The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
MAN GAN BE MEAN
 IN HOT WEATHER By Writing to Friends from
 Summer Resorts NEW YORK SUBWAYS
By Time System Is Finished h. creased Population Will Make the Problem Still Very
 Serious One
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER

BY ROBERT LEE CARTER
 New York, August 12-(Special) )-There are some mean people in this country. Not the least mean is the man from home when he reads of the thermometer away LID in the 90 in New York and the long list of prostrations by heat in the big city, will deliberately sit down and write long letter to a sweltering wretch in New York, telling how cool and pleasant it is back wonder, how well the fish are biting in the old creek and what a fine time everybody is having.
 When New York is hot. 1t sure is hot. There's no mistake about it, but there really is no excuse for the man back home rubbing 1t in on the fellow who has to stay in the city and take it. Yes I have received such letters, that's the reason can write about it with such feel ing
 I get some consolation that sooner or later all these "sympathetic' letter writ CTS will come to New York; sooner or later they all do. Then will come the time of revenge.
 At least it looks as though we were to have more subways. It certainly is time. About the hardest part of the days work in New York under existing conditions is getting to work and getting home. With the s2O0,00o 900 transit system work which isi now under way it may be possible 'n time for man or woman to cover the dis tance between office and home with some degree of comfort It is not improbable though that this dream will not be real ized. At the rate of growth of New York city it will probably have three quarters of a million more people Jy the time the system is finished and .he crowd will be as great as ever
 F. B. Silverwood, who owns g chain of stores--iH Ga alHorHia and makes his home ins Los Angeles when ,he is not trav- cling about, has. reached the city from little fishing up n-the St Lawrence with Harold MacGrath, the writer, who has place at Cape Vincent
 You have to have a license to fish on the Canadian side" said Mir Silver wood sand you are allowed only eight bass per rod. We had no difficulty land ing our quota in the mornings, and then We row up to the American Slue ana eaten as many as we pleased.
 Business has been good out III Los Angeles I came east on train called the Boosters, with a lot, of other Shriners, and at Rochester we captured the annual meeting for the imperial council for next year for Los Angeles. We brought along enough drinkables and eatables for 15,0o0 people You see we have the reputation for being professional entertainers. out in Los Angeles.
 T made trip around the world last year and people who had been over the course asked me how in the world 1 had managed to enjoy some of the places l got stuck in. I told them it was because l always carried my good time around with me. I had a birthday on every ship ship travelled by. I don't believe in ac- cumulating money. l tell my wife we shall have to be burned up some day and there is no use saving money to be ere mated with us.l I run my business on cooperative plan, and twice a year divide my profits mith my employees rom the errand boy up. I believe in taking vaca- tions
 For the last nine years we have been building up Los Angeles from 610 to sOO houses a month. I figure that about 30 families a day come to Los Angeles to To- cate"
 Nearly every farmer in the south, espe- cially those of Mississippi has a good sized bank account" remarked w. w Denton, cashier of the Shelby National bank of Shelby, Miss. 'T have seen their accounts grow from debit to credit, and most of them have accomplished this in the last three years The prosperity of the southern farmer is due largely to good crops, brought on by improved meth ods of cultivation. Tn my part or Misss- sippi, the delta country cotton is the principal product grown. In some sections the boil weevil has injured the plants, but there are very good prospects for more than a fair stand this year. In the Ala bama hills it looks as if the cotton raiser will have the best crop they have ever had, while Texas will probably have the largest in it's history.
 ''The planting of cotton and the substi- tuition of this staple for other crops has been largely responsible for the changed condition of the farmer Three years ago few of them had any money in banks, and most of them were burdened with mort gages, Tn some cases the farmers have .ot lifted these mortgages for the reason that they are continually buying new land and making improvements On their farms, but there are few who could not Eft the mortgag ges If they wanted 1o.'
 Edward Twohy, who registeis from shadwell, Va. a village near Charlottes- vile last year went into the old. dominion from Minnesota to teach the Virginians how the western people farm. MT Twohv bought the old Eagle Hill estate of 1000 acres, which was the home of the late Governor Randolph of Virginia, who mar ried Thomas Jefferson's daughter Martha.
 n ba c,,r tenn of farming in Virginia said MT. Twohy, but it is said by my neighbors that I have the finest stand of corn on my place that has been raised in many years I am inclined to believe that the Virginia farmers are not thorough m their methods; they are disposed to be slipshod Out in Minnesota and Wisconsin I learned