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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-01
Officers Elected
Peach Crop Unhurt

The peach crop of north Alabama so far has escaped every danger. and if there is no unexpected set back 1t will be the largest grown in more than ten years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-01
GIRL ALMOST DRAWN THROUGH A WINDOW Miss Campbell Has Thrilling
 Experience
 VEHICLES COLLIDE
Sham Battle Thursday Night-Sheriff Differs With Oates-A Surprise Wedding - Lightning Plays
 Hayoc-Park Opens

Decatur, May s1-(Special.)-Miss Fan nie Campbell of 1918 Third avenue, south, New Decatur. was awakened during the night by man trying to pull her through an open window.
 The young lady screamed and this awakened her mother, who was sleeping with her, and also Miss Lillian Isom. who was occupying bed in the same room. The cries of Miss Campbell did not cause the man to release his hold on her arm, nor did the man release his hold ran screaming to the door.
 On account of the darkness 1t could not be told whether the man was white or a negro. Miss Campbell Is prostrated from the shock.
 Miss Campbell and her mother were sleeping in bed near an open window. The window is only about three feet from the ground. It was raised up about IS inches and the shade was raised up about foot
 The police are Investigating the case. and are doing all they can to locate the intruder. On account of there being no telephone in the residence the police were not notified until morning. Sham Battle A sham battle. was fought last night in New Decatur by attachments of Dick Adams Rifles, Company E, Alabama Ma tional Guard. The battle was quite in teresting and was witnessed by large crowd of people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-01
Lot Sale

The first auction sale of city lots that has been held here in the last two years or more was conducted yesterday after noon in the Mountain View addition, when every lot in that addition was sold. The average price paid was s65.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
by THE WAY
az HARVEY PARsONs.

A particularly appropriate motion
was made 'tother night at the Thoid
ward caucus. 1t was that the Roose-
welt followers drift to the South, and
the Taft adherents to the North GO
ing south" has been one of the prin-
cipal occupations of the Roosevelt fac
ton for some time.
If the Kansas City Star spells the
name of the new mayor Jolt, 1t is not
necessarily a misprint. That's the way
they feel about it.
Cap Scott sent his ship home, but
remained in the region of the South
Pole, thus escaping a perfectly rotten
winter.
It is a sure sign of a late spring when
the book beer advertisements beat the
dandelions to the notice of the public.
The answer is, of course, that Brewing
plants are not so badly affected by
weather conditions as are other plants.
1t appears that a number of places in
Illinois went wet but at certain
points where the levee broke in Missis-
sippi and Tennessee, it went dang
sight wetter.
Ambition, as we figure 1t, after many
years of careful consideration of the
subject, is something you would like to
do but can't.
This is not the right time of year to
boost a boy by telling him that he may
sometime become president. He'd lots
rather be baseball reporter.
In every locality is some wop who is
known as the busy bee" because
everybody he touches gets stung.
Spring poetry is nearly as soft as the
spring vegeta bles and fruit imported
from Florida and other foreign parts.
And if we get around to it before this
sheet of paper gives out, we will say a
little more about spring.
Spring being an obvious subject, and
something that the politicians can't
take exceptions to. One may write al
most anything about spring, without
danger of receiving word from the boss
that some simp has written in demand
ing a retraction.
The way one hotel waiter roasts an
other is to tell him he acts like one of
the guests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Among Mayor Billiards. ideas that
are worth while is the one that a
whole lot of leaves should be torn out
of the states statute books. He points
out that this is especially true of the
myriad of state laws that concern the
government of the municipalities And
there surely will be a few persons who
can honestly disagree with Topeka's
chief executive on this score.
Even under the commission form of
government, the cities of Kansas
haven't much of a measure of home
rule. There are state laws on almost
every conceivable activity in which a
city is likely to indulge. The great
majority of them hamper and hinder
the development of the cities along
lines that are agreeable to the bulk of
their populations.
1t is ridiculous, for instance, that
there should be a general state law
limiting the amount of money that
city can raise in a year for the pur-
poses of public parks. 1t is entirely
proper. and perfectly reasonable for
the people of one city to desire a,
larger and more complete park sys-
tenn than do the people of another
city. Still the city that is in position
to go ahead with a large park develop
ment plan, and is eager to do so, is
held back by the limitations of a state
law.
This is the case with almost every
municipal activity. Conditions are far
| from being the same in all of the
cities in Kansas on account of their
location, their topography, their en-
lvironment and the class of people who
live in them. Yet on most PROPOSE
lions there is a general state law tell
! ing each city that it can only go so
far in any particular direction. It
may be an adequate law for one or
| two cities, but it would be impossible
almost that such a law would be fair
or right for all the cities. Kansas
cities are so fettered, especially as to
the application of their funds, that not
| one of them can make the simplest
move ahead without legislative action
1t was necessary for Topeka to wait
until state legislation was enacted CIV
| ing it permission to go ahead and
| establish the White Way system on
Kansas avenue. How ridiculousi That
was purely local matter and one that
the city should have had ample au-
thority to handle on it's own volition-
A sore need of the cities of Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
WAITTNG


The afternoon is lonely for your face,
The pampered morning mocks the day
decline
I was SO rich at noon. the sun was
mine,
Mine the sad sea that in that rocky
Girdled round with blue betrothal
ring,
Because your heart was mine. that
precious thing.
The night will be a desert till the dawn,
Unless you take some ferry-boat OF
dreams,
And guide to me. a glory of silver
Under my eyends. like sad curtains
So. by good hap, my heart can find its
way
Where all your sweetness lies in frag-
rant disarray.
All! but with morn the world begins
anew,
Again the sea shall sing up to your
feet,
You all alone with me, all alone with
you,
And all the business OF the laureled
hours
shyIy to gaze on that betrothal ring
Richard LIE Caffeine, in Harper's' Ba-
Ear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON,

There, little girl don't cry,
They have broken your doll know,
And your tea set blue,
And your playhouse, too
Are things of the long ago
But childish troubles will soon pass by
There there, little girl, don't cry.
James Whitcomb Riley.
A little girl passed us on the street the
other day, crying piteousIy Her small
mouth was drawn down into lines OF
deepest woe, and she looked, to use the
familiar expression, quite as if she had
lost her last friend.
Said my companion: And to think that
probably there's nothing any more serious
the matter than she's lost a penny, or torn
her dress! Funny, isn't it, what fuss we
used to make over our foolish little trou-
bleS? If we could have known what we'd
have to face when we grew up,'
Is it so funny?
Is it strange that the ant is greatly
troubled, because someone has kicked a
stone onto his ant hill?
Is 1t queer that he doesn't realize that
II he were man, that stone wouldn't
look like anything to him?
1t seems to me that this CHEEKY "for
childish troubles will soon pass by atti-
tude such as my companion assumed, is
all too common among US grown-upS.
The truth that a child's little trouble,
which he will forget in hour, is just
as serious to him during that hour, as a
grief which overShadowS a life time is
during its greater duration to a grown-up.
is something very few grown-ups seem to
be able to realize.
And vet ask your own experience if 1t
is not so. How else can you explain that
at forty, fifty or sixty you still remember
your disappointment-that time you were
sick and couldn't go to the circus-as
keenly as your grown-up grief at missing
some truly splendid and Hfe-changing OPP
portunity. How else do you account for
the fact that a woman of eighty-five told
me that she could never yet eat certain
kind of spice cake without remembering
the terrible day when she was whipped,
and sent to bed for pilfering one. Don t
these things look as If the griefs must have
been pretty intense, while they lasted, to
leave such an impression?
The truth is that a child has not yet
acquired any sense Of perspective. He
has no breadth of view. All the objects
that he looks at are very close to his eyes.
Now hold tiny object-a thimble or a
penny-up close to your eye and see how
look it can obscure. Well, that's just
the way the child sees his griefs.
And again, must remember that a
child's experience of disappointment is
much smaller than ours. Experience has
made us wary of hoping too much. but
that what he wants, that shall he have
at once, and hence his disappointment,
even in little things, Is proportionately
keener. AS Mrs. Browning puts 1t some
where, the child cries for the moon, and
beats its nurse when he doesn't receive it,
but the old man sips his Cruel with avid
ity and thanks Heaven if nobody beats
him.
Don't belittle, laugh at, or pass lightly
over the baby's troubles. If you are in
trivial and transient your own grief I'M
doubtedly looks to an Intelligence thou
sand times farther beyond yours, than
your own is beyond the child's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

An effort, to get rich quick makes many
people poor.
Almost any girl can marry without mar
rying a Chinaman.
Time deals gently with those who have
the least idle moments.
Jealousy doesn't take much to start
and nothing to keep it going.
Sometimes man 'hoIlers'' before he's
hurt, and thereby avoids getting hurt
A woman will overlook a good deal of
meanness in a man who is good to her
children.
Patriotism is popular with some people
because a double header is played on
national holidays.
If a woman is good looking, she doesn't
need much of an excuse to get her picture
in the papers.
There are various uses for the Blue
Pencil, but oratory needs its liberal use
more than anything we can think Of
1t is hard for a country band man to
resist the temptation to unbutton his
blouse to let people see his necl1tie.
Everyone believes he is entitled to re-
IgiouS liberty, but he isn't sure about
those who fail to agree with him.
Someone should engage the grounding
for a matinee performance in August
when his work will be appreciated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
AYHAWKER JOT.S

Baptizing baby may help, points
out the Oakley Graphic, but the home
training is what counts.
An optimist is one who is willing TO
take a seed catalogues word for it,
thinks the Hiawatha World.
A trifiing man, says the Jewell Coun
ty Monitor, is the happiest of all, since
nothing is expected of him.
A tip to the women from Miss Anna
Carlson. editor of the Lindsborg News
Record: Yes, your neighbours Easter
hat is one of the things included in the
Tenth Commandment.
From the East Allen correspondent
of the Jewell County Republican: Span
ish peanuts are being highly recon-
mended as feed for dairy COWS. Will
that produce peanut butter?
A parody by the Mcpherson Opin-
Every time say anything
The fellows toss my hat in the ring.
Don't care if it's only Third Term
Brown
They gotta stop kickin' my hat aroun'.
Glib Childers has a soft, tender heart
when he is boozed up, reports the How
ard Courant. A pathetic picture at the
Electric theater will make him shed
tears and shuttle. But the sight of his
own wife bending over the washtub
and his own children in rags, doesn't
appear to touch his soft spot a bit.
F'orty-four years ago the prairie land
scape up in Lyon county presented a
generally verdant aspect between the
18th and goth of March. But the ma
tive sod then possessed its pristine vigor
and grass started earlier.-Wilson
County Citizen. And to this rather
poetic effusion, the Toronto Republican
adds: Forty-four years ago, Bill White
had not begun paving up the ground
in Lyon county.
For the benefit of our foreign sub
scribers that take the paper for the
purpose of keeping tab on the weather
and crop conditions of this locality,
reports the Palco Enterprise, we will
say that from February "a till March
"a the sun was hardly visible for a
whole day at time and during that
time over three feet of snow fell be-
side several inches of rain. During that
time we only had four or five trains.
A barber shop yarn, as retold in the
Toronto Republican: One time George
Truman was in Kansas City with
bunch of boys who went there on
trip. George, who can play the Rube
to perfection went to the information
bureau man and, squirting one eye
at him said, BE you the man what can
answer any question: Yes" said the
information man, what is it?'' WALL"
drawled George, how much wages do
We git q month p"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Patience and hustle should make a win
ming team.
The more promises a man makes the
more he doesn't keep.
Sweethearts are always dear, but wives
are far more expensive.
There are two kinds of ambition; one
scars and the other crawls.
It's wonderful what large catalogues
from small garden seeds will grow.
A good nights sleep is one of the few
things people like that is good for them.
AS a rule a man is either very sober or
very drunk when he loves his enemies
girls kisses are like pickles in
bottle-the first is hard to get, but the
rest come easy.
When a bachelor is landed by a leap
wear girl, he can imagine about how
fish out of water feels.
The meanest trick a leap year girl can
play on a man who rejects here proposal
is to take him at his word.
A man rises in his own estimation wher
he settles down, and in the estimation of
his creditors when he settles up.
When the suffragettes get what they
are after and an election goes wrong a
man will have one thing more to blame
on his wife.
Perhaps adversely may be useful in
bringing out the strong points in man 8
character, but most men would vote to
abolish it Just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Somebody is always hanging around
handy to profit by another's misfor-
tune.
X y
When an income tax. becomes a
reality you won't hear so many peo-
pie Boosting as to their enormous in
comes.
Presuma bly,, great deal of plan
ming is going on among the office
boys the country over to get off for
the first ball games.
X X x
To a woman who is wearing a last
summers hat nothing is more pleas
ing than to have a friend insist it is a
new one.
X y
This is also the season of the year
when the graduates-to-bea are getting
ready to stand with reluctant feet
where the brook and river meet"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

then he went into the ring
Puffs waited for her turn. The pony
she always rode was dancing restleSsly
under check. In the ring Pete was do
ing his star act, as Piebald Pete from
Windy Valley, dead-shot scout and
terror of the redskins. Now, they
| into the ring for the grand roundup
and fight. After that came Puff's rid
ing turn.
Suddenly the Indian disappeared.
There came the last volley of shot and
the thud of hoofs as the boys chased
the steers. Puffs backed her pony to
let them pass through the narrow pas
sage, but as the first head appeared
Mooneye rose from the shadows, Wav-
ing a lighted torch under its nOStr1lS-
The rearing, dancing pony was in the
wa. Puffs tried to hold it steady as
the frightened steer lowered its head
and backed into the mass behind him.
Mooneye had tossed the torch madly at
their damned heads, and was yelling
something. The foremost steers tried
to turn and were trampled by those be-
hind. A roar rose from the seats at the
smell of smoke.
Get back there Puffs shouted to
the Indian. You'll be killed.
She pressed the sides of the pony
lightly, and it sprang forward shoulder
against the flank of the steer.
Come on, boys; chase them now!"
she called back, and the mass broke as
the ieaOer ran neadlong, PuTS at MS
heels.
us Mooneye hurt?" vas her first
question, after the danger was past and
Pete found her.
rs she hurt?" he repeated grimly.
4 should say not. You'd have been
gored and trampled if she'd had her
way. She leaves tomorrow"
Puffs looked up at his eyes.
Why? Let me go. She's more to the
show than 1 am"
But she amt more to me. oh,
mean it," He reached for her hun
grily. I've let you go along easy, girl,
and almost lost you, letting you have
your own way. You sure had me eat
ing out of your hand tamely, didn't
you? Here go along on tiptoes, re-
speeding you ladies, and getting claw
ed right and left. 1t ends right here to-
night, Puffs. Mooneye's packing her
army blanket this minute. Wen get
married tomorrow, and maybe skip the
snow business; what do you say? 1 can
get a foreman's position anywhere west
of Joplin, and you won't have to lope
around any sawdust ring. Like it, girl,
dear?"
Puffs put her arms up around his
neck Out in the ring they were put
ting out the lights.
III go, Pete" she whispered.-(Copy-
right, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD !

Gink-"Jack died horrible death.
didn't he?'' Dink-"Terrible. He tried II
trace the family tree of a man named
Smith"
Father-"Why does young Saphede call
here every EVENING"" Daughter-"Why.
he says he's learning to love me-" Father
Huh. The next time he calls tell him
to do his studying at home.''
Fond Mamma-t'You must not let NV
Willie work too hard You know one Of
your pupils went blind from overstudy.'
Teacher-"Have no fears, madam. There
is no danger of an epidemic
Mrs. Reno-'Maude complains that she
is not invited to the most exclusive social
AFFAIRS Mrs. Keepimnot-"My dear, I
don't how she can expect it. Why,
she has only been divorced once in the
last three years..
At politics I have no show for could
never see why all the voters that 1 know
with my vote disagree Now the man I
want elected I've known most of my life;
why he's kept the kids in candy and he's
friendly with my wife. A finer man there
could not be; his creed is honesty.
know him very well, you see, for-Im the
nominee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
Tt Rained Bait.

I'm a truthful man." sighed Capt.
William Duffy, commander of the fer
ryboat Bayonne City, which plies be-
tween Bergen Point, n. J., and Port
Richmond, Staten Island, when the boat
locked at Port Richmond. 81 say I'm
a truthful man, but when the colonel
hears of the experience had he'll send
me word I'm q nature faker and add
my name to his Ananias club.
WED just left Bergen Point when we
ran into a severe snowstorm and high
winds from the north. After the snow
stopped we had what I thought was a
fall Of hail. This continued for five
minutes. Then I went on deck and dis
covered we had been in a storm of
sandworms.
Yes, sir; that's just what they were
-sandworms. The decks were slippery
with 'em. and / gathered up two can
fuls to prove to the colonel or auy
other doubter of my word that I spake
the truth Here they are. Look at
EN- and the captain pulled forth the
cans containing worms.
'eFIow do you account for a storm Of
sandworms % was asked
well, maybe the high winds have
driven the tide back and uncovered
worms wintering along the Jersey
Shore and the worms were picked UP
by the squat that swooped down on US
by the squall that swooped down on us
That's the only explanation can make
And I don't want anybody to even hint
I'm liar. New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

in expenditures for increasing the
naval strength by adding bigger
dreadnoughts to the feet. At the
same time, they renominate Congress
man-Captain Richmond pearson Hob
son for the seat he has been occupy
ing in the house of representatives.
And if Hobson had his way he would
spend all the funds of the government
for the construction of battleships,
with the possible exception of suffi-
cient sum to pay the members of con-
gress their hard-earned salaries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
says UNCLE CAV

Next to seeing nothing but good in
yourself and nothing but bad in others.
the worst possible case of mental cross
eyes is to reverse the arrangement.
Some men are natural born Worship
ers. and, by the same token. natural
born failures.
It's better to boost than to knock, but
praise is a two-edged sword and a
weapon to be handled with care The
stroke that cleaves the way for appre-
citation of your friend may slit your
own hose on the rebound.
The habit of adulation brands one as
as inferior. Speak we'll of your neigh
Dor and even of your rival, but do it
another no imputation of inferiority to
yourself. He who makes it his sole
business to point out the excellencies of
others is likely to classify himself as a
more agreeable nobody, if not as a dis
gushing Sycophant-
Your proper attitude is that of dig
nified merit, tempered by modesty. In
keeping with this attitude let it be your
habit to praise none too highly, and
especially to avoid praising another IN
comparison with yourself. Few of US
are SO secure in our places that we can
afford to lift another above us. in the
opinion of our neighbors. None of us
can afford, for our own moral well be-
ing, to withhold credit where credit is
due, but we can less afford to beIittle
ourselves, consciously or unconsciously,
to elevate others in the opinion of those
who must judge us both
He is of a perverse and vicious dis
position who will not say a good word
for friend, but he is a fool who be-
comes SO busy pointing out the merits
of a neighbor that he has no time 70
demonstrate his own.-(Copyright 1912,
by W. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

John Mitchell, the great labor lead
er, has been forced to take a rest, as
his voice has gone back on him and
he is unable to fill his speech-making
engagements. And Mr.. Mitchell is
one of the men who always has some
thing to say that is worth while when
he gets up to make a speech. There
would be reason for much rejoicing,
though, if most of the political SPELL
binders were afflicted, temporarily at
least, as Mr.. Mitchell has been. Few
of them have anything to say that is
worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
HUMOR OF THE DIP

"And what do you think of home rule,
PATTI" Sure, sor, twill be like hiven."
Like heaven? What makes you think
that?'' Faith, thin, the priests tell us
that when we get to hiven we'll be
blissed angels wild wings an harps, when
all the time we'd far sooner stay the
way we are now.'-Punch.
His Friendship.-He-I know how this
catastrophe has crippled you, and as one
of your Oldest friends 1 should like to
help you. / will buy your furniture for
200 francs She-You're very kind, but I
have just sold It for 325 francs. He
What? You allowed yourself to be rob-
bed like that?-Pele Mele.
Diplomat.-"Did you hear Congress-
man Wombat's speech?' Il did that"
What did he say about those charges
of grating which have been brought
against him? HE didn't touch on that
subject. But he said the Constitution
must and shall be preserved. "-Louisvilla
Courter-Journal-