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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

In telling OF his experiences aboard the
German airship "viktoria Luise' of the
Zeppelin fleet staff correspondent of
the Engineering Record states that one
of the most interesting features of the
trip was the establishment of balance and
fiotation, just prior to the start. The
huge hulk of the ship is made UP of 1S
compartments to facilitate the horizontal
balance, a factor which plays far more
important part in successful flying than
one would think offhand. for with a nor
NAL capacity of about % tons, of which
nearly two-thirds is fuel when the. tanks
must be allowed for. Water and sand
are used for ballast and only after most
painstaking adjustment of weights to Sc
cure neutral equilibrium is the ship per-
mitted to leave port.
I'm the military sense 1t is very hard
to judge what Importance to attach to
the Zeppelin. Hitting 1t at any ordi-
nary range is like hitting a barn from
the inside and it's only security from gun
fire lies in night attack or In working
at very great elevation. The more one
KNOWS ABOUT explosives the less one serl-
cusly considers the military damage done
by the few tons of explosive an airship
can carry. Much property could doubtless
be destroyed, but the fighting power of
fortress already secure against high
angle fire from shells is not likely to be
materially diminished by airships.
"The chief value of airships of this class
would lie in their moral effect in spread-
ing terror, even unreasoning terror, and
thus causing efforts toward peace. At
all events they will assuredly be tried out
and will play part In the next great
struggle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
TWO MEN IN THE CAR
From the Engineering Record.

from the Engineering RECORD.
After reading the official reports OF
the recent wreck on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Tyrone, Pa, one is strongly
inclined to doubt whether two heads
are better than one in the cab of a
railway locomotive. Very often when
one man has failed to see or observe
thing to do is to put two men in the
cab. The Tyrone case, as far at 1t goes.
shows that this would be useless II not
dangerous; for there were two men in
the engine which ran by two signals
and crashed into standing passenger
train One of them was a road foreman
Of engines and the other was an ex-
perienced engineer with good record
On the Pennsylvania a road foreman Is
supposed to be working while he is
riding on an engine--he is not merely
a free passenger with nothing to do.
These conditions are radically diff
ferent from those of the Stamford
wreck on the New Haven. There the
engineman claimed to have tried un-
availingly to stop after observing sig
nails against him. The colliding Penn
sylvania trains at Tyrone were all
steel cars and no one was killed. There
,, was, therefore, little excitement over
the wreck, but there is more to be
learned from 1t than from the Stam-
ford disaster. Among these things the
most obvious is that two men, both ex-
perienced and thought to be thoroughly
reliable, were proved to be no better
thanh fact not as good as-one ma n
so far as signal observance Is con-
cerned. This is due, in the opinion Of
railroad men, to the fact that with a
division of responsibility there Is ac-
tually less care exercised than when
one man knows that entire Responsible
ty is on his shoulders. To draw general
conclusions from single accident
would not be justified were it not that
this accident SO strikingly confirms hu-
man experience. Evidently those who
have recommended two men on en-
gines ais a cure for railroad wrecks
caused by failure to observe signals
must look for another and more ef-
ficacious remedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
The Auditorium Need

1.-THE auditorium proposition which will
be tested in the city election a week
hence should carry by a big majority, .
said a property owner. THE only oppo-
sltion that I hear of seems to come from
certain outlying sections But if the
suburbanites only stop to think they will
see that whatever benefits the city as a
whole derives from conventions will be
shared in measure by every ward or dis
trict. With an auditorium Birmingham
will be the leading convention city of the
SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
The woman who hesitates has no Sc
cret to tell.
If woman can't be fattered it's a sign
she is deaf
You can get insured against any acci-
dent except marriage.
Society is judged by some of the mishts
that manage to break in.
A lot of dead ones in every town are
holding out on the undertaken.
1t is customary for a man with more
dollars than sense to accumulate popu-
larity.
Occasionally woman weighs her words
then throws In a lot for good meas
IRE.
Not even an ingenious woman can make
O really good husband out of poor ma
terial.
The fool man who is always asking for
advice should be advised to keep his
mouth closed.
| A woman likes to see something nice
| about her husband in the papers so that
she can ask him for a new dress and
Set it -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
England's Mind Changing

Robert ]. Wynne, Postmaster Gen
eral under Roosevelt, and once United
States consul general to London, is
now in the English metropolis making
quiet investigation of the reason
why Great Britain has declined to par
ticipate in the Panama exposition in
1915.
Mr.. Wynne finds that much harm
has been done by persons who accused
the Asquith government of spite work
and linked Great Britain's refusal to
participate with the question of canal
tolls, but he believes that the premier
will reconsider.
The change in the British attitude,
he says, is due to the fact that Brit
ish interests see chance to reach the
markets of the Orient and South and
Central America at the Panama cele-
bration, which is now assuming more
the shape of an international epoch
than worlds fair, as the term is
generally understood.
The point is put pithily by Mr.,
Wynne. The opening of the Panama
canal will indeed mark an epoch.
America is preparing to obtain from it
all the prestige and profit possible. If
the nations of Europe fail to do like
wise, they will be merely standing in
their own light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
From the London Chronicle.

T oHl tilt lplOOH chronicle.
<<CNLANG7 is coming Into its own.
Theoretically. I'VE never use it,"
~ in practice. despite principles and
propriety. our lapses are numerous and
we are apt to take liberties with language
as the weather takes liberties with US.
saw recently the man who is famous
In America as the slang writer, George
Ade, author of Fables In Slang" and
In our conversation he illustrated the as
tonishing elasticity of the term. For there
Is slang in every trade and profession,
he explained, In addition to slum slang,
theft slang, street slang and the social
slang of well to do people, who are often
unconscious of their own 'slanginess'' and
take supreme delight in rebuking their
buxom but "slangy" daughters.
OF the last named, Mr.. Ade, who is
an American author, journalist and play
wright, has made a speciality. but in re-
viewing his career with me he wished
to make me understand that he himself
is not addicted to the slang habit.
II am regarded as a writer of slang
quite by accident he said; land If you
think We Americans have carried 1t
to excess don't blame me. 1 have only
put into print what I have heard other
people say"
| put Mr.. Ade a few qeustions which
he answered as the Chicago Board of
Trade man. would.
was he intoxicated?" I asked.
81 guess so. He was lit UP like a ca
thedral,' he replied.
l then passed him a volume OF Ma
caulays Essays and alighting on a pass
age on, Warren Hastings, he read first
In English and then in the Chicago mans
style.
with all his faults-and they were
neither few nor small-only one ceme-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
MUSHROOM FALLACIEs

From the Journal of American Medical
Association.
Now that the Fourth of July with it's
dangers has passed. we may prepare
poisoning, which seems to be an inevi-
table accompaniment of the summer
season. There is a popular tendency
to restrict tho name "toadstool' to
poisonous species and that of "mush-
room" to the edible ones; but since one
cannot tell, except by trial, whether
particular "toadstool' is poisonous or
not. the distinction, is neither satisfac-
tory nor advantageous.
Many reputed tests to distinguish the
innocent from the harmful toadstool
are current and are implicitly believed
in by some. 1t cannot be too emphat-
ically stated, therefore. that so far as
is known there is no single guide, with
the possible exception Of chemical
analysis, which will give results of any
value whatever. Any scheme for dis
tenguished, edibility in the fungi
results Some of the alleged tests de-
serve mention In order to point out
their unreliability and their danger
Among them the so-called silver
test" is most prevalent. 1t Is believed
that a silver spoon or coin placed with
toadstoos while cooking will demon
strate by blackening, or failure to
blacken, whether or not the fungi are
safe to eat. 1t need only by said that
there are both poisonous and nom
toxic species which act alike on silver
Again, no reliance is to be placed on
the contention that If the outer tupper)
skin of the top of the toadstool peels
off readily, such a species Is edible.
Some poisonous species also will peel"
Flavor has often been alleged to serve
as reliable guide to edibility, the
bitter or peppery species being charged
with detrimental attributes. Experience
shows. however. that the most pois-
onous taodstoos are not at all disa-
greeable in respect to the flavor of the
raw tissues. Other tests are the
alleged telltale color changes that are
supposed to appear when toxic jmush-
rooms are bruised or broken; or the
existence of milky juice, or the sus-
ceptibility of the fungi to the invasion
of insects, which are believed to avoid
the pernicious varieties. None of these
tests" can be applied with any cer
tainty AS the proof of the pudding
is in the eating thereof" so the surest
way of learning to distinguish the
poisonous from the innocuous mush-
rooms is by eating them-a heroic pro-
cedure-or by learning the experience
of others There is no royal road TO
mushroom knowledge, but one must
learn to know the various species as
one learns to recognize the familiar
plants of the forest, the field and the
garden.
To those who cherish the hope that
the mushroom, often proclaimed as the
vegetable beefsteak which nature Law
ishly offers at every hand, may solve
some of the problems of economy in
nutrition, we can give little comfort;
for as has been pointed out before,
even the most nutritious mushrooms
are of little real nutritive value. Their
chief claim to dietetic recognition lies
in their use as food accessories and
dietary condiments. In no wise can they
be regarded as a substitute for the
substantial meats or the familiar vege-
table products ordinarily consumed by
man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

President Yuan's announcement that he
will resign as soon as peace is restored
in China is taken to mean that he does
not desire to hold office after he gets
a few hundred years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Secretary Daniels Is insistent for
larger navy. and Secretary Garrison con-
tends that the United states army Is en-
tirely too small Such beliefs seem to
go naturally with the Jobs they hold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
THE BRITISH DRAMA

From the indianapolis News.
Gilbert X. Chesterton dogmaticaliy as
serts that there is no such thing as the
British drama, which impels a London
critic to say: The deuce there isn'tl Then
what is this we have been yawnins over
for so long9'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Senator Bradleys persistent efforts to
raise the duty on hemp have been de-
feated, SO there is no immediate danger
of further advance in the high cost of
lYnchings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Ninety-nine candidates are running for
nine judgeships in Philadelphia, and every
one declares he is absolutely confident
of election. This shows that each of
them is letter perfect in the first rule Of
politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Governor Sulzer seems to have lined up
a number of other governors in his own
behalf but what he really needs is the
support of a few New York state SEN
q tors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The Pullman porters are reported to be
organizing a union. Probably due to the
fact that John d. Rockefeller. Jr.. re-
Gently passed out 10-cent tip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Kansas Is now raising Macedonian cry
for harvest hands. thereby proving its
previous assertion that the drought has
completely destroyed its crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

A European physician says garlic used
freely prolongs life. An excellent exam
pie of the restraint exercised by man to-
ward his fellows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Drunken Mexican officers who run
amucll on the American side of the bor-
der might know that they stand a good
chance to get punctured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

A law is pending before the Swedish
Parliament giving woman the right to
propose marriage. In this country woman
has always exercised the prerogative
without the insolent intervention of any
law making body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Vice President MarshalPs hectic advice
against the tango and slit skirt nat
urally leads to the inquiry what does he
know about them?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Eminently pleased with its success in
collecting s50c,o00 fine from the Standard
Oil company, Texas is now suing the
Katy railroad for s1o5000,OOo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The ''x-ray shoe is reported from Lon
con, and it's poor sort of shoe for 4
rainy day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Highway robbery is not dead, says a
contemporary. No. In these days, how
ever, it collects its tolls in gasoline bills
and fines for speeding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

A Kansas City judge has sent fake
blind man to Jail for 100 days for gazing
at slit skirt. In Pittsbrug, the wearer
of slit skirt was arrested for vag-
port.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

An Illinois preacher says he believes
DR.. Cook reached the north pole. From
the docs awesome silence these days
1t might fs inferred he is there now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Jerome is not the sort of fellow to 'let
up just because Harry Thaw was willing
to go on his bond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The Gaynor home is called "Deepwell."
Which shows that the mayor is really
handy with the shovel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The average man observes the Sab
bath by smoking too many cigars and
reading the yellow parts of his Sum
day paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

In the light of current events. IL would
seem that Mr.. Micawber had nothing on
Mr.. Huerta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Ye poet has spotted autumn with her
trailing garments of crimson and gold"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Quinne is now being used as a cure
for the rabies. Just an application of the
bark to the bite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The early press agent is in our midst
with the same old line of talk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Some people can't stand prosperity. Wiz
ard Edison, 1t seems, can't stand a va
cation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The United States declines to recognize
Huerta, but it cannot ignore him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

The average Birmingham auditorium
booster has look in his eye that means
business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

"A little better is the latest report from
the bedside of ''the sick man of Europe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
Interesting Financial Tables

1.-THE statistical comparative tables of
the incomes and expenditures of FIVE
cities, including Birmingham, IN Sun
days Age Herald, was quite the most
interesting set of facts l have seen III
print for a long time said citizen
who takes much interest in such mat
ters, yesterday.
I'VE find that Birmingham is doing
nobly in the matttr of education. For
instance. it will be noted this city
spends $2.70 per capita for education, as
compared to Atlanta SIT Nashville
s277, Richmond, s2.s5. and Memphis
$301 Birmingham did this, too. upon
showing of per capita Income of
ss.81, as compared to $1s.24 for Atlanta.
$20.63 for Memphis, sl649 for Nash
Vile, and s22.90 for Richmond.
in the tables we find but 1000 varia-
tion in the population basis, Is between
Atlanta and Birmingham A close study
shows that whereas Birmingham levies
S2.S1 for licenses and permits. us COM
pared to s1.63 in Atlanta, yet, AS to spe-
cial assessments. Birmingham has
none, with Atlanta $2.4S per capita. At
lanta has no saloon licenses.
1.-The most striking differences in the
matter of sources OF revenue per capi
ia, are shown to lie !, in public service
enterprises, as follows: Birmingham,
so.1s, Atlanta. 1927, Memphis. ss.14,
Nashville, s251, Richmond, $5.25, Port
land, $500. This difference is evidently
attributable to municipality owned
water and lighting plants. Richmond,
with 127,82S population, gets, approx
mately, s670O0O from its water and gas
plants. Atlanta receives some 100000
from such sources. Richmond does not
own the electric light plant.
"In the cost of the police department,
Birmingham leads we'll all of the other
cities. Portland. with the same area,
and 10000 more population. has "A cents
less cost per capita for this department.
In the cost of the fire department the
cities run well together. from $1.31,
except $1.67 for Portland.
1.-THE item of s2o5 per capita depre-
citation of public buildings. is evidently
a mistake. and will call for correction
or detailed exposition"
The stock Market
| Henry Clews in his statement of re-
view says in part:
| "At home and abroad the moneary sit
uation is growing more satisfactory. The
strength of the Bank of England is re-
marlkable, and decidedly better senti-
ment prevails in financial circles in Lon
dan The same is true on the Paris
bourse, and In both markets there is an
encouraging return of investment buying.
While the Balkan situation is gradually
settling down to quieter basis, the
financial problems resulting from the war
still require solution, 'and the borrowing
on foreign account has only been re-
strained by fear that any financial aid to
the former belligerents at this time might
stimulate a fresh outbreak of hostilities.
Mexican affairs at this writing seem to
i be progressing favorably. though 1t is
necessary to be on guard against any
sudden outbreak in this quarter At
home financial conditions are generally
| sound, and the outlook is encouraging
apart from the slackening of business
| here and there, and the occasional me-
eessity for further liquidation or going
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
AIRSHIP TRAVEL,

Ex-President Mellen's smile is only nat
llral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

Entered al the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08

A ]. Eaton, Jr., and o. e. Young are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of The Age-Herald in its
circulation department.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-04
LOGIC GETS BIRD OUT
OF CAGE, MAN INTO JAIL
McNulty and Canary in Same
Room-Ergo-

''Tweet. tweet, tweetle. tweet,
laeet,p chirped the bird as it flew
out the window into the free, spring
like atmosphere.
"Meyow, myou, VOW" whined the
cat, as he saw his little would-be
prey depart. In his effort to stop
that departure, Tommy overturned
a vase on the table The falling of
the vase brought Mrs. Fred Wack-
muller In haste to her dining-room.
Then the storm broke.
The loss of the bird, pet canary,
made Mrs Waclxmuller wall. Tho
cries of the cat, the angry voice OF
John McNulty and the general hub
buh brought Fred Wackmuller.
A policeman was called and the
mystery of the bird which had dis
appeared into the nights darkness
like a streak of gold, was put up to
him. Upon Mrs. WaclSmuller's com
plant McNulty, who lives at SO Van
Buren, street, was arrested.
Today Wackmuller explained that
McNulty had walked from his saloon
al 1879 Ferry street, into the dining
room in the rear. The canary was in
the cage. The cage was in the room.
McNulty alone was in the room. This
much was sure. The bird got out OF
the cage and out of the room BY a
process of deduction 1t wass adduced
the bird had outside help. BY the
same process the act of liberation
was fixed on McNulty.
Judge Hahn fined him $40.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-04
ACCUSES HUSBAND
OF BEING B|GAM|ST
Wife in Action for Divorce Says
Spouse Has We'd
Another.

To support herself and her 5-year-
old child Mrs. Helen A. Long, of
Roselle Park, was allowed IS week
alimbny by Vice-Chancellor Howell
today. Mrs. Long has been sepa-
rated from her husband, Ainsley
Long, since two months after she
married him, in the summer of 1907,
and has filed a petition for divorce.
Moreover. Mrs. Long charges that
her husband has married again, and
in her petition for divorce she desig-
mates him as a bigamist, alleging
that he married a Miss Katherine
Mahl, of Brooklyn, in 1910, and that
he and his second wife and their
child until short time ago lived at
424 Livingstone street, Elizabeth.
Mrs. Long was married in Eliza
beth in the summer of 1907. She and
her husband lived there together
until October of the same year.
Mrs. Long has not made a criminal
charge of bigamy against her hus-
band. In her application for alimony
she SAYS he Is a boiler maker, and
his income is about $3.50 a month
She declares the child of the alleged
bgamous marriage was born last
summer. Harry f. Brewer, of Eliza
beth, appeared for Mrs. Long today
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-04

Immediate. instantaneous relief
from that itch?
Seems too good to be true, does 1t
not? But it is true-every word.
Just a few drops of the simple,
cooling wash, the d. d. d. Prescrip-
ton for eczema. and the itch stops
instantly.
You can get enough for 30 cents to
prove the efficacy .of d. d. p. II is
certainly worth this 70 give the Won
derful remedy q trial. Or get a reg
,lar 81 bottle on the understanding
that It costs you nothing unless you
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-04
WIRE TAPPERS MAY HAVE
GOT MRS. MILLS'S $4,000


CHICAGO, March 4.-That MRS
Mabel Mills. of San Antonio, Tex,
who either lost or was robbed of
more than $4,000 in currency in
Evanston on Saturday night, may
have been the victim of wire tappers
or confidence men working a yaria-
ton of the wire-tapping game was
the theory of Chicago detectives last
night.
Suspicion that gang of this type
really did get Mrs. Mills in its
clutches was strengthened when 1t
was learned that one of the habitues
of the hotel where the woman was
registered was confidence man who
some years ago was run out OF. near
ly every hotel of prominence in New
York and who is now missing.