New York that it's people knew nothing of public spirit, and did not care to know; the "get together" spiri8 is all right for smaller towns, New Workers would say, but New York being grand show in itself without world worlds $ fair or convention, it need never put forth any effort to at tract the multitude. For that reason New York will not make any strenu- ous effort, it is thought, to induce the national committee to award it's great prize to the big metropolis.
 Baltimore will make an ideal city for the democratic national conven- tion. Maryland has no "favorite son." and every candidate will have fair show. The hospitality of Bal timore is proverbial, and nothing will be left undone to make the democratic hosts who attend the convention com fortable and happy.
 The democratic national committee meets in Washington week from to- day for the purpose of deciding on the tjpe and place for holding the y5nventi6n. It looks as if Baltimore would have walk over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Birmingham's Progress

F. c. Dunn, formerly of the Birming- ham district, but now of New York, has been the guest of his brother E. J. Dunn, for several days and has been greeted by many of his old friends here. As a lsaige contractor in New York he has pros pered greatly.
 Tt has been nearly two years since I was last in Birmingham" said MT. Dunn yesterday.
 T note a decided improvement in the city. Birmingham seems to be moving right ahead. I am not surprised at this eity's progress. In view of its wonder full natural advantages it would be strange indeed if it did not grow rapidly. Among the things 1t needs especially to make it grow even faster than it does is more small industries"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01

From the New York Sun.
 MT. Underwoods forecast of what Con- gress will do would be more authoritative if the insurgent republicans acknowl- edged his leadership. We are not even sure that the democrats will stay in har- ness with the remarkable docility they displayed al tine extra session. In an in- terview in Richmond the chairman of the ways and means committee is reported as counting upon the passage of bills revls- ing the wool cotton, steel, sugar and other schedules, and as expecting Con- gress to restrain the trusts, forego appro- priations for public buildings and water ways, and to waste no time in filibuster- ing and meaningless talk. Above all things are to be so managed that there will be no deficit.
 Tine wish is father to the thought Mir Underwood may dream in bllssful sleep of such a consummation, but in his walk ing moments he knows he is whistlng to keep his courage up. His capacity for leadership is now to be tested thorough ly; also his talent for negotiating, because the votes of republicans in the Senate will be indispensable if there Is to be any tariff legislation at all flor revenue only.' As to persuading the House dem ocrats 10 practice the economy they preach, MT. Underwood has a heart breaking task. Positively he cannot dam the torrent of meaningless talk. That is not to be expected of a giants strength
 If MT. Underwood carries through half his programme he will do well; and if he accomplishes more and keeps his party united he will become a leading candidate for it's highest honor by virtue of an as- founding success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01

AND THEN PAPA DUG UP

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Little Dorothea had been doing some figuring on her slate.
 Papa she said. do you know that this country eats about 100000 tons of sugar every year?''
 NO. I don't" answered papa-"is it possible?'
 ''Yes. papa, I saw 1t in a paper.
 .'Well, what of it?''
 Nothing. Only you can figure from that how many pounds every man, woman and child in America eats.'
 ''So you can. Well. how much?''
 ..'Twenty persons eat ton, one person eats loo pounds"
 Isn't that remarkablel'
 "Yes, papa, l have never done that well, have l? I don't believe I've eaten a twentieth part of my share, and yet you make a fuss every time I ask you to-
 ''Thatll do. I give up. Here's a dol largo out and eat yourself to death on chocolate creams"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
Atlanta on Christmas Eye

'Tt is hoped that by the time another Christmas rolls around some steps will be taken by municipal authorities in the south to prevent rowdyism on Christmas eve," said a citizen 'In most, if not in all, southern cities Christmas eve has been a time of noise and wild disorder. On Saturday week ago Birmingham witnessed a great deal of rowdyism and number of distressing casualties, but Atlanta's shameful disorder broke all former bad records among southern cities. The Tuscaloosa News comments on Bir- mingham's fearful experienced, and the Montgomery Advertiser, in referring to that papers article concludes by saying
 :" But where our heart is pained, our sensibiites shocked, is in the contem- plation of the way Atlanta cut up You see, they don't legalize the sale of the demon over there. They've been dry figuratively speaking, so long some Geor- gians think it shame. But from the Atlanta papers we gather that conditions in that town this Christmas were worse were over GO cases of criminal violence and accidents, and in some parts of the city frightful reign of terror pre- vailed.
 "'We could understand how other cities had a miserable time Christmas, but in a righteous city like Atlanta its conduct passeth all understanding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
LoNDoN's OLDEST PREACHER

FTO1H LeSHe WeeKIy.
 One of London's remarkable men is the Rev. Robert Brandon, described as a Baptist minister. tailor. poet and au- thor, who lately celebrated his 95th birth day, and who is the oldest officiating preacher in London. He breaches about once a month at g. place in Chelsea, where he has ministered for GA years. He has to be carried to his church in a bath chair. for he has been a cripple since he was years old. when one of his legs became paralyzed. He practically edu-I cated himself. earning tuition money as al tailor. In spite of his physical disability he has always manifested great activity and energy.