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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
LONGwORTH's TRIBUTE
Ie Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution. The most signal tribute yet paid to the
 masterful genius for leadership possessed
 by Oscar Underwood comes, not from a
 member of his own party, but from re- publican, no less astute and observant a politician than Nicholas Longworth, con-
 gressman and son-n-law of Theodore
 Roosevelt.
 This need was wrung from MT. Longworth in the course of his protest
 against the Underwood free sugar bill, which, it is estimated, will reduce the cost of the commodity cents a pound to tho consumer Here it is: "As an amalgamator of opposing opin-
 ions, as a trainer and master of dis
 cordant and ordinarily manageable ele-
 ments. the renowned Professor Hagen
 beck Is a child compared to the gentle-
 man from Alabama. I will go further and say that when he pipes they not only dance, but they lie down. roll over and play dead"
 At the conclusion of the debate that
 brought forth this extraordinary compli- ment, MT. Underwood justified it by put
 ting through free sugar by a vote of
 19S to 103
 Even more sweeping was his achieve ment Tuesday in the passage of the excise
 or income tax bill. In his comprehensive
 advocacy of the measure, the House lead CT charged that the unexplained mid
 night reversal of the supreme courts de- cisin on the Wilson income tax had been responsible for the phenomenal increase of socialism in this country. When the vote was put the House ap- lproved the Underwood income tax measure by a vote of 250 to 40 including a large
 number of republicans who broke through party lines to follow the Alabama states mans lead.
 | Oscar Underwood commands the House mapjority as no leader has commanded a House majority since the civil war, be- cause his democratic associates recog-
 nize that his clear vision and far sight affords the one sane basis of party pol | icy.
 | Is not the man whose unprecedented | leadership wrings praise even from his ! enemies the one man with qualities to | lead the party to victory next fall?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
Underwood Much Discussed

Few statesmen in this country nave come so quickly into national fame as MT. Underwood of Alabama" said w. w. Wayland of West Virginia.
 Although the chairman of the ways and means committee has been long time in Congress preparing himself py work and study for party leadership his name was not much known outside or the national capital or his own state. Begin ming with the extra session, however Underwood distinguished himself and be- came so conspicuous as a national figure that the politicians at large began to dls- cuss him as presidential possibility. Still it was some months after he be- came the chosen leader on the floor of the House that the masses became familiar with his name
 Today Underwood Is more talked anout tand generally favorably talked aoouo than any other democrat In the United States I have had no experience in poll teal matters. I am merely a democratic voter, but I believe that Underwood at the head of the democratic ticket would spell victory for our party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
New York Correspondence Cincinna Times-Star.

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 New York Is getting too big. Men of fame elsewhere are mere minnows In the metropolitan pool, unless they buy neck faces for chorus girls or wear pink silk pajamas on first nights at the theatre. The greatest actor of Russia is buried in a shabby theatre on the lower East Side. The man who has been called the greatest modern actor of Germany is un- known except for the clientele of the lit- tie theatre in which he is cleaning up a neat $100,0O0 every year. Dukes pass through the town, and hardly anyone lifts an eyebrow. Ten years ago Jacques Le- baudy, the eccentric Parislan, who sought to establish himself as the emperor of the Sahara, was world sensation. He has been living in New York six years forgotten.
 But not quite forgotten" said a clerk at the Savoy, He will always be remem- bered by the bellboys of town as the in- ventor of some of the most elaborate hoaxes ever practiced on that fraternity. Lobaudy would buy machine guns and yachts and regiments, but he would not give a tip. In New York it is difficult to get super-excellent service if the person desirous of being served Is known to en- tertain heterodox ideas on tipping. So Lebaudy, on the first day of his arrival at one hotel, had all the bellboys sum- moned to his suite of rooms. His secre- tary admitted them to the drawing room Lebaudy sat there, in front of a table on which were stacked row upon row of gold pieces.
 See? said Lebaudy.
 "Then he dismissed the boys. For the remainder of his stay, convinced that those gold pieces were to be distributed among them, the boys ran their legs off for him. In the morning of his depart ure he sent his trunks and servants away. Then he called the boys to his suite again. In the drawing room was the same old pile of gold pieces. They stood in front of those rolls of gold, licking their lips. By and by Lebaudy came in.
 "'What are you doing in here?' he yelled. Get out!
 That's the nearest they ever got to a. tip. He took one boy to a clothing store on one occasion and had him rigged out in the most sumptuous of apparel. When he was completely dressed. from the silk underclothes to the silk hat, Le- haudy pulled out his watch.
 "'Goodby,' he said, walking out.
 .erhe salesman undressed that boy just as he would skin banana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
No Bandit Escapes Punish ment

The Allen outlaws will be captured If all the armed forces of all the ,states are necessary in the effort. When they defied all society in the Hillsville, Va, courthouse their doom was sealed, and it is now but a ques- tion of capture and punishment. Both are certain simply because the people are awakened( to the need of punish lshment. Eve dsry mans hand is against them, and tAeir capture will follow hs night follo) )ws day.
 And so it lis with one outrage or reform afteV another. Whatever en- counters the solid wall of the Ameri- can people-their asserted will-will hssuredly go down. Monopolies and plunderers will yet encounter that will, and they will no more escape than the Allen g Iang will. Nothing . rsn stand against the will of the mass. It may be difficult to trace certain murders and find proof enough to convict the murderer, but once the murderer is found his hanging should be certain; and it will be when the public becomes aroused. All must go down before the overpowering will pf the American people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
From Dickens "Bleak House."


 seXV/' have here among us' my
 M friends" says Chadband. "a
 Gentle and heathen, a dwell CT in the tents of Tom-all-Alone's and a mover-on upon the surface of the earth. We have here among us, my friends, " and MT Chadband, untwisting the point with his dirty thumbnail, bestows an ely smile on MT. Snagsby, signifying that he will throw him an argumentative backfall presently if he be not already down, "a brother and a boy. Devoid of parents, devoid of relations, devoid of focks and herds, devoid of gold and silver and of precious stones. Now, my friends, why do I say he is devoid of these possessions? Why? Whyis he?" MT. Chadband states the question as if he were propounding an entirely new riddle, of much ingenuity and merit, to MT. Snagsby, and entreat- ing him not to give it up.
 MT. Snagsby. greatly perplexed by the mysterious look he received just now from his little woman-at about the period when MT. Chadband mentioned the word parents-is tempted into mod estly remarking, 'I don't know, I'm sure, sir" On which interruption Mrs. Chad band glares and Mrs. Snagsby says For shame!''
 "I hear a voice. says Chadband. 'Is it still small voice, my friends?a I fear not though fain would hope so--"
 ("Ah-hl'' from Mrs. Snagsby)
 Which says, I don't know. Then will tell you why. I say this brother, present here among us, is devoid of par ents, devoid of relations, devoid of fiocks and herds, devoid of gold, of silver and of precious stones, because he is devoid of the light that shines in upon some of us. Wha tis that light? What is it? ask you what is that light?"
 MT. Chadband draws back his head and pauses, but MT. Snagsby is not to be lured on to his destruction again. MT. Chad band, leaning forward over the table, pierces what he has got to follow, di-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
The National Guard

Carelessness on the part of the militia causing loss of government property was the technical reason for Adjutant General Scully's action in Hisbanding several companies of the Alabama National Guard. That there has been carelessness on the part of some members of the guard is fact well known in military circles; but lack of interest is doubtless at the bottom of the disbandment.
 The latest official report issued by the war department at Washington shows the number of enlisted men of the National Guard in the United States to be 112, ,479, and the strength of the military reserve (unorganized) ] was stated at IA, 752 ,293 The National Guard has been brought into close re- lations with the regular army and is really a part of it. During the past few years the volunteers forming the guard have increased greatly in ef- ficiency. In drill and discipline most companies of the National Guard , throughout the country are almost up to the standard of regulars" But in order for the Alabama National Guard to be we'll maintained in the Birmingham district, corporations and other employers must take a broader view of the situation and en- courage, rather than discourage, young men who are in their service to enlist for at least one term of three years.
 Every boy is benefited by military discipline. Aside from the education
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
sbou,dp,t Miss the Chance

Tt is up to Birmingham to take ad- vantage of a great opportunity to1nake itself known and felt in Baltimore dur ing convention week" said Dr. Edgar Daly, who has just returned from that city.
 AS rule medical men do not take a very great interest in national politics. but all those with whom I talked were enthusiastically in favor of under"ooo' and regard his nomination as being al- most certainty.
 NO better choice than Baltimore could have been made, as the southern senu- ment is as strong In Maryland as II IL were washed by the waters or the suii' and that fact, together with the hospleal- ity for which Baltimoreans are famous' the beautiful parks and magnificent pay will all combine to amply reward all those who go to swell the ranks or the Birmingham Underwood Marching cluo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
khe wheat, must tarry the grinding.
 -Troiius and Cressida.
MT. Taft's Overwhelming Defeat

-iis dtt OftA ittINab
 Director Mckinley of the Taft cam paign says that North Dekota's ap- peal to the people directly was a "soapbox" primary. A soapbox pri- mary is better every time than no primary at all, and there is nothing the Taft people dread more than direct voting by the people. They dread it beyond expression, although they are willing to accept machine primary of the New York sort in which the machine ticket for delegates fn each district is placed first and Foremost. A real, square and fair pri- mary is dreaded by William Howard Taft as water is by a mad dog. In North Dakota he boiled 5000 votes out of 52,000, and LaFollette and Roose- welt got the rest.
 In North Dakota Gov. John Burke, who was elected by a small plurality, was declared the choice of the state for President. He is a democrat What with favorite sons and second choices the nomination at Baltimore becomes every day more interesting, while the steam roller is making daily the result at Chicago plainer without rendering it more satisfactory to the mass of republicans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22

that military institutions impart, the wholesome moral effect of austere soldierly routine cannot be overesti- mated, and National Guard drill, now that it is on a West Point model, makes the manly young guardsman all the manlier.
 The National Guard is frequently ordered out to do real military duty and every employer should be patri- otic enough to grant leave of ab- sence willingly to members of the militia whenever they are so called into action. In other words public sentiment should be strongly on the side of the National Guard.
 Of the 112,479 enlisted men of the guard, 3139 were credited to Alabama. This number gave Alabama the lead in the south. Georgia-wide awake and stirring-had only 2786 enlisted men. Virginia, which has always been noted for it's military spirit, had an enlistment of only 2465. Texas has about the same as Georgia. While Alabama will probably continue to head the list of southern national guardsmen, there must be renewed interest and greater encouragement on the part of the public if present numerical strength is to be main taipad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
LosT-ANoTHER @wILsoN sTATEy

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 The democrats of Maine have fol- lowed the democrats of Kansas and added their hammer stroke to the knell of the Wilson nomination boom The Wilson bureau at Washington had confidently announced that sweeping victories In these two states would supply final augury of overwhelming national Wilson sentiment. Kansas went whooping for Champ Clark the other day. Now Maine has not only refused to instruct its delegation for Wilson, but the majority of the delegates are sey executive
 Maine's action is even more in the nature of thunderbolt to the follow CTS of Dr. Wilson than that of Kan sas. Only few weeks ago it had been claimed in the voice of authority that the two democratic senators of the Pine Tree state were for him, and that a solidly instructed delegation was matter of formality only. The terrific jolts in Kansas and Maine dis credit henceforth every prediction issued from the Wilson headquarters.
 ,Glaring is the significance of the al- most simultaneous action in Maine and Kansas. Without reference to geog- raphy or frantic attempts to lash them into line. democrats the country over are realizing that the nomination of Wilson would be a fatal blunder. Get ting together on a platform of common sense that places party success above the ambitions of any one man, they decline to be piped on to the rocks by the faddist or the doctrinaire and are centralizing like practical men on practical methods for assuring tri- umph.
 The successive developments in Kan sas and Maine are the most hopeful in- dications of democratic victory since Oscar Underwood's genius evolved the splendidly constructive legislative ma chine in the House. Wilson enthusi- asts have been trying to explain away the Kansas catastrophe as an accident The breath has been taken from their preteXts by the corroboratory verdict of the Maine democrats.
 Sanity remains with the party Rain bow chasing is less tolerated than ever. The beginning of the end of the back to the wilderness campaign is in sight. Calmly and consistently dem ocrats everywhere are standing like a stone wall against old lures and quack appeals, rejecting the man who insures defeat. searching out the man who can capitalize the party's achievements into victory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
THEIR LOSS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 And who are all these distinguished looking people?"
 Haven't you been introduced?"
 ''Why, yes. But who and what are tkey?"
 Well, well, Why, the longhaired man in the corner is Biffton Bardley, the play wright. The little man at his right is Carpenter Hoops, the novelist. The tall man with the ivory forehead is Pulsifcr Prinde the poet
 But wait. I've never seen any of Bard leys plays, nor read any of Hoops nov els, or Prindle's poetry"
 "Yes, 1 know. But, you see, they would lose membership in the Society for the Social Advancement of the Unappreciated and Unpublished if they ever got into type, or onto the stage,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
ALL LINED UP FOR UNDERWOOD

From the Mobile Register
 Senator Percy announces in favor of Oscar Underwood for the democratic nomination. This makes the line up of Mississippi complete: Governor Brewer, Speaker Quin, Senator-elect Vardaman, Senator Williams, Senator Percy and eX- Senator Money, all have come over, advo- eating the merits of Alabamas favorite son. Senator Percy places the right em- phasis upon the issue, saying: Under wood Is making the fight in the House for honest tariff reform which clearly forecasts the real issue in the contest" This is the dearest issue and Mississippi can and doubtless will decide to give it's support to the man who is fighting so well for it and demonstrating every day
 what the party under his leadership is capable of doing in making honest tariff d fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
THE UNDERWOOD CAMPAIGN

From the Greensboro (N. O News
 The promoters of the Underwood presi- dential campaign are demonstrating good business judgment. They have faith in their cause and in their man to the ex- tent of spending real money for pub licity. At great expense for newspape use and this is being used in the for1 of supplements to leading papers, Throuf this medium the Daily News readers c. today inform themselves as to who ! Underwood is and what he stands for. is interesting reading, and will be means of further enlghtening the pu as to the faith public men have in great Alabamian, the democratic le N in Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
HER YOUNGEST

From the Kansas City Star
 This story is told on a Wichita street car conductor. He had received -hree or four 8 bills and his supply of change was growing low. A woman approached the car with a small baby in go-cart. The conductor assisted the woman into the car and placed the go-eart on the rear platform. The lady handed him a sl0 bill. The conductor. looking at tho carriage, asked, "Is that the smallest you have?" "Why, yes,' the young mother replied emphatically, i've only been married 12 months.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
REFLECTIONS OF \ BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Experience is the thief that steals your faith.
 Kissing is about the dullest thing when it's family affair.
 Workers make history and then au- thors' write 1t all over the way it wasn't made.
 The only handkerchief a Avoman will pay lot of money for is one that cant be used for what it is supposed to be for.
 There's nothing nobler to exercise than self sacrifice, so everybody is gen. erous enough to let somebody else exer- else 1t, .,.i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
sTRATEGICAL ERROR.

STRATEGICAL ERROR. He wrote a stack of letters to The maid who'd won his heart; But when in court they were read through His tears were fain to start. Alas" he sighed, "a fool 1 was To take so great chance; I should have had the sense to pause And ponder in advance. ''Too latel Too late! A woeful state The future holds in store. can but curse my bitter fate And murmur, 'Nevermorer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOG

Irvin in ., I I'm Before the Quake town wasres good from my Youthland turn my memory pack CUE a romantic
 Orient efrain.
 Streets and chilly
 the soul of
 In her fog in her fog f over Hyde northern slope of town would he moment when the sun was golng oo"r watch the mist snake creeping soft and m Wesern Cate Through the protected entrance Of the dsn many mile coed and twisted spreading whten n many ~ the City over ferpa ouei'a ' fog. the fog
 a enchanment kist- Not of a 2
 Like the dismal mist, But a fluffy
 One could loveo or murder
 In fog.i that fog L.. :. Con Eranciscos ovey and mad men, OK 1ke ta or sa Serene indifferent the he hsan @ % e % opea ps his sG oans cm scamp of fakng must ma navs qnPpea ms n pn spleen For the fog, og
 Turns the workers
 Here there a Reuff
 Dan Dan Q O 2Gonmei. 26ni
 the cataog the
 of n wines are better love your native stock the santac caret to the Valley hook. @ 1p or om sam as sas will be to me more welcome as soul inspiring gros the fog, in the
 revel the last, Nor headache hearache
 Will remain Where Adventure iarks incog In the fog. in the fogs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
A GOLDEN DAY.

A GO1OEN DA4. Blue skies above,
 A fair world below; A dalliant breeze
 Waits to and fro. Far on the hills
 The sunlight sleeps; In wales of dream
 No shadow keeps. With a silvery voice
 The streamlet flows; With a message sweet To the sea it goes. There Is a stir in the wood And a note of cheer, That was once so gray, And dull and sere. The spirit of hope
 Is abroad in the land; The trees and the streams And the hills understand. There's promise made That will be fulfilled, When the waiting world With a song is thrilled And the warbling birds A welcome bring; Blithe heralds they or approaching Springi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Eugene F. Ware with telling this story at the convention of the Republican league in Topeka A young fellow went west and got into boom town where he was made president of an electric light company, of a street railway company of water works company and of bank. The boom collapsed after a while and the electric lights went out, and the street railway stopped, and the waterworks dried up and at last the bank broke. The depostors who lost their money gathered one even: ing, purchased a rope and went to call on the young man. When they made their presence known he stepped calmly onto the veranda and said: "Gentlemen, 1 haven't got a dollar You will never get a dollar The only thing left for you is to cut me into little pieces and pass me around. The mans audacity silenced the crowd for moment, and then a thin voice in the rear piped up: Fellow cit izens, in. the distribution of this seacook. want his gallV-Kansas City Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
England'. Interest in Roosevelt

"Roosevelt's candidacy for the repub- lican nomination has stirred up more in terest in England than any other feature of American politics. judging from the amount of space that the London Times gives to the discussion of the ex-Presi- dent" said a reader of London's best known newspaper.
 Tn it's weekly edition of March s. re- gently received here, the Times prints two columns and a half about the colonel. The Rooseveltiana is headed. The New Roosevelt A man styling himself an American Exile writes in adverse criti- cism of Roosevelt. The eX-President Is taken to task for his inconsistency and for his severe strictures on the supreme court. That article is followed by de- fense by Mir Arthur Lee, member of parliament. That writer begins by say ing:
 "I feel bound to express my surprise at the appearance of a malevolent and anonymous attack upon MT. Roosevelt over the signature, An American Exile.'' So far as Mir. Roosevelt himself is con- oerned, I do not suppose that he will even hear of this untruthful and hysterical tirade, but it must necessarily give of fense to his many friends in this coun- try. In any case they are entitled to ask who is this "American Exile who makes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
SNAKE LIVED, BuT CAT KILLE

Lenox Telegram to the New
 World.
 Incased in ice that was uncoye the melting snow, Charles C. Great Harrington found today foot blacksnake. He took the home and placed it in box I a hot stove. Three hours later C tile and the family cat were in ' during which the snake was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22
A GREAT EXPERIENCE.


 There goes old Doopkins. I don't SUD- pose anything out of the way has ever happened to him in his whole life" You are very much mistaken. Only last winter in a theatre the spotlight was turned on his bald head and a soubrette sang song to him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22

North Dakota's presidential primary was highly informing from republican point of view. but it was a disappoint- ment from the other point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22

MT Taft says he was brought up in Ohio and educated in the Philippines His later education seems to have been neglected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-22

A scientist in New York hospital says that medical and sanitary science has in 50 years added F years to the life of man. Good enOIgh.