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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
THE CHAMPION LIAR
the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Speaking of liars, we have the champion of the world down in Mississippi said Private John Allen. former representative from Mississippi, 10 "Fidd;,ng Bob" Taylor, senator from Tennessee.
 ''Nyho is he?" asked the senator.
 'I don't know his name, but his fame started in Il law case few weeks ago An old negro was on trial for stealing chickens. He had denied his guilt and che of the deacens of his church was called to testify to his reputation for truth and veracity.
 Now. deacon.' said the prosecutor, do you know this defendant?'
 "'Yes, sir
 How well do you know him?' E "'Oh. know him tahlable we'll
 What is his reputation for truth and veracity in the neighborhood in which he lives?'
 "The old-lnan looked thoughtful for a minute.
 tho lawyer Does he tell the truth? Can he tell the truth? Do his neighbors be- lieve what he says?
 That niggah tell the truth? Does anybody believe him? Why mistah law yah, when that niggah wants to call his kawgs at feedin time he ha sto git some body eies to holler foh him." "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
BACK TO OLD BROADWAY

young? But what strikes me is that there are no middle aged women in evl- dence The women here seem to be either young or old, and unless you get good loox at the myou ean't tell .which."
 .And Broadway?' I ventured. What changes have you noticed up and down the Great White Way?"
 'sIt's the same old Broadway only more so. Of course, there have been many physical changes. There wasn't much to take one above Forty-second street when I was in The Belle. But the spirit of the street is unchanged. I don't suppose it's spirit will ever change. I love 1t, dear old Broadway.
 Many of the old familiar faces are gone. l don't suppose I would know many of the first nghters today. But tell me- she said. changing the conversation sud- denly, ''who is the reigning beauty now?' I had to admit l didn't know
 That's what everyone tells me- she answered ''There doesn't seem to be a popular idol that everybody wQrships. And the matinee idols, too, seem to have vanished"
 This evening has been Illuminating" she admitted before bidding me good night. T like London, and I like to be near the continent, but, after all, ones native land has greater ties. I thought they were severed, but really am more intensely American than ever. There's only one fault to find-you have to live so fast here. Why, I've lived more in the past 2f hours than all last summer in London. stand 1t because I was born here, but long for simpler, queter life. like the country and all outdoor sports. So does my husband, and we are very happy-so happy that I shall never return to the stage. Perhaps some day I can persuade MT. Lewisohf to live in Amer ica, but he likes London, and wife should like what her husband likes, shouldn't she?"
 And with a sweet smile the belle of New York bade me good night and de- parted. few minutes later I was wan dering up Fifth avenue in the night, hun- ming Follow On.'' But what I did is an- other story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
rrom the A tIanta eonstItutlon.

From the 4 tlanta Constitution.
 "HE most humiliating paradox in
 American politics today is the x shrinking attitude Of some of our own people toward the presidential possi- b,litics Of southern men.
 The civil war, the memories of which furnished the nursery for this indefensib.e sectional abasement, is 50 years at our hack. Ninety per cent of the American voters who elect President remember this war and its dividing rancor only as history. With outstrchetehed hands. hay ing given every proof of viewing Mason and Dixoa's line as no more political barrier than the Mississippi or the Rock ies. the dominant generation at the north invites the south, it's public men, by right O. citizenship and by right of demon strated ability. into full fellowship in the nations counsels.
 What has been the answer of the south at least, the answer that may be inter- preted by the silence or the diffidence Of hundreds of thousands of representa- tive souther7ers?
 Obsessed by the ghosts of half cen- tury ago. guilty of an embarrassment and a self consciousness that is nothing short of arrant sectional cowardice, there is a feeling among many southerners that the wrsiths of the sixties still stand between the south and the White House the south and that participation in the nations voice, the nations destiny, to which the nation is eager to admit us.
 The consequences of this abnegation of common manhood could not be more forcefully portrayed than in the words of the Constitutions Washington core spondent, in dispatch discussing the presidential status resulting from the Harvey Wilson Watterson episode. ''lf he,' writes our correspondent, eanvassr 2 the possibilities of Oscar Underwood, the brilliant Aiabamian, along with other southerners. pays the penalty of being southern man, it will be the south and rot the north to exact it.''
 That is also an accurate delineation of the manner in which the north views the situation. We use Underwood only as an illustration, though his magnificent record as House leader during the special ses-
 
 cIares. have assured his nomination with sweep"-had he lived at the north, To the north, 1t makes no difference where Underwood, or any other one of the gall Oxy being discussed, was born. The rep resentative northerner does not bridle at mention of Bull Run or Gettysburg. It remains fo:' the south to deevlop political stage fright over these dininiShfner cbap tcrs in our history. The last smouldering sinbers of sectional acrimony were stamped out by the Spanish-Amercan var. The last barriers between north and south were crI,mbled before tue achievements of Joe Wheeler of Fitzhugh Lee and of many of the younger genera tion on both sides.
 The most convincing evidence of this fact is the manner in which the nation
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= ernoon. "and was not so much surprised Friday night when I got Into trouble again.
 T was returning home about midnight. On account of the fact that no policemen patrol the Southside, I carried a reVoi- yer. Just as I turned a dark corner someone. in stern voice, cried Halt. I thought highwayman was about 10 go through me and flashed my gun In his face. The man threw up his hands. T realized my mistaske at once The 'highwayman' was a policeman. l ar gued, but no reason could shake him. In the police court this week I will an- swer to the charge of carrying weapon concealed. The only policeman who has been op the Southside in a month nabbed me when I was preparing to defend myz self against a stranger whom I had mis- taken for a robber"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
Visited Ills Old Home

'I spent two weeks recently in Rich mond, my old home,' said w. T. Leake.
 ''The Virginia capital grows, and wQp- derful improvements have been made there in recent years. It was always a beautiful city, and now it is noted for the large number of its handsome build ings of modern construction. It has splendid hotels, and all of them seem to be thriving. There is a great deal of building under way in Richmond. The volume of new construction in money is estimated at S6,000,000."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 If lying weren't so foolish maybe there wouldn5t be so many liars.
 It's better to be able to- pay your hills than to be model citizen.
 woman who can firt with her own husband never has to with any other man.
 It's a good deal easier to learn how to run an automobile than to pay the cost Of it.
 Lots Of men who are worrying about what is going to happen to them in the next world wouldn't be If they could send the furnace in their own house down there.
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explained
,gin Butter Price

The .slgin butter board neither mr $ nor handles butter. It repre-
 .ts but small part of the butter makers of the country, and yet it names the market price of butter Tn the entire country. It recently marked the price up cents a pound to a point 15 cents above the price of one year ago.
 This board is to be brought into court as a trust, and its relations to the storage trust will be brought out. It is claimed that the Elgin butter trust and the storage trust are work ing partners, and that one acts after consulting the other.
 The methods of the Elgin butter board autocrats are certainly not above suspicion. Recent evidence brought out in Chicago goes to show that the Chicago butter and egg board is the price fixer-that it names a price. and then goes to Elgin to have it annuonced by the Elgin butter board. There seems to be a conspi- racy focused in Chicago or Elgln or both to exploit the butter consumers of the country, and if it exists it should be thoroughly exposed. Publicity even to the minutest detail is needed in relation to this important article of the table-this prime item in the cost of living, and the present court effort should be carried to the limit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING

From the Christian Herald.
 Night was coming on, the storm was increasing and some of the deck fittings had already been swept overheard. when the captain decided to send up distress signal. The rocket was already lit and about to ascend when a solemn faced pas- senger stepped up.
 "Capn." said he, 'rd be the last rnan m earth to cast denper on any man's patriotism. but seen-o to me this here s no time foc celebratin an settin off of fireworks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
EI.EETING LIFE

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The worldly hope men set their hearts
 upon Turns ashes-or it prospers; and anon, Like snow upon the deserts dusty face. Lighting a little hour or two-is gone. Think, in this battered caravanserai Whose portals are alternate night and
 day,
 How sultan after sultan with his pomp Abode his destined hour and went his
 way. They say the lion and the lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried an5
 drank deep; And Bahram, that great hunter-thl
 wild ass Stamps OCT his head. and cannot brea,
 his slaUn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
YOUNG CALF AND THE OLD HEN

From Satire.
 A Thin old Hen one day met Youns Calf in Green Field and said to Him: .s''Come along with Me. My Boy, and join me in a Salad.''
 The Calf looked at The Hen out of his innocent eyes and said:
 Thanks very much. What name is your Salad called by?"
 Chicken The Hen cackled ironically, with her head to starboard.
 The Calf was Silent and Thoughtful Then He looked at The Hen again and said:
 Tt is awfully good of You. but I thins I'd rather be Ris de Vau," and He side stepped toward patch of Green Grass The Old Hen sadly raised her head and walked away, remarking:
 "I do not understand"
 Moral-They never Do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

is no more popular than the other. The country is full of progressive ideas-tariff reform ideas-and the election in November will carry the revolution we'll nigh to high water mark. se
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
Shooting of Prisoner.

''rhe case yesterday afternoon in Besse- mer of body of men shooting to death a negro held by officers of the law on the charge of murder was not the first to occur in this district" stated a deputy sheriff.
 Not many months ago a negro charged with heinous crime committed against a young girl. was shot to death by the father of the girl in the court room in which his trial was about to begin.
 Many years ago a man of Brming- ham, placing a revolver between the bars of a cell, killed negro who had con- fessed to similar crime. The instances are rare, however, for it generally hap pens that everybody is willing for the law to take its course."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
To stop Cemetery Thieves

q think that the cemetery manage ment should make proper provision for guarding the graves of the dead from desecration by vsndals of any kind" said Hugh Seals.
 This is done in every large city and where thieving has taken place, such as is complained of here in Birmingham. detectives are employed. I have known of several cases of theft of valuable plants stolen from the lots of those who mourn their dead and pay loving tribute to their memory. Not long ago some s5 worth of hyacinths that a widow had me plant around her husbands grave were promptly stolen.
 Another thing I again call attention 10 is that there should be some ordinance passed requiring sextons to burn an floral offerings after three or four days. Con- tagious and infectious diseases may, and doubtless are, transmitted by the reuse of framing and wiring that has been used over the dead in florals. For many years I refused to buy the secondhand wire designs, even at a pittance price of the original cost, but others were buy ing these designs in wire, some of which cost when new s3 and s4, for s15 per 100 from sextons, and I was forced to do so. There is a design that cost me s. % which presently may buy for b cents.
 .'I wish to say, by the way. that here in Birmingham is one of the very best wire workers in this country and his frames and designs cannot be surpassed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Vessels to the number of 4969 paid last year s5iOo per vessel for the privilege of passing through the Suez canal. The Panama canal will soon take some of this business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Both national conventions this year promise to be interesting, and even ex- citing. No one has a walkoyer in either, not even when he has a steam roller.
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Outlet for Missionary Activity

'Now that the missionary spirit is be- ing aroused among our people," said an observer of our broader social activities. ''it is to be hoped that the public library system will be recognized as a legit- innate and important outlet for missionary efforts.
 There are many among us who have been given the opportunity to develop latent powers and who have reaped mon- etary harvests in this growing city. Some Of these would experience as much sat isfaction from giving to the people around them as to people who live thousands of miles away. They only need to see the case clearly and this the missionary work CTS can accomplish, if they will grasp the opportunity.
 Nothing will reach so many people, nothing will be so universal in its ram ifications as will the library system. And 1t has the further merit that the good work does not cease with the act, but keeps up throughout the years.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

King George need not try to become a rival of our Theodore as a great hunter. The automobile is not part of the equip ment of a really great hunter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The people of Oklahoma have the repu- tation of being first in war, first in peace and first in the quest of bandwagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The Duke of Connaught shook off with difficulty the title worshippers of New York when he went to Washington to pay his respects to the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Mrs. Whitelaw Reid has through the Connaughts made herself the social lead CT of America but her husband cannot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Senator Bailey's pride in his reaction ary sentiments is not seconded in all parts of his own state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Skyscraper hotels in this town go in hocks and the lariat should be used un- til one of them is actually landed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The Teddy Boosters are to have a na-. tional gathering in which the Abernathy Kids will be stars of the first rank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

MT. Bryan comes back in an effort to knock coionels Harvey and ,watterson into Two cooked hats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Cuba is the good little boy before Christ mas. Phiander Knox is keeping tab on the unfortunate island.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The grounding promises to come into the open before Colonel Roosevelt does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The strike of the chauffeurs does not alarm the great mass of the people. In fact, the latter seem to enjoy 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Manila lost its baseball team when the troops stationed there were dispatched to China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The burning question now is, what shall we do with our presidential candidates?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

The Kaiser knows the worst and he is glad the elections are over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Thus far Colonel Harvey has not named his present presidential favorite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
Hard Luck Case

T am ever the victim of hard luck" stated well known man yesterday aft-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Butter is coming down. The threat of a congressional probe caused it to slip backward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Life up north is defined to be just one coal bill after another.
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The tail end railroad collision is no re- specter of persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29
THE UNDERWOOD STRENGTH

A "who's Who" is wanted in the presi dential race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-29

Karl K. Kitchen in the New York World Follow on, follow on The Light that you may seei But they never proceed to follow that
 Light They always follow me.
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TELEPHONES

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-04-03
ASKS toR BIG DAMAGES.
Ottumwa Laborer Wants $1,000
Remuneration fof Exciting
Experiences.

Ottumwa, Ia, April Whether
$500 is too large a sum for dam
ages suffered while entombed in an
old well for a period of four hours,
kept alive by the use of oxygen while
a score of men We're removing rocks
surrounding his body, is to be deter
mined in the coming trial in the Wa
pello county district coart entitled:
James SHUTS against Bartlett & King,
contractors. Suits was employed by
the firm and was engaged in an old
well on the ground of the new $685.
600 federal building here. While
connecting some piping from the old
to the new well, the old we'll caved
in, crushing SHUTS to the bottom I'M
der a heavy mantle of rocks and dirt
While men worked frantically to re-
move the rocks, small pipe was
shot down the we'll to SHUTS mouth
and through this the oxygen was
l0rced, keeping him alive. At the
end of four hours Suits was brought
to the surface badly bruised and in
a weakened condition, but alive. A
month in bed brought him returned
health.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-04-03
Farm House Burned.

Between two and three o'clock on
Sunday afternoon the farm house on
the old Dan Ryan place in Union
Prairie township, about three miles
northwest of Waukon, was complete
ly destroyed by fire, together with
most of its contents.
The place was occupied by Thomas
Ryan and the inmates of the house
were seated at the dinner table when
the cracking of the flames overhead
warned them of their danger. At this
time the whole upper part of the
structure was on fire and with the
slim fire fighting facilities at hand
nothing could be done toward saving
it. Some of the furniture in the low
er story was taken out, but most Of
the contents went up in smoke.
Some insurance was carried in the
Winneshiek and Allamakee Farmers
Mutual. 1t was fine, commodious
structure, and the loss, regardless of
the insurance, will be considerable
-Waukon Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-04-03
BIG TIME FOR SPRING GROVE.
\ Grand Mailing Stevne" VIII Take
Place There on June
II, 10, IL.

There viii be a grand Mailing
Stevne' in Spring Grove on June -.
13 and IA. In other words, there
will be a gathering of the clans. a
grand convention of Hallings and
their descendants.
All Norway is divided into valleys,
and of these valleys Hallingdal is
considered one of the best known.
Each valley has distinct dialect.
acquired through isolation, and poor
communication between the valleys.
The Hallngs dialect is probably the
most quaint and strong of any of
these dialects. The object, among
other good purposes of the "stevne,
is to preserve the Halling tongue and
to foster a love for the "heimdals
dali"
Spring Grove was selected for the
"stevne" because one of the largest
Halling settlements in the northwest
is located there, and also because the
old country hospitality of the inhab-
itants is famous. Wilmington has
most of the Hallings locally, but west
and south of Spring Grove they are
also very numerous.
1t is expected to be some "stevne."
Five thousand people at the least
figure are counted upon to be in at
tendance, and special cars are said
to be coming, full of Hallings, from
Fessenden and Cheyenne, n. D.,
Northwood and Kensett, Iowa, and
Beloit, GAINESVILLE and Brodhead,
Wis. Many will come by automobile
and hundreds are expected to be
present via team. There will be
Hallings from all over the middle
northwest.
A committee of Spring Groves
representative men has been selected
to take charge of the affair and pro-
mote sociability, and the slogan,
Let Me Introduce You," has been
adopted as indicative of Spring
attitude
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-04-03
ADVERTISING BRIDGES.
The Latest Boost For Good Roads
Cement Paving in Growing
Favor.

The cause Of good roads in Linn
county received big boost the other
day when twenty-three prominent
business establishments at Cedar
Rapids signed up for new cement
culyerts along the overland route
through the county. These bridges
will cost from $4,000 up to 5000
each, and bear neat tablets with the
names of the doners. Cement Gull
verts mean big Improvements because
they can easily be maintained as a
practical continuation of the road
way and do not mean the big jumps
up and down over the old wooden
structures. The originator of this
scheme" bids fair to prove one Of
the greatest benefactors of his age,
because the good idea appears 10
have proven taking one and to be
making the right kind of a hit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-04-03
Sacrificing Health For Wealth.

From reliable authority comes the
statement that a majority of the
population of the twentieth century
are sacrificing their health and hap
piness in order that they may attain
wealth. What are the results of this
overtaXing of our nervous system?
The digestive organs are the first to
be seriously effected by any strain
on the nervous system. The whole
body becomes effected from lack of
proper nourishmcnt as the organs of
the body are unable to properly di-
gest the food and furnish the blood
with the normal food for the nerve
cells and other tissues Of the body.
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pessimistic, and q lack of ambition
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We certainly advise you to use
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