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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
MENACE OF BATHING POOLS

GAS ordinarily run, swimming pools are llittie more than cesspools and clear them selves of bacteria largely on the septic tank principle" says H. F. J. Porter in the Survey.
 "Investigations of public pools for long period of time at Hamburg, as well as more recently of college pools at Purdue Brown, Chicago and Yale universities ana the New York public swimming pools' shows that the impurities produced by bathers are bacterial and chemical for eign matter.
 Tests made at the Hamburg pools showed water fresh from the tap con taned 57 microbes per cubic centimeter; the same. volume after "A persons had tathed contained 1900; after 494 persons, 6l 400 microbes were found in the tank When tests were taken after s29 had bathed, however, only 154,O0O microbes were found, Illustrating the septic tank principle, that after certain point has ieen reached the septic condition of the water either actually kills the microbes or else they devour each other until the excess IS ueSt1Uyeu anu dh representing the maximum impurity that the water can sustain is reached The very expression of this condition which actually existed in all pools studied is
 it would seem, calculated to arouse alarm as well as disgust.
 s'In all pools some precautions can be used. Previous bathing and the exelu- sion of persons known to have contagious skin affections are the first, and these are enforced in few even of the large college rools. Frequent change of water is an other essential.
 where water Is scarce other methods of purification can partly take the place of change, but there is none which can effectively and permanently keep up with an accumulation of bacteria due to many hathers in the same water.
 'The quickest and cheapest method ,of ratification, which is used frequently for purifying water supplies and which is applicable, it would seem, ito some ex- tent to river bathing places as well as indoor pools, is hypochloride of calcium. rart to 100000 parts water, 20 pounds 10 1000, 900 gallons of water"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
NIT. Taft's Twenty-seventh Veto


 The practice of putting riders" in general appropriation bills is not al together good practice and the Pres ident in the case of the executive, legislative and judicial bill resents it by vetoing the entire bill. He either was compelled to indorse the objec- tionable amendments, or else to veto the entire bill He chose the latter alternative, and the House refused to pass the bill over the veto.
 The commerce court is not sustained by public sentiment. It is fad of President Taft, however, and he de- sires to retain it. It is believed that the new bill will contain no provision for. the continuance of the commerce court, and that it will be passed even over second veto.
 But Congress will back down from it's effort to fix the term of office in the departments to seven years, thus undermining the merit or civil service system and restoring the old spells plan which the country has fully re- pudiated. This is to be taken out of the bill, and there will be no. limit placed on the tenure of office in the civil service.
 The President is indulging freely in vetoes, the latest one being his twen- ty-seventh. His tariff vetoes serve to render the tariff issue plainer. He stands for duties that will yield ample profits to the manufacturers, and the people will compare the rates in the Underwood bills with those in similar schedules in the Payne tariff. This will tell the story. The consumer will in that way ascertain "where he is at."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
CAREER OF WILSON IN BRIEF

From the August National Monthly. Born in staunton. Va, December 2S, 1856.
 | His father was Rev. Joseph R. Will son, a Presbyterian minister; his moth- CT was Miss Woodrow.
 Attended public schools at Augusta, Ga, and Columbus, N. c. l When IS years old he entered David son college, North Carolina, hut one year later matriculated at Princeton, graduating in 1879.
 The next two years were spent at fhe University of Virginia, studying law He won the Thomas Jefferson medal for oratory.
 | One year later. at Atlanta, Ga, practicing law, satisfied him with the business and he turned again to the study of law and government at Johns Hopkins.
 Drafted as one of the original facul- ty of Bryn Mawr college and helped to organize course of study there, remaining two years
 Next went to Wesleyan university Middletown, Conn., as head of depart ment of history and political economy.
 Back. to his alma mater to occupy the chair of jurisprudence and political economy was his next move.
 In 1902 he was elected president of Princeton, the first layman to fill that post.
 system and to put all students on a man -to-man footing of democracy.
 Again locked horns with Princeton leaders about graduate schools. This struggle continued up to the time of his resignation, in 1910, to run for governor of New Jersey being elected.
 While at Hopkins he wrote. as his thesis, his work on Congressional Government" He produced "The State" his .History of the United States" and tDivision and Reunion"
 Under Governor Wilson, who frankly informed the democrats that if elected they would at the same time elect him leader of the party, the boss" system was wiped out in the democratic party in the state of New Jersey, public service commission was created; mod ern workmen's compensation act was passed; primary election laws were ex- tended; the corrupt practices act was strengthened, and an act was placed on the statute book giving municipali- ties the privilege to adopt the commits sion form of government
 He was nominated by the democratic party for the presidency of the United States in June, 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
THE GOTHAM GANGS

From the New York Press.
 There have always been gangs in New York, gangs all the way from boys on the block with sticks and stones to the wolflke crowd of anarchists who in such cowardiy fashion murdered Rosenthal. Probably Rosenthal. .at one time was an honest gambler But grafters got after him and kept calling for more and more until the honest gambler became a crook and a thief-most likely-for how could man run any gambling business for years and years without just natur- ally becoming thief?
 1t was this way with Rosenthal His ''business" was ruined All his pals in gambling and thievery and in the en- ioyment and dissipation of i'll gotten gains were drifting from him, and it left him. you might say, on a deserted island all alone. An ordinary man without in- tellect is as bad off as in prison, and more miserable, if he can no longer gal Top with his old gang, the gang which has got him in the habit of enjoying their ,ya,s s. means and company. Yes, Rosen- thai had as soon be dead as to have to go through the rest of his life alone, summed by the rest of the crowd or crooks.
 Where the grafters fell down was in believing there was no limit to the way they could bully Rosenthal. Now every things shows that while Rosenthal could be bluffed and made to part with most of his stolen earnings, still there was a limit to the game But the gang were not psychologists and could not see through to his stubbornness, to the cor nered man. When man in Rosenthars fix makes up his mind to do thing r>~l- ing but death can stop him, and the gang found it out too late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
New American Trnst puiIding

"The new American Trust building Is coming along according to schedule" said Vice President H. L. Badham of the American Trust and Savings bank yes terday.
 'The first of the office tenants will be able to move in about the middle of Sep- tember as we had planned, and the bank will occupy its handsome new quarters on the ground floor about october l.
 'It is very gratifying to us to hear the many compliments and commendatory words spoken about our new building. It is almost an every day occurrence for peo- pie, who have travelled extensively, to tell us that it is one of the handsomest struc- lures they have ever seen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

he experiences only an intense and hor- 1ible depression, together with a physi- cal languor which results in a sleepiness that cannot be shaken off
 Opium withdrawal, on the other hand, iesults in sleeplessness and extreme ner- vous and physical disorder In action, toe, cocaine is an extreme stimulant. Its stimulus wears off quickly and leaves . corresponding repression, but it confers half an hour Of capability of intense efs fort. That is why bicycle riders, prizs fighters and race horses are often doe- tored, or "doped,' with cocaine. When cocaine gives out, it's victim invariably resets to alcohol for stimulus; alcoholics. however when deprived of alcohol gener- ally drift into the use of morphine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
nEr,.ECTIoNs 0r A RACHEL OR

From the New York Press.
 No man ever wants to buy a house as much as he will want tp sell it after ward.
 The more excited girl can get over her engagement the cooler she can be over her wedding.
 q A womans idea of good clothes is the kind probably she'd be able to buy if her husband wasn't so scruDulous in business.
 Anybody who knows enough to think he ought to teach it to the world wouldn't t do himself any harm to stop minute end learn something from lhe world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

THE WICKED, WICKED CUSTOMER The Terrible Tale of somnambulist sue. the Ornamental Order-taker. One day wicked customer
 Rushed in to Sleeping Sue, And Susan looked straight over her, As she was wont to do. The customer gave one quick look, Then reached up to the shelf; She seized the goods and Susan's book And charged them to herself. And worse, far worsel within her fist She seized the carrier-cup, And, ere poor Susan could resist,
 She sent the check slip up. Then Susan woke and Susan wept,
 But all to no avail; The deed was done, for, while she slept, Poor Suse had made a sale!
 Edmund Vance Cooke, in Judge. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
saIe of Inye.tment Bonds

You would be surprised to know the wide scope of territory covered in the in- quiries we are receiving for our bonds, ' said President G. W. Pratt of the Amer ican Finance and Bond company.
 We have this week sold our bonds as far west as Nebraska and as far north as Illinois and Indiana. We have already sold quite a number of them in Cincin- natl and Chicago, and people in that sec tion of the country seem to understand better their value and the principle upon which we are operating those hereabouts.
 However it is interesting to note that we have sold more of the bonds in Mo- bile than in any other one city, including even Birmingham, while Birmingham is third. There can be no doubt that there is growing appreciation all over the coun- try of the value of real estate and real es- tate securities as medium of investment. It is an unusual way to talk, but actually feel that I am doing young man a favor when I induce him to invest some of his savings in this way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
ALWAYS FAIRY rxLrs
From Hildegarde Hawthorne's 'Bool and Reading" in September St Nich

and Reading" in September St Nicno-
 las.
 spoken that has not been used for telling fairy tales. Whether in bot lands or cold, among savages or the most cultivated na- tions-why, not a moment passes in which some one, somewhere. is not telling a fairy tale, or listening to one, or reading one, or perhaps writing a new one. Which makes it delightfully."- probable that we shall always have them with us, how ever scarce the fairies may have made themselves in these prosaic and practical days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
..pn,1 ATE. JOHN INDICATED

From the Natchez Democrat and Courier.
 Private John Allen secured a verdict in his case against Editor Anderson of the Ripley Sentinel and it amounted to sl, whide he will pay the costs. The case grew out of the charge that the ..Priyate" stole a jug of whisky many years ago. What the Private wanted was the verdict, no matter what the cost might be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

viewed Will be at the ballot boxes of 1e5I4.
 Governor O'Neal should deal fairly with the farmers of the state who are anticipating outings this fall, for it is to them he must answer for his action in the matter of distributing the ap- propriation of the state to the fair as sociations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Three Men Higher Up

It is openly reported that "a lawyer, hotel man and headquarters of- ficial" are the men "higher up" in New York city who control the police system of that city. The World news paper demands that the connection of this triumvirate with the field of local corruption be followed up and fully uncovered The committee of 101 should make this one of it's leading constructive remedies.
 The cleansing of New York city con- cerns directly five millions of people, and it interests 90,000,000 more, to say the least. If an American city cannot be honestly conducted in this age of reform the fact should be made known. Even the great metrop- olis may need commission form of government. It may need some one who can be held responsible for all its misdoings and shame.
 There is nothing more shameful than the protection of gambling dens by the police who are paid sal aries by the people. This is the limit of lawlessness and corruption. Any thing worse cannot well be devised or
 
 even imagined. All good citizens in New York should join hands regard less of party in the endeavor to cleanse the city. It is a big task and all should lend hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
ley in Ohio as follows

If the cost of producing ton of pig iron were that high in this district, when the price of No. 2 iron ranges from SIP to S12.50 ton, our furnaces would have to close down.
 The Age-Herald is not prepared to say what the actual cost of making a ton of pig iron in this district is, but it is pretty safe to say that it does not exceed SS.50 a ton, say, at the Woodward furnaces. The elimination of freight items alone would cut off $3 a ton, and at the Woodward furnaces all raw materials are within sound of the furnaces own whistle.
 While all must admit that three tons of old hard red must be used in- stead of two, yet that is not a serious drawback when he considers that the three tons flux themselves and that they are mined at comparatively small expense.
 This district is content to stand on it's bill of costs against Lake Superior or even Cuban ores, for it needs no Connellsville fuel or foreign limestone. It needs nothing whatever in the way of raw materials which cannot be found almost within the shadow of the furnace itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
SONG

By Robert Louis Stevenson. know not how 1t is with you
 I love the first and last, The whole field of the present view,
 The whole flow of the past. One little of the things that are, Nor you should change nor T. One pebble in our path-one star In all our heaven of sky. Our lives. and every day and hour, One symphony appear, One road, one garden-every hower
 And every bramble dear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Governor Conner and the Bull Moose

considerable amusement has been caused among my friends by the recent stories to the effect that I was wearing a bull moose button In my coat lapel, said former Gov. B. B. Conner yesterday.
 'The former President is a great man, but I do not think I can be accused or having any republican leanings. Somebody jokingly put that bull moose button on me the other day, and I turned it over to Billy Murdoch, for Billy, you know, is one of them.
 By the way, l am going to write let ter to Colonel Roosevelt which will prob ably be of some interest in Alabama, since it concerns a vital question among us. This letter has been called forth by the letter from President Roosevelt, recently made public by Judge Jones of the. fed eral court. You see I should not like to see the former President get himself too much involved in our local matters here, for this is a subject which has many ramifications, and l simply want to ex- plain to him the Alabama situation.
 Incidentally the fact Ahat Roosevelt appointed Judge Jones to the federal bench on the recommendation of former President Cleveland does not controvert my previous charges regarding the in fiuences which brought about the appoint ment of Judge Jones'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

Miss Mabel Boardman is to have charge of the woman's end of the Taft cam paipn. The bull moose platform and Jane Addams have worked a revolution in this resrect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

On the site of the Equitable building in New York is to be erected a structure that will have the largest floor space Of any building in the world. The lot was soid for s26,eoooOo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

A painting that depicts in lifelike manner George w. Perkins in the act of teeding greenbacks to bull moose would Na highly popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

General Du Pont of Delaware is to head the corporation that is to build an office building on the Equitable site in New York. Delaware powder is indeed a pow CT in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The new double deck car of the surface lines in New York will be success if r. is possible to load and unload the upper deck safely and without loss of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
THE CoLLAPsIBLE LIFE,

How are you getting along in your new flat. Pilfurs?'
 "Oh, we are quite comfortable now and have plenty of room since we began to use eollapsible tables. collapsible chairs and a couple of collapsible beds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The Sultan of Morocco has left his cenntry for his country's good. He now becomes member of the guild of Kings in exile in Pa.rIs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The. trouble in Detroit is it has not enough couneilmen above reproach to constitute a quorum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
SETTING HIM RIGHT.

SETTING HIM RlGHI. Two brothers were being entertained by manufacturer who was anxious to make a good impression and thereby place a large order of his goods. As i'll luck would have it, the talk drifted away from trade topics.
 Do you like Omar Khayyam?" thought lesslY asked the host trying to make conversation. It was the elder brother who plunged heroically into the breach Pretty well,' he said, but 1 prefer Chianti''
 Nothing more was said on this subject until the brothers were on their way home
 'Bill,'' said the younger brother break ing a painful silence, why can't you leave things that you don't understand to me? Omar Khayyam ain't a wine. you chuMp; it's a cheese. ''-Kansas City Star.
 COLD COMFORT Dibbs was a cheerful giver- You'd never ask him twice; But darn that kind of giver, He'd only give advice.
 ADVENTUROUS MARINERS. Let others cross the stormy sea In little boats, where pillows swell; That trip does not appeal to me When taken in a cookie shell.
 PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

Wall street concludes that Woodrow Wi'son is an easy first in the presidential race. That street has great head ana a correct eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

Only 9 populists met in the national convention at St. Louis. They met in a hotel parlor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

America sends 2oOo globe trotters around the world every year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The colonel and George Perkins com missary wagon are still stationed at Ar lnageddon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

Armageddon may yet prove to be q Waterloo to the man who persists in standing at it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

Lieutenant Becker was a firm believer in the plan of building up big bank ac- counts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
EPITAPHS,

Sad was the finish of Bill Blunt They've planted him at last; He never could get to the front Because he was too fast
 Cincinnati Enquirer. Sad was the finish of Bill Wyte- His dust to dust reverts; His future would have been so bright, Had Bill not loved the skirts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

MT Taft is awaiting, it is said, a con fession of bad faith from oyster Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The Astor baby cares precious little about the fuss of the society papers over his advent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The man who bleached sparrows and sold them as oanaries forgot to bleach their voices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

New York is looking under the bed for the men higher up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The fashionable women of Newport have adopted the fad of doing their own marketing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Pig Iron Cost of Making

M. A. Hanna & Co. recently pre- sented statement showing the cost of making ton of pig iron fin the val leyo in Ohio as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

Official Mourner Knox will add to the .pomp of burying an emperor. As an or namental mogrner Philander is un- eul;alled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The only color quetsion that really and aeeply concerns the colonel is the color af George N. Perkins money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The late President Le conte of iIay'i died in his he'd. which is more than many of his t9 t9edeeessors did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

All of the national platforms overlook the great need in this country of in dividuai travels. and nine-foot sheets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
stalls, bullSs, windows,

stnIIs, buIIks, WIndoWs, ridges hOrs'd With variable complications; nll agreeing In earnestBess fo see him.
 -CymbeIine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES
BEHOLD HERR

BEHOLD HERR The summer girl
 Sits on the dock. She wears a nifty
 Bathing frock,
 And as I gaze
 With kindling eyes, I thus begin
 To rhapsodize;
 The famous Fisher
 Never drew
 A maid with such
 A lovely hue, A figure so
 Divinely trim,
 Nor very fat,
 Nor very slim,
 But>just. forsooth,
 That happy mean. Enough to make
 An angel lean From heaven down
 And wish that he On good old earth
 Once more could bel Besides. her face
 Is wondrous fair, With eyes like twin
 Stars dancing there, While here and there A sunny scrap Of hair beneath
 Her bathing cap Is peeping out,
 As if to twine Around all hearts,
 Including minel
 WE NEVER COULD. We never could
 Admire the smirl1 So common to
 The soda clerk.
 HARD TO RELEASE IT. "so you've been on fishing frolic, Girksley?" "Yes.'' T presume it was time when you felt like saying, Let joy be unconfined? |" T felt like saying that and did say it., only to learn that the dunderhead who had charge of our supplies, forgot to bring along a corkscrew."
 NO PARTNERSHIP. There was dame in our town Who bought a stylish hat, And when her husband learnedf the price It almost knPoked him flat. See here" he cried, in anguished tones, We must economize.' And did she melt, forthwith, in tears, Or yield herself to signs? Not much! She simply looked at him, As one of low degree, Then said, YOU may economize- Don't speak of that to mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-07-19

The continuous performance which
the weather clerk has been imposing on
the public for the past six months con
tinues to continue. the only difference
being that in the last few days what
were local showers have, to all appear
ances. become general rains. The
heaviest fall in one day was Thursday,
when a down-pour that lasted nearly
two hours amounted to two inches &C
cording to Weather Clerk Carleton.
The rainfall up to the first of July was
in excess OF the normal am ,unt 10 AZ
inches, the total for the first six months
of the year being Al. OF, the normal be-
ing 30.8
The crops, like the weather, are very
spotted. In some sections, especially
in the prairie and all bottom lards, the
prospects for a crop are exceed ngly
poor, while in the sandy, post oak and
hill lapds the outlook is much better
A number of farmers who have been in
town this week report that their crops
have shown a decided improvement in
the.last two weeks,