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The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
Taft Going to savannah,

President Taft will leave Washington
for Savannah, Ga, April %. to attend
the Hibernian Society anniversary. He
will arrive at Savannah May / at $50
a. m, and will start for Washington the
following day at noon
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
ALITTLE NONSENSE.
rNFoRMATToN WANTED,


IMPORTATION WANTED.
Lady Clara We're de We're,
Help us guess.
what Is proper springtime gear
Az TO dressf
WIN the waist line be this year
At the knees7
Lady cara We're de We're,
Tell US. please.
Or viii belts beneath the arms
Be the thing
To enhance q darnsefs charms
In the spring7
Lady Clara We're de We're.
Help US guess.
When the gentle spring Is here,
What Of dress?
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
ALL ABOUT DIR. WILEY.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
That wives should share their husbands
incomes is the latest Wiley theory. Many
a poor husband is praying that the the
o=y will be put into effect.
From the New York Herald
The United States Senate has refused
to extend a vote of thanks TO DR.. Wiley.
Looks as II the germ trust maintains a
lobby at Washington.
From The Cleveland Jesde-.
Can It be that DR.. Wiley is training
for Senatorial honors? He has arranged
to 60 on the lecture platform.
From the Cleveland Leader.
DR.. Wiley says that the wife should
be paid a salary. But who is 10 pay
II n she conscientiously performs the
duty Of going through her husband 6
pockets regularly?
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

After giving serious study to all the
claims OF the American League managers
It Is hereby predicted that the race this
year will not develop a winner. All the
teams win be tied for first place.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Once more that old bromide: well, I
can't say 1 am carried away with pro-
fessionaI baseball. In the old days when
we had our own players"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
Fathers DiIemma.

'I see your daughter has a beau"
Yes" said the old man, And don't
know just how to handle the mutt"
Whats the trouble?'
Shall be friendly with him and lose
my dignity, or shall hold myself aloof
and be considered an old grouch?'
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

The ofice boy who killed on all his
grandmothers and aunts during the clos
ing games OF last season is now trying
to figure out how he can get a new stock
OF elderly relatives,
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Our idea Of q conservative managing
editor is one who would hold the base
ball extra for a few minutes to get in an
important piece OF political news.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Little boy, work hard, study well, be
good, and you may grow up TO be i'm
portant enough to be selected to pitch
the first ball at the opening game OF
the season.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
No Use.

This popular fiction is all boSh. In
real life the girls father seldom objects
to the man OF her choice"
"You are wrong there. He often OBJ
jects. but he's usually too wise TO say
ANYTHING"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

with the opening Of the baseball sea
son all the little political irritations o.
life will be forgotten.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
B1NGIEs, BUNTs, AND BALLS.
(Frum various bsseAl

It seems to be entirely safe to make
our annual prediction that the Washing
ton baseball team will not win the pen
nant.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Oklahoma possesses the most modern
constitution in the country. 1t being COM
pleteIy equipped with throttles, right and
left hand drives, vote controls, brakes.
accelerators, reverse gears, and self
starters
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
A wiIIInE Worker.

The robin is. beyond all doubt.
An earnest thing.
He does his best 10 bring about
An early spring.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

@Mehitablei"
"Yes?'
LET me do some gallant deed TO prove
myself your knight
swat the fly. Egbert. at every possible
opportunity. That is all ! ask"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

April IS. 17b-Paul Revere takes his
famous ride.
April Is. 1755-A eoolness arises between
Boswell and DR.. johnson, owing to Bos-
well refusing 20 loan the latter Is crowns.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

The only baseball trust that requires
Investigation is the trust Of tba young
man in the bleachers that his boss won't I
ind out where he is.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

People who have nothing more imroF.
tant 10 do are beginning to argue about
the respective merits Of 'Ty'' Cobb and
''Honus" Wagner.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
Suspicious Dad.
April IS in History.

PA, may join the suffragettes7'
mot II It calls for another gown"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
An Artistic Touch.

This is the most artistic system ever.
"I'd like to take you to lunch. old man."
''You are very kind"
"And I would II had the price. Could
you spare a five?"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Ban johnson says the pennaHt race in
the American League is going to be
greater than ever this summer That win
pain caused BY the cost Of Living.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
Hack to the SOIL.

about this time of year feel yearn-
ing 70 get back 10 nature"
80 DO L Well, the roof gardens will
be opening before very long"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18
Uncle Pennywise sayrI
rho Preaent Cruaade.

have seen several farmers who didn't
talk dialect.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

New York woman sues a doctor for
sewing a sponge up in her interior. She
will perhaps be awarded a sum large
enough to pay the bill he sends in for
the missing sponge.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

After the French Ambassadors expert
ence, we shall expect the houn' dawg
aria to become popular on the boulevards
Of that dear Paris.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

An expectant world is still waiting for
the location OF the Aliens and Miss Chris
label Pankhurst
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

II the peach crop hadn't twice as many
lives as a cat, It would really be de-
stroyed by thisetime.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Pink whiskers are the issue in the III
nois Democratic Presidential primary.
Come on, you Jim Ham!
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Some baseball players receive lasger
salaries than congressmen. But who ever
paid good money 70 see a Congressman
perform?
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

A San Diego editor has been kidnapped
Editing a paper Is not al roses,
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

A Spanish journalist gets eight years in
prison for publishing a cartoon showing
the King with crooked legs. Even a carl
caturist mustn't hit below the belt.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

Some men not only want free silver.
but free clothes and free grub and free
drinks and free everything else that they
ought not to have.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-18

The New York police have nnearthed a
Greek whose name is Themistoeles Phe-
dosuphaloth. So that's a Greek name is
it? Sounds more like feed-us-soup-a-lot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07

says the Manufacturers Record, "in this grain estimation, however, lies in the fact that in the ten years between 1901 and 1911 the corn crop of the south more than doubled, increasing at the rate of 113.7, while the crop in the rest of the country increased only at the rate of 672, and that this ex- pansion in corn production is but a part of the increasing tendency to diversification in agriculture, which will go long way toward solving the problem of prices in the cotton crop"
 This truth set forth concisely by the Manufacturers Record has been told over and over again but it cannot be stressed too often. The splendid in crease in the south's corn production is causing northern farmers to open their eyes. The most intelligent of them had an idea that the agricultural south could rase cotton and nothing more. The fact is the south today presents the most inviting field for home seekers of any section of the country It's trucking interests are being fast developed, and instead of buying corn the south will in the not distant future be large seller of corn.
 The present year is bright with promise. Strides have been made within the past two years but with good weather conditions 1912 will be the south's banner year in crop totals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
Minor Industries Wanted

Atlanta is often mentioned as city of small industries. It has a req sonable snumber of them, but by no means an extraordinary number. Its growth is largely based on agencies of various sorts-agencies that rep resent varied industries, none of which are located in the south. As an agency city it stands unrivalled in the southeast.
 The RAv Dr. B. F. Riley writing in The Age-Herald of last Friday in- inmates that Birmingham is not seek ing small industries. Many more small industries are needed here, and there has never been time when the Chamber of Commerce and leading citizens did not stand ready to well come and to aid any small industry that expressed desire to locate in this city. Birmingham has long sought the smaller industries, and it is securing a goodly number every year. Because we have some gigantic plants it does not follow that we do not need and do not desire smaller factories. The very reverse is the truth. Where great plants are located lesser plants always find good oppor- tunities, and any man, even he with "a few hundred dollars," and any en- terprise, however small, is welcomed and, if need be, aided.
 Let not contrary view of the local situation go unchallenged. Every citi- zen should promote to the utmost the establishment of small industries. cheap fuel, great railroad facilities, centrality in the cotton belt, an open and navigable river to the sea, and many other things invite the manu- facturer of small capital to locate here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
UNDERWOOD AND THE PAPERS

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The careful reader of the newspapers Is surprised at one notable feature of the papers from practically every section of the country. This feature is the general notice and attention paid to Congressman oscar Underwood as candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, and the uniform praise which invariably ac- companies the mention of him and his candidacy. This is all the more surprising because MT. Underwood maintains no press bureau. On the other hand, promi- nent candidates for the democratic nomi- nation like Governor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Wilson of New Jersey and Speaker Clark of Missouri, maintain large and active bureaus, which are continually sending out campaign literature to the papers of the country.
 Notwithstanding this. at the present time Mir. Underwood Is receiving more at- tention than any other, we might say any other two, presidential candidates com bned The attitude of the voters toward Mir Underwood may be doubted until that attitude is made clear in an election, but it can not be doubted that his record and his strong personality are admired by the newspapers of the country, For now he is receiving more free and favorable ad- vertising than any other public man of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
Amending the Currency Plan

It is a dull day when the Aldrich crowd does not write new provisions into their justly celebrated monetary plan. They are laboring under the hallucination that they can keep the magnates who control the big inter ests of the country from controlling their pet reserve association with its $500, 100000 reserve. They plan and plan, and at the end of each planning they are forced to admit that it would only be question of time when the New York magnates would gain con- trol of the big reserve. A handful of men who can and do elect Presidents and dictate legislation can gumshoe themselves into a control of any re- serve association that the Aldrich commission can form.
 The truth is, no central bank, even if it be called reserve association, can escape control by the New York magnates. New York city is the country's sole financial center and the country knows it, and so does New York and the last named will simply lay plans to extend its sphere of in- fluence to the national reserve asso- citation when it is organized.
 It is conceded, however, that the bill cannot be pushed through at this by this Congress. It goes over there fore to December, 1913, and that is may happen in the meantime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
Baldwin County's Strawberries

When Duluth has temperature 35 degrees below zero, and even Chicago admits an official record of 9.6 de- grees below zero, Baldwin county, Alabama, reports that ripe strawber- ries are appearing in this county. Sev- eral of the farmers have found ripe strawberries in their vast beds. This means that the county will in short time send strawberries to the market. Shipments will be made this month. The acreage is large, and large quan- titles will be shipped out"
 It will be observed that Baldwin county, Alabama, and Cook county Illinois, do not at all agree in their weather reports. They are on or near the same degree of longitude, but latitude is even more telling and diff ferentiating, and Baldwin county is on the lower parallel. Well, Baldwin county will grow January strawber- ries, and Cook county can eat them provided it can raise the money to pay for them. In that way both will have strawberries "in their midst" no mat ter what the weather clerk has to off, fer in relation to temperatures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
Melancholy as n Iover's Int.
 -1 King HeBry ".
Still Another Trust Under Fire

After the government has jugged the meat trust and put the screws to the money trust it should, says Con- gressman Norris, the original repub- lican insurgent, investigate the post masters or southern officeholders' trust. For that matter Congressman Richardson has introduced bill which forbids any member of the southern officeholders' trust from at tending a convention called to nomi- nate a President or other elective United States officer. Any office holder who violates the provision of Judge Richardson's bill will be guilty of a misdemeanor and on indictment and conviction he may be fined up to S1O0 and imprisoned up to 20 days. All this provided Judge Richardson's $ bill becomes law
 The House is in a mood to look into the trust that keeps the republican party just small enough to fill the federal offices that are assigned to Alabama, and no more. The sign "No Recruits Wanted" is then hung up and all overtures are rejected. It is a trust therefore that destroys com petition, restraints political trades and no doubt establishes some political prices. It is a trust in every sense of the word, and Judge Richardson and MT. Norris are camping on it's trail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
The SOuth's Progress

A great deal has been said recently about the south's progress in agricul- ture, and the resources of this section are now attracting more attention in the north than ever before. The fact that more cotton is being produced to the acre than formerly is one of the proofs that scientific farming is hav- ing good results. It used to be that three acres were required to make one bale of cotton. During the past year some farmers raised bale to the acre, and it was poor farmer indeed who required more than an acre and half for bale.
 But, the fact that has the most far reaching commercial value is the sue cess which has attended the farmers of the cotton belt in raising corn and hay. The Baltimore Manufacturers Record of January 4 has an instruc- tive article on "The South's Optimistic Outlook Upon the Coming Year," and in that article it points out the fact that in 1911 the value of the south's corn crop was nearly $695,O00,00 and with it's oat and hay crops repre- sented an aggregate value of fully S90O, 100000. "The real significance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
From il visitors Viewpoint

q first visited Birmingham in 1901 and saw the first steel frame building here in course of construction" said James w. Truesdale of Philadelphia. Birmingham was an important town then, and l saw that it had great possibilities. but the city has gone forward much more rap idly than l thought it would
 This Is my third trip to the state of Alabama. and I find that Birmingham has had exceptionally rapid growth. Its many skyscrapers are sure to make an impression on strangers. The steel frame building at the corner of Twentieth street and Fifst avenue now going up is, l un- derstand, to have 20 stories above the basement.
 Birmingham needs an up to date fire proof hotel, and l am told that ground will be broken for such a building with in the next two months. Several southern cities, notably Richmond and Atlanta, sur- pass Birmingham in the matter of hotels. Richmond as a hotel town is far ahead of Atlanta even. It has one hotel-the Jefferson-that cost over S2,000,000, and is model of beauty. The Jefferson is a very large hotel, and while there are several big cities that have hotels that are larger, Jew have buildings so beauti- fu. In addition to the Jefferson. Rich mopd has three hotels that must have cost something like $1,Ooo.o00 each.
 'Wlifie Birmingham is backward in costly hotels, it is ahead of every city in the south, except New Orleans, in res taurants. There seem to be three or four times as many respectable cafes here as Atlanta has, and when it comes to upper class cafes Atlanta is simply not in Bir- minghams class.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
Philosophy of Worthins ton

''There is great satisfaction every where" stated John Worthington of Shef- field who was in Birmingham yester- day." in the fact that Alabama will have a chance to vote for an Alabamian in the state primary for the presidency oi the United States.
 And there is good philosophy in our efforts to make Underwood the nominee of the party. If we win with him, to us will be all the. honor and the glory. If we lose with him it will be our satisfaction to know that we lost with one ol our own men ana not with an customer or westerner with whom the south is in no wise af- filiated. {"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES

By Charles Lamb a have had playmates, have had com-
 panions, In my days of childhood. in my joyful All. all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, have been carous-
 ing, Drinking late, sitting late. with my bosom
 cronies, AL all are gone, the old familiar faces. I. loved love once, fairest among
 women: Closed are her doors on me now. must
 not see her All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. have a friend, kinder friend has no
 man Like an ingrate, I left my friend ao-
 ruptly; Left him, to muse on the old familiar
 faces. Ghostlike paced round the haunts of my
 childhood, Earth seemed desert was bound to tra-
 verse. Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than q Why vert thou not born in my fathers dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces How some they have died. and some they have left me. il And some are taken from me; all are dei|
 parted: All, all are gone. the old familiar faeAs- !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

OLD ACQUAINTANCES. The storm may beat the window pane I care no little for it; I'm back in London town again And reading Little Dorrit." I wander through the Marshalsea And interview it's Father And doth Blandois appeal to me? Ahem, should say, Rather" And in that dreary, haunted house Of Mrs. Clennams pride, As colds her heart, where cen a mouse Would tremble to abide, I follow Flintwinch on his rounds Across the creaking blanks, Or listen for the snort that sounds The puffing MT. Pancks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
,,rur crEnK OF THE PIPE,

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 Some interesting information has been elicited by MT. Jowett, M. F., with re- gard to that ancient British official tne clerk of the pipe.Y The quaint tue caught Mr. Jowetts eye Tn parha- mentary paper and the labor member al once nut down the following question;
 gro ask MT. Chancellor of the ex- cbeouer who was the last person to hold tho office described in the list of rules' orders, etc, issued on December 4' as clerk of the pipe; what was the amount of the perpetual pension he enjoyed m ileu of fees: how much was paid to him when h;s mansion was commuted in 1906; wheth- ar he holds any office under the govern ment at present; and, if so, what salary is being paid to him.
 In a written reply, MT. Lloyd-Georse stated that "The amount of the perpet- ual pension granted in 1885 as compensa-
 lion for the abolition of the office of clerk of the pipe was 96S. In 1906 it was com
 muted for e16s3.'' So that altogether the "clerk" has not done badly from a imam
 ciaI point of view since the abolition of
 his office 7e years ago.
 The pipe" it may be explained for those who do not know these things, had nothing at all to do with tobacco. It | was merely the department of the exche- auer that drew up the pipes or en- rolled accounts of sheriffs and others and
 was abolished by William ". Bacon refers to it as:
 That office of her majesty's exchequer which we, by a metaphor do call the pipe, because the whole receipt is finally conveyed into it by the means of divers of small pipes or grils."
 The origin of this use of "pipe' is doubtful observes the Oxford Diction- ary). Some would explain it from the pipelike form of thin roll, or from its being transmitted in a cylindrical case Bacon saw in it metaphor. but we have no evidence that that sense was in usl early in the fourteenth century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THINGS AT
 HOME AND MAKES A FEW SUGGESTIONS


 endangering the lives of his wife and chil dren.
 We all know such has twice been tn, case recently, and when such occurs the family must have somebody to telephonf to who has an automobile to get police man and bring him out. Then when the policeman, taken from a downtown beat comes out and arrests the murderous ne gro-exulting in having casually put bull. lets through the bodies of two others oi his race and besmattered with blood the homeplace of prominent citizen-he i. permitted to give bond and boldly go his way to purchase another pistol, and be- gin another era of pilfering the people. whc par for no protection.
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 The time has come when the good peo. pie of this town and this state must say something and do something-not when they must ask the other fellow to say it. but to sit straight up upon their back bones and talk outright and act, and do Were I to go on into detail I would fill columns.
 would tell about the state convIcts who are employed in the mines being released here to pirate upon this cos munity They should be put to work fo, build good roads and build up this m5 terial state and the people who make TIT farms and its cities. Again, there would be the outrages fes system which builds up despotic suck the blood from the ship of states. 3 number of other things that not oI students of statehood but even the n3} casual observers, know, but are too tn or too retieent to criticise
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 As the always optimst I don't like talk out in meeting this way, but if yU1 think it, it is best to say 1t in the personal vein and suggest that the wrongs that be- be rectified-right them; and then. ro
 I* ahead with your face to the rising 4ljt. enveloping it in ones arms, as t burets above the horizon, and declaring that Tn it's light we shall make all right s ~
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07
Convict. ,rre.ted Humnnely

Tt is the object of the present admin istration of the convict department. said l.. F. Greer. state convict inspector, last night. ito inaugurate a more humane treatment of those held in bondage to the law
 "There is no doubt but that at one time in Alabama's history the convicts were inhumanely treated. We are en- deavosing to rectify this, and up to date have achieved great success. A notable fact is that from those places wherein the conviets have themselves announced betterment in conditions, the output of coal has been increased.
 At one of the state mines the other day, it was necessary for m to order a negro whipped. He had escaped and after