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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
Provisional President Huerta

There is no principle at stake in
Mexico--it is simply a contest for
power and offices waged by political
brigands. General Hueita, the new
provisional president, is but figure
head, and the men behind him are
probably no better or worse than other
Mexican politicians. Vast property in
terests are, however, at stake, and a
few days more are needed to see who
are really behind the Huerta move
ment.
Madero fell because he never had
much popular support. Coming from
an over-rich family he never had the
rank and file Of the country to fail
back upon. His popular support be-
came weaker the longer he stayed in
power.
General Huerta is a popular officer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

TyHE announcement that the newly
! inaugurated parcel post carried
! i 40.0O0.O00 packages in the first
month of it's operation is an interest,"
ing indication that there existed a long
lunfulflled want. That an undoubted
convenience has arrived" is beyond
question But as a factor in reducing
the cost of living and cutting out the
ldrones between the producer and the
consumer its possibilities are stu
latent.
There are two reasons for this. The
first is that the cost of service is too
great for the profitable transportation
of farm products and the unit OF weight
too low The second is the lack OF
financial facilities for country people
and for that matter the average city
ldweller as well. The ordinary citizen
does not keep a bank account outside
! of the savings institutions, where
check drawing is not permissible Many
city banks require balances that can
lnot be maintained by the run of house,
holders While banks are plentiful in
cities. even if not widely utilized, the
country is poorly supplleu, anu the
| farmer who wishes to use checks or
to cash them is put to much bother,
something he detests and avoids.
But an expansion of the postal saw
jinss bank system can correlate with
the parcel post and create a nation
wide convenience. Every post-office
should become a depository and paying
I..4 no,nsitors cbou1d he prOVided
II, with check books. The stamping of the
check by the postmaster would mean
Its certifcation. The clumsy ma
chinery of the postal order system
lwould disappear and the uncertainty
of the registered letter be done away
with. 1t would not be necessary for the
government to pay interest on these
accounts The use of the facilities az
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
Passage of the Wilson Bills

Both houses of the New Jersey leg
islature have passed the seven anti
trust bills prepared at the request of
Governor Wilson. Already two of the
trusts have dropped their New Jersey
charters, having secured charters in
Delaware that answer their purposes
better.
These bills are drastic chiefly be-
cause New Jersey had been trans
formed by her political leaders into
the chief trust factory of the coun-
try. The undoing of the work will
scatter the trusts in several direc-
tions, and the work done in New Jer-
sey at the instance of Governor VIII
son will be repeated no doubt later
on in other states.
The seven bills went through with
out incurring single amendment and
as they stand they represent as per-
haps nothing else does the President
elects views on the trust problems
No doubt he proposes to seek reme-
dies in Congress against the trusts
and monopolies. The task is, however,
gigantic one, and it may not be
consummated in a single term. A good
start, however, will be made, and the
consumers will determine how much
farther they want it carried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
w.RD,s LITTLE FARM


From "Artefnus Wards Best Stories
I have been an honest old farmer FOR
four years.
MY farm is in the interior OF Maine
Unfortunately my lands are IL miles from
the railroad Eleven miles is quite dis-
tance TO haul immense quantities of corn
wheat. rye and oats; but as 1 haven't any
70 haul. [ do not, after all, suffer mucn
on that account.
Ny, farm is more especially az grass
farm.
Ny neighbors told me so "a first, and
as evidence that they were sincere in
that opinion, they turned their cows onto
It the moment I vent off "lecturing.
These cows are now quite fat. take
pride in these cows. in fact, and am
glad I own a grass farm.
Two years ago l tried sheep raising.
| bought so lambs and turned them
loose on my broad and beautiful acres.
II was pleasant on bright mornings to
stroll leisurely out to the farm in my
dressing gown, with a cigar in my mouth,
and watch those innocent little lambs as
they danced galy o'er the hillside. Watch
ing their saucy eapers reminded me OF
caper sauce and it occurred to me [ should
have some very fine eating when they
grew up to be ''muttons."
My gentle shepherd, Mr.. Eli Perkins.
said, 1--WE must have some shepherd
dogs"
l had no very precise idea as to what
shepherd dogs We're, but | assumed a
rather profound look and said:
I'VE must, Eli. spoke to you about this
some time ago"
| wrote to my old friend, MIR. Dexter
II. Follett of Boston, for two shepherd
dogs. Mr.. F. is not an honest farmer
himself, but l thought he knew about
shepherd dogs. He kindly forsook far
more important business to accommodate,
and the dogs came forthwith. They were
splendid creatures, snuff colored, hazel
eyed, long tailed and shapely jawed.
We led them proudly to the fields.
Turn them in, Eli" l said.
Eli turned them in.
They went in at once and killed 20 of
my best lambs in about four minutes and
half.
My friend had made trifling mistake
In the breed of these dogs.
These dogs were not partial to sheep.
Eli Perkins was astonished, and OBJ
served:
WAL, Did you eyer?"
| certainly never had.
There were pools of blood on the green
sward, and fragments of wool and raw
lamb chops lay round in confused heaps.
The dogs would have been sent to Bos-
ton that night had they not rather sud-
denly died that afternoon.
Thus closed their life stories. Thus end
ell their interesting tails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
GOOD READING FOR CHILDREN

From the Kansas City Star.
Ar interesting list of books for children
supplied by Miss Florence Whittier, in
structor in library work at the University
of Missouri, was printed in the Star last
week. 1t is worth the attention of parents
who try to direct the reading of their
children.
And this is what wise parents always
seek to do. For, left to its own devices.
child is apt to give time to trash that
might be put in on real literature. The
case is recalled of a boy of who was
out of school from Illness for winter He
was read to extensively and went enthusi-
astically through "Uncle Remus," Kip
lings Just So Stories and Jungle
Books" tom Sawyer and Stevenson S
Treasure 1sland,' Kidnapped" and
BLACK Arrow
Then friend sent in one of the ordi-
nary chlldren's books by an unknown
author Compared with the work of the
master story tellers the book struck his
mother as particularly fiat, but she made
no comment. After so pages had been
read the boy replied: "Cut that out,
MOTHER he said, "Kipling and Stevenson
make that book look like 80 cents"
He was right. But il he had had no ex-
perience with Kipling or Stevenson he
wouldn't have had any standards of criti-
cism. 1t is surprising how boys and iris
will take to the best that has been writ
ten-to Dickens and Scott, for instance
If they are given the chance. and the
books are read aloud with some discrimi.
mating skipping of the uninteresting pass
ages
They do not need to understand every
thing in a rafting good story to enjoy it,
A child likes to hear about the ''satiabl,
curiosity" of the elephants child in th'
Just So Stories as well il he knew
what il meant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
ur.,,ECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
ualoes just naturally cluster around
man with big bank balance.
Most men are so afraid of saving money
they'll ride in taxicabs If they cant get
rid of ii any other way.
One thing makes a girl glad she isn't a
man is she could be only one, but she can
run half n dozen of them.
woman with bulging ankles seems
more afraid Of having them seen than
orc without them is of hole In her
stocking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
SHE DwELT AMONG THE UNTROD
DEN WAYS

By William Wordsworth.
She Gwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove; :
A maid whom there were none TO praise.
And very few to love.
A violet by messy stone
Half hidden from the eye.
Fair as star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown. and few could kn W
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave. and oh.
The difference to me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
Musical Artists

Among the musical artists who will
be heard in Birmingham in the near
future are Tina Lerner, the young Rms
sian pianist, and Godowsky, one of the
greatest pianists in the world" said a
member of the musical set. Miss Lerner
comes in the Sunday afternoon series on
March and Godowsky will be heard in a
recital on the night of March l.
Both artists will appear at the Jeffer-
son theatre. Tina Lerner has created a
furore in New York, Boston and other
large cities. From all accounts she is
one of the most captivating pianists who
has ever visited this country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
REvERsEs.

When the world Is fair around you
And no cloud is in the sky:
When old Trouble hasn't found you
And no teardrop dims your eye,
Don't swell up and start to Dragging
OF the mighty deeds you'll do.
Comes a time when, spirits tagging,
All your heart Is filled with rue
And Misfortune, courage daunting,
Seems In mocking tones to say,
What. great man? Hast ceased tn,
vaunting?
Thou are sadly changed todayr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

The list of the men who contributed to
the fund to pay the expenses of Colonel
Roosevelt's expedition to Africa has been
made public. The "a individual contrib
utors paid three-ffths of the expenses OF
the trip on behalf of the Smithsonian in
stitution and Colonel Roosevelt personally
paid the other two-ffths which covered
all of his personal expenses and those OF
his son, as well as their proportionate
Nv o. fifths of the general expenses of the
expedition. The following were the other
contributors: Edward ID. Adams, Cornell
ius n Bliss, w. Bayard Cutting, Andrew
Carnegie, Cleveland H. Dodge e. ii. Gary,
j. Fl. Kennedy d. O. Mills, George w.
Perkins, Henry Phipps, Mrs. Whtelaw
Rod, Elihu Root, Jacob II. Schiff Isaac
n. Seligman, Oscar S. Strauss, Isadoi
Strauss, James Campbell, Ralph King and
O. NJ Stafford of Cleveland, Robert Bacon
and Col. IL. L. Higginson of Boston, j. c
Rcsengarten OF Philadelphia, L. l.. Num-
OF Utah, Truman II. Newberry, John Hays
Hammond. Hennen j. Jennings anc
George Won L. Meyer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
A NC. DISTINCTION.

whats the difference between a
drummer and commercial traveler?'
asks a correspondent. Well, drummer
travels to renew his acquaintance with
the girls in his territory and sells goods
that he may lavish enough upon each
girl to convince her that there is no
other. The commercial traveller is pri-
marily a business man and regards the
girls as the necessary antidote for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

y few months ago dairy COW belonging
to Blair Stanton a Wyandotte, Kan,
county farmer producing eight quarts
OF milk day, lost an eye in the hedge
brush. saddened by her loss. the COW
refused to associate with others of the
herd and fed alone. Her output dropped
TO four quarts day. veterinarian was
called. He found no ailment except MEL
ancholy. He said she was suffering with
fallen pride. Then he solved the problem
He provided her with a glass ey. Next
day the Jersey was found with the herd
grazing in deep contentment. Best of all
she regained her milk and started in to
make up for lost time. Now she is CIV
inc 10 quarts of milk "A day and is happy
Professor Moore should begin to get up
his best article Of weather against Tues
.lay ,Npa<
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
POSTAL BANKS AND PARCEL POST
BY DON C. sEITZ

forded would be a sufficient return on
the deposit, or, if the interest system
be retained the placing of a one cent
stamp upon the check would bring
large return to the government and be
but a small tax upon the depositor, as
against the present cumbersome money
order service.
In this way farmers, and consumers
would be provided with safe and con-
venient form of exchange by which
they could do business directly with
each other at infinitesimal cost with
great mutual advantage. 1t could dam
age no existing financial institutions,
because it would serve people outside
the pale of banking.
Under present conditions it is impos-
sible to finance parcel post transactions
conveniently and this limitation serves
as a great check upon its reaching full
usefulness. There is nothing eompli-
Gated about the plan advanced The ma
chinery exists for its successful opera
ton Postoffices in every town in the
United States have ample room, and
in nearly all cases plenty of clerical
u
to another means nothing but clearing.
The cash balancing will be small, as
the checks win to large extent Kill
each other just as they do In the
clearing houses at the banking cen-
ters. Checks other than postal can be
collected without risk by the simple
method of not allowing them to be
drawn against until the money is re-
ceived No bank possesses the means OF
identification that prevails at the usual
|postoffice. 1t is the one place in town
where everybody Is known. In no case
does the money have to be paid until
the return is safely in hand. 1t would
prove a business without risk and a
facility beyond measure.
s. Park Row.. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
GREAT oPPoRTUNITY.

Il wonder why 1t is that more women
don't practice dentistry"
II don't know. I'm sure. After slap
ping a rubber dam into a patients mouth
they'd have fine chance to have the
last word"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Farewell banquets aare the fashion in
Washington at present. Attorney General
Wickersham got his'n.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
NOT ONE.
No man e'er sought
The Heights sublime.
Whose only thought
Was killing time.

A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
According to mythology, Atlas was
the Titan who held the world on his
shoulders"
Yes"
"He must have felt rather important
at the time"
mo doubt. Still, l dare say he didn't
feel half as important as the major
league baseball scout when he goes out
to size up bush league phenomenon.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Food prices will be firm or rising, it is
thought, until Vincent Astor actually goes
to farming, and then look out for tum-
lie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

President Taft has sent the Webb bill
to Attorney General Wickersham and Sec
retary Macveigh. He is evidently looking
fof grounds for another veto &.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
MOST RARE.

MOST RARE.
what sort of fellow is Whiffle?"
Hes the kind of man you can't help
but admire"
well, give me some idea of his char
acter.e
For instance, he can go to a theatre
with a friend to see a play he has
already seen in New York, yet he never
says how much better it was done by
the same company in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
PREFERABLY OURS

PREFERABLY OURS.
The girl on the cover,
Twere easy to love her,
A creature so wondrously fair,
If one could but find her,
How gladly he'd mind her
And bravely life's burdens would bear
She's pensive or merry,
But pretty, oh. very,
And her checks put the roses to shame
Methinks it were duty
TO give so much beauty
A local habitat-and namei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

These days are long days to President
Taft, who can CLEAN from them neither
history nor glory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

West Virginia keenly feels the high cost
of voting in her legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
NOTHING TO DO NOW.

BUSINESS FOR THE HoME-FoLKs.
CA Georgia moonshners gratitude 20
Congress).
Here is a unique letter, found recently
in Georgia "moonshine" district:
Dear Bill, old boy. il you could read
the papers you'd know by this time what
good news they've had for us recent.
Congress has\ done gone and passed a
law thatll keep other states from ship
pin Ticker into old Georgy. That's the
good news, old boy, and it done my
heart good to read it. There's where
Wen hit it high and hardi 1t means
business for us home-folks. an purity
soon there'n be more stills goin' to the
minute than the revenoo fellers can
locate in a mile. It does seem that
Providence is on our side at last"'-At-
lanta Constitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

The best harbnger of spring is the
baseball club fitting southward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
OLD BILL BOGGs.

OLD BILL BOGGS.
man named Bill Boggs
Had dozens of dogs
And spent all his life on a farm;
On cold winter nights.
ignoring flea bites,
He slept with his pets and kept war;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

1t was necessary to wreck a city to dis
lodge Madero. but dislodged he was, and
ever will be. He has no more political
future than William Howard Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Porfirio Diaz in Egypt is enjoying life
much better than Felix Diaz is in Mex
leo City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Mexico City may escape a place in the
Pompeii class il it puts its foot down hard
and firm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Houston, Tex, has not had a snow in Is
years and it feels winter proof.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Peaches from Africa are brought to New
York via Liverpool. Two dozen peaches
are placed in box carefully wrapped
They are retailed at 80 cents each.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

The Mexican republic carries in stock
full line of ingratitudes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

There is a movement in all cities away
from the ward bosses and grafters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

The apparently hopeless tip problem mas
been solved by the Hotel Breslin IN New
York. The plan is printed in red ink
across the top Of every bill of fare, and
1t is thus explained by the manager; The
accepted proportion which the average tip
given the waiter bears to the meal check
is about 10 per cent. Some diners give
more. but this percentage is as near the
average as we could figure it. If walters
were to receive 10 per cent tips on all
meals they serve. they would make
good income As it would have been a
work of supererogation to have tried to
abolish the giving and taxing of tips,
decided to give our patrons at all meals
breakfast. luncheon dinner and after
theatre supper-a reduction of 10 per cent
on all checks more than 50 cents.
Chester S. Lord, managing editor of the
New York Sun for 50 years, has resigned.
He will be succeeded by James Luby the
managing editor Of the Evening Sun.
George NJ. Smith will succeed Mr. Luby.
Chester S. Lord is probably the best
known managing editor in the United
States.
Peaches from Africa are brought TO New
York via Liverpol. Two dozen peaches
are placed in box carefully wrapped.
They are retailed at 80 cents each.
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1t was necessary to wreck a city to dis
lodge Madero. but dislodged he was, and
ever will be. He has no more political
future than William Howard Taft
President Taft has sent the Webb bill
to Attorney General Wickersham and Sec
retary Macveigh. He is evidently looking
fof grounds for another veto.
Food prices will be firm or rising, it is
thought. until Vincent Astor actually goes
to farming, and then look out for tum-
ble.
Farewell banquets sare the fashion in
Washington at present. Attorney General
Wiekersham got hisn.
------ss-
These days are long days TO President
Taft, who can CLEAN from them neither
history nor glory.
-.s.--
Mexico City may escape a place in the
Pompeii class If it puts its foot down hard
and firm.
Porfirfo Diaz in IlpNDt is eniONlng lie
much better than Felix Diaz is in Mex
leo City.
Gen. Rosalie Jones has not word to
say about the size of the shoes she
wears.
When man says he prefers the simple
life you may know he has never tried it.
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There is a movement in all cities away
from the ward bosses and grafters.
Houston, Tex has not had a snow in Is
years and ii feels winter proof.
The best harbnger of spring is the
baseball club fitting southward
--.s.---
West Virginia keenly feels the high cost
of voting in her legislature.
The Mexican republic carries in stock
a full line of ingratitudes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Gen. Rosale Jones has not a word to
say about the size of the shoes she
wears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

/ toxins Of continuous travel IN over
heated railway coaches and continuous
consumption of underdone food IN Sec
ond rate hotels.-Louisville Courier
Journal
WON'T TELL THE REST
\ married man,
A pretty chicken;
The plot began
Right there to thicken.
NOTHING TO DO NOW.
Il understand DinsDurns wife mar
ried him to reform him. Did she sue
ceed?"
Il presume so. Anyhow. she's been
complaining a great deal lately Of
ennui.Y
NOT SO EASY
In life you will
Find lots of men
Who can not fill
A fountain pen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

When a man says he prefers the simple
life you may know he has never tried it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20
nEcK,Ess sIpERLATIyEs

Castro can now take his choice of oun-
tries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Chester S. Lord managing editor Of the
New York Sun for 81 years, has resigned.
He will be succeeded by James Luby, the
managing editor of the Evening Sun.
George NJ. Smith will succeed Mr.. Luby.
Chester s. Lord is probably the best
known managing editor in the United
States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-20

Entered at the Birmingham Ala
nostoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March ). .sT1.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-11-20

At the corn show which will be held
at the Armory next Thursday. Friday
and Saturday, the senior class of the
Domestic Science department Of the
Normal school will exhibit products
made of corn, such as corn cake, etc.
The girls will also demonstrate the
making of corn products. such as corn
pancake, fritters, squaw dish and so
forth
The members of the Brotherhood
Committee of the Congregational
church surprised Mrs. John Emerson
last Saturday evening at her home, the
affair being in the nature of a farewell
party. The ladies spent the evening
pleasantly and enjoyed delicious
luncheon. Mrs. Emerson was present
ed with a handsome gold thimble as a
token of the esteem and friendship Of
the ladies present. The members of
the committee are Mesdames McMul-
len, Lyon, Getchell, Lydia Pray, Henry
Beal and S. P. Ellis.
The infant daughter of Sam Hall is
reported to be i'll.