The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-18
STOCK BROKERS
ARE RESENTFU[
--
Farmers of South and West
Buy Too Many Autos
SHOULD BUY SECURITIES
Mules Are Fond of Bath As Is shown
By an Experiment With Mine
Animals At Pennsylvania
D Colliery
SHOULD BUY SECURITIES
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER


New York, September 17.-(Special.)-
The fearful and wicked extravagance of
the farmers of the west and south in
spending their money for automobiles Is
sui causing cold shivers to run UP and
down the spines of the New York finan-
Icial world which cannot reconcile itself
to having so much money go into joy
rides when there is such choice collec-
ton undigested, not to say indigestible
securities around here which the kind
hearted owners would let these wickedly
extravagant farmers have and buy some
more automobiles for themselves.
What right has anybody but a finan-
cier with an automobile, anyway.
AS matter of fact New York has in
commission about as many autos as the
southern and Mississippi states
combined, with California out.
The following table, compiled by the
Auto Directories company of New York,
shows the automobiles registered in the
United States up to June /, 1910, indicat-
ing the number Of live" cars actually in
service. The average value IL estimated
at $780,
Maine $500, New Hampshire $500, Yer
mont 1850. Massachusetts, 25,0Oo Rhode
Island 500, Connecticut $500, New York
6o.oOo. New Jersey 10000. Pennsylvania
$4,000, Delaware 1900, Maryland 10, $50, vir-
ginia 400, North Carolina 1900. South Car
DINA 800. Georgia 700, Florida 1000, Ala
bama 500. Tennessee $500, Kentucky 600,
Ohio 25,5oO, Indiana 1850. Michigan 1900,
Illinois 1900, Minnesota 5000, Iowa 5000,
Missouri 10000, Texas 1000, Kansas 200,
Nebraska 10000, North Dakota 200, South
Dakota $3.50. Colorado 1000, Utah 700, Cali
fornia 5000, Oregon 5000. Washington
$780,
Really this talk of the farmers and au-
tomobiles is calculated to give one
pain.
| I must confess for fondness for the
mule. Obstinate and mean as he is at
times, he has elements about him that
appeal to me and I am glad to listen to
Charles ]. Allen of Pittsburg say a good
word for him.
Here is what Mr.. Allen says:
There is saying as stupid as a mule,
and one as lazy as a mule. Both of
/
facts. mule is not stupid. 1t is much
more intelligent than horse. 1t is not
lazy, either. 1 honestly believe that a
mule likes to do good days work
IF anyone ever springs a new proverb
on me. something like as dirty as a
mule I'll have the, good on him. My
personal observation convinces me that
the mule is as clean as the most fastid-
ious human being. And I'll tell you why
/ think SO.
Some time ago the proprietors of COL
liery at Plains, Pa, built big bath tub
| for the mules in the companys mines.
The owners, after consulting with vet
erinariaps, were convinced that a daily
bath would prolong the life and the vigor
of the mules which used In the
mines. They built big bath about 40
feet long, and something like four feet
| deep, near the entrance to the stables.
The mules are pretty tired, as you can
imagine, at the end of a days work. But
you should see them race from the mine
entrance to the bath tub. You would
think they had been out of pasture for
six months, from the speed they show
as they gallop down to the stable en-
trance. They clamor over each other in
their efforts to get into the water.
"I'll venture to say that horse would
make break for the stable and the stall
TO get the second meal of the day, If
worked as hard as one of those mules
and would pass by the bath. But not
so with those mules. Hungary as they
must be, they rush into the bath. Some
OF those animals are so reluctant to
leave the water that the stablemen have
to drive them out. One old mule that has
drawn a car for years, absolutely de-
clines to leave the pool inside Of ten
minutes
Directly over the bath runs per-
forated pipe. When the stablemen
think the mules have been in the water
long enough the water is run through
the pipe and the four-footed bathers get
q fine shower bath. One of the foremen
recently told me that some of the AMI
mails will actually point to the shower
pipe with their noses in order to call
the attention of the stablemen to their
desire for shower bath.
Contrary to popular opinion, logs that
have been under water for long time
are quite valuable, in some cases more
SO than when they first were cut" re-
marked ]. D. Millar, who lives near At
lanta, Ga THE recovery of sunken logs
from old lumber mill ponds that have
been abandoned is really profitable In
dustry, and Is carried on in many parts
of the country.
I'm some of the timber sections Of the
south this work is done on big scale
white pine, for instance, when water
soaked Is more valuable than the same
logs when first felled. Logs that have
been under water for 20 or 80 years are
good material for lumber. The water
acts as a preservative to the wood and
increases its value.
"Some time last year a big mill pond
at Grandin, a little town down In Car
ter county, in the southern part of Mis-
sori, was drained in order that the COM
pany might get the submerged logs. More
than 100000 feet were recovered. Some
of these logs had been at the bottom Of
that pond for the last 30 years. These
logs were turned into lumber Of the first
. grade and the operators made a fine
place. 1t was we'll worth the expense Of
draining the pond"
Texas is on steady boom and things
, looked better during the past year than
I ever seen them" remarked A. L. Will
son of the Texas Christian Advocate of
Dallas.
I'VE all took on Dallas as the New
3 York of the southwest and the rapid
= growth materially as we'll as in popula-
ton, within the past few years shows
r that it has far outstripped every other
g city in the state.
Despite the recent drought and hot
: spell which have enveloped Dallas recent
I ly," Mr.. Wilson said, crops are in a
most flourishing condition, and real estate
in and about Dallas is yearly doubling
In value Within short time the finest
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