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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-28
FARMERS TO CONSIDER
DEEP WELL PROPOSITION

Tucumcari, n. NJ. Dec 2S.-A meet
ing has been called for January 2 at
San Jon for the purpose Of presenting
the deep well proposition before the
farmers of the county. Four hundred
shares of stock will be issued with
which funds viii be raised to purchase
well drilling machinery and the COM
pany will sink their own wells.
1t has been thought for long time
that artesian water could be struck in
this part Of the county, but no concert
ed action has been taken hitherto on
the matter Of sinking a well.
Special rates at DraughOn's Bus.
College Phones 1884, r. F. Davis, mgr.
Full measure at Southwestern Fuel Co.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-28

Full measure at Southwestern Fuel Co.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-28

Mre. Lamar Davis Will give an iRfOr-
nal dance this evening in honor OF
her two sisters, Misses Kate and Glen
Adams
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-28

Parties

The Misses Gertrude and Genevieve
Dow. Pauline Bunson and Minnie Heis-
Ter will entertain their friends at 2
watch party at the home of the Misses
Dow. 271O East Rio Grande street New
Years eve
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Rescue Work In This District

Pending the erection of a permanent
rescue station In this city by the gov
eminent, temporary headquarters have
been established, and the work OF in
structlon will proceed without delay. Men
will be taught by an expert selected by
the government all that science teaches
as to the cause of explosions, and, best
of ALL they will be taught how to rescue
the stricken in the speediest possible man
ner
The coal operators of the district are
cordially cooperating in this work, and
the hope is that every mining camp will
send up men who will be trained in the
use of modern rescue equipment and in
the early relief of all imprisoned miners.
The very best experience Of all coun-
tries will be brought to bear at every
coal mine in this district.
This means a great saving of life in the
future, and it is TO be hoped that every
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Important New Industry

lone of the most beautiful pieces OF
typographical work which has come .un-
der my observation recently is the pros
pectus of the Cotton Seed and Cotton
Improvement association Of Birmingham y
said man who has some authority to
speak in such matters 1.-The book was
printed In this city and reflects much
credit upon, the local printers and en-
gravers. The prospectus is the official
announcement of new industry for Bir-
mingham, the manufacture of a patented
cotton seed cutler which grades the seed
with accuracy. Seed selection Is one 81
the cardinal features Of the propaganda
for improved agricultural methods which
the United States department of agricul-
ture and the agricultural colleges of thu
southern states is spreading by litera-
ture, lecture and demonstration and as
the cotton seed cutler will enable the
farmer to plant better seed, 1t should
have wide sphere of usefulness In the
cotton states. eiet.
1.-The association has an authorized cap
ital of 81, 900, 900 and well-known Birming-
ham men are its officers. Sterling A.
Wood being the attorney. The book Ii
well written and is interesting to all whe
know what an important factor cottor
is in the prosperity OF the SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Postal SAVINGS Banks

The small appropriation for the
starting of one postal savings bank
In each state is simply ridiculous in
view of the fact that postal saving sys-
tens have been in long and successful
use elsewhere. In Canada postal
savings banks were established in 1868.
and there are now 1900 postal banks in
the dominion. Russio opened its first
postal savings bank in 1889, and she
now has about 5000. Sweden adopted
the system in 1884, and she started with
1875 banks and the number has since
been doubled. Austria had 3219 postal
banks in 1888 and she now has 1000.
Holland opened 900 postal banks in
1881 and now she has 1900. Italy be-
gan with 1899 postal banks In 1876 and
now she has nearly 5000. New Zealand
started in 1857 with 46 banks and now
gan in 1852 with 1885, and the num-
Der In the kingdom now exceeds $4,000.
France started out in 1882 with 6o24
banks and she has now 5000.
These figures show that the govern
ment is unduly cautious in this ooun-
try. There Is nothing in the least ten
tative in the system. 1t has been tested
In all parts of the world, and 1t has
never failed to become useful and salts
factory. At least one postal banl
should be opened In every county ant
that, too, without much delay or much
red tape Mr. Hitchcock should have
the courage of his convictions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Gold Production In the Future

Director Roberts reports gold pro-
duction at standstill. The difference
between that of 1909 and that of 1910
Is steady but slow. Director Roberts is
United States and Australia are pro-
ducing less year by year. and the
growth OF production In south Africa
IL stead but slow. Director Roberts is
confident that there is now no fear of
business embarrassment from over
production of the precious metal. He
plainly anticipates standstill aggre-
gates IN the next ten years with posi-
BILE reductions in the totals before that
period is ended. This is good news to
the ultimate consumer aud 1t will prove
healthful In all directions.
The cyanide process and the gold
dredger had pushed production up to
great figures but these have been
worked to the limit and the chances
are largely in favor of a stagnated pro-
duction or possibly one of declining
proportions. The latter would GER
tainly operate to decrease the cost of
: living and the former will almost GER
tain1y stop the booming of food arti-
cles where artificial manipulation is
lacking. The rate of increase has al
70
reasons for believing that this down
ward movement will be changed in the
immediate future.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Indian Corn and pella@Ta

In Illinois about 800 persons have be-
come victims of pellagra, and the disease
had become so well recognized in that
state that pellagra commission was
appointed by the legislature of last year,
and it's first report is ready now for trans
mission to the present Legislature.
This report deals fully and comprehen-
sively with the relation of corn to the
disease. and it will report that corn In
none of ITS conditions be it sound Or
unsound, is the cause of the disease. The
report when published in full will demon
strate the innocence of our great cereal.
It will put an end to all talk of any
relation between them
Illinois has recognized the disease and
she proposes to continue the investiga-
ton until the real cause of the disease
Is discovered. There is an impression
in Illinois that the buffalo gnat or the
Z black fly may be carriers Of the disease
ana this is to be thoroughly investi-
gated. Professor Forbes. state entomolo-
gist of Illinois. is giving this branch OF
the subject careful attention.
=. The disease is very prevalent In Rou-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
REFORM IN SAVANNAH

From the Atlanta Constitution.
IL our own "Jedge Briles" introduced
possibilities for rendering neighborhood
life more interesting by making it legal
for a householder to wiring the neck of a
trespassing chicken, the recorder of Sa-
vannah has gone further.
He ruled the other day that where quar-
rels, of a family or other nature, kept in
habitants of apartment houses awake, the
law had the right to step in, enforce peace
and allow the other tenants to woo sleep.
The precedent is far-reaching.
Henceforth, in Savannah, Mrs. Worry
cannot keep the neighbors in an insom-
MAC state by Fostering Mr.. Worry about
the cat out in the cold, or the stenog-
grapher whom he absent-mindedly eulo-
gizes in his sleep.
Mrs. Dink and Cling can no longer run
the family soiled linen through the
creaky, screechy mangle during the early
morning hours without causing a riot
call.
If one must quarrel from this time for
ward, in the metropolis of Chatham, he
must either lock horns in the day time
or go out to Tybee and tell it to the
ocean.
Maybe there'll be more quiet and sound-
er maps in Savannah.
But think of the monotony Of an exist
ence stricken of midnight rows from one
years end to the other.
We doubt ii even the privilege of living
in Savannah would compensate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
CAPTAIN KIDD NOT so BAD

From "Romances of Buried Treasure in
the February Metropolitan Magazine.
Doomed to an infamy undeserved, his
name Redeemed with crimes he never COM
mitted and made wildly romantic by tales
of treasure which he did not bury, Capt.
William Kidd is fairly entitled to the
sympathy of posterity and the apologies
of all the ballad makers. and alleged his
torians who have obscured the facts in
strangest tricks with the memory of this
seventeenth century seafarer. who never
cut throat nor made victim walk the
plank; who was no more than an amateur
pirate in an era when this interesting
profession was in it's heyday; and who
was hanged at Execution Dock for the
excessively unromantic crime of cracking
the skull of his gunner with a wooden
bucket; because, forsooth, his majesty's
officers were unable to prove their charge
of piracy,
AS for the riches Of Captain Kidd, the
original documents in his case, preserved
among the state papers of the public
record office in London, relate with much
detail what booty he had and what he
did with 1t. Alas! they reveal the fu-
tility of the searches after the stout sea
chest buried above high water wark. The
only authentic Kidd treasure was dug up
and inventoried more than 200 years ago,
nor has the slightest clew to any other
been found since then.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
In a German circus in Holland day after
day the trainer would enter the lion cage,
toss down a piece of raw meat among the
ferocious animals, and then like a flash,
before they could snatch it up, spring
forward and place his foot upon 1t, the
lions meanwhile growing in rage and
sinking away. At last an Englishman Of
fered the trainer a big wager that he
would not dare do this If the animal were
starved for three days. The trainer
agreed to the wager provided he had
three weeks to get ready. The three
weeks ended the starving began, the
Englishman posting guards about the cage
day and night to see that the animals
got not a morsel of food. When the day
came, before immense crowds, the trainer
entered the cage amid a perfect uproar of
the starved creatures, who lashed their
tails in anger and threw themselves
against the bars in frenzy. He cast the
meat upon the floor, raised his whip and
stood motionless. Not lion dared touch
the meat. Then he stepped forward and
tossed it to them, to be speedily con-
sumed. How was it done? The English
man got the secret after paying the wag-
err During the three weeks the train
er had been starving the brutes three days
at time over and over. On each fourth
day he would first throw a. piece of meat
which had been soaked in kerosene and
which the animals learned they could not
endure, the man afterward feeding them
good meat Such was the simple trick
Never bet man on his own game even
though It he to jump over a church
steeple. He is probably on to his job.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
IN HOTEL IOBBIES
Southern cities Compared

During the past six months I have
travelled through many states-have
been over most of the southland
am fully convinced that Birming CHAM,
taken all in all. is the best city, from
a commercial point of view. in this part
of the world" said c. d. Henley, for
15 years or more representing import
ant eastern manufacturing interests
and being widely known in the cloth
Ing trade but now engaged in the
insurance business. He was formerly
resident of Atlanta, but he has
claimed Birmingham as his home for
some time.
81 have Just returned from New
York." continued Mr.. Henley, land l
found conditions in the east looking
brighter than for some time. As to
the south, it is very prosperous indeed,
and no one perhaps keeps in closer
touch with southern business conditions
than I do. Texas has four conspicu-
ously thriving cities-Dallas, Fort
Worth. Houston and San Antonio Fort
Worth seems to be going ahead lit
tie faster than any of the other Texas
cities, Ohlanoina City is maj vel II
is growing at phenomenal rate and
it has solid foundation.
Atlanta is as prosperous as ever. I
would say that the three distinctively
notable cities of the south were Biz
mingham, Atlanta and Oklahoma City,
but that the greatest of the three is
Birmingham. This city has not only
made prodigiouS strides, but it has q
splendid future and will soon outstrip
all other cities now in the 100000
class"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Prosperity Ahead

The weekly trade reviews in New York
report improvement in the business world
and with improvement in the country at
large prosperity in the south will be
greatly in evidence. During the past Il
months there was less talk Of hard times
in this section than in the north or east
and it has been commonly remarked that
the Birmingham district was in excep-
tionally good shape.
BY comparison with other industrial
centers, Birmingham has made SPLEEN
did showing and the best of it is, the
outlook for 1911 grows brighter and
brighter. The building operations here
will be more extensive this year than
in any previous L months and more
money will be expended on marrsfactur-
ing plants than ever before. This is sure
to be a banner year in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
NEEDED A sTIMULANT

From the Metropolitan Magazine.
They were on winter shooting trip
down in Maine. Early the second morn
ing the colonel's voice sounded from the
kitchen Of the bark shelter.
What in thunder has become of all
our whisky?" he demanded
Tive d-drunk it," admitted the thin
member of the party, with chattering
teeth.
"Wel, I'll be =" the colonel paused.
"Why in heavens name did-you do that?
he managed to finish
"H-had to, old chap. II was w-writ-
ing home l-last night, telling the folks
what fine thine we were having"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
GUNTER MADE MONEY

From "a Corner of Bohemia" by William
H. Rideing in the February Bookman.
Only one among us at oscars made a
commercial success. We liked him, but
patronzed him. He had been in business
in California and was busincss-like In
method and manner, not a dreamer, not
an idealist, to whom pelf was less than
constancy to art. He was thick in figure,
thick voiced and pragmatic-on a lower
plane than we reckoned ourselves to be.
/ think we classed him as an outsider;
no doubt we were little priggish and
too consciously superior, but he was very
amiable and forbearing, and in a degree
pathetic. He had written a novel, and
was convinced that it was great novel.
The publishers did not agree with him
at all; probably no other novel met with
more encouragement from them than
did his. But rejection after rejection
did not shake his steadfast faith in it.,
and though inwardly from an incomplete
knowledge of it we sighted 1t as a fiashy
thing of paint and limelight, deserving its
fate, his patience and fortitude under re-
buff compelled our admiration. In the end,
think, he published it at his own cost.
His name was Archibald Clavering Gun
ter, and the novel was Mr.. Barnes of
New York" Fifty copies of 1t, perhaps a
hundred, sold to one of any of ours, and
it is not out of fashion yet. Gunter
and it was not forgotten. do not mean
to speak of them with disrespect, nor
add we envy. him. The public will have
what 1t wants, especially stories of thrills
and incessant action. Few of that kind
excel Mr. Barnes or the other stories
of Gunters, which afterward flowed from
him in a stream till they seemed to in
undate every bookstall and even the trains
moving across the continent. Afoot our
selves, we saw him driving down the
avenue in his carriage with liveried serv-
ants, as friendly as ever, and for all that
display as simple as ever, and while we
may have murmured at the inscraltability
of the public taste, we did not forsake
the composure and little ref1nements of
the quiet way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Bessemer,s Forward Movement

IF good results do not come from
the recent reorganization of the Board
of Trade of Bessemer. I shall be very
much surprised said prominent real
estate holder of that city. II have rare
ly seen greater enthusiasm displayed
or more representative gathering of
citizens than at the board meeting.
1.-THE report of F. w. Sterling was
a revelation as to the possibilities OF
the Bessemer district, and the prac-
tibility of the plans outlined by him
was apparent to the large crowd pres
ent
1.-The people of Bessemer appreciated
the kindly interest taken by Messrs. A.
H. Ford. L. Sewer. George w. Miller
and other citizens of Birmingham in
the meeting and the hope is ex-
pressed that 1t mav be the beginning of
closer feeling between the two cities
and that each may help the other in
the upbuilding and advancement of this
great district"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Moving Day

st saw most amusing thing a few
days ago up in the upper edge OF
Jefferson county" said a we'll known
hunter Of Birmingham. I'm company
with some friends I was returning to
the city when we met man with his
family moving. A large two mule
wagon was loaded with househ old
goods piled as high as they could be
made to hold on.
"On the very top of the mountain
of bedding, bed springs. bureaus, chairs,
tables and other household effects were
perched woman and her children,
They were as serene as a bale of al
falfa.
But that part of the load that at
tracted most attention and was really
one of the most comical things I ever
saw was not presented until we had
just passed the caravan.
Underneath the pile wedged safe
ly beneath bed springs and mattresses
was a man SO drunk he did not know
whether he was in America or China,
and seemed to care less. He. too, seemed
to be as serene and happy as those
on top.
THAT the mules were carrying two
loads instead of one did not seem TO
worry them"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05

mania, where there are 10000 cases. The
boards of health in 81 of our states adj
known cases. and it is safe to estimate
try at twice that figure, or about 1900
The mortality is about so per cent. 1t will
thus be seen that Illinois has begun a
thorough investigation of the disease none
too soon. All of the states will be COM
PEELED to give 1t attention. The disease
is inclined to thrive in warm ATTITUDES.
but 1t exists even up to the Great Lakes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05

coal operator and every miner will CO.
operate in this humane work. Mr.. I'm
derwood has secured the appropriation
for the erection of a permanent rescue
station, but no one need wait upon that.
Men can be trained to save lives in an
emergency in temporary headquarters as
well as in permanent quarters, and the
noble work will go on unchecked until the
district is placed on the most advanced
lines of science and humanity so far
as the rescue of miners in dire dis
tress is concerned
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
vOLTAIRE,s GOOD WoRK

Lounsbury: "Shakespease and Voltaire."
We can never forget how courageous
and how mighty soldier Voltaire was in
the war for humanity. To vast multitudes
in every station of life he brought the
gospel of liberty Of thought and of speech.
the spirit of sympathy with the unfor-
tunate and the oppressed.
But as to the men of his own time he
was an inspiration. so also he was fear.
before that matchless ridicule, imbecIlity,
narrowness and intolerance covered
aft->hted. at the sound of that trumpet
call Which demanded that justice should
no longor be mute as well as blind, the
prosecutions Of blgotry were stayed, the
ubiquitous tribunals were reversed, the
Indifference and inaction of men in high
places were converted into at least a
pretended zeal for righteousness and the
right. NJ
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
The Local Taxation Bill

lu0 LVCul laAdllVu Dill
In view of Alabama sore need of a bet
ter public school system in the rural dis
tricts. no urging should be necessary for
the legislature to pass the bill submitting
to the voters of the state an amendment
of the constitution authorizing counties
and public school districts to levy a spe-
cial school tax, and to increase the rate
of such special tax now fixed by section
269 The proposed amendment once Sub
mitted to the people can be carried with
comparatively little effort on the part of
the friends of education. This states
poor showing in the matter of literary
statistics is the result of inadequate reve-
ton would not only improve the situation,
but would in a little while become SO
popular that khe wonder would be how
Alabama remained so long Indifferent to
this all important question.
The amendment provides that a special
tax levy can only be made when three
fifths OF the qualified electors In county
or school district vote for IT. and, of
course, there is no danger of people over
taxing themselves. In 1875 soon after re-
vention was held, and the right of local
taxation was purposely omitted from the
organic law. Following closely upon the
terrible reconstruction period the people
distrusted themselves, and no amount of
urging could have induced the members
of the 1875 convention to provide for a
When the constitutional convention of
1901 was held the members felt bound
by a pledge made by the advocates of
no provision for local taxation. While
this pledge was not literally adhered to,
the spirit of 1t was observed. and hence
1t is that we have today only the right
to levy a little 1-mill county tax. But
we have advanced far enough now to
have all our pledges made in behalf of
batter schools, and for providing reason
able means for their maintenance. OF
| the 81 counties in Alabama 1t Is safe to
say that 60 Of them would vote for the
special tax There is hardly any ques-
ton but that all the counties, outside
of the black belt. would readily exer-
people distrusted themselves in the 70s.
but they can surely be counted on not
to do so in this twentieth century.
We are constantly calling attention TO
the rich natural resources of this state
Alabama's agricultural and horticultural
possibilities are exploited north, east and
west No state in the union has better
soil for food products. Few states of
! its size have as much timber. Our mar
Bile quarries are commercially profitable,
and the open-hearth steel rails made in
the Birmingham district are unsurpassed
in quality anywhere in the United States.
| But Alabama will not grow at the rate
| 1t is entitled to increase by reason of
natures bounty until its rural schools are
what they should be-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
Future Population

From 1900 to 1910 Jefferson county's
population increased a little over 60 per
cent, and it is safe to predict a much
larger rate of gain by 1920" said an old
citizen. "A population of 226476 was fine
showing in the recent census, but from
the way things look now I would say the
county's population would pass the 400-
600 mark in the next census. Sixty per
cent increase was good enough for the
past decade, but so per cent will not seem
startlingly large in 1920.
Birmingham, itself, will probably have
a population of close on to 100000 in the
next census"