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Children Cry
 FOR FLETCHER'S C A ASToRIA
Whiskey or Beer Habit
RELIABLE HOME TREATMENT

RELIABLE HOME TREATMENT
 Any wife or mother who wants to save her husband or son from Drink will be glad to know that she can purchase ORRINE, the standard liq- uor habit remedy, that we have sold for years, and if no benefit is obtain- ed after trial the money will be re- funded.
 ORRINE is prepared in two forms: No. 1, secret treatment, powder, ab- solutely tasteless and colorless, giv- en secretly in food or drink; ORRINH No. 2, in pill form, is for those who desire to take voluntary treatment. ORRINE costs only $1.00 a box. Come in and get a free booklet about OR- RINE.
 Bedell's Pharmacy.
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Phone S65 if you have any kind of repairing to be done, tf
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PUBLIC NOTICE!

Public notice is hereby given that petitions purporting to be signed by a majority in numbers, acreage and value of the holders of real property within the Jefferson County Bridge District are now filed with the Board of Directors of said Bridge District, and said Board of Directors in pur- suance of the terms of the Act of the General Assembly of the State oi Arkansas approved April "A, 1911 same being Act No. 214 as now ap'
 Misse Ethel Clements and Ollvlf Alexander, left yesterday afternoo' for Dallas, Fort Worth, and othel cities in Texas where they will vlsl' relatives and friends.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-13

lily, but I tell them of my good friend, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con- pound, and that there will be no back ache and bearing down pains for them if they will take it as have. am scarcely ever without it in the house.
 "I will say also that think there is no better medicine to be found for young girls. My eldest daughter has taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con- pound for painful periods and irregular ity, and it has helped her.
 "I am always ready and willing to speak a good word for Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound. tell every one I meet that I owe my health and happiness to your wonderful medicine. :" Mrs. J. G. JOHNSON, Scottville, Mich, RED. 3.
 Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful drugs, and today holds the record of being the most successful remedy for woman's ills known.
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and expect to visit everry capital c.ty in the world, and will include South America, Asia and Africa. While crossing the water they will take 1,772 steps on the slowest boat
 M. Lig'htfoot has the record of not spending or receiving any money on Che entire trip. All his clothes are furnished by different wholesale houses and he and his wife are the guests of the leading hotels ill all large cities.
 TEey will go from here to Pine Bluff and TeXarkana and through his home town, Pittsburg, Texas, and will also visit his brother in Austin, Attorney General Jewell P. Lightfoot, of Texas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-13

Feries-Walker, Henry and Will l; Morgan and Thomas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-13

Mrs. o. B. Palmer, Little Rock, Ark, says, "my little boy had a severe cough with The measles, which was so severe he could not sleep at night. One bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound cured him and he has never been bothered since" w. l.. Dewoody & Co.
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DUTHERN LEAGUE

R H E
 pta ............. 13. 13 0 fanooga ......... 0 5 6
 Eterles-Page and Kerr; Coval- land McDonald
 R H E Orleans 6 9 2
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MOTHER OF
 LARGE FAMILY
Tells How She Keeps Her Health - Happiness For Those Who Take
 Her Advice.
Scottville, Mich. -"I want to tell you how much good Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg

etableCofnpound and Sanative w ash have done me. l live on a farm worked very hard am
 forty-five years old,
 and am the mother of thirteen children.
 Many people think it strange that l am not broken dow n with hard work and tha care of rny fam.
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COTTON STATES

New Orleans. 16; Vicksburg, f.
 1Iattiesburg and Meridian, . wet grounds.
 Jackson and Greenwood, wet grounds.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

umbus, 8; Kansas City, 1. Fedo, ,; Milwaukee, 0.
 Panl, z; Indianapolis, 2. fneapolis, 1; Louisville, 8.
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Mrs. Callie Rainey is visiting friends and relatives in Pine Blur. Che will return home Saturday.
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Piles Cured In . to IA Days.
 Your druggist refund money If PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure any case of ticking, Blind. Bleeding o1 Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. b0c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05

better schools. So far as white Hitter acy is concerned she stands higher in the list than either,of the Carolinas or Louisiana, and is tied with Kentucky. The number of negro illiterates must be reduced before this state can pre- sent low percentage of illiteracy.
 If Alabama can in the present de- cade show gain of 12 per cent-the uplift of the last decade-the state will stand pretty well in the tables of 1920. An illiteracy at that time of 12 per cent would answer in the ab- sence of something better. The state should strive to educate her children keeping 12 per cent in view as possi- ble maximum of illiteracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
Size of the Paper Currency

Secretary of the Treasury MacVeigh stands ready to reduce the size of the country's paper currency as soon as Congress makes the needful appro- priation. No other special authority is needed.
 The size of the present paper cur rency is by "A inches. The exact proportions are BOA by 7.2s inches. The plan is to reduce these figures to 21a by inches. The proposed change would not be noticed by majority of the people, and yet considerable sum would be saved by using smaller bills.
 The treasury department has had the subject investigated by experts and all have reported in favor of smaller bills, and Congress will proba- bly, grant the needful appropriation, and it may also authorize the depart ment to print uniform bank note. By a separate process the names of the different banks, the charter numbers and other distinctive marks would bt printed from uniform plates. This would enable the secretary to system atize and simplify the entire currency, and the entire plan will perhaps be sanctioned by Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
PREDICTS UNDERwooD's NOMINAL

From the Washington Post.
 Representative William Richardson, who has just returned from his native state, Alabama, Is thoroughly convinced that
 the south is at last going to name a presi- dent. At the Raleight hotel last night he was freely prophesying the nomination of Representative Oscar w. Underwood by the democratic convention at Baltimore. Underwood is going into that conven- ton much stronger than the average person at the present time thinks said MT. Richardson. q have been astounded throughout the country. He will not have
 as many votes pledged to him probably as Clark. Wilson, or Harmon. but 1t is in this very fact that his strength lies. None of these men will have anything like enough votes pledged to them to secure a nomination under the two-thirds rule They will ballot for time, and then Underwood. who is the second choice practically throughout the country, will be nominated.
 T believe that Mr. Underwood is stronger in the east and north than he
 is in the south. This Is not because the
 southern people do not like him. but be-
 cause they have been so long accustomed
 to believe that southern candidate could
 not win that they are afraid to nominate
 him. When they realize the sentiment
 for the southerner in the north. they will
 awake.
 Underwood is strong in the north, be- cause he has given the democratic party definite set of policies and made il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
The Pennsylvania system

''The March reports of the relief de- partments of the Pennsylvania railroad system, issued recently, show that dur ins that month over sS0O0 a day was paid in benefits to employees of the company or their families, said a railroad man. Since these departments for both the lines east and west of Pittsburg were es- tablshed the amount paid out in bene- fits has reached a total of $32,s77, .12
 ''on the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie during the month of March. payments to the amount of s177.7ls.45 were made by the relief fund. In benefits to the fami- lies of members who died s61, 4S1 9 was paid, while to members incapactated foi work the benefits amounted to $l16 2s7 20 The total payments on the lines east of Pittsburg since the relief fund was es- tabished in 1886 have amounted to $23,- sss,52i.45.
 Tn March, the relief fund of the Penn sylvania lines west of Pittsburg paid out total of s7s,790.6O. of which $26,5O were for the families of members whc died and s52. .290. 50 for members unable tc work. The sum of $9o44,200.67 represents the total payments of the relief fund oi the Pennsylvania lines west since 1t was established in 1SS9.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
undersood's Popularity

"Georgia's splendid majority for Under wood, as democratic presidential can didate, has had fine effect throughout the south and throughout the United States as for that natter" said an old democrat
 "One of the strongest points in Under woods favor Is that votes for him have come without any expenditure of money. Three of the democratic aspirants have spent a great deal of money, or rather their friends have spent it for them. Jn- derwood's friends would gladly have raised large fund for him, but our mod est and high toned statesman would allow nothing of the kind.
 Underwood is essentially vote get ter on his merits. He will probably go into the Baltimore convention with 200 votes, and after a few ballots he will lead all the others.
 "I feel certain that Underwood will be the nominee, and that he will succeed President Taft"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05

From the Kansas City Star.
 generation ago the real scream in cachinnation was Artemus Ward. Our fathers were wont to read the witticisms of this great humoristN and laugh till the tears ran down their cheeks. As an ex- ample of how funny Artemus could be when he tried take this extract from his letter on Jefferson Davis. president of the Confederacy, alleged to have been written in Richmond:
 Jeff. Davis is not poplar here. She is regarded ;s Southern sympathiser. & yft I'm told he was kind to his par ents. She ran away from 'em many years ago and has never bin back, This was showin' 'em good deal of consider ation when we reflect what his conduck has been. Her captur in female apparel confooses me in regard to his sex. x you see I speak of him as her as frequent as otherwise. X I guess he feels so his self"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
UNDERWOOD ON TARIFF

From the New York Financial America. Representative Oscar W. Underwood, prominently mentioned as candidate for
 the presidency on the democratic side. has a brief but interesting article on the tariff and it's effect on American trade abroad in the May issue of the Country Magazine. It deals principally with the steel and iron tariffs. although pro tected'' manufacturers generally are re- ferred to. He contends that conditions have radically changed in the last 40 manufactured goods. which that period s development created, is now overstocked.
 A generation ago the manufacturer could
 not supply the home demand, yet he l strove to shut out foreign competition and hold the home market for himself.
 He succeeded-but at price.
 He cannot dispose of his surplus today, because the protective policy closes to our manufacturers the European markets. Pig iron is used as an Illustration. few years ago 1t sold in Birmingham, Ala, at $2O ton; today 1t Is selling at sl0 and sl1 ton. few years ago the yards of the furnaces were empty; today
 there is scarcely a furnace that Is not
 carrying a large quantity in it's yards. Against the discriminating duties of
 France-reprisal for our own high tariff exactions-the Birmingham manufacturer
 Is powerless. This Is true in countless other lines of manufacture. and makes us
 wonder how we are going to dispose of
 our surplus.
 l If we make more than our needs de-
 mand and cannot dispose of the excess, then, closing of factories and industrial l likeness must follow. Can tariff system | that promises such unprofitable results to | labor be said to be beneficial to the American workman? Another circum-
 stance which prevents us from successful competition in foreign markets is the dou- ble. freight our exporters have to pay.
 The foreign competitor can send his commodities to South America for one
 half what it costs an American. This 1 follows because the ship sailing for Eng | land will return with full cargo from
 the country visited; the vessel bearing
 our exports usually returns to this coun-
 try empty, because our high discriminat-
 ing tariff rates prohibit imports of South
 American products; hence, the American
 has. to pay the freight both ways.
 l This difference in freight saving, says
 Mir. Underwood, amounts to a fair profit
 enabling our competitors to undersell us
 and to exclude us from those markets.
 It Is very evident that the ways and
 means" chairman understands the tariff;
 and it is also clear to reader of the contribution that he is able to present
 his views thereon concretely and clearly free from tie -clap-trap and buncombe of
 the average high protectionist or hide bound standpatter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
Cotton Acreage This Season

The New York Journal of Com merce presents 1900 replies to cotton crop inquiries bearing an average date of April 22. These replies show that the season is two or three weeks late, owing to continuous rains and low temperature. Many of the Journal of Commerce's correspondents. decline to estimate acreage. With decreased acreage there has, says the Journal of Commerce, "been heavy .curtail- ment in the use of fertilizers, but many farmers are postponing their use until cotton is in the ground
 Louisiana is the only state indicating larger acreage than a year ago while Texas may not show any great change. In all other states decreases are expected to be heavy. Nearly al
 land has been hurriedly and poorly prepared and the amount to be re
 planted will probably be considerably less than usual on account of the very late season. Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas have suffered somewhat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
Brought Big Results

'The automobile show brought us big results and we are immensely pleased with the business we had during the show and following it," said L. E. Whitehead of the Highland garage. Our sales for the past two or three weeks have been phenomenal and 1 attribute part of it to the success of the auto show.
 Birmingham people are buying lots Of automobiles now and buying good ones. The public seems to be thoroughly well informed on the subject of cars, and the good ones are selling rapidly. l believe that this season will be the greatest in the history of the city, and we are pre- pairing for a steady business all summer and a big rush of business in the early fall.
 T believe that Birmingham is the best automobile town of it's size in the coun- try, and is growing better all the time. The travelling representatives of the fac tories and accessory houses tell me that Birmingham is showing great strides, both in the number of cars and the quality''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
The Big Buildings

Nothing that has been done In Bir- mingham in a material way recently has caused so much favorable comment as the big building operations" "A@sald r. R. Newton of Philadelphia
 II have been an occasional visitor to this city during the past 10 years, and the lack of elegant, modern hotels has been much remarked. But now that two hotels each of the million dollar class. are being built at the same time, Birmingham is redeeming itself. The fact that ground has been broken for these hotels is talked about all along the line.' Commercial travellers and oth- CTS have scattered the news.
 T was In Pittsburg recently and heard there several men allude to Bir- minghams big hotels In course of con struction. understand that something, like $15,000.oo0 will be spent in Bir- mirgham this year on large construc- tion.
 This city has so many natural re- sources that it is only a question oi few years when it will oustrip At lanta in population, If it has not al ready done so. But it takes time fo! large community to acquire metro politan character.
 "Atlanta is a great city. No city il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
THREE FISHERS
By Charles Kingsley.

TN HREE fishers went sailing he yves down the love him the nd children watching hem out the town men mus And there's to keen harbor bar be wives in the lighthouse towe trimmed the lamps the nd looked night rack came rolling n Blu me must weep, be sudden deep And harbor
  n morning gleam the tide watching hand For those who will never come home to the town m the its the sleep, goodby to the bar and its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05

from overflows and floods, making planting unusually late"
 4 substantial decrease in acreage is anticipated by the Journal of Com merce, but it declines to present it's final acreage report until about the first of June. It foresees that dry May would change the acreage outlook materially. A wet May on the other hand would certainly reduce the acre. age below that of last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
Trumpet, blow 1oudj Send thy. brass voice through all these lazy tents.
 --TroiIus and Cressida.
Democratic Women to Meet

The Dolly Madison breakfast which will be given in Washington May 20 promises to be an important all-wom- an gathering, at which notable demo- cratic women will eat in harmony. Already responses to invitations have come in from Mrs. Champ Clark, Mrs. Oscar w. Underwood, Mrs. Judson Harmon and many others, including Mrs. William Jennings Bryan and Mrs. Alton B. Parker. Mrs. Grover Cleveland probably will be the guest of honor and Mrs. Champ Clark the toast mistress. The breakfast will in- deed represent the democratic party past, present and future, for invita- tions are extended only to women whose fathers, husbands or brothers Or forbears have been in democratic official life. A grandneice of James Madison will be present, and at least one lineal descendant of Thomas Jeff ferson.
 The flowers will be of the old fash toned kind, and the souvenirs will be silver snuff boxes, each bearing a miniature of Dolly Madison. Many heirlooms will be worn by the women present, and life size portrait of Dol ly Madison will stand in the banquet room as an inspiration for toasts and speeches..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
Illiteracy in the United States

The number of those in this coun- try who, 10 years of age or over, can not write is 600,000 less than it was 10 years ago. The percentage of illit- crates then stood at 1O.7 of the popula- Sion; it has been reduced to TT per cent despite heavy immigration.
 Alabama had when the last census was taken S78,570 whites 10 years of age or over. Out of this number the census enumerators found 86,S31 who could not write, or 99 per cent. This state also held 662,356 blacks, and 265, ,626 could not write, or 40.l per cert.
 Out of the total population 10 years of age or over in this state in 1910 numbering 1,541,5 ,575 there were found S52,710 illiterates, or 22.9 per cent. This may seem large proportion, but in 1900 the illiterates were 34 per cent of the population. They totalled then 443, ,59O out of 1,304,703 10 years of age or over. The gain has been very considerable.
 South Carolina contains 25.7 pei cent of iIliterates, and Louisiana 2s per cent. Mississippi just does out rank Alabama, having 22.4 of Hitter ates. Alabama is dangerously neal the bottom, but so long as two states are still further down she can gc ahead hopefully building more and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
Maryland's Primary Tomorrow


 The present campaign is just one primary after another. They tread upon another's heel, so fast do they follow. The battle for Maryland's 16 delegates will be fought out tomorrow, and the contestants on the republican side are Theodore Roosevelt and Will liam H. Taft. On the democratic side the names of Champ Clark, Judson Harmon and Woodrow Wilson will ap- pear on the preference ballots. The speeches are all made, and there is nothing left to do except to deposit the all-powerful ballots.
 Maryland has a republican govern or, but no one expects the state to go that way next November. Governor Goldsborough was elected in 1911 be- cause the democrats were not united. In November they will be, and the state will return to it's old time politi- cal faith.
 No other state will hold a primary this week, but Nevada, Arkansas and Kansas will hold state conventions. Maryland will be the center of inter est, for any primary outranks in public interest a dozen conventions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
RIGHT BACK AT HIM

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 There was young woman who thought a good deal about ancestry and descent. and there was young man who thought that all such stuff was snobbish. The two sat out a dance, together. and the girl mounted her hobby almost at once.
 What was your father?" interrupted the young. man.
 Father was a gentleman
 "HIa But what did he do for living?" The young man thought that smart. but the girl came right back
 What was your father: she asked.
 My father raised hogs.'
 "I see he dtd. But what did he do for a living?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
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OLD M H. Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard
 She wanted to chase the bucket. But when she got there
 The cupboard was bare Old Father Hubbar I'd had tucket Milwaukee Sentinel. Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get for herself wee nippy: When she found it was dry, She raised such a cry,
 The neighbors all thought she was dippy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
nEFLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man never minds being hated if it's because he's rich.
 The reason girl doesn't fiirt is she calls it studying human nature.
 A girl can ind anything romantic in meeting anything that, walks except Ia mouse.
 4 man who wants you to vote for him would be insulted if you wanted hia to vote for you.
 4 man seems to be afraid his family might get some of his devotion that belongs to his political party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
SOMETHING NEW BY HEINL

SOMETHING NEW BY HEINL From The Twice-a- Month Popular Maga-
 zine.
 Robert D. Hein, the writer, comes from an Indiana town, and, although he spends most of his time in the east, his native city is still proud of him. Occasionally he writes ''learned piece" for one of the two newspapers in his town
 One day the rival publication printed his photograph with highly compli- mentary article. explaining how the son of Indiana had gone to New York and shown all the Yankees how to write. The paper had not been on the street 10 min utes when the printers -devil' of the paper Heinl had favored with his effu- sions rushed up to the managing editor. and, pointing to the flattering sketch of the author. said excitedly:
 'I don't think this is fair. Mir. Heinl ought to have written this for us. Just look what he says about himself"