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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Boston's Proposed Income

Like all other cities Boston needs more income and it proposes to get it by levying a tax on vaults under the ground, and on bay windows and marquises above the ground. Space is valuable in Boston, and the city wants its share.
 The construction of vaults along the whole front of buildings would forbid the building of subways and it might interfere with drainage and the null titude of pipes that city must have in order to be real city at all.
 Boston has not adopted schedule for the privilege of digging vaults and putting on bay windows, and the sub- ject is now in its academic stage. The bay window is cherished feature of Boston architecture, and property holders will resist taxation of bay windows as such to the utmost. Nor does it seem just to tax cool hole as much as vaults used for business purposes. In congested streets space is valuable, and altogether the propo sition to tax in Boston vaults and bay windows is an issue of considerable proportions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
THE JUMPING BEAN

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. As an article of commerce, which can be bought in almost any country, the jumping bean" of Mexico Is not a bean at all. but segment of a round nut about the size of cherry. An or ange divides naturally into many seg- ments, the Mexican nut divides into three, and one of these is a bean" It
 Is dry, light and seemingly hollow with no opening. Two surfaces are fiat, and one Is rounded, so that on that side the bean rocks easily. When the little capsule Is warmed slightly it moves about by jerks. It may jump the eighth of an inch from the ground and advance as much as a quarter of an inch at time. It will jump and roll about until it finds cool place. Under tree in Mexico. if in the sun light, it would be exposed to depreda- tion. It moves to hide itself in the shade.
 There is a grub inside each bean, yellowish in color and a true cater pillar, with eight pairs of legs The grub carries a hard brownish plate on it's head and possesses hard jaws. It refuses to leave the shell, and will crawl back again when pulled out. It will spin a silken cover to replace any part of the hull that may be removed.
 A naturalist interted a bit of glass to fill such an opening and saw the modus operandi of the jump. The worm, stretched on the lower surface, gives series of sharp blows to the roof of its cell by lowing it's body, projecting It's body with each blow. If the flat side is downwards the crea- ing motion of the body
 In the early part of the year the grub turns into chrysalis. Before do- ing so it is careful to trace a circular hole in its shell, but leaves the plug fast A mere push Is sufficient to re- move the plug when the chrysalis emerge from the shell as a moth in July. This round hole is cut by rotation of the grubs head and jaws as center bit-an astonishing per formance. When the moth comes forth into the outer world it is a beautiful creature measuring thirds of an inch across it's open wings, which are marked by reddish-b brown bands.
 The Mexican shrub, called Sebastian. is close cousin to the Brazilian rub Der tree the herea; and 1t is upon the Sebastian that the moth of the jump ing bean lays it's eggs. When the egg matches the young grub eats it's way into the fruit while yet growing, so that the hole marking its entrance closes As the fruit swells the worm eats out the seed and pulp, reaching full maturity by the time the fruit dries and falls to earth. Heat tells the caterpillar that the capsule is in the sunlight. where 1t may be crushed or eaten by some animals. The jump ing is the means of finding shelter in a hole of under some stone or fallen wood. Movement ceases when the bean grows cool
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12

way to begin to train the eye. mind and the hand He stresses, of course, the importance of teaching thoroughly the simple rules that underlie perspective work. By following his rules or prlnel- ples the person attempting free hand drawing will escape those glaring er- TOTS so common in amateur art
 "A thoroughly rounded education Tor a man or woman includes some knowl- edge of all the fine arts-musie, paint ing and sculpture. Some persons may lack an ear for music, but as MT. Reid says. everyone can learn to draw. Let us get rid of the old superstition says he. that drawing is a gift. The ability to be an artist is. but the ability to draw Is not. Anyone can learn to draw just as anyone can learn to write, and it ought to be almost as much a disgrace to admit ignorance of one as of the other"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
TEARS, IDLE TEARS

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they
 mean; = Tears from the depths of some divine de-
 spair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no
 more.
 Fresh as the first beam glittering on
 sail. That brings our friends up from the un-
 derworld, f Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the So sad. so fresh, the days that are no
 more. 4f An. sad and strange as in dark summer
 dawns The earliest pipe of half awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The easement slowly grows a giimmering
 square,; sp sad. so strange. the days that are
 no more.
 Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy
 feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Dee first love, and wild with all re- Oh. ..a in life, the days that are no
 more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Progress of Republican Campaign

Chairman Rosewater is Nebraska editor, and when the steam roller is mentioned before the national con- mittee he presides over, his feelings are hurt. q object" he said on Mon- day, ''to the insulting of the com mittee by the use of the term steam roller" So sensitive soul should get out of politics, or at any rate, out of the administration party.
 No matter how painful the phrase may be to Chairman Rosewater, the administration steam roller moves along steadily, doing it's work thor oughly, and the ex-President's chances are becoming smaller every day.
 These dwindling chances are prov ing damper to the man of buster and he is growing quieter day by day. All opportunity of bolt on his part is fading away, simply because his supporters are not ready to commit hari-kari next week. They seek sue cess and they repel playhouse sug- gestions.
 It is difficult also to see how they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
AN ALARMING PROSPECT
From. the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Will the delegates to the republican national convention be able to nomi-
 nate a candidate for President?
 It will be necessary, of course, for
 the Taft adherents in the gallery to
 cheer him longer than any other man
 has ever been cheered at any previous convention. It will then be necessary for the Roosevelt supporters to cheer the colonel longer than Taft was cheered. This will naturally impose on the Taft people the high obligation of cheering the President longer than Mir Roosevelt has been cheered. And so 1t will go on indefinitely, for the principal business of spectators at
 political conventions Is to establish a
 new record" for cheering.
 We have long expected to see a pro- gramme for national convention in which one day should be set aside for cheers But the republican contest brings a new situation before the coun- try. Will the perfunctory and wholly immaterial matter of selecting candi- date be allowed to interfere with the solemn necessity of producing more theatrical noise than has ever been had before?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
r,ur-HoNoRED COMBINATION

from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 RThe well known firm of Billiards & Pool ;s about to be dissolved, the junior mem- Her retiring Such is the decree of a convention of billiard room managers in chicago.
 Rool is hereafter to be known as pocket hi,Gards and it may be that the new firm ma he will be Billiards x Billiards or Bill liatNs & Co.,. or o. F. and P. Billiards. ArNbow, it will be something different fron& the familiar combination which has had Much long and successful partner ship, 3provided the Chicago convention can haveXits way and bring about a dissolu- tion4
 rife old name of the junior member of the time honored firm. it is explained, is Ky of French origin. In the beginning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Brisk Business This Summer

"The business situation is quiet just now, but with the 1st of July we may reasonably expect brisk trade again, said Charles Harston of Detroit. Tt is the general belief that with good crops business will be better this sum- mer than 1t has been in any summer during the past three or four years.
 "The unusual activity in the steel trade certainly points to a high de- gross of prosperity. It looks to me as if the country was about to start on an era of unprecedented business ac- tivity. Next year will probably wit ness a new high record of thrift from one end of the country to the other. hear great deal of talk about scarcity of labor now, and that, of course. Is always a sign of industrial activity.
 "The south may have suffered some- what from the low price of cotton, but where this section is particularly strong is in the increased corn acreage. When the south gets to be a seller of corn, as we'll as cotton, 1t will accumulate wealth very rapidly.
 "The present inertia is due entirely, I believe, to national politics, but the convention will soon be over and then look out for boom.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Leonard Olson's Citizenship

In January, 1910, Leonard Olson, n Scandinavian, was granted citizen ship papers at Tacoma, in the state of Washington. In September, 1910, the district attorney asked that Olson's naturalization papers be an- nulled on the ground that he is a socialist, and Judge Hanford, fed eral district judge, held that Olson was ineligible to American citizenship because he did not acquiesce in the principles of the American constitu- tion. Olson remains to this day un- naturalized.
 But Attorney General Wickersham has instructed the district attorney at Seattle to secure the reinstatement of Olson in his rights. The Attorney General is convinced that great in- justice has been done to MT. Olson in the cancellation by Judge Hanford of his certificate of naturalization.
 The learned Hanford practically holds that any one who believes in amending the constitution is not fit for American citizenship, and to avoid the confirmation of such a holding the Attorney General desires to have Olson made citizen. Olson is not an anarchist. He is socialist. He be- lieves in peaceful amendments of the constitution, and this is his right and the right of every citizen. A new conner who will swear allegiance to the government and who is ready to obey the laws, is eligible to citizen ship if our naturalization laws are not farce and laughing stock Olson, in other words, would probably be a better citizen than Cornelius Hanford whose impeachment is demanded by citizens of Seattle both on account of "his decisions and personal habits"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Concerning Art Instruction

Tn the admirable June number of the Educational Exchange, published in Birmingham-an industrial edition one of the articles that interests me especially is that under the caption, The Demand for Art Instruction, by Harry Reid, supervisor of drawing in the Selma public schools" said cit izen who appreciates the value of gem eral culture in the formation of char acter and in the promotion of social progress.
 MT. Reid begins by pointing out the fact that in Alabama and in every oth- CT state there is a demand for art in struction in the public schools. All that the public schools can hope to do, he says, is to give such instruction as will be useful to all, and to lay solid foundation for the few who hope tc
 make art their aim. Great care should
 be taken, therefore, that this course oi i instruction is such as would be useful to all, and would lay foundation upor
 which a real art education may be bull | by those who desire it.
 MT. Reid gives few hints at ths
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Neyysboys, Day

Next Friday the Birmingham news ies" will have their annual outing at East Lake park. They belong to the Boys club and the ladies who manage that club will have charge of the ar engagements. The park management gives the boys free admission to all the amusements.
 'The public Is cordially invited to the park Friday to see the newsboys enjoy themselves" said Manager Mur- phy There will be many sorts of sports and, the weather permitting, next Friday will be a day long to be remembered by the happy hearted 'newsies' and their friends
 Fast Lake park is more popular this season than ever The attendance has been very large. We have Nappi's band every day and, while band music Is expensive, it adds greatly to the en- joyment of pleasure seekers, and is, therefore, worth the expense"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
A LIGHTHoUsE TAKES TOLL
From the Argonaut.

From the Argonaut.
 An old sportsman of Normandy de-
 clares that round the lighthouse of Bar
 fieur last November there were picked
 up in the course of four nights 10000
 birds of all sorts, including 1,s00 wood
 cock. The lighthouse on Pointe de Pen-
 march, in Brittany, has revolving
 light of s0,O00.0 candle power. Wis iting this on November 10 last year. and again on the 18th, an observer saw tens of thousands of birds whirling round and it seemed to him that the light shot a perfect hail of electric sparks among the migrants. Next morning he was present while the dead bodies were be. ing collected. They are dispatched every day to Paris by train, and the "catch.v he was told. often comprised from e,Ooo to 4.oo0 victims; one morn ling alone there had been more than 50, woodcock in the bag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
DRESS BLAMED FOR BAD GIRLS

From the Chicago Inter Ocean. Blame for a great share of the debauch- cry and degradation existing in Chicago was placed upon frealsishly dressed girls by Miss Mary M. Bartelme, public guar dian for delinquents, who has been chosen to act as assistant judge of the juvenile court The girls of today, the high school girls and those just beginning to Ego out" declares Miss Bartelme, put on such inimodest apparel that men passing them
 on the street turn and start.
 | The indirect cause of this form of at tractiveness is traced by Miss Bartelme | to the mother who hasn't time to bring up her daughters, but allows them to ape their elders and gad about at will. 'If I had my way about it,'' said Miss Bartelme, s.these girls who wear skirts reaching scarcely to their ankles, shoes that look more like stilts and a vulgar low neeked, tight fitting dress, would pc arr ested.
 "There is hardly a mother today who | teaches her daughter to dress Tn simpie' | sweet, girlish clothes. The only diier | e,c. between the average street dress and A nightgown is that the street dress IS usuallv colored. The delinquent giris meet and the factory girls are not to h,ame for adopting these outlanuisn
 sivles. They copy them from t..e high school girls whom they believe to be edu- osted well enough to know what is proper | to wear. s.n, ,
 "I may be old fashioned and prudish-l sunpose I am in the eyes of the class ha,... heen speaking about-but when pro- rrossi,,a ideas in dress reach such stage l sbat women smirch the sacred sweetness l of their purity, I think it is time to call a halt. Give me the old fashioned IA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
President Taft's Tariff Board

The sundry civil bill has been re- ported in the House without any pro- vision for the continuance of the tar if board The board has even fewer friends than the commerce court and there is small chance indeed that the House can be induced to continue this Taftian makeshift. The reports of the board have no practical value. No tariff schedules are revised in accord ance with the mass of figures that the tariff board supplies. It has served the object of its creation by giving the President an excuse for vetoing tariff bills.
 The democrats are coming into power, and they may need a real tar if board. The present board was ap- pointed to conserve if possible pro- tective tariff. A board that would present the entire truth might prove useful, and the best way to get rid of the present board appears to con- sist in cutting off it's opportunity to draw money from the treasury. Let it 20. It has served no one but the administration, and the country is about to vote that administration out of office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
THE PRICE.

He reached his door at break of day
 And stopped there to conjecture Just what 1t was his wife would say In her next curtain lecture. He knew that he could hold his own
 And still keep on denying, If she maintained an angry tone
 And did not start to crying. But if she met him with tear
 And hcart-broke lamentation, For hat or dress. or some such gear, He'd make a swift donation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
BURIAL OF A BAND HERO
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail
 VUTALLACE HARTLEY. the leader
 W played Nearer, my God, to Thee" as the ship sank, was brought home to Colne, Lancashire. Here on the side of the beautiful valley they buried the body, which was found days after floating in the sea. The burying was worthy of the death he died.
 It was as a hero that he was borne shoulder high, with bands of music, through streets massed trick with people. It was as a hero that he was lowered into the last earthly place with trumpets sounding over him 'grhe last post and the hillside across the river answered.
 Of the homecoming itself few saw much. In the dark, early morning hours closed vehicle grimly suited to the night toiled slowly up the twisting hill sides of northeast Lancashire after mak- ing the long journey by road from Liv- erpool. Watchful policemen saw it and shone their lanterns upon 1t. But word with the driver and they stood at atten- ton and touched their helmets.
 The vehicle put down it's burden at a little chapel low down in the hillside township of Colne. Here as a boy Wal lace Hartley had sung in the choir. Here his father, his mother, and sisters had worshipped. Here they came together to take their last look at him.
 The church was filled with people. Old schoolfellows of Wallace Hartley's, rela- tives, friends filled every seat. Overhead alongside the organ and helping its music were musicians-violinists 'cellists, and the rest of the Colne orchestra, com rades with whom he once had played, the ablest violinist of them all, it is said. Near them was the choir of men and girls, mill girls, many of them, and each dressed in comedy white and black. Their sweet voices and the organ and the or chestra filled this tiny horseshoe chapel. First came the strains of the noblest of hymn tunes, the one sung to 70 God, our help in ages past" and then new set ting of Lead, Kindly Light"
 Then came Sullivans hymn, now surely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Nh Extra Session This Year

The governor considers the calling of an extra session after the Novem- her election has been held more than probable. He almost considers it in- eyitable. The revenue bill, rate legis- lation and the fee system in Jefferson county all call for an extra session.
 What is really needed is constitu- tional amendment providing for bien- nial sessions of the legislature. No other state has regular sessions four wears apart, and no other state will do what no state can afford to do. The law making branch of a state govern ment should meet every other year in order to make needed changes in the laws of a state that holds over two millions of people. To depend upon the calling of an extra session is un- wise. because the citizens of the state never know what is being evolved in the gubernatorial brain.
 Governor O'Neal proposes to post bone the calling of an extra session to the latest possible moment, and that moment will probably arrive in January next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Rrxnn ns n Candidate

"I do not know how 1t is in the west, but in the east there are very few Bryan democrats nowadays" said T. F. Donnelly of Philadelphia.
 ''The first vote I cast in a presidential election was in New York in 1896, when I voted for MT. Bryan, but I have not voted for him since, although he has been less objectionable to the eastern democ- racy in recent years than he was at the start No democrat that met in my part of the country thinks that Bryan will be seriously considered for the Baltimore | nomination. l would be more inclined to think that Gaynor of New York would head the democratic ticket than Bryan. l myself would prefer to see man of large experience in statesmanship-a man who has made good in clean. practical politics of national scope. Underwood and Champ Clark are the two men, of that sort of 1 experience. l would be glad, indeed, to see Underwood the democratic nominee. Not being a politician, l make no predic- tions I would regret exceedingly, how ever to see democracy's chances injured by the nomination of William Jennings Bryan. According to the New York Sun the Nebraskan is very active candidate for the nomination.
 | :" 'Ir would be better for the democratic party says that paper, to realize that MT Bryan is actually candidate for the nomination and that plans are making to stampede the convention to him if a dead lock occurs. If Mir. Bryan were to be gen. orally regarded as a candidate, his merits and weakness could be openly discussed, and it would be for the convention to de- eide after thorough deiberation whether,
 in the event of the deadlock which Mir.
 Bryans partisans fondly count on, it was 1 the part of wisdom to nominate him a {, fourth time in the belief that he would re-
 verse the verdict three times rendered against him in New York"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
EXCEPTIONS.

> EXCEPTIONS. It's always safe To swat the fly, Unless he's on A eustard pie.
 Detroit Free Press. And then again You'd better wait Until he leaves Dear grandpa's pate.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer. A silly whim, Some folks may think; But let him swim Out of the ink.
 Youngstown Telegram. And gently swat, Or let him pass, If he he's upon The window glass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12

it was "Poule" meaning fowl, but pro- gressiye America has slmplified it to the shorter and-from the Gallic standpoint- uglier word which is more easy for sign painters to spell and for billiard hall pa irons to comprehend, and which costs the proprietor less money to have it inscribed on the window or woven in letters of liv- ing light by the skilled electrician.
 There are certain poolrooms where bets are made on horse races contrary to the laws made and provided, and the frequent police raids on places of this character have made the word poolroom a subject of reproach and reviement. The Chicago convention of billiard room keepers thought it advisable on this account to drop the term poolroom as applied to places where billiard games are played. To &C., complish this 1t is proposed to substitute the name pocket billiards for pool. Prob ably it will require considerable period Of time to educate the public up to the change. Pool is less cumbersome desig- nation than pocket billiards and Ameri- cans have cultivated the habit of saving time even in their conversation.
 The disassociation of Billiards & Pool Is like the passing of a landmark. Some how it seems almost impossible. It would be no greater task to separate Cigars & Tobacco or Drugs & Medicines or that equally ancient and honored partnership of s. and Fancy Groceries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
nErLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A mans money is mostly useful to those he spends 1t with.
 It's very bad luck to try your luck at anything involving money.
 When a man surprises girl with a pro- posal it's a sign she knew it first.
 Knowing that she's in society doesn' t count so much with woman as knowing that others are out.
 It must be a fearful disappointment to get rich and then find your feet can hurt you as much as ever.