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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08

sell Just for fun. And ! succeeded ever So
much better than ! expected that's all. "
tie looked at her in sudden enlightenment.
"opooks;. he asked with a smile
She nodded.
They must be in the air out here. he
SAID sobcrly. 81 confess ] was doing the
same thing as ! came along the road. ! was
beginning to see things behind every apple
tree. And l hadn't thought of a ghost be-
lore, since ! was eight years old. Out in Ok
lahoma, where / live, they wouldn't have a
ghost of show But here" He paused
again. 81 don't want 10 talk about it if you'd
rather not; but-was it anything specially
horrible YOU saw
"No." she confessed ruc.ully. at wasn't
horrible at all in itself. II was iust-a rab-
bit-and not breathing fire nor anything
and not very big. Just plain little white
rabbit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09

Panama canal. And yet it stands un-
equipped with machinery and the mill
in Canada is to be pushed to the op-
Grating point.
There is no desire in this district to
criticize the Steel corporation. All are
friendly to it. Its critics live elsewhere.
But this district is curious to know
when the wire and rod mill at Corey
is to be filled with machinery and put
in operation.
The Chamber Of Commerce proposes
to carry this question to Judge Gary,
who as chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the Steel corporation, formu-
lates its plans and knows perhaps to
day when the home wire mill will
be put in operation. Between friends
there need be no secrecy, and Judge
Gary certainly will frankly and openly
explain to the Chamber of Commerce
the situation at Corey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
New Postoffice Building

With the coming of the parcel pest
many cities that are now provided
with large postoffice buildings will
need much more room than had been
originally provided and here in Bir-
minQham the need for a spacious
building is more pressing than ever.
The government has bought and
paid for a site on the northwest corner
of Fifth avenue and Nineteenth
street, but the avenue front extends
only two-thirds of the block, whereas
it should extend to Eighteenth street.
Certainly for this rapidly growing city
the government should not think OF
erecting a postoffice on site less
than an entire block front. From Fifth
avenue northward to the alley meas
ures 100 feet and the distance between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets is
400 feet. This would make fine
area for a postoffice building and as
the property extending between the
site now owned by the government
and Eighteenth street can be pur-
chased for a reasonable price it might
be acquired out Of the 81 100000 ap-
preparation in the omnibus bill now
pending. The building itself should
cost not less than $1,000,000, but
when it is once started an additional
appropriation can be reasonably
counted on from the next Congress.
Even il ground is broken for the
new edifice within the present year
it could not be finished before jan
uary 1, 1916. But as bad as new
postoffice is needed it would be better
to defer the matter indefinitely rather
than not build on full block front.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
PAUL COOK.
WHY is A BAGPPE.

From Harper's Weekly.
Where, we desire to know, did the Scot
get the notion that bagpipe is a musical
instrument? Or isn't that the idea?-
From the Atchison Globe
What Scot ever called the pipes a mu-
steal instrument? Isn't Brother Ed Howe
a practical man? Surely he knows the
origin of the pipes. In the old wicked
days bands of predatory English marched
over the border. They were as bold and
sturdy as the Scots and far greater in num-
Der. Cluny MacWhauppert, the Laird OF
Glengarramoyle, in desperate need of .
sure defense. invented the pipes in se-
cret and never let skirl out of them
till he faced the invading Sassenach on
the bloody field Then Cluny blew mel
ody so fierce, so efdritch. SO grinding and
blistering to the soul, that every clans
man ripped and slashed his way through
the English hordes, intent on only one
thing-to escape the fiendish screeching
of the pipes. And that is why every CRATE
full Scot to this day cherishes the bag
pipe, the preserver of Scottish independ-
ence. He has beaten his sword into a
plowshare, but he will always uphold the
pipes to beat the band.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
NEGRO ADOPTS FIVE CnILpREN

The following true story taken from the
February American Magazine won third
prize in contest, 'The Noblest Man l
Ever Knew
1T was the purchase of the houseboat
that led to the discovery of the real Rob-
ert. Up to that time he had been mere
ly negro waiter; a mighty good natured
and efficient one to be sure, and a gener-
al fayorite, but still-only waiter.
However, as stepped ashore from the
deck of the newly purchased Wanderer,
l found to my surprise that Robert and
I were TO be neighbors during the time of
outfitting and getting ready for the sum-
mer's cruise. A motley shanty built of
old boards and boxes and covered more
or less with discarded tin roofing and tar
paper the whole perched precariously on
the river bank close to my mooring.
served as home and shelter for this man
and his family of six--wife and five pic
caninnies. The wife was comely mu-
latto woman, well spoken and neat; The
chocolate drops a husky roistering crew.
ranging upward in size from a baby in
arms.
LAS the days went by and saw more
and more of this family life so far re-
moved from any that l had ever known,
my opinion of Robert grew measurably,
for noticed that he was kind in rough
sort of way with his wife. and, as it
seemed to me, particularly proud and in
dulgent with his children.
"A chance remark of mine concerning
his family drew from him a reply that
fairly stunned me- and in that instant he
became for me one of the noblest men
have ever known. Yes, suh.' he sail,
'they's a nice promisin family. an my
wife an specs to do de bes' we kin to
bring 'em up right. 1t amt always dat a
couple what amt never had a chile O
deir own gets a chaust to get sech a nice
family as me an Manday did when her
frien' died las spring jes free days after
dat youngest baby was borned. Mandy
an 1. we jest TUX de whole flock in. ac-
count o. her frien's man bein' kinda
shifless an no good, an us wanting some
chillen so long an nevah havin' none
saints above. Adopted Five of them.
On the wages of a waiter, Do you Won
der that for me this mans skin turned
whittier than my ownr or that a great
wave of self abasement swept over me?
For | asked my inmost soul If would
have done as much as this for any
friend I had on earth, ana in shame l
answered, No.
'Be honest with yourself' What twould
you have answered?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
aIHE LIFE OF BENJAMIN DIsRAELp'
Price Collier. in the February number of

Price Collier, in the February number of
The North American Review.
Disraeli was of those who know that
life is the language, books only the die
tsonaries. men are the text, and books
only the marginal notes; but he knew too
that one remains sadly provincial in his
study of men unless he supplements his
intercourse with them by a profound
study of the dictionaries and the marginal
notes. He had the patience. the intellect
rai tenacity, and the temperament to do
this. His outdoor loying contemporaries
became congested with much study and
an idea made them feverish. Such Eng
lishmen as that are not uncommon to-
day. Disraeli supplied what they, lacked.
He was fluent and imperturbale in speech
once he found himself; he knew how TO
get up his subject, he was fearless, and
he offered the then new panacea of a
tory democracy or a union of the aristoc-
racy and the laborer to overcome the dull,
unima ginative legislation OF the middle
class economists of whom Peel had be-
come the champion. It was a fine duel
and took place In the house of COM
mons between 1887 and 1896 when Peel
was beaten, resigned, and disappeared as
a factor in political life.
This Oriental, with a considerable ac-
ouaintance with the men of his time. not
q little experience as traveller. and with
much more ability as a student OF the
theoretical side of contemporary questions
than most other men in the shouse of
commons, took part in the beginning of
tho greatest and most momentous Change
that has taken place In English politics
England had been governed by outdoor
men. country squires. with wide prac-
tical experience of domestic problems, and
she was soon to slide from that dominion
into the grasp of tired lawyers legisiat-
ing instead of governing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
The Wire Mill

The Chamber of Commerce has de-
cided to urge Judge Gary to take steps
to put the wire mill at Corey in oper-
alton. A vast sum lies dormant in that
mill simply because it has not been
filled with machinery and put in op-
Grafton.
The refusal to start the new mill
seems all the stranger to the people of
the southeast when they are told that
the Steel corporation is erecting a
wire and rod mill in Canada at point
just across the river at Detroit, and
other plants, the whole to cost about
$20, 900 900. The mill in the southeast
can procure steel billets and fuel at
lower rates than the mill in Canada
can. and it is close to the gulf and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
TELEPHONES
Bell (private exchange connecting all
departments). NO. 4aoa.
God made him, therefore let him pass
xor . man. Merchant of Venice.
local Canital for Development

The Birmingham district contains
vast coal and iron ore reserves and
within the present decade important
industrial expansion may be expected
While the Tennessee company and
other large corporations own immense
tracts of mineral lands some OF the
best ore and coal properties In Ala
bama are held outside of the iron COM
panies. The idea prevalent in some
quarters that there was no good red
ore owned by interests independent of
operating companies was, as is now
generally known, altogether errore-
Gus.
The ore mining company which re-
Gently acquired extensive acreage in
Shades valley below Oxmoor is sink
ing shaft, and as the analysis of the
lf-fluxing ore found there. was high
ly satisfactory it is only a question of
comparatively short time when blast
furnaces and other iron works will be
erected in connection with this mining
enterprise. 1t is important and en-
couraging to know that the money for
developing this rich raw material was
raised, and easily raised, here at
home. Birmingham has come to be a
rich city. There is now more accumu-
lated capital here than in most cities
Of approximately its size and men of
money should show their faith in Bir-
mingham's future by investing their
surplus here.
1t used to be that owners of min
eral lands had to look to the east for
capital with which to develop raw ma
terial. But while outside capital will
always be welcomed the time is fast
coming when local money will be the
first to seek investment in local in
dustries.
By the time shaft mining in Shades
valley is well under way large modern
furnaces and probably pipe plants will
be in course of construction there and
it is safe to say that within the next
five years many millions of dollars
will be invested in new iron concerns
in the immediate Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
SURGERY ron CRIMINALS

From the Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association.
An interesting after development In a
surgical case which attracted much at
tention about four years ago has just
occurred. A prisoner serving long SEN
tence in the prison at Dannemora, n.
Y, was pardoned by Governor White on
re presentations which seemed to make it
clear that he had been cured of his GRIM
NAL tendencies by a surgical operation.
Following the operation. the prisoners s
character seemed to change. From being
s,1Ilen and morose he became bright and
cheerful, walked with fiirmer step, held his
head erect and appeared to DC a different
man. 1t is not surprising that rev
months after the operation the governor
was induced to set him free on parole,
and there seemed to be every reason to
hope that a useful citizen had been re-
stored to society in place of the criminal
that had been taken from 1t.
Unfortunately the arrest of the paroled
prisoner during the first week in January
of the present year for series OF bur-
siaries with regard to which the Evidence
Is complete, seems to make it clear that
the Improvement was only temporary, or
that the operation and his subsequent
good conduct were steps in a scheme to
secure his release from prison. 1t Is of
course only what might be expected.
There is no trustworthy evidence to show
that changes in moral character, inde-
pendent of mental deterioration, result
from pressure on the brain. Sensational
announcements of Improvement in such
cases after surgical Intervention, like
those that used to be made after various
surgical procedures in epilepsy, need to be
controlled by the subsequent history Of
the case Immediate Improvement in such
ca ses is usually mental rather than physi-
cal. and success reported before many
years have tested their permanence are
liable to produce false impressions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Room for Parcel Post

''Although the parcel post has just
been established it is even a bigger
success than the public had imagined
1t would be-" said a member of the
Chamber of Commerce. "In its first
year the volume of parcel post busi-
ness handled through the postoffice
will be enormous and, like the letter
and postoffice mail. 1t will increase at
a prodigious rate as time goes on.
I'm every city larger postoffice
buildings will be needed to accommo-
meantime, warehouses will have to be
rented to relieve the congestion. 1t
seems that Birmingham is to get only
81, 100000 for a new postoffice build
ing from this Congress, but If the
government architect had foreseen that
the parcel post would require a great
deal of extra space he would doubtless
have figured ON s2,oO0,oo0 building.
Should we get postoffice costing
something like s1,ooo,ooO it will be a
safe prediction that in 10 years there
will be an active agitation for a new
edifice to cost $2.00o,000 or $4,000, 600.
'.Many of the public buildings we
have were thought at the time they
were designed adequate for 25 or go
years. but there is scarcely one that is
not too small now. Nearly all are seri-
ously congested. That speaks well for
Birmingham as a growing city, of
course, but the experience of the past
will always be in mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Two Points of xie,r.


The city of Birmingham makes two
Impressions ON visitors from a distance.
which might be nearly opposite in ef-
rect stated North Highland man yes
teroay. The downtown section is the
most torn up, chaotic appearing place
have ever observed and that might
cause rather Objectionable impression,
hut or the other hand the building ac-
tivity which can be seen from every street
corner would tend to impress the stranger
with the almost frantic building activity
OF the city. The impression he would
carry away, however. I believe would de-
pend great deal on whether he was in
cilned to be a pessimist or an optimist.
The pessimist gets mad at seeing the
torn up streets. the changed car routes,
the muddy street crossings, the Gaping
sewer and conduit excavations, the hordes
or workmen In his way and the grating
noise of the big cement mixers. but the
opnmist looks over the temporary incon-
venlence and annoyance and sees ahead
INTO the future what these present con-
ditlons mean. For two or three days
last week there was friend of mine
from New York state visiting me. and 1
felt some apprehension about taking him
downtown. am ashamed to say feared
he would become disgusted with the
chaotic mixup OF mud and brick and
cement mixers and sand piles and ex-
cavations. 1t was with great relief that
heard him. My, what a building boom
this town is having. The feeling of pros
perity Just grasps a stranger and almost
carries him off his feet He was an op-
timist and the right sort"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
THE LIFE ROAD

Outlines to weary eyes unfolds
A toilsome road that winds away
Ger hills and wales, until at last
Its course is lost in shadows gray
We know not where it leads, nor what
Adventures may attend us there;
If We shall walk with Happiness,
Or front the minions of Despair.
We only know that we must go
Along that way, come good or i'll,
AS best we may, whatever Fate
DEGREES. And yet, with dauntless
will
And courage firm II we but wend,
We shall not be the dupes of fear,
Nor even quail when all is lost
And deaths cold phantom draweth
near.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
THE TIME I'VE LOST IN wOOING

By Thomas Moore.
The time I've lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light that lies
In woman's eyes,
Has been my hearts undoing.
Though wisdom oft has sought me,
scorn'd the lore she brought me.
My only books
Were woman's looks,
And follys all they've taught me.
Her smile when Beauty granted,
I hung with gaze enchanted,
Like him the Sprite
Whom maids by night
Oft meet in glen that's haunted.
Like him, too, Beauty won me.
But while her eyes were on me,
If once their ray
Was turn'd away,
OH winds could not outrun me.
And are those follies going?
And is my proud heart growing
Too cold or wise
For brilliant eyes
Again to set il glowing?
No--vain. alas! tn endeavor
From bonds so sweet to sever;
Poor Wisdom's chance
Against a glance
Is now az weak a. ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09

Bradley Martin is dead In London. lie
became famous in connection with a cos
tune ball which was given at the Wal
dorf- Astoria on March 10, 1897. As far
back as 1881 Mr.. Martin leased from Lady
Seafield an immense estate In Scotland.
1t consists of about $1,000 acres on Loeb
Ness, in the north of Scotland. The man
sion at Balmacan, which was hardly more
than a shooting box when Mr.. Martin
leased the estate, vas converted by him
dwellings in the British isles 1t is $50
years old. At Balmacan one of Mrs. Mar
tin's favorite sports was to drive pair
of snow white mules with pink noses
which she and Mr. Martin brought from
Egypt. The marriage of their daughter,
Cornelia, to the Earl of Craven made
their position in English society assured.
Lord Craven had a fine estate, but no
money with which to run it. The day
Miss Martin married Lord Craven an all
lowanee of $4,000 year was settled on
her. The Martins had three children
bradley, Jr., now a well known banker
and society man of New York; Sherman
Martin. who died some years ago, and
Cornelia, Lady Craven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Victory of the Tax Commission

The state is a bigger political unit
than a county which the former had
created. This seems to be just about
the size of the issue that arose be-
tween a laard of revenue in a county
and the tax commission in the state
over the manner of determining val
uations of property for tax purposes.
When the issue had been carried to
the supreme court the state came
out ahead.
1t is fully and finally decided in
the court of last resort in this state
that the state tax commission can
review at will valuations made by
county authorities, and there is no
room for further appeal in strictly
state matter
The state tax commission is the
court of last resort in tax valuations.
The question was an open one until
it was fully defined in a case that
grew out of the determination of
Governor O'Neal to increase the ag-
gregate valuation of taxable property
in Jefferson county. The supreme
court sustained Governor O'Neal's
views of the subject, and hereafter
the tax commission will be a power
indeed in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Progress in Five Years.

Birmingham of today is a very diff
ferent town from Birmingham of five
years ago. said W. w. Garland OF
st. Louis. TN the early part of 1908
was in this city for the first time.
Many of the large Industrial work.
were idle as a result of the panic of
1907.
This is my second visit and I find
birmingham an uncommon1y busy city.
1t is one OF the livest cities 1 have
ever seen. Its growth has been indeed
phenomenal. | remember the census
figures of 1910-nearly 1S3,0O0-but my
guess would be that Birmingham now
has close to population of 100000.
This city is certainly well adver-
tised. spend good deal OF time in
the far west and people I meet in that
section when they refer to the south
nearly always speak of Birmingham
as the south's coming metropolis. ]
was in the east recently and there l
heard Birmingham discussed as the
city that would probably outstrip all
other southern cities in population
within the next Is or 20 years.
"The tide of immigration is now
southwark and Alabama will make a
splendid showing in the next census" /"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Water and Liquor

The Sixty-second Congress has but
three weeks of life left in it, and yet
it is trying to define and determine
two great lines Of policy. One of these
relates to water and the other to
something stronger. Both are, how
ever, subject to keen contests, and
neither can be settled except at the
end of keen and forcible speeches.
The first of these is the bill which
would prohibit shipments of liquor
into dry territories.
The other burning subject is an at
tempt on the part of Secretary of War
Stimson to commit Congress in Con-
necticut river dam bill to the sale of
surplus water in the form of hydro
electricity to private consumers. This
would indeed be new departure. The
bill is to be voted on in the Senate
next Tuesday. 1t has not passed either
House, and it has indeed a hard road
to travel before it becomes law.
The liquor bill would, it is claimed,
place restriction on the federal con-
troll of interstate commerce, while the
dam bill would assuredly be vast
extension of federal power in the
rivers of the country. The two bills
cover new lines of policy, and each
will be contested every inch of the
wav
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
In Musical Circles

with the rapid growth of Birming-
ham has come, very naturally. large
increase in the lumber of musicians,
especially musicians who have had ex-
perience in orchestras,'' said oliver
Chalifoux.
1.-TWO or three years ago there was
talk in musical circles of organizing a
symphony orchestra for the purpose of
giving series of high class concerts
during the seasons but symphony play
ers We're not quite numerous enough
then. / am inclined to think that by
next fall the organization of a con-
cert orchestra of 40 or As pieces fairly
we'll balanced might be feasible.
"The French horn, so important in
large orchestras. is seldom found in
any but very large cities. but it may
be that at least two horn players
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
AN INTERRUPTION

The impassioned oratress had reached
the climax of her denunciation of the ty-
rant sex, when little man in the corner
said he arose to present a question of
special privilege.
..Put him out.' shrieked many un-
friendly voices.
Estate your question:. said the ora
tress.
II want to marry you soon," said the
little man. II like your talk and like
your looks. I've got good house and
twenty-horse power motor car
order! order!' shrieked the audience.