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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
UNDERWATER PHOTOS

Norfolk Correspondent New York Sun.
A new departure in submarine pho
Biography is promised from the success
full results of the Williamson flexible
submarine tube, the invention of Captain
J. H. Williamson, by means of which his
con, J. Ernest Williamson, several days
ago took photographs of fishes, divers
and other objects at distances under the
surface of Hampton Roads of from 10
to 35 feet.
The results of Williamson's expert
ments with his fathers invention were
SO successful that, although he is not an
expert photographer, he is planning an
expedition to the West indies for the
purpose of taking moving pictures of
submarine life in those waters.
The tube which makes the taking of
such photographs possible is perfectly
flexible and can be stretched TO any
length from one foot to 500 or more Al
the bottom of the tube is chamber with
a glass front and with room for three
persons. No compressed air is necessary
and those in the room breathe the same
air as those on the surface. They can
thus remain below for hours
In his Hampton Roads test young Will
hanson took pictures both in the night
and day. To take the night phot ographs
four powerful electric lights with re-
Electors were lowered beneath the boat
and as the objects passed the big glass
eye of the submarine chamber they were
snapped.
A large chunk of meat was hung over
the side of the boat on hook and dan
gled before the glass face of the little
room at the bottom of the tube in
which Williamson and two comrades
sary. for all sorts of fishes were at
tracted to the chamber by the light in
side, which served as a jacklight such as
Is used in spearing salmon.
One of the best tests came when sew
eral expert swimmers and divers took
headers off the boat and crawled below
the surface to the depth of 80 feet, where
in front of the glass.
Newspapers and magazines We're
Weighted and lowered in front of the
chamber to 30 feet down and pictures
made of them.
Hitherto moving pictures of submarine
subjects have been confined to the in
mates of glass tanks or photographs
made through the bottom of such ves-
sells as the little steamboat with a glass
bottom that makes sightseeing trips of
the oceans floor in Bermuda.
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and faithfully reported to his country
men. Necessarily she speaks through her
nose. Certain words and phrases are
constantly on her lips. She "guesses'
and fixes to an extent that would as
tound those most addicted to the use
of the words. She is fond of saying
'.iest lovely" Jest elegant" As result
of her assumed sensitiveness about en-
ploylng the word leg, she Is invariably
particular to substitute for it limb. These
and scores of other phrases which have
done duty for generations are assumed
to adorn her speech on all occasions.
II the portrait is drawn from life, one
is naturally led to wonder what sort of
American women those are who manage
to get into reputable English circles for
1t is there that they are represented as
appearing. They certainly could not get
into similar circles in their own land.
Tt is, In truth, a libel upon cultivated
English society to represent such per-
sons as having effected an entrance into
1t. The novelists appear to felicitate
themselves In all sincerity upon their
success in reproducing American speech
in the language they put in the mouths
OF American women. In a certain sense
the result may do credit to their i'm
aginative powers, but it is a good deal OF
a reflection upon their intelligence.
This is, however, a measurable pal
liation for errors of this sort on the part
OF Englishmen. Certain of our own
writer's are to some extent responsible
for them; none more so perhaps than
Lowell, who in his Bigelow Papers raw
aged all New England in search of quaint
words, quaint phrases, quaint colloquial-
isms. quaint pronunciations and quaint
grammatical peculiarities, and blended
them together in one volume of wise and
witty sayings. Collectively, however,
they never used by any single man or in
any single community. But more re-
spenslble than all others are probably the
compilers of Americanisms-a least the
early compilers. In their volumes little
or no heed was paid to the distinction
between cultivated and uncultivated
speech. Furthermore, no sufficient at
tempt has been made to separate the
local from the general A word entitled
to be called an Americanism should have
at least an approach to universality.
Strictly speaking, 1t should be familiar
to the majority of the people of the coun-
try, whether they dwell in the east or in
the remote west, in the north or in the
south. Nothing of this sort has been
done thoroughly; in the earlier diction-
aries 1t was hardly even attempted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
Mr.. Crawford's Testimony

This is "trust busting' time, but
had the United States Steel corpora
ticn kept out of the Birmingham dis
trict there might have been no probe
in this direction. 1t may be assumed,
at any rate, that an investigation into
the Steel corporation as trust would
have attracted little attention ouside
of political circles.
The Steel corporation acquired the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company during the Wall street furry
of 1907. 1t was said at the time that
thisNwas done to stay the panic. Had
the Steel corporation with it's power
full financial backing not come to the
rescue the panic might have been far
worse than it was. Having acquired
this property in the Birmingham dis
trict the corporation proceeded at once
to develop it in a large way. Dema-
gogues and enemies of the corporation
have tried to make it appear that
greed was the motive and the only mo-
tive. The Steel corporation was, in
the minds of many, a gigantic trust
that naturally wanted to absorb the
Tennessee company, which was sup
posed to be a very formidable COM
petitor.
President George Gordon Craw-
ford's testimony for the defense is IL
Illuminating and must have far reach
ing effect on the general proposition
at issue. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman
of the corporation; James A. Farrell,
president of the corporation; Percival
Roberts, Jr., director of the Steel
corporation, and other men promi-
nently connected with the so-called
Steel trust have testified and their
testimony has been such as would
strengthen the contention that the cor
poration was not a trust. But no
witness who has been examined has
made greater impression, it is
thought, than George Gordon Craw-
ford, president of the Tennessee COM
pany. Mr.. Crawford has been at the
head of the company since it was ac-
quired by the Steel corporation. He is
not only an engineer and metallurgical
chemist of high rank, but he is a
good business man who has thor
ough grasp Of the economies of indus
trial operation. He is strong be-
lever in the Birmingham district, but
he insists that as the Tennessee COM
pany has slow grade" proposition
the only way to make it's properties
profitable is to develop them on big
scale. In other words, Birmingham
ores are lean and for steel making
purposes all the science known to the
modern chemist must be brought to
bear to make steel products here COM
pete profitably with those of the Pitts
burg district.
When Mr.. Crawford came here as
president of the Tennessee company
he realized that he had an uphill busi-
ness before him. but he was resource
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in turn could instruct their children.
There could be none of the objections
and there would be none of the dan
gers attending the instruction of boys
and girls in their teens on subjects
which, if publicly discussed, may with
equal propriety be made subjects of
private conversation.
The modern tendency to leave the
training and education of children to
the schoolteaeher and the regulation
of their behaviour to the policeman or
policewoman does not promise very
good results for the future if the
present may be taken as an index.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.

FROM the chicago News.
He may love best whose love lasts.
People who wear new garments
shouldn't throw mud.
There's more or less grating done un-
der the name of reform.
Many fluent talker would make a big
ger hit by keeping still.
You can't convince brunette that dark
hair isn't as good as gold.
A man may value his reputation so
highly that it is impossible to find a
buyer.
1t isn't always safe to judge a mans
object by what he is apparently striving
for. ss
Even the man who occasionally admits
to himself that he is a coward will resent
an insinuation from another.
When fool married man needs to be
chaperoned by his wife every time he
travels he ought to stay at home.
'If 1t wasn't for car fare and luncheon
says a bachelor "a woman wouldn't have
any need of money when she goes shop
ping But every married man knows bet
ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
BEES FOLLOW OWNER

ST. Louis, Mo-, Dispatch to New York
Sun.
Edward C. Eidmann of Belleville. a
railway mail clerk and bee fancier, last
fall moved into the uptown district of
Belleville. and by remarkable VIII
power separated. himself from his bees
forever. hs thought.
lie labored under this apprehension
until yesterday, when he discovered
such thing was impossible. When the
bees realized they had been deserted,
they followed their master.
Eidmann awoke to find his bedroom
window screen covered with the in
sects. Further investigation showed
they had prepared permanent quarters
in a shed in the back yard,
In order to make sure they were the
same insects he had fostered last year
Eidmann inspected the hives at his
former home in the oeuntry. He found
the place destitute of bees. Eidmann
hopes he can bribe his city neighbors
to tolerate the bees with honey. Other
wise he will have to move back to the
country. where his pets can be with
him unmolested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
j. F. Lee Again Leads

]. F. Lee will leave tomorrow night for
Mackinac Island, Mich, to attend the am
nual convention of the leading producers
of the Equitable Lifes agency force Of
the United States. Mrs. Lee will accom-
pany him.
Repeating his success of 1912, Mr. Lee
again received special distinction by Lead
ing the Alabama agency in the amount of
insurance written and paid for during
their 1918 fiscal year. which closed June
80 Those who will attend this conven-
ton from the Alabama agency are Man
ager G. t. Sibley, ]. r. Lee and w. G.
Wimbish of birmingham and 7. s. Chris
topher of Gadsden.
Trips to these conventions are given an
nually by the company to those who pro-
duce and pay for above a stipulated
amount of insurance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
A New York Visitor

j. r. Francke, special representative of
the Mutual Film corporation, New York,
ana also a representative of the Battle
OF Gettysburg is spending this week in
Birmingham He was for many years
prominent manager of musical artists,
including the Damrcsch orchestra.
Birmingham has grown very fast since
| was here three or four years ago with
Walter Damrosch," said Mr. Francke. ''r
was here again last year and was struck
with the improvements that had been
made and now I am still further inn
Pressed. This city is making wonderful
strides"
Mr.. Francke has given up the musical
agency business altogether. He is still n
comparatively young man, but in his time
he has managed some of the greatest ar
lists that have appeared in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Tho,nns n.Rrrne

Few men in Birmingham were so well
known and esteemed as Thomas w.
o'Byrne and. his death by drowning Nom
day caused sincere lament
Tom O'Byrne was a good kind friend
and he will be sorely missed" said a
prominent citizen. He was of genial dis
position and always had a CHEEKY greet
ing for those he met In business or in
social circles.
l knew him as neighbor and better
neighbour never lived, and I always re-
garded his domestic life as ideal. 1t seems
sad, indeed, that good man in the prime
of life, like Tom OByrne, should meet
such an untimely eid."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02


After a camel trip of Is or 1s miles
south of the Pyramids, across the Sahara
desert one comes to the tomb of the
bulls, where in ancient times the mummi-
fled remains of the sacred bulls. which
were then worshpped by the Egyptians.
were entombed. After passing through a
tunnel half a mile long under the desert
one comes to the rooms where the bulls
were formerly buried. After digging out
the rooms immense granite powders 1S
feet long, feet high and 40 feet wide
We're dragged to these rooms by some
power of which modern civilization knows
nothing. The center of these huge gran
lite powders was then followed out in the
form of a vault, in which the mummified
bulls were laid away with religious ccre-
monies. There are AZ of these tombs in
all. and visited q of them. How in the
world these great granite pillars were
put into place or where they came from
nobody knows, but these immense tombs
are one of the most marvellous things 1
encountered on my entire trip.
THE bulls have all been removed from
the tombs. having been taken out during
different wars.
*''The Sphinx is also wonderful work
of art, with its head of a woman and body
OF lion. A temple has only recently been
discovered in. the head of the Sphinx, but
did not visit it. Next to the tomb OF
the bulls. the catacombs at Rome are
probably the most interesting tombs in
the old world. They have already cx-
cavated 575 miles of catscombs and are
still excavating."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
Sunlight Hard on Eyes

1.-THE extreme heat with it's intense
fierce suns rays is causing many persons
discomfort and a confusion of vision,
said DR.. J. H. Tinder.
This is caused W the reflection of what
is known to scientists as the violet rays
upon that part of the eye called the retina
the photo-sensitive plate, say--which re-
suits in some cases In distorting and con-
fusing the vision. In other words, rer-
sons suddenly find they do not see as
clearly as usual. This may be corrected
with properly adjusted colored. amber or
other tinted glasses, which will prove rest
full to those of highly nervous tempera-
ment -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
AeE-HERALp,s NEW BLOOD

From the Admission Star and Hot Blast.
The editorial page of the Birmingham
ge-Herald has recently acquired new
ring. In the catholicity, the breadth of
sympathy and evidences of liberal read
ing of some of the contributions there is
an evidence of the fine hand of William
Ryan and in others there is brisk, pun
gent style that suggests Hugh Roberts.
If Editor E. W. Barrett should decide
to turn this page over to these two writ
ers. 1t will never suffer for lack of at
tention.
Mr. Ryan, like the late N. P. 7. Finch,
Is one Of the war horses of Alabama
newspaperdom. He has been connected
with The Age-Herald for a number of
that is not generally appreciated by the
average reader. AS city editor, news edi-
tor and managing editor respectively, it
has fallen to his lot to conserve the
papers general policies in practicing the
art of selection and rejection, a work
which in recent years has largely fallen
upon G. NJ. Stanley, the present capable
news editor
Mr.. Ryan is native Virginian. He has
travelled widely, has been intimately as
ISOLATED with the arstocracy Of learning
in Europe and America and has given to
The Age-Herald the full benefit of his
varied experience. A gentleman by birth
and by instinct, there has always been
the evidence of gentility in his work.
Under it's present control, The Age
Herald has been one of the cleanest
papers in the country, fact which must
be conceded whether you agree with its
editorial policy or not and Mr.. Ryan
should be given his need of credit for
keeping it up to its high standard. a
credit which we extend the more gladly
because it is a fact not generally known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
From the Louisville oourier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
wv HILE the adieu to old Montmartre
M was being celebrated, in honor
w of certain landmarks that are
being razed to make room for apartment
giving the fete of Les Danses d'Autre-
fois." which is described by the Paris cor
respondent If the New York Tribune as
having been "a subtle manifestation OF
the dignihed Faubourg st. Germain
against the new dances now so much in
favor"
How the company at the Moulin de la
Galette spurned the tango and the turkey
trot for the merrier 'valse chaloupe" and
finished the evening by singing an lode
to the Rising Sun" is told. and here is the
contrasting picture:
in a large Byzantine hall, with re-
fections of dead gold, in the palace of the
Bearn family, some four hundred distin-
guished spectators were seated awaiting
the signal Tor the opening of the festival,
in which the best dancers, young men anI
young women, of Partisan society were 10
participate. The curtain was drawn aside
to left and right, revealing the lawn at
Malmaison at the commencement of the
First empire, in 1904.
I'm front of the chateau was the En-
press Josephine. admirably impersonated
by the Princess Pierre d'Arenberg, play
ing blind mans buff with ladies of honor,
courtiers and officers of hussars A young
chamberlain, with eyes bound with a
handkerchief. sought to catch his partners.
Near by an actress and an outrider We're
flying kites. The tabeau ended with all
joining in the disnihed quadrille of the
court of Napoleon |.
After a brief pause the curtain parts
again, disclosing the same lawn at Mall
maison, but this time during the night.
Two young ladies emerge from the rose
trees in costumes of the empire, repre-
sented by Princesse Guy de Lucnge and
the Comtesse Ignatieff. Two cavaliers ap-
pear, wearing tall hats of the time and
blue coats with long tails. The dancers
| are Messrs. Arthur and Harold King'ands
of New York. The four dancers then be-
gin a waltz to the air of Webers .Invi-
tation a la Valse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
CapitOI Park

"Birningham's parks are kept in fairly
eood condition-as good condition as the
limited means at the disposS of the park
commission will admit said a resident
of the Northside.
Capitol park is looking its best just
now and hundreds of people spend hours
ON the benches every day trying to keep
COOL When Memolis band gives Its first
concert of the summer series in Capitol
park next Sunday afternoon vast multi
tude will be on hand and 1t is hoped the
proper authorities will have the broken
lamp post on the Park avenue side re-
placed by that time. l am told that IS or
50 will pay for new post"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
TRAGEDIES TOLD IN HEADLINES

From the Chicago Tribune.
.Had $3.50 Too Much Confidence in the
Fighting Qualities of His Dog"
bridegroom Drops in to See Reporter
Who Wrote Him Us as Wearing the Con-
versational Black.
"Masher Unexpectedly Encounters Big
Brother of Young Lady; His Injuries Are
Severe, but Not Fatal"
Meets Man of Whom He Borrowed a
Dollar Forty Years Ago; Man Remem-
bers."
"Six Daughters of Old Fashioned Father
Become Eloquent and Aggressive Suffra-
gists.'
Twenty Years a Republican Postmas-
ter; Discovered at Last"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
sUNBEAMs

From the Baltimore Sun.
Be eugenically married and be
happy.
Wait till the clouds roll by.
1t is worth while waiting for Mary
land cantaloupes.
The Anne Arundel peach is a peach
all right
London is positively killing President
Poincare with kindness.
Sorry you missed the Imperator, Yes,
so did wei
The Balkan war cloud is the only
genuine, simon pure. perpetual war
cloud now in existence, outside of Mex
leo. the Philippines and the New York
state assembly.
There's going to be an awful lot of
water in watermelons this year.
The huckleberry is king
Boston is SO coldly Indifferent to ev-
erything that she even has snow in
June time.
One-half this town doesn't know how
the other half excursions.
Here's to the good old east wind,
drink her downl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
AS SLOW OUR SHIP
BY Thomas Moore.

BY THOMAS NIUUfes -.I777.71l
AS slow our ship her foamy track
Against the wind was cleavng,
Her trembling pennant still loolxd back
To that dear isle twas leaving
So loath we part from all we love,
From all the links that bind us;
So turn our hearts as on we rove,
To those we've left behind us.
When, round the bowl, of vanished years
We talk with joyous seeming
With smiles that might as we'll be tears.
So faint, SO sad their beaming
While memory brings us back again
Each earthly tie that twined us,
Oh. sweets the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

woes like these we'll leave behind us
"hen We journey to the skies.
Birmingham Age-Hera1d.
lives OF money kings remind us
we may toll with zeal intense,
ana departing leave behind us
Less than forty. seven cents.
Springfield Union.
Lives OF auto tires remind us.
AS We give out Il the gioam,
Wen departing leave behind us
Just a mortgage on our home.
Houston Post.
Lives of postmasters remind us
IT were best to earn orr paw
That no politics may find us
Gone tomorrow, here today.
beaumont Enterprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
LIBELING AMERICAN WOMAN
Thomas r. Lounsbury in Harper's Maga-

zine.
The American woman as depicted in
the English novel. especially in that of
the minor English novelist, uses the most
extraordinary conelomeration of words
and passes that was ever raked to-
gctEer from the highways and byways
of colloquial speech. AS represented
there, she is linguisticaiiy one of the
most fearful and wonderful creations
that the human imagination has ever
concocted. She combines in her utter
ance all the time worn peculiarities which
the British traveller long ago discovered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
EGYrrs GREATEST WONDER

From the washington Post.
ITO me, one of the most interesting
sights of a tour around the world, which
have just completed, is the tomb Of. the
bulls in Egypt" said DR.. e. A. Thomp-
son OF Andover, Mass, at the Raleigh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
NOT LIKELY.

NOT LIKELY.
Il don't suppose the servant question
will ever be solved
mot until the majority of people show
a far greater inclination to wait on them
selves than they do now"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
THAT FAMOUS mourning

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Birmingham has several copies of Sep
tember Morn" exhibited in her store win
dows. but she can't fool the weather man
with stunt like that; he knows it is
the same old summertime in undress uni
form,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
ANOTHER VERSION.

The anecdote is familiar of the darlSey
who was asked where he was going and
replied, u emit swine nowhar. done
beenl" The other day a fond father
asked his small son, "Where are you CO.
ing?" and the little fellow answered,
'I'm goin' where I'm at"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

A young woman in New Jersey is dead
because she smoked cigarettes in bed. 1t
is usually that last cigarette before sleep
ing that does the fatal work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02
FAITH.

A star uprose.
Serene and bright.
And gave to the world
Its friendly light.
A cloud came by
And yeiled the star,
And It's perceant ray
That cleaned so far.
A traveller slept,
Nor dreamed of despair,
For he knew that the star,
Though hidden-was there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

There are more than 1900 abandoned
churches in Kansas. There seems TO De
something the matter with Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

Ihere are a great many people in this
world who don't know what is good for
them, but If they will only wait long
enough somebody else will give them
the information they lack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

little girl who saved 1870 pennies was
complimented by John D. Rockefeller. The
candy stores would have to go out of bus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

Mayor Gaynor doesn't think well of the
average New York policeman, it seems.
What the average New York policeman
thinks of Mayor Gaynor hasn't been
printed yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

1t seems quite natural to have WI Ting
Fang coming back again for visit. He's
the best 'mixer" who ever came out of
the Flowery Kingdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-02

New York's most noted 'gunman' just
now is Theodore Roosevelt, who has been
given a permit to carry pistol.