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The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-18
GOVERNMENT BY ARM OF
THE PEOPLE.

Prof. John II. commons OF Wis
consin University, like Cover
nor Hoges of Kansas, would ap-
ply to state government of the
Twentieth Century the great
principle declared by Thomas JEFF
ferson: THE government that
would WELD the arm of the people
must be the strongest govern
ment possible. {"
In his commencement address
at the Kansas State Agricultural
College, Professor Commons in
dOrsed in the strongest terms the
proposition Governor Hoges made
to the Kansas Legislature, that
Kansas should institute a state
commission plan of government.
This Wisconsin practical expert
in governmental affairs would
preserve democracy by making it
efficient and responsible. State
governments now are neither ef-
ficient nor responsible. Profess
or Commons would have the state
government centered in one
house" each member of which
be the administrative head of one
general department of the state.
He would have these commission
erS elected, to make them dem
ocratic. They would be directly
responsible to the people for the
work bone by the experts they
employed. They would be sub
ject to the recall and the people
would have the right of direct leg
islation by the initiative and the
referendum.
Of course this true popular
government well be bitterly op-
posed by the politicians and by
the special interests. 1t will be
denounced or sneered at as "un-
democratic" by the very men
who have made present form of
government strong only in de-
feating popular rule and in serv-
ing privilege and graft.
But just as certainly as COM
mission government for states
we'll be fought by the enemies of
the people, it we'll be supported
by the people. Commission gov
eminent for cities has exempli-
fled that very experience.
Whether the details of state
government by commission will be
worked out as the pioneers in the
movement outline cannot be fore
told. But it is as certain as any
thing in the future can be certain
that plan of state commission
rule will soon supplant the old fu-
tile forms that now aff1ict the
American commonwealth.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-18
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
Fifth Trial of POpe

The stage has been set in Admission
for the fifth trial of Erwin Pope, a
negro, on the charge of murder. The
other four hearings resulted in con-
victions by the juries and the imposi-
tions of death sentences. The case
has been before the Alabama supreme
court six times, as that body twice
reversed itself.
The Age-Herald's Admission CORE
spondent remarks, somewhat face
tiously, it is to be feared, that Pope
shows no trepidation over the arraign-
ment next Monday. If he hasn't got
ten use to it by this time, he is hope
lessly incapable of education.
The scaffold erected for Pope's ex-
ecution long ago rotted down, and the
correspondent adds that ''there are
some who predict that Alabama will
have adopted the electric chair before
the end of the Pope case is reached"
This may be so. The onrush of years
must tell. 1t is, almost too much to
hope, however, that by that time
Alabama will also have plugged up
some of the knotholes in its laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
Wilson'S First Veto

For the first time since he has oc-
cupied the chair as President of the
United States, Woodrow Wilson has
seen fit to exercise his prerogative of
veto. He disapproved joint resolu-
tion to reinstate Rudolph Unger Of
Mansfield, o., as "a cadet at the West
Point military academy. Unger had
failed in his examinations and asked
relief at the hands of Congress.
In his message of veto, the Presi-
dent expressed the greatest admira-
ton for young men like Unger who
sought so strenuously to maintain
their footing in the military academy.
but said he considered it subversive of
discipline to have the Judgment of
those in charge of the school for Of
ficers set aside by Congress.
In a matter of this kind, President
Wilson well may speak as one having
authority. He served for years as the
executive head of one of America s
greatest colleges, and made an excel
lent record. 1t is probable that in the
past many young men, by political
pull, have been enabled to complete
their courses at West Point after fail
ing to comply with all the rigid re-
quirements. But, on the whole, it
cannot be said that much harm has
been done. There is no finer band of
men in the world than those who
command in the United States army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
Underwood Day

1t was magnificent ovation that
Oscar w. Underwood received in Bir-
mingham yesterday. Not only did the
people of this city turn out by thou
sands and tens of thousands to greet
Alabama's illustrious statesman, but
there was fine representation from
the state at large.
Birmingham has witnessed many
large parades, but none has equaled in
size, perhaps, and certainly none has
come quite up in dignity to the great
procession which escorted Mr.. Under
wood from the Terminal station
through the streets on the occasion
of his homecoming.
1t was patriotic and spontaneous
demonstration. All along the line of
march eager interest and genuine en-
thusiasm were in evidence. The people
of this town, and of this district, and
of this state, not only have reason to
be proud of Mr.. Underwood as the
eminently successful democratic lead
er in Congress, but the great majority
throughout Alabama are his loyal par
tisans.
Mr.. Underwood has always been
noted for his modesty. 1t is safe to
say that no great man of national
fame and popularity was ever more
unspoiled than Underwood. He is
large hearted and appreciative of all
the high regard his party has for
him; and with public acclaim in
his honor, his great grace of manner
shines through it all.
Underwood Day was a great day in
deed, and will long stand out in the
annals of this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25

"XER been to Paris2 If YOU have.
Warren Barton Blake's paper on
- Eating in Paris" in the Novem-
ber Lippincotts. will surely put you IN
In a reminiscent mood. II you haven't,
and expect to go some day-everybodY
does expect to-you will find therein many
facts worth remembering for future suid-
ance. The first thing to do, he tells u.s.,
is to dine on one of the boulevards
Now, it makes. after all. but little dll-
ference whether YOU choose for your dim
ing a restaurant on@a right bank oouie-
ward, or left, he says, and 1T doesn
even have to be a boulevard, unless you
are a parvenu. Voisins will do most
handsomely, in the rue Saint-Honore, or
Foyots opposite the Senate But am
inclined to think that, if it's spring or
summer and the weather is propitlous, 1t
ID better to dine at neither of these
places; better. in fine. to dine al freseo.
With the lights playing on the board,
teeming pavements, and the cabs driving
by, with much innocuous cracking OF
whips and taxis honlsng a cordial well
come, and everywhere the shifting, un-
hurried figures of the Paris crowd-pastry
cooks boys, agents, late shoppers prom
enaders-how glad you are to have the
pa geant pass once more before youl
ITO some Americans dining in Paris
suggests a reserved table at Maxim's or
some other Palace of Spenders with too
much champagne in the buckets, and am
orous music. and bad cigars at francs
each. To the real Pariss lover, the con
notation is altogether different. For him,
above ALL n meal at the Tour d dArgent
is a treat to be remembered, with Fred
eric OHenrik Ibsen's double) preparing the
duck a la presse as no one else knows
how, and serving it as you imagine Louis
XIV would have done, had he been a
maitre. d'hotel. One treasures even the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
INFORMAL AUDIENCE

Writing in Harper's Magazine for NO
vember. Madame De Hegermann-Linden-
crone gives an amusing account of the
informal way in which her husband, the
Danish minister, was received by Presi-
dent Grant at the White House.
Il have had my audience CJohan calls
it an audience call it call ON Mrs
President Grant at the White HouseD.
There was nothing formal or formidable
about it. Mrs. Grant and I sat on the
sofa together and talked generalities.
Johan could not tell me what to expect
He said his audience with the President
had been a surprise, unprecedented by
anything he had ever seen. As it was his
first post as minister, he had pictured
to himself that it would be somewhat
like the ceremonies abEoad-very solemn
and impressive. OF course, he was in
his red gala uniform, with all his deco
rations. A hired landau brought him to
the steps of the White House, which he
mounted with conscious dignity. His writ
ten speech, nicely folded, he carried in
his shand. In Europe there would have
been crowd of gorgeous chamberlains to
receive him, but here he found a negro,
who. on seeing him, hurriedly donned a
coat, and, with an encouraging wave of
the hand, said: Come right along in, sir
I'll let them know you're here sir Johan
was shown into a room and waited with
patience until the President and Mr.. Ham
ilton Fish came in Mr.. Grant was dressed
In O gray walking suit and wore a col
ored tie, and Mr.. Hamilton Fish, Secre-
tary of State, had evidently just come
in from walk, as his turned up trousers
sgnified.
".Iohan read his speech, and the Presi-
dent answered by reading, with some DIFF
ficulty, a paper which Mr.. Fish handed to
him at the last moment. After this ex-
change of formalities Johan shook hands
with the President, and without further
ceremony he left the room, the door this
time being opened by white servant in
black clothes. Mr.. Fish at parting cas-
ually observed that the weather was fine.' -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
Auditorium Election Monday

In the tentative vote on the audi
torium bond issue proposition at the
city election last month the majority
for the auditorium was overwhelming
nearly two and a half to one.
A bond election has been formally
called by the city commission for next
Monday, and the only possibility OF
the proposition being defeated then
would be due to apathy. The Age
Herald urges all who voted favorably
in September go to the polls Mon
day and cast a ballot for ratification
of the tentative action of majority
of the voters.
Birmingham needs nothing at this
time quite so much as a great modern
auditorium.
1t is proposed to issue 100000 Of
s per cent bonds, and while the city
is forced to practice rigid economy just
now, its financial condition will be
materially improved as soon as the
legislature meets and before the first
interest on the bonds would be due.
Most of those who voted against the
auditorium few weeks ago-there
were about 2000 negative votes-may
do so again. 1t is important, there
fore, that large number of those
who voted Eyes" do not forget to
cast ballot Monday. The safest
way is for all the citizens who voted
sffirmatively before repeat that good
deed next week. sa5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
PREDICTS UNDERWOOD MAJORITY

F1om the Montgomery Advertiser.
Hugh Roberts, political writer on The
Birmingham Age-Herald, says that the
majority of oscar Underwood in the SEN
atorial primary will be something enor-
nous. Mr. Roberts was in Montgomery
Tuesday on a brief visit; he left in the
afternoon for Tuscaloosa.
Mr.. Roberts has been doing political
writing for the past 10 years in Birming-
ham and is about as good as the best
in dropping the plumb line into pubic
sentiment.
ITO doubt that Underwood will defeat
Hobson Is to doubt the good sense of the
people of Alabama and l. have never done
that" said Mr.. Roberts. but the senti-
that it can not be mistaken. I have been
in several counties and have talked 70
hnudreds of men who were in the crowds
which came to Birmingham to the State
Fair. l made special inquiries. because
like other friends of Mr.. Underwood,
realized that his only possible danger
was overconfidence. But instead of be-
ing diminished an Underwood mans con-
fidence is increased when he talks to peo-
pie from other counties. l tlooks to be as
though Underwood is going to sweep ev-
cry section of the state. l make this pre-
diction, Underwood win carry Hobson 5
Sixth district, where there is the Ilobson
organization of which you have heard so
much. l say this after | have been in the
Sixth district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25

hesitate in placing large tonages on ee-
count Of the uncertainty caused by the
new tariff, but indications are that unless
foreign iron shoull take a decided drop
In price, chances Of importation in any
large quantity are extremely slight.
THE thing that is most encouraging is
the fact that iron IS being ordered out so
promptly on contracts. Not only are buy
ers taking their iron right on the min
ute it is due, but III many instances they
are requesting Anticipation of shipments
Most of them have very little surplus
stocks on their yards.
There has been quite little buying
of spot iron, both standard grades and
special analysis-which indicates that
consumers are busy and are running
short
Prices remain unchanged and both
northern and southern furnaces are very
firm in their quotations.
In summing up, we may sly that. while
buyers are apparently timid and inquiries
and sales comparatively light, this tim
idity is purely sentimental in view of the
fact that foundrles are busy and are
urging shipment of their pig IRON
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
TOM sAWYER's SWEETHEART

ing Becky went 10 Palmyra TO beg her
husbands release, only to meet a curt
refusal. So great was her own distress
that the crowds about the officers quar-
ters, stern-faced men, women crying,
women praying. disheveled women. with
hair streaming down their shoulders.
made only a blurred picture in her mind.
1T was not until she was back in Han
nibal that Becky learned General Nc
Neil had ordered 10 southern prisoners to
be shot, because of the disappearance OF
a Union man. Five had been selected
from the prison in Palmyra and men
We're there even to take five from the
Hannibal prison.
And her husband was in that prison,
Becky made neartbroken appeals in
every quarter that offered bare posi-
bility of hope The only shadow of COM
fort accorded her was the statement that
a number OF prisoners We're to be trans
ferred to st. Louis. 1t was an exhausted
tragic. heroic little figure that asked for
admission to the prison to see her hus-
band. While waiting she heard the pro-
vost marshal read list of the prisoners
TO be transferred to st. Louis. DIR. Fra
zier's name headed the list! He was not
to die.'
The dainty little dinner given the terri
BILE soldier had borne fruit. In time Dr.
Frazier walked out of the sold Gratiot
Street prison free man and came home
to his devoted wife.
Becky Thatcher" yet lives at Hannibal
a serene, smiling old lady, mtlch
greater character than Mark Twain's book
made her.
The letter written by one of the doomed
men Is pathetic in the extreme. He does
not want to die and says he can hardly
believe the fearful sentence will Ne car
ried out. The letter was written on the
18th, and prostscript added on the 18TH.
the day of the observation-disclosures the
unfortunate man had made up his mind 20
meet his fate calmly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
ignorance is the mother of fool argu-
ments.
Much that passes for enthusiasm is
nothing but gush.
But occasionally it is easier to bear it
than it is to grin.
Education enables a young man to show
how clever he isn't.
1t takes a stage struck girl to wash
dishes with a tragic air.
The world may be growing wiser, but
we still have a lot to learn.
However, the suffragette will never in
sist on the privilege of being bald.
A woman frequently changes her mind
but the quality remains much the same
A man always says things behind his
wife's back when he is hooking up her
dress.
The best many girl' gets out of it who
marries for home is a chance to cook
for boarders.
When woman is in love with man
she'll listen to what he says-just as il
he were saying something.
Home is the place to which some men
go in order to get even when disagree
able things happen downtown.
Every married man believes that the
household expenses could be cut In two II
he only had a chance to turn his busi-
ness acumen loose on the job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
FAREWELL, OLD LAND

BY the Rev. James e. Coyle.
Farewell, Old Land, I'm leaving,
I'm leaving and I'm grieving,
All, sure. twas ever SO.
But, dear Old Land, oh never
From you my heart will sever,
I'll love you, ever, ever,
Where ere DER earth l go.
Dear Land of mine, long, long ago.
1 dreamed one day to strike blow
To aid to set you free,
To aid in ending English thrall.
But, dear Old Land, a higher call
Was sent me by the Lord of all.
Who said, Come, follow Me-
So. dear Old Land. the warrior sword
1 ne'er may grid; heard the word,
That called me and I fly,
/ fly to join the Masters band,
That labors on a foreign strand
But, Erin, my loved native land,
Where'er I be, on land or sea,
While vital breath is breathed by rae
To thee, with love I'll ever yearn,
For thee with love my heart will burn
I'll love thee till die.
On board steamship Adriatic, Sep
tember 81. 1913.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
Atrocities in the Balkans

The Carnegie commission which has
been investigating reports of excesses
committed by troops of the warning
Balkan states during the late con-
flict has about completed its work,
and it finds that the charges of atroci-
ties which have been hurled by one
country against another all have foun-
dation in fact. None of the little ma
tions which took part in the war is
given a clean bill of health.
Greece first accused Bulgaria of
wanton pillage and massacre, and Bull
garia replied by the publication of let
ters alleged to have been written by
Greek soldiers and intercepted by
Ferdinand's troops. These letters told
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
THE DEADLY FRYING PAN

From the November Outing.
The frying pan has driven much prom
Using wood material back to the cities.
There is many a dyspeptic who would be
boasting of his woods cure today had
not deadly piece of sheet iron engen-
dered violent hatred to all out of doors.
To live by the frying pan alone, as so
many cutters do, requires a ''Bosco-eats-
'em-alive' stomach and fanatical en-
thusiasm.
l am not advising that anyone go into
the wilderness without one. But the fry
ing pan habit should be left at home.
This is not woods theory. Sociologists
blame the American pie and the frying
pan habit of untaught houselleepers for
many OF our social ills. With her initial
housekeeping equipment of canned goods
and frying pan, the factory or shop girl
who marries drives her husband to dys-
pepsia and drink, starves the bodies of
her children, and furnishes work for high
cost of living commissions.
The frying pan itself is not to blame. 1t
is what we put in it; it's the grease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
EATING IN PARIS

pasteboard card certificate stating that
this is the sixty-fifth thousandth duck
Frederic has SO served. A dinner at the
Tour de'Argent on the Quai de la Tour
nellie, is rare occurrence for some of u.s.
agance for the first night OF ALL After
the novelty has worn off, one becomes
critical; demands much more than a good
sauce and a genial servitor. But dinner
this evening need not cost one more than
say, francs; for which sum one is ex-
cellently nourished (Two francs is the
proverbial figure; am less conservativeD
ut really does not matter how small
the restaurant is whose terrace we so oc-
cupy. Indeed. if it is a very small one.
the proprietor is likely to remember you
when you return, and the garcon VIII
recollect you tipping him a shade too
generously Gin the enthusiasm of arrivs
ing). and will make a great flourish with
laying a clean tableeloth. There is such
earnestness in his accommodation OF eer-
tain dishes; such honest zeal in his de-
livery OF your little order, and such good
will in his haste to uncork your modest
half bottle OF red winel Every one seems
to know every one else at the little res
taurant; there is laughter; there is n
great racket when patrons hail the waiter
to beseech more bread or another bottle
of sauteme; there comes from within
great but cheerful rattling OF silver, and
one hears ones order echoed and impress
siYely re-eachoed from waiter to kitchen,
and back again.
Roast partridge with eauliffowers1
in the unseen cooks bass rumble.
'Nlte une trip a la mode de Caen
'Entendu. in the bass again.
"Who ordered the chicken? Whose is
this plate of nayets?
tiarcon. IN bocie
"'Voila, monsieur
1T is the merriest of hurly burliesv'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25

From the Macon (AIo.) Chronicle
~ N October Is. 1862 10 men in the
military prison ri, a.a., = lmsr" nsn gaas Tsrs
II. Mcneil.
, 1t is not the intention here to reproduce
the old story, so often printed that every
body knows most of the details. But
there are two features but recently dis
covered in connection with that tragic af-
fair which are not so generally known.
one is that Becky Thatcher the hero
inc of TON Sawyer" and who In real
life is Mrs. Laura Frazier, got her hus-
band out of McNeirs power at time
when it looked like, he, too, might have
been sentenced to death
The other is letter written by one OF
the 10 men the day before the execution,
found not long ago among the effects OF
Mrs Susan West at her death.
In her admirable department, The Part
Women Played, by Mrs. Lily Herald
Frost of vandalia, In Walter Williams
History of Northeast Missouri but re-
Gently published. is this interesting de-
scription of '.Becky Thatcher's' encoun-
ter with Mcneil:
1T was a black time. With her hus-
band in hiding in another town, this
wife and mother, only 23, scarcely more
than a girl, stayed in the home with her
two little boys, her soul torn with the an
guish of uncertainty. General Mcneil was
camped in her yard. 1t rained and he
asked permission to bring his officers in
her house. She gave it. They filled the
house., cooking, eating and sleeping there.
Her kitchen was full of strange negroes
and she cooked for her family as she
could.
with the guileless craft of sweet and
loving women, Becky made a little din
ner and asked General Mcneil to dine
with her, and when he had broken her
bread and was under the influence OF
dainty courtesies and the charm of his
hostess, she pleaded with him to permit
the return of her husband, upon the sol
emn assurance that while his sympathy
was with the south, he was not actively
arraigned against the government. and
that his services as physician were
needed.
1.-THE young wife's prayer was granted
by the stern military chieftain, and her
husband came home, butt only saw his
General Mcneil. breaking camp next
morning, had reconsidered over night, and
had taken Doctor Frazier with him a
prisoner.
''on an October. morning in 1862 the 10y :