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The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-24

4iAiIAN-AMfKlCAN BANK southeast cor.
hfr Montgomery and Sacramento sfs-Fer
ite half year ending December 81 1913
ulFidshd has been declared nj the rate nf
four lAl per cent per annum on all savings
deposits. payable on and after Friday Jan.
nary :. 1917 Dividends not called for win
be added 10 the principal aud bear the same
rate of interest from January 4 1914
Motley deposited on or before January 10
lAl4- VIII earn interest from January /
1915 A. SBARBORO. President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22

acre and half, and many are not
satisfied unless they make bale on
less than one acre. Not only are these
facts in evidence but farmers in this
state are learning fast to vary their
crops. There is no reason why Ala
bama should not be almost as well
known as corn state as it is as a
cotton state; quite as well known as
an alfalfa state as it is beginning to
be known as corn state. And the
trucking interests are being steadily
advanced here, and this is becoming
known as one of the early vegetable
states. All these things will be dis
cussed at the land congress, and p1ac-
tical results are sure to come from
this great gathering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
Treasure Troyes

The mind of man is always thrilled
by tales of the finding of hidden gold.
Long John Silver was scoundrel of
the deepest dye, but he fascinates us
nevertheless. Captain Kidd's treasure
is encrusted with the blood of inno-
cent victims of his fiendish brutality,
but should we find it no doubt we
would rejoice with exceeding glad
ness, and look upon it as untainted.
A San Francisco telegram tells of
the finding of what is believed to be
the wreck of the steamship City of
Rio Janeiro, which was sunk inside
the entrance of the Golden Gate Feb
luary %, 1901. The steamer had on
board bullion valued at $2,000,000.
Herman Steiner discovered the hulk
at depth of 12S feet, using diving
device he himself had invented.
1t is pity that the rest of the
story is so commonplace. Stelzner has
sailed away to Japan, leaving to 9TH
ers the happy task of bringing up the
precious stuff of which pieces of
eight are made. 1t is feared Mr.. Stelz-
ner has permitted himself to be over
imaginative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
HE WAS ALIVE

In writing of his visit to the Australian
gold fields in Harper's Magazine for Mo-
vember, Norman Duncan tells of one old
adventurer still at work, who though
never fortunate was content because he
lived while all who had met with great
good fortune were dead years ago.
Where the road turns to the first pub
lie houses of the town, l encountered a
red little Irishman shambling out to some
burrow and patch of canvas that was his
home--in haste too eager for his strength,
/. seemed, to escape the dust storm
Never had I beheld an object so forlorn.
His faded dungaree trousers, turned up
near to the original knees, yet slouching
over his shoes, his long black coat. cut
In the eighties I am sure, for a man
twice the weight of this little Irish man
ikin, tapped about his bones like the
garments of a scarecrow. Had some
scarcecrow of the fields come to life and
shuffled out of public house much the
worse of his stay, I should not have been
shaken with more surprise and reproach-
full amusement. Nor can imagine a
more wasted little man, nor more gar
goylish countenance, nor a limepr and
more perforated and tattered bush hat,
nor more gigantic head topping more
diminutfve body, nor a greater wastrel
and more obvious outcast with a more
positively philosophical cast and expanse
OF brow. nor deeper drifts and sInears
of damp gold fields dust. He must once
have been brown; the sun must surely
have tanned him deep-and did tan him
deep, I'll be bound; but the process had
been continued until the little man was
now eventually bleached CHASTITY white
except where a multitude of freckles lay
in shocking contrast with his pallor and
emaciation And l stopped to look him
over. And he stopped to look me over.
Surely one gentleman may without Of
fense pause on the road to appraise the
quality and condition of another! And SO
we eyed each other, his glance frigid
regard.
." Good day, SIR said l.
"'Good day t your he retorted
"'You work over yonder?''
'I do thot,'
mo resentment was implied. / gained
courage to continue more intimately
Here in the early days.? I inquired.
II was thot.'
"eIt seems. I ventured, that you
that you-were not visited by good for
tune
at was not
! "'Too bad! said l.
{" 1T is not. I'm glad of ut
." You are glad
" I am.
! F" But I began.
g Them that struck it high said he
| is all dead O. drink. Years ago., hi
chuckled. Long ago!'
what fortune the old man had ant
prized-fortune above the wasted wealth
| of dead men-was the breath of life in hi.
withered body. He was alive-alive!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
THE ISLAND OF BARBADOES

lands has waved over its sunny fields,
The imprint of England Is strong upon
the land; the Barbados negroes speak
English with strong British infection,
and some OF the lower class blacks even
drop their HIS In true cockney fashion.
As has been said, the island Is extraor-
dinarily fertile. With its white roads and
brilliant tropic flowers. scarlet poinsettia,
great rhododendrons, hibiscus, pink and
red and masses of bougainvillea, travellers
have found 1t strongly reminiscent Of
Bermuda And because many less tour
lists come to Barbados the residents of
the island are still able to extend cor
dial welcome to all visitors. Because OF
its commercial Importance, almost all Of
the world powers keep consuls in Bar
BADGES.
Bridgetown, the principal CITY, is busy
and teemingly populous. It does great
shipping trade, and its narrow streets,
some of them such bypaths that three
men can scarcely walk abreast, are
crowded with porters. Even the women
act as porters, carrying great burdens
on their turbaned heads Altogether. 1T
FURNISHED picturesque and interesting
stopping place for Colonel Roosevelt IN
his South American journey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
One of the best ways to start trouble
Is to try and convince a drunken man
that he is drunk.
Money talks. But most of us haven't
any to speak of.
When a man is his own worst enemy
his other enemies can stand pat and wait
for the finish.
The man who wants to fight when a
joke is played on him is the same malf
who thinks it great fun to play Jokes on
others
There isn't much difference between a
dead one and one who is dead.
Father hates company. but the children
like it because they know they are going
to feed better than usual
Some men love their enemies at the ex-
pense of their friends
Government Investigators say calves
must be preserved IL the high cost of liv-
ing is to be reduced. But how are you
going to preserve calves without giving
their owners three squares a day and
increasing the II. c. of L.?
People get wrong ideas as to why a
bride bushes. Maybe she is ashamed of
what she is marrying.
woman will fall for flattery from any
man but her husband. The minute he
says anything she knows he is wrong.
Fishing is always good just above or
just below the place you are located.
woman always has great faith In a
mans judgment before she marries him,
and after she plants him.
You can't please them If your whisix-
ers are three days old they say you
haven't the price of shave. and If you
shave every day they say you are stuck
on yourself.
Every woman expects too much from a
man, and is entitled to more than she
gets.
Any woman can dress in a half hour.
1t Is kalsomining that keeps her upstairs
for two hours and a quarter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
Everybody Is Invited

Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, Annis-
ton, Gadsden, Tuscaloosa and all the
rest Of Alabama's cities and its
towns, villages, hamlets and places of
isolated dwelling are not going to be
permitted to get angry with Birning-
ham. They may fuss and fume, but
they do so under misapprehension.
Birmingham feels like Oscar Under
wood is it's very own, but it has not
the slightest inclination to try to pre-
vent the state, the south and the ma
ton from claiming him also.
The reception to Mr.. Underwood
when he comes home next Friday is
not going to be CONSTRUCTED. The great
democratic leader is going to be
greeted with hearty acclaim, and it is
hoped that citizens from many places
of Alabama other than Birmingham
will add their voices to the cheering.
Tribute will be paid the democratic
statesman for what he has accom-
plished. He is the leader Of militant
and united party, party that rami-
fies every nook and Granny of this
great country. His clear seeing eye
looked to the good of all; his active
brain reasoned for the advancement of
the United States as whole, rather
than sought legislation beneficial to
the Ninth district or Alabama alone.
Mobile, Montgomery, Toadvine and
Three Notch, and all the other places
the names of which may be found in
any convenient postal guide are in
vited to come to Birmingham and help
make it unanimous. Mr.. Underwood
actually has represented all of Ala
bama ever since he has been in Con-
gress. Now, however, that he is soon
to be elected to another position by
the votes of all the people of the
state, they feel that they will have a
share in him greater than that they
have formerly possessed. 1t is natural
that they should be resentful if any
attempt were made to leave them out
of consideration when plans are max
ing for the big time of next Friday
But, bless their hearts, such a thing
was never contemplated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
THE FIRST TELEPHONE

In the letters of Madame de Heger-
mann-Lindsencrone appearing In Harper s
Magazine for November, an interesting
glimpse Is given of the early days of the
telephone and other Inventions now In
current use. Writing from Cambridge in
1877 she says:
John has Just come home from Bos-
ton bringing incredible stories about hav-
ing talked in machine called telephone.
1t was nothing but wire. one end in
Boston and the other end in Cambridge.
He said he could hear quite plainly what
the person in Cambridge said. Mr.. Gra-
ham Bell, our neighbor, has invented this.
How wonderful it must be. He has put
up wires about Boston. but not farther
than Cambridge--yet. He was ambitious
enough to suggest Providence WHAT
cried the members of the committee You
think you can talk along wire in the
air over that distance? Let me just try
it, said Bell Il will bear half the ex-
pense Of putting up the wire If you will
bear the other half.'
HE was ultra-convinced of his success
when, on talking to his brother in Cam
bridge from Boston in order to invite him
to dinner, adding, Bring YOUR mother-in-
law he heard distinctly, but feebly. the
old lady's voice: Good gracious! Again!
What bore!
''There is also another invention called
phonograph, where the human voice is
reproduced, and can go on forever being
reproduced. sang in one through horn,
and they transposed this on a platina roll
and wound it off. Then they put it on an
other disk, and heard my voice-for the
first time in my life. If that is my voice.
don't want to hear it again! I could
not believe that it could be so awful! A
high, squeaky, nasal sound; was
ashamed Of It, And the faster the man
turned the crank, the higher and squeak
Ter the voice became. The intonation--the
pronunciation-I ,ould recognize as my
own, but the voice! Dear met
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
Apotber of his fashion they have mott
To lead their business. -otheho'
The Lions of Leipsic

a Leipsic street car struck cage
containing five lions, and wrenched
the bars in such way that the Wild
animals were released. Then things
began to happen. The leisurely burger
was moved to attain gait his avolr-
dupois would have donated impos-
sible. The yellow braids OF the
madchen's hair stood out straight be-
hind SO rapidly did she hasten to a
haven of safety. In few minutes
that city of more than half a million
people seemed as deserted as Ma
poleon found Moscow.
The bewildered lions roamed about
at will No doubt they were as badly
scared as the bipeds. They attempted
to attack no one, but one Of their
number strolled into hotel and
caused a panic among guests and en-
ployes. After a time all of the beasts
were shot to death.
1t seems absured that whole city
should be thrown into wild alarm by
the appearance untethered upon its
streets of a few natives of the jungle.
But should a similar contretempts
happen in Birmingham when one of
the circuses is here, we may get a
more sympathetic view of just how
the worthy people of Leipsic felt
about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
skilled Workmen and Others

The so-called strike of the moving
picture operators has resulted in q
'fizzle, as all such ill-advised strikes
must do said a wage worker. "When
any class of employees undertakes to at
tempt to run the business of their en-
ployers they are inviting trouble, for
no man who holds the bag and who
is responsible for his business will
submit to dictation from any or
ganization, such as that of the picture
operators.
Such a class of labor is not up to
place in union ranks, for 1t requires
about as much skill to run a picture
machine as it does to turn hand or
gan, or less.
ICES that he is carrying an old man of
the sea- on his shoulders in the shape of
the unskilled f1oater who can jump from
one organization to another with i'm
punity, the better it will be for organ
ized labor.
The man who learns trade has to
spend years of training before he can
of his craft, yet we see the spectacle
In Birmingham of a class of men, or
rather boys, who in a few hours learned
the alpha and omega of picture ma
chine operator, not satisfied with bet
ter wages than the average mechanic,
demanding that they should dictate TO
their employers as to whom they should
hire.
THE sooner the legitimate labor or
ganizations shake loose from irrespon-
sible and jumped-up labor associa-
tions the better it will be for them.
Union labor has many problems on its
hands and has nothing to gain by af-
filiation with every little organization
that springs up suddenly from moth
ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
sEA-FEvER

BY John Masefleld.
must go down to the seas again, to the
lonely sea and the sky. t
And all ask Is a tall ship and a star
to steer her by,
And the wheels kick and the winds song
and the, white Sails shaking.
And a gray mist on the seas facs and
a gray dawn breaking.
+ must go down to the seas again. for
the call OF the runnin 1855
Is a wild call and clear els tdat ~
not be denied;
And all ask Is a windy 6uY. citf Eta
white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spui
and the sea gulls cr He
I must go down to the Sc sfsi0 io
vagrant gypsy life,
To the gulfs way and tn 1ale
where the winds II wnci9t
knife;
And all I ask is merr vara frcn
laughing fellow rove
A AndAa. quiet sleep s51u,S1 Nesl 3 t.ii
when the long Hick-s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
suese.tion for friday. Parade

Il hope to see large turnout OF
women and children as well as men at
the Terminal station Friday to greet
Oscar W. Underwood said Oscar c.
Turner
Mr.. Underwood is recognized
throughout the United States as one OF
the greatest statesmen this country has
ever produced. He is a popular hero,
and would be received with disting-
uished honors in any city that he might
visit. 1t is fitting therefore that his
home town should give him an ovation
of the first rank.
If the weather is fair Friday. there
will be monster parade in Mr.. Under
woods honor. The line of march being
short, little time will be consumed In
this great event.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
WOMEN "cLEANsE THE Arr

~A<~A
Have you many women employed in
your Officer" He answered: 'Yes, and
wish We had more. They are industrious
and faithful and very quick Besides. they
cleanse the air. We have no bad lam
guage In our office since we began to
have women there. Ny private secretary
is woman, and should always prefer
one My experience is that they do not
'blab, as men do. l would trust my
private secretary to any extent. She is
as good as gold and has excellent judg-
ment. My family think as much Of her
as do She is lady in manners and
refinement. and yet as practical. unsenti-
mental and hardheaded as any man.
Wasn't this beautiful thing to say of
this lady and Of our sex! have thought
Of It many times since then. Miss Willard
used to predict that women were going
to purify every place on this round
earth" and this man. wealthy. high
minded, prominent merchant of New York
city, evidently agrees with her. That
was fine phrase Of his: Women cleanse
the air. 1t Is the passionate desire OF
our sex to cleanse the air Of the world.
and who can say that. given . fair
chance. we shall not do I'll r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
ESKIMO CHILDREN NOT PUNISHED

ESKIMO CHILDREN NOT PUNISHED
v. Stephansson. in Harper's Magazine for
November
When Mackenzie Eskimo dies the
body is taken out, the same day that the
death occurs to the top of some neighbor-
ing hill and covered with a pile of drift
logs. but the soul (nappan) remains in
the house where the death occurred for
four days IL 1t is a man. and for five
days If 1t is a woman. At the end of that
time a ceremony Is performed by means
of which the spirit is induced to leave the
house and go up to the grave. where 1t
remains with the body, waiting for the
next child in the community to be born.
When a child is born it comes into the
world with a soul of its own (nappan).
but this soul of its own (nappan), but
but this soul Is inexperienced. foolish, and
feeble as child is and looks. 1t Is evil
dent. therefore, that the child needs
more experienced and wiser soul than its
own to do the thinking for 1t and take
care of 1t. Accordingly the mother, as
soon as she can after the birth of tho
child, pronounces a magic formula to
summon from the grave the waiting soul
of the dead to become the guardian soul
of the new born child, or it's atka, as they
express it.
Let us suppose that the dead person
was wise old man by the name of John.
The mother then pronounces the formula
which may be roughly translated as fol-
lows: Soul OF John, come here. come
here; be my childs guardian! Soul OF
John. come here come here. be my child's
guardian." Most magic formulae among
the Eskimos must be repeated twice)
When the soul of John. waiting at the
grave. hears the summons of the mother.
it comes and enters the child. From that
time on 1t becomes the business of this
acquired soul not only to do the thinking
for the child. but to help in every way
to keep it strong and healthy.
The spirit OF John not only teaches the
child to talk, but after the child learns
to talk it is really the soul of John which
talks to you and not the inborn soul OF
the child. The child, therefore, speaks
with all the acquired wisdom which
John accumulated in his long lifetime,
plus the higher wisdom which only comes
after death. Evidently, therefore, the
child is the wisest person in the family
or In the community, and its opinions
should be listened to accordingly. What
it says and does may. seem foolish to you.
but that is mere seeming, and in reality
the child is wise beyond your comprehen-
sion
John must, therefore, be propitiated at
every cost, and to deliberately offend him
would be in fact equivalent to desiring
the child's misfortune or death and would
be so construed by the community, so that
q man is restrained from forbidding his
child or Furnishing it, not only by his
own interest in the child's welfare, but
also by the fear of public opinion; because
If he began to forbid his child or to punish
1t he would at once become known to the
community as a cruel and inhuman
father, careless of the welfare OF his
child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
DRAWING THE LINE
From the New York Telegram.

r rom the new York Telegram.
There's q limit to everything, oven the
extent to which moving pictures should
60. A circular plentifully distributed in
Chicago set forth that a young man re-
Gently hanged in a small town in Illi-
nois for the murder Of his sweetheart re-
quested that moving pictures be taken Of
the execution
80 and then shown throughout the
country. He was Of the opinion that they
would help wayward boys. He made
his plea so strong the officials finally
consented and the pictures were taken.
The police censor has reported that the
dnal act must not be shown, but the
scene must end when the rope is around
the Condemned mans neck.
The question is why any part Of the
grewsome thing should be permitted to be
exhibited.
That it is fake. as alleged. makes no
difference. The reel is said to have cost
$17O0, for placating officials of Kane
county, auto hire, actors pay, building
of scaffold. press agenting. dummy. etc.,
and the loss Of this would serve the pro-
moters right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
Colonel DuBose's Literary Work

col. John w. DuBose, a gentleman
probably the best informed man on the
political and social life af Alabama, is
in Birmingham for a few days visit to
friends" said Percy Clark
There has not been contributed to
current literature more entertaining and
Instructive matter than Colonel Du-
Bose's articles appearing from time to
time in the columns of The Age Herald
The style Is smooth, and the sequences
worked into the matter shows study,
research, and an intimate knowledge of
that period in Alabama,s history which
was troubled; yes, at times stormy in
not only the political, but the social
life of the state in the historical sense
1t is to be hoped that some way may
be found to compile these articles in
book form, and the legislature of the
state could make no more popular ap-
preparation than to have them printed
and sold at a popular price by the de-
'partment OF archives and history.
Colonel DuBose's very valuable pub
lication, The Life and Times of Will
liam L. Yancey,' Is out of print, and is
being sought for by many, particularly
the leading public libraries President
Wilson, in his work, A History of the
People of the United States quotes
freely from DuBoses life of Yancey.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-22
The Land Congress

AS the time approaches for the
meeting of the Alabama Land con-
gress in Observation-Disclosures As
6--much interest is being manifested
all over the state. When the congress
was organized in Mobile year ago,
some of those who appreciated the
possibilities of the institution were
more or less skeptical as to the per-
manency Of, the organization. But
since it is known that many prominent
men are coming to Birmingham to
participate in the congress, there can
be no doubt as to the far-reaching ef-
feet of its work. The congress has
come to stay.
The address of Oscar w. Under
wood on the High Cost of Living"
will be a popular drawing feature,
and hundreds of men will come from
adjoining states especially for the
purpose of hearing and meeting the
south's greatest statesman; but there
will be papers and addresses on mod
ern scientific farming and on up
building topics generally. Six rail
road presidents will take part in the
discussions.
While Alabama is richer in natural
resources than any other southern
state-than almost any other state in
the Union-it has been only in the
last few years that serious attention
has been paid to developing certain
Of these resources. In the very matter
of agriculture, the Alabama farmer is
learning fast that it is easy to make
two blades grow where one grew be-
fore. The time has gone by when the
cotton farmer made only bale to
three acres, for it is a poor farmer
now that cannot make a bale on an