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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

ing year. | think 1t would be well to nave
il in November. A Birmingham chorus
OF about 15o could be organized and trained
by Mr.. Msmoli. and that chorus would be
nucleus for mass chorus Of about iooo'
Gadsden. Admission. Taladega, Tuscaloosa
Montgomery. Selma. Mobile and several
other centers of culture would contribute
mixed choruses. which, consolidated here,
would make a mighty body of voices. L
THE Damrosch orchestra or some other
high class and we'll known orchestra
should be engaged for the symphony fea-
ture A music festival on the scale l
have suggested was quite popular in New
England and the middle west some years
ago and it would be extremely popular
here, especially since musical taste has
advanced and made of Birmingham a de-
cidedly musical community"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
LUXE MLUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
There are lot of ornery sensations in
life. But did you ever wake UP in the
morning and wonder what you did last
night?
1t doesn't matter how cheap the trous-
seau was. it will look like new when the
honeymoon is all rags and patches.
A man never appreciates a niee cosy
saloon until he gets married and has =
home of his own
The first baby gets a ring and silver
rattle and a $50 lay out. And the fifth
baby is lucky to get a box pf talcum
powder.
What has become of the old fashioned
woman who wore dress shields?
Speaking of canned goods. did you ever
watch two women kiss when they meet on
the street?
They talk about a man leading a dogs
life as though it was something awful.
Why dog can bury a dozen bones and
go to bed happy. knowing his wife isn't
going to frislS around and find them.
There is lot of fun in life when
you regard it as joke. And there is
a brick under every hat you kick when
you take the fool world seriously.
There's lots of fun in fishing if you don't
have to catch fish for living.
Life is merry-go-round, and money IL
the oil that keeps it from squeaking.
A man takes woman for better or for
worse But he never imagines 1t is going
to be SO worse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
USELESS ADVICE

From the New York Telegram.
A popular song once warned persons
rot to give advice, for wise men need
it not, and fools heed it not" But there
are many who refuse to obey the iniunc-
ton and hand out advice gratutously and
whether you want it or not. Now comes
along a man who gives advice as to the
time when 20 marry. He says Give
yourself plenty CT time to find out
whether you are in love-
Well, so long as you are about it why
don't you continue and tell what are the
symptoms Some men say that when you
are in love you have a fondness for poe
try. Others say you can't eat. Others
have various other explanations. one say
ing that man surely must be in love
who would marry widow with six chill
dren. But others called him fool. But
the chrowning piece Of foolishness in this
line is his admonltion:
do not stay out late at night when
single, for when you are married it is a
bad habit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
The Iron Market

Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report
just issued says.
Wholesale purchases of pig iron by a
few large consumers have marked the
past week. The rank and file of small
users have been standing by and watch
ing the course of events. But several big
concerns, arguing that pig iron cannot
go lower, have contracted for all the
iron they will use during the first half of
1914. This is true of one of the great steel
mills In this territory whose purchases
amount to something like 50,o coo tons. This
is a transaction of the first ma gnitude.
Then stove concern has purchased in
the neighborhood of 1000 tons. There has
of course been a sprinkling of smaller
orders, but four or five large transac-
tions are the feature of the week. Fur
naces are shipping well and, while the
general foundries do not anticipate any
thing phenomenal they have good or
ders ahead and every expectation of a
continued fine business.
THE coke situation continues strong,
although shipments are somewhat better
owing to easier labor conditions. There
is every reason, however, to fear in the
winter coke shortage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
EUGENICS

From the Chicago Journal.
When the spirit of liberty began to
rouse in France a century and half ago
it showed itself in strange and sometimes
repellant forms. 1t put forth wild
schemes, which meant little save the sub
stitution of new tyrannies for old 1t was
willing to throw aside the growth of CEN
turtles for the vague theories of an un-
known dreamer and for one brief inter
val of madness it made the guillotine its
scepter
But little by little the understanding of
liberty grew and spread until, in spite of
many faults and shortcomings. France is
as truly free land today as she was
a despotic land in the days of Louis
XIV.
1t was much the same with that interest
in future generations which is beginning
to show itself in America under the name
of eugenics. That word Is a shibboleth
in the lips of thousands who have not the
slightest otion what it means. Crude
schemes for improving the race" by
legal enactment are offered in a dozen
legislatures. Inquisitorial powers are
handed over to petty officials Apparent
ly a large group of wiseacres think the
superman can be bred to order by dis
couraging marriage and'setting premium
on perjury.
Yet all this nonsense is the sign of
newly awakened interest in subject of
vital Importance. The world is just begin
ming to learn that like breeds like among
human beings as well as among animals.
1t is just beginning to understand that
sound and healthy children are more inn
portant than factories or foreign COM
merce and that education which does not
prepare youth for parentage is sadly in
complete.
The new sense of responsibility for flu
ture generations will find ITSELF just as
the spirit of liberty found itself, and with
a little wise counsel the search can be
kept within proper bounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
MY PLAY MATES
Rv Eugene Field.


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and chec eberres
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
TELEPHONE
Bell tprivste exchange connectine IA
dcpartmcnts), Main Ae00.
Your vessels, and your spells, provide
Your charms, and everything beside.
Macbeth.
Scientists and Immortality

Sir Oliver Lodge, one of the ablest of
modern scientists, now adds his voice
to that of Alfred M. Wallace, another
OF Eneland's renowned investigators,
in maintaining that the materialistic
ideas which grew up in the wake of
Darwin and his contemporaries are
not sufficient to account for the mys-
teries of life and death.
Categorical denials of immortality,
bold assertions of ultimate ability to
produce life, Unconditional attempts to
account for life's mysteries material
istically are more and more being
placed on the defensive. AS Sir Oliver
pertinently asks of the materialists:
"But do they account for every
thing completely? Do they ac-
count for our own feeling of JOY
and exultation, for our sense of
beauty, for the manifest beauty
existing throughout nature? Do
not these things suggest some
thing higher and nobler and more
joyous, something for the sake Of
which the struggle for existence
goes on?"
Sir Oliver is on strong ground in
maintaining that continuity" is one
Of the great features of the universe
which must be recognized. If this were
not true it would be necessary to
show that even time is not continu-
Gus.
There is continuity in life, spiritual
as well as physical, and the great
pendulum of philosophical thought is
swinging away from the agnosticisn
that began its sway more than sc
years ago. The great scientific think
ers are gradually falling into line with
the great mass of the worlds people
who believe that this life does not end
everything and that there is "some-
thing higher and nobler and more
joyous for the sake of which exist
cnce goes on"
And after all the wrangling ano
disagreements and debates it will be
found that the safest and surest
guides on the mysteries of life after
death are the prophets and teachers
of old whose words are from men rep
resenting the highest types of spirit
ual exaltation the world has ever
known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Dull times often make sharp appetites.
A chaperon is a woman who is sup
posed to be an immune.
He is an agile politician who can sue
cessfully dodge an issue.
If woman is jealous she always insists
that she's no such thing!
If you would be popular. make others
believe they know more than you.
A man who isn't tied to his wife's apron
string doesn't want to get away.
The young man who declines to fiirt
with pretty blonde let's golden oppor-
tunity pass.
The man who earns a good living has
nothing to complain of-unless some other
fellow gets it.
No. Alonzo. you can never tell how
heavily she will tread on your neck after
marriage by the size of her tan oxford.
A medical journal has an article on
How to Lie When Asleep" OF more
value would be an article on how to in
duce people to tell the truth when awake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
MR. UNDERwooD's AMBITION


From the Syracuse Herald.
w. Underwood will be candidate for the
Alabama sena atorship illustrates once more
the strong attraction the Senate exerts
upon Legislators who won their spurs in
the popular branch of Congress. 1t is
not easy to understand why man who
has served so creditably in the House
OF Representatives as Mr.. Underwood has,
and who now wields immense authority
il that body as the majority leader and
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee, should desire to be transferred to
the upper chamber in which he is certain
to shine with dimmed radiance and in
which his political power and prominence
will be materially impaired. He is ex-
eeptionally qualified for party leadership
in house where the rules curtailing de-
bate call for the equal exercise of cool
ness, firmnes sand tact. and nowhere else
will his opportunity for increased honor
and : usefulness be so good In the Sem
ate, his parliamentary skill will always
be at discount and several years must
eapse, even If we assume his aptitude
for senatorial service, before he can at
tain in that body the relative distinction
and influence he now enjoys in the
House.
Membership in the Senate is supposed to
be invested with superior dignity and
honor. partly on account of the smaller
size of the body and the greater length
of the senatorial term. But this advan-
taee, which is largely sentimental seems
poor compensation for the other and
more substantial advantages Mr.. Under
wood will surrender IL he leaves the
House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

1t is up to the Birmingham mothers to
send in the names of their babies and as
sure this city winning all of the $50, GOO
Offered by the San Francisco exposition
for Alabama's healthiest and prettiest
young ones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
LOVE MAKING IN BOSTON

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
She turned on him with an Icy stare"
"And what happened them"
His words froze on his lips"-Boston
Transcript.
After this he wiped the frosty rime
from his glasses, and shaking the snow
from his goloshes retired to the paternal
refrigerator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
HIS REQUEST.

''You are not averse to little public-
ity Mr.. Snoots?"
ooh, I guess not replied that gentle
man, who has recently entered public life,
'.if you will kindly refrain from mention
ing the fact that I am not baseball
fan. I do not wish to incur the disappro-
baton of great many people whom 1
have never met" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

So far those six young ladies of Salem
o., who sold 1900 kisses for $4,000 are
not reported as suffering from any COM
municable disease, but there has been an
unusual demand for cold cream in that
town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
Question of Civic weakening

Something must be done to eradicate
the selfish spirit in this city before Bir-
mingham really becomes the city it ought
to be- said Henry F. Beaumont, well
known publicity agent, speaking of the
auditorium movement which is now being
actively discussed in every quarter. 1.-The
only opposition which | have been able
to find to the movement for people S
auditorium has been voiced either by
those too self-opiniated to listen to reason,
too stingy to favor it for groundless fear
it will increase taxation, or too old
fogyish to realise that the Magic City
of the South has passed the 'swaddling
clothes stage in life and must either
equip itself to meet the competition of
older communities which has displayed
greater civic pride stick in the mire'
and lose it's just rank
This limited opposition however," con-
tinued Mr.. Beaumont illustrates lack
of pull-together feeling. prevents the full
growth of community pride and in the
long run damages both the city and its
citizens. 1t has been the pull ll-together'
spirit which has made Atlanta. 1t is
the awakening of the same spirit which
has at last reused Nashville from its
lethargy and 1t is the spirit which once
running high in Birmingham will lead
onward and onward until the near fu-
ture will bring us to the half-million
mark.
Every channel of life. every class OF
Birmingham's people, will benefit from
the construction of an auditorium, while
81
suffer the slightest disadvantage from 1t;
and the sooner great structure is COM
pleted in which large gatherings will
be held the quicker the time will come
when Birmingham's destiny as a popular
site for heavily-attended conventions and
associations, and other affairs. each OF
which will contribute richly to our up
growth, will be realized"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

The movement to take Alabama's con-
yicts from the mines is just getting a
in behalf of humanity it will be fought
vigorously. This fact should only add zeal
to the work of those striving for this
forward step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Someone is trying to have Congress in
vestigate the "scilool book trust" and
should that august body decide to dc so,
our fair state will be very much in the
spotlight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Lacy was reported 'seen" again. 1t ap-
pears that 1t is getting to be a habit for
someone to See the erstwhile chief
clerk of the convict department every
two or three months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Provisional President Huerta will send
a message to the Mexican Congress Tues
tain little of the sound sense and hu-
manity which comprised President Will
sons recent address to the American law
mo I-ora
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

The Standard Oil company promises a
if somebody vii! put tires within the reach
of I poor man few of us may own au-
tomobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

MRS. Grundy seems to be of the opinion
that the slit skirt must go. 1t does 60
great.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

| From the Houston Post.
Oscar Underwood is going to be a can
didate for the Alabama senatorshp. With
an opportunity like that Alabama ought
| to be able to get all traces of Hobsonitis
out Of its system in a jiffy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

A young man in New York will inherit
| a large fortune if he abstains from ci-
garettes, but there are several routes
swifter than the cigarette route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

A we'll known newspaper woman who
used to write glibly about bachelors is
seeking a divorce. No doubt, she still
thinks bachelors are best.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Howard college this year is blessed with
some exceptionally pretty "co-eds' The
less said about the boys looks the bet
ter this in kindly spirit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

woman in New Hampshire, aged 70
eloped with man aged AZ. Authorities
say she is feeble minded. Pshaw! This is
the day of the foxy grandmother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

! Charles NJ. Schwab is spending sl5000
| on hennery. Well, let him. Other mil
lionaires have spent more than that on a
single chicken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

The American public is now ready and
willing to see the Thaw case disposed of
in some way. Anything to take it off the
front page
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

A military man at the polls Monday
should command thus: Voters: Take
pencils, seize ballots, mark auditorium
yes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

II seems that Mr.. Anderson got mad be-
cause Mr.. Underwood would not let him
write the tariff bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

The anguish of the standpatters over
secret legislation serves merely to add to
the gaiety of nations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Washington is convinced that the Huerta
administration is utterly without plans.
Is there no one else to murdero
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Porter Charltons trial probably will not
be held until April. But Porter has be-
come thoroughly accustomed to delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Jack Frost has a short name and q
short way about him. He will soon be in
our midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

David Lamar expressed little surprise
at his arrest. But why should he have?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
TIE WORLDS WAY.

This Is doleful truth, we own,
This accounts for deal of woe;
sound his faults with a megaphone,
Sound his virtues soft and low.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
A TOTAL WRECK.

A TOIAL WRECK.
did your doctor find anything wrong
with you, sGlimmersly?"
II should say so! Before he got through
with his diagnosis l would have gladly
paid him double his fee to find something
right with me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
A FINE OPPORTUN NIFTY

republican is now mayor of New York
but it took death to make him SO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES-
Resardinr southern headquarters

birmingham should leave no stone nn-
turned in Its effort to secure the interstate
commerce commissions appraisal board
for the southern district" said a member
of the Chamber of Commerce. Few
things which have been within our reach
nave made such a strong appeal to Bir-
mingham's progressive citizens. We can
secure the appraisal boards headquarters
IL we only work hard enough.
President Harding of the Chamber of
Commerce, Mr.. Malone, Colonel Motion
and other citizens will go to Washing
ton shortly to confer with the interstate
commerce commissions committee which
Will practically determine upon the loca-
tion of southern headquarters. If neces-
sary we should have 100 citizens volunteer
to go with Mr.. Harding upon this mis-
sion.
If we fail to secure this important
board, which will mean clerical force
OF several hundred persons, it Will be
because We have not half tried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
PcnalIzlng o.errIze cotton nnles


1T is true that steamship companies are
penalizing cotton bales that are beyond
the standard limit of 80 inches by 60
inches said a cotton man.
The standard gin box is u inches by
d inches. and allowance is made in the
larger figures for the flattening out of
the bale in compressing. These two meas
urements, the length and width, not the
thickness, are arbitrary, because the COM
press can mash the cotton to a certain
thickness, but of course could not cor
rect the other measurements. The state
of Texas has adopted, by statute, the size
of 27x54 inches for all public ginneries,
and most of the cotton is handled by
public gnners.
You ask me what has become of the
round bale. The fact is, that it made a
handsome package, and apparently good
sample, but in the center 1t made felt,
or batting of the cotton, and this is un-
desirable for most spinners."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
ADR1FT WITH THE TINES

NOT corRrING PUBLICITY.
How does the senator stand on tariff
revision?"
'Discreetly out of sight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

AFTER THAW PUT IT THERE.
"Dobbs is an apathetic fellow"
What axes you think sop
why, he hasn't even been interested
enough in the Thaw case to look up the
location of Coaticook on the map
THEY USUALLY KNOCK.
How is the play?"
ut must be fine heard it praised by
a couple of deadheads."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
LOOKING BACK.

This time O. year we used to poke
To school, all vainly signing,
And Friday afternoons we spoke
I'm Dying, Egypt, Dying"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
A SOUL.

n oOlll.
part of the Infinite Kindness;
A part of the Infinite pam:
Called from the Infinite spaces;
Hobbled and bound with a chain.
A part of the Infinite glory,
Called from the paths of the stars;
Tlesh-held to the earth and flesn-driyen.
Made subject TO bolts and bars.
A part of the Infinite kindness;
A part of the Infinite love;
A light on the path up to heavens;
A whisper to earth from above.
A treasure-a hostage-a promise.
A thing that is mans, In his hands;
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. mentor
Whatever the mind understands.
throb from the heart of the Master.
! To know all earths grieving and pain:
To help so. when books are all balanced
The world shall show something of gain
Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
OBEYED

OBEYED.
A speeder bold
Was William Erb,
Who ran his car
Into the curb
Tho fragments strewed
The ground about
And Bill received
An awful clout.
All out OF breath.
Up rushed a cop
And said. II yelled
At you to stop"
Then Bill, who stood
The ruins amid,
Said, We'll, my friend,
1t seems / did,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
building Operations


Birmingham was never SO busy as now
estate man. "The Tutwiler hotel. the
Ridgely apartment house. the Motion
apartment house and a score of smaller
buildings are in course of construction.
The building improvements in other direc-
tions are beginning to attract attention.
Zone of the handsome improvements in
the downtown district is the addition of a
story to the Southern club building. When
the improvements to the club are COM
pleted-just before Thanksgiving-thi well
known institution will be more popular
than ever. The Country club is spending
several thousand dollars on improvements
and the coming season promises to be
gay in the social world
Let's Have Great Musical Festival
assuming that the auditorium PROPOSE
ton will meet with unualified indorse-
ment at the city election next Monday
we should get ready for great music
festival in 1914 said an old music lover.
1--WE should have the auditorium ready
for occupancy not later than May. Just
as soon as the plans are perfected and
rea sonable estimate can be made as to
the time of completing the building ar
rangements should be made for a grand
opera festival.
Atlanta has had the option upon the
Metropolitan Opera House company for
several years past. but notwithstanding
the fact that the Atlanta management
has always reaped a big profit there is
some doubt about grand opera in our
metropolitan neighbor next spring How
ever that may be, Birmingham should
lose no time in planning for grand opera.
If the Metropolitan Opera company is
not going on tour either the Chicago
company or the Boston company would
be decidedly alluring.
But no matter what is done in the
way of opera, am in favor of grand
old time music festival during the COM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
SURE,

A man may not
Possess great fame
And still wear Hon"
Before his name.
Birmingham Age Herald
man may lug
A weight of sin
And still have Rev"
To hide it in.
Nashville Banner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
A RARE PRIVILEGE.

"Dubber tells me that he had some
words with his wife this morning.
I'm surprised at her liberality."
"Why SOP"
Judging from your remark she permit.
ted Dubber to share in the conversation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
INTENTIONS.

1t isn't SO much the life one lives,
AS the way one lives 1t;
1t isn't so much the gift one gives,
As the way one gives it,