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Imperial Valley press., 1913-04-03

I hereby announce myself as can
didate for grammar school trustee at
the coming election.
f. A. PERKISS
Imperial Valley press., 1913-04-03

I wish to announce myself as a can
didate for grammar school trustee at
the election April 4.
PERRY L. HEDRICK
Imperial Valley press., 1913-04-03
Piano instruction

Mrs. Frances D. Shafer former pu-
Pill Of Herr Prof Barth, Berlin, Ger
many. will take few pupils in piano
instruction. Residence, $50 Brighton
Advertisement.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-04-03

$4,000 Thrown Away
Or how Carolyn spurncd the Ray
family. Opera House, April S.-Adver-
ilSemPnt 9Si
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Number of sTiIIionaires

1T is true. as someone suggested IN
Hotel Lobby interview the other day'
mat Richmond has more millionaires than
any other southern city, and that Bir-
mingham has more men worth s,oooeVo
than Atlanta, said a member of Birming-
hams Virginia colony "Richmond is a
very wealthy city. At least dozen OF
its citizens are worth more than sl,oe0,-
Ooo. John p. Branch, the banker, has a
reputation of being the richest man. He
is supposed to be worth anywhere from
100000 to 100000. lie is a prominent
layman in the Methodist church, and al
though he is an old man now, he is still
attentive to business.
Mr.. Gambler, the eoea-cola man, is At
lanta's richest citizen. He Is a multi
millionaire. That is to say, he is worth
not simply several millions, but very
many millions of dollars.
THE person who was talking the other
day about mil1ionares seemed to think
that Birmingham had only six or seven.
believe there are 10 men in this city who
are in the millionaire class. Mr. Joseph
II. Woodward ranks at the top of the list
and Mai. E. NJ. Tutwiler probably ranks
second"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
COST or DESTROYING LIFE

From the Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association.
According to Mr.. T. E. Rittenhouse,
conservation commissioner of the Equit-
able Life Assurance society. 81, 100000
is low estimate of the annual economic
loss from preventable deaths in the United
States. The experience of Colonel Cor
gas and his sanitary corps in the Panama
canal zone Is convincing demonstration
that good health is a purchasable COM
modify and that sickness can be insured
against and prevented il the public is will
Ing to pay enough for safeguards. The
cost of accomplishing the wonderful saw
ing of.lives on the isthmus is estimated at
about S2.f3 per person annually. In con-
trast with such figures, which compare
favorably with familiar per capita expen-
dftures for fire and police protection and
the conservation of material property, are
the data relating to the cost of the actual
destruction of mankind. According to
President Jordan of Stanford university
1t now costs on the average about $1,000
to kill man in modern war and in the
Boer war this expense ran up to nearly
$40, 900. When 1t is recalled that In time
of peace we spend nearly 100000 a day
in our own country on matters concerned
with past or future wars, it Is comfort-
ing to know that the saving of human
life is far cheaper than its destruction
Nations can afford to do their duty in pre-
pairing against a foe like the plague, the
danger of which is always present and
more ominous than war, quite as we'll as
they can raise funds for defense against
unlikely or avodable human eombats
Civilized nations show a lack of perspec-
tive, to say the least, when they con-
tinue to destroy life at high cost and fail
TO save 1t at low cost when combna-
ton of knowledge with a little national
energy and international cooperation will
lead the way to humane economies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
TALES OF THE SEA

From the New York Telegram
It's a weird story that came from Block
Island anent the sighting by Warren Ball
during the storm on December q of a
Ship evidently a large schooner burning
to the eastward of the island.
Careful search and inquiry having failed
TO discover the slightest trace of any such
occurrence, the men who so down to the
sea in ships, Old mariners to whom the
tradition has been passed, solen1nly de-
clare that the .I'alatine Light has been
seen again.
This refers to an ocean tragedy of 1-gO.
when the Palatiae was wrecked on Block
Island under suspicious circumstances.
her story having been immortalized by
Dana's buccaneers" and some of Whit
tiers poems.
It's the fine old superstition of those
dwelers by the sea who still believe in
the Flying Dutchman and that Captain
Yanderdecken is today, as he was in
1896, trying to beat around the cape and
will do so till the day of doom. They
believe, too, it's unlucky to kill an alta
tross, and the sight of Mother Carey's
chickens brings a shudder Whether tile
recurrence of the 'Palatine Light be-
tokens any disaster, though, is not11nown.
Still, in these days it will be refreshing
to many persons to know that there is
belief in some things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10

QUICK DEATH

From the Popular Magazine.
Jake Tannenbaum, who owns big
theatre in Mobile, goes to New York two
or three times a year and there meets a
lot of his friends. One morning, before
he had left his hotel for a stroll on
Broadway, press agent who had met him
in Mobile rushed in and engineered
swift touch.
MIR. Tannenbaum" he said breath
lessly, i've got to have $40. It's a mat
ter of life and death. Lend me that
twenty will you?
That's all very WE'LL" replied Tannen-
baum, but when do I get 1t back?"
I'll give it back to you at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon" the press agent reas-
sured him
But will you?"
Mr.. Tannenbaum, I'll give it to you
al that time if I'm alive
The theatre owner handed out the
money.
At 2:3o that afternoon Jake walked
down Broadway, displaying on his coat
sleeve tremendous band of Grape.
There were tears jim his eyes, and it
Niobe had been living he would have
made her grief look like a fit of laugh
ing Mysteries.
It's a sad thing, he lamented. I'm
all broken up. A young friend of mine,
press agent whom | knew we'll in Mo-
bile, died some time before clock this
afternoon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
Publicity of Fees in Georgia

All county and court officials in
Georgia are greatly disturbed over a
law which became operative on Janu-
ary /. This law requires all such Of
ficials to keep an itemized daily ac-
count of all fees received by them and
to file itemized statements of such
fees at the end of each quarter-in
other words, to make them public. Any
official who violates the law is guilty
of a misdemeanor and subject to a
fine of $1,000 or II months on the
chaingang.
The object of the law is to procure
information upon which the legisla-
ture that meets next summer can
frame law putting all county and
state officials upon straight salary
basis. Georgia, in other words, intends
to make its fee reform statewide. The
quarterly reports of the county and
court officials are to be filed with the
comptroller general of the state, and
all see in sight statewide revolution
against fees. The officials will fight
long and hard, but they will conduct
4 losing battle, fer public sentiment
is everywhere turning against the fee
system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
HOUSEWIVES DECALOG
e National Magazine


Thou shalt not discard thy good dress
because it is faded but bleach to a pure
white.
Thou shalt not pay out much money for
corn plasters, because salve of soda and
lard will cure the very worst corn on thy
toe
Thou shalt not use damp fruit. or thy
cake will be heavy; after washing the
eurrants and raisins, thou shalt be sure
they are thoroughly dry.
Thou shalt not throw away sour cream,
but use it in place of butter. when thou
art baking.
Thou shalt not dry white gloves or hose
in the sun. lest they turn yellow
Thou shalt not discard thy rubber bag
because of a hole. but fill with hot sand
or salt. and twill give all the heat thou
needest
Thou shalt not let the juice ooze out
from thy pie, because thou can prevent
X by binding the edge with strip of
white cloth wrung out of cold water
Thou shalt not pay large sums for dry
cleaning but thou shalt use eiDeW
grease" with cake of magnesia.
Thou shalt not allow cheese to iaoid,
when cloth wet in vinegar and put over
it will prevent
Thou shalt not use thy new baking
dishes until after thou hast put theri in
pan of cold water, set where it win boil
and then set away until water has cooled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
Office Buildings Filled

"One of the many evidences of Birming-
hams prosperity is the continued active
demand for office space" said member
of the Chamber of Commerce.
when the Woodward building was
erected in 1901-it was the first steel frame
structure here-ths question was asked
would all the rooms be taken? 1t was a
venture, but it was profitable from the
start, and the late William H. WOOD
ward. who put up the first skyseraper,
shortly afterward broke ground for the
First National Bank building.
To-day we have, including seven story
buildings, eight office skyserapers and
p story building-the Jefferson County
Savings-in course of erection. There has
been q marvellous growth In Birmingham
since the Woodward was completed, ana
today it Is not easy to secure office
space. Mr.. Otto Marx tells me that In the
total of all the office buildings there Is
only 3 per cent office space for rent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
Where the Money Goes

Birmingham is plucked pretty freely
by outside counties and by outside
precincts in Jefferson county. In 1911
the sum of $12O,569 was collected here
for use in school districts outside of
this city.
At the same time S125, 474 was col
lected in this city to be expended on
roads beyond the city's bounds in this
big county.
Putting these two items together
we have the neat sum of $246,043 that
taxpayers in this city are required to
contribute towards schools and high
ways located elsewhere.
We're these taxes for the benefit of
outsiders kept at home the city would
be on a self-sustaining basis, and the
city debt would not necessarily be in
creased. The annual deficit of the city
Just about equals the amount we are
required to pay to schools and high
ways elsewhere.
These facts are brought out in the
report of Examiners German and
Wilkinson. Few cities indeed in this
country-perhaps not one-are sc
heavily taxed for outside purposes as
this city is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
TIN-PIATE CLOTHES

From the New York American.
Tin plating childrens dresses, under
garments, kimonos, bedclothes and such
other things made of flannelette and other
inilammable cotton goods has been re-
sorted to successfully by science as a
means of preventing deaths by fire.
Flannelette is as warm as wool and ex-
tremely cheap. 1t is the wool of the
poor, but dangerous because 1t burns so
readily. Fireproofiing it became neces-
sary and an oxide of tin was obtained,
so That such a cloth is actually tin plated.
Because SO many people had been
burned to death through the accidental ig-
milton of this form of cloth. great agita-
ton over it arose in England, and the
government was urged to put a stop TO
the manufacture of the material.
One of the largest firms of flanRelette
manufacturers in Manchester asked DR..
William Henry Perkin, a famous chemist,
TO see II he could not discover process
whereby the goods might be made per-
manehtly tireproof. He undertook The
problem, and after a long series of ex-
periments solved il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
Alabama's Educational Expenses

Superintendent of Education Will
iingham says Alabama needs school
district taxation and compulsory edu-
cation. No doubt she does, but she
needs more than that.
Mr.. Willingham does not explain
why the state is the thirty-fifth in
school revenue, and yet she gets re-
suits that are rated at least 10 points
lower. The city of Birmingham hands
over annually $4,000 to other school
districts and it certainly has a right
to know how that money is expended.
If the state and county moneys are
not properly apportioned by the coun-
ty boards of education, that fact
should be made known. If the state
has inefficient political county super
intendents, reform is needed.
This state distributes annually in
current expenditures for educational
purposes 2,S37 ,537. Sums paid out
for sites, new buildings and equip
ment are not included For this sum
the state does not rank as the thirty
fifth in any essential test. She does
not by a wide margin, and here is
where Mr.. Willingham should rise to
explain the situation. Surrounding
states get more for their money, and
this fact stands at present unexplained
so far as official statements are con-
cerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
Work Plentiful

II read an article in the mornings s
Age Herald on the White Collar Man,
In which the statement was made that
there are probably 10000 men in Chi
cago who are willing to work but are
unable to find employment said "a
man connected with one of the large
industrial plants of this district
'.The writer states the condition OF
these men is pitiable and that they are
not BUNS but men willing to work
if work could be secured. What a con-
trast with our city and district.
make the statement that there is not
an ablebodied man in the city who can
not find employment if he really de-
sires to work. OF course do not mean
to say that a man can get the job he
wants, or has been accustomed to, but
if willing to labor there is labor for
him.
Il doubt il there is a city in the
country where work is more plentiful
than in our district, and / question
whether other conditions are as good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES

ally visits this office, and who has served
as devil in one of the newspaper of-
fees of this city. and who is something
of an inventive genius, sat down to the
typewriter and slowly hammered out the
two paragraphs below:
"Few people realize how much the
world owes te-the lazy man. Come to
think OF it, IL 1t hadn't been for the lazy
man much of the labor saving farm ma
chinery would not have been invented
Without him bloated plutoerats would not
be crossing the seas in liners as first
cabin passengers, or paying fines for rum
ming down pedestrians with 7-passenger
touring cars; nor would the common eiti-
zen be able to go over the ground at the
rate of mile q minute where his grand
dad thought he was aying If he went five
miles per hour.
After all. the world does owe the lazy
man whole lot, doesn't 1t? But the funny
part of it is that before the thoughtful
lazy man patents and succeeds with his
labor saving invention he is always brand
ed as an ornery. no account eritter: but
II he succeeds he is then referred to as
a fine public spirited citizen working for
the benefit of the world. And then he is
made the victim of every petty social
function within 10 miles of his home. from
which he seldom escapes until broken with
old age and afflicted with the gout."-
Richmond Conservator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
RAG TIME ON THE LITERARY Lutte

From the New York Telegraph.
Montague Glass is contemplating a
study of the Jewish race.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett may
take up the writing of stories for chill
dren.
Mabel Herbert Urner is still in the
prime of life.
Samuel G. Blythe admits that he was a
success as a newspaper man
Robert II. Davis, Charles Belmont
Davis and Glenmore Davis are related
only as brothers in literature. Each in
sists Ae is glad the tie is no stronger
Maxhlillian Foster is no relation to the
king who sat for a spell on the throne
of Mexico.
Richard Harding Davis is being urged
to try short story writing for the maga-
zines.
G. Henry left a supply of manuscripts
sufficient to last another double decade.
James Francis Dwyer, who was no
great success as a street car conductor,
NOW makes SIS an hour writing fiction
Charles Agnew MacLean smokes a
briar pipe, which accounts for his being
much alone.
Voltaire wasn't his real name, which is
somewhat of a joke on the religious folk
who have criticised him under that dis
guise.
John Kendrick Bangs is inexpert on the
piaEoforte.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
The First Negro in Alabama

Il have been much interested in his
tory of the negro race in America and the
coming of the first negro to Alabama
said a man OF inquiring turn OF nina.
IT now know that some of the racial
characteristics of many negroes here IN
Alabama are not necessarily attributable
to mongrelism-mixed with. Caucasian
as popularly supposed to apply to vary
ing types as to color and temperament,
for instance. Many negro slaves were
brought TO this country who were of the
Ashanti and Fanti tribes The Ashantis
had in their veins an infusion Of Tartar
blood. and were brave and treacherous,
and the Fantis were closely related. These
negroes were of fine physique as rule
proud, and copper colored
THE first negro to set his foot upon
Alabama soil, according to Pickett in his
tory, was Christian negro, too sick to
travel, whom the Indians desired to retain
among them on account of his singular
hair and sable complexion. He recov-
cred, and was doubtless the distant an
cestor of the dark colored savages seen in
that region in modern times. This was
at the Indian town Coosa. the capital Of
til. Coosa tribe. on the east bank of the
cocsa river, between Talladega and Tai
lasehatchee creeks. And Pickett says this
negro was not the only memorial left by
DeSoto. George Stiggins, whose mother
was a Natchez Indian, and whose father
was a Scotchman, was born in the Talla-
dega country. He was a fair English
scholar and a pretty good writer.s He
left an incomplete history of the
Creeks, who by the way came long years
after from Mexico and conquered the
Coosasn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10

This is believed to be the largest yield
on a single acre, and the winner stands
today the champion corn grower of
the country. This is far better than
other championships that can be
named.
The second prize was awarded to
Isaac d. Martin, colored, of Pratt City
He grew 200 bushels of corn on an
acre, and the state paid him $3.50.
The third prize goes to Willie Atch-
ison of McCalla, in this county. He
grew 1913 bushels and one-tenth of a
bushel on an acre, and he received
from the state 800.
In 1911 E. A. Kimbrough of Alex
ander City grew 224a4 bushels on an
acre of land, and he is outdone by
Bennie Owens. The latter's record may
long stand as the best product of a
single acre. The facts are well at
tested, and today Alabama holds the
grower who coaxed out of an acre
the largest product and the best prod
uct in the history of agriculture. An
acre may have yielded elsewhere more
but no acre in the worlds his.
tory ever yielded more food for man
and beast than Bennie Wares did last
year in the good red soil of Elmore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
Consular Appointmentr

II have been surprised to hear that
many democrats are going to be appii-
cants for consular positions under the
democratic administration, said John Y.
Payne of Philadelphia.
II have been republican for many
years and was an applicant for consul
lar position under the Harrison admins
tration. but failed to secure place. At
that time all consulships were political
plums and as l had been loyal republi-
can l thought / would lose nothing by
making application for a job in the con-
sular service. But today all the consular
positions are under civil service law and
no one can get an appointment without
passing very rigid examination. The
service is now entirely non-partisan-as
1t should be.
when | first remember our consuls
were often conspicuous by their lack of
educational equipment. Consuls should
speak many languages. At the time ]
applied | could not have passed had the
standard been as high as it is now, for
| was acquainted with only one language,
English. Proficiency in at least two Ian
guages is nowA required I believe but
most of those who get on the merit list
are proficient in at least three A con-
sui should not only be something of a
linguist, but he should have a wide
knowledge of history, a turn for indus
trial and commercial statistics and good
educaNon in general. Consuls are now
appointed for life or practically so. Since
the merit system has become so well es-
tablshed the old fashioned democratic
spokesman will think he is playing in
hard luck when he looks for job next
! March"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
A LMOST every village or hamlet
~ has its haunted house or lane,
\ duly regarded with varying de-
grees of awe by the inhabitants Owing
to some unaccountable cause or heredi-
tary gossip the belief in "spoolSs'' has
been created readily in the minds of
many landsmen, and it would be sur
prising if among sailor men and fisher
folk, whose great superstition is pro-
verbal a similar amount of legendary
narrative connected with their calling
did not exist. A little research proves
this to be SO, and that the sea also
possesses its quota of uncanniness, but
seldom heardNof
This, of course, is the famous Flying
Dutchman" or phantom ship of Wander
decken How the story originated Is
doubtful, but it has been ascertained
that there was a seaman of repute who
many years ago sailed from Holland to
the east, but was never heard of again.
Some say that, meeting with contrary
winds off the Cape of Good Hope, he
which the divine wrath decreed that he
should be occupied till the day of doom
in endeavoring to weather the head
land
In January, 1647, vessel left New
Haven, Conn.,, on its maiden voyage, but
was never heard of again. In the fol-
lowing June. just before sunset, and
after a severe thunderstorm, the miss
ling ship was seen sailing up the river.
The Inhabitants were overjoyed at its
return, but the most observant noticed
something uncanny about it, especially
in that it appeared to be sailing up
against the wind. Then, to the conster-
nation of all, it gradually faded away
before their eyes and disappeared
Longfellow has marked the occurrence
in poetry:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
WHEN THEY WE'RE TwENTy-oNE

From Chronicle and Comment in the
January Bookman.
The recent death of Mr.. Frank IT,
Scott the president of the Century COM
pany of New York, took from the Arneri-
lean publishing world one of its. most
conspicuous, dignified, and amiabe fig
ures. Mr.. Scott was one of the last re-
naming links connecting our literary
life of yesterday with our literary life
of today. Svribners Monthly later to
become the Century, was established in
1870, and when Mr.. Scott then became
associated with the enterprise he was lit
tie more than one and twenty years of
age. The first editor of Scribners Month
ly was the famous DR. Richard Watson
Glider, who was only two or three years
Mr.. Scott's senior Viewed from today it
was quaint and curious old world when
these two men, destined to be so long
associated, were twenty-one. In 1870
American readers were following serially
Dickens the Mystery of Edwin brood
without an idea that they were never to
know the announcement of that story.
The Innocents Abroad was then \ new
p'ofN "ht 10 dutioi q biAut5iooIl u ~
few months. William Dean Howells. a
young fellow of thirty-three, was in
Boston assisting in the editing Of the
Atlantic Monthly. Bret Harte had just
become known through the publication of
''fhe Luck of Roaring Camp" and 1.-THE
Heather Chinee.' William Cullen Bryant
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were
youngsters, respectively seyenty-six and
sixty-three years of age each destined
to enjoy approximately another decade OF
life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-10
WHERE COTTON FARMER LOSES

FTOm lHt TTUSKessIVt df fIItI.
Mr.. Charles j. Brand of the cotton
marketing division of the national de-
partment of agriculture, insists that we
have entirely too many cotton gins. IL
there were fewer gins and these kept
going all the time in season. ginning
could be done more clieaply.
We certainly have an undue propor-
ton of cotton buyers. A man from Mem
his. Tenn, said to us the other day:
ct seems to me that about every other
man l know In Memphis is a cotton
|buyer-and they are all getting rich.
This was an exaggeration, of course,
and SO intended, but it suggests seri-
GUS condition: In the end, 1t is the