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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-04

system of protecting manufacturers
profits first and foremost.
The Boston Transcript objected
during the pre-eonvention campaign
to Mr.. Underwood's candidacy be-
cause he had been a national figure
but single year, and that his career
afforded nothing picturesque. As a
result, it said, the average mantle
average farmer, mechanic and I'M
skilled laborer-knew little or nothing
about him. The average man likes
to mention and discuss peculiar fea-
lures of possible candidates. Way off
IN the northeast the situation may be
as the Transcript describes it. But
when Mr.. Underwood has put in four
years more of excellent tariff work he
will be better known than any man in
the country.
Mr.. Underwood never poses. He is
never insincere. He is a level-headed
man who cannot be thrown out of
poise. He studies deeply the subjects
that come before him and he is ready
then for all corners. They invariably
get more than they had expected.
Such man will grow steadily before
the public, and in 1916 the Transcript
will not say that he is unknown to the
average man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-04
MARRIAGE BY PROXY

From the New York World.
Her home was The Hague, his Boston.
They fell in love by correspondence and
exchange of photographs. From his cigar
store in Boston Moses t. Timentel wrote
to her to come to him that they might be
married
Her parents objected and insisted he
should cross the great waters If he want
ed to claim his bride. He pleaded the
great rush in the cigar business, and the
upshot was a marriage by proxy, the
bridegroom's brother officiating. Then
the fraulein hurried on board the steam
ship Rotterdam, which landed her at this
port and in the arms of the husband she
had never seem
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ThomasR. Marshall

Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indi-
ana, chosen by the democratic conven-
ton as Woodrow Wilson's running
mate, is a fine type of the modern
statesman.
He is Jeffersonian democrat
through and through and is singularly
convincing in discussing great princi-
pies and apt at applying those princi-
pies to practical issues of the present
day. He is an uncommonly attractive
speaker and can be counted upon to
do telling work in the coming cam
paign.
Thus it is that Governor Marshall
brings real strength to the ticket.
Wilson and Marshall should be able to
lead democracy to glorious victory
on the third day of November next
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-04
MARK TWAIN AT A COCE

MARK TWAIN AT A COCKFIGHT
From Life on the Mississippi by Mark
Twain.
We went to a cockpit in New Orleans
on Saturday afternoon. I had never
seen a cockfight before. There were men
and boys there of all ages and of all col
ors, and of many languages and naional-
tiles But noticed one quite conspicu-
Gus and surprising absence; the tradi-
tional brutal faces. With no cock-fight-
ing going on you could have played the
gathering on stranger for a prayer
meeting; and after it began for revival
provided you blindfolded your stranger
for the shouting was something prod,
igious.
A negro and a white man We're in the
ring; everybody else outside. The cocks
were brought in sacks; and when time
was called they were taken out by the
two bottle holders, stroked, caressed,
poked toward each other, and finally lib
Grated. The big black cock plunged in
stantly at the little gray one and struck
him on the head with the spur. The
gray responded with spirit. Then the
out and ceased not henceforth When
the cocks had been fighting some little
time I was expecting them momentarily
to drop dead, for both were blind, red
with blood, and so exhausted that they
frequently fell down. Yet they would
not give up, neither would they die.
The negro and the white man would pick
them up every few seconds. wipe them
off, blow cold water on them in a fine
spray and take their heads in their
mouths and hold them there a minute
to warm back their perishing life per-
haps; 1 do not know. Then being set
down again the dying creatures would
totter gropingly about with dragging
wings, find each other, strike a guess
work blow or two and fall exhausted once
more
did not see the end of the battle.
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A LOVERS RUsE.


He sighed for a lock of the landlady's
hair,
His love he was fearful to utter.
But love finds a way, and by using due
He saved a lock out of the butter.
Louisville Courier-Journai.
He sighed for a lock of the landlady's
hair,
But still hesitated to press her.;
He bribed housemaid, who was busting
in there
To steal whole switch from her
dresser.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
He sighed for a lock of the iandlady's
hair,
There would nothing else please him but
that;
He sneaked steel trap in her room with
great care,
And in that manner captured rat"
Houston Post.
He sighed for lock of the landlady's
hair,
TIL it seemed he would do something
rash,
In warfare and love all is counted quite
fair,
So he got his out of the hash.
st. Louis Times.
PAUL. COOK.
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After the Nomination

Oscar w. Underwood, the majority
leader in the popular House of Con-
gress, is not outranked by anybody.
The man who makes a tariff suited
to the people will grow as the years
go on, and when the policy that he
champions is splly indicated no one
will stand so high as he. He will be
but So years old even in 1920, and
the man who says he will never be
President of the United States is pre-
dieting without knowledge and with
out broad view of tariff exactions
and robberies under the republican
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NEW YoRK's swooD BUTCHERS

Joe Mitchell chapple, in Joe Chapple s
News Letter.
Cutting through a side street in the
uptown district of New York the other
day. I came across still another of the
many unusual occupations of great city.
Half a dozen poor men, on every one
of whose faces the ravages of drink told
a tale, were engaged in breaking up the
refuse lumber from a row of old brown
stone fronts that were coming down.
A good deal of this wood might have
been put to better uses. as the genial
boss" admitted when asked about It,.
Eve driven them away a dozen times"
he said, ebut they always come back
It's the only way some of those poor
wretches have of turning a penny, and
it's fact that scores OF men all over
New York make a living at 'butchering
old wood the year round"
1t costs them nothing but the labor of
breaking the wood up into kindling
lengths. Their "hatchet" is a heavy stone
which they lift and drop. keeping a hold
on 1t for balance. Strangely enough, this
does the work far quicker and better than
any tool ever invented for the purpose
The product is gathered up into flour
sacks that originally held so pounds
These are packed and heaped over and
the whole is secured by a string. Such
a fagot of excellent dry kindlng con-
tains fully ten times as much as the aver
age bundle of kindling that fetches cents
at the corner grocery.
A poor old tramp. one who is not too
far gone with rheumatic" or consump-
ton, and who is still reasonably active
despite whatever disabilities he may pos
sess, can break and pack one of these
bagfuls in 10 to 20 minutes, so that where
pickings are reasonably good. and the
building boss is not q despot, he can
earn quite $50 day.
But it is highly itinerant occupation,
full Of vieissitudes, and his work sell
dom averages anything like this on wet
days, of course, he cannot work at ALL
at many places he is repulsed before he
has fairly begun his foraging and at
others his find is often pre-empted by
others of his kind and occupation who
arrive on the ground almost simuta-
neously.
But the wood butcher is never driven
off by his own kind There is crude
honor and even kindness among these
unfortunates, and it is Medean law that
they must share to the utmost whatever
they happen upon. Hundreds of mendi-
cants make this wood butchering a regu-
lar occupation There is a steady demand
for their product from the cheaper
class of boarding and lodging houses of
the East and South sides, and also from
the tenement houses.
Some of the wood butchers have estab-
lished regular routes of customers. One
husky fellow to whom l spoke about his
occupation informed me with CHEEKY
oountenanee as he lifted his stone to crush
a bit of pinch scantling, that he was still
filing Saturday orders, and this was the
following Monday.
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Tribute to MINOR Moody

"The death of Maj. w. A. Moody has
called forth many expressions OF sor-
row." said Virginian.
"The tributes paid to his memory
have been tender and sincere Major
Moody was born in Petersburg, Va,
June 4, 1910, and although advanced in
years he was always young in his feel
ings and even after his health broke
down he had a smile and a CHEEKY
greeting for all his comrades. And few
men ever had such a host of friends.
He will be sadly missed. Peace to his
ashes"
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Beautiful Interior

Birmingham is a generous patron of
interior decorations. and the manufac-
and soda fountain equipments" said
a loyal citizen.
"A popular corner cigar and refresh
ment establishment is putting In very
handsome and expensive counter, case
and general fixtures. costing not less
than $4,000 And this goes on steadily,
for this busting. building city must
have the very latest and handsomest
equipment turned out
ut Is a matter of graduation that
most of this work is being turned out
by the south. And it cannot be sur
passed in beauty of finish and work
manship."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-04
Adding stars to Old Glory

There are bargain sales in United
States flags" said a well informed man.
land now is the time to buy for decor
ating purposes.
"On the Fourth all United States
| flags that have been in use officially
must be replaced with new ones. The
| admission of Arizona and New Mexico
to the galaxy of states adds two new
stars to old Glory's' field of azure blue.
Although these states have already en-
tered into full sisterhood the additions
to the flag takes place on the natal day
of the Union.
For all practical purposes the flag
| with DC stars will do. as only the very
| observant would ever detect the lack
ing of the two new ones. Those who
would like to have one or two silk
flags or real bunting can likely buy
them very cheap from those who buy
immense quantities of United States
discarded equipment of every class.
by the way. noticed very decided
error in a spread eagle adj a few days
ago in reference to 'unfurllng the
bonnie blue flag on the glorious Fourth,
etc Alas. in the language of Alexan-
der White, bonnie blue flag no longer
waves; its silken folds no longer kiss
the genial breezes of our southern
cline Appomattox, the Armageddon of
the south's hopes, fur1ed the banner
that had been gloriously baptized on
many a bloody field leaving to those
who survived only the bronze badge
of bravery, and the memories of mod
ern acknowledgements Lodi-Fred-
ericksburg; Waterloo-Gettysbu APP
pomattox-Moscow retreatp'
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business Outlook

Business conditions are quite salts
factory" said w. d. Weisel of Chicago.
There was a lull during the past three
weeks during the political conventions,
but after the Fourth of July holiday
most lines of business win be brisk
again.
NThe activity in the metals trade is
one OF the most encouraging features
of the business world. When there
is healthy demand for steel products
general trade is sure to be buoyant. If
the crops are abundant we will have
old time prosperity throughout the late
summer and fall"
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A THRALL TO TROUBLE.

A THRALL TO TROUBLE.
Along the golden way of life
A traveller is apt to tire,
Who still complains of sorrows rife
And ne'er finds aught he can admire.
For whom the rose doth bloom in vain,
The sunset stain the western skies;
On him all beauty lost who fam
Would spend his breath in futile signs.
No song could rouse that sluggard soul,
No happy thought his bosom thrills;
He hath no purpose set, no goal
To win, beyond lifes present ills.
A hapless thrall of circumstance,
Foredoomed TO know misfortunes
blight,
Who falters when he has a chance
To crawl from gloom into the light.
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HOW BLIND MAN WENT THROUGH
COLLEGE

John c. Fowler in Leslie's.
How are you going to do your study
Iing?" asked one of the fellows. Can
you get all the textbooks you will use
in print that you can read with your
hands?'
NO; am going to get some one who
recites in my classes to read to me,
and I hope I already have a lad en-
gagged answered l.
The fellow whom I had expected to
read to me was unable to fulfill his
contract, which added one more per-
plexity to my situation; but in day
or two one of the other men in the
house offered to do my reading for me
IN consideration of the hundred dollars
which l felt able to pay for the years
work. The income. though not large.
looked at that time like a good propo-
sition to Ned Forbes, for that was the
name of my reader.
In the algebra classroom I found lit
tie difficulty in following the profess
sor. for his explanations were very
clear, and since 1 knew the problem in
hand. I usually had a pretty clear idea
of what he was putting on the board.
When I rose to recite, one could hear
a pin drop in the room, SO interested
were all the class in me and my work.
My German and my Latin Forbes
was glad to give over to two other
students, sophomores, who generously
volunteered to read to me without pay
and were better qualified to undertake
the task than my room mate. I was
able to obtain most of the text books
for the Latin in print which I could
read with my hands. which greatly
lightened the labor in that course. In
German none of the required text was
available in tactile print. so 1 had to
do all my work from hearing.
In English my blindness gave me no
special difficulty, except that reading
aloud is necessarily slow, which COM
PEELED me to remember things from
one reading only. This difficulty was
increased as my work advanced, and
was Obliged to omit several desira-
BILE courses because the amount of read
ing seemed too great.
All written work submitted in
typewriting, having brought my ma
chine with me from home. My exami-
nations were sometimes written on the
typewriter, sometimes taken orally ac-
cording to the wishes of the several
professors. My examinations in mathe-
MATES We're given to me orally but
usually used the special slate to aid
me in recording partial results, in
etc
AT Syracuse one year of laboratory
science Is required for graduation, and |
l applied for admission to the class in |
chemistry. 1t was with |
some misgivings that the professor adj
mitted me, but through the helpfulness
of my room mate and the instructors, |
1 got on very well with this elementary |
work. l worked with Ned Forbes, help |
ing him to set up our apparatus and |
put 1t away again at the close of the |
experiment, handling, smelling or
tasting all the materials used when
practicable, and asking and answering
all the questions I could thing Of In
this course l took oral examinations,.I
meeting them satisfactorily. I also
had a course in elementary astronomy.
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New York's Upstate Vote

New York city holds over one-half
of state population that approaches
ten millions, and yet the city does not
cast, democratic though it be, one
half of the democratic vote of the
state.
The democratic vote in the city for
President in 1908 was 284, 100, but the
democratic vote upstate was 382,70S,
a majority of 81, 948. The democratic
vote in the city for governor in 1910
was 302,9S9, but the democratic vote
upstate was 386,711, a majority of
S3,722.
1t will be seen that there are many
democrats in the upstate counties,
and it is these upstate democrats who
will turn out almost to a man in
November while the woods will be
full of republicans who have seen
prices pushed up by one trust or an
other ensconsed behind an unjust
tariff wall, and who will not go to
the polls because they distrust the
policy of the hero of Winona as well as
the hero of Sycamore Hill. Mr.. Taft
vetoes tariff bills and Colonel Roose-
welt evades the subject altogether. 1t
is the tariff issue that will turn or
keep at home votes in the upstate
counties, and votes are not purchase
counties, and votes are not purchas-
of the cities it is different.
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From the New York Press.
II a man could so fishing for good pay,
he'd hate it.
Most worry over what's coming can stop
when it comes.
A woman smiles from force of habit
and cries for real fun.
After about the sixth child a man quits
being proud of them and begins being
sorry for himself
The reason girl can fool her father
about how she doesn't care for men Is
she couldn't if her mother didn't help
her to.
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CHEAPER TO TRAVEL ABROAD

a good room and table. Entirely without
pay was monsieuiss kind help with her
French at table, and his patience in direct
ing her over Paris. Better than Baedeker
he told her the quickest and cheapest
way to reach places When she wanted to
buy gowns and hats, madame gave her adj
dresses of dealers who worked only for the
French and who sold things at a quarter
of the Rue de la Paix prices. The sales,
women could not speak English, but they
could make signs.
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nGRANDe SERVICE.

individual finger bowls are served ev-
cry meal at the New Bonham, this town,
for breakfast, dinner and supper, seven
days in the week, no extra charge, fresh
water from a water jug in plain sight
every time and to each person. Whoopi
Some of these days the management will
begin to call dinner lunch and call sup
per dinner and then the trouble will be-
gin. Another thing worthy of serious and
thankful comment, the dining room girls,
five of them-count them, five-are all
good lockers, good dressers who get
somewhere and back the same after
noon" CLAY Center, Kans, Times.
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eventually be made in the laboratory in
sizes suitable for gems. The chemistry of
the artificial precious stone is simple
enough. Thei difficulty seems to lie in
creating the physical conditions necessary
for the proper disqualification of the mix
fire
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Eanrth of .InIy

This is the glorious Fourth. and it will
be- celebrated with patriotic enthusiasm In
all parts of the country. It-will be a gen.
eral holiday in Birmingham, and innocent
amusements will be INDUCED in by old and
young, especially the young folks.
The day would not seem like the Fourth
Of July without noise and powder ex-
plosiyes in the forenoon. but with all the
din and fireworks there is no reason why
we should not have q sane Fourth.
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VERY BLAsE.

The Gastonbys put on a great many
airs since the old gentleman found coal
on his land
Yes, indeed. Mrs. Gastonby speaks of
the Riviera nowadays as if it were just
around the corner"
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Democratic Platform Planks

DtiuOtAahiS tiOhA'
There is not an. unsound, discord-
ant plank infth platform adopted at
Baltimore.
It's dominant note is tariff reform.
It demands tariff for revenue only
wholly regardless of manufacturers
profits, and every line in this leading
section of the platform is tribute to
the patience, wisdom and skill of Os-
car w. Underwood. The vetoes of
President Taft are condemned, and
so are the fallacious dissolutions of
certain trusts. Perhaps one of the
most popular sections is this: "We
favor the declaration by law of con-
ditions upon which corporations shall
be permitted to engage in interstate
trade, including, among others, the
prevention of holding companies inter
locking directorates, of stock water
ing, of discrimination in price, and
the control by any one corporation of
so large a proportion of any industry
as to make it a menace to COMPETE
tive conditions" This pledges the
party to bring in bill to regulate and
supervise industrial corporations very
much as the railroads now are. The
trusts and the tariff are considered
together, the one growing largely out
of the other, both being employed to
deplete and exploit domestic consum-
ers.
The income tax and the direct cleo
ton of senators are alike commended,
and so is single presidential term.
The coming of nationwide presi-
dental preference primary is fore
Swallowed in the platform. The entire
section relating to primaries is as fol-
lows:"The movement toward more
popular government should be pro-
NOTED through legislation in each
state which will permit the expression
of the preference of the electors for
national candidates at presidential
primaries. We direct that the nation
al committee incorporate in the call
for the next nominating convention
requirement that all expressions of
preference for presidential candidates
shall be given and the selection of
delegates and alternates made
through elections of party organiza-
tons in each state where such express
sion and election are not provided for
by state law.
"Committeemen who are hereafter
to constitute the membership of the
democratic national committee and
whose election is provided for by law
shall be chosen in each state at such
primary elections and the service and
authority of committeeman, however
chosen, shall begin Immediately upon
the receipt of their credentials re-
spectively."
Public sentiment will doubtless lead
by 1916 to call for a presidential
preference primary on one day in all
states. The platform anticipates such
an outcome, and every friend of popu-
lar government, every democrat, in
other words, should work steadily to-
ward such result. State committees
should be organized with that end
distinctly in view. The republican
party is the plutocratic party of the
country and it will stand to the last
possible moment in favor of machines
and government by the few, none of
the few belonging to the best class of
citizens, and the democratic party
should antagonize it with a nation
wide primary in which popular gov
eminent will at last become a reality.
-
Afto~ tho No,,;uc4:o-
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no MYsTERY.

She ue'er into mirror gazed
To primp her hair, before, behind.
Dear reader. pray be not amazed.
The woman whom 1 sing was blind.
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Col Harry S. New of indianapolis as
diction that Taft viii be elected. He
stands alone in his support of this propo-
Sition.
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AN oRAToRIcAL FLIGHT.

1.-THE democracy can not loiter on the
shore. Let US boldly put our ship 10 sea
and that of the republicans will be lost
in the mingled screams of the weltering
tempest and plunging waves of the ma
tion's rebuke,s Numbered Texas states
man at Baltimore. Hooray! Hooray!
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IMMINENT.

DO you think of taking vacation this
year, Joblots?"
Il shouldn't be at all surprised The
ing"
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The royalists in Paris who wave their
canes at officers of the republic shouting
Down with Rousseau are almost as
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Governor Wilson refused to go to Balti-
more. This indicates that he is at least
old fashioned and he may even be re-
actionary