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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07

Eschol Sellers who was a very respecta- ele person. He was a stout, prosperous looking man, gray, and about 55 years old. He came into the American Publish ing company's offices and asked permis- sion to look at the book. MT. Bliss was out at the moment, but presently ar rived. The visitor rose and introduced himself
 My name is Eschol Sellers" he said. You have used it in one of your pub lications. It has brought upon me lot of ridicule. My people wish me to sue you for $1o,000 damages"
 He had documents to prove his identi- ty, and there was only one thing to be done; he must be satisfied Bliss agreed to recall as many of the offending vol umes as possible and change the name on the plates. He consulted the authors. and the name Beriah was substituted for the offending Eschol 1t turned out that the real Sellers family was a large one. and that the given name Eschol was not uncommon in its several branches.
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Gov. Corners Greensboro speech

Ex-Governor Conner threw his hat into the ring at Greensboro, and every inch of that hat represents progress siveism as opposed conservatism. Each of the great political parties," says Governor Conner, lis sub divided into conservatives or standpatters or reactionists on the one hand and pro- gressives, also called demagogues and neurotics on the other. These factions, both democrats and republicans, either align themselves with big busi- ness, or seek to obey the just demands and submit to the wise control of the people"
 Governor Conner places himself at the head of the prograssives. He ad- vocates the initiative and referendum, and the recall of District Judge Jones at any rate. But whether these "re- forms" be granted or not the ex- governor makes it plain that the pro gressives will fight the battle of 1914, when a governor and legislature are to be elected, on the rate issue, which includes a 21s cents passenger fare and lower rates on 110 Alabama com- modities.
 In the Greensboro speech the liquor question was not discussed, but popu- lar and direct government and the rate issue were, and these are to be the issues in 1914 so far as MT. Conner and his friends are concerned. MT. Conner may not be candidate for governor, but whether he is or not he will be in the battle of 1914 leading the progressives up to a defense o1 the rates that were inaugurated while he was governor. Not prohibition but according to Governor Conner low CT rates will be the slogan, and the ex-governor is by no means powerless in this state.
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IN THE LAND OF UTOPIA

From Utopia, by Sir Thomas Moore.
 The sick shall be looked after with great affection, and nothing shall be left undone that may restore them to health. Such as be sick with incurable diseases, they shall be comforted by sitting and talking with them. But if the disease be not only incurable, but also full of con- tinual pain and anguish, then the priests and magistrates shall exhort the man and find out if he is able to perform any duties of life. And if it be found that by lingering, his life IS annoying and irSsome to his fellow men, as well as grievous to himself, and since his life is to him but a torment, he wll not be unwilling to die, but will dispatch himself out of that pain full life, as out of a prison, or a rack of torment, or else suffer himself to be rid. dea out of 1t by others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07
Six Dollars Per Senatorial Bath

Senator John Sharp Williams has called public attention to the hxur- ious bathrooms of the Senate office building, in which it costs the people S6 to bathe a senator. The New Jcr- sey farmers take but one year. They take it when, in hot weather, they go to the seashore, and then subject themselves to a pounding of the sad sea waves. But presumably senators take more than one bath year, and the treasury is depleted each time on the basis of $6 per bath.
 Senator Williams demands that the luxurious baths be taken out, and the place they fill be given over to the storage of public documents which are at present kept in an abandoned car barn. This raises an issue be- tween S6 baths and space for public documents. A compromise should not be considered impracticable. Let the senators, for example, bath in the abandoned car barn, and let chc pub lc docus tnts be housed in the office building. This compromise should be acceptable even to Senator Williams, although he says there is no sense in  senatorial baths. "The government should not" he added, bathe us."
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will bite thee by the enr for that jest. --Romeo and Juliet.
Checking Infantile Paralysis

The Washington Post says that the fifteenth international congress on hygeine and domagraphy which is to meet in Washington in September. will devote considerable time to the consideration of the disease known as infantile paralysis. This disease has spread terror in many countries, in- cluding the United States, and all are hopeful that some methods for preventing its spread will be estab- lished.
 The trouble thus far has been that the microbe which causes it is too small to be detected by the most DOW erful microscope, and health officers do not know how to isolate or combat disease which is caused by a mi crobe that eludes identification.
 At the coming congress some of the most eminent physicians of the world will present their experiences in treating the disease, and when these experiences are brought togeth- CT some progress may be made in checking it. At present it is the despair of the doctors, and no physi- clan feels sure that he can successful ly treat given case.
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Filling the offices

T feel as if Mir Underwood will not only be the democratic nominee, but that he will be President Taft's successor in the White House." said an enthusiastic democrat Tn fact I am so confident that I can almost see our great Ala bamian taclxling the job of filling the high offices. l have not even tried to guess who would be MT. Underwood's secretary of state. The two cabinet positions Of greatest importance are the secretaryship of state and the secretaryship of the treasury.
 Birmingham has a financier of philo- sophie mind who would make an able secretary of the treasury. but the treas ury portfolio will probably be rendered to some well known democrat of the central west. Of course it will be in order for Alabama to be represented in the cabinet. but no state would hardly have more than one member.
 ''Col. Hilary A. Herbert would make an excellent secretary of the navy. He is well up in years. but understand tha. he is very active and in good health. Alabama has produced many great men and colonel Herbert is one of the greatest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07
SEEKS MATCH FOR DEAD GOLD
 FISH

From the New York World.
 There was not the slightest trace of a smile on the face of fashionably dressed woman yesterday in Fulton street de- pertinent store in Brooklyn as she opened a package containing a dead fish.
 T wish to match this exactly" she said to a saleswoman.
 Had the woman smiled, the clerk would have considered her a practical joker, but the request unaccompanied by a smile. semed so uncanny that the clerk, impelled by fear. passed a secret sign to summon Manager Neaderland, who asked.
 "Why do you wish to match this, madam?"
 Tt died in the aquarium of a friend while the friend was out of town, depend- ing on me to care for her fishes, and I want to replace the dead fish with a live one exactly the same''
 Third aisle to the right said the man. ager, leading the way to fioldfsh tank. and an exact duplicate of the dead fish was transferred to globe
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influences in that party, for he has represented big business all the years of his active life.
 He has all the qualifications of John D. Rockefeller. Both are clear headed and self centered. Both are handicapped alike-neither could poll any considerable number of votes for President.
 MT. Root is representative repub- lican, but the member from Scotland should remember that a nominee is wanted in that party who is vote- getter as we'll as a slush-gatherer MT. Root is not vote-getter, far from it. He is not even wanted as a keynoter-that is to say, he is not wanted by the progressives of his own party.
 The suggestion of the Laird of Skibo will no doubt be tabled. His credentials have not been passed on, and nomination or suggestions by cable are irregular. MT. Carnegie knew how to work a tariff for all it was worth better than he knows how to present a popular favorite for President. He should be permitted to withdraw Elihu's name before the convention meets.
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THE HOME OF MUsTY TONES

Charles Lamb.
 What a place to be in is an old library It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have be- queathed their labors to these Bodle- ians were reposing here as in some dormitory. or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge shade I seem to inhaie learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those seiential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07
THE ORIGIN OF "LAcoNIc,

From the Argonaut
 William Lyon Phelps. professor of Eng fish literature at Yale, was discussing. al dinner in New Haven, the significance of words Some words" he said, have a history, and knowledge of their his tory gives them richer meaning. Take, for example, the word 'laconic. Philip of Macedon was threatening the Iaconians. If l enter your city, he said. I will level it to the dustr 'If.' was the Laconians' reply And the pointed brevity of that reply is imbedded in our word 1aconic' like a fly in amber.''
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------------ss.--- - SORROW THAT ENDUREs

By Washington Irwin.
 The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal; every other affliction, to for get; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open. This afhietion we cherish, and brood over in solitude. Where Is the mother who would will ingly forget the infant that has per ished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would willing ly forget tender parent, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of agony. would for get the friend. over whom he mourns?
 No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul If it has it's woes; it has like wise its delights; and when the over whelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection; when the sudden anguish, and the convulslve agony over the present ruin of all that he most loved. is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days of it's loveliness who would root out such a sorrow from the heart? Though it may. sometimes, throw a passing cloud over the bright hour of gayety, or spread a deeper sadness over the hour of gloom, yet. who would ex- change it, even for the song of pleas ure or the burst of revelry? No, there is voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn, even from the charms of the living.
 Oh. the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, ext.n- guishes every resentment From it's peaceful bosom spring none except fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave of an en- emy and not feel a -compunctious trob that he should have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies molder- ing before him? But the grave of those he loved, what place for meditation!
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Healthy Business Conditions

Business is somewhat quiet just now owing to national politics, but condi- tons are very healthy and there is talk of new high record prosperity after the conventions are over," said F. L. Winton of Schenectady. N. Y.
 Generally speaking, business has been first rate during the past few months-much better than this time last year. There is every indication of new era of prosperity. It will set in this summer and continue for sev- eral years"
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THE WILD BEES, INN

Madison Cawein in the Outlook.
 Here's the tavern of the bees;
 Here the butterflies, that swing
 Velvet cloaks, and to the breeze
 Whisper soft conspiracies.
 Pledge their lord the Faery King;
 Here the hotspur hornets bring
 Fiery word. and drink away
 Heat and hurry of the day.
 Eefe the merchant bee, his gold
 On his thigh, falls fast asleep;
 And the mailed beetle bold,
 Like an errant knight of old,
 Feeds and slumbers long and deep While the friar cricl1ets keep Breaking low a drinking song. Live an ave, all day long. Here the baron bumblebee Drowses, grumbling in his cup, While his followers. lean O. knee, Dragonfiies, sip swaggeringly, And the arigs. old henchmen, sup; Here the gnats come whining up-- Thieves that tap the tiny tuns Of the honeyed musk that runs. Here the jeweled wasp, that goes On his swift highwayman way. Seeks a moment of repose, Drains his cup of wine of rose. Sheaths his dagger for the day. And the moth, in downy gray. Like some Lady of the Gloom, Slips into a perfumed room When the darkness cometh on, Round the tavern, golden green, Flrefiies Ait with torches wan. 1 Looking if the guests be gone, Linkboys of the Faery Queen; lighting her who rides unseen.
 To her elfin sweet pea bower.
 Where she rests a scented hours
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WHAT MAY HAPPEN

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 The Birmingham minister who says there will be more politicians in hell than any other class throws out a life line to the unregenerate. The politicians will probably beat the devil at his own game and make the pace so much like Chicago that everyone except New Workers would have a thoroughly good time
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On q Montl,,s Vacation

Robert B. Martin. formerly of Bir- mingham but now of Big Spring. Tex, Is here on a visit accompanied by his wife and children.
 MT Martin has the reputation of be- ing one of the best train dispatchers that ever worked a trick" He accept ed a position about year ago with the Texas Pacific as train dispatcher. He was soon promoted to chief train dispatcher. He is now master of trains. He has a months leave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07
Automobile smoke

An unpleasant odor is emitted from many automobiles on account of bad fabrication" said a capitalist. As I have a frst-class chauffeur I have not bothered myself about mechanics or any of the details necessary to oper- ate the car properly. But many cars ars smoky and when one is following close behind one of these smoky ma chimes the smell is very offensive.
 T have noticed that in New York city smoking cars are not allowed. There must be some law in New York against bad fabrication. We should have something of the sort here"
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MT. Underwood and the Bristow
y treat a given case.


 Here and there paper in the south has the hardihood to say that MT. Underwood stood alone on the demo- cratic side when he advocated and voted for the Bristow amendment, The vote was 237 yeas and 30 nays. A majority of the democrats present voted for the Bristow amendment.
 All who are at heart in favor of the direct election of senators favor the proposition as it's stands, because it is the best proposition that could be wrung from the Senate. The reac- tionaries in every part of the country are hoping that the south will refuse to ratify the amendment, although it confessedly does not add to the pres ent power of Congress over senatorial elections.
 If the opponents of the proposition would forget the presidential cam paign and would refresh their mem- ory concerning article 3, section 4 of the constitution as it has stood 125 years, the subject would cease to have demagogical side. MT. Underwood's $ action and votes on the proposition were in line with the demands of the democratic party in this state. He acted deliberately and wisely. He aided in putting before the country a really unobjectionable proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE QUEST.

HE N2OES1. 1 man once longed for peace complete. He sought the ocean strand, Where waves>came singing soft and sweet To the untrodden sand. But soon they built a little town, Where bands began to play; And then a tidal wave came down And washed 'em all away. He sought the wooded mountain height, To shun the crowds below, A big hotel soon met his sight With artificial show; And next an earthquake shook the place Until the mountain fell; The devastation left no trace Of mountain or hotel. Out there upon the level plain, Where far his gaze might roam, He turned his quest of peace again, And sought to make a home. But savage huntsmen round him erept, Or raised a warrior shout; And then a cyclone came and swept The whole collection out. And when the cyclone dropped the man, He said Right here I'll stay Here will l strive as best [ can To use what comes my way From toll and strife I shall not flee, Nor shirk the issue grim. No more will I seek peace" quoth he. And straightway. peace sought him. -Phiander Johnson, in the Washington
 Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07
MT. Carnegie's Compromise Candidate

Andrew Carnegie, in his summer capacity as a delegate from Scotland presents in a London interview Elihu Root as a compromise republican can didate for President. No doubt he would well represent the controlling
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LONGING.

Who hears the glad vacation call
 Come lifting OCT the land and sea, Doth feel himself a hopeless thrall
 And thinks of what he'd like to be- A dreamer where the hills invite
 And sunlit valleys smile below, Where rural Vistas charm the sight
 And soft sweet-scented breezes blow. Or else, beside the rolling deep
 To spend a round of golden days, The fruits of meditation reap
 And study Natures wonderways; His heart set free from troubles frown,
 A song upswelling to his lips, Blthe eomrade of the sandy down,
 And wind and wave and tossing ships.
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BEHOLD.

Behold the hard-worked editor,
 Of wisdom wondrous ripe, Though much he'll ne'er get credit for, There's solace in his pipe.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Significant Talk

"On a recent trip to Philadelphia to attend the graduation exercises of the ! school which my daughter attended. heard some strong praise of oscar Underwood" said g. E. Thompson. the prominent real estate man. This is the substance of what an elderly gentleman said to me on the train: I'm repub- lican and am not for Roosevelt. If MT. Taft cannot be nominated then I would like to see MT. Underwood nom mated and elected Such an expression was significant because had not men toned Underwood's name or indicated that had any interest in Alabama or the Alabama statesman. I understand from people who have been east re- gently that many republicans express themselves freely in favor of Under wood as against Roosevelt"
 Mr. Thompson had the pleasure of meeting Right Rev. John G. Murray and Mrs. Murray on his way to Phila- delphia. When they learned that MT Thompson was on the train they joined him at Baltimore and rode as far as Wilmington. Dr. Murray was for sew eral years rector of the Church of the Advent, of which Mr. Thompson is ves- tryman, but he is now bishop of Mary land.
 Bishop Murray is a hard worker, and is greatly esteemed by the people of his diocese" said MT. Thompson. He has not been to Birmingham since he was made bishop, but he remem- bers his many Birmingham friends and inquired particularly after certain of themn
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Not even statistics concerning the high cost of living discourage the June brides or even the June bridegrooms.
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A OTFSTIOn

A QUESTION. How can the world Seem dark to you, When flowers bloom And the skies are blue? When every day Is day of roses And the sun gods reign In splendor closes!
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Job Hedges, joker, is suggested as the republican candidate for governor in New York. Some humor is certainly needed in the distracted party of that state.
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A. c. Trumbo of Ohio is mentioned for vice president on the Roosevelt ticket. Tumho and Trumbo would make an unique ticket.
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The Teddy-Taft fight has not been the kind that women prefer. There was too much broncho busting in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07

The Coliseum in Chicago is the storm center now. and it will hold its own all through next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07

The White Star line declared dividends amounting to 50 per cent last year. Some of the money should have gone into life boats.
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The democrats are making no racket Tn their preparations to take charge of the country, and the noise making is monopo- Ized bv the two republican factions.
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Colonel New will be lucky if the tickets to his Chicago show at the Coliseum are kept out of the hands of the ticket scalp CTS.
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New York advises all to keep their eyes on Gaynor, but surely the mayor does not need so much watching as all that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-07

Wilbur Wright was the first aviator who died natural death.
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Some think the colonel may bolt before the convention even meets.
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In New York housewives propose to have fish every day until they bring down the price of meat.
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The marriage license clerk rises early this month and hurries to his office.
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Major Hemphill has been added to the staff of the New York Times, and already his Illuminating pen is manifest in it's col- rnlns.
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A RESPITE! A RESPITE!

It is said that Theodore Roosevelt never yawns. Still. we'd rather have him yawn, or even fall asleep occasionally. instead of keeping up continuous roaring.
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My Dear Maria" has flung her hat into the ring, and it is no doubt full of hat pins
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cle Joe Cannon, way out in Illinois, knows when to keep still. He is not say ing word.
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The revolution against orozco is a rev. olution within revolution.
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The crops in Alabama are looking far better today than anyone forecasting a few weeks ago thought they would look.
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Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont says @ boy loses respect for his mother as soon as he casts his first vote. This must depend to some extent upon whom he votes for.
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WRITING OF "T0M sAwYERY

The air in Chicago is full of political thunderstorms.
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Lorimer refuses to prefer hari-karl to the guilotne.
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The unity rule is better than the unit rule.
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roo PREVIOUS.

"It is all right to take time by the forelock. but some people overdo it."
 For instanee?"
 "The man who is already scouting around looking for Christmas magazines"
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The New York Sun of Wednesday has for it's leading editorial only these four sententious lines: AS the strenuous days of June accumulate we observe more clearly the growth of the idea that Baltimore is to be the Head- quarters of Hope"
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Many of the democratic leaders in the east In speaking of the forthcoming convention, indulge in glitterlng gen eralities, but most of them are at heart for Underwood.
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As the time draws near for the dem Underwood stock Is advancing.