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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Time to Prepare Rose Gardens.

Now is the time to prepare the ground for rosebush planting said Hugh Scales, the florist. "rhe ground should be well spaded and fertilized. The planting should be done after the first good freeze.
 What kinds do best? Most roses do well in this soil and climate. The mann moth pink Cochet, the white Etaile de France are fine. One of the grand white roses is Miss Bessie Brown Then the white American Beauty.
 "Yes, there is grand crop of crysan- themums that will be at their best in some two weeks. Every year there are new varieties produced.
 "The Dorsette (single) violets, house grown, are blooming freely now, and they are unusually fine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

vention in diplomatic circles may be discussed freely without any crystal lization in the passes of the Balkans The allies are very much in earnest and not one of the powers is ready to dispatch an army of 50o,0o0 men to crush them.
 The Balkan people should be left free to determine their own affairs. Intervention is an easy word to speak in the capitals of the powers, but in the Balkans it may be repudiated al- together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
DIVORCE IN NORWAY

From the London Chronicle.
 It is easier to obtain a divorce in Norway than in any. other European country. If a married couple want to part, Norwegian law grants a divorce without inquiring into the reason. but as security that the step has been we'll thought over. it pro- vides that year of. separation must in- tervene between the application and the actual granting of the divorce. The bus band and wife have first to apply to a magistrate. He sends them to the con ciliation board. and if this body cannot reconcile them they are granted a separa- ton order At the end of ( year the min istry of justice is compelled to make the divorce final. if asked to do 10 by either party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
intervention Unpopular in the Balkans


 The battle of -Killesseh, won by the Bulgarians, opened the way to . direct attack upon the defences of the antiquated town of Adrianople. This once historic but now decaying town is the chief center of operations in, the great struggle. The war is progressing swiftly and already there are rumors of intervention by the powers.
 Should the allies continue to drive In and defeat the Turks-especially if . great battle should be won at Ad- rianople-the powers will find that they are no longer arbiters of the Balkans. The Balkans for the Balkan people would then become the war ery of the allies. They are closely knit together and each is pledged to stand by an agreement set down in black and white. Another Berlin con- ference to say what shall or shall not be in the Balkans is not desired by the allies. Each and every one of them will have a voice in the allotment of he spells of war
 A All accounts agree that the alliance [ the Balkan kings has been well
 lsidered and well prepared for. The :. yoies entered the field ready in every Cspect for war. How each was financed has not been made known, but it is plain that they are moving In great strength and in all the con fidence that strength in war begets No conference of the powers can read ily dictate to this alliance, and inter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
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the extreme southern part of Texas, had never in the 40 years of his life been away from home, but, finally reaching the state of affluence which enabled him to hand money to a railroad ticket agent, he made a trip to Fort Worth, in the northern part of the state.
 Upon his return home friend of his asked him:
 Where in the world have you been Bin?"
 'I," replied Bill, have been away up north"
 Up north?' the friend asked.
 "Yes, I've been all the way to Fort Worth." said Bill, with some degree of pride.
 How did you like 1t up there?" was the next question.
 "Oh," replied Bill, 'it was all right. but I don't care much for those darn Yan- kees. s."-The Popular Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
yiaducts in This City

The Frisco's general agent in this city leaves an impression on the pub lie mind that the railroads will offer one excuse after another whenever the city desires them to build a viaduct. The case in question is the Norwood viaduct in TwelfthNavenue, at a point
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

sssssssessssssss's''sss''''
 most arbitrary of the slangs, and has the fewest irregularities. Rock becomes 'lxoob," pen is 'nep. Words beginning with 'H,' on being re- versed the 'H'' is pronounced as if 1t were ITCH" Thus hat becomes "tateh,' hand is "D-natch," pronounced "deenatch. Horse becomes "esrotch," have IS "Evatch,"A woman is ''namow, pro- nounced ''nammo."
 A typical sentence in back slang would be ''Evatch a kool at the delo man, which being interpreted is Have LOOK at the old man." The small words, art icles and proposition are not reversed Unisyllabic words ending in two con sonnnts as .'old" and gold becomes dis syllable, s"delo,' "delog." The sentence given above translated by a user of mixed slangs would no doubt read "Evatch fish-hook at the delo pot-an pan A well known term applied to a policeman IS "slop." Spell police backwards and you get .'ecilop.' Say this quickly and 1t soon becomes corrupted to "slop." But the effort of spelling the word shilling backwards has proved too much for the intellect of the user of the haycap
 Geenals." He pronounces the resultant
 "gnillihs" as "generalise, and lets 1t go
 at that! A penny is freely translated "yennup'
 "Thieves' Latin has it's origin for the most part wrapt in mystery, but the de- rivations of many of Its expressions, which are constantly changing may De guessed at. For instance, tie pin is "prop:" watch, "blob;" a diamond, | "sparkler;" and handkerchief Is still | wipe" as it was in Fagin's kitchen. Money Is variously tin, brass blunt, toot, ready, shekels, dibs, hard, spondulicks and splash From this alone 1t is obvious that when listening to slang it is necessary to rely almost solely on one's intuition and ! the context.
 l Here is a verse of poem which will De easily recognized, translated into mix ture of slangs-a mixture in daily use In London
 | Kmok in the nedrag. Maud For the isaycalb tab, strike-a-light has 1 its hook.
 1 Emok in the nedrag, Maud. am eretch at the six-an' eight on my 1T.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
AN OPTIMISTIC BENT

AN OPTIMISTIC BENT. Who never tires of dreaming Of happy days to be, His present cares redeeming With sweet felicity, When golden-hued tomorrows Will teach him to forget The gloomy vale of sorrows, The rancor of regret Who has the knack of building In Fancy's fair domain, Though sunk in squalor, gliding Some castled steep in Spain, Methinks, will live for laughter, Despite misfortune's frown. Though trouble follows after. It can not, drag him down!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

TAM of nature optimistic and almost
 always enthusiastic over new ven
 lures of practical turn.
 Yet, when I heard MT. Harding's bus mess talk in Montgomery last Wednes- day about the cost and scope of an ex- position to celebrate the centennial of Alabama's admission to the union I be- gan to have doubts.
 We cannot hope to get a cent or gov ernment aid. There Is no practical reason why the government should aid Alabama, especially in view of the fact that Con gress has put its foot down, so to speak, upon further exposition appropriations.
 Again, should the state of Alabama make an appropriation I doubt whether 1t would be more than s1o0,0O0. And in the event of Birmingham selection doubt If popular Alabama subscription outside of Birmingham would amount to more than few thousand dollars. Thus it will be up to Birmingham to raise not less than s2ooo,ooo within its own borders. It will take this much money to make an exposition of the scope and magni- tude we would be proud of. Therefore, the question is would the people of Bir- mingham be willing to go down into their pockets and contribute this much? They undoubtedly would In the period of years intervening between now and 1919 if suffi- cient enthusiasm was aroused. But ex- positions have been so common in the past 90 years that the question is whether or not the American people have grown tired of them and whether or not they have a tendency to demoralize labor in a great manufacturing center? All of these matters should be carefully con- sidered before Birmingham positively un- dertakes the burden of getting the state committee of 100 to designate 1t as loca- ton for holding the exposition. Mont gornery wants It. but Montgomery would not feel it incumbent to have it on such e. mammoth scale as would be required of Birmingham.
 So let us seriously consider this mat ter before reaching definite conclusion. What we really need in Birmingham
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New ork ffess.
 A man has to work pretty hard to get money and very hard to keep it.
 A widow can forget great deal more than she ever knew.
 Girls study one another and then they have learned men.
 A woman can think the baby has bright way of yelling.
 Even if it didn't mean always being broke marriage would still be more or less serious thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Chicago has purchased sl,Ooo,0Oo worth of voting machines. but the people are not bit happier than they were when mere men handled their votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
A TuRAsuING FOLLOWS.

'BIlfur says he wants his boy to have plenty of red blood.' What does he do when his boys red blood leads him to smash a window?' "Oh, in a case like that Bilfur develops a little red blood himself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
DEARLY BoITGHr sLuMBER,

Each night he went to bed quite full
 And seemed to think that plan the best: Although next morn he might feel dull,
 He always got full nights rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
NOTICE THE CHANGE :?

Some of our most prominent baseball players are now appearing in vaudeville"
 Quite so. Vaudeville in the past few years has been uplifted to such an extent that even the soubrettes of the profession have taken on dignified airs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
SLANG IN LONDON.

From the New York Telegram.
 In back slang, prevalent in some quar- -ters of London, the spelling of the words in reversed and then pronounced more OF less as venture. This is by far the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Some of Felix Diaz's cabinet were in prison when they were appoipted. Diaz is now there himself, and he should call a cabinet meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Leaving the White House.

''I am an advocate of limiting the pres
 idential tenure to one term" said an
 old democrat. "The term should be
 heightened to six or seven years. It
 would have been wise, think. if Jeff ferson's idea about seven or eight year
 term had been incorporated in the con-
 stitution at the start. But rather than allow the President to run for second term I would be willing to see him made ineligible at the end of even a four year term. just as Alabama's constitution lim- It's the term of our governor. Four years, however, hardly allows the President suf- ficient time to carry out his policies A six or seven year term would be about right.
 Since Andrew Jacksons day few of
 our Presidents have held through two terms. Since the war Grant and Cleve-
 land were the only Presidents that served two full terms-Grant two consecutive terms and Cleveland second term after
 skipping four years The lamented Mc- I<inley. as most of us remember, was elected for two terms. Roosevelt as vice president, succeeded him and served out three years and a half of McKin- leys term and then one full elective term.
 But as the constitution stands every | President Is eligible to reelection and l there is no bar in the constitution to his ! reelection indefinitely. The result is that the occupant of the White House wants | to try for another term and has his I weather eye out for a renomination. If the constitution were amended so as to
 make the President ineligible for a sec
 ond term the chief magistrate would di-
 rect his whole mind to the business of
 one term and be free from the work of
 looking after delegates for the next con-
 vention.
 l Tt must be sad for a man like NIr. | Taft, who has had his heart set on suc- ceeding himself, vacating the executive office at the end of his first term. But 1 if he had gone into office with the un- derstanding that he could not run for
 a second term he would have been re-
 lieved of much modification and the sad
 ness in saying goodbye to the White l House. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Sumter Cogswell, the bull moose can didate for Congress in the Seventh dis trict, encounters more and harder frosts on the stump than the cotton plant up there does in the fields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
LET'S ALL BE GOOD.

This is the day for pious thoughts. which reminds us that a pious thought would seriously clog some peoples mental machinery.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
ONE POINT IN HIS FAVOR.
A RIG STATE.

This anecdote isn't ''brand ,new"-few magazine anecdotes are, nowadays-but it is a good one and worth republshing:
 Col. Louis J. Wortham. who edits the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and gets his recreation by bragging about Texas. tells the following story to illustrate the big ness of his state:
 A resident of Brownsville, which is in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Thomas E. Watson's statement that Woodrow Wilson had joined the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organ ization, was absurd on it's face. Catholics only can join the K of c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The Kansas City woman who paid $50 for husband must be bull in the mar ket for she bid beyond all known demand employing price clearly speculative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
wHERE MERE rHE PoIIcE2

The Cincinnati Enquirer "dug up' this ore:
 The bride was dressed In tan tailored suit with white chiffon bodice embroid- cred in silk, and hat to match The groom wore gold harp stickpin.
 Big Rock, Iowa News
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
A NoNCoMBATANT

A NUNCUMBATANI Just where is Armageddon I'm sure I do not know. But since foes clash there head on. I do not wish to go And seek a spot so dinful, So thick with wars alarms; think all fighting sinful And peace hath many charms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The news factories in the Balkan war
 are located in Constantinople. Sofia and Belgrade, and they have never been known to agree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
ENOUGH SAID.

What sort of fellow is Twobbiy?"
 well when he was fin Egypt last win. ter he carved his initials on a pyramid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

An Iowa man swallowed a bull moose pin, but so long as he does not swallow the bull moose platform he will come through all right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The big canal will be opened to ships on October 23 of next year, but 1t will not be officially declared opened until January l, 1915. The battleship Oregon will be the first ship to go through it, and then any ship that will hire licensed government pilot and submit to being go through It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

John Schrank was sane enough to pick out Wisconsin to do his shooting ina
 state in which capital punishment has been abolished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Senator Ollie James says Governor Will son can carry a rail in this campaign and then come in on the bet. He will carry, says Senator James, at least 40 states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The orators are on their last lap, but really the campaign is beyond its ora torieal stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Ungrateful Kansas City has permitted the pioneer who established its first sa- loon to go to the poorhouse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Stocks and even cotton may slump, but pig iron does not. Basic No. 2 is now beginning to be quoted at sl5 for delivery in January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

It Is now claimed that Eve used a dan
 delion as a powder puff, because she had an oriental complexion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

King Peter of servia went to. war in an automobile, thus establishing new record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Moving picture shows will soon show the Turks and Christians a-battling in the Balkans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
AN RXcII1sIYE NOISE.

No more he looketh all forlorn,
 His heart is filled with joy and mirth; The squawl1ing of his auto horn
 Is like no other sound on earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Too Much Apathy.

T have been spending some time along the gulf coast-Mobile and Pensacola and there is much political apathy said Col O. P. Gaut
 "One might think from the apathy in evidence that the people did not know there was to be presidential election. When the time comes, however. we may get out pretty good vote in Alabama. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The driving of the unspeakable Turk out of Europe has been resumed at the old stand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The Turks are total abstainers. but they are winning no battles at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

William J. Bryan is about to build . $100,000 house on his farm at Mission, in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
WRONG DIAGNOSIS.

His wife keeps him in hot water all the time"
 'T noticed he seemed parboiled, but I thought it came from Illuminating his system"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS. "Did the audience give Huntington Roarer an ovation?'
 What the audience gave him looked more like an omelette."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

To the ultimate consumer tag day is a continuous performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The laying of the corner stone of a large and elegant convent school this afternoon sn West End, Birmingham, marks a notable advance in the educa- tional facilities of this community. The building will be four stories high and will cost between s75,oOO and s1oo,ooo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

which enable the railroads to sell cheap
 round trip tickets from all parts of the
 country to Birmingham. Cheap rates cause people to travel and cause them to spend their time in examining the city
 itself. They are enabled to see the re- sources and the buildings and often are caused to invest in real estate and manu- featuring enterprises. not to speak of
 the amount of money they spend in the retail stores and mercantile houses gen erally. Birmingham by population and in dustry is entitled soon to become the great wholesale center of the south and
 the retail shopping center of half dozen or more states.
 Of course, there are many touches of paint and varnish, so to speak. needed in Birmingham. We need more street lights Tn the residence section and more paved streets in all sections, and more police men to maintain order and protect our homes. But all these things will come about in good time; and if the citizens continue to importune our city commits sioners such will come about very quick ly. Wherever there is will there is a
 way, and the commissioners will soon find the way If sufficient pressure is brought upon them.
 I am delighted that the proposed ZOO logical garden is getting in shape. Several years ago The Age-Herald and the boys of Birmingham started a movement for a zoo and raised a considerable sum of money for the purchase of an elephant.
 This money is still on hand. It is in the American Trust and Savings bank, where it was deposited by MT. Webb W. Craw- ford. the treasurer of the boys ZOO, and it is drawing 4 per cent interest When this money was raised numbers of animals were donated and put in tenn porary houses in Magnolia park on the Southside near Five Points. The city then did not take care of them and a few nearby residents protested so strenuously that the then City Street Commissioner MT, John McCartin was ordered to raid the park and dispose of the animals in the night time. Be 1t said to Mir. Mccar-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
About Persons.

Ben Carter of Washington, D. C., is in Birmingham as the guest of his brother.
 J. Rivers Carter. He has been quite i'll but is now convalescent. Howard R. Taylor of Baltimore wfD spent last week in Birmingham. returned home yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
APPROPRIATE CURES.

For the jealous--the faith cure. For the indigent-the gold cure. For slow people-the fast cure. For aviators-the high altitude cure For unruly children-the mind cure For the prematurely gray-the dye-it cure.
 For stay-out-late husbands-the hot water cure.
 Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
AERIAL LUxURIEs

No voting machine should be over- worked next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
FAMILIAR NIEGHBoRHooD.

The poets sing
 Of Poverty Row;
 No wonder they do-
 It's place they know!
 ONE POINT IN HIS FAVOR. "There goes 0 man who is liar, thief and a double-dyed villain Evidently you can't say anything good about him. ''Ch, yes can. He's never been known to take straw vote.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
EXAGGERATED EGO.

Although, forsooth. he's far from great And all his neighbors doubt him, He seems to think the ship of state
 Would surely sink without him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

A CHRONIC COMPLAINT. A man today
 Is seldom met. Who doesn't say, 4- x11t%4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

dent of Brownsville, which is in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

What we really need in Birmingham now is more conventlons-gatherings
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-07-10
POINTERS FOR THE MoToRIsT

Oftentimes motorists seem to think
that no care is necessary in carrying
spare tires, says Michelin expert.
Uncovered envelopes are tossed on
roofs of limousines where sun and rain
beat upon them. Unprotected inner
tubes are thrown carelessly into tool
boxes where they come in contact with
sharp tools.
Needless to say, such practices are
destructive. Strong light is very in
furious to rubber. So likewise is
heat For these reasons, If no other,
spares should be kept in cases.
Moisture and oil are also injurious to
tires. Waterproof wrappers which
keep out light moisture and oil and at
the same time protect spares from IN
jury by contact with sharp substances,
can be had of any accessory dealer
Every motorist should use them.
Cardboard boxes are never satisfac-
tory for carrying tubes in car. Every
vibration of the car causes chatting
between the box and tube and since
cardboard is harder that rubber, the
tubes will inevitably be injured. Gov.
ers for inner tubes should take the
form of bags which will fit snugly
around the tube.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-07-10
ROOSEVELT TRICK
SAYS L. 3. MoSElEY

jackson, July 10-The effort TO Sc
cure the withdrawal of President lal1
and Col. Roosevelt from the Pres'-
Dental campaign, and the nomina'
ton of another candi1ate as the party
standard bearer, is merely maneu-
yer of the Roosevelt forces to dis
credit President Taft, according to
Hon. l.. B. Mosely, Republican nation
al committeeman for Mississippi.
IT do not take any stock in the re-
port that this is a nationwide move
ment nor do believe that it will be
seriously received" said Mr.. Moseley
"There is not the slightest probabil
ity, as l see it, of President Taft's
withdrawal. He is in the fight tC
stay, and / do not believe that any
number of Senators and Congressmer
are backing the so-called movement t.
bring about his withdrawal, fearing
that he will cripple their chances TO
reelection"