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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
MAIL BOXES ON STREET CARS

From the Independent, New York.
Letter boxes on street cars may be
found in Des Moines and Burlington,
Ia, and Grand Rapids, Mich.
Passengers may post letters on the
cars or mail may be put, in the box
while passengers are getting on and off
the cars. The conductors are not pro-
hibited from taking mail from people
while the cars are moving, as it Is easy
to slip it into the box nearby at the
back of the car. II one signals the car
to stop for the purpose, one gives the
conductor the minimum car fare. and
he punches ticket for 1t as though
for a regular fare.
The people in the outlying districts
are greatly benefited, as they can send
a letter to the central postoffice every
hour as, easily as those living in the
center of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
A business Review

The Bache Review of New York is
regarded by business men as one OF
the best weekly publications summarize
ing the financial and business situation
The issue of June discusses many
says among other things:
This is the one country in the world
which has everything in its favor to
overcome the influence of the foreign
strain--except for two things. Peace
is here and to stay. Activities in trade
are very large, crops were enormous
last year and prospects are fine for this
year. Merchandise and manufacturing
concerns are not extended and stocks
of goods are comparatively low. The
tariff changes which are sure to come
have been discounted.
THE two things are the lack of a
sound banking system and the lack of
inspiration Induced by starving the
railroads and unwise pounding of big
business
our banking system has shown its
inefficiency in not gathering together
the reserves of the country in adequate
proportion to loans. A sound banking
and currency law would immediateIy
marshall our scattered gold and buiil
up solid percentage of reserve
President Wilson has done effective
work in beating down tariff opposition
The bill should be passed promptly. 1t
is an inevitable political necessity. The
President has begun to crowd the cur.
rency bill to action. He should have
the support of every level headed indi-
vidual, corporation and chamber OF
commerce in the country in his purpose
and his efforts to put through a sound
banking bill.
Meantime the other parts of the
government should do their duty-the
interstate commerce commission in tho
matter of raising railroad rates and the
responsible departments in quenchine
outbursts against the corporations and
in doing their best to encourage busl-
ness confidence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
The Old Republican Party

steps have been taken to reorgan-
ize or revive the old republican party,
but I am inclined to think 1T safe
bet that the party which was so in
gloriously defeated last November will
never win another victory said John
T. Atwell of Philadelphia.
Il had been voting the republican
ticket ever since I cast my first bal
lot in 1880, but last year ] voted the
national progressive ticket meet
many old line republicans but few ol
them voted for Taft in November.
do not find now any enthusiasm what
ever among the republicans. On the
other hand, the progressives are con-
fident they will make a vigorous fight
in 1915. 1 believe most of the repub-
licans will be found marching under tht
banner of Colonel Roosevelt in the mex
campaign"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
THE ARMY KEPT BY HEARST

From the Popular Magazine.
Oqe evening MIR. and Mrs, William r.
Hearst went to the offices of the Hearst
paper in New York. Mr.. Hearst wanted
to print an interview with a yisning
statesman. and, most Of all, he wanted
to get it in hurry.
please tell Brown to- so out" said
Mr.. Hearst, land get me a good story
from Senator Blank"
oh" responded the secretary, Mr..
Brown is acting night editor, Mr.. Hearst y
"Oh. very well. Send Craig
But, you see, Mr.. Hearst, Mr.. Craig
is assistant night editor to the acting
night editor" replied the puzzled secre-
tary.
Just then Mrs Hearst, who has far
more than the average allowance of wit,
looked up from a magazine and said
dryly:
This place reminds me of central
American arMy-all officers and no pri-
Yates"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
TELEPHONE
hut man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant Of what he's most as.
sured, Measure for Measure.
The Park Concerts

The Music Study club, through a
special committee headed by Mrs. Os-
car R. Hundley, has begun an active
canvass to raise funds for park con-
certs this summer. The people of Bir-
mingham have had the opportunity of
hearing good music in the parks dur
ing several summers past and it is the
intention of the Music Study club to
have even better concerts this sum-
mer: and to that end an effort is to
be made to raise fund sufficiently
large to employ a greater number of
musicians than formerly.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
city commission has to exercise the
strictest economy in order "to make
both ends meet" it should appropriate
not less than $1,000 to the open air
music fund, even if it has to strain
4 point in doing so.
While many citizens spend part or
all of the summer at northern pleasure
resorts it is estimated that fully 80
per cent of the population belongs to
the Can't Get Away club.
All large cities have band concerts
and in many of them large sums are
appropriated for the purpose. Bir-
mingham has the reputation of being
progressive and from civic point of
view, if no other, large band should
be engaged to play daily during the
months of july and August.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
POOR MR.. TAFT.

Another extra large seat has been pre-
pared for Mr.. Tafts occupation, this time
in the baseball grandstand at Yale There
was the usual amount of publicity at
tached to the incident and the customary
attempt to be humorous. The facetious
individual fairly revels in the opportunity
expense of a helpless fat man. Mr.. Taft,
appreciation of a rather exaggerated form
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
To Consider the Convict Question

Il have reason to believe that the
meeting to be held in the city nan ar
mory in Birmingham next saturday 10
discuss methods for changing our eoh-
vict system will be we'll attended, saio
a well known citizen.
That was stirring call issued oy
Chairman Frank S. White, and a num-
ber of other representative Alabamlans'
The time Is not far distant when the
last will be seen of convicts in mines
and lumber camps"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
TRUE ,.oMAN-HER HEAVEN

BY Dante Gabriel Rossetti
If to grow old in heaven is to grow yourg
CAS- the seer saw and said), then blest
were he
With youth for eyermore. whose heaven
should be
True woman. she whom these weak notes
have sung.
Here and hereafter-choir strains of her
tongue
Sky spaces of her eyes-sweet signs that
flee
About her souls immediate sanctuary
Were paradise all uttermost world among.
The runrise blooms and withers on the hill
Like any hill Ilower; and the noblest
troth
Dies here to dust. Yet shall heaven $
promise clotho
Even yet those lovers who have cherished
This test Tor love:--in every kiss sealed
To feel the first kiss and forbode the last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

A meeting of the creditors of the for
mer bankrupt estate. of Harry X. Tha
will be held June q, iM the office of the
referee in bankruptcy in Pittsburg. The
creditors will electsa trustee, under pc
tition granted by the federal court ask
legng that s21 900, the claims of Attorney
Clifford Hartridge, had not been acjudi-
Gated under the bankruptcy law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Chicago slid it's straw hat into the dis
card last Saturday and donned an over
coat, while the wind whistled in off Lake
Michigan and the thermometer registered
45 degrees just 45 degrees below the i9lS
hot weather mark set on the previous
day. The police ut Austin a suburb, re-
ported a 10 minute fall of snow. The wind
that chased away the hot spell burst in
from the lake shortly before midnight
Tugs and fishing boats scurred for the
harbor in alarm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Gerard" in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger regrets that the income tax bill
is expected to take over ss,O0o,Ooo from
Pennsylvania. All that the federal tax
collector will be able to extract from Ala
bama, the home state of Chairman Under
wood, will be $325,0O0," says Girard. Ry
long odds, the most popular tax is the one
that falls upon the other fellow. Penn
sylvania has population only three and
a half times as large as Alabama, but il
will pay more than 26 times as much in
come tax. Per capita, Pennsylvania will
pay nearly eight times as much as the
people in her sister commonwealth
think 1t fortunate that the keystone State
has so many citizens who will fall into the
income tax net, and suspect that Mr..
Underwood and Co.dell Hull, who drew
the bill, are also glad of it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
VERY ARTIFICIAL

How did you like Sunset Park?"
Its a pretty place.
II presume it has great many nat
lral beauties?"
well, no. Most of the beauties saw
here were made up"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
SAW ONE YESTERDAY

| may and then 1 may not do t
Before I'm ten years older,
But hardly think I'll wear a suit
With buttons on the shoulder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
THROWN.

Il presume you will say the high cost
of living has you going?'
90
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
SHE TALKED.

"Well, did you have a talk with your
wife over the telephone?"
NO. just called her up, said Hello'
and told her who I was"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Mr.. Barrie has perhaps done his best
writing, and the Iaronetcy will not iI-
jure him greatly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
ULTRA

.''rhe Twobblys seem to be fashionable
folk"
Il should say SO, There's hardly a
month in the year that they don't have
one or two trained nurses on the prem
ises."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The bridegroom and his conventional
black are present at each June wedding
even if he is scarcely mentioned in the
newspapers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The administration is making minister
nowadays out of plain democrats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The picnic season begins to WOO the old
fashioned thunder shower.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The society people in Washington are di-
vided-one section dcvoting its spare time
to the slums, and the other to eugencs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Charles W. Morse is living example of
the usefulness Of :. prison pardon in re-
storing to a man his business faculties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The proposal of universal peace creates
on all occasions an universal smile. The
millennium has not arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

If the Overman investigation is kept up
retiring senators will begin TO look under
the bed for lobbyists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Editors are landing in good positions il
the Wilson administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
AT THE GAME.

AT THE GAME.
~ have no time"
Said William Blk.
ITO nlay the game
OF politics.
But every day,
Despite the heat,
You'll find him in
A grandstand seat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The strawberry does not stay long, but
it has a monopoly while it does stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
HOW is THE DOCTOR?

Pure fake" said T. Roosevelt when told
of the rumor
That he'd from the Outlook resign;
We hope that this has not spoiled Doc Alb
bott's humor,
He always appears so benign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Fortunately lobbs lists are not lions an
few senator are bitten by them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Editors are needed at Lincoln, Neb., to
fill large and promising vacancies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

Wall street is again the country's sore
toe, it's favorite role.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

The colonel joyfully jingles that cent
in his pocket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
NO ONE CoNCuRs.

of himself"
Eyes and thereby affords pathetic ex-
ample of hopeless minority
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

of courtesy by wearing an expansive smile
and appearing immensely pleased. Deep
down in his heart it must make him tired.
SIMPLY PRECAUTIONARY.
why, Bibbles, l thought you swore off
from drinking
II did, sir, but swearing off from drink
ing in my case is simply an indication that
l intend, not to abstain, but to be more
variably more careful about the kind of
liquor ! consume and the manner In
which 1t is prepared for my consump-
tion.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

tion.''
THE OYSTERS VACATION.
we do not eat the oyster now,
And that is best;
The bivalve with placid brow,
Deserves to rest
SEEMS TO HELP.
When Jaggs puts down a tidy drink
A thing he's never stinted,
lie cares not what the neighbors think
His thoughts are golden-tinted
birmingham Ase-Herald.
Yea! Golden tinted is the thought
That through Jaggs' brain-pan whizzes;
Such golden visions come, we're taught,
From drinking silver fizzes
--Johnstown Democrat
yHOSE WE'RE THE HAPPY DAYS.
In the days of Machiavelli
Were their vehicles so smelly?
No buzz wagons then.
In the days of Marcus Drusus
Did they read about the Bull Moosers?
Had no B. NJ. party
In the days of Nell of Troy
Did the end seat hog annoy?
lie ulun eN1st.
Had they when lived Alexander
Ragtime tunes to raise their dander?
They escaped that.
In the days of Zerub-babel
Did the Beef Trust soak the rabble?
Lucky rabble, no!
In the days OF Conqueror Bill
Was woman's suffrage such pill?
| Had no "tuffragettes."
| In the days of old Vespucci
Did they dance the hoochy kootcily?
| Certainly not
! In the days of the Macabees
| Were there any tango teas?
| Good gracious. mol!
| &C. II. W., in the Boston Transcript.
STRANGER TO RAGTINE.
London has gone mad over ''IIitohy
Koo''
BEG pardon. VIII you kindly tell me il
that is the name of horse. new game
of cards, a drink or an oriental dancer?"
| A MANS WAY.
| There was an old fellow named Tate,
Who liked TO have breakfast at eight
| He'd wear a fierce scowl
| Ano savagely growl.
| If it CHANGED to be five minutes late.
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

THE OYSTERS VACATION.
We do not eat the oyster now,
And that Is best;
The bivalve with "a placid brow.
Deserves to rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-10

A MANS WAY
There was an old fellow named Tate,
Who liked TO have breakfast at eight.
He'd wear a fierce scowl
Ano savagely growl.
If it CHANGED to be five minutes late
PAUL COOK
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

II is but a few days until Christ
mas and those of our readers who
have plenty should be reminded
that Newport has its proportionate
share of poor people. There are
some in Newport who will know
not that this is the Christmas per-
iod unless some of those of means
help them. Instead of Sunday
school teachers giving presents
to the members of their classes and
instead of class members giving
presents to their teacher, how
much nicer it would be if all would
chip in and take care of some of
the poor. The saddest situation
which ever developed in home
is when a child finds an empty
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18
EVERY STREET NNEWPORT
Has Its Share of the Proof That
Kidney Sufferers Seek. 90

Backache? Kidneys weak?
Distressed with urinary ills?
Want a reliable kidney remedy?
Don't have to look far. Use
what Newporfrecommends. Every
street in Newport has its cases.
Here is one Newport mans ex-
perience.
Let John L. Gates, of Main St.
tell it.
Says Mr.. Gates: Il have used
Doan's Kidney Pills and L do not
believe that they have an equal
in curing kidney trouble. More
than four years ago my kidneys
became disordered and the kidney
secretions were distressing in pas
sage. Doan's Kidney Pills that |
got from the MINIS Drug Co., re-
lieved me and after taking them,
my kidneys became normal, |
am glad to again endorse Doan's
Kidney Pills and say that | still
consider them the best kidney
medicine to be had. They certain
ly did good work in my case"
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other. adv.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

Some very unenviable and I'M
complimentary remarks are being
directed toward the Knoxville Ex-
position management just now by
the country newspapers around
over this end end of the state
for neglecting to pay their adj
vertising bills. 1t does seem that
these matters should have been
the first taken care of after the
amount of free space consumed in
boosting the show.-Alhens Post
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

Hooper has had a hard fight on
his hands from the first day that
he became governor of Tennessee,
he has hung on with characteristic
determination until he has ac-
complished to some extent those
principles for which he stood.
There is no doubt in the minds of
many but that he will again be a
candidate for the governorship
next year.-Rockwood Times.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18
SAYS FUSION
FIGHT NOT ON
CONTINUED from Pave ~

| know that it is the duty of indie
pendent democrats to press for
ward along the same road they
have been travelling.
There are a few who advise
that independent democrats shall
enter conventions and primaries
next year with regulars and take
chances on the outcome. They
give as the reasons for such a
course that the work of fusion is
accomplished, that the liquor evil
is dead that the regulars are now
for prohibition law and it is en-
forcement and that harmony is
desirable.
Harmony among democrats is
to certain extent desirable, but
only as means and not as an end.
The end for which independent
democrats have been fighting is
the destruction of the liquor bust
ness and it psisonous effects on
the politics and morals of the state
and incidentally for other reforms
In the state government. That his
is not finished is too plain and
simple fact to waste argument
about. That the liquor forces will
lie down and make no further
fight in Tennessee is an assertion
that would make any intelligent
man the object of ridicule. They
are not now even pretending that
they have submitted, but sensible
and sincere people would not be-
lieve such a pretense if made
Right now while some individuals
are loudly proclaiming that the IL
quor forces are vanquished, they
are resisting every effort to en-
force the law and are quietly
making their arrangements to con-
troll the next legislature and to
elect a governor who will be either
weak or friendly.
Recognizing the fact that the H.
quor forces will probably put up
the strongest fight next year they
have ever made, the only question
for independent democrats to de.
eide is how can we best meet this
final struggle.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

Farmer in this section are not
much interested in what the cold
storage people do with their eggs.
When eggs are cheap East Ten
nessee farmers eat eggs and when
they are high they sell them.
With eggs as high as they are
now, they can eat what they want
and still sell enough to bring in
more money than they usually get
for eggs.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18
DON'T LET YOUR
LIVER GET LAZY
Dodson's Liver Tone Will Keep
it Working and Make You
Feel Well and Clean-No
Bad After-Effects.

If YOU have allowed your fear
OF calomel to keep you from ton
ting up your liver when it gets a
little sluggish and lazy-try Dod-
sons Liver Tone, and note how
quickly and harmlessly it starts
the liver and relieves constipation
and bilious attacks.
Whhen you take Dodson's Liver
Tone you do not have to stay in
the house all day. None of the
weakening harmful after-effects
of calomel follow it's use. Dod-
sons Liver Tone is amid, pleasant
vegetable liquid that cannot hurt
either children or grown people.
Yet it easily overcomes the most
stubborn and inactive liver with
out making you quit eating or
working.
These are not just claims, Smith
Drug Cos. Drug store backs up
every one of these statements and
agrees to refund the price of
Dodson's Liver Tone with smile
to any person who pays his so
cents for bottle and isn't salts
fled that he got his moneys
worth.
limitations of Dodson's Liver
Tone are another proof that it is
good thing. Nobody ever imi-
tates a poor remedy. Be sure
you get the genuine Dodson's
Liver Tono-the kind that is guar
anteed. Adv.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

The Rogersville Star says that
John Isaac wears a Wistful, but
far-a-way look in his eye" John |.
is one of those far-a-way looking
creatures and he can see just
about as far ahead as any of 'em
and probably realizes that his
leadership in Tennessee Demo
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

Recently a Kansas professor
came into North Carolina for the
purpose Of helping in the educa-
tional work being done by church
people, and he has aroused the ire
Of several of the North Carolina
papers because he says that the
people Of the East Tennessee and
North Carolina border counties
are illiterate and many Of the
mountain preachers cannot even
read their Bibles from which they
they are supposed to preach from.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

several members before, but it
will not work next time. We will
not swap horses while crossing the
river. We will not forsake true
and tried allies for open or dis
guised Senemies. We will not
abandon a certainty for an expert
ment. Independent democrats
will poll more votes in Tennessee
next year than ever before.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

There is more Catarrh IN this section Of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be i7curable. For q great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with Local
treatment, pronounced 1t incurable. Sci
ence has proven Catarrh to be a consti-
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. J. Cheney &
tional cure on the market. 1t is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case 1t
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
hmonia1s.
Address: r. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by Druggists, 75c. .
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Advertisement
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

stocking on Christmas morn.
Surely no child in Newport will be
permitted to suffer the keen pangs
of disappointment Christmas morn
ing. We suggest that the mayor
and Board of Aldermen name a
committee to look after and raise
funds for the needy.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18
BOTH TELEPHONES
BRUCEl. SUSONG
EDITOR AND PUBLISHERS

A positive assertion that work
would be begun on Viewpoints
new depot on a certain date, would
be a welcome Christmas gift for
Newport people.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

Mahan were arrested last week
by the government officials and
charged with shooting into mail
boxes. Their cases will be heard
before the U. S. commissioner at
an early date.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18
NOTICE

Parties having accounts against
Irwin Reams, deceased, also par
ties owing said estate, will please
present same at once to w. E.
ReamS for settlement.
w. E. REAMS.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-12-18

AT the meeting of the Order of
the Eastern Star the following
were elected: Mrs. Anna C. Par
rott, Worth Marion; F. w. Par
rott, Worthy Patron; Miss Hester
Susong, Associate Matron; Mrs.
Kate j. Ruble; Treasurer; Mrs.
Laurie D. Susong. Secretary; Mrs.
Babb, Conductress; Mrs. Bonnie
Wells, Associate Conductress;
Mrs. Kate S. McSween, Marshall;
Mrs. Mollie Justus, Chaplain; Mrs.
Nina Mae Early, Warden; B. F..
Bible Sentinel; Mrs. Millard Bur-
nett, Adah; Mary Alexander, Ruth;
Mrs. Laura Sparks, Esther; Mrs.
Thursa Hedrick, Martha; Mrs. Lou
Ella Gorrell, Electa.