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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
The Underwater Line

Everybody knows the road running through Fifth avenue as the Tidewater, but that is not it's legal name,' sand a member of the Chamber of Commerce. There is such a company as the Tidewa- ter development company. The company, believe, was something of a promoter of the road which is now being built in the Birmingham district. but it has no fur ther relation with It now, although the same interests are connected with both.
 "The corporation which is building Ensley and Bessemer Railway company. It was organized about year ago. Its principal officers are J. H. Morris of Philadelphia, president; J. M. Dewberry or Birmingham, vice president; J. l.. Brown of Philadelphia, general manager; M. U. Mover, treasurer. and Forney Johnston, attorney. Mir. Dewberry is the and Morris brothers. the well known Phil adelphia bankers. furnished the needed money-several million dollars.
 MT. Dewberry tells me that although the name of the operating company is the Birmingham, Ensley and Bessemer, the Underwater Line will be adopted as the popular title simply because every body is used to the name.
 Cars will be running on Fifth avenue by September l, and the line will be extended from Bessemer to Tuscaloosa, It is believed. within the next F or IS months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
THE CURE FOR INSOMNIA

Mime. Jeanne La Place in Woman's | World for July.
 | Insomnia Is almost invariably the re-
 suit of some nervous tension or excite ment that forbids mind and body to re- lax in slumber. In it's mild forms I be-
 leve it is largely a matter of habit which people form by lying awake and | thinking after they get into bed. Their cure is that of the Irishman who said
 that when he started to go to sleep he
 paid attintion to it."
 Too much mental exertion and too little physical exercise will often cause
 sleeplessness. A person who has a ten
 dency to insomnia for this reason should always try to get a good long. brisk walk in the evening. If this is | impossible, some vigorous physical cul- ture exercise-1ndian clubs or dumb
 bells are good-just before retiring will
 often work wonders. Of course. a well ventilated sleeping room is absolutely
 necessary for restful slumber. But after all. the most common and
 fundamental cause for insomnia is fear
 the dread that we are not going to sleep. If the idea occurs to you or
 forces itself upon you that you are going to lie awake. contradict the mo-
 tfcn fat1y. Assure yourself that of
 course you arc going to sleep-that
 sleep is natural and desirable, and that you have right to it.
 When you get into bed, relax physi-
 cally and mentally. Get into a comfort
 able position and lie still-don't toss
 and tumble about. Keep the mind quiet
 don't allow 1t to go off on some in- teresting or exciting train of thought; simply lie quiet and wait for sleep. But of course there are cases where the nervous tension is so intense that
 mind and body absolutely refuse to be
 soothed into this sleep inviting condition If you find yourself in this condition,
 don't try counting sheep or reciting poetry; such expedients only increase | the malady by keeping the mind on the | thought of sleeplessness
 The grand remedy for sleeplessness is to give up trying to sleep. It won't hurt you to stay awake all night if you | must; you will be sure to sleep all the 1 better the next night At any rate you
 can lie and rest. Get up If you feel like it, get drink of water, rearrange your | bedclothing. Make yourself as com | fortable as possible.
 | Now calmly and deliberately make up | your mind to wait for morning. Let | your thoughts wander idly as they ! please, only keep the idea of rest in your mind as much as possible. There | isn't more than one chance in a hundred
 that you won't fall off to sleep within IS minutes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
HOW WIRELESS WORKS

From the Electrical News.
 During the last few weeks we have heard a great deal about wireless tel egraphy, and hundreds of people have confessed their ignorance of this mys- terlous system of transmitting the mes sal ges of mankind. On most any street corner you could find the village oracle expounding and explaining the dark mysteries of wireless, and nine times cut of ten he knew nothing at all about it.
 It Is quite impossible to describe the details of a wireless station so that novice will understand, but the princi- pie of the thing is easily comprehend ed. As is known, light and heat move in waves whose lengths can be meas ured. Thus, the sun gives out in every direction light in a series of undula ting waves which may not only be measured, but can be denected, polarized, and so on. Some idea of this may be gained from the well known fact that when stone is thrown into a smooth pool of water series of circular waves extends ia all directions. If any floating objects come within these waves they are oscil- lated.
 It was the lamented Professor Hertz who discovered that electricity, like light and heat, also moves in waves which may be measured. Just precisely how these waves pass through the atmos- phere is not wholly understood but it is believed that they have some relation to ether, which Is omnipresent and which is believed to constitute all matter under different negative electrical con ditions. In wireless telegraphy series of Hertzian waves are set up by power ful electrical dynamos or batteries. and these are discharged from the top of a high mast or pole. These waves extend in all directions, and, unless their force is expended by distance they excite cer- tain effects in the receiver of wireless telegraph instruments within the zone, just as the waves disturb chips on a pool. Messages are sent and received somewhat on the plan of ordinary Morse code by wires, In that electrical impulses are regulated SO as to spell words according to a code
 In recent years many kinds of receiv- CTS have been used and the process is now simpler than formerly, but any successful transmission of waves de- bends a good deal on the state of the atmosphere, electrical storms being dis advantageous. Also when many wire less outfits are working in the same zone much confusion results and often messages are transmitted with great diffioult,y and sometimes not at all This may account for some of the de- lays and confusion of the last few days. To Marconi belongs the credit of making a practical success of the dis coveries of others. but to Hertz belongs the credit of making the system pos sible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Standing by Gen. Leonard Wood


 The President has vetoed the army appropriation bilf because to it had been added piece of legislation that would have weeded out the chief of the general staff. General Wood would remain a major general, but he would do duty elsewhere than in Washington. He might be sent to the Philippines or to Atlanta, for ex- ample.
 This veto carries the new army ap- propriation bill beyond the fiscal year, and appropriations will have to be ex- tended in order to keep the country a-going. The army must be paid and fed.
 It is believed the President will veto the legislative bill which contains no appropriation for his pet court of commerce, and he may resent the dis missal of his tariff board. He pro- poses, too, it is said, to veto all tariff revision bills chiefly because they are revisions downward and the tariff beneficiaries are opposing them. As a wielder of the veto pen MT. Taft may this summer make record that will bury him deep under shower of in- dignant ballots in case of his nomina- tion at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19

age. He never exploits in commer- eial way his discoveries, and he never will. He recommends, however, daily doses of the new remedy alternated with daily doses of tactic acid prepar- ations.
 Many scientists in the French scien- tific world stand ready to say that the dangers from the offensive mat ter in the colon have been greatly ex- aggerated, and that the Russian scientists theory is of no practical value. The proof of the pudding is, however, in the eating, and nothing else can decide the issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
BABooN TOOK STROLL

From the New York Press.
 Big game hunters, like Colonel Roose-
 welt and Paul J. Rainey, never had a
 livelier time in African jungles than was enjoyed by a posse of several hundred persons who sought to arrest the progress of an itinerant baboon, five feet tall, in Herald Square yesterday morning. That the fugitive monkey, which had left its quarters in the White Rats Storage ware house, 143 West Thirty-third street, just 1 to go on bit of a stroll, derived as much satisfaction from the occasion as did her pursuers is doubtful. However, she only forgot her manners long enough to nip a | too-familiar youth in the left leg.
 Empress II, which is the baboons name is the property of c. I. Norris, an animal trainer in vaudeville. George Setter is her constant attendant in the warehouse Settler says Empress is well-behaved creature usually, but naturally when she | found one of the bars of her cage loose
 she just pushed it to one side, slid out and down the stairs and so reached the street. Scattering screaming women and children before her, the monkey loped along Thirty-third street and turned north on sixth avenue. By the time she reached Thirty-fifth street crowd of men and
 boys were at her heels, but Empress plainly showed them her wish to be left alone. To get away from the mob, she started across Thirty-fifth street toward Fifth avenue much to the annoyance of an immaculate special policeman of the Fifth avenue squad who could not re- member what the regulations called for
 in the case of runaway balloons.
 Before Empress had got near him, however. Arthur Mason, 1T years old, of
 s01 East Thirty-third street. seized the monkeys long. furry, tail. an act which
 turned and relieved Mason of slice of
 his left leg. Then, regardless of sign
 reading No peddlers, beggars or
 warrants allowed" she retreated into the
 hall of 30 West Thirty-fifth street, chat
 tered menacingly at the posse, and de-
 fled even the janitor of that house. Pa
 trolman Terry of Traffic Square c joined
 the hunters just then, however. and,
 without mores ado. drew his revolver and
 ieveled it at lmpress head
 In another second he would have pulled
 the trigger and there would have been
 mourning in monkeyland had not Settler, asitated into excessive precipitation. rushed up and pushed the pistol aside. With a glance of scorn at the posse Set Ter thereupon walked calmly to the snarl- ing ape, lifted her up in his arms. tucked her tail into his coat pocket and started off with her to the warehouse. Patrol man Terry. however. in view of the sew eral charges against Empress. directed that she first visit the West Thirteenth street police station. Her behavior there was so exemplary that she was released Forthwith never more to stray abroad | without fitting escort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Professor Metehnilsoff on Old Age

A correspondent of the New York Times recently interviewed Prof. Ellie Metchnikoff of the Pasteur institute in Paris, and he obtained a clear statement of his recent discovery of a remedy against the ravages of age.
 He says that in the large intestine of human beings there exists a quan- tity of poisonous substances which are called indols and phenols, and which have been proved responsible for the gradual decay of the system, known as old age. The great scientist tried to destroy these microbes by the tactic acid treatment, but he is now convinced they can be destroyed by sugar only. Any sugar consumed in the ordinary way would be digested long before it could reach the large intestine. Professor Metchnikoff has, however, found sugar-producing microbe in the intestines of dog. He calls it the "glycobacberia."
 The professor says all tests of the germ in human beings have denim ished or eliminated altogether the poisonous clements which hasten old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
CIVIL WAR OVER BUTTONS

Samuel 2. Batten, in the Survey.
 Forty years ago a German settler began to cut pearl buttons at Muscatine from the fresh water mussels which abound in the Mississippi river there. The in- dustry grew until s5 per cent of the pearl buttons of the country were manufac- tured in AIuscatine
 Fifteen months ago Muscatine. clean, we'll built, attractive community of 1700G people on the Mississippi, was one of Iowa's favorite examples of a busy. hap py, growing city.
 For over a year it has been a city torn with civil strife. neighbor is arrayed against neighbor. church life is disturbed and class feeling is growing. On one side stand score of manufacturers. on the other are 2700 workers in the towns main industry.
 The button industry has been largely un- organized and unstandardized. No one knows the cost of making a gross of but tons. Defective buttons are sold at re duced prices; but no one seems to know whether at a loss or profit to the man ufacturer
 The lack of standardization on the busi- ness side was paralleled until recently bS the workers lack of organization. A but ton workers union was started, but nol until the autumn and winter of 19l0-l9l' did it have many members. About tha time the button industry felt depression Wages were affected; the question O. wages was not, however. the primary cause of dissatisfaction. The workers fel that they were not getting a square de5 in the weighing and counting of buttons So long as they felt this way they wert dissatisfied and suspicious. It was not 2 question of wages, but of justice.
 It is too soon to forecast the final out come of the struggle. The manufacturers may persist in their opposition to tho union Could any situation show greater need for men to try the Golden Rule Why not try the Golden Rule in Musca tine?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Southern Population centers

One of the most interesting bulletins
 of the thirteenth census of the United
 States is that entitled, Population of Cities prepared under the supervision of
 William C. Hunt chief statistician for who travels a good deal.
 That bulletin contains a complete presentation of the material gathered of the census of 1910 in regard to the popu- lation of cities and other incorporated places with 250O inhabitants and over. There are many maps and tables, and each of them is interesting.
 "One of the great improvements in the census work of 1910 over that of any former decade is in the grouping of urban center population. The statistician says in his explanatory remarks:
 " Tn it's general tables dealing with the population of cities. the bureau of the census must necessarily deal with politi- cal units, or. in other words. with the population contained within the munich pal boundaries of each city. It is a fa miliar fact that, in some cases, the mu- | nicipal boundaries give only an inadequate idea of the population grouped about one urban center. In the case of many cities | there are suburban districts with a dense population outside of the city limits, which, in a certain sense, are as truly a part of the city as the districts which ! are under the municipal government. These suburbs are bound to the cities by network of transportation lines. Many of the residents in the suburbs have their business or employment in the city. and. to certain extent persons who reside in the city are employed in the suburbs. |" It seems desirable, therefore, to show the magnitude of each of these population centers taken as a whole. Statistics have been compiled for each city in the United States with a population of 100000 inhab- itants or more, which, in addition to the population within the city limits, show the population in adjoining districts which may be considered as intimately asso ciated with the urban center
 Many iourishing cities appear at disadvantage because of the small growth inside of the city limits, but they have the large suburbs. and the urban center scheme should be satisfactory to every body. It is fair and right.
 | Tt is seen from the table on page 21 of the bulletin that Birmingham had the | largest percentage of increase as com pared with the census figures of 1900, and | that only one other city, Spokane, had a larger percentage of urban center pop ulation. In 1910 the Birmingham urban center total inside and outside of the city was 2l1,9e1, which was an increase of 641 per cent over the same territory in 1900. Atlanta's urban center population was POS, 2s4, nearly 1000 less than Birming hams. It's percentage of increase in the city proper was 72s per cent. It's urban center increase was AT per cent.
 "Richmond's increase in the city proper was sol per cent, and it's total inside and outside showed an increase of All per cent. Nashville totalled inside and out side of the city an increase of 21.1 per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Road to St. Xincent.s

''The chert road up the hill leading to St. Vincent's hospital should be paved, said a prominent physician. Few high ways in Birmingham are more used than the short stretch referred to. I myself average about four visits a day to St. Vincent's, and the hill road is so washed and rough that I go all the way around on Highland avenue and reach the hos ptal from that side.
 The Birmingham Realty company owns the property on either side of that up the hill roadway, and there should be no trouble about having it paved. If 1t were private property I would go to work and raise a fund among the physicians to have the work done. but as it is up to the realty company to do it, there should be no further question, or no further de- lay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Electoral College and the House

"Even those persons who are ordi- narily well informed on matters of public interest often forget some of the things laid down in the constitution of the United States" said an old poli- tician.
 "Touching electors and how the cleo toral vote is to be received and count cd, the constitution says in amend ment, Article 12: The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and vice pres ident. one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as Pres dent. and in distinct ballots the per son voted for as vice president; and they shall make distinct lists of all rersons< voted for as President. and of all persons voted for as vice pres ident, and of the number of votes foi each. which list they shall sign and certify and transmit. sealed, to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President oi the Senate; the President of the Sen ate shall, in the presence of the Sen ate and House of Representatives, oper all the certificates. and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President. if such number be majority of the whole number oi electors appointed; and if no persor have such majority then from the per
 
 exceeding three. on the list of those voted for as President, the House ol Representatives shall choose iInmedi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Rooseveit,s Mistake

"The greatest mistake that ex-Pres- ident Rooseevlt ever made was in com ing out as a candidate for the pres idential nomination this year." said an ex-officeholder, who has always voted the democratic ticket T used to be an admirer of MT. Roosevelt but his re- cent mud-slinging campaign, his vio- lent language and his glaring incon- sistencies have disgusted me with him. If he had waited until 1916 believe he could have been nominated in spite of the prejudice against a third term.
 "It is a. pity for man with so many fine points as Roosevelt to put himself in the position he has. If he passes into history as discredited politician he will have no one to blame but him self"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Governor HadIey on Southern Rep.
resentatiOn


 resentation
 Governor Hadley of Missouri is the floor leader of the Roosevelt side at Chicago, and he has completed com prehensive plan for apportioning the delegates to the republican national convention of 1916. His plan applies as much to New York as to Louisiana. That is to say, on it's face it applies to all states, but the southern states only would be materially affected by it.
 His plan is based on the theory that republican delegates should rep resent republicans only. Representa- tion based on population is inaccurate and really vicious. For this reason he desires to have the delegates of 1916 based on the republican vote cast in 1912. He proposes that two dele gates to the national convention of 1916 should be elected in each district wherein 25 per cent of the entire vote is cast by republicans. Districts that cast less than 25 per cent but more than 10 per cent would be given only one delegate, while all districts that cast less than 10 per cent of the total vote should be denied district repre- sentation. Each state would appoint four state delegates at large.
 In case Roosevelt and Taft both run their votes would be combined, no doubt, under the Hadley plan. This would be perhaps the first complexity arising from a double schedule at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
EVILS oF YALE SOCIETIES

Owen Johnson in Golfers Weekly.
 Intellectually the worst thing about the Yale society system is the effect of the excessive and ridiculous fetish of secrecy on the imagination. The freshman who arrives unprepared is amazed to find the college in the grip of mystic bugaboo. At every step he is confronted by sud den mysterious tombike structures. pad locked and without visible windows, with the general atmosphere of a dungeon.
 He is told that the cabalistic words de- uoting the different societies must never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
Democratic Enthusiasm

There seems to be more enthusiasm among democrats now than in any presidential year since 1892" said S. L. Poynter of Syracuse, N. Y.
 T have been voter since 1888. Ac- cording to my recollection the demo- crats were pretty well united then. Mir. Cleveland had been nominated for reelection without opposition, but de- feat was a foregone conclusion early in the campaign.
 Tn 1892 1t was different. Victory seemed certain from the moment the convention nominated MT. Cleveland. In 1896 MT. Bryan attracted large crowds whenever he spoke. but the party was badly divided and democratic victory was impossible.
 q have been in two or three states recently and wherever I have gone democrats are enthusiastic and opti- mistic. Every democrat with whom l have talked has said or felt this is a democratic year, and we are going to win
 ''I think Mayor Gaynor would make frst-elass President. but if he Is not nominated then I would prefer to see MT. Underwood. who is the great est statesman the democratic party has had in many years. at the head of the ticket"