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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
AND IT WILL HE OF HIS MAKING

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 In an interview given out during his recent visit to Maryland. Oscar Under wood thus outlined the paramount issue of the approaching presidential campaign:
 "If I should be nominated at Baltimore should go into the campaign on the platform which my party has drawn, but 1t is my deliberate judgment tsat no mat ter who Is nominated, the atform should declare that there is no other is- sue before the American people of such vast importance to every citizen as the tariff issue. The republicans, I have no aoubt will make the administration of President Taft their main issue In that administration two things stand out be- yond all others. The first was President Thft's signature of the Payne-Aldrieh hill and his veto of the democratic tariff bills put up to him at the extra session for the purpose of lowering the tariff"
 With his usual clear-headedness. the House leader has brushed aside every subsidiary consideration and placed his finger upon the pivotal point in the im- pending contest. During the past few months many gaudy and novel subjects have been injected into the discussion that has ragged around the presidential situation. But, in the final analysis, it is upon their attitude toward the tariff that both parties must go to the country. Voters will here and there be interested In the initiative and referendum, the re- call of judges and. perhaps. the extreme Roosevelt doctrine of the recall of judicial decisions.
 When the lines of battle are closely drawn. however, and the actual fighting begins, the tariff will take right of way of every other issue, and naturally. For the various schedules affect in a greater
 or less degree, every household in the land. The pocketbook appeal is potent in politics, and that is the sort of appeal made by the tariff.
 Therein lies the unique strength of Cn- derwood's availability as a presidential candidate For the tariff upon which the democracy must depend for victory will be the Underwood tariff. Political logic points him as the party's standard bearer as inevitably as it pointed Mckinley as the incarnation of the republican doctrine of high protection. That can be said of him as 1t can be said of no other demo- cratic leader of national prominence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Men and Miners Coming to Terms

Premier Asquith's minimum wage bill is leading to a settlement of the distressful strike in Great Britain. The soft coal operatives and miners in western Pennsylvania and the middle west have also come to an agreement based on an increase of cents ton for mining lump coal, and 3 cents for mining all other coal. A vote will be taken on these propositions, but their acceptance is undoubted, and any sus- pension will be brief and temporary.
 This leaves 170,000 miners in the hard coal regions who are standing firmly out for a 20 per cent increase in pay, and a day of eight hours in- stead of one nine hours long. Both sides are standing very firmly up to their respective positions, each, how ever, is careful to leave an opportunity open for another conference.
 The present week promises to bring an adjustment of all the coal strikes The one in the hard coal regions is full of difficulties, but these difficulties have been overcome in the past and doubtless a road will be found to a new agreement, but the new agree ment may be one year contract in- stead of one covering three years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Get Out a Full Vote Tomorrow

Delegates are to be elected in every county to the state convention tomor- row and these delegates will be in structed to send a solid delegation to Baltimore to vote for Oscar Under wood, Alabama's $ distinguished son.
 It is important that full vote should be cast. One hundred thousand democrats should go to the polls. When 100, 1000 Alabamians turn out to support Mr. Underwood the result will be felt in every other state in the country. MT. Underwood is unopposed, but that fact should not lessen his vote. Let the fullest possible vote be cast tomorrow for Oscar W. Under wood. The voters of Jefferson county should turn out tomorrow to the fullest possible extent, and the vote of Jefferson must lead that of other counties.
 This will show how MT. Underwood stands among those who know him best. The vote for Underwood should be carried as nearly to the limits of registration as vote ever goes. This will show to the rest of the country that Alabama has a candidate whom all at home delight to honor and who is worthy of the highest tasks and weightiest responsibilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
THE RETuRN.

Long, long ago sweet dreams were
 mine,
 l gladly set them free; And now, across the tide of years, They're drifting back to me. Poor. broken things, their splendor
 gone,
 Their gold Is turned to dross; They beat against my weary heart And leave a sense of loss. Can these be they erstwhile so falr7 Alas, how hard 1t seems To meet upon lifes stormy way The phantoms of our dreamsi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
CONSOLATION

From the Youths Companion.
 School teachers declare that children have no intelligent comprehension of grammatical rules till they are at least 12 years old The conversation of Hetty, who is s. reported in the Lutheran, tends to confirm the statement.
 Hetty's uncle, who is a school teacher met her on the street one beautiful May day and asker her If she was going out with the Maying party.
 No, I aint going
 'Oh, my dear,' said her uncle, ''you must not say I aint going You mus, say I am not going He is not going We are not going. You are not going They are not going. Now can you say all that. Hetty?'
 '.Of course l can," she replied, mak- ing a courtesy. There ain't nobody go. ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
THE TOWN OF HAY

By Sam Walter Floss. The town of Hay is far away,
 The town of Hay is far; Between it's hills of green and gray
 Its winding meadows are. Within the quiet town of Hay
 Is many a. quiet glen. And there by many a shaded way
 Are homes of quiet men; And there are many hearts alway That turn with longing night and day
 Back to the town of Hay. Within the good old town of Hay
 There was no pride of birth, And no man there pursued his way
 A stranger in the earth; And none were high and none were low.
 Of golden hair or gray, And each would grieve at others woe
 Down in the town of Hay; And many a would-scorned soul today Mid crowded thousands far away
 Weeps for the town of Hay. A road leads from the town of Hay
 Forth to a world of din, And winds and wanders far away
 And many walked therein: Far in the crowds of toll and stress
 Their restless footsteps stray Their souls have lost the quietness
 Of that old town of Hay; But in some respite of the fray, In transient dreams that float away,
 Back to the town of Hay. Old men are in that town of Hay,
 Amid it's quiet trees, Who dream of strong sons far away
 Upon the stormy seas; Old mothers, when the twilight dew
 The woodbine leaves have pearled, Dream of their boys who wander through
 The wilderness of the world, And tears fall in the twilight gray And prayers go up at close of Sly
 In that old town of Hay. A hillside in the town of Hay
 Is slanting toward the sun, And gathered meath it's headstone gray
 Are sleepers. one by one And there are tears in distant lands,
 And grief too deep for 1t ears And when they place that headstone gra It crushes hearts so far away
 From that old town of Hay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
ECONOMY OF A SORT

From the New York Tribune.
 lobe K. Hedges, at the St. Andrews society dinner in New York. was talk ing to a neighbor about Scotch econ omy.
 "The Scotch.' he said. "are economi- cal and honest. They live to economize-- they live on principal and interest. But the desire to economize Is not allowed by the Scotch to effect their honor.
 Tt wasn't a Scotch economist who said one day to a friend:
 .. It is wonderful how I make things last. Do you see this umbrella? We'll, bought 1t Il years ago. I had it re- covered in 1902 and 1907. got three new ribs put in 1t in 1908 and exchanged 1t for new one at restaurant last No- vember.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The simple little frocks a girl loves to
 Wear are always in books
 Telling a secondhand secret is mighty hard, because everybody else already knows it.
 The first thing man tries to do when he gets troubles is to load them on somebody else.
 As soon as the devil finds out man Is ambitious he knows he doesn't have to do anything more to get him.
 After her own. woman's idea of what would be fine figure for somebody else is something entirely different from what 1t happens to- be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
WHERE NoGGsLEY GOES.

'Noggsley tells me he is attending an evening class in surveying"
 That's true. He sits in the front row or burlesque theatre and surveys the chorus"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Stop Over Privileges for Birmingham

The Southeastern Passenger asso- citation practically says that the stop over privilege cannot be granted to Birmingham because it would involve the losses connected with "scalping." This city has an arbitrary commission government, and if any city in the land can prevent "scalping" Birming- ham can. This city certainly can keep down scalping as well as Vicksburg, 1ew Orleans, Chattanooga, Cincin-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
I REMEMBER.

l remember, I remember The "mibs" we used to play. We knelt upon the muddy ground And shot the livelong day. rhe kids we see upon the street Are wiser now. perhaps, They pass the ancient marbles up And shoot game of craps
 Milwaukee Sentinel,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
RrrATrD To STrRGERY

Do you believe the way to a mans heart lies through his stomach?'
 T don't know about that, but I be- lieve the way. to his purse often Hes through his appendix"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Senator Pomerene thinks the political bosses of Wisconsin kept most of the Stephenson campaign fund. They cor rupted themselves, not others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Business is not a bit feared by the activity Of the campaign. The campaign CTS are noisy but harmless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
A SPRING SYMPTOM

A SPRING SYMPTOM. He's not cheerful giver,
 Is more inclined to fuss. His liver, Oh, his liver
 Is lassitudinous.
 PHILADELPHIA REPLIES. rather think a wight could lead A life of tranquil bliss And Negetate just like a weed In Philadelphia, Miss.
 Paul Cook in Age-Herald. Just come to Philadelphia town The town of tranquil bliss" No monarch is happier with his crown Than the "wights of Philadelphia,
 Miss Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat.
 A RARE BIRD. Can you give short definition of q superwOuan7"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

William Lorirner is still studying the Stephenson vote. and the more he studies it the less he likes it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The colonel is not at any rate a favorite son. New York will not cast a vote for him, Alabama will not treat Oscar Un- derwood in any such manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
I remember. I remember.

When l was just a boy, The merry games of ''knucks" we played Would give me greatest joy. The while I bruised anothers s\ 'knucksr l thought the sport was fine, But all the pleasure faded when
 He took a shot at mine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Taft's campaign manager, Mckinley claims to have picked up thus far PAP Taft delegates, while Roosevelt has secured but 23
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The 16,o0o moving picture theatres in the United States creates a demand for dimes and nickles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Pretty soon the bleachers will begin to fit the recall to the umpire, or rather they will try to do ii.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

"Yes with her eyes closed" LoCKsLEY IS OPEN FOR THE
 SEASON. In the spring the hats of Easter mako the shoppers breathless pause; Tn the spring the seeds from Congress put crimp in Natures laws; In the spring the sharp campaigner tries to grab the doubtful state; Tn the spring the old mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of bait
 Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the spring the baseball players start to practice at the park In the spring the schoolboy fingers from his studies for lark: In the spring the cheerful jokesmith, though the whole wide world may scoff, Doth propound once more that chest nut bout the time to take 'en off"
 ALAS.
 Of life and love The poets sing, i4is It seldom gets
 Them anything.
 Birmingham ge-Herald Yes, life and love
 May be his lay,
 But he most craves
 A raise in pay.
 Cincinnati Enquirer
 SOON DONE. 'I saw Pibble standing on & corner yesterday winding up his estate." His estate?" '"Yes; a dollar watch"
 OPTIMISTIC. Said one at whom a word was hurled Where calumnies were thick, I'm glad twas just an epithet, It might have been brick"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

/It is even proposed to prolong the life of Madison Square Garden by devoting the theatre to motion pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

 No" Nobody else ever did" HAPPY FELLOW. The Eskimo dweils In his own igioo And never sheds tears When the rent falls due Birmingham Age-Herald. The Eskimo builds him A sealskin sack And never tells collectors You'll have to come back"
 Nashville Banner. The Eskimo swell Never knows the hurt Of a raggedy edge On hard boiled shirt. Youngstown Telegram. The Eskimo when He at night lies down Don't fuss at nor cuss at A starched nightgown.
 Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The Easter hat will soon be in the ring and the husbands pocketbook will go with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
FAMOUS HOPE DIAMOND

The suffragette window smashing was too direct and it reacted on the smashers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Bill Sunday says dancing is a hugging match set to music. That accounts for It's attraetiveness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The men who take nitorglycerin as { heart tonic are never kicked around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
.,.,,an,,,,. in the Spot Light

"AIahamas s stock of national men. that is, men of national prominence, has shown A wonderful increase in the last few years.' said an observing citizen. ''I re- member several years ago when outside of Alabama the names of our statesmen and industrial men seldom would be rec ognized-
 "To name them would be an enormous task and no man could tell exactly where to stop; but merely to mention some Of those at the head of the list would in- clude Oscar w. Underwood, candidate for President of tho United States and floor leader in the House of Representatives; Governor Emmet O'Neal. one of the best known back to the constitution" ora tors in the country and known every where for his ideas on the referendum and recall and his ability to state them Henry D. Clayton, chairman of the House judiciary committee. well known every where as a national authority on law; Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero of the Merrimac and champion of the navy, his name familiar in every state. There are many others but the whole thing just goes to show me that every year Ala bama is becoming more and more a figure in the affairs of the nation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
EXTREME POvERT TY.

"Jiggsworth Is one of tnose fellows who tries to be original"
 "Yes?"
 When he hasn't any money he never says he's broke. That would be slang He merely remarks that if the Atlantic ocean could be bought for a nickle, he wouldn't be able to get his feet wet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

stricken from all Roosevelt campaign lit- .erature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The ten Chicago packers have been fully vindicated and are now free to do it again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

About everything has been attributed ito Lord Bacon except the Houn' dawg song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

New Yorks recent primary was. a re- call of the Roosevelt boom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Some of the members of the Illinois leg islature refuse to be convened in extra ordinary session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The peek-aboo street car, one window open and the next one shut is fast be- coming the rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
The Great Russian Pianist

The appearance of Arthur Friedheim in a piano recital at the Jefferson theatre April 15 will be one of the seasons notable events. This Russian artist is, as all music lovers should know, the greatest Liszt player liv- ing. A critic who has travelled and has heard all the great virtuosos of Europe says:
 Arthur Friedheim Is the most in- dividual performer that I have ever heard very few executantsr equal him in mere finger dexterity, but he Surpasses them all in his gigantic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The beef barons have come out of the jungle covered from head to foot with Whitewash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Railroad Work PrOgressipg

Track laying on the new Tuscaloosa Mineral, from Tuscaloosa to Brook wood, is progressing rapidly and the road will soon be completed" said F.. J. Dunn of Dunn & IAalland Brothers. ''This will be a very important road. It will be of incalculable benefit to the city of Tuscaloosa and it Is a big thing for the Birmingham dis trict."
 In speaking of this part of the country MT. Dunn saiu that conditions were looking better and better every day. He predicted great volume of various sorts of heavy construction during this and the next few years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

farce" if Teddy had secured the most 1 deleRates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

vice president is expected to lead the "40O' in Washington. It is his only try ing task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
DIDN'T LOOK.

Has Miss Dwindles passed the age of thirty?"
 "Yes; with her eyes closed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

No communication will be published without it's authors name. ReJecteu manuscript will not be returned uhless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

That's woman who doesn't cars what her neighbor has on." Did you ever see woman like that:. No"
 Nobody else ever did"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

z. E. Morgan, W. G. Wharton anu George MeMasters are the only au' ie,. ized travelling representatives, ol Age-Herald in it's circulation depart ,nent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

Entered at the Birmingham Ala, postoffice as second class matter uiuo' act of Congress March 3, 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-11-09
ALLIGATOR Huntino Free for All,

Since the publication in this paper
few weeks ago of paragraph about
the profits to be made in alligator
farming, many letters have been re-
ceived asking for further information.
1t will interest these correspondents
to know that alligator hunting is now
free for all on the Magdalena river in
Colombia and that there is one firm
in Newark, N. j., which has virtual
monopoly of the alligator skin trade
Of the world, buying as 1t does from
so to 80 per cent Of the production.
In the Magdalena river are three
species of alligators, only one OF
which, the caimal rorro, is of any
value,
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-11-09

Bancroft for private view" of the
coveted red rose.
"Oh, that must be Benefits new
rose, the English beauty" said the
first woman to spy it.
Not at all, madame" said Brady.
proudly, that is the American red
rose"
Then it is the American Beauty"
said the lady, not to be outdone.
And then and there the name orig
mated, and not all of Bradys storm
lest persuasions could ever dislodge
1t. For the roses maker had already
decided that it should be named for
Judge Hagner a warm friend OF Mr.
Bancroft, and Brady's bright particu.
lar star, and to have the choice of it's
name and the christening ceremony
swept out of his reach at one fell
swoop would have tried the patience
of saint.
Brady finally made the best OF it.
and contented himself with assuring
Judge Hagner that things would have
been different il he had had any say
in them.
| From this time on, however, the his
tory of John Brady and his precious
rose begins to take somber turn. Mr..
Bancroft died in 1891, bequeathing the
American Beauty TO Brady as a tesla.
ment of his affection and appreciation.
! The famous gardens passed into other
bands, and Brady moved, with his
i htt, 60 nil la q
handful of American Beauty rose
bushes, into little house outside Of
Washington.
Things went rapidly from bad to
worse. Brady had neither money
nor the knack of picking up odd jobs.
His eldest son was still too young for
responsibility. and the ages of the
others, in regular succession, dimin-
ished pupetually by z year. His wife
was frail, out of patience with power
ty, and worn to exhaustion with the
care of children.
Brady survived the first part Of this
bleak period by observing the Span.
Is proverb, Patience. and shuttle the
cards" No stress of want could make
him part with his rose bushes, though
his wife, regarding him as a sort of
monomaniac on this subject, put her
noblest persuasions into the task OF
undoing his resolve.
To his reiterated tales of the for.
tune that would come to him some
day through the American Beauty
rose Mrs. Brady reasonably replied
that she and the children were hungry
that very day and hour, and that more
than her soul was sick with hope de.
ferred.
But some prescience Of the inherent
value of his rose kept Brady obdurate
TO appeals. domestic or professional.
The world of fashion had all but
forgotten the interregnum Of the
American Beauty i'm the Bancroft gar.
dens. Rose culturists had thought
many OF them, that 1t had never out
lived its heyday. Only a few of the
more observant had remembered that
the treasured bushes had been lega
cy from Bancroft TO his gardener
One of these last was the elder oil
the Field Brothers. wholesale florists
on the old Seventh street road, out
side of Washington. They made con