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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
MEALS FOR KISSES.

An Indiana woman has obtained a d. vorce rom her husband. the proprietor or restaurant. because he was so pop ular with chorus girls. You will learn the secret of his popularity in a minute His former wife says that the presence of a
 merry merry' in that particular restau- rant by no means signifled a cash tranr- action. She could have coffee and rolls for a nod; coffee and rolls and one fried
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
I.UCIlY
I.nnis Glnhe-Demncrat

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat. T feel sorry for poor little King man. uel.'
 "i congratulate yon.'
 'Why?'
 For not having an,thins more im- portant to feel sorry about"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
HER FRIEND ON THE TITANIC

After dinner I went up on deck into the
 moonlight and clear evening breeze. It was very empty ship, as they are apt to be going westward in early June. and wss alone except for one uniform aft. 1 th,ught that I knew all of the officers. so went close and looked curious. He laughed. I'm one of the mail clerks. he said. ''come up out of the dark for a bi cath of air. l laughed. too. then. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
CONSOLATION

From London Opinion.
 Musician-Is it not distressing thought that some of our greatest composers made very little money in their lifetime.
 Philstine-No. It's my only consola- ton when my wife drags me to the opera
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

sad: You sit around the corner where never see you in the dining room" Then we walked up and down together ard he told me that he was Irish tror, Dunfn' and I told him that he wasn't-- that he was descendant of the Danish conouerors of Dublin far back in in. long gone ages. He insisted that bA w.s itish' Tn spite of his name and his long ''the Norwegian build. We laughed a lot together.
 me next morning the pilots boat cana dancing out, and the mail boat followed My Danish friend was going to get ahead of us all by going ashore with the doctor He came up and shook hands. gave ma h's card and said good-by. 'Im Irish ycu know he said. from Dublin" [ laughed and shook my head Then hA was off. and stood on the deck of IA doctors boat. waving his handkercb,ef bithe. jolly figure-a nice, big. hand. some man.
 Presently l coudl see him no more. ani put the card into my purse-in the hack where keep addresses until I copy thesn ort
 ihe other day I opened the purse with shaking hands. and took out the card. hoped against hope that the initials in the list of the lost in the paper were wrong
 Sut they were not. The account says: The mail clerks went to work at once. nrmsing the sacks on deck to save the mail could see him quite plainly, that t cold. clear night beneath the northern stars carrying the heavy, unwieidy things. anu shiffing them to place along the rail
 Both went down. with the ship" God nave mercy So I, too, lost friend upon tie Titanic. And England. so rich in feroes. added another name to her well nigh endless list, the name of Williamson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
The Birm,nxham Ma<nncrchor

'The Turn verein's singing section known as the Birmingham Maennerchor- will rehearse regularly throughout the summer. which is something unusual" said one of the singers.
 We were so elatcd over our success in the Mobile Saengerfest, having received first honors, that we are determined to do even better if possible in the future. The next southern Saengerfest will be held in New Orleans and our Maenner- chor can be counted upon to give good account of itself there.
 The next national Saengerfest will be held in Louisville in 1914 Those gather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
HARD TO AMI1sE

I'm afraid Dibbs has no sense Of bumor. whatever" Why do you think so?"
 He can read Laura Jean Libbey' Heart Throbs' column without cracking a smile."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
From Mcc1ure's Magazine.

From McClure's Magazine. HNHE most talked about person in Lon- don is 20-year-old girl from Kan A sas City-Felice Lyme, who has been aprearing at Oscar Hammerstein new London opera house. Night after night she has filled the large house; she has won from the exacting English public praise such as no foreign singer has had since the days of Calve.
 Her story is one of magnificent gam ble. Six years ago an American pupil of Nme Marchesis heard the little girl sing. and advised her mother to take the child to Paris. This the mother did, and when Mime. Marchesi heard Feice sing she declared that the child had the four great essentials for a grand opera star voice, intelligence, dramatic ability and personality.
 Felice Lyme began her work under Mime. Marchesi in 1906 Her father and mother staked all they had on the girls talent. Her mother stayed with her. and her father practiced osteopathy at home. For five years she worked necessarily.
 "No girl she herself says lever suc- ceeded on the operatic stage unless she had to do so. If had been rich should have given up the struggle long ago." She gave her mother most of the credit for her success.
 My mother just made me sing and study" she says. "She had been with me all the time. When I got tired or discouraged. she was always there to cheer me up. She has taught me many things that a teacher never coud-the things that come through love and hap piness.
 "She never allowed me to show off as child. never sang before people It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Some think the Chicago convention will outlast the week of June IS. It has no right. however to the use of the limelIsht in the following week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Lorimer proposes to stay in the Senate even if it breaks the party The party IS now as hopelessly and irrevocaby sunk as the Titanic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
A BOLD. BAD MAN.

He stole woman's bank roll,
 His conduct was quite shocking; The reason why is. bless your soul
 She had it In her-the place where won- en usually carry their bank rolls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

ings are monster affairs and are held only in the large cities that have an exeep- tionally large German-American popula- tion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
VIE HOPE NOT.

St. Louis society girl is going to dance "L' Amour d'Apache" for sweet charity. The cause is so worthy that of course the cops won't interfere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
AN AFTER rHn11cur

Johnsons store In the opera house is carrying shoes and groceries, and has got on nice line of mems. boys and girls' straw hats. Call and see them, and gloyes.-Mercer. Mo, Signal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

II is suggested that MT. Ed Hines Is the only man who can induce Lorimer to resign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Roosevelt made Taft Secretary of War and Elihu Root Secretary of State. He now considers both of them enemies of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

The country mosquito is simply waiting until the country boarder appears, and tfen she will proceed to dine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Italy and Turkey know how to make war without making headlines in the newspapers. It is new art.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
Al PAINFITL ORDEAL.

When Titephist turns a dollar loose He never wears a smile; Just hates to sec 1t put to use
 And grumbles all the while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Keynote speeches are going a-begging just now. The woods are full of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Valorization doubled the price of coffee in the course of 10 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

A line of hdro-aeroplanes between Ca lais end Dover Is to be conducted by the Flying Fish company, limited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Tho stump speaking of the primary cam paigns is ended. Even the colonel de- clines to go to South Dakota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Brazil has exploded the Mocha and Java myth, and she is entitled to some profits on that account.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

l. turns out that Banker Morse was sim ply dying to get back to Wall street and the ice business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Thomas ". Lawson says he has client ready to bet s5000 at suitable odds that Bryan will be nominated at Baltimore. When money talks before a convention meets 1t Is trying to control 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

l The standpatters have been turned down
 except Senator Lodge, and he got back
 at frightful cost of tears and supplica- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

The temperature at Guantanamo, where our marines have been landed Is 1S0 de- grees In the shade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Medill Mccormick offers to bet 5000 that the third termer will win the nomination. The real gamblers have not been heard from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
CONSERVATIVE OPINION,

This newspaper speaks of girl whose age turns out to be s6 years. Do you think she is still girl at that age?"
 Well, she may be a girl, but there is no doubt that she is somewhat mature"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Senator Roots keynote speech will be delivered somewhere. and it may prove a sccrcher on third term ambitions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Senator Crane is about to follow the
 dcdo and the great aux into the vale of oblivion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

egg for bow; ham and eggs and coffee for smile; large porterhouse steak for enc kiss and course dinner for three kisses. As the average chorus girl val ues her kisses at something like s1.5O g dozen. no wonder she was glad to patron
 ge the Indiana man. His rates were quite reasonable. However. we don't blame tie wife for seeking redress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

Every state was pivotal when it was hclding primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

1 The young widow of John Jacob Astor has decided to wear white as a sign of
 mourning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

It is said to have cost Banker Morse s25o,Ooo to work up his parole scheme. and an Atlanta firm of lawyers got the larger slice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
AMERICAN GIRLS SUCCESS

was fortunate. for I conserved whatever powers I had. Our friends thought it rather absurd when we went to Paris. I can hear them saying, Why, I never knew, Felicia Lyme had voice.. They always called me Felicia at home, though Fe- lice is my name; 1t was the name of one of my mothers bridesmaids"
 In Paris she studied with Mme Mar chesi, de Reszke and d'Aubigny the last of whom she thinks helped her most of all. Her mother saw to it that she had no side interests to distract her; she had nothing to unlearn. and she progressed with mar velous rapidity. But she was continually haunted byyone bugaboo.
 T wanted to sing in grand opera" she says, but l weigh only 9e pounds, so they all spoke of comic opera for me. grew to hate the word had nnofnentary temptations to accept engagements for comic opera, and when I suffered a .s- appointment from the Royal opera at Co., vent Garden, London. I signed with MT. Hammersten for Hans the Flute player After that I was miserable. was afraid that I was sentenced forever to frivolous light opera"
 It was one day in June, 1909, three years after she had gone to Paris, that Oscar Hammersten heard her sing at one of Mime. Marchesfs recitals. He engaged her then and there. though he admits he did not forsee her grand opera success. She was so tiny and so young; he, too. was thinking of light opera: but he had to make certain concessions to her ambi, ton and extend hopes of grand opera later before she would consent to come to America and sing in Hans the Flute player.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
NOTHTNc no mud,

NUIHING TO THAT TOWN. They say that up in Pittsburg- We think it is a shame; They say that up in Pittsburg The Turkey Trot" is tame
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
scHUMANN- -HEINK HAS NO SIDE
 WAYS,,

Mrs. E. B. Kelly. who has woman's column in the Toronto Republican, went to Emporia few days ago to hear Mime Scnumann-Heink She writes: .'Emporia. as well as the novice. thought well of the madame I had the pleasure of sit ting a part of the evening with Professor Ellsworth of the Normal on one side of me and Miss Foreman of the Gazette on ;ht other. Miss Foreman remarked that It was the most enthusiastic audience she had ever seen gathered in that classic town, And MT. Ellsworth told me little stories of the madame. He said that at once place the stage door was so narrow that her majesty could not get through, he manager was frantic. Go sideways, inadame.r go sidewaysl' And the madame replied: Great Gott, man. I haf no side ways' And neither has she"-Kansas City Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31

1D.otS UeIIeVes m Keeping ms mlHu occupied" fsYes2" When he has nothing else to do he
 closes his eyes and dreams that his sai-
 ary is sfooo a week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
A REGENT RuLING

Spooners in the parks
 Can't sit on the grass; Every swain who sparks Hunts a bench, alas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
CAN AFFORD Joy RIDES

CAN AFFORD JOY RIDES. Poets no longer burn the midnight oil Electricity has done away with tat"
 Quite so, but poets who know how to write good advertising verse consume great deal of midnight gasoline"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-31
l RusY MAN.

'JibIots believes in keeplng his mind
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
TELLS ON THE KIDNEYS
Johnson City People Have
Found This to be True.

The strain of overwork tells on the
Weakened kidneys more quickly than
on any other organ of the body. The
hurry and worry of business men, the
heavy lifting and STOPPING of workmen,
the women's household cares, tend to
wear, weaken and injure the kidneys
until they can no longer filter the poison
from the blood and the whole body
suffers from the waste matter that
accumulates. The weakened kidneys
need quick assistance. Doan's Kidney
Pills are prepared especially for sick,
weakened Kidneys; tired, wofn-out
backs-have cured thousands of such
cases. Convincing proof in johnson
City citizens statement.
T. Q. Allen, COS Claiborne ST.,
johnson City, Tenn, says: Doan's
Kidney Pills did me world of good
and l gladly recommend them as being
just as represented. When | was
suffering from backache and other
symptoms of weak kidneys, | got supply
OF Doan's Kidney Pills from the White
house Drug Co., and they restored me
to good health . Is
For sale by dealers. Price so cents.
Foster-Milbnrn Co., Buffalo, New
York. sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-aDd
take no other.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
PRESIDENT FINLEY HAS
ISSUED FARM BOOK

Washington, July 29.-An investiga-
ton made by President Finley, of the
Southern railway system, has shown
that experts in the chemistry of soils
are unanimously of the opinion that
lime in some form will benefit many
of the soils of the southeastern states
by correcting their acidity and improv-
ing their mechanical condition.
President Finley has secured the
opinions of experts throughout the
southeastern states and also in the
eastern and middle states, in some of
which experiments with the use of
lime have been carried on for a long
series of years. These opinions have
been published in an illustrated folder
which is being widely distributed
among the farmers in the territory
traversed by the lines of the Southern
railway system.
Farmers and Others interested in this
subject may obtain copies of this folder
by addressing w. w. Finley, president,
Southern Railway Company, WASH
ington, d. G.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
FARMERS
INVITED
TO TICN|C
EXPERIMENT
STATION FARM
KNOXVILLE, AUGUST 2sT
Upper East Tennessee Farmers
Will Go On Special Train
at Very Low Rate.
KNOXVILLE, AUGUST 2lsT

The farmers of Sullivan, johnson,
Carter, Unicoi, Washington, Hawkins
and Greene county are invited to spend
the day, Wednesday, August p, at the
experiment station farm, at Knoxville.
A special train will be run and low
fare charged. Similar excursions from
other groups of counties Will be con-
Quoted at different dates during August.
The annual meeting ef the East Ten
nessee farmers convention brings about
two thousand farmers to the expert
ment station in the spring, but there
has been a great deal of demand on
the part of the farmers for an opportu-
nifty to see the station after the crops
are laid by, and these picnic days on
the farm have been planned by the
experiment station authorities to meet
this demand. 1t is hoped that those
who go will take their lunches so that
they can spend the entire day at the
farm. Director Morgan and his asso-
ciates will be on hand and will do ev-
erything in their power to make the
day one of great profit TO the farmers.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01

Mrs. Rixby, wife of Gen. Bixby,
chief of the army engineer corps, has
engaged seat barber" to attend to
her seven pedigreed prize-winning fe-
lines, and it is becoming quite fash
ionable in washington to have ones
cats shaved. 1t is said that some of
the "tabbies" are getting fancy hair
cuts, too, and when the barber gets
through with the aristocratic entries of
the Washington Cat club, they look
like cross between a French poodle
and squirrel. We don't know what
these aristocratic felines think of it,
but the light that would lie in the eye
of plain Tom and Maria il they were
subjected to such treatment would be
of the kiLd most adequately described
by the word dangerous. Chattanooga
Times,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
REPUBLICAN SPLIT
WILL BENEFIT WILSON

Washington, July 22,-The state
ment made today by Representative
Sam r. Sells, republican, of Tennessee,
that either wing of the warning repub-
lican forces would rather see Wilson
elected than its own republican oppo-
nent, is regarded as significant by those
who are watching eagerly for evidence
on which to base a prediction of the
outcome of the three-cornered cam
paign now on.
| This republican congressman, who is
Taft supporter, asserts that the Taft
forces would prefer Wilson victory TO
bull moose conquest, and he declares
with equal confidence that the third
termers would prefer to see Wilson go
into the white house rather than that
Taft be allowed to remain there
Political observers here say this
statement can mean but one thing
that the bull moose party is about to
join battle with the regular republicans
in a campaign that can result only in
defeat for both.
The position which the Taft cam
paign managers have taken is that
Roosevelt and his followers are no more
republicans than they are democrats
and that they have as little claims for
support from one as from the other.
President Taft was advised by his
managers in conference at the white
house yesterday that he should place
party integrity above his own political
success and that this integrity could
be maintained by one method alone
determination of the third term party. !
1t is believed that Taft will accept no
step toward compromise in any repub-
lican state whether this step puports
coalition on the electoral ticket or not |
1t is believed that the Presidents |
friends will take the position that the |
new party is a foreign, dangerous or
ganization, more hostile to the republi-
can concept of government than even
the democratic party and that they
should turn their heaviest artillery
against the rough rider and his lieuten-
ants. Against Roosevelt, the republi-
can cry will be "war to the death"
Roosevelt, on the other hand, can
never make the TRADES against the de-
mocracy that he has already launched
against the party that sent him to the
white house in 1904. 1t has been open
ly hinted by persons until recently
high in the bull moose council that
Roosevelt has at least friendly atti-
tude toward the democratic nominee
and his platform. 1t is not believed he
will wage his battle as bitterly against
Wilson as against Taft, for after all it
is widely accepted that Roosevelt's
fight is personal fight and it is against
Taft that his personal feelings have
been most deeply aroused.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
FIVE MILLIONS
ARE SET ASIDE

Mark w. Potter, president of the
Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railway,
arrived in Johnson City from New
York this week on official business.
His presence is due in part to the pen
ding contract for the extension of the
coal-carrying road from Dante, in Rus
sell county, Virginia, to Elkhorn City,
KY, distance of forty-two miles,
across the most rugged portion of the
Cumberland range of mountains. The
construction work is now well under
way, large forces of men being busy at
different points. Steam drills and 9TH
er machinery are being hauled into
the mountains in order to facilitate the
work of driving nineteen different tun-
nels, the longest of which will be 5000
feet from end to end. A force of men
with steam drills will work from each
end of this tunnel, while shafts will be
sunk from the mountain top at inter.
walls, as means of affording the nee
essary ventilation to tunnel of such
unusual length. The company has set
aside So, 600, 600 for this extension work,
and the contractors, Rinehart & Den
mis-, have until January, 1914, in which
to complete the work.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
The MONDAY of Life.

Married people should learn what to do fol-
one anotheI's little ills, and for the ills Of
children that may come. They are sure
sooner or later to have occasion to treat con-
stipation or indigestion. When the oppor-
tunity comes remember that the quickest
way to obtain relief, and finally permanent
cure, is with DR.. Caldwel's Syrup Pepsin,
the great herb laxative compound. A bottle
should always be in the house.
1t is absolutely guaranteed to do what is
claimed, and if you want to try it before
buying, send your address for free sample
bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., 1I9 Caldwell
Bldg, Monticello, Ill. 1t is sold by all
druggists at soc and ST. bottle.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01

tablished real estate and loan office
in this city less than two months ago,
has quietly disappeared, taking with
him many peoples money of this city
and surrounding country, who are now
making an effort to locate the missing
dealer who, they allege, has swindled
them, some quite extensively. Rich
mans operations extended over con-
siderable portion of Tennessee and Vir-
gihia. Men who claim to have been
swlndled have come to Bristol from
outlying points only TO find the office
in the Interstate building closed and
the agent and his wife gone. 1t is
credited that the Alabama loan compa-
ny he represented is solvent, but it is
alleged that he skipped with advance
moneys on loans to be procured for the
applicants, leaving them holding only
his individual receipts. Following his
extensive advertisement to loan money
on real estate at 5 per cent, many un-
suspecting applicants placed large
sums of money in his hands, evidence
OF good faith, which they now claim
to have lost. 1t is believed that the
name used here is assumed. His
whereabouts and where he came from
is unknown here.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-08-01
SETTING DAMAGES
OF BRISTOL WRECK

Bristol, Tenn, July 23.-Though l.
w. Haun, of the law department of
the Southern railway, most of the
cases of personal damage, growing out
of the wreck of the Memphis Special
last Wednesday, have been paid for.
1t is understood that, aside from the
postal clerks, nobody was seriously
injured, and beyond paying for
scratches and bruises and the loss of
baggage and other personal property,
the company had very little to pay
for. The steel coach behind the
combination car is what saved the
Southern from having to pay immense
damages. Had that coach been of
wooden construction more than
hundred people would have met death;
for it is said that besides more than
sixty people who were seated in this
coach, thirty-seven were standing in
the aisle. The train carried party of
excursionists from the Carolinas.
Mark l.. Hodge, the postal clerk
who was the most seriously injured, is
improving, with indications that he
will recover without the loss of a leg or
arm, although he will, because of his
age, probably never be able to enter
the mail service again.