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The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
NEGRO VOTERS DOUBLE,

Kansas City, Oct. 2S.-Negro registra-
ton in Kansas City this year has in
creased approximately 100 per cent over
that Of last year, according to a county
oliciaL More than 5000 negroes are
resistered, 1900 more than were on the
books last year.
The county tax assessor said he had
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
Deny Albanian Revolt

Viena, Oct. 8.-The report printed in
Paris that a revolt has taken place
against Austro-Hungarian soldiers in
Montenegro and Albania was officially
denied today.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Woodbridge Clapp, Of the United States
Senate repertorial force, leaves Washing
ton next week to superintend the produc-
ton of several Of his one-act plays.
Oco Thompson has accepted a position
with the Department Of Agriculture in
this city.
John Batson has received a regular ap-
| pointment as clerk in the city postoffice
Sylvester smallwood has resigned his
position as substitute clerk in the city
| postoffice.
George E. Palmer, of Maryland, was
visitor in Washington yesterday.
Prof. DeWit. c. Croissant, of the Eng
lish departn1 t, George Washington Uni
yersity, spei yesterday at Princeton
University.
! Mrs. S. D. Luckett has returned to
| Washington after spending three years in
lished a school for children Of mission
aries.
Charles Mason Ramsey will start to-
morrow on a lecture tour extending
probably to Alaska.
Mrs. Louise Harding Earl has returned
from Ocean Grove, N. J.
Mr.. Joseph Elias, Consul from the
Netherlands to Philadelphia, accompanied
by Mrs. Elias and Miss Elias, who motor
ed to Washington yesterday, are spend
ing the weekend at the Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Drexel Paul, of
Radnor, Pa, are at the Willard for a
stay of several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Beinicke are
stopping at the Willard, en- route from
Hot Springs, Va. to their home at New
York
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Boocock, of Kes-
wick, Va, are spending the weekend at
the Willard.
Miss Randolph Livingston, daughter of
Mrs. L. DeLAsle, of 4s Chestnut street,
Takoma Park, recently entertained a
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
Purely Personal

Woodbridge Clapp. of the United States
Senate repertorial force leaves Washing
ton next week to superintend the produc-
ton Of several of his one-act plays.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

found 800 negroes registered who were
not listed on the tax books. He said the
investigation would be continued.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
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The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
Cured His RUPTURE

I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an operation,
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The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Oco Thompson has accepted position
with the Department Of Agriculture in
this city.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

John Batson has received a regular ap-
ointment as clerk in the city postoffice.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Harry S. Gum, Of the Government
Printing office, is enjoying a three-week
vacation.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Food Spectators Arrested.
Odessa, Russia, Oct. 8-The police
have arrested 600. persons for speculating
in food prices.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Miss Clarissa B. Reagan will visit St
Louis on her annual vacation.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Franklin Ellis has gone to New Yorl
for the winter.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Sylvester Smallwood has resigned his
position as substitute clerk in the city
postofflce.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
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George E. Palmer, of Maryland, wa
a visitor in Washington yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

George w. Darling. of Birmingham.
Ala, is visiting friends in Nineteenth
street
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Whithead Kluttz, secretary Of the In,
ternational Joint Commission, has gone
to his home in Salisbury, n. C.. to cam.
paign for the Democratic national ticket
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

number OF her young friends who were
interested in the playground movement
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Miss Grace Townsend, Of Fairmont
street. will leave tomorrow for an extend
ed tour through the Middle West She
will visit in Chicago, indianapolis, st.
Paul, Cincinnati. and Pittsburgh
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29
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The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Irving c. Anderson, of Dorcheste,
Mass, has been appointed clerk in tn
dairy division of the Bureau Of Anins
Industry.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Prof. DeWit. c. Croissant, of the Eng
lish departn1 t, George Washington Uni
versity, spei yesterday at Princeton
University.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Allan G. Nichols, who has been on a
tour in Virginia and West Virginia, has
returned to Washington and is visiting
his mother, Mrs. Frances s. Nichols, at
the Windsor Apartment
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

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and is It possible for human beings now
walking the earth to learn his method
so as to be able to produce cures in the
The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Boocock, of Kes-
wick, Va, are spending the weekend at
the Willard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
The Rev. Dr. T. J. Beard

A familiar figure and beloved and saintly man passed from among us yesterday when the Rev. Dr. T. J. Beard answered the eternal summons. Of the many loyal and earnest minis ters of the Protestant Episcopal church none was more loyal or de- voted than he.
 Dr. Beard was aged eighty-one years, but until recently was strong enough to journey to mission parishes and conduct the usual services of his church. A native of Alabama he loved the state, and resident of Bir- mingham from the early years of it's founding he felt civic pride in the community and was esteemed one of the city's most unselfish and public spirited clergymen.
 No Episcopal minister was more widely known in this diocese than he and none, perhaps, was ever more venerated. Firm in his convictions and positive in controversial discourse he was the personification of courtesy and exemplified in a rare degree Christian forbearance and all the gen. tie virtues.
 Any one who ever saw Dr. Beard minister at the altar could but feel an inspiration in his very appearance. The dignity of his bearing, his rever- ential manner and his unaffected sincerity seemed part of his nature. He loved his fellow man and his fine human qualities drew to him friends in every walk of life; but he always appeared happiest when doing his Masters work.
 Peace to his ashes!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
Readiness Among Militia

The ready and patriotic response of the organized militia in all the states to the Presidents call to the service of the United States for duty on the | Mexican border is as gratifying as 1t should be expected. Although the liberalization of the National Guard, provided for in the army reorganiza- ton act, does not begin until July, the guardsmen have been anticipating the preparedness features of the measure, and when the call came from Wash ington Sunday night arrangements for mobilization began at once In 1898 when the President called for volunteers for the Spanish-Ameri- can war the response was character istically patriotic, but so little atten- tion had been given to preparedness that it required much time to mobilize and the war was over before the United States had a large body of troops properly equipped and disci- plined.
 The training camps were insanitary and a large number of volunteers died from fever whose lives would have been saved had the medical corps at tained the high efficiency which dis tinguishes it today.
 For several years past the National Guard has been brought into closer and closer relation with the war de- partment. The guardsmen are now drilled like regulars and it is not easy to know the difference between con- pany of militia and one of the United States army.
 The Alabama militia units are in cxCSll6IlL COIulClOIl duu every SudIuo- man is eager for the fray. Never were volunteers more filled with the spirit of patriotism than those now mobil- izing in this state.
 With old-time unpreparedness it would be three weeks before the Ma tional Guard could be expected to mobilize on the frontier; but there is no reason why the guard-100,000 or more-should not be able, under the present call, to reach the border in- side of a week.
 President Wilson's note to Carranza will probably precipitate a crisis. Intervention in Mexico must come sooner or later. Why not now?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
Howard summer school

with the success of this session. said Jasper c. Hutto, registrar at Howard college, the Howard college summer school becomes a fixed feature of the college. Last year we tried the summer school merely as an experiment, but finding that it was self sustaining the first time we had ever tried it, we de- cided to try again this summer. The suc- cess which it has met with this year insures it as a regular feature. We are planning for at least 300 students next summer and feel pretty sure we will get them
 Located in Birmingham, as Howard is, where there are hundreds of school teachers going out to the smaller towns and rural districts to teach the field for a summer course in normal training is great Howard now has that complete normal course that advances teachers certificates, and gives regular college credits on other work. We now have 120 students taking the summer course, and the majority of them are school teachers studying to have their certificates ad- vanced The class should grow from year to year.
 'As for the regular session which be- gins September s, l think we will have at least 25o students to enroll While the aboishing of the high school vii, slightly decrease our number. we are ex- pecting the largest freshman class in the history of the institution. I have my hands full with the correspondence from these prospectives now, and we have a number of the best high school athletes lined up"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
Little Girl Lands Fine Trout

Little Marie Hickman. 12-year-old daughter of Ped Hickman. is imnensely rleased-and she has every cause to he-because she has just caught a 2H pound trout at Taylors Ferry on the Warrior river" said J R. stan ley. "The catch was made at Camp Hickman and she also landed nice string of bream. While Miss Hickmans catch was made near the ferry the best fishing Is said to be further down tho river, where fresh streams flow in.
 Fishing boats can be had at the ferry to carry parties to the bes. fish irg grounds. Camp Hickman is owned ty M. F. Hickman of the Mergenthaler Linotype company, an old Birmingham boy and his camp is said to be Cne of the most unique of it's k'nd on the Warrior river"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
GAVE sao0 IN TIPS

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 Marchioness N. Mayeda, Japans richest woman, who has been at a San Francisco hotel. en route to France to join her husband, a colonel in the French army, does not do things by halves.
 She departed from the hotel. leaving in her wake more than $500 in tips for ho- tel attaches. Just before leaving the pretty Japanese woman called on the manager and asked him to distribute the sum.
 As business woman the marchioness demonstrated her ability. She demanded hat the money be distributed prora ta, according to the services rendered her party by various attaches.
 The marchioness left in the rrvate car Olympia, chartered at a cost of $30oo to carry her to New York. She was ac- companied by a large retinue of servants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
THE HOBO VOTE

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Everybody else in the country being on hand to inject his pet views into the democratic party platform, it is not sur prising that the American Organization of Hoboes was represented by delega- ton seeking redress for the wrongs of the unemployed. Unfortunately the vera- cious chronicler of convention events neglects to tell what disposition was made of the demands of the anti-toilers, but it is enlightening at least to find that they desired platform blanks declaring for the right to work; for free transpor- tation to and from jobs; for the abolition of private employment agencies and for the ballot for all migratory and unein- ployed wherever they may be-" The first demand must not be accepted seriously. It is merely sop like the one-term declaration of the 1912 democratic conven- ton. The free transportation demand has sincere ring but unfortunately falls short of the real needs. Of what use is free transportation if it is permissible only between jobs? Where is the joy of being a vargrant if one embarks on a journey with his destination fixed and with narrowing thoughts of hard work ahead? Make it read free and unlimited transportation" without any chilling sug- gestion of jobs, and the hobo vote will be assured. And if the final demand is heard and the ballot is given the unem- ployed wherever they may be that vote will not be inconsiderate.
 Taking this into consideration one must conclude that 1t would be just as well to receive the hobo delegation courteously and not call out the police or set the dogs upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
A DERELICT REPORTER

From the Rochester Herald
 It is with a painful loss of pride that we submit to the necessity of acknowl- edging to our readers remissEess on the part of the most recent addition to the Herald's widely distributed staff of news gatherers.
 MT. George w. Perkins. engaged to report for the Herald the proceedings of the progressive national convention. began work on Sunday and continued faithfully on the job until Wednesday night Then, for some reason to this hour unrevealed to the anxious news editor, MT. Perkins omitted to file his copy Wednesday, in the record fur nished by this diverting historian, is a dies non.
 Happily, from other sources, the Herald was able to gather the descrip- tion of the progressive powwowing on Wednesday, and. unaided by MT. Per- kins, is able to offer a satisfying apol- ogy for his dereliction. In the business of staging the 93-minute tumult and shouting for Roosevelt. MT. Perkins was occupied, consumed and exhausted. Having thus made history that will survive the ear-drums that vibrated with it's agony, the author and almoner of the progressive convention had neither time nor strength for the fur ther business of writing it. It was as much as he could do to telephone it to Oyster Bay, which. after all, was the main thing.
 Plainly it was too much to expect of a rte that @ ShnlI11 he hnth actor and historian. Only one vaude- william that we know of is capable os being his own press agent, and though MT. Perkins admires him to the verge of idolatry it is idle for him to emulate him. It can't be done
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
No Fish Stories

T feel like q new man after spend ing the past 10 days in Florida. on a fishing trip" said R. A. Brown yes terday. T enjoyed some splendid catches, but on account of the in- credulity of people regarding fish stories I will not give any of the de- tails.
 "The brief rest I had has put me in fine shape for work again and I am now ready to get busy on the Alabama State Fair. We have already made our pr eliminary plans and things are nov ing in fine shape. We are confident that our live stock show will be much better than the one we had last year. which was the best we had ever had. The best feature of this is the fact that we will have some of the finest cattle in the country which will be Alabama raised. The races, agricu1- tural, woman's department and other branches of the fair are giving lron- ise of being better than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
A NEW SPORT

From the New York Globe.
 The game wardens of the state of Wis consin, in the case of Hiram Beveridge have drawn a distinction between catch ing a fish and killing a fish, which may be presumed to protect successors of Hi ram perched on the same predicament. In that part of the Fox river which traverses the city of Appleton, Wis., Hiram Rev. eridge deserted in shallow pool below the John street dam a six foot sturgeon disporting itself. Responding to an an- cient instinct, Beveridge tried to seize the fish by the tail. The willy sturgeon whisked it's tail another way. Rolled but not defeated Hiram leaped and landed on the fish's back
 AS Nimrod, rather than as Izaak Wall ton, he then prosecuted the combat Though the fish cavorted like a bucking broncho. Hiram clung to his mount, and, plucking a stone in the shoal water, suc- ceeded in beating the sturgeon on its head until the six-foot fish ceased from buck ing and sent it's spirit home unto the god of fishes, wherever and whatever that deity may be. The state game wardens, when called in, decided that Hiram had not been guilty of the unreasonable catch ing of fish.
 There is something decidedly amusing in the thought of a man riding the big fish he would capture. There is some thing less amusing in the thought of his wantonly pounding the fish to death with stone. Hiram Beveridge on the bank had no quarrel with the sturgeon in the pool. In plain English he was seized with a desire to grasp living, mobile thing and kill it, and he obeyed.
 He had not the excuse of the fisher man who angles to supply the tables of men, He had not the romantic palliation of the hunter of big game, who risks his own life in taking those of beasts and can also salve his conscience with the thought of the museums he will stock and the human young his trophies will in- struct.
 Without attempting to penetrate fur ther the moral channels of tortuous sub- ject, which permits a mighty African slayer of the rhinoceros and the gazelle to cry out in horror at the buliring. one may admit that the sturgeon hunt Of Hiram Beveridge present elements of a brand-new sport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
Interesting Situation

The call for the Alabama National Guard has created 8 very interesting situation in some parts of the state. due to the fact that many public off c1als are members of the guard" said Curtis Judge of Greenville. who is in Birmingham visiting his brother. Sen ator Thomas J. Judge "The brigadier general of the National Guard, Gen Charles R. Bricken. Is the solicitor of our judicial circuit. It is highly prob able that he will be in the service for SC metime. and 1t is expected that Gov ernor Henderson will have to appoint man to take his place during his ab- scnce. Added interest attaches 10 the case of General Bricken from the fact that he is also the democratic non- 1uee for the court of appeals. Since he would have to resign as solicitor within a few months anyway to go on the appellate bench, he may tender his resignation as solicitor at once if the Alabama troops are ordered to the border.
 Should that contingency occur the people of Butler county believe the place would go to Senator C. F, Wink Ter. who was one of the administta- ton leaders in the senate. MT. Winkler is well known all over south Alabama as an attorney and his prominence in politics and his aid to the present ad- ninistration would probably secure the place for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
The Marketing Problem

In few of the cotton states, nota- ply Alabama, substantial progress is being made in crop diversification, including the raising of live stock, but in a majority of them little head way is said to have been made.
 In the south Atlantic states farm CTS complain that there are no near by markets for corn or for hogs or cattle, and give that as the reason why animal husbandry receives but little attention.
 In Alabama the question of market ing farm products, other than cotton, used to be discussed, but without any practical solution of the problem. With the diversification movement, however, pushed with enthusiasm last year and still kept up, backed by the bankers, and encouraged by the United States government and the state demonstration agents, valuable results are in evidence, and results will be larger and more general with each succeeding year. Certain it is there will be no waning of interest in the campaign so long as Mrs. G. Il. Mathis of Gadsden, the south's most successful and enthusiastic woman farmer, continues her practical and convincing talks to county and dis trict groups.
 While Alabama began to make an appreciable showing in increased corn production only two years ago, the cotton industry has been expanding steadily during the past five years. The live stock exhibits at Birming- hams State Fair have been impor- tant object lessons in the develop ment of cattle raising in Alabama. Five years ago the exhibit was credit able, but small compared with the cattle show here last fall.
 Those farmers who have pioneered in cattle raising have passed the ex- perimental stage and find their new venture highly profitable. Now every progressive farmer in the alfalfa belt is raising cattle for the market
 Within the past two years there has been a large increase fin hogs and every farmer realizes the fact that an easy way for him to make corn worth double is to fatten porkers and con- vert his swine into meat.
 There is usually less profit in ship ping hogs than in shipping cattle to a distant market, and for that reason a nearby packing house is the eco- homie solution. Just as soon as farm CTS make it known that they intend to engage extensively in hog raising
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20

is up to the people to show what stuff they are made of. Never before has civic patriotism been more urgently needed than now.
 Birmingham must not be permitted to go on the financial rocks and lose a prestige it has enjoyed for many years. Neither must the police and fire departments and the schools be further handicapped. They have al- ready suffered enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
THE JESTER

Dana Burnet, Poems" (Harpers). Masters, I cannot make ye jest today; My laughter's left me like an outworn
 coat.
 casques- I cannot get the gay song from my
 throat. Tears, tears! I feel them burn my
 blinded eyes, l cannot see my Masters for my tears. What are these dead to me? l know
 them not. Yet see lay my poor jest at their
 piers. Tis all I have-a testers faded mock Yet if l weep for them 'ts not in vain. Slept they not there, the Fool and all his
 world. Might not tomorrow make their jest
 againl