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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
NJ lARIANA

BY Alfred Tennysoh.
With blackest moss the flower plots
We're thickly erusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots
Mat held the pear to the gable wall.
The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:
uplifIed was the clinSing latch;
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.
She only said My life is dreary
! He cometh~ not she said;
She said Il am aweary, aweary.
would that / were dead.'
Her tears fell with the dews at even;
Her tears fell ere the deys We're dried;
She could not look on the sweet heaven.
Either at morn or eventide
After the fitting of the bats.
When thickest dark did trance the sky
She drew. her easement curtain by,
And glanced athwart the glooming flats,
She only said, 'rhe night is dreary.
He cometh not" she said;
She said. Il am aweary, aweary,
/ would that We're dead.,
ITron the middle of the night.
Waking she heard the night fowl crow:
The cock sung out an hour ere light
From the dark fen the oxen's low
Came to her. without hope of change,
In sleep she seemed to walk fororn q
morn,
About the lonely moated grange,
SheNonly said. 1.-The day is dreary,
He cometh not" she said;
She said. II am aweary, aweary,
! would that were dead!"
About stone cast from the wall
A sluice with blackened waters slept
And DER it many, round and small
The clustered marish mosses crept
Hard by a poplar shook alway
All silver green with gnarled bark
For leagues, no other tree did mark
The level waste, the rounded gray
She only said, my life is dreary,
He comes not" she said;
She said II am aweary. aweary,
l would that ] We're dead''
And ever when the moon was low,
And the shrill winds We're up and away.
In the white curtain, to and fro.
She saw the gusty shadows sway,
But when the moon was very low,
And wild winds bound within their cell.
The shadow of the poplar fell H
Upon her bed. across her brow, $
She only said. THE. night Is dreary, :.
He cQmeth not she said;
She said, II am aweary. aweary, XII
would that were deadj''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
southern Commercial Ncongress

ne NTH annual convention of the
Southern Commercial congress, which will
be held in Mobile October 27-29, will be
President Wilson, Secretary Bryan, Sec
retary Daniels, Director General John
Barret of the Pan-American union and
many other distinguished persons will adj
dress the congress, which will be attended
by thousands of the representative men
of the SOUTH
THE motto of the Southern Commercial!
congress is, For a greater nation through
greater. SOUTH The convention theme
will be the relations of the United States
to the Panama canal, to Latin America
and to world commerce. The congress is
now organizing a large expedition COM
posed of several hundred citizens who will
leave Mobile under the patronage and as
sistance of experts from the government
departments and the PAN American union
to inspect and, perhaps, participate in the
first official trip through the canal
Among the prominent business men
who will read papers at the congress are
Col. Harvey Jordan, president of the
oouthefn COTTON. Growers association on
the Opportunity for Increasing and Main
tanning the Demand for American Cotton
George Gordon Crawford, president of the
Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad COM
pany, on The Panama Canal and Our
Iron and Steel Exports; Julian S. Carr,
former president of the Blackwell Durham
Tobacco company, on The Panama Canal
land Our Tobacco Exports' and 4 Rice
Smith of the Virginia Carolina Chemical
company. on The Panama Canal and Our
Fertilizer Exports
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

Messrs Kolb, Conner, Henderson and
Seed. all candidates for governor, were in
Birmingham Saturday. and each an
nounced that he was gaining strength and
was positive that he would be elected
Messrs. Wallace of Madison and Brown of
jackson We're not here. but it is presumed
that the same thing goes for them. New
two governors; Alabama will have the
mischief of a time with six.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Many good sermon has been preached
in silence.
When tired of the same old grind con-
suit dentist
Some men never borrow trouble; they
buy it outright.
Politeness opens many doors. but they
are usually self closing.
Love is apt to blockade the sidewalk
this makes the world go round
When a conceited youth gets married
he feels sorry for lot of other girls.
We can't help feeling sorry for woman
with an impediment in her speech.
He is a poor salesman who couldn't sell
ice cream soda in a female seminary
town.
It's easier to follow the crowd than il
is to get well up in front and help raise
the dust.
The man who uses religion as cloak
in this world may have more use for a
smoking jacket in the next.
| Before marriage young man imagnes
two can live as cheaply as one; after
marriage lie ties a tin can to his imag-
nation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
The Alabama senator.h,p

Z" "I know nothing of Alabama politics,
but outside of this state it seems to be
generally believed that Democratic
Leader Underwood will be chosen as the
late Senator Johnstons successor for the
regular term said c. F. Walling of
Chicago.
IT have been IN two western states
within the past 10 days and those men I
met who referred to national politics
spoke In high praise of Mr.. Underwood
and gave Il as their opinion that he
would be elected tc the Senate.
rMr. Underwood not only has a great
national reputation, but he is highly es
teemed by men of all parties. In this re-
spect he reminds me very much of the
late Senator John T. Morgan. People
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, repbi-
cans as we'll ns democrats, looked Upon
Senat tor Morgan as one of the greatest
men this country has produced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
WHO EDITS THE MAGAZINE
From the Kansas City Star.


During recent discussion Of the old
question. college versus no college, one of
the contestants remarked that the sub
stantial monthly magazines were not ed
tied by college graduates. The man who
made the remark was promptly CONFRONT
ed with the following record:
The Century. edited by Robert Sterling
Yard Princeton S3: Scribners edited by
Edward l.. Burlingame Harvard '69;
Harpers, edited by Henry NJ. Alden, VIII
liams 81 Atlantic Monthly, edited by Ell
lery Sedgwick, Harvard '94; Review OF
Reviews edited by Albert shaw Grinnell
10 and Worlds Work. edited by Arthur
w. Page, Harvard '06
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
rhe cron situation

'tWhile the corn crop in the west is
not as large as was indicated the
first of August it is nevertheless a COM
paratively good crop on the whole said
a man who keeps up with crop statistics.
''The cotton crop will probably reach
the 100000 bale mark. 1t can hardly be
less than 100000 bales. As the First
National bank in its review on September
showed the Alabama crop multiplied by
10 gives approximately the total crop and
the First National bank report gave the
Alabama crop this year as l,350.090 bales.
President Harding, who complies the
bank review, has made specially of
cotton statistics for many years. His
estimates on September always come
out about right.
II notice some of the crop reports i'll.
New York papers indicate very Short
cotton crop, but 100000 or 14,O0o,000 bales
at anything like fair prices will bring
more money than any previous crop, even
the record crop of 1871"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

Birmingham has voted to have munich
pal auditorium We take pleasure in in
forming the Alabama town that Houston
has several other fine examples other
cities might follow with profit.-Houston
Post. Town in reference to Birming-
haml And this from newspaper pub.
lished in a struggling village scattered
along the banks of Texas bayou. Odds
woundsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

A woman who was implicated In FAM
Gus smuggling case and lived for time
in great luxury. is now declared to be
practically penniless. Her case can be
used to point moral.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
rhe stock Market

Henry Clews, in his Saturday review,
says in part:
with such a sustained advance in
the price level that has been the recent
feature of the market for securities,
it is not surprising that some inclina-
tion should have been shown this week
to take profits. This has in turn, not
unnaturally developed reactionary
tendency that several times during the
week became quite pronounced. 1t is
significant, hewever that no distinct
weakness finally developed and that the
undertone remains a substantial one.
AN encouraging phase of the general
situation is the renewal of more gem
eral interest in the stock exchange
market. The larger operators have be-
come increasingly prominent In the
transactions. and there also has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

A Stamford. Conn, man who did he
roic rescue work after one of the New
Haven's wrecks. has been sent to the pen-
itentiary for stealing jewels valued at
$500 from the victims. He succored with
one hand and stole with the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

woman accused of shooting her hus-
her favorite author. A statement of that
sort is apt-to have an unfavorable effect
on jury
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

]. Hargrove, who, it was said, con-
scented to go willingly with Detective
Black to atlanta, seems to have changed
his mind en- route. When he got to the
Georgia capital he was in irons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

A man has sprung up with the claim
that he has invented a painless cucumber
For that matter, any cucumber is pain
less until eaten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

Superintendent Horn has barred the slit
skirt from the Houston schools. The
teachers seem more wrought up than the
pupils as a result of the order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

A Missouri man waited 50 years to
marry the girl of his dream Any woman
who can create an illusion that lasts 80
years is a credit to her sex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

People who swap real estate for automo-
biles are simply exchanging a first rate
asset for perishable commodity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

A novelist says he spends $500 a year
in tips. However, he is successful
novelist and can afford it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

Harry Thaw may eat his Thanksgiving
dinner outside the foolish house this
year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
THE ARKANSAS DIAMOND FIELD

"Thaw's plans for defense awaiting fam
lily approval Please mail checkfo cover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22
TELEPHONE
Bell (privste exchange conhecsAe
departments), Main 400.

He doth, indeed, show some sparks
that are like wit.
Much Ado About Nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

A j. Eaton, Jr.. and o. h. Young are
the only authorized travelling repre-
ssentatives OF The Age-Heraid IN us
circulation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-22

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second class-matter undcr
act of Congress March 3. 1873.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-11

ct, lQ6nLlH6u dS Hall VIII LII DSnJd-
min Oates, 60, III Park Row, with
hammer and then robbed of SIS.
Residents of Northwest Side filed
injunction suit to restrain city from
occupying garbage dump.
One hundred and twenty-five d.
vorce cases heard today.
Police hunting for Albert McDow7
ell, PIT w. 62d st., in connection with
murder of Ida. Leegson. Half-breed
Indian also sought.
chas. E. Berger, 4251 w. jackson
blvd, suicide. Cut throat with razor.
Ill health.
Burglars made unsuccessful raid
on Metropolitan Business College,
3O4 w. 63d st.
Aid. Chas. E. Merriam, Rep. Hine-
baugh, George Fitch, MediH McCor-
mick and Raymond Robins will make
speeches for Arthur Shay, Progress
sive candidate for Supreme Court
from 9Th district.
Policemen are protecting Mayor
Harrison's garbage dump at N. West
ern av. and Grace st. from indignant
citizens.
Health Commissioner Young will
lecture on Tuberculosis" at Holstein
Park tonight
= Jacob Nathan, 10, 235 S. HaIsted
ST., Chicago University student, fined
$25 and costs for speeding.
Henry Danman seriously hurt by
auto truck run by Albert Blohm, 2S48
N. Drake av.
Irving Shuman, Sullivan, ILL.,, today
took charge of $97, 100000 in Chi
cago's sub-treasury.
Albert LadIee, IS, Morrison, ILL.,,
found wandering in front of North
western depot.
Five men injured when 18th st.
car collided with McAvoy Brewery
auto truck at Jefferson st.
James Arbuckle, negro, arrested as
- l.. 7
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-11
NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

German-American Women's Club
permanently organized last night.
Mrs. Anna Schneider elected presi-
dent.
Henry Spencer will illustrate how
he killed victims today.
Mrs. Elizabeth Matthew, SO, APP
peared at w. Chicago av. station with
4 children. Had been evicted. No
money. Husband deserted her Po-
lice collected $18.
Mayor Harrison says administra-
ton is handling vice question sanely.
Women's Central Prohibition Club
hold special rally this afternoon at its
headquarters, 10 N. LaSalle st.
Big police upheavaI will take place
Oct. 15.
Coroner's jury in Rexroat murder
case recommended hanging for Hen
ny Spencer.
Woman injured when street cars
collided at Van Buren, and Jefferson
SITS.
$1,000 worth of jeweIry stolen from
home of Jos. Steinberger, 1920 Mich
igan av.
John Healy, present executive
clerk of County Hospital, being
boosted for warden.
500 taken from home of Edith
Sawyer, 1922 S. Park av.
VIM. Schoerminger, tailor, 1897
Calumet av., suicide. Hanged him
self.
Three safebIoWers beat Waterman
unconscious and got $3.50 and $500
in checks from safe of Vail Rubber
Co., LA w. 9th st.
Mrs. Fay FoeIker, 1925 Bishop ST.,
found husband dead in gas-filled
room. Suicide.
E.W. Bemis, city public utility ex-
pert, says smallest possible reduc-
ton in Commonwealth Edison rates
would be $750.000. =
Police have. line on drug-crazed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

, was driving was killed by a live trol.s
ley wire that had accidentally fallen
across the street. This was pro-
fessed ground for the fight, but / think
the real reason was to prevent the
company that proposed to put in the
Improvement from obtaining the fran
chise and to leave the enterprise open
for others to develop
In my editorial work | mostly did
the far-away Moses act;" that was
safest But the kind of writing was
most urged to do was articles in ex-
tollation Of Birmingham and it's won
derful resources. The directors of the
paper We're anxious to bring back the
rapidly receding boom. The article that
wrote that the owners of the paper
most approved began with cheap
pafaphrase OF a familiar scriptural pas
sage ana read: Great Is Birmingham
Of the Alabamians." l recollect, too,
that they We're much pleased with
some fustian to the effect that Bir-
mingham sprang full panoplied into ex-
istence as Pallas Athene had sprung
from the head of Zeus
Another article in which l discussed
the cedula trouble in Argentina and
the consequent failure of the great
house of Barring Brothers in London
with prophesy that reflex of the
panic would be felt in America, got
me into decided i'll favor-but the
prophesy was fulfilled
The Elyton Land company was about
the biggest thing in Birmingham in
those days and controlling Influence
Its president. DR.. II. M. Caldwell. wa
a very influential citizen I remember
that Mr.. Rhodes brought him to the
Herald office when the paper was first
organized and introduced him to the
force saying with gracious unction.
"Dr. Caldwell is the Napoleon of Bir-
ingham." When il came my time to be
presented 1t was added with kindly pat
ronage. this is the young man who
assists me in editorials" The force was
duly impressed
! have been glad to note since leav-
ing Birmingham the city's generous
growth and it has given me great
pleasure to observe the prosperity and
development of The ge-Herald. I am
still confident that the great destiny I
so freely prophesied for the Magic CITY
In those days Will yet be wholly full
hlled, and IL ! may mix the phrasinE
of Christian scripture and Islamio
rhapsody, I still believe, great is Bir-
minsham of the Alabamians and Tho
Age Herald Is its prophet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

to get the country out of them after
they had arrived. AS citation in evil
dence the night clerk at O'Briens hotel
cne night called up on the telephone
and said:
Costello has fallen through the ele-
vator shaft into the tank Please pro-
vide a suit of clothes so he can go TO
work"
After the absorption Of the new pa
per there appeared one Bozeman c. Bull
ger. sport writer and genius embyro in
figures. He made good with a rush.
the rush lasting until he is now fore
most in his profession in New York
city, but the little L to 9s he loved
so well caught the statistician una
wares. Having served as secretary to
the congressman of his district Bozy
was whirlwind in solving how much
garden seed his constituents would get
at the same time keeping baseball per-
centage tables to the nicely of deci-
NAL. One night this message came;
,"Give us census enumeration quick"
WASHINGTON"
Without consulting the master at
arms and present editor of the paper
versatile Bozy fell. falling hard. What
he produced nonchalantly as an answer
would have done credit to a clearing
house expert for he made our destiny
of population at least 80 to 40 per cent
over that of New Orleans. lie did not
know, however, that the purpose was
for an increased assessment of the As
sociated Press. 1t took a month In ex-
planning the matter satisfactorily but
Bozy would not commit himself fur
ther than saying he was conldent that
George Leidy discovered Ty Cobb in
1892.
Frank Harvey Miller, young Geor-
gia attorney. had read of the greatness
of United States Senator Morgan of
Alabama. He migrated to this state
Immediately, but had scarcely alighted
when the senator issued his famous
TRADE to young lawyers: 'If you want
to be successful lock up your law books
and study the code Of the state" The
first part of the injunction was care
fully observed but the latter in its es-
sence was destroyed by a rank cheat.
Frank grabbed up his music folio and
played "Rubensteins thirteenth study"
Through a close friend Frank was given
(CoDtinued On Page Nine.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
BRIDGES BUILT HERE SPAN
IMPORTANT WATERWA VS.
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conception of the work connected with
the manufacture of bridges, and perhaps
there is no industry which is as little un-
derstood as this. In the first place con-
tracts for bridges are generally awarded 3
through competitive bids, and this places
the bridge manufacturer at more of a dis
advantage than the average business man
experiences.
After a contract is once secured the
plans must be carefully worked out by
a bridge engineer, and the exact amount
of steel purchased and then worked into
the desired shape. When this is all COM
pleted the bridge work is shipped to the
nearest point of construction which is
often away from the railroad and on a
stream not large enough for navigation.
1t must then be hauled overland. and on
arrival an outfit of bridge builders takes
1t in charge and begins the actual con-
structlon. Sometimes when a bridge is
half completed heavy rain will result
in all of the preliminary work being
washed away, and there are other oh
stacles which frequently occur, many of
which do not attend any other character
of work.
Birmingham is recognized as one of the
principal bridge building centers of the
south, and this city is securing no little
advertising and publicly from the fact
that Birmingham bridges span many
rivers and creeks throughout the land
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Ydncey Writes Of Old Days and of
the Men Formerly On Age-Herald
Continued from Page Seven)


element of luck in his success None at
tributed anything to fortuitous circum-
stances but each appeared to be con-
fident of his own financial genius, and
each believed he was destined to rival
Jay Gould. then accounted the greatest
money maker in America
Birmingham was very boastful in
those days of its cosmopolitan popula-
tion," but its people in fact were in
large part villagers from the small
towns of Alabama and adjoining states.
They We're, however, very much alive
with determination to build a big
city.
The opportunity for editorial writing
in Alabama at that time appeared to
me to be somewhat restricted for the
lack of state politics. condition in
marked contrast with what had pre-
vailed in Tennessee for some years pre-
vious, and very mild indeed in COM
parison to what has been since known
in this state The democratic party
controlled In Alabama absolutely. The
opposition was practically. nil and it
was expected that democratic differ
ences, such as existed, would not be
discussed in the press. The Hon. Ru-
ben +. Kolb and the farmers AL
lance. afterward merged into the pop
ulist party, constituted the only ex-
ception to this ruleSand the Kolb rue
tion was not fully developed until I
had left the state 1t was necessary
to avoid matters of local contention be-
cause the papers stockholders were not
agreed in that respect, but / recollect
that l was called upon to make a live
ly war on the proposed introduction
of electric street railways. The allie
cation was that they were dangerous
The experiment had been made in
Montgomery and a horse Governor Sea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
MANY HAZARDOUS RISKS ARE
TAKEN BY CONSTRUCTION
MEN-SOME OF THE UNUSUAL
FEATURES OF THE BUSINESS.

Birmingham bridges span some of the
largest streams in the southern states.
Hundreds of men are employed in the
manufacture, sale and installation of the
bridges, and altogether this industry fur
nishes employment TO a large number of
persons.
Bridge building and good roads go
hand in hand and within recent years
great progress has been made in the
south along these lines. Hundreds of
miles of good roads are being constructed
and there are frequent streams to be
crossed. The popularity of the automo-
bile has made the use of more bridges
almost imperative, as the old fashioned
fords and ferries are not conducive to
rapid transit.
OF course, not all of the bridges con-
structed in Birmingham are used for
public roads. Quite large number of
the largest railroad and traction bridges
constructed in the past decade are of
birmingham manufacture.
The average person has only small
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

But l have trespassed and transgressed
presuming ON the privileges of the an
cient fossil of prehistoric times, and