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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
The June Stars

The region along the eastern heavens,
from the Scorpion TO the Northern
CROSS. is most rich in these fainter
stars. nor should the observer fail to
examine that portion of the heavens
below the handle of the Great Dipper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Walters Wages

T
The statement made recently to the ef-
feet that, although head walters some-
times pay proprietors of hotels ana res
taurants as much as fl0 week Tor ther
nositions they are able to live in style,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
THE HEAVENS IN JUNE
by PROF. ERIC DoOLITTLE
of the University OF Pennsylvania

of
ter-venus and Shine Brightly in the Early Morning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
The Open Winter

The winter is fast slipping away
and even If we do have two OF three
cold snaps between now and spring 1t
will go on record as an uncommonly
mild season by comparison. While the
north has had much cold weather and
some states have been covered with
snow the winter, as a whole, through
out the country has been unusually
moderate. In the east and middle west
as we'll as the south an open winter
has been the rule.
A southern winter like this makes
most agreeable impression upon new
settlers, especially those who come
from the far north. 1t has been excep-
tionally seasonable for the truck farm
ers, and truckers now form highly
desirable class of Alabama's rural
population. There has been freezing
enough to mellow the soil and days
balmy enough to invite outdoor work.
In the cities the open winter is al
ways of great value to contractors and
to the building trades generally. In
Birmingham this winter has been most
welcome to many because of the great
number of large buildings in course
of construction. Excavation work has
gone on with scarcely any Interrupt
ton. Concrete mixers, brick masons
and structural steel workers have lost
no time on account of freezing tenn
perature and very little on account of
rain. The pay rolls of the Birming
ham district are now at high water
mark and Birmingham owes its pres
ent high degree of prosperity to some
extent to the open winter.
Newcomers who think this sort of
winter is good sample of the sunny
south may possibly be disappointed
next winter or the winter thereafter,
for not all winters in the south are as
open as this has been But it is worthy
of note that severe seasons in this
latitude are extremely rare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
Gen. Rosalie Jones' March

Sixteen women with Rosalie G..
Jones in command started yesterday
to cover the 230 miles between New
York and Washington. They have not
only leader, but also an official or
ator, and great automobile loads of
suffragist literature,
This is no mere athletic movement.
1t is a movement intended to move the
country. Every days advance will be
fully reported by the daily newspa-
pers, and many meetings are to be
held in the towns on the route, nota-
bly, one at Princeton, N. J. The Of
ficial orator will not do a stunt of
16 miles /. day. She is to ride in an
ammunition wagon, and will thus keep
in condition to address the various
meetings.
The movement is essentially politi-
cal. In connection with the suffragists'
parade in Washington it is planned to
arouse the country to the demands of
equal suffrage for all citizens, male
and female of voting age. The news
papers will keep in touch with Gen.
Rosalie Jones and her army, and the
public will be kept we'll informed Of
all its efforts and its mishaps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
A BROTHER's TRIBUTE
3v Robert g. Ingersoll.

By Robert Il. lngerSoll.
My friends, / am going to do that
which the dead often promised he would
do for me. The loved and loving brother
husband, father, friend, died where man.
hoods morning almost touches noon. and
while the shadows still were falling
toward the west. He mad not passed
on life's highway the stone that marks
the highest point, but being weary for
a moment he lay down by the wayside
and, using his burden for a pillow. fell
into that dreamless sleep that kisses
down his eyelds still. While yet in love
with life and raptured with the world,
he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
Yet, after all, it may be best, Just in the
happiest. sunniest hour of all the yoy-
age, while eager winds are kissing every
sail, TO dash against the unseen rock
and in an instant hear the billows roar
over a sunkea ship. For, whether in
niidsea or among the breakers of the far
ther shore. a wreck must mark at last
the end of each and all. And every life.
no matter il its every hour is rich with
love. and every moment jeweled with a
joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy,
as sad ana deep and dark as can be
woven of the warp and woof of mystery
and DEATH This brave and tender man
in every storm of life was oak and rock.
but in the sunshine ne was vine and
Flower. He was the friend of all heroic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
To Raise s25,OOO

The Young Women's Christian asso-
citation is recognized by all classes as
one of Birmingham's worthiest instl-
tptions. Few local associations own
and occupy handsomer home' and
not one, perhaps, is more modernly
eouipped than this building in Biz
miugham.
There is still a debt of about
$4,000 on the property and 1t mas
been decided by the good women VINO
form the board of managers to ask the
citizens to subscribe to fund which
will not only liquidate the Indebted
ness but Finance" the association IN
its running expenses for one year.
Next week canvass will be made
for $4,000 and it is the hope of the
ladies in charge that the entire sum
will be contributed in one day. Fol
lowing the "whirlwind" canvass for
money with which to erect the Young
Mems Christian association building
on Twentieth street, an appeal was
made for a supplemental fund for the
Young Women's Christian association
home. 1t is stated that 1900 persons
subscribed then to the young women's
home.
Birmingham has grown consider
ably since that time and it is believed
that there are fully 5000 persons here
now who are able and who would be
glad to give something but who have
never contributed. There can be no
question but that the $4,000 will be
raised. 1t is only matter of days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13

From the Mobile Register.
II the farmers are to obtain money
cheaply they Will have to bring their in
auence to bear upon the Legislature to
get the tax burden upon capital re-
moved. The tax Is for revenue, and it
is one of the heaviest to be borne be-
cause 1t falls upon class that is al
ready bearing as much of the public
burden as it can stand Preparations are
made in this state to extend credit to
farmers on terms that shall encourage
the farming industry and the organ
izers must first pay to the state a per-
centage that practically precludes the
giving of a cheap rate to farmers who
borrow. 1t is a discriminating tax. that
is to say, 1t is not imposed upon money
lent by individuals but only upon COM
panies. 1t is a 21s per cent tax on the
capital invested in mortgages.
The State Land congress held in Mo-
bile started the farm loan movement and
authorized committee to carry it for
ward. Mr.. Harding of Birmingham has
since formulated the plan, and Colonel
Thompson of the Mobile Chair company
and father of the Land congress, is ad-
vocating the removal of the tax, say
ing that it is the next step that must
be taken if the farm loan movement is
to meet with success in Alabama.
A meeting of the chamber of COM
merce of Huntsville was held last week,
and the assemblage was addressed by
Colonel Thompson. Judge Altman, speak
er of the lower house of the state legis-
lature also spoke, and is said to have
expressed himself strongly In favor of
cheaper money and long time credit
The resolutions adopted, after reciting
the state OF affairs with relation to tho
tax on the capital of corporations seek
ing to do a farm loan business. declare
that the discriminatory tax is prevent
ing the establishment of such corpora
tions in this state and in consequence is
shutting out cheaper money and pre-
venting long time credits for the farm
ers of Alabama and it is resolved that
the Legislature be asked to place farm
mortgage companies on a parity with
individuals in the lending of money to
farmers in Alabama.
Colonel Thompson attaches utmost
Importance, but not too great impor-
tanee, to this undertaking. There is no
hope of generally successful agriculture
where any considerable number of farm
ers must pay in interest as much as
would be considered a good profit ON
their industry Farm development is not
to be expected under conditions of that
kind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
Offlcc seeker. Plentlfnl

'In Washington, whre l spent last week,
the impression prevails that compara-
lively few changes in federal positions
will be made under the Wilson admin
istration," said C. T. Norven of Phila-
delphia.
Il am not after an office myself, I am
not even a democrat, but have several
democratic friends in Pennsylvania who
are looking over the government blue
book to pick out places they would like
to fill.
II have been voter since 1884 and have
seen the civil service system developed
from small beginning to it's present
extensive application. | remember that
when Cleveland was first inaugurated
officeseekers rushed to Washington by
the thousands and tens of thousands. 1t
was the same way in 1889 when General
Harrison was inaugurated. In 1898 when
Cleveland was inaugurated the second
time l happened to be sojourning in
Washington and the vast multitude of
visitors included many democrats who
were making for the pie counter.
while l have always been republican
admit that Mr.. Cleveland did more
for the civil service than any of his pre-
decessors. l believe thoroughly in the
merit system and l am glad to know
that President-elect Wilson is firmly
committed to civil service policy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
PROFITABLE LITIGATION
From Bits.


Among the curiosities of litigation
may be cited the following case On
the boundary line Of two farms in an
Austrian village there grew large
gooseberry bush, from which the two
farmers for years gathered the pro-
duct. What grows on my side is
mine, and you may have the rest"
was the agreement.
Some time ago the neighbors had a
misunderstanding, and this came to a
climax when the gooseberries became
ripe. lawsuit followed, and appeals
We're made to higher judicial bodies.
The final decision was lately recorded
in the Austrian courts.
Each party is 20 have the right to
pick the berries which grow on his
side of the line, just as 1t was ori-
ginally. but neither may destroy the
bush. The costs are charged half to
each litigant. Each farmer had to
pay 225 krone. The yearly yield of
the bush is worth about one-half krone
and the Judge told the lighting far
mers with good luck, it will take
you only 500 years to make the bush
pay. Take good care of it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
ORIGIN OF HAREM SKIRT

1OIu the Cl- LOUIS IliilcS-
Here is one version of the origin of the
harem skirt: when Amelia jerks
Rloomer. more than half a century ago,
startled London with the celebrated cos
tune to which her name is given, though
IL was the invention of Elizabeth Smith
Miller. she did not set the town by the
ears the way a woman still unknown TO
fame did the other day when she ap-
peared in Regent street wearing a So
called harem skirt. The later incident
caused a jeering mob to collect and hold
up traffic. This revolutionary feminine
habiliment did not, as is commonly sup
posed, originate in Paris, where it is
worn by one of the characters in Henri
Bernstein's latest play. Lady Haberton,
tie English dress reformer long advanced
the use of a modification of the Turkish
Trousers costume and while she had not
the courage of her convictions so mark
edly as was the case with Mrs. Bloomer
and the devoted disciples of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, the harem skirt is truly of
English design. just as bloomers were en-
phatically American. In New York,
where really fashionable folk reject the
extreme hobble, the use of the harem cos
tune is also likely to be restricted to
the musical comedy stage or to adventures
promoted by theatrical press agents. 1t
is not sufficiently susceptible to modifi-
ca ton TO have any influence on the FASH
ions of the coming season. A woman af-
fecting such attire in the Easter parade
in Fifth avenue or on the Atlantic City
boardwalk would invite the solicitous at
tention of the local constabulary as a dis
turber of the peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13

souls. He climbed the heights and left
all superstitions far below. while on his
forehead fell the golden dawning of a
grander day. He loved the beautiful
and was with color, form and music
touched to tears. He sided with the
weak, and with a willing hand gave
aims: with loyal heart and with the
purest hand he faithfully discharged ali
public trusts. lie was a worshipper of
liberty and friend of the oppressed. A
thousand times I have heard him quote
the words. For justice all places a
temple and all seasons summer" lie be-
lieved that happiness was the only good,
reason the only torch, justice the only
worshipper. humanity the only religion
and love the priest. He added to The
sum of human joy, and were everyone
for whom he did some loving service to
bring a blossom to his grave he would
sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of
flowers. Life Is a narrow vale between
the cold and barren peaks of two eterni-
ties. We strive in vain to look beyond
the heights. We cry aloud and the
only answer is the echo of our wailing
cry. From the voiceless lips of the un-
replying dead there comes no word; but
in the night of death hope sees a star
and listening love can hear the rustic
of a wing lie who sleeps here, when
dying, mistaking the approach of death
for the return of health, whispered with
his latest breath. Il am better now" Let
US believe, in spite of doubts and dog
mas and tears and fears, that these dear
words are true of all the countless dead
And now. to you who have been chosen
from among the many men he loved to
do the last sad office for the dead,
we give his sacred dust Speech cannot
contain our love. There was-there is
no gentler, stronger manlier man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
Plans for the New Postoffice

Postmaster Aldrich does not talk at
random when he says the construction
of the new postoffice building i'll this
city may be long delayed. He knows
all the ms and outs of Washington
methods. He sees that there are 2S6
postoffices ahead of Birmingham in
the list. "We need" he says, "permis-
sion by which we can have the plans
for the new postoffice made outside
the department and then submitted
for approval" Unless this be done it
will be three or four years before the
Birmingham building will be started.
This is a matter that needs atten-
ton sorely. Mr.. Underwood's hands
are overfull, but he is never SO busy
that he cannot aid his own city when
it is in a hole. The Chamber of Com
mcrce should get busy, and no stone
should be left unturned that will
prevent a delay of "three or four
years" in the construction oil post
office building in this city.
Mr.. Aldrich is we'll informed. He
has served both in and out of Con-
gress, and what he says about the
crowded condition of the supervising
architects office will be accepted as
trustworthy and important.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
THE NEW BOARDER ARRIVES

that people of opposite temperaments get
along better than those of the same tenn
permanent, because
Mrs. Muffin-Mr. Smartly, let me pre-
sent the newest member of our family,
Mr.. Cropley.
Mr.. Smartly-Happy to know you, Mr..
Cropley. I am sure. Any relation to the
Cropleys who used to live in Buffalo? No?
knew one of those Cropleys quite we'll
Julia. Fact is, Julia and I were rather
gone on each other!
Mrs. Sweetly-Oh, Mr. Smartly, | fear
that you are dreadful, dreadful firt.
for that is at least the tenth girl you
have told us that you were "gone" on! [
fear that you are a naughty boy, and
Mr.. Cropley will have to look out for
you, or you will be teaching him to fall
into fiirtatious ways!
Mrs. Muffin-Oh, I am sure that Mr..
Cropley doesn't look in the least firta-
tious. Mrs. Akrid, this is Mr.. Cropley.
Mrs. Akrid-Mr. Cropley. A sister of the
husband of niece of mine married a
man named Cropley living in Kansas
City. You of that family? You never
of it, for they were u bad lot, and my
nieces husbands sister hadn't the least
trouble getting her divorce Another cup
of coffee, Mrs. Muffin. 1t is so weak
this morning one has to have about three
cups to really get one. When 1 kept house
I made coffee that was coffee, and every
one said so.
Mrs. Muffin--I fear the coffee is not
quite up to the standard this morning.
My new cook seems so uneven in some
of her dishes, for they are good one day
and poor the next. Miss Weaklie, this
is Mr.. Cropley, who will sit opposite you.
Miss Weaklie-Most happy, I am sure.
Shocking weather. isn't it, Mr.. Cropley?
This is the third successive day with
out sunshine, but then if one has sun
shine in the heart It doesn't matter. 1
so often thinks of Longfellow's beautiful
lines in which he says
Mrs. Muffin-Take the chair next TO
Mrs. Sweetly, Mr.. Cropley, and we will
go right on with our breakfast. You
will have some of the cereal? We have
both oatmeal and hominy grits. You will
have the oatmeal? Most of my family
seem to prefer oatmeal, Mr.. Surlee. will
you very kindly pass the cream to Mr..
Cropley?
Mr.. Surlee-The cream! The ereaml
Huhi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
of Recent Jail Delivery


The Jail delivery of January 90, in
which 16 prisoners of the city Jail Sc
cured their freedom, temporarily at
least, is fully explained in the report
made on the incident by Commissioner
Weatherly. A stevedore trusty inside
the Jail on the night of the Jail de-
livery is blamed first and most of all
by Mr.. Weatherly. The stevedore in
fact rendered the wholesale escape
possible, and he was himself one of
the escaping prisoners. While there
was degree Of negligence in the two
night watchmen, yet there could not
well have been Jail delivery on a
large scale if the trusty inside had
been faithful.
The building ON Avenue + is not
escape proof. No building for that
matter is. 1t cannot be made to hold
all prisoners unless careful watch is
kept over them at night. The safe
keeping should never be dependent
upon a convict, no matter how trust
worthy he may seem to be. Mr. Wealth
erly makes plain the entire situation
on the night of the Jail delivery, so
that all can see just how it was rem
dered possible. The windows are to
be repaired and made secure, and no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
Max Merryman. in PUCK.

Max Merryman, in Puck.
K HRS. MUFFIN mistress of the
MI boarding house-Oh, good morn
i ing, Mr.. Cropleyl l was beginning
to wonder if you had heard the bell.
hope you rested well last night. Yes? I'm
SO glad you did. Some people don't rest
well the first few nights in a strange
place. Let me present you to the rest Of
my little family. Mrs. Wiggleton, permit
Cropley.
Mrs. Wiggleton with her hand to her
ear)-What name?
Mrs. Muffin-Cropley--Mr Cropley, who
has taken the room across the hall from
yours, left vacant by Mr.. Myrtle, the
young man whom we miss so very much.
Mrs. Wiggleton-I hope he won't smoke
Gay and night, the way Mr.. Myrtle did.
What men want to smoke for, anyhow. is
beyond me!
Mrs. Muffn--Oh, suppose that it is one
Of their prerogatives, and they get SO
rluch comfort from it that I have never
forbidden smoking in my rooms. Miss
Giggleton, allow me to present Mr.. Crop
ley.
Miss Giggleton-Oh, I think-tee-hee-hee
that we e-tee-hee-hee-met already
in e-tee-hee-hee-hall. Happy to know
you, | tee-hee-hee-am sure-tee-hee-hee!
Mr.. Cropley-oh, thanksl
Mrs Muffin-Mr. Surlee. this is Mr..
Cropley, who will add one more to the
number of gentlemen in the house.
Mr. Surlee-Huh! G. morning.
Mrs Muffin-Mrs. Sweetly, let me pre-
sent Mr.. Cropley, and / think that will
seat him next TO you, in the place left
vacant by Mr.. Myrtle. whom we do miss
81 much.
Mrs. Sweetly-Yes, indeed! Such an
agreeable young man. Always the same,
too, But we shall all hope that Mr.. Crop
ley will quite take his place in more ways
than one. SO happy to have you for my
quite near neighbor at the table, Mr..
Cropley. II I am not mistaken, I think
I heard you whistling in your room last
evening. and-you do love music? l shall
be quite disappointed if you tell me that
you do not,
Mr.. Cropley- Sorry, but don't know ons
note from another.
couldn't imagine a worse misfortune than
to be born deprived of the power to
appreciate music. Bus 1 am sure that
we shall be quite good friends just
the same. In fact, I sometimes think
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
Building Activity I'm Mobile

There is more building In Mobile this
winter than usual,'' said Major W. f.
Tebbetts, who spent yesterday in Birming-
ham on his way to Atlanta. "Our city
was never more prosperous than it is
now and l believe its rate of growth was
greater in 1912 than in any previous year.
I'm building operations Mobile is cer-
tainly making new high record. Many
handsome structures are now in course
of construction and ground will be broken
for many more during the spring"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
CONVINCING.

A SNAIL unkempt man rushed into
II Greek restaurant and soon be-
= came engaged in a heated alter
cation with one OF the walters Wildly
waving two small books of cards. printed
like pressing club tickets. he began =
shout, with strong German accent,
You ordert desc carts an now you don I
take DEM"
Attracted by the disturbance. the head
waiter asked the cause of the small
mans wrath. He stated his grievance,
showed the cards and shortly after was
paid.
What proof was there that the waiter
had really ordered those cards?" asAed
a thoughtless spectator.
Ample proof" replied a man sitting
near by Everyone one of those cards
bore the walters name correctly spelled.
It's Greek name ana probably con-
tains at least sixteen letters. DO you
suppose that Dutchman' could have
gotten such a name into type if it had
not been spelled for him by the man who
bears it,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES


CONFESSIONS OF Az INVALID.
To the Editor of the sun-sir: When
troubled with insomnia I have always
cured it by not going to bed the night
before. An infallible remedy. The othcr
day 7 had an attack of neuralgia, which
includes insomnia.
All my teeth aehed. I went to the
dentist, who necessarily wanted to ex-
tract every molar IN my mouth. and
after a pleasant conversation about the
weather, l made an appointment for the
rext day. which I didn't keep Then [
tried a druggist. He recommended every
patent cure In the establishment Finally
we came to terms on some diminutive
tablets, which he assured me would
work a cure in half an hour, though he
warned me they might have a trifling
effect on my heart. I didn't take them
Finally I had a consultation with anold
fashioned lady who comes in at inter-
vals to attend to the laundry. She per-
suaded me that old friends are best, and
that night I had a few hours sleep,
moaning amid my doing:
Press me closer, closer still,
With what fervor you can master;
All my nerves responsive thrill,
Press me closer, mustard plasteri'
can recommend the remedy. It is
strenuous but efficacious, and puts to
shame the dentist and the druggist
NOVA zEMBLA.
D-aa1,1x.,,