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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
NEW WORDS REJECTED

Thomas r. I.ounsbury in Harpers Maga-
zine
Always, indeed, in the history of every
tongue men havce insisted on maintain
ing firm stand aaginst the entrances
into il of new expressions of any sort.
In SO doing they have honestly believed
that they were actuated not by sense
less but by a holy zeal for purity OF
speech. The strongest sort of opposition
has been frequently offered to the recos-
milton of words which it would now seem
to us we could hardly do without. The
feeling existed in high places. In 1a's
the fourth edition of Johnson's diction~
cry was published. 1t was the last edi-
ton which appeared under his own SUI
,arvision. Boswell tells US that he in
vain urged johnson to insert civilization.
This was lust then beginning to take the
place of civility in the sense of being
opposed to barbarisn. He refused 10
acknowledge the intruder. Illuminating
he admitted to be word frequently
used, but he did not know tito be lesiti-
mate Engnsn-whatever that means So
taough ne inserted the noun humiiia-
tion, the corresponding verb and adJee-
tive are not found in his final revised edi-
tiou Not long after this time devei-
opment appeared in the title of book-
Its author was sternly informed by one
of his reviewers that there was no such
word in the language. William Taylor
of Norwich, somewhat renowned for the
pe culiar words he used in his writings,
sent an article to the Monthly Review, in
which occurred the verb rehabilitate. 1t
was at once struck out by the editor. II
wss not English, Taylor was informed'
and would not have been understood. II
may be said in palliation if not defense
of this action that it was not until the
latter half of the nineteenth century tha'
the word became well known. especially IN
The sense of whitewashing questionable
characters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
Tolls on the Panama Canal

Congressman Adamson of Georgia
says that the President-elect will ask
Congress to repeal the provision ex-
empting from tolls coastwise vessels.
Governor Wilson has shown no incli-
nation to bolt the platform he was
elected on. On the other hand he
has said that all promises made to
the people must be fulfilled.
The democratic national platform
of 1912 is supposedly controlling un-
til 1916, and says in regard to tolls
in the Panama canal: eve favor the
exemption from tolls Of American
ships engaged in coastwise trade
passing through the Panama canal.
We also favor legislation forbidding
the use of the Panama canal by ships
owned or controlled by railroad car
riers engaged in transportation COM
petitive with the canal"
This covers the ground and this is
exactly what Congress did. To say
that the President elect will disregard
this distinct and unequivocal plank of
the platform is to charge him with
unfaithfulness and dishonesty, for he
stood on the plank in question when
he was elected. He will uphold the
present toll sheet of the canal, and
this toll sheet promises to remain in
force until 1916 at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
vUJAsHINGToN. February q
" Especial )-There is only one
J" 4ra,,bla In q .,3eft 70 o,,r na

AsHINGTON, February q
" Especial. .)-There is only one
p" trouble in a visit to our ma
tional capitol by a representative OF
the plain people, What I mean is
one of the plain people themselves
And that danger Is that IL his stay is
brief he will more than likely get a
wrong impression of that great legis-
lative body, the House of Representa-
tives.
We have some great men in Con
gress. There is no doubt about that
do not share In the oft-expressed
opinion that the country is degener-
ating so far as our national represen-
tation at Washington is concerned. But
we also have some representatives in
that body who, if they are great, you
would not notice It in brief survey
the more convinced you become that
they can prove an alibi.
No one would take IL. Robert Fow-
Ter of Illinois to be a great man. If
you were to send some one out to
bring you in a great man and they
were to return with I'll. Robert, you
would instantly lose all your respect
for your messengers discriminating
Judgment. Looking II. Robert over, you
are prone to wonder If the 1929 peo-
pie who live in his district sent him
to Congress for spite or to pay bet.
If you should happen to be in the gal-
lery some time and IL Robert should
take a notion to speak, which he fire.
quently does, you would be lost in
amazement why the portraits of Clay
Reed, Carlisle, jefferson, Crisp and
others didn't come down out OF their
frames and throw him out. He has an
expression like a fried egg, and
voice like a petition in bankruptcy.
Some times he tries to be humorous.
one of his jokes is almost as anus
ing as having a leg amputated and
yet with all this handicap II. Robert
not only is in Congress but he has
been returned to tho Sixty-third Con-
gress and is in "cur midst for two
years more.
Fl. Robert modestly eonfesses in his
biographical sketch that he is law
yer with a "fondness for personal In
jury practice" and has never taken the
side of a corporation against the peo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
Hopes sportSmen Set Hearts u.o,

THE sportsmen that HE themselves
forth in quest of game these days have
rather disappointing experiences said
Percy Clark, "and some of them rath-
er expensive bags in many instances.
For Instance, there is Haden Chill
dress, good sticl<er. who climbs the
hills and searches the hollows on both
sides of Shades mountain with rather
poor luck. Then, too, he takes the train,
with two or three dogs, and tries the
| fields of st. Clair and Calhoun. A few
days ago he made such an excursion
into a section where there We're re-
ported "a plenty of birds He returned
With one lone rabbit, and when fig
uring UP the cost, found he was out
just $3.50 for his days sport He tried
again Saturday and increased his ba g.
tc two rabbits at cost of about SIS.
| He is said 'to be very fond of harsen-
pfeffer-never mind the cost-and as
the first step is catch the rabbit. he
generally has his favorite German dish
served by a Greek, by the way.
Then there is Doc Cook-not the
north pole discoverer--but the hunt
St, oi'o tuohSill ne udu discovered
that the. rotary motion of shotgun
when discharged into covey of birds
would kill at least half the covey
on the flush Well. he tried it and IL
didn't hit feather. Next he tried a
pair of strong field glasses to locate
the birds on the ground. Now, although
these powerful glasses will bring into
view ship 32 miles away at sea, they
won't help Doc with a pot shot, ex-
cept in very rare instances.
| Last week Doc went into Bibb and
spent two days. He ate all the hen
eggs, fried ham and fat biscuits with
ribbon cane syrup he could carry and
scattered loose change on both sides
of the Cahawby' for seven miles. He
used up ii 20-suase shells, and came
home with nine birds and two rabbits
| part of which he himself killed at a
cost of $13.40. He made a farmer lad
push a 30-year-old mule for all that
was in the mule but only got near
enough to hear the train pull out from
Brierfeld for Birmingham; and OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
wall streets Point of View

Henry clews in his Saturday review
says in part:
THE public mind is still backward
In recognizing that many of the unfa-
vorable conditions which have pre-
vailed for weeks past have been amply
discounted. Politics, tariff and trusts
are problems which have been with us
for years Agitation has been intense.
Those most aggressive in this direction
were partially successful at the last
election and the new administration
will somewhat reflect their opinions.
We have however. the promise of those
who will control during the next four
years not to disturb business by too
radical changes. That promise has been
made by men whose word is of value.
IT is but fair to expect that these prom
ises will be carried out.
so far as the trusts are concerned
it is not likely that any more radical
action will be taken by the new ad-
ministration than By the old. Mr.. VIII
sons Attorney General cannot ENFORCE
the Sherman law any more vigorously
than Mr.. Wickersham and his predeces-
sors have done. Furthermore, the su-
preme court has supported and inter-
preted that piece of legislation and
many of our great corporations have
already adjusted themselves to its re-
quirements. Others are joining the pro-
cession, so that the worst has been ex-
perienced in this direction, and there
is no longer any serious anxiety in this
respect. Trust managers know what to
expect That we are now working away
from monopolistic tendencies is a mat
ter of encouragement rather than de-
preston; for the openings for new en-
terprises on a moderate scale VIII null
tiply, and the country has been at
least partially relieved from one OF its
most menacing social and political dan
gers-that of domination by number
of industrial monopolies. On the tariff
question, the acute stage is about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
Preparations for the 1916 Campaign

The progressive party has opened
headquarters at Washington and New
York. This means that the progress
sive presidential campaign of 1915 has
been definitely and irrevocably
launched.
The headquarters in Washington
and New York are for the avowed
purpose Of building progressive or
ganization in every county in the
United States, and sufficient money
has been subscribed to carry out this
plan. A weekly newspaper is to be
published and great deal OF bull
moose literature is to be distrib tied.
Tho establishment of two headquar-
ters with enlistment and organization
Is their mission is the bull moose
answer to the Munsey proposition
locking to merger with the standpat
sepublicsns. There will be no met ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
p,.,.ed win Tuscaloo..

II spent several days in Tuscaloosa
recently and found it a prosperous and
hospitable city," said H. s. Jones of
Birmineh of the firm Of Clark &
Jones, piano dealers
"Tuscaloosa is growing city. l am
told that it has improved in very
marked degree within the past three
or four years AS might be expected In
a great educational center. Tuscaloosa
is noted for its fine culture. Nothing is
too good to say of that attractive
town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Thirty million dollars is the estimate
or damage done citrus fruit during the
recent cold wave in California, accord
ing to a bulletin issued by State Horti-
one of the ablest citrus experts l learn
that not more than 20 per cent of the crop
was saved" The bulletin says that where
oil pot smudges were used an average
of So per cent of the fruit escaped in
Jury
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
rheaChance of Living

1T isn't the cost of living that troubles
me-" said philosophie citizen, ITS the
chance of living. I don't think the price
of groceries will go SO high that death
from starvation may result, but certain
ly do think that mans choice of living
IS becoming less every day.
That I'm alive today and not man.
gled corpse at the undertaker's is due
to the matter of six inches, or there.
abouts. If that automobile had struck
me would never have known it, and that
1t didn't strike me must be due to the
fact that the driver missed his aim.
"Yes, the chance of living is becoming
less every day, Notwithstanding all that
the doctors are doing to prolong life. The
doctor viii lengthen the attenuated exis-
tcnce of valetudinarian grandfather
while the brutal chauffeur will joyfully-
n.angle the vigorous grandson. JOY rides
to some mean grief to others, but what
Of it? This is Birmingham, the city where
human life, according to grand jury re-
ports and coroner's reports, counts for
less than the larceny of a hog.
II am glad l did not have my pistol
oil me at the time OF my narrow escape.
l certainly should have sent the contents
OF my .3S special in pursuit of the fugitive
nlaniacs whose disregard of the life Or
safety of the public is shown by speeding
the most populous part of the city. The
automobile has had it's share of victims,
il is about time the tables were turned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Prof. Thomas Powers and Father Felix
A. Rossetti. both experts in the chemical
laboratory of st. Ignasius college, San
Francisco, last week gave first details of
tie new cancer cure which they have
been using for several years. They have
cured As of the worst cases of external
cancer known in San Francisco, and have
had no failures. The method is an exter-
nai application, the ingredients of which
are secret. The effect is to draw the
poison from the blood. Cancer anilupus
is considered incurable," said Father Ros-
setti. *but we have been able to make
certain cures, and they speak for them
selves. We apply a compound to the af-
fected part which draws the poison from
the blood and permits the wound to heal
ahe history of cancer cases surgically
treated, is that cancer reoccurs in an
ether portion of the body. The history
Of our cases is that cancer does not re-
occur. Our treatment consists of three
applications within eight days, reapplying
the same series of applications as often
as necessary. In the most desperate cases
--and we have had some unbelieveably
awful cases-it has taken six weeks to ef-
feet a cure.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Ten senators voted for a provision au-
thorizing the recall of presidents, and five
of them were democrats-Ashurst of Ari-
Oklahoma, Perky of idaho and Thomas of
Colorado
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

The biggest individual taxpayer in Bos-
ton Is George r. White, who is in the
drug business. He pays this year S437i
on valuation of s40sS,ooO OF real estate
and $4,000 of personal property. Gov
ernor Foss is No. In the list He pays
SIS, 1872 on sl,5o4. 200 of real estate and $780,
ore of personal property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

A big grizzly bear ambled into a noun
tain schoolhouse in Aliens Park, 40 miles
northwest of Denver, last week, while
Miss Helen Warren of jamestown, N. Y.
the school teacher, was instructing a
dozen children in the three RS All
was confusion in an instant, and the
pupils scuttled under desks and behind
Miss Warren. She tried to look fierce and
lrave and succeeded SO well that after a
few moments bruin turned tail and slowly
lett the building. Miss Warren, all unac-
customed to the uneeremonious ways of
Rocky mountain grizzlies was in such a
state of nervousness that she was brought
to Denver for medical treatment She has
resigned her position as mountain
school teacher and declares she is ex-
oeedingly glad to get back to civiliza-
'tfon. A male teacher will be engaged TO
take her place, and one of the require
fnents before he takes the job will be
that he can handle a, gun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Secretary Nagel can order Castro to
leave the country, but he cannot deport
tile present supply of habeas corpus pro-
ceedings. Castro has secured one al
ready.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

The new governor of Delaware has ap-
He cannot, however, keep the entire job
in the family. The hereditary principle
Is weak in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

An English syndicate of cotton spinners
has Just taken the Biles purchases Of
ii. coo acres In shsrkey and Issaquena
counties, in Mississippi. The land is In
the Yazoe delta country, The price paid
was s2,cOo,OoO, or % an acre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
THE THEATRICAL SITUATION

wrights and giving form to their concep-
tions. Possibly they may yet learn to
Profit by that example before it is too
late. theatre upon the highest plane
would court competition and defy panic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Yale athletes have unhestatingly hired
a British coach, and Harvard now ap-
peals to Americans to be Americans to the
utmost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Some say the suffragette parade In
Washington March foreshadows a real
Parade in the years to come to escort a
lresidentess to her Inauguration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

course had to spend the night at Brier-
field I neglected to say that in hunt
ing singles he believes in military tac-
tics where there are two or three in
the party. His very latest idea is that
instead of the brush shell: to scatter
the load spiral twist inside the gun
barrels will do the work better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Colonel Roosevelt is about to go up
against constitutional amendment. He
needs to be fenced in by something SUBJ
stantial and permanent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

What this city needs is reform in the
names of streets so that there will not
be two or more streets with a common
name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

The old time shutters in London 5
streets answer an admirable purpose
when the suffragettes are marching
along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

The American shoe should stop Dragging
that it is overrunning foreign countries.
such boasts interfere with its tariff de-
mands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

The chief disease at Yale is called 'Too
Much Broadway" 1t is not usually fatal
to anything except morals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Stockholm athletes say Thorpe should
keep all the prizes won at the Olympiad
They say technicality can be carried too
far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Turkey is disturbed by scraping sound
against the bottom of the war chest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
More of Goosebone Praophesy


1.-THE grounding weather prognos-
ticators and the goosebone prophets have
| come together now that the grounding
day. February 2, has passed." said one
Of the latter tribe.
'At u o'clock on Sunday the sun was
| hidden behind deep, leaden. lowering
clouds, and there was no shadow cast
by the weather hog. Therefore, from
that base of meteoromancy, the reasoning
is, that we will have have an early spring
and not much more winter, which we
have had but little of anyway
January, according to the occult stand
ard, came true to the goosebone forecast.
January /, the index of the month, was
bamy and pleasant, was the entire
| month of January. January opened very
| r,ild-the thermometer showed 81 at a.
| M. but dropped 8 degrees during the a
tours. There was a slight rainfall The
| Indications for February are cooler, vary
ing degrees of weather, with unsettled
conditions. The last few days of the
month will probably be gusty, with wind
storms the last day or two, or at least
March !.
1
ditions that have prevailed throughout the
United States have not been duplicated
since 1856. according to the records. In
New York during the past week slight
| fall of snow was such an unusual thing
as to cause comment. The question of
saving a crop of many millions tons of
natural ice has become a serious matter
of doubt. 1t is true that there is much of
srch ice carried over from last season
but short crop will be played up for all
t'a worth by the dealers in both the
natural and the manufactured product.
what a strange and anomalous condi-
ton these times are evolving Scarcity of
ice in New England and unheard of
freezes in California, one making for the
ice man. the other for the more fortunate
fruit growers who have saved their
crops. AS the suffragettes are throwing
the cogs of the wheels of government out
Of joint in England. can it be that they
| have affected the tides of the Gulf
stream?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Nothing is going up faster than crude
oil. and the top has not yet been reached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

The marching suffragettes are COM
PEELED to study the principles and prac-
tice of chiropody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03
UNDERWOOD, THE READY

The weather comes and goes without
consulting the weather prophets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-03

Adrianople wants more rations and
fewer bombs.
The Springdale news., 1913-08-01
Woman's Greatest Trouble

Big Sandy, Teln-MTs Lucy Cantrei Of this place. says. Every two weeks l had to go to bed and stay there several days l suffered untold misery Nothing seemed to help me, until tried Cardui, the woman.s tonic Although had been afflicted with womanly weak. ness for seven years. Cardui help ed me more than anything else ey- CT did It is surely the best ton ic for women on earth Weakness is womans greatest trouble Car dui is woman's greatest medicine, because t oyeroomes that weakness and brings back strength. In the past 70 years, Cardai helped over a million women Try 1t for your troubles today.
The Springdale news., 1913-08-01
 JOHNSON

Claude Davis s building new hafn down on the Dagis =Jetsey faHm
 Rev Tucker, of Fayettes He. is halding a FFotfaetsd meeting here this week
 Hal crum left sunday for Glen wood, Iowa. where he will work at making apple barrels
 offrey Wnf1ey. of Conway, Mo came down Friday 10 s.st his sst- e, Mrs NJ A Kerr
 Miss BerIine Langford, of Green land. is visiting with relatives at Johnson this week
 Ava Bohannon returned yester- day from an extended visit with relatives near Huntsville. Ark.
 J ". Schultz returned Saturday from various parts of Minnesota where he had been looking after bus ness matters.
 number of Johnson folks Y.s- ited at Elm Springs and springdale during the past week 10 do basi- ness with the county assessor
 Albert Cum spent several days Of last week on one ot his semi
The Springdale news., 1913-08-01

son depot fof almost a year, and has made host of friends who re- sret that he is leaving here.
 Prof J b Harris who taught s hool here during the past two years will teach at Habherton this fall Prof Harris is getting ready e make a fan for the Democratic nomination Of assessor for Washing ton county
 Big John Laper is arranging for another of his old t4me ice cream sappers to be held at his Stony Point home Saturday night Five per cent of the proceeds from the ice cream and soda pop goes to this school district.
 The Frisco is not only going 10 stop running some of it's local pass enger trans n few days, hut Is going to put stop to the atrain hoppers' wfo are n the habit of jumping OF and off of trains at stations Those who are in the habit of doing this had better call on their local agent and have him Fead them copy Of Super .ntend- cit Koch's recent letter.
 Sons Chapel is over the hills some distance from Johnson. hut some of our people have loved ores sleeping in the cemetery there, and these interested ones and all oth- CTS. are requested 10 attend the working to he held at the eeme. tery there on Saturday, Aug 16 Messrs. Couch and Broyles. tht cemetery directors, desire these wht attend to bring dinner and plenty O working tools.
 Lee Skillern arrived at hls Shady Grove home Friday night, and wal down to Johnson early Saturday morning telling about his length. sojonrn up near Parsons, Kansas where he has been doing the farm ing act with John Liehlyter wfC moved up there from here las winter. Dry weather and the ehinc1 bugs are ruining crops around Par sons, and Lee has enough Of Kan sas at present
 The annual convention Of the Washington County A H r A d Fayetteville Saturday. was attend cd by number of delegates ron the various orders throughout tht county Dr. J P flight was elect ed president for the coming veal with the following assistants Vic' Pres, B F Campbell, of Fayette vile; see'y. NJ D. Mason, of John son; Treas l c. Combs. of Fay etteville. NJ. b Mason was elect cd to represent the county ofdei in the state meeting to be held a Charleston. Ark. Oct. 16, 1913.
The Springdale news., 1913-08-01
Suffered Eczema Fifty Years-Now
 Well.

Seems a long time to endure the awful burning, itching. smarting, skin-disease known as letter another name for Eczema Seems good to realize, also that DR HoB- SONS ECZEMA OINTMENT has proven a perfect cure.
The Springdale news., 1913-08-01

Concerning the report that a Chi cago man slapped h1s wife with a beefsteak, II certainly seems i'm probable that he would resort to sc costly an implement of domestic diseinl1ne.