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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

hanging big ones and letting them get away, went to Jennings aid. and thought 'twould be a shallow wade but twas deeper than he thought but he brought the two pound trout back with him. Lew not having any luck. was noticed mopping his eyes someone said, What are you crying aboutY Me. I ain't crying; that's pers- piration I wiped off my eyes
 They had a fine afternoon and brought back good string of fish, but I had to act as umpire as~to the wis dom and sportsmanship of fellows div ing after fish when they hang them. I've reserved my decision for Monday morn ing. Of course. it's out of the ordinary, but so many fellows are coming back with tales of I hung five pounder and he--' I have concluded that the best fisherman is the fellow that comes homs with the scales. right weight and fish to be hsoWn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
WASHING PAPER MONEY

From the Scientific American.
 |"HE life of one-dolar bill is about
 14 months; at the end of that time
 x the bilt which has left the treasury
 in crisp, well-starched condition returns so filthy and worn that 1t must be put through a macerator and completely de- stroyed It has cost the government one and one-third cents to make that bill, and to this must be added two mills to pay the cost of destroying the bill. So complete is this destruction that the re- sulting pulp has no further use, except for the making of souvenirs, which are sold for trifling sums to visitors to the treasury department. Most of the bills in circulation are one-dollar bills, and natur- ally they receive far harder wear than bills of higher denominations. Five-dollar number in service, cost no more for manufacture or destruction. Nearly 45 per cent of the bills issued in the year 1911 were of one, two and five-dollar denomination. They amounted to 246,172,- GOO pieces. In the came fiscal year 232,- 506,071 pieces of paper currency were re- turned for redemption; in other words. for destruction. The cost to the govern ment of manufacturing and issuing these notes was more than s3,O00o00. and the cost of destroying them about $400e00.
 A little over year ago Joseph E. Ralph, director of the bureau of engraving and printing, suggested to the Secretary of the Treasury that machine be constructed to launder the old currency and put it in shape for recirculation. After year of experimenting. such a machine, or ratber, set of machines, was built, with ca- pacity for 20,0o0 pieces of paper currency just as if they were cuffs or collars. starch them and iron them. so that they issue from ths. laundry looking as good as new. It is proposed to install them in the various sub-treasuries at New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Or leans and San Francisco. It Is also con- sidered probable that the national banks will have to adopt the washer and soon all the principal financial institutions of the country will add laundry branch to their establishments.
 For the present the government will not undertake to wash any bills of the higher denominations, which contain yellow ink, for the reason that the potash in the studs in which the bills are washed causes yell low ink to run. However. 1t is confidently expected that eventually thls difficulty will be overcome.
 To be properly laundered, a bin must go through three separate machines. The first step consists of inserting the bills into the washer, which>is made up of a series of rubbers with double blankets between them. Each bill is fed in be- tween these blankets, which hold them flat in the water and they go back and forth nine times through the suds,. which contain bleach.
 The washing tank Is divided into two parts one of which holds hot suds and the other clear rinse water. The same blankets go over a partition into the rinse water carrying the bills with them. Ar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
The Democratic Opportunity

| The prospects for a democratic vic tory in November are bright indeed. Not since the Civil war has the demo- cratic outlook just before the nomi- hating conventions been so encourag- ing as now. Many republicans are predicting republican defeat. "This is democratic year." has come to be a familiar phrase.
 The democratic party is more united now than it has been since 1892, while the republicans are split as never before. But the democrats make great mistake if the think that any democrat nominated at Baltimore would be an easy winner. No matter whether the republican ticket be head ed by Taft or Roosevelt, or "dark horse," the democrats must nominate a strong candidate and follow up the nomination by hard work.
 Underwood is the logical man for the democrats to select as their stan dard bearer. Everything points now to his nomination. The great Ala bamian has always been strict party man, but he is stronger than has party, and the democratic candidate must draw to his support thousands of independent republicans in order to carry certain pivotal states. Other democratic aspirants have many quail ities to commend them, but none com bine the elements of strength that go to make up MT. Underwood's splendid equipment.
 Tariff reform will be one of the great issues in this campaign. So far as economic problems are considered it will be the paramount issue, and who so we'll as Underwood can dis cuss the tariff? He is known from  the Atlantic to the Pacific as the mas ter exponent of the democratic tariff doctrine-tariff-f -for-revenue- -only. It is a complex question, but MT. Under wood understands every phase of it and is always ready to discuss it with clearness and with convincing force.
 In the next place Mir. Underwood is a Jeffersonian democrat and is as true to the principles of representa- tive government as was the founder of the democratic party himself. Un- derwood has the poise and tempera- ment to make an ideal chief magis- trate and with his nomination this will turn out to be the democratic year that people generally are talking about. With Underwood at the head of the ticket the party will be simply invincible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
UNDERWOOD MEN CONFIDENT

 From the Washington Cor. of the Boston Transcript.
 Washington. leaders in Congress fear long deadlock at the Baltimore National convention over the presidential nomination. With no can didate entering the convention with a ma jority of the delegates. and with Wilson and Clark controlling more than one third of the vote they canont figure out how the Baltimore gathering will finish up it's work within three days of allotted time.
 One obstacle, it is pointed out, in the way of an early agreement for the nomi- nation Is the feeling between the Wilson and Clark forces. Somehow or other the rivalry between these camps of the New Jersey and the Missourian is keener and the feeling is more intense than be- tween the other aspirants. Whatever chance there may have been to smooth out the ruffled feelings, the statement issued few days ago by the Wilson forces bitterly attacking the Clark state ment of claim of delegate has not served to patch up the differences.
 The Underwood forces are sitting quietly on the lid. They haven't ruffled any bodys feelings. They are not saying any thing to cause a flareback Dr. Thomas Owen, the assistant campaign director for the smiling Alabamian. says what's more they don't intend to do so. He said they intend to conduct a contest for the nomination that will truly represent Mir. Underwood-a calm, dgnified contest with facts and figures and constructive statesmanship at their arguments.
 To show how confident the Underwood people are as a result of the feud be- tween Clark and Wilson forces is the statement made by one of the leading Un- derwood supporters that they have prom ises from Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jer- sey, Virginia and South Carolina that these states will flock to MT. Underwood in the event the nomination of MT. Will son becomes an impossibility. This is the first time that the Underwood peo- pie have laid claim to the Wilson dele gates. The Alabama forces also assert that New York will come to their side of the convention hall after the third or fourth ballot With New York. the eighty-odd southern delegates instructed to Underwood and the Wilson delegates, the Underwood forces claim they will present a showing in the convention which will cause a stampede on the next ballot
 The statement of Josephus Daniels of North Carolina that he is organizing a movement to nominate for Vice President the second highest man In the baloting at Baltimore has caused keen interest here. It is not believed the movement will carry, but 1t has the democratic leaders talking all the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

You were rather late coming to School"
 .I was afeered." The teacher smiled. for her eyes were fearless.
 What is your name?"
 ''Mavis Hawn."
 Her voice was slow. low and rich. and in some wonder he half unconsclously re- peated the unusual name.
 Where do you live?'
 Down the road piece-'bout whoop an holler9
 What? Oh, I sec"
 He smiled, for she meant to measure distance by sound, and she had used mere a variation of the ''far cry of Elizabethan days.
 Your father works in tobacco?" She nodded.
 You come from near the Ohio riyer7"
 T come from the mountains
 "oh.
 and he was not surprised at the answer to his next question.
 T hain't nuver been to school. Pap couldn't spare me"
 Can you read and writer"
 NO, she said, but she flushed, and he knew straightway the sensitiveness and pride with which he would have to deal.
 Well" he said kindly. I've will begin now"
 And he took the alphabet and told her the names of several letters and had her try to make them with a lead pencil. which she did with such uncanny serious ness and quiclSness that the pity of it that in his own state such intelligence should be going to such broadcast waste for the want of such elemental opportuni- ties struck him deeply. The general move ment to save that waste was only just beginning, and in that movement he meant to play his part.
 He was glad now to have under his own supervision one of those mountaineers of whom, but for one summer, he had known so little and heard so much-chiefly to their discredit-and he determined then and there to do all he could for her So he took her back to her seat with copy book and pencil and told her to go on with her work and that he would go to see her father and mother as soon as pos sible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Interurban Lines

T find a wonderful growth in Birming- ham in the few years I have been ab- sent,' said w.. T. Terry, former resi- dent of the city, who now lives in Hous- ton, Tex. T see evidences of a still fur ther growth and improvement in the num- Der of substantial buildings now under way, which are the strongest evidence of prosperity.
 T also notice that the Tidewater com pany is making rapid progress on its line and from appearances l judge it will soon be In operation. I understand that the Tidewater company intends carrying out one of it's original plans-building an interurban line between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. l believe such a line would pay. for every one of the interurban lines in Texas Is on a paying basis. We have an electric line running from Hous- ton to Galveston a distance of about 50 miles which is one of the best paying lines in the state. believe the populous territory between Birmingham and Tus- caloosa would warrant the construction of such a line.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
PASSING OF CHIvALRY

From the Washington Star.
 Miss Italia Garibaldi, granddaughter of the "lfberator' complained in Chicago about the way Italian women are sweat ed there.
 When I see." she said. the male en- ployer with all his vaunted chivalry to woman, taking such an unfair advan- tage of the female employees, I don't wonder that woman is beginning to sheer at mans chivalry
 .It reminds me of an Italian washer woman, very industrious and successful, to whom a young man offered himself in matrimony
 .'.You love mc?' the washerwoman asked.
 .Devotedly. the young man replied.
 Are you sure?'
 "'I swear it!'
 "She gave him a searching look.
 Are you out of work?' she said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
MOUNTAIN MAID GOES TO SCHOOL

From The Heart of the HiiIs," by John
 Fox Jr., in scribners Magazine. ~ ALTERING her courage with one
 Y deep breath. she climbed the steps
 resolutely and stood before the open door The teacher. a tall man in long black frock coat. had his back to her, the room was crowded, and she saw no vacant seat. Every pair of eyes within was raised to her. The teacher, seeing the attention of his pupils fixed somewhere behind him, turned to see the quaint fig- ure, dismayed and helpless, in the door way and he went quickly toward her.
 This way he said kindly, and point ing to a seat, he turned again to his pupils.
 Still they stared toward the newcomer, and he turned again. The little girls flushed face was still hidden by her bon net, but before he reacher her to tell her quietly she must take it off. she had seen that all the heads about her were bare and was pulling 1t off herself-dis- closing a riotous mass of black hair, combed straight back from her forehead and gathered into Psyche knot at the back of her head.
 Slowly the flush passed, but not for some time did she lift the extraordinary lashes that yelled her eyes to take fur tive glance about her. But. as the pupils bent more to their books. she grew bolder and looked about oftener and keenly, and she saw with her own eyes and in every pair of eyes whose glance she met, how different she was from all the other girls. For 1t was look of wonder and amuse- ment that she encountered each time, and sometimes two girls would whisper behind their hands and laugh, or one would nudge her desk mate to look around at the stranger. so that the flush came back to Mavis' face and stayed there.
 The tall teacher sawr too, and under stood, and, to draw no more attention to her than was necessary, he did not go near her until recess. As he expected, she did not move from her seat when the other pupils trooped out, and when the room was empty he beckoned her to come to his desk, and in a moment, with her two books clasped in her hands. she stood shyly before him, meeting his kind gray searching eyes with unwavering direct ness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
PUZZLED THE ENGLIsHMAN

From the Kansas City Star.
 Tn St. Louis few years ago. said a Kansas City man, I took dgnified Englishman to his first ball game Big, good-natured Robinson was catching. Be- hind him and near us. youth of about i2 was delivering choice variety of root ing from the grand stand, to the evident puzzlement of my companion. Good boy. Robbyl' was a frequent cry of the young ster.
 Restraining his curiosity for a time. finally, on inquiry the Briton learned that probably no acquaintance existed between the catcher and the lad. Dear mer he calculated, what assurance for that small boy to address that large gentle man so familiarity
 Shortly afterward the players sur rounded the umpire. gesticulating angrily in dispute over decision.
 ",'what is it?' the visitor asked.
 They're kicking at the umpire ex- plained.
 Fancy that!' said he, but don't you know have not seen a man lift his !, foot :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES

From the New York World.
 According to statistics given out by the Tobacco Leaf, there are consumed in the United States every day 21,71S,- 4is cigars and 23.736,190 cigarettes, without including those rolled by the smokers themselves. These figures are large. Taken alone. they seem to con- firm the fears of those who go about dreading the ravage of the cigarette scourge. But measured against the population of the country they are seen to be small They show per capita consumption of less than a cigarette a day for the male voting population alone and considerably less than a cigar a day It is therefore clear that we have not become so addicted to the cigarette habit as to make 1t matter |of concern to any considerable number of people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
By Alfred Tennyson.


 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
H,rh nixinx for rish

That was a fishing frolic sure that some of my friends went on to West Lake, below Bessemer. last week." said Percy Clark.
 There were four in the party and as have promised not to tell their full names. I'll give their cognomens only suggestively. 'Poorhouse Bill' is as fine a fellow as one meets and as fat as Jack Spratt;' he is the most enthusi- astic fisherman that whips the waters in these parts and believes in going after them if you have to jump in the water. He hung three pound trout and as the fish took to the 'collards'-a North Carolina term for lily pads-Bill just jumped right in and grabbed the fish and brought him to land. Jennings, another fat er-fisherman. was try irg for bream with small hook baited with reaches. A trout struck his hook and proceeded to tangle him self up with an overhangtng willow limb which dipped into the water, Mort who has had much bad luck with z. .t4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
AN ANCIENT AILMENT
Q st Louis Times.

From the St. Louis Times.
 When it is story of extraordinary official impertinence. 1t usually comes from Kansas.
 The town of lola, fairly we'll known because of other strange and strenu- ous happenings. has put the lid' on tobacco; and a dispatch from that town asserts that men habituated to the use of the weed made frantic ap- peals to the physicians last Sunday. in an effort to get prescriptions for cigars and "chewing''
 About all there is in such an item is a certain amount of bad advertising for the town and for the state. Yet 1t will be admitted that the people who believe in lids have as much right to stop the sale of tobacco on Sunday as they have to stop the sale of other luxuries. They might logically go step further and declare that ice cream, soda water, flowers and confectionery. as well as a lot of other things, should be locked up Saturday night and held until Monday morning.
 It is passing strange, however. that any American community still believes in. petty coercion, in matters which ,,,igbt better be left to individual con- science and judgment
 It was the old New England way to say thou shalt" and thou shalt not vet it will not be held that the world Is not vastly improved since those old blue law days.
 The kindest people are those who hest know the virtue of tolerance. The happiest communities are those who hold the individual largely responsi- ble for his own acts. But lola is not the only community where no discov- cry of this fact has been made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
Southern Representation in Conven-
 tions

tlOUS
 The southern states rise up to per- plex and make ashame the republican party every four years, for in each of the southern states there is ma chine made up of federal office hold CTS, but there are, practically speak ing, no voters. An elector is a pos sibility never heard of. This amounts to public scandal, and is so regarded by all thoughtful men. Office hold ers," says the New York Evening Post, Struggle with ex-office holders, or would-be office holders; delegates and contestants are moved about lihs pawns, or bought like cattle; but all pretence of there being real party acting through chosen representatives, was long since abandoned
 The republican convention of 1908 tried to heal this shame and disgrace. Senator Bourne moved that each state should continue to have four delegates at large, but that district delegates should be apportioned, not by popula- tion. but by the number of votes cast for President in the proceeding cleo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
Baltimore nemocrats

'The Baltimore democracy is always full of enthusiasm and as the people of Baltimore,, regardless of party, are noted for their hospitality, delegates and visitors to the convention will be sure to have good time.' said Joel P. Nor man of Washington D. c.
 Baltimore is much better off in hotels than the outside public imagines, per haps. Ten or 15 years ago its hotel ac- commodations were inadequate, but It has several large hotels now, and it has more small hotels than any city 1 know Of. It has scores of highly respectable room ing houses, and although the crowd will be enormous, every visitor can find a bed. Tn the matter of meals Baltimore, like Washington, is famous for It's res taurants.
 Tt is estimated that the democratic convention will attract 10000 visitors. l would not be surprised If the number ran up to 250,O0O"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Hope is the advance agent of resig- nation.
 MT. Brains is nearly always too busy to talk.
 A man is big fool to gamble his money except when he loses 1t to you.
 The trouble with home poker parties is how much more of the hosts cigars and drinks the players can use than they lose money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

The isthmus of Panama is at present the healthiest place in the world. thanks to Colonel Gorgas and compulsory sanita- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Lillian Russell has married a Roose- welt editor in Pittsburs, and she may take part in the proposed Roosevelt stampede in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Z The Chicago convention will determine once for all the superiority of the golf club to the tennis racquet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Alaska's volcanoes are not fit rivals of the volcanic eruptions at Chicago. The latter also belch forth fire, smoke and lava
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

This campaign will go down in history as the one of unrestrained language.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Colonel Roosevelt has come out for woman's suffrage. He would favor in- fants' suffrage if it would bring him more delegates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Professor Mitchnikor's canine bacteria nay not check the ravages of old age in human beings. It does not in dogs at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

The little Cuban army. including rtsales, numbers 5000 men al ltold. It Is not big enough to put down racial revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

The work of the national committed s steam roller is completed, and it is now up to the steam roller of the credentials commmittee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

A good share of the graduates at Smith college when asked, What are you going to do?' answered, Stay at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Nearly any modern day statesman sets unAthe plea that is just like Lincoln-eyen Lorimer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Mir Taft can be trusted to keep the steam roller away from the women dele gates at Chicago. It would be ungentle- manly to do otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

Let us rejoice in the fact that there will be no steam roller and no postmasters at Baltimore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

T. R. may be steam roarer, but he has no steam roller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

The House proposes to keep the door of opportunity open to Canada, scornful though 1t be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-17

The coloners new hat is the envy of every embryo Rough Rider in the land.