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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
RooseyeIt's vindicntiOn

II have never been partisan OF Col
onel Roosevelt, but | am glad that ne
gets the decision in his suit against the
Michigan editor" said q we'll known
citizen
Everyone might have known thal
when the colonel brought his libel suit
against Editor Newett he felt apso-
lutely certain of his ground. There had
been stories floating around that the
colonel drank too much but everybody
who came in contact with him or VINO
was familiar with his record as manly
specimen of humanity might have
known that there was absolutely no
foundation for the calumnies that polit-
ical enemies or gossips were clrculat-
ing
For a man who is not teetotaier
Colonel Roosevelt has always peer
most temperate. The only time eVe'
sat with the ex-President at a social
board was here in Birmingham, wnen
he was entertained by a prominent res
ident of the South Highlands. Cocktails
were served but Colonel Roosevelt die
not take so much as single sip out o.
his glass. Highballs were served ou
he touched no highball My recoilectloi
is that he did take few sips OF whi.'
wine but those at the table re-
marked on his disinclination to drink
1T is learned from a London specia
to the New York Sun that Coiohe
Roosevelt's habits in the matter o.
alcoholic beverages were commented VI
by medical writer in the Daily News
The writer took the ground that thu
former President had set an eNa"pi
which many OF his countrymen coui'
follow to their advantage.
"IIis very occasional glass OF sher
ry,' the physician said. can be left ou
Of account entirely az far a. any &C
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Senior Castrillo's Canal Dream

| The retiring minister of Nicaragua
to the United States, DR.. Castrillo, is
going home confident that this coun-
try will soon build a canal on the
Nicaragua route, because in that way
1000 miles of sailing can be avoided
in transferring ships from one side of
this country to the other.
Last winter treaty was negotiated
with Nicaragua providing that for
SO 100000 Nicaragua grants to the
United States the exclusive right to
construct canal This treaty has been
ratified by the Nicaraguan govern
ment, but it still lacks the approval
of the United States Senate. Secretary
Bryan is said to regard the project
with favorable eye, and this has no
doubt rendered DR.. Castrillo enthusi-
astic.
But second canal will not be built
very soon. Such canals absorb mil
lions. 1t is well, however, to secure ex-
elusive rights in such enterprises, and
the treaty with Nicaragua will be duly
ratified and filed away. We do not
want other nations to become canal
builders in America. We prefer to
monopolize that business, but the time
may come when we may wish we had
selected the shorter Nicaragua route
rather than the route at Panama. And
then, too, two canals may not be too
many in the long run. This conclu-
sion may be reached about the end OF
the present century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
The Birmingham District

AS the end of the half year ap-
proaches it is worthy of note that
business conditions in the Birming-
ham district are active and sound. The
fact is that high degree of prosperi-
ty has prevailed in and around Bir-
mingham for more than year past.
The coal trade in Alabama has
never been so continuously active, per-
.haps, as during the last 1S months.
It may be somewhat quiet now but
the operators have been getting good
prices and there has been more ac-
tive demand for their output than
ever before.
The iron market continues weak.
but it was active throughout the
greater part of last year and much ol
the pig metal that is being delivered
at this time is at prices considerably
higher than today's market quotations
The steel mill at Ensley has been the
center of uncommon activity during
the past II months. New high records
have been made there in the recent
months and operations in the Ten
nessee company's Ensley division will
continue with more or less briskness
through the summer.
The most important recent fact re-
lating to the district has been, o1
course, the resumption of work at the
American Steel and Wire company's
plant. Birmingham is always well adj
vertised, but nothing which has hap
pened recently has drawn public at
tAntion so largely to this district as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Chautnuqua Week

Chautauqua week begins in Birmingham
tomorrow afternoon at East Park-not
East Lake.
''If strong attrac ctions count for any
thing, everyone of the chautauqua enter
tainments will be largely attended" said
a professional man. Those who like
music will have an opportunity Of hearing
the best. Those who appreciate fine act
ing will have an opportunity of seeing
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors pre-
sented by one of the greatest companies
in the world-the Ben Greet players.
Those who enjoy lectures will have va
rfety of wit and wisdom.
There will be seats for over 1000 and
there should not be single vacant seat
at any performance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

the Steel corporations announcement
that the wire plant would be COM
pleted and operated. The advertising
effect has been especially marked
because it had been supposed by many
that no action would be taken with
regard to the wire mill until after the
government suit had been decided.
The finance committee of the Steel
corporation decided the wire mill nat
ter a week ago last Wednesday and
since that time all the financial and
industrial weeklies in the United
States and many of the large dailies
have had something to say about it.
And editors and special writers have
pointed out the significance of the
action.
The United States Steel corporation
entered the Birmingham district in
1907 and since that time it has spent
$23, 100000 here in new construction
and improvements. 1t is doing much
development work here now
and many millions of dollars will lie
expended within the coming ~
months.
Last year was, in many respects,
Birmingham banner year, but it is
safe to predict that when 1918 closes
it will be the districts new high rec
ord year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

The Chattanooga News recently ac-
complished an unusual newspaper feat
in preparation for the Confederate re-
union held in Chattanooga during the
week ended yesterday. The issue of
May % included a 10-page section of a
single firm, the KnoX-Thomas- Spears
company, inviting theirfriends and Gus
toners to attend the reunion. The is
sue of May % included a 10-page sec
tion of the Palmer Hardware company,
extending similar invitation, and the
issue of May 26 was a reunion souvenir
number in magazine form of so pages,
containing reunion news, matters Of
historical interest and a comprehensive
| review of Chattanooga as a manufac-
turing center and a city of electrical
power. All the advertisements in this
number are devoted exclusively to the
announcements of members of the local
manufacturers association, no other
business having been solicited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
For Lieutenant Governor

Thomas E. Kilby. president of the An
niston City National bank, is proving 10
be an exceptionally strong candidate tor
lieutenant governor" said Joseph Il.
Johnson
He is a gentleman not only of fine
business attainments, but he is one Oh
the most public spirited men in Alabama.
He has friends in different sections OF
the state who are enthusiastically sup
porting him and he is particularly strong
here in Birmingham, where he has
considerable investment in the Kiiny Frog
and Switch company. He has no hobbies,
but is a thoroughly representative Ala
bamian."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
AN ALABAMA GARDEN

.ONG a pine-clad hill 1t lies,
Oerlooked by limpid southern skies,
A spot to feast a fairys eyes, A
A nook for happy fancies.
The wild bees mellow monotone
Here blends with bird notes zephyr-blo wn
And many an insect voice unknown
The harmony enhances.
The roses shattered splendor fees
With lavish grace on every breeze,
And lilies sway with fexile ease
Like dryads snowy-breasted;
And where gardenias browse between
Rich curving leaves of glossy green.
The cricket strikes his tambourine.
Amid the mosses nested.
Here dawn flushed myrtles interlace,
And sifted sunbeams shyly trace
Frail arabesques whose shifting grace
Is wrought of shade and simmer;
At eventide scents quaint and rare
Go straying through my garden fair.
AS If they sought with wildered air
The firefiies ftful glimmer.
Oh could some painters facile brush
On canvas linn my gardens blush,
The fevered world It's din would hush
To crown the high endeavor;
Or could a poet snare in rhyme
The breathings of this balnly clime
His fame might dare the dart of Time
And soar undimmed 1ogeyeyl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
EVER NOTICE IT?

If your hat should blow off and roll
Away from you, just let it.
Stand where you are, some willing soul
Will chase around and get it.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
If your glove should drop on the floor
Or tire dusty pave of the city,
There'n be divers for it, galore,
If you are a girl-and pretty.
Denver Republican.
If you've been joy riding with
Some Sue or Arabeller
Don't trouble to inform your wife,
There'n be a dozen tell 'er.
Houston Post.
II you happen to catch cold
It's easy to endure 1t
When compared with being told
A million ways TO cure 1t.
youngstown Telegram.
And II you are single man
And for no spouse you're wishing.
It's nice to have some real old maid
Just tell you what you're missing.
-Yonkers Statesman.
And If you are married man
And wifey's tantrums grieve you,
'Tis pleasant when she has plan
In summer time to leave you.
MUST KEEP HIM BUSY.
Some interesting statistics have beer
made public in regard to the graduating
class at Princeon this year. One member
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
The Grand Jury's Report

Il was pleased to read in The Age
Herald an article commencing the grand
jury for its business-like and unsensa-
tional report" said member of the
Chamber of Commerce. 'It was an ad-
mirable report-admirabl in temper and
in it's concise statement of facts.
I'm reading that report my notion about
Birmingham's morals was confirmed.
feel sure that no city of Birmingham
size Is more orderly or has less of vice
in 1t than exists here at present. Of
course. there is always much vice In a
large city, but l believe it is at a mini
mum in Birmingham now. There Is less
gambling, I am told by city officials, than
ever before and as for homicides in this
county, which have given the Birming-
ham district bad name, they have great
ly diminished since the hanging of the
Lewisburg murderers.
Jefferson county may need new jail,
but the present Jail is sanitary. Sheriff
McAdory keeps it remarkably clean and
the food that he serves to the prisoners
is of the very best quality. The grand
jury found that the Jail was not over
Sio"oSu' III itCtf tlitlt diS IS"ci Pi 10
oners than usual and all this speaks
well for the improved moral conditions
hereabouts. / have known the Jail to
contain nearly 450 prisoners-years ago,
During Sheriff McAdorys term the high
est number has been 326. Today there
are only 175 state prisoners and 16 United
States prisoners, total of 191. That is
small number indeed. for so large a
county as jefferson.
Another thing that should be said in
Jefferson county's favor is that all mis-
demeanor prisoners have a trial soon
after they are lodged in the jail The
misdemeanor cases are disposed of every
Friday, so that the longest confinement
in Jail for misdemeanor prisoner is
barely a week. Capital cases are dis
posed of more systematically and more
promptly than in other days and all this
genuine reform should rebound to the
credit of the judiciary and the officials
charged with executing the laws.
MIR. McAdory makes. what | regard,
an excellent sheriff. lie is conscientious
and vigiant and | am satisfied that when
he goes out of Office he will take with
him the high esteem of every good citi-
zen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
INJURED PRIDE.

Mrs. Curdgeous was much offended, I'm
told, by the sermon DR.. Founders preached
over the body of the late Mr.. Curdgeous."
II understand the sermon was very eu-
lcgistic."
so it was, but the preacher spoke of the
deceased as one who had walked bravely
through life's vale of sorrows and Mrs
Curdgeous wishes it distinctly understood
that neither she nor Mr. Curdgeous has
ever walked anywhere. having always had
either carriages or motor cars at their dis
posal.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
MUST KEEP HIM BUSY.
DICK TURPIN, FAMOUS HIGHWAYMAN

ceitful critters, and he never played
around with them much And he didn t
herd with other highwaymen much. The
only partner for whom he ever cared was
gentlemanly cut purse named Tom
King. Dick ran across him one day when
he had just moved over from his native
heath to Cambridge, feeling that a cul-
tured university atmosphere where the
constables wouldn't all call him by his
first name, was desirable. Down a road
came Tom on horseback. neatly dressed
and looking prosperous. Dick hoped out
of the brush and told him to stand and
deliver, At which Tom, who was also
some shakes at the holdup game, laughted
immoderately and said;
'Turpin. old scout you ought to sub
scribe to the thugs blue book. I'm Tom
King"
Whereat they clasped hands and went
after until Dick accidentally shot Tom
one night while trying to rescue him from
an overzealous pair of constables.
Getting along, however to the exploit
which made Dick famous-the ride from
London to York. The distance is 200 miles,
and ordinarily folks took four days to
ride 1t. Mr.. Turpin, about 3 o'clock of a
bright spring day. while riding in the
suburbs, came up with a couple of coarse
minds who dropped their his and probably
were not above eating garlic with their
food got bead on them and was riding
off with his customary grace and eclat
when up came an especially officious arm
of the law named Patterson, accom-
panied by a lawyer. They recognized h. m
right away, and set out in pursuit. Dick
galloped blithely along, holding in his
mare so that they wouldn't lose sight of
chase. And so they clattered along. A
turnpike keeper ran out and shut a toll
gate across the road; Black Bess leaped
it and Patterson and his companions
wasted valuable minutes arguing with
the keeper, who wouldn't let them by un-
til they had paid their toll.
Now and then a flock of squawking
ducks tapped wildly out from under Black
Bess's hoofs as she rolled along; now
they were come to a village, and men and
boys ran out to throw things indiscrimi-
nately at pursued and pursuers, saw Dick
riding low in his saddle, pistol In one
hand and scattered as wildly as the
ducks.
blues and greens of the late afternoon a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
THE wILLoUGHBY GIRLS.

1t requires a great deal of diplomacy
unpleasant is ever permitted to appear in
of all the graces. The following para
graph shows what might happen if socie-
ty editors were less considerate.
There is great deal of suppressed ex-
citement in town." says the Topeka Capt.
tai. "due to the fact that one of the Will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
A PROGRESS NOTE.

After a period of silence caused by a
strike, the inspiring steam hammer is
once more heard in the Birmingham dis
trict. Next to Esmeraldas voice and the
Jingle of money In our pocket, the sharp
staccato of steam hammer is the most
cheerful noise we know about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

lous as by the abstemfous. Not one of
our old two bottle men would ever admit
that he was drunk. In fact, except in
police courts. where, to make sure Of con-
victions, the authorities craftily couple
dsorderliness with drunkenness, not much
judicial light has been thrown on this
matter.
TO say that a man gets drunk Is easy,
but to prove it is impossible. Learned
judges hold conflicting views on the sub
ject, and juries either disagree or. i'm
pressed by their fearful responsibility,
give the person suspected the benefit OF
the doubt. Men who drink will admit
that they drink. Men who drink too much
will at times acknowledge their excesses.
But they will deny that they get drunk,
and the records of a thousand years of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES

loughby girls recently entertained a man
Willoughby girls that, while they gave
street parade every day, they had never
been able to sell a ticket to the evening
performance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
eff WORTH DOING AT ALLr ETC

From June Lippincotts
Small Thomas overheard his mother say
ing to his older brother that it was a tact
full thing to appear to think people
younger than they were.
His sisters French teacher arriving
shortly after. it fell to Thomas to enter
tain her until his sister appeared. Thorn
as decided to do it up brown
How old are you, Miss Grey?" he asked
politely.
I'M dreadfully old, Thomas" she an
swered. I'm 23"
"Oh!' said Thomas, gu1ping little with
the unusual effort, II never thinked you
was more'n-s-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
SURE.

Now's the time the motor maid
In some creek delights to wade.
When horrid man Is spied,
Makes believe she's Mortified.
Screams and tells him not to look
At her tootsies in the book.
Stuff and nonsensel If he's wise,
Mr.. Man will use his eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
\NDuf'S band

Nappis band Will be heard in fine pro-
gramn.es at East Lake park this after
non and tonight. The admission is free
and music lovers VIII find great enjoyment
in both of the concerts. Nappis pro-
grammes are of the same character as
these heard in Capitol park last summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
From the Kansas City Star.

FROM tne Kansas CITY Star.
HISTORIANS, who, as everybody
Knows, are AWFUL XII joys, will
l tell you that this story isn't true,
and as its hero, the late Mr.. Richard Tur-
pin, was hanged by an inconsiderate gov
'ernment before he had time to write his
memoirs, there really isn't much proof
to offer. However, it's a good yarn, and
Englishmen have chosen to believe it for
most 200 years. and a man named Samuel
Ainsworth wrote a thrilling novel about
it, so what's the odds?
Mr.. Turpin was one of those courteous
and gentlemanly hishwaymen who -four
ished in the days before telegraph wires
and motorcycles had played havoc with
an ancient and honorable trade. He lived
in the early part of the eighteenth CEN
tury and he seems to come by his calling
naturally, as his father was an innkeeper-
(Smiles and laughter)
Anon, anon, old Mr.. Turpin, they say,
wanted Dick to run a meat market, and
he did for a little while, and made quite
a profit at it too stealing his beef and
mutton instead of buying 'em from
grasping trust. However, he never had
his heart in that game and in little
while he gave it up, discarded his dirty
white apron, bought a good morse and
pair of pistols and became a celebrity
with price upon his head.
He rode up and down lonesome roads
and held up rich travellers, set up the
crowd whenever he came to town, gave
large tips and was universally beloved or
innlxeepers A large, red bearded man
was Dick, with a bald pate and poetic
soul He used to make up verses about
the glories of being a highwayman, ana
these, after a few drinks, te would con-
sent to sing to the admiring throng. MOST
lv they had to do with his horse, Black
Bess. who was quite as famous as DICK
himself Thus, according to Mr.. AIMS
worth. chanted Galloping Dick when the
spirit moved him:
Let the lover his mistress beauty re-
hearse, .
Be it mine in rude strains but with truth
to express,
The love that I bear to my bonny Black
Bess.
BY moonlight, In darkness, by night or py
day,
Her haadlong career there Is nothing can
stay;
She cares not for distance, she knows not
distress,
Black Bess?
Women, Mr. Turpin averred, were oe-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
GETTING DRUNK

From the New York World.
The plaintiff at Marquette, Mich, sues
because he was accused by the defendant
OF getting drunk" This is a charge
which is resented as keenly by the bibu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

In Chicago the weather is so chilly
that some threaten to go south for the
summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

The import duty on horses intended
for meat has been reduced in France.
Horse meat on the hoof has never been
considered in American tariff bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

Senator Penrose is advocating all
sorts of popular reforms and the people
are crying out, temporal o Moresl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

terson saw the bandit slack the mare a
Bit strike fire with flint and steel and
light his pipe, turning to wave encourage
ment to the hot, breathless men pounding
laboriously along quarter mile behind
him.
He had one more disgusting glimpse,
too, when he thundered down a long
stretch of road toward an inn set in green
cry, saw Dick Turpin hand an empty
tankard back to a waiting boy, toss him
a coin, mount Bess and spur away
And then came night. After that Tur-
pin seems to have made the ride more in
pure deviltry than because he feared
pursuit 1t was a splendid night, the
moon was up, his mare was going well,
the roads were firm. Black patchy
shadows lay athwart the path; there was
the fragrance and the coolness of spring
dusk wrapped all the world. Twice he
stopped, more from consideration of his
horse than for himself rubbed the mare
down with brandy and water, eased the
Bit and was off. The beast herself would
not be headed now; the magic of the night
and of the spring was In her blood
at last, in sight of York just as the sun
was flooding the tree tops and the church
spires all with gold, and the mare stum-
bled, crumpled and died in the road Dick
Turpin had made the ride, almost 200
miles, in 10 hours-and lost the creature
he loved best. They say the red bearded
highwayman sobbed once or twice there
In the road beside her; then he vowed
the mare died as she would have chosen,
and that 1t was better so than thft she
should survive to lose him, and be driv, n
to a cart in her old age.
Dick himself, after a varied career.
in the course of which he masqueradeo
as a gentleman for several months, was
on the best of terms with the fox hunting
owners of a number of north country es-
tates, and outrode them all, came to the
gallows in 1888. 1t didn't seem to bother
him much; he had written couplet once
prophesying that he would
Die not as other men, by degrees,
But at once, without wincing and quite
at his ease.
And so, neatly dressed and with his red
beard combed, he clamored up the steps,
made brief speech to the hangman,
stamped his right leg angrily because It
trembled and jumped resolutely out to
the end of the rope.
Jurisprudence show that the courts have
usually sustained them.
Since many generations of magistrates
have studiously refrained from telling us
in legal terms precisely when a man is
drunk, why is it that so many people use
the term lightly when they wish to over
throw an adversary? When man fails
to make himself Understood he is said to
be drunk. When a man startlcs the COM
munity with a new or extravagant idea
he is said to be very drunk. Yet he may
never drink anything stronger than
orangeade or buttermilk.
The proceedings at Marquette are likely
to follow the precedents, first, because the
plaintiff does not get drunk and secondly
and conclusively, because, as every law
book in the world will show, nobody ever
did get drunk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
A DISCOURAGED WIFE.

Go ahead and call me a 1oafer, Mary,
but some of these days the worm is going
to turn"
"If you are referring to yourself, Henry,
I'm much afraid that the worm will mere
ly turn over and take another nap"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

An edition de luxe suits the man who
thinks as much of the she'll as of the
kernel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

A rabbit serum cured Senator Kern
of tuberculosis, The rabbits are gain
ing on the tortoise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

Secretary Daniels has been so for
tunate as to incur the displeasure of
the Hon. Cole Blease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

There is no politics in the landslides
in the Culebra cut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

In pronouncing Ishpeming put the
accent on the "Ish."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

Tammany has nothing to say" in the
campaign of Governor Sulzer for state
wide direct primaries.