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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16
WOMAN IS GIVEN
ONE DAY IN JAIL

May Hamilton pleaded guilty Thurs
day afternoon in the county court TO
having received stolen property. She
was assessed a punishment of one day
in jail, and costs of court The case
grew out of the alleged robbery at the
White House" on the county road
some time ago, when it was alleged
that n. Madrid, proprietor Of that
place lost $3.50. In connection with the
case, the sheriff's department arrested
May Hamilton. Ed Mills, frankie Rose
and Jack Hamilton. The city detectives
worked up the case against the defend
ants. Jack Hamilton and Ed Mills have
been released on 500 bonds each.
The bond of frankie Rose was placed
at $500 The defendants were given a
preliminary hearing before justice z.
B. McCIintock, and their bonds fixed
at $500 each. Following this action.
the defendants sued out a writ of
habeas corpus to the 41st district court,
as the result of which their bonds
were reduced.
Felix Martinez returned today from
trip to Colorado and New Mexico
points. Mr.. Martinez says ne believes
New Mexico will go for Wilson, but
that the state vote viii he light, as
there are no county tickets N the
field.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16
Stolen Goods Recovered.

DR.. Burton. dentist. $500 Mills Bldg.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16

The clerks office in the city jail is
being enlarged Work was commenced
Friday morning. In addition to the
clerk being given more space by the
added Improvement, a shelf containing
drawers for the court docket and other
papers of the police court will be
placed on top of the railing now being
installed The sergeant's office in the
station is to have two phones. The
automatic phone was taken out several
days ago, and another phone will take
its place.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16

DIR. f. ID. Garrett, diseases of the stom-
ach and intestines, 516-51S Mills Bldg.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16

DIR. r. VI. RatIiff, dentist, Sue, TO Drs
Paget & Ratliff, 2O4-5-6 Caples Bldg.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16
ImprovinE CIerk,s Offiee.

DIR. Cameron, dentist, 22S Mesa Ave
DR.. Bryan, dentist. 10Y Ell Paso street.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-16

An assemblage of charmi
distinct styles, represent
makers best effOrts-in
sale at $500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
0 mischief! thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. Romeo and Juliet.
Wall Streets Crop Bulge

Wall street has of late indulged in quite a bulge in prices. It was not based on any development in the polit- ical situation, for there has been none of moment, and it was indifferent to the English coal strike, and the trans formation in China and all other for eign events.
 It really grew from forecast of general business based on crop pros poets. The snows in the great wheat states have we'll nigh rendered large winter wheat crop more than proba- ble, and the lateness of the season is slmost sure to give the entire country great fruit crops, and this means a great deal toward the comfort and cost of living of the people.
 Al crops promise to get along well. The cotton crop may be trifle short, but this will be no calamity. The west ern farmers will certainly see that corn and spring wheat are attended to. Wall street is justified in indulg- ing in a bulge based on the promise of the coming crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Inauguration of Yuan

In the fierce strife of today for the presidency in this country the story of China's transition to republic is like a fairy tale. China is not a young or undeveloped country. In some respects it is the greatest coun- try in the world. It possesses great possibilities. And yet Dr. Sun, who had been chosen provisional president and who retained and still retains his popularity, handed over the presidency to Yuan, simply because in that way lives could be saved from massacre and foreign intervention avoided.
 Yuan has been inaugurated Presi- dent and Dr. Sun, private citizen, re- tires to his old home at Kwang Tung without stain on his name or char acter. America produced in the past no such patriot. The nearest ap- proach to such patriotism was Wash ington's declination of third term.
 It is altogether safe to say that the present campaign will present no parallel case-no Dr. Sun, or any one within four blocks of him in patriot ism, humanity or statesmanship.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12

of Bessemer, which was fully up to the North Carolina cases.
 To tell the truth, however, the col onel has no right to protest against unfair practices while he poses as a candidate and keeps silent on the con fessedly chief issue of the campaign. He is suspiciously silent on the tariff and has been many years. Either he is trying to mislead both sides or else he wants big campaign fund from the tariff beneficiaries. His silence is unjust to the voters. The one sub ject that promotes trusts and monop- olies and advances the cost of living is the one subject that every candidate must explain definitely and plainly.
 President Taft's Outlook interview shows that he is still a standpatter. Is Roosevelt a standpatter also? Un- less he tells where he stands on the tariff question he must necessarily be content with the present tariff situation. He is at any rate evasive, tricky and misleading. He treats the people with contempt so far as the tariff is concerned.
 While he does this he has no moral right to fire hot shots at the steam roller or anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Improvement in Census Work

There has been large improvement m the work of the government census bureau as compared with that of the decade be- Chamber of Commerce.
 Many of us can remember when the census director, after tabulating the pop ulation of the country by towns, counties and states, and giving us incomplete iii- formation about manufactures, closed his office until another 10 years rolled rouha- But for several decades past the census bureau has been permanent institution and Is open year in and year out
 "One of the most interesting and m structive features of the present census bureau administration is the tabulation of suburban population in it's relation to the large cities of the United States. Thus we are enabled to know not only what the population of the city Of New York, generally known as Greater New York, is but what the nearby population is. This system of grouping outlying sec tions within limited area is carried out in the matter of communities whose mu- nicipal population Is 1oo,oeo and upward. As The Age-Herald has shown, according to the census bureau, Birmingham's pop ulation with the population of Jefferson
 unty within a radius of ten miles out sia .sof the municipal boundary, totals 1 l. This puts Birmingham next to ( Orleans among the cities of the ,lth Atlanta comes third, with aS,eSi- CIV and suburban.
 faof ftlra of tho aus bureau in connection with tnls de- fade's work is the grouping of industries outside of city limits. In the 19po cenos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Cotton Planting This Year

On Friday next the grounding will seappear, and a week later brings around the vernal equinox. The glad springtime will not be able to with stand both. The cold winds and chilly rains will abate themselves, and all the people will rejoice when balmy airs and sunny skies supplant the nor'westers and rains apparently from Medicine Hat.
 Let us place our trust in the ground hog that is coming back next Friday under a strict guarantee to stay. The varnal equinox, too, is stayer, and between the two there is. room for hope. z e8 T f
 In the meanwhile the farmer and the suburban gardener should get ready to put seeds into the ground in . jiffy. The ground will meet them half way and good and even early crops may yet follow. If the farmer will not let the lateness of his prep arations curtail his crops of home sup niles, all will be well. Let the curtail- ment fall on the cotton planting. The world is well stocked with cotton, and 1t does not need another 16,000,000 bale crop. Put in crops that meet home demands and wants and give the remnant of time to the cotton patches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
SPIRIT OF SAN FRANCISCO

From Harper's Weekly.
 It must be discouraging to pr. David Starr Jordan to bring order out of chaos that was wrecked at Leland Stanford university. The great library, which was wrecked within a month of its completion, and the gymnasium dome of the latter is still held aloft on stout steel supports. The chapel, which was Mrs. Stanford's great pride and for which she made so many sacrifices, still rears its cross. Nave and transepts, to say nothing of the marvellous
 mosaics, were leveled in the twinkling of that April dawn. The long vistas of arched pergolas, the triumph of the l master Richardson, still remain. And the ruin done in that catastrophe to the high sprung arch he placed over the main entrance to the quadrangle has been in part eradicated.
 | For Leland Stanford university to- day represents one of the bravest at | tempts ever made in this land to re- pair an all but irreparable loss. It has never lost either faith or hope, and so | the visitor to it's campus today will see the beginning toward a complete replacement of the buildings of what was one of the show universities or the land With patience that must
 have been infinite the stones of the old chapel have been sorted out of the ruin. Even fragments of the in tricate mosaics have been carefully saved, numbered, and placed in se- quence for recreation. Already the steel frame of nave and transepts Is up again, and in the spring work is to begin upon the tedious task of re- erecting the masonry walls upon it. Leland Stanford has, quite naturally, caught the spirit of San Francisco, the city that would not be defeated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
PLANTS HAIR ON BALD HEADS

- London Wireless to She New York
 Times.
 A Budapest dispatch says the living wig" discovery of Budapest physician, pr. Franz Szekely. has created~a mild sensation in Hungarian medical circles. How he succeeded In implanting hairs on bald pates was demonstrated by the discoverer before a meeting of the Royal Medical society and three sub jects, who had undergone the process, were brought forward as further~esti- mony of the practicability. Dr. Szekely's method is simple enough. An almost invisible gold wire is bent into tiny loop, in which is placed a sterilized hair from womans head, and the two are fastened to an injection needle.
 The hair Is drawn to the point of a needle and the wire is bound round 1t and cut off about two millimeters from the bend, so that~a tiny hook adheres to the needle This is then stuck into the scalp and withdrawn. leaving the planted in the skin From 300 to 500 hairs can be implanted in this way in an hour without pain.
 The s.living wig" can be brushed, combed and washed without the least discomfort or annoyance.
 Professor Havas. who was present at the demonstration, declared that the Szekely wig was lasting. and said he had examined one made five and half years ago and found the hair remained quite smooth and soft. He believed the discovery to be of the highest inn portance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
GREAT ART COLLECTION

Samuel Swift in Harper's Weekly.
 When MT. Morgan shall have carried out fully his plan, announced the other day, of bringing to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York his great collections now in London, mainly at his houses facing Hyde Park and in the South Kensington museum, 1t will be seen that has been emphatically a hunter of big game Not the diff culty and not the cost has stood in his way when he has sought to acquire picture or a bronze or a jewel or whole collection of any of these, or of a hundred other things. At single stroke he has taken possession of groups of Gothic carvings that had been brought together one by one from no one knows what lumber rooms in old French churches or priests houses through a course of years. With a series of negotiations sometimes ex- tending over long periods, MT. Morgan has carried successfully to the check book stage transactions in which the matter of price was not the main issue. but rather whether a collector could bring himself to part with what had been vital interest in his life.
 Nothing has been too large nor any thing too small if 1t had the requisite beauty or rarity or historic impor- tance. Mir. Morgan has bought, in oth- CT words, as some incredibly bold and affluent museum might have done. And it will be veritble museum in itself that will be added to the loan depart ment of the institution in Central Park. when the Morgan treasures shall have been installed, probably in a new wing not yet planned. since the present buildings. even including large new portion now well under way, could not provide the space needed to show them properly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Coal Outlook Here and Elsewhere

The contracts in the anthracite re- gions expire on April 1, and negotia- tions are now going on between the operators and miners. The latter de- mand an increase of 20 per cent in pay, and the collection of union dues by the operators, and shortening of three year agreements to a one year term. The operators rejected the de- mand of miners, and now the two sides are trying to find a compromise. The joint conference to be held to- morrow may prove significant and perhaps it will show that a long and costly struggle will be avoided.
 The English strike remains un- changed. Both sides are firm and in sistent, and the government is not willing to take the bull by the horns. Furnaces are going out of blast, and the distress IS spreading to all classes of industry. It is leading to a sharp demand for coal all along our own Atlantic coast, and in New York a premium of about a dollar ton is demanded. This premium is in part due to the English strike and in part to apprehensions of strike in the hard coal districts of this country. All fear shortage of coal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Dear 70. B. R."
FRIDAY AND THE BEAR

Well, well,'' says Friday, you comt no farther, me go; you no come to me me come to you;" and upon this we went out to the smaller end of the bough where it would bend with his weight. and gent ly let himself down by if, sliding down the bough till he came near enough to jump down no his feet, and away her ran to his gum took it up, and stood still.
 r'Weil, < said I sto him, Friday, what will you do now? Why don't you shootr'
 No shoot says Friday, mot yet; mo shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh;' and, indeed, so he did, as you will see presently, for when the bear saw his enemy gone he came back from the bough where he stood. but did it very cautiously, looking behind him every step,, and coming backward till he got into the body of the tree; then, with the same hinder end foremost, he came down the tree, grasping 1t with his claws, and moving one foot at a time, very leis- urely. At this juncture, and just before he could set his hind feet upon the ground Friday stepped up close to him, clapped the muzzle of his piece into his ear, and shot him dead as a stone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
WHEN LINCOLN MAS HORN

In the current issue of Farm and Fire side there is an amazing new story of the circumstances surrounding the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The editor of Farm and Preside evidently has som edoubt as to it's authenticity, because he gives it this title, Tradition or History?- Story of Lincolns Birth Told by Ken lucky Woman"
 The story is that the night before Ln- coin was born his father, Tom Lincoln, ran away from home and left the mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, alone in her cabin, where. in the cold, on the afternoon of February F, 1909, Abraham Licoln was born with nobody present to care for him or his mother. According to this story. the mother was discovered by a small boy who had come from a neigh bor's through the bitter cold sto borrow something. This boy raised an alarm and neighbors came and rendered assist ance.
 The story is written by Miss Katherine l., Thomas. who now lives near the birth place of Lincoln. It is generally believed to be a true story among many of the in- habitants of that section of the country.
 Richard Lloyd Jones, an authority on Lincoln, says that the verdict of history Is all against the probability of this tale. He says in part:
 MT. Robert Enlow, for some years a state senator at Frankfort, a resident of Hodgenville, states very specifically that he can often remember his grandmother telling of how. on the night that Abra- ham arrived, Tom Lincoln ran over to their house, which was about half a mile away on an adjoining farm, and this good woman came over and attended Nancy Hanks in the critical hour and that Tom Licoln was very proud and very happy and very busy trying to help during all the time.
 T have secured some 13 affidavits of people best authorized to give testimony on the subject, besides the records re- ferred to. and I believe they clearly show that this account if erroneous.
 T have read countless stories that diff fer widely as to the origin of Abraham Lincoln, all of which discredit the father many of them viciously question Abra- hams percentage. The best ground for dismissing these stories is that no two of them are alike"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
sHYLOCK TO ANTONIO
le "Merchant of Venice"

From the Merchant of Venice" Signor Antonio, many times and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances: Still I have borne 1t with a patient shrug; For sufferanee is the badge of our
 tribe. And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is ,mine
 own. Well, then. it now appears. you need
 my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and yoo "Shylock, we would have moneys" YU0
 say so; t7 You that did void your rheum upon - And foot me, as you spurn stranger Over your threshold; moneys is your
 suit. What should say to you? Should I Hath a dog money? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducatsr' Shall I bend low, and in bondman's
 key, With 'bated breath and whispering F humbleness. Say This - '.Fair sir. you spit on me on wednes-
 day last; You spurned me such day; another
 time You called me dog; and for thsss
 courtesies HI lend you thus much moneysr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Interest in Politics

T have never known as much in- terest taken in national politics this far ahead of convention time as there Is now, and I have been a voter since 1876" said Philip J. Ashton of Pitts burg
 "I am connected with manufactur- ing concern. and manufacturers as rule in my part of the county vote the republican ticket but do not begin to stir around politically until the con- yention meets and chooses ticket. Now, however, everybody l meet talks politics. l have never voted the demo- cratic ticket, but have several times stayed away from the polls as nega- tive protest against the party candidate l hope to see Taft nominated, but if he is not our standard bearer then l would be very much inclined to vote for un- derwood, if that gentleman heads the democratic ticket. l hear a great deal Of favorable talk of Underwood and tt would not surprise me to see him nom- mated at Baltimore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
HOTEL LoBBIEs
Commercial Prosperity

ne Birmingham district is more
 sperous now than at any time since
 or, said large property owner.
 Not only Is the coal trade especial ly brisk but the pig iron market Is looking up and l am expecting to see a very active market between now and summer. The iron trade has had the habit of becoming buoyant all of sudden. l recall times of depression when everything was at rock bottom, and all at once prices of iron would shoot up. The pig metal Is said to be firm at $1o.5 50 for No. ?. If it advances to SIP or even s11, which it is almost sure to do, business certainly will hum hereabout."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Income looks bigger than w. till the bills come in.
 People think they know hoy tu ta 1 children when they don't kne how 90 raise even cabbages.
 A man reads one sentence tnf eqn- stitution and then wants to aIfN- fs0tf- the whole document.
 When a girl lets a ma 1r- n1 Nrf skates for her she's not ts l Fud fef oil for that sort of thing.
 A woman seems to have secof about little money ir r aW pocket that he forgetfull> l<n Aei1r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
THEN THERE IS TROUBLE.

"It isn't considered an insult, nowa- days to tell a man that he is descended from a monkey" Not unless you insinuate that his descent has been delayed"
 THE AMATEUR GARDENER. Said William Dunk,
 T need some bricks, With which to chunk
 The neighbors' chicks" A garden had
 And hoped, with luck, To raise, egad,
 A little truck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
HAS A LIMIT
rom the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 w. E. Blackburn or Anthony makes his political attitude more or less clear in this wise: sI am progressive in my republicanism. but, as some one has said, not to the extent of . five card dlaW."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Col. Roosevelt and the Steam Keller

Colonel Roosevelt fires hot shot at the steam roller, declaring that the people in every state and in every congressional district "are led by the officeholders who, with the example before them of what was done in con nection with nominations for local of ficers in North Carolina, are working as we have rarely seen them work in American political life.' He over looked the case of Postmaster Lewis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
A rREAT FOR THE LADIEs.

A TREAT FUR THE LADIES.
 GA Novel That Begins at the End and Ends at the Beginning.)
 Chapter VII.-Harold folded her in hss strong arms and said My life"
 Chapter WIT forged that letter." cried Devil Blackie. Chapter V.@tsYou have been false to me, Harold. You love another."
 Chapter IY.-"Tn fix you" hssea Devil Blackfe.
 Chapter III.-Margaret favored HaS- old
 Chapter II.--Harold Hero and Devil Blackie were rivals for her hand.
 Chapter Margaret Mush was . beautiful heiress.-cincinnati Enquirer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
Rights of Pedestrians

In the New York court of appeals a case recently came up in which the rights respectively of pedestrians and motorists were discussed. Judge Wer- ner restated the well settled rules. When a pedestrian comes to a rail road crossing it becomes his legal duty to look both ways, listen, and if necessary to stop. This is the law of grade crossings because locomotives draw heavy trains at high speed and cannot be stopped readily.
 But in crossing city streets where motorists skim up and down, the rule is relaxed. The pedestrian is not re- ouired in law to look both ways and listen. The pedestrian and the motor ist are both expected to be careful, and the latter is expected to have his vehicle under proper control. Each, in other words, is expected to guard against accident. Both are to be watchful. If a pedestrian crosses a street at point other than at the corners of two streets, he is expected to use more caution than he would at a street crossing. At the latter he need not stop and look both ways or even one way. The law, in other words, calls for great caution on the part of the driver of motor car in the streets of a city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12

The suffragettes in London smash no windows of shopkeepers that advertise in suffragette papers. All the world is kin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
A SUPERIOR PERSON
rom the Houston Post.

A woman who can rip gastronomic symphony from a cooking stove never has to appeal to force in covering the pants wearing section of the family. She her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
EVERY TIME.

EVERY TIME. How merrily, how eheerily He toiled along lifes wayi Though trouble followed drearily, It seemed naught could dismay. A sweet well spring of hope, his heart Ne'er yielded to despair. Who plays in life a dauntless part Will find some gladness there!