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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
Efficient Fire Department

Birmingham may not have as much
fire fighting equipment as some cities of
10000 population, but lookers-on cannot
fail to be impressed with the good dis
cipline and general efficiency of the de-
partment.
An alarm sent over the telephone from
the Western Union office yesterday
brought out large section of the fire
brigade. In referring to the quick re-
Spouse of the firemen a prominent citizen
said:
II do not see how any city could have
more thoroughly disciplined fire de-
partment than ours. When 1 passed the
Western Union office, headed for Nine
tenth street, no commotion whatever
was in evidence. BY the time reached
the Morris hotel fire wagon turned
Saks' corner and dashed up to the West
ern Union office, and in about so or 60
seconds after that steamers and hook and
ladder trucks came In view. The ring
ing of gongs and bells attracted attention,
and several hundred people soon gathered
in front of the telegraph Office.
1.-THE men on the first wagon to arrive,
III Tie QulCk WoIk VI ScLtiiiS luto iHc
building with hose and fire fighting i'm
plements was remarked by the bystand-
ers and for two blocks either way steam
ers were disposed at fire plugs
THE fire did not amount to anything,
and the crowd dispersed; but every ap-
paratus and every fireman had fit into
place. A few years ago when all alarms
were turned in from boxes. there would
have been great excitement on a business
thoroughfare like First avenue. But with
a telephone call 1t is different.
"Chief Bennett has distinguished HIM
self as a frehghter and discplinarian,
and the department has improved every
year until now the discipline seems we'll
nigh perfect
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
WARNING ABOUT Fzt.a<s@,s

DR.. Angenette Pr Roeod aw
York physician fiarpei
Ear for August aaseksl. sftii
THE Athletic Cir ID Mpshssf ssssssa
which she says.- sd sfpa
Nothing makes 1 s4genss Aaape
now, as of Ole. fhgn e1s 'l5od. ~
the new woman.+ as Il Ter predsees-
sor, this subj ct is of vital interest.
and in these scientific days any causes
which render parturition easier or more
difficult merit our most careful atten-
ton. What is the relation of modern
athletics to labor? Are athletics a
menace to motherhood? At first thought
one would unqualifiedly reply that
athletic training must be great ad-
vantage. A strong. robust girl will,
of course, have the strength to de-
liver a child more easily and quickly
than her less muscularly trained sis
ter. A careful investigation of the re-
ports of many physicians of large ex-
perience and the highest reputation
does not confirm this idea. First of
all, there is a great deal of unwise
athletic training. Teachers are put in
charge of the physical training of girls
who, while they may be superior gym
nasts themselves, possess neither. the
judgment nor the training to estimate
a girls physical condition, guarding
her when she needs guarding, and fore
ing her when she is merely inactive
or Indifferent. 1t Is of inestimable
'impOrtance that the physical direcfor
of the young girl or woman should
have gerat wisdom and common sense
in the oversight of pupils"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
In Mississippi and Alabama

This has been a very good year from
business point of view said Sydney
F. Lazarus, whose manufacturing inter-
est keeps him In close touch with Ala
bama and Mississippi.
Our sales this July have been larger
than they were July a year ago. In
fact. there has been very decided in
crease comparing this month and July,
1911.
1.-THE cotton crop IN our part of the
south is. as everybody knows, backward.
But weather conditions are now favor
able and we will probably have a good
deal of cotton notwithstanding the men,
ace of the army worm. The south IS
raising big crop of corn and that will
count for a great deal.
'All in all, the outlook for business in
the last half of the year is very bright"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
COULDN'T BLUFF MAGAZINE

George French In the Twentieth Century
Magazine.
There have been occasions when the
bluff of the special interests, intent upon
the pleasing occupation of muffling some
magazine. has been sharply called, and
the magazine left free to go its own way.
In the short and lively history of Every
bodys there is one such salutary and
wholesome incident. That magazine was
indulging in some beef trust articles
which attracted the attention of the beef
men, who thought the articles should not
be continued They saw damage to their
business In them, and therefore crime
against business interests.
One of them. accompanied by suave
and snrewd attorney. made a little trip
to New York and called upon George w.
Wilder, who owned stock in Everybody's
and who was also heavily interested in the
Butterick trio--the three women's publica"
lions of the Butterick company.
The beef man told Mr.. Wilder that he
thought nothingswould be gained by print
ing more of the articles, and intimated
that IL would be to his advantage to have
them killed. Mr.. Wilder said that he did
not control the editorial policy of Every
body's and gave his caller to understand
that he was disinclined to interfere in the
way suggested. Then it was delicately
brought to his attention that ne had
other interests In the publishing field
You mean the Butterick trio?" he
asked.
The Chicago beef man let him know that
he need not guess again.
You mean that you will withdraw the
advertising of the packers from the But
terick trio If Everybody's does not sup
press the articles about the beef trust?'
Again he was assured that he was a
good guesser.
well" said the nervy Mr.. Wilder. all
l have to say is that you may take your
advertising out of Everybody's and out
of the Butterick trio, and you may so to
hell with it!''
Pretty strong language. was it not, to
hand out to the men who controlled a
number of big advertising accounts? But
it did the business; for the delegate re-
turned to Chicago and nothing ever came
of his threats, though the beef articles
were published in Everybody's precisely
as had been planned. The people who set
out to muzzle periodicals always stop
short of fight with a magazine or a
man who has fight in him. If they can
beat him down by a strong line of talk
they will do so; but If he has the spunk
to defy them and dare them to do theit
worst they will look around for some
other means of getting what they want.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
Fighting Off the Plague
paign.

A conference of the health officials
of all of the gulf states, with Geor-
gia's added for good measure, is to
be held on Monday, July 20, in New
Orleans, when the plague situation
will be carefully reviewed. The ma
ture of quarantine regulations in the
event that a case of plague should be
discovered in a southern port will also
be considered and determined.
The sundry civil bill has passed the
Senate and has been sent to confer
ence chiefly on account of an appro-
priation for the tariff board. An APP
preparation of 100000 for fighting
bubonic plague was also added to the
bill. This appropriation will be ac-
copied by the House, and it will no
doubt become law. General Blue of
the marine hospital service will then
be in position to back up the state
authorities in the most efficient man.
ner. The sundry civil bill will doubt
less be sent to the President next
week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
TO ANDREW LANG
obert Louis Stevenson.

by ROBERT Louis stevenson.
Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair,
Who glory to have thrown in air.,
High over arm, the trembling reed,
By Ale and Kali, by Till and Tweed;
An equal craft of hand you show
The pen to guide, the fly to throw:
count you happy starred; for God.
When He with inkpot and with rod
Endowed you, babe your fortune lead
Forever by the crooks of Tweed,
Forever by the woods of song
And lands that to the muse belong;
Or If in peopled streets. or in
The abhorred pedantic sanhedriln,
1t should be yours to wander, still
Airs of the morn, airs of the hill.
The plovery forest and the seas
That break about the Hebrides,
Should follow over field and plain
And find you at the window pane;
And you again see hill and peel,
And the bright springs gush at your hee'
So went the fiat forth. and SO
Garrulous like brook you go;
With sound of happy mirth and sheen
OF Observation-Disclosures by the green
Your fare that moment, or the gray;
Whether you dwell in March CT May;
Or whether treat of reels and rods
Or of the old unhappy gods:
Still like brook your page has shown.
And your ink sings Of Helicon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

James Oliver Curwood In Leslie's.
There is one story of President
Chamberlin of the Grand Trunk rail-
road and few of his friends that is
worth recording. In that particular
hunting party there were Chamberlin,
Dr. e. l.. Dow and ]. C. Stewart of New
York, S. NJ. Megeath, president of the
Gelena Oil company, and Col. A. p
Sherwood, commissioner of Dominion
police. at ottawa. This is a pretty
strong bunch. No one has any proof
that any individual member of it has
ever been "done"-not, at least, until
the whole combination was worked
to the queens taste up in the New
Brunswick woods. Stewart shot a big
bull moose, and the whole outfit gath
cred round the big animal, admiring its
splendid head and congratulating the
lucky hunter They had stacked their
rifles and were lighting pipes and
cigars, and Stewart was seated on the
rump of his kill" when one of the
party stuck the toe of his boot into the
dead bulls ribs. Quicker than chain
lightning something happened. The old
bull came to life like young volcano,
and while Stewart was cutting fancy
figures in the air, a president vice
president, commissioner of police and
soother of human ills were playing
Marathon parts in "Who can get. TO a
tree first" For a moving picture record
of those two minutes any one OF the
hunters named would give house and
lot. 1t would partly spoil good thing
to say what became of the clever old
bull afterward. Anyway there is a
moral to the incident: Never tickle a
dead one's' ribs-if you want him te
stay dead. 1t may bring him back te
| life
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
DEIrGE OF PAPERS

From the Saturday Evening POST.
A certain steamship line of conservative
tendencies decided to hire a press agent
The choice was a New York newspaper
man of varied experience and wide ac-
quaintance His new employer. the head
of the line, was a German and a serious
minded man.
In one of their official conversations
the manager said he didn't think the
boats were getting enough publicity IN
the papers over the country. Inc ne"
press agent decided in his own mind That
he would try to remedy that.
Inside of a week he had his opening.
Something unusual and newsy happened
aboard one of the ships and he got busy.
He asked the Associated Press, the
United Press. the Laffan bureau, the
Hearst news service and all the lesser
news gathering and news distributing
agencies to send out stories of the hap
pening over their wires to all their sub
scribers everywhere. He said 1t would
be a special favor to him. and they all
did it.
Then the new man called up the offices
of the concerns handling plate matter for
small country dailies and weeklies, and
they also obliged by spreading the news
broadcast In four NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Swedish, Italian and German. After
which the press agent, in the name OF
the company, subscribed for the service
of several of the pressclipping bureaus
and sat down to walt for results
He didn't have to wait long. The next
day clippings began to trickle in by mall
and by the day after the stream had
grown to a torrent and the clippings We're
being delivered by express In large crates
and bags.
They came for three weeks, until the
number of clippings, each from differ
ent paper but each telling of the same
thing, had mounted far up into the thou
sands.
Then the bins from the clipping bureaus
arrived They mounted up also. The
new press agent came III to his office one
morning and found the general manager
of the steamship line contemplating the
sum total with look of CHASTITY ana
stunned surprise upon his face. Some
what worried by the extent of his own
success, he asked If anything was wrong.
NO" said the general manager slow
ly. 1--WE have no COMPLAINT. But dell
me, Mister Blank. can it be Eat zere are
Eat many bapers?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
IN HOTEL. LOBBIES
whore the summer. Arc cool

Il had a letter from a friend who Is
spending the summer at Silver Plume,
Col, said well known club man. This
friend writes about a heavy snowstorm
at that place of high altitude on the
Fourth of July.
My friend asked German. who seemed
to be one of the citizens, how long Win
ter lasted in that part of Colorado. The
Teuton replied that he did not know as
he had only been there IS months. 1t had
lasted, he said. all the time he had been
there
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Money can't make brains, but 1t can
buy them.
Nothing makes a thing taste 50 good
as for 1t not to agree. with you.
When a girl won't notice man, it's a
sign she is doing 1t out of the corner of
iler eye.
1t is mighty risky for girl to get cut
of a hammock suddenly unless she Is
dressed for 1t.
If woman had the temper of an angel
her husband could swear it was her tina t
set his of. -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY
By r. /. MONKS

bling at points or trying to get behind
technicalities.
Whether the railroads (and they are
mostly British owned) are behind the
scenes is a question, but certain it is that
If there Is ever to be an American mer-
chant marine it can only come into exis-
tence either by subsidy, such as other
nations give, or by preferences which free
passage through the canal would confer,
but both these means have always met
with violent opposition from the senator's
and representatives from certain ates
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
Schools and Colleges

Alabama is deficient in public school
facilities In the rural districts. but 1t
was never so we'll off in private prepar-
atory schools and institutions of higher
learning as it is today said a profess
sional man.
I'm reading the school and college adj
vertisements in The Age-Herald. parents
with boys and girls of suitable age to
send from home should find no difficulty
in making selections.
Classical education and technical train
ing are more thorough In Alabama, per-
haps, than in most of the other southern
states"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

This Is year of boys corn clubs
In Alabama, and few things will add
more to the wealth of the state than
the increased production of corn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Chicago is prominently the con-
vention city. What other city can
boast of two presidential conventions
in the same year?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The Chicago News says the gnashirg
of Colonel Watterson's teeth in the silent
watches of the night can be heard even
In Chicago. He does this when he is
engaged in supporting the presidential
ticket of his party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The Baltimore man who saw Captain
Smith of the Titanic must have been
overcome by the heat or something else
that he had taken
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The death of Mr.. Lang leaves a va
cancy in the ranks of syndicate writer's.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The camel that went through the eye
of a needle had smoother sailing than the
Italian fleet in trying to pass through
the Dardanelles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The bald-headed man is unjustly
charged as much for haircut as the man
who has not cut his hair since the last
election.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The silence OF President Taft since the
convention in June is remarkable. He
has not had a word to say and so has
not said il
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

4 secretary of labor is TO be added to
the cabinet, and some think there should
also be a department of rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Judge Hanford sees no objection to a
resignation while under fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

In Illinois they say they can see the
corn growing and feel the democratic
party acting in a similar manner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The trouble with automobiles is they
and space.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The hopeful republicans are all dead.
They are now taking it for granted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The weather may be too hot for
mans comfort, but not too hot for cot
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

1t is safe to say that President Taft
viii not in his speech of acceptance quote
what he said at Winona
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Chicago begins to fear stampede of
the moose herd on August 5.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Katy6ids are already reported here and
there throughout wide country Early
katydids mean an early fall, the earlier
the better.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Gov. Cole Blease does not seem to con-
slider Judge Hanford's example one that
Ats him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Indiana has one county in which there
is no market for gold bricks. Every
body has one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Judge Hanford applied the recall to
himself to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

South Carolina should unload Cole
Blease, or else give him some lessons In
general manners.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Beveridge is to run for governor of
Indiana if he is not drafted as running
mate on the bull moose ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

The Taftites claim to have heard the
death rattle in the throat of the third
party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala.
postoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-23

ATALE OF ANOTHER, HER
There are times when our
boosted civilization, our organ
lied charities, our civic and relig-
ious reform associations seem
poor things.
Chicago has heard little but re-
form lately, and great schemes
for the wiping out of all the evils
Of the city have been advanced.
Yet yesterday a mother died of
starvation in a dirty, dingy little
room on Halsted street.
And today that mother baby,
born in the hope OF great things
and the suffering of the mother,
IS critically i'll of starvation in a
hospital.
If this had happened to fam
lily of hogs there would have been
a great uproar, and the state
and the city would have joined to-
gether to punish those respons-
ible.
But since it was only a human
mother and her baby there are
just a few lines in the papers
about the death of the mother,
and nothing about the cause nor
the persons responsible.
The room where the mother
died is. at 2O8 North Halsted
street, in a rooming house run by
Mrs. Helen Weiss,
The room has one dingy win
dow. The furniture is a bed,
chair and a soap box. The bed is
moth-eaten and incredibly dirty.
There is no carpet on the floor.
The mother who died of star
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-23

BABE AND STARVATION
clothes, and was sure she would
be able to get along all right.
And then the baby came, and
all the money went, and the good
clothes were pawned.
The baby was a little 10-pound
girl, as healthy and as beautiful
as any baby could be.
The mother was i'll for. several
weeks after the coming of the
baby and had to stay in bed.
But at last she was able to get
up and look for work. For weeks
she tramped the streets, and al
ways the answer was the same.
The employers looked at her
shabby clothing, and shook their
heads. Employees of their firms
had to look respectable.
So the mother in the end "ac-
.cepted a position" in a rag factory
at Sixteenth and Halsted streets.
This position" paid the magni-
ficent salary of $3.50 a week.
That was FIVE months ago. The
mother has been working for
$3.50 a week ever since. She paid
her room rent out of it, and she
kept her baby and herself-until
last night-alive on it.
The mother sacrificed every
thing for her baby. She grew SO
weak and i'll of starvation herself
that she was scarcely able to
crawl, and yet she managed to
feed her baby.
Last night, Mrs. Weiss went to
Mrs. Miller's room. She knock
ed. There was ne. answer. She
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-11
ECZEMA IN RED BL0TCHES

205 Kanter Ave, Detroit, Mich
Some time last summer / was taken
with eczema. 1t began in my hair
first with red blotches, then scaly
spreading to my face. The blotches
were red on my face, dry and scaly
not large; on my scalp they were
larger, some scabby. They came on
my hands. The inside of my hands
were all little Jumps as though full of
shot about one-sixteenth Of an inch
under the skin. Then they went to
the outside and between and all over
my fingers. It also began ON the bot
toms of my feet and the calves of my
legs. and itch, oh, my! / never had
anything like 1t and hope I never will
again. The itching was terrible. My
hands got so could scarcely work.
Il tried different eczema ointments
but without results. l also took medi-
cine for it but it did no good. l saw
the advertisement for a sample of
Cuticura Ointment and Soap and sent
for one. They did me so much good
/ bought some more, using them as
per directions. and in about three
weeks was well again. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment entirely cured me-"
(Signed) Benz. Passage, Apr. 6, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"