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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
Population of Cities

"All the larger cities-eities upwards OF
100000-have grown considerably since the
last census said L. T. Norton of st.
Louis. My home city is growing stead
lily and it will get into the million class
think by 1920.
"Of the strictly southern cities Bir-
mingham and Atlan-a are probably
showing the greatest growth. Atlanta
goes right ahead and so, of course. does
Birmingham.
This city is making wonderful strides
and will probably outstrip Atlanta in
the next census. When l was here three
years ago L was impressed with the great
improvements that had been made since
my first visit in 1900. The recent i'm
provements have been immense. At a
glance 1 would suppose this city had
about 100000 population now In the 1926
census it will not be surprising il ii
reaches the 100000 mark"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
poINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Men. like watches. are valued by their
works.
All the world looks down on man who
is in hole.
We all want the bigger half. yet there
is no such thing.
A rich mans philanthropy usually draws
the line at his poor relations.
Before burning your bridges behind you
be sure they are fully insured.
If you would hit the target of success
you must aim before you shoot.
Ride a hobby If you will, but remember
you are not the only jockey in the race.
Young man. beware of the girl who
looks like a peach. She may be d lemon
in disguise
Do your share toward preventing this
old world from becoming a bowling will
derness by not hoYling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
The Laws Majesty

In Atlanta a prominent man is on
trial for the murder of 14-year-old
girl. The presiding judge, in mo-
ment Of leisure, glanced at a news
paper. It was held in such man.
ner that some large headlines,
adding Links to the Chain of the
State" were exposed to the jury.
This fact was discovered. Horrors!
Immediately counsel for the prose-
cution and the defense conferred with
the court. The jury was sent from
the room.' One of the attorneys for
the prisoner declared that every mem
ber of the jury had seen the headlines.
He did not propose at that time, he
announced magranimpusly, to ask f0E
.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
Clever market Phraslng

although wheat, corn and oats are
daily handled on the grain exchange of
Chicago, and often as q purely specula-
tive gamble, yet the press dispatches and
the news letters regarding the market
situation, are not so cleverly worded so
particularly graphic, as those of cotton"
said a former cotton man.
''The reason is not far 10 seek. Owing
to the fact that when a specuator buys
wheat or corn or oats he may choose
the grade he wishes, and will receive that
very kind on delivery day; that he may
sell his contract to a bona flde grain
dealer, or mill company that wishes the
grain, there is the safe business basis
back of the gamble. Also there is cue re-
gard had to actual grain in elevators or
in transit for nearby months. Not so as
to cotton, for the whole idea is to play
the game and discourage the taking of
| actual cotton The 100000 bale crops
now annually made are sold many times
over on the cotton future boards of New
| York and New Orleans. In New York,
where the great bulk of the cotton gam
| bling takes place, very little cotton is
really handled.
( "A peculiar phraseology has come into
| daily use for the cotton gambling game,
and this language, which often has a
meaning all its own, is a part of the game
| to cover the wash sales and manipula-
tions. For instance. we read that Liver
pool came in lower than expected and
such and such months opened so many
points down. Now, Liverpool doesn't
grow cotton, but what is to prevent the
cotton future gamblers of Liverpool CO.
operating with the New York bears in
sending in cables of lower prices Then,
too, every passing breeze of hot or dry
weather, rain or frost, fair or foul, is
worked in rigging the daily market to
the sensitive point; such as those very
delicate assayer's scales, that have to be
kept inside of glass case even when in
use Now it Is known that nothing but a
prolonged and unusual season affects the
cotton CROP and this only to a degree in
certain localities. One would think from
reading the press bushwa' of the e>cotton
gamblers that the crop would be cut off
appreciably by hot winds in Texas-the
small speculators margins are frequently
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
WON HIS WAGER

From the New York Globe.
A gentleman in Dublin, speaking of the
Irish cabmen, said that nothing ever
satisfied them, and that he was willing
TO prove his words ON wager that IL
he should go to the door and call cab,
no matter what fee he would give, the
driver would ask for more. The wager
was taken for 910. The gentleman called
a cab. drove about a quarter of mile.
stepped out and handed the driver a 10
shilling gold piece, the legal fare being
one shilling. Cabby drove off. The gem
tleman who had taken the wager was ex-
ulting in his triumph when suddenly the
cabby returned. and, touching his hat.
said, please, sir, have ye a durty three
pence bit about ye? 1t would be such
a pity to break bright piece of gold like
this for drink"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
THE ROAD no YESTERDAY

Emily Huntington Miller.
We dreamed alone, my heart and /,
OF summers lost and vanished
springs;
A little wind went singing by,
With breath of roses on his wings;
"Come out!' he beckoned, come awayt
1 know the road to Yesterday
We ran together down the way,
A pleasant path of sun and shade.
We found the homestead, old and gray.
The garden where the children played
Before their feet had learned to stray
Beyond the realm of Yesterday.
The roses blossomed, white and red;
The plum trees dropt their fragrant
snow,
A Joyous bird sang overhead
The very song of long ago;
And sunbeams, through the open door,
Wove webs of gold along the floor.
But from the window one should look
With tender longing in her face
And one, above a holy book,
Sit musing by the fireside place
Sweet souls! that changed to food di.
Life's bitter bread, and meager wine.
And all the empty rooms should fill
with children's voices, clear and
sweet;
And on the silent stairways, still
Sound tho light treatd of childrcn'a
feet
20, hearth I sighed. what need to
There is no road to Yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

wv AsHINGTON, August s.-(spe-
M cial.)-The Hon. julius Kahn
w of San Francisco, representa-
tive in Congress from California has
been vindicated. Probably we do not
use the word vindicated advisedly-
perhaps it would be better to say that
he has been relieved. The Hon. julius
has been coming to Congress for 10
years, waiting and praying for his op-
portunity-he felt that it was in him
to make a considerable splash IL he
could only strike things while the
splashing was good. All these years
he has kept his eagle eye-also the
one that Is not eagle-skinned for the
least foothold, in order that he might
at once climb to the very topmost
heights of fame. Tho Hon. julius
looks a good deal like a Dutch Gomez
dian-his intellectual dome of thought
shines like a large liver pill entirely
surrounded by a bushy mop Of hair.
The Hon. Julius does not look like
a real dangerous person. Far from it.
On the contrary he looks like a very
pleasant and harmless sort of chap
as indeed he is-until no becomes riled.
When he becomes peeved it is quite
different-Julius is some holly terror
when he gets peeved.
As we have said julius has not had
the opportunity TO startle the country
at large to any extent in all the 1c
years he has been in Congress. All
that time julius has Justly felt that
as real honest-to- goodness STARTER
he was right there. When the Diggs-
Caminetti- -McNabb case jumped sud
denly into tho limelight, julius saw
his opportunity and grabbed 1t like a
hungry hobo grabs varnish tart.
No sooner had julius took slant at
this situation than he knew at cnce
the time had come for him to take
the center of the stage and do some
plain and fancy cutting up. julius
did so.
Julius promptly introduced a reso-
luton calling on the Attorney General
for all the papers in the case--but
the Attorney General without due con-
sideration of the situation-and not re-
alizing that he might be depriving
Julius of great opportunity without
waiting for the resolution to be passed
promptly sent the papers to the judic-
larry committee of the House, and thus
beat julius and his resolution to 1t. But
Julius was not thus to be deprived
of his chance, if there was any faint
and lingering hope entertained by any
one that this action would head julius
off and deprive him of the opportunity
of working a speech out of his system
that hope was a forlorn and per-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
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JOKE ON COMPANY

From Everybody's.
"A sense of humor is a fine possession.
With some men, however, 1t goes to ex-
tremes--to ghastly extremes said Mayor
Hunt of Cincinnati at recent dinner.
II used to know in Horace Annesey, a
man with this excessive sense Of humor.
Horace said to me one morning. with q
ghoulish laugh:
"'I've got the greatest Joke to tell youe
"Well, what is it?. said I.
"'You know, said Horace. that was
examined and passed for life insurance
last week? Well--,ha, ha, ha!-I've been
to consult a specialist this morning, and
he tells me I've got an incurable disease.
He gives me just one year. Ea, ha, hal =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
The Sex Discusslon

Under the head of Religion and Eth
les Current Opinion for August has a
lively and enlightening article entitled,
Sex O'Clock in America" said a, pro-
fessional man. The article covers two
pages and is made up somewhat after the
style of the Literary Digest symposiums
Various authors are quoted and the editor
throws in remarks of his own by way OF
explanation.
A wave of sex hygiene and sex dis
cussion seems to have pervaded this coun
try says the Current Opinion. Our for
mer retieence on matters of sex is giving
way to frankness that would even startlC
Paris. 1t has struck sex o'clock in
America, to use William Marion Reedy's
memorable phrase
MANY racy excerpts are given, and, ac.
cording to Mr.. Reedy, the vice crusade in
New York, Chicago San Francisco, every
where is being overdone. Many of those
educators who have advocated instructor
In the public schools on so-called seS
hygiene have meant well no doubt but the
whole matter can but be disgusting tc
many of us.
"A Roman Catholic publication Amer
lea, asks for the suppression of vice re-
ports and of vice commissions except foI
restricted particular investigations. That
periodical attacks DR.. Eliot's champion
ship of the Society of Sanitary
and Moral Prophylaxis. Eliot has no
right, in the opinion of the editor of Amer
lea, to declare that before the advent OF
the society and its head, DR.. Morton, the
policy of the world was absolute silence
with regard to sex hygiene. There is,
according to the same magazine, a world
Ct difference between absolute silence ana
the wise and prudent discretion which bids
father and mother and teacher to refrain
from handling the topic In public and
without discriminating sense, while it al
the same time inspires them to say at the
fitting time the right word. which shall
safeguard their children, and to say il
with the circumspeetion not likely to de-
stroy the sense OF shame. which is the
best ratural protection of the innocence
Of these little ones 4"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The CITY EIecetion

There will not be as large a vote in
the city election in September as I would
have predicted month ago. said an old
democrat.
1T looked as If there would be in
the race for president Of the commission
several strong candidates, but as the
strong ones mentioned decline to enter
the vote may be correspondingly light
unless the question of the auditorium
bond issue stirs the people up. There
should be a large vote in favor of the
auditorium
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
THE AUDITORIUM QUESTION

From the Chattanooga Times
birmingham is talking of building a
s150.000 auditorium with seating ca
pacity of 1000 or 5000. Furthermore,
Birmingham is likely not to be content
with mere talk about the matter. That's
the way cities forge ahead. Chatta-
nooga cannot afford TO stay behind the
procession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Among the remarkable occurrences of
in which the machine did not turn turtle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Anyhow, Mulhall has served excellently
as an object for many persons who have
been longing to call some one liar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
Easier Money Market


Henry clews In his Saturday review
says in part:
"All the money markets of the world,
those at home equally with those abroad,
show improvement and an easier ten
dency This must be attributed to a uni
versal strengthening of banking condi-
| tions by the enforced contraction of loans.
The latter was an unwelcome process, In
volving a worldwide slowing down of
business activities, a fall in values of
both commodities and securities, and a
very pronounced check upon new enter
prises and new applications for capital.
1t is now thoroughly recognized that, as
pointed out in these advices weeks ago,
the chief source of trouble has been the
Balkan war The cost and the losses OF
this bitter struggle are estimated to have
been over 81, 200 000,000 which fell upon
money markets already exhausted by an
undue expansion of credit and an cnor-
nous demand for new capital The Pc
riod of retrenchment thus enforced has
proved highly beneficial; and now that
the main source of strain-the Balkan
warts over, conservative recuperation
should be the inevitable sequence, and
may prove even more rapid than ex-
pected or desired. If unfavorable circum-
stances do not intervene. The continued
belligerency of the various contestants
Is having one good effect; 1t is wearyine
European bankers of financing such petty
warfare.
ut is exceedingly satisfactory to note
4 fafa ie al,
er recuperative tendencies than any Other
commercial nation. This is but natural
Our losses from the war were strictly
Indirect instead of reveling In q trade
! boom such as England and Germany
have enjoyed for the last four or five
years, we have pursued with some degree
of restlessness a policy of extreme con
servatism, especially the last two years
at least, which disappointing as 1t may
have been for the time being, has lefi
the American business situation excep
| tionally sound. As a result We have
passed through the recent financial strain
| successfully, and find ourselves really
strengthened by the ordeal. There is nc
exaggeration in saying that SO far as
intrinsic business conditions are con-
| cerned, American affairs have not In
years been in better position for re-
spending to a fresh forward movement
Witness the extraordinary report of the
the United States Steel corporation, al
ways a fair barometer Of trade condi-
tions also the continued liberal earnings
of our railroads proving that there has
been no important recession in traffic
also the satisfactory reports issued from
time to time by many of our large in
| dustrial establishments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

A novelist pays beautiful tribute to
ship in which he crossed the Atlantic.
Evidently he stood in with the stewards
and didn't get seasick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Porch and window have been elmi-
mated from the tariff bill upon motion of
Senator Smoot. Now is republican honor
satisfied?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

The discovery that woman is a biped
seems as wonderful to some as the in
vention of the aeroplane or the isolation
of the typhoid bacillus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Queen Mary has decreed that all court
debutantes be permitted a neck exposure
of only one inch. The conventional train
makes unnecessary lineal limit from the
heel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Foreign visitors are greatly impressed
by the electric signs of Broadway. Gilt
ter is Broadway's chiefest asset, next to
sha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Tammany Chief Murphy has volunteered
to appear before the Frawley invests
eating committee. Mr.. Murphy knows he
will be in the hands of his friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

A st. Louis paper offers prize of
500 for 10 good reasons for moving to
Missouri. The kind of state to live in is
one that people will praise without hope
of pecuniary reward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

A magnificent opportunity is presented
Professor Marvin. the new head of the
weather bureau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

It is now in order to draw a few more
morals from the East Brookside mine dis
aster. And then allow conditions else
where to remain exactly as they are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

The trouble with Buffalo Bill is that he
planes the movies but the Wild west
show has been a back number for some
time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

It is reported that President Wilson has
had ex-President Taft's bathtub removed
from the White House. But this is not
conclusive evidence that Mr.. Wilson can
nof swim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Mulai Hafid, former Sultan of Morocco,
IS touring" Rome In a motor car, ac-
cording to an Ohio newspaper. If his
car has any speed at all, it shouldn't take
him long to tour Rome, although it is a
town of considerable size.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Huerta says he stands pat. He's going
to get call, just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

dried up by the hot air of the crafty
cotton gamblers.
Another patent evidence of what may
be done by manipulation is in the matter
Of United States per cent bonds, quoted
at 95s4l Yet $1,000 bill of the United
States. without the $50 per annum profit,
is worth 100 cents on the dollar anywhere
in the world. If l were Secretary of the
Treasury l would arrange to issue $780,
OG0, go of $40 to 800 of 3 per cents for the
small investors. and go into the market
aud buy all the larger 2 per cents offered
below par and retire them
1.-The manipulators will have to be put
out of business, If this country is to pro-
ceed on sound business lines to enjoy the
prosperity that Is ours"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Julian Hawthorne proposes to walk from
Atlanta to New York when he is released
from the federal penitentiary. It may be
he is in such haste that he does not care
70 risk the sonthern railway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

weather bureau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala
postoffice as second class mater uhoel
act of Congress March D. 1919.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04

julian Hawthorne proposes to walk from
Atlanta to New York when he is released
from the federal penltentiary. It may be
he is in such haste that he does not care
to risk the Southern railway.
Mulai Hafid, former Sultan of Morocco,
Is touring" Rome in motor car, ae-
cording to an Ohio newspaper. If his
car has any speed at all. it shouldn't take
him long to tour Rome. although it is a
town of considerable size.
A st. Louis paper offers a prize of
500 for 10 good reasons for moving to
Missouri. The kind of state to live in is
one that people will praise without hope
of pecuniary reward.
|
It is reported that President Wilson has
had ex-Presdent Taft's bathtub removed
from the White House. But this is not
conclusive evidence that Mr.. Wilson can
not swim.
The trouble with Buffalo Bill is that he
waited too lonk to say good-by. He
planes the movies but the wild west
show has been back number for some
time.
Queen Mary has decreed that all court
debutantes be permitted neck exposure
of only one inch. The conventional train
heel.
Tammany Chief Murphy has volunteered
to appear before the F'rawley invests
eating committee. Mr. Murphy knows he
will be in the hands of his friends
It is now in order to draw few more
morals from the East Brookside mine dis
aster And then allow conditions else,
where to remain exactly as they are.
The discovery that woman is a biped
seems as wonderful to some as the in
vention of the aeroplane or the isolation
of the typhoid bacillus.
A novelist pays a beaut1ful tribute TO
ship in which he crossed the Atlantic.
Evidently he stood in with the stewards
and didn't get seasick.
Porch and window have been elmi-
mated from the tariff bill upon motion of
Senator Smoot. Now is republican honor
satisfied?
Foreign visitors are greatly impressed
by the electric signs of Broadway. Gilt
ter is Broadway's chiefest asset, next to
sham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-30
AIM BY BILL TO REDUCE
BLINDNESS AMONG BABIES
commissioners Favor Measure Re-
quiring All Births to Be Re-
ported Inside One Day,

IN the belief that blindness among
infants may be reduced il all births
are required to be reported Ia the
healh ONCE within twent four hours.
the Commissioners, il is understood
nave decided to send 10 Congress 4
favorable report on the bill OF Senator
Gaiiinger providing for "A better regis
tration of births in the District of o.
lumbia.
senator Galiingers bill is an amend
Heht 10 the present law. approved
March !. 1907 II requires the record
hs OF births within twenty-four
hours, whereas, under existing legfsl a-
tion' II Is possible for a period OF
eieVen days TO clapse between the time
birth occurs and the time the health
department obtains Knowledge of il.
Reportii!ss a. births within twenty.
-FOUR hours, tae commissioners believe,
VIII make possible proper oversight
OF inc eyes % newly born babies dis
eases OF which constitute probably the
most common FORM OF blindness. When
such diseases occur within tho first
lew DAYS after birth. il is pointed out
ana when the birth il nor reported
untii say eleven days after it occurs,
serious and possibly irremedial impair
ment OF vision may occur before the
gravity or the situation is realized
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-30
WREATH ON BROTHERS GRAVE
Miss Eliza G. Hughes Pays Tribute
to One She Loves.

MISS Eliza I. Hughes OF Philade phia
WHO came to Washington several day $
ago to obtain details from the War De-
partment In regard to the war record Of
her brother. Daniel Webster Hughes. and
TO place fiag-draped photograph and a
tribute Of flowers on his grave in Airing
ton national cemetery, this morning per-
formed the latter part of her mission.
Miss Hughes carried the faded. time
stained picture of her brother, wreathed
In red, white and blue. To the cemetery
and placed ii on the little mound beneath
which, accord'ng TO War Department rec
ords, repose the bones of the brother sh..
has never ceased To love. 4 bunch of
flowers accompanied the picture am
after placing her tribute Miss Hughes re-
manned at the grave for half an hour or
more, when she returned to the city