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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
Major Miner Here

Maj W. j. Miner returned from Flor
ida yesterday. He left Birmingham Oc-
tober / for Tampa, where he spent the
winter and early spring.
Having been absent from this city
seven months I am greatly impressed
with the fine improvements that have
been made here recently" said Major
Miner 1.-THE landscape work on Miner
Heights is progressing rapidly and that
section will soon be one of the most
beautifuL,hereabout
Major Miner said that Florida was
filing up fast with homeseekers and
that new capital was being invested In
the cities and in the agricultural and
horticultural districts.
II believe that every town and city
in Florida is growing at a faster rate
now than ever" he said. Large capital
has recently been invested in Tampa
and that city is prosperous in marked
degree.
But when it comes to cities Bir-
mingham is ahead of all of them in the
south in handsome improvements and
rapid growth. Birmingham is a de-
lightful place of residence the year
round and its climate in summer is ex-
ceptionally salubrious. / expect to re-
main here until next fall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
Of the nItuation and the actual facts

of the situation and the actual facts
are contradictory
"stocks of pig iron at the furnaces
have been decreasing for more than Is
months and they are now lower than
they have been at any time for the past
10 years. Stocks are still declining and
there is all told not enough iron in fur
mace yards-should the furnaces cease
Ioperating-to supply the foundries for
upwards of a week or 10 days at the
longest. Consumers are busy. Many of
them have enough orders to run steadily
through the year and there is scarcely
any iron as yet purchased for delivery
over the last half Yet in spite of all
these facts-facts which would seem to
Indicate a strong market with a good
demand-pig iron is soft and demand
is disappointing.
Current business this week has been.
OF the filling-in variety. At the same
time nothing could show the inherent
strength of the situation more than the
insistent call for shipments on old or
ders. OF course all the iron masters
are expecting a buying movement at
any time, and this buying movement
will probably be of large dimensions
unless the tariff agitation, which seems
to be to blame for all these present
troubles, may still have a disastrous
influence on the situation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mr.. Undcr,,and for 1a1a


democratic Leader Underwood Is
mueh talked OF for the presidency In
islo' said James t. Arnold Of Phila-
ueiphia. He was favorably regarded
IA 'he east as an aspirant for the dem
.ocratic nomination last year, but he
was not quite we'll enough known by
lie general public TO have the follow
ing which is usually necessary TO win
me great party prize.
am no politician but I was hop
ing to see Governor Harmon of Ohio
nominated. Many things concurred
however, to make Mr.. Wilson the nomi-
nee, and l believe that his admfnistra-
uon will prove to be a great success.
PRESIDENT Wilson has started out well
and If he Keeps on the way he is GO
ing his administration wills greatly
strengthen the party for 1915 He would
naturally by strong candidate for
denomination but the democratic plat
form wisely declared in favor of one
term only. If the country has prosperity
under the new tariff nothing can pre-
vent Mr.. Underwood being the standard
bearer the next time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
THE FACE IMMORTAL

BY Frank l., Stanton
Time that has left me lonely stiltmay the
shadows chase:
1t has not dimmed the beauty of one i'm
mortal face;
A sweet face of Lifes springtime-a face
the violets know:
God knew, high in His heaven, why L
loved it sol
When Evening comes, to tell me: ''I.ife's
friends have left you lionel
There is no voice to answer the trem-
blings of your own,
1 see dear lips of crimson-cheeks where
the dlmples race,
And Memory is with me, and in dreams
see her face.
Is not Life all dreaming? Where scythes
and sabers gleam
The heroes of Life's battles are the cap
tains of a Dream!
And so, when Darkness gives us the
blessing of Gods grace,
I'm holding hands with Memory and
dreaming Of her face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
symphony CONCERTS Nent Week

AS symphony music is rare in this
part of the country the three grand con-
certs by the Cincinnati Symphony orches-
ira, which will be given at the Jefferson
theatre Monday and Tuesday next, should
attract large crowds" said a member of
the musical set. Nearly all the high
class concerts that have been given in
Birmingham during the season now COM
ing to close were well attended and the
outlook musieally is encouraging at any
r5te.
There is unquestionably much greater
interest in artistic music throughout the
country now than there was even five
years ago. symphony concert in any
northern city means a full house. The
programmes which have been arranged
for the forthcoming concerts here include
many gems. They are not at all heavy
and everyone who loves melody will enjoy
every number which will be rendered
Monday and Tuesday.
fFor two or three years past some of us
who are eager to promote the best class
OF music have been looking forward to
the day when a local symphony orchestra
might be possible. In most cities whose
popula ton is upward of $4,000, concert
orchestras are maintained, but when it
comes to the smaller class OF cities there
are many difficulties in the way in at
tempting to keep up creditable sym
phonic organization. Persons unfamiliar
withNInusic of high order imagine that
ID or 80 persons; each of whom can play
some orchestral instrument, can be
brought together into a symphony band,
but that is not the way of it. There must
be certain balance in all concert organi-
cations, whether they be wind bands or
orchestras. In most of the cities of 20o,-
900 or 100000 population there is a great
scarcity, for instance, of certain string
players There must be good second vio-
lin players and good viola players, as
well as first violin players. No concert
orchestra is worthy of the name unless
it has a horn quartet-four French horns
and all musicians know how difficult
it is to find French horn artists outside of
the very large cities.
But the day will come, and it Is not
far off. hope, when Birmingham will be
able to make a start with a concert or
chestra. In the meantime. music lovers
who are discriminating will revel in the
programmes of the Cincinnati orchestra,
one of the few very fine symphonic organ
izations in the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
SERVING WINE AT TABLE

ed by what they had drunk. Today such a
spectacle is unknown. If gentleman
should show himself thus in any OF the
great houses he would never be invited
there again.
Thirty years ago at these houses one
sat down to table fairly barricaded, be-
sieged bombarded by wine glasses. Now
when he sits down he sees none. The
butler comes with a tiny glass and ne
may have it filed with sherry. and lit
tie later with a change of course, another
glass trifle larger but still small and
he may have this filled with red or white
wine-and, maybe glass of champagne
hereafter-certainly a lquor-and no
more he will have to go elsewhere. But
no decent intelligent man, recognized in
good society, can afford to drink enough
to show; if he is SO unguarded. 1t is at
his peril.
But there is another side to the ques-
tion. The wine of commerce is as
rule, vile and most abomnable. With his
limited knowledge of such things the Sec
retary of State could not have supplied
himself with wine which connoisseur
would deem fit to drink. Rarely in the
ducal houses is good wine to be had
never, indeed, unless the duke knows what
good wine is, where to get it and gives
it his personal attention. AS a rule the
purchase of wine is the personal graft OF
the maitre dhotel.
Nowhere on the continent can good wine
be had cheap-the demands of commerce
having grown SO great that the little pure
wine that is made going to royal SUBJ
scribers-the money and other kings, who
make distinctions, have a palate for it
and are willing to pay for it. In the
public places, the great hotels and res
taurants of London and Paris, Berlin and
Vienna, it is an accident of favoritsm
when the guest stumbles upon real ex-
celent bottle of wine.
, When Mr.. and Mrs Hayes set the water
wagon precedent at the White House So
wide merriment. 1t was very odd and
seemed very funny. Mr. Hayes own Sec
retary of State, the witty Evarts, could
not deny himself the joeularity that
water flowed as freely as champagne"
Yet Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes. like Mr.. and
Mrs Bryan, were noble and gentle people
-homelilke, genuine lovable people-and,
acting according to their conscience they
set a fashion for four years at Washing
ton which were better never broken.
"Will the coming man drink wine?"
furnishes an occasional text for scien-
tifc and social dissertation. 1t is TO be
hoped he will not.a If wine continues to
deteriorate in quality he will not. The
case against prohibition, aside from the
odious character of sumptuary laws, is
that as the world grows in numbers and
gains in civilization men the more clearly
see the hurtfulness of drink, and of their
own volition disuse it, More is drunk in
prohibition regions than in regions where
| there is no legal restriction. Young men
| know, as never before, that drink and
success are stranger the oneto the other.
Ultimately they will come to realize that
alcohol is a poison. Meanwhile moral
s,a sion not police clubbing, is the most
effective Temperance agent and influence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
Good Planting Season

"The farmers are now about a month
ahead of this time last year In their
planting" said Joseph Beitman of Bir-
mingham, who spends good deal of
his time in the agricultural districts
of Mississippi and Alabama. Il have
just come from trip through western
Mississippi and northern Alabama ana
I found BUSINESS conditions satisfac-
tory.
The cotton acreage will be somewhat
larger this year than last as far as l
could learn The corn acreage Will be
about the same as last year but the
farmers have made great progress in
modern methods and while the corn
acreage may be no larger than 1t was
erably greater. A good deal more corn
is produced to the acre than was the
case two or three years ago and We
will probably see new high records In
corn production in this state this year
"rhe country merchants are in good
shape but owing to the pending tariff
legislation they are not buying as free
|ly for the fall trade as they will later
on, after the tariff measure becomes
law. The merchants are optimistic
enough but they are inclined to wait
before laying In heavy stocks in order
that they may know just what the
prices will be. On the whole the OUT
look is certainly bright for Alabama IN
this good year Of 1913"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
SLOW.
WANING STARS.

How many of the authors who thrilled
writing for living, have the power to
move us today that they had when they
were doing their best work? We can NOT
recall a single one. 1t would be unkind
to name the long list of novelists, par
ticularly among men, who have simply
written themselves out" Each new con-
tribution, they make to so-caled modern
literature is distinct disappointment to
readers who learned to admire and even
to reverence them when they were at the
zenith of their fame. Yet, there is hardly
anybody who is tolerably familiar with
the book world whoscan not mention off,
hand several writers who are to be com
mended, not for what they are doing now.
but for what they have done in the past.
Their great moments have come and
gone, the fire OF their inspiration is
dimmed and they are simply writing for
money. Maybe some of them, sincere
souls. really believe they are doing better
work now than ever BEFORE but that is
not the Judgment the world passed upon
them, and it would be better for their
regulations If they never put pen to paper
again and never dictated another line.
Among the recent books is volume of
short stories by man whose literary
achievements-in the past-none will ques-
ton. The grace of his style and the
beauty of his sentiment charmed thou
sands of readers when he was at his
best, but for a number of years he has
dealt in the commonplace and his latest
book is filled up with the kind of stories
no magazine would accept, if sent by an
unknown writer. This country is full OF
cub reporters who could write better
stories. They might lack the polish OF
this mans work. but they would not be
so painfully lacking in punch"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
The Matter of Giving

This is annual tag day in Birming
ham. 1t has come to be an established
institution. Money raised by the sale
of tags goes to the Boys club, an or
ganization that has done much good
work and whose sphere of activities
will be broadened with the growth of
the city.
On tag day Of last year $3O3S. .63
was the sum realized. The needs of
the organization are much greater
now than they were few years ago
and it is hoped that the amount raised
today will exceed by at least several
hundred dollars last years total.
The citizens of Birmingham are
called on frequently for contribu-
tions for philanthropic causes. Some
times the fund TO be raised is large,
and well-to-do people are asked to
make large donations, but the majori-
ty of appeals are for small contribu-
tiops and the money given is scarcely
felt.
Not long ago, when money was be-
ing raised for the Young Women's S
Christian association, Sydney j. Bowie
struck the keynote of the proper spirit
Of philanthropic giving when he said
that in aiding great institution such
as the one he referred to unquestion-
ably was, citizens should give until
they felt it, or words to that effect.
Some rich people think they are do
ine well when they contribute to an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03

Mary II. Willard in Harpers Bazaar
tells how she built up a million dollar
business. There was just one thing she
said, Il did superlatively we'll and that I
loved doing. 1t was making soup-a par
ticularly wholesome nourishing and deli
cious soup which I used to prepare for
any friend or relative who was i'll. l had
CHANGED to make bowl Of it for sister,
fn-la who was an invalid, and it had
been pronounced so strengthening and so
appetizing that it came to be a fad of
mine to send it around with my compli-
ments when anyone I cared for became
i'll. One or two of my friends had even
confessed laughingly that they were quite
capable of shamming illness in order to
get taste of that soup. And more than
once our physician had remarked that he
wished he could get such broth for all his
patients. Here, then, was my chance.
There was no competition to fear, for
though there were diet kitchens for the
poor, there We're none for the rich. de-
termined to step into the breach" Miss
Willard goes on to tell how the home
bureau grew into a million dollar busi
ness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
What Omaha Is Doing

If any one thinks that Omaha was
for one moment discouraged and dis
heartened by the cyclone, that person
misjudges the town. 1t raised $780,
900 right at home to aid the dis
tressed, and then the work of re-
building was begun at once. In round
numbers 1000 homes were either de-
stroyed or twisted out of shape. Nine
hundred of them have already been
rendered habitable and are occupied.
Six hundred and fifty were entirely
destroyed, and new residences are
going up to replace them.
All this has taken place since Easter
and by next October Omaha will be
pretty well rebuilt. An American
city cannot be annihilated or checked
by one tornado, no matter how fierce
it may be, and few towns in any
country have ever experienced a
worse one than Omaha did. It's entire
force was spent in the best residential
district of the city, and that district
will soon reappear in even better form
than it had before the storm struck
it. Omaha's circling wind and Gal
veston's tidal wave and San Francis
cos earthquake show pretty plainly
that an American town will come
back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
TELEPHONE
Ben tprivnte exchange
an departments). No. 49,
Recognition of China

Tang Hun Lung was elected on
Thursday speaker of the lower mouse
of the new Chinese parliament, and
that body is now fully organized IN
both branches. The five-power loan
also stands although the senate de-
clared against it. The provisional
government declared it valid and al
together binding, and the Sl2o,ooo,-
600 to be received under its terms
will render the government strong.
yuan Shat Kai will undoubtedly be
elected permanent president, and all
talk about revolts will disappear. The
Chinese people have plenty of politl-
cal sense.
Yesterday the United States, acting
through Mr.. Williams, charge at Pc
king, duly recognized the infant re-
nublic. The event was celebrated at
the winter palace in Peking by an
elaborate reception ana luhcneon w
the legation staff.
A new minister to China will no
doubt soon be appointed and the pres
ent minister to the United States will
no doubt receive new credentials from
Yuan Shat Kai, the provisional presi-
dent of China. Recognition at the
hands of the Knox-Taft regime would
have been postponed to the latest pos
sible minute. That administration was
out of sympathy with popular rule,
and when President Wilson came in a
different view was taken of repub-
lies in general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03

Premier Asquith has notified the Lord
Mayor of London that the sums which
the government will ask parliament to
grant TO the dependents of the victims of
the Scott Antarctic expedition will be as
follows: To Lady Scott, in addition to
the admiralty pension OF $1,000 year. an
annuity of $500 and 125 year for her
son until he is IS; to Captain Scott
mother and his two sisters joint annui-
ty of $500 a year; to Mrs. Wilson, the
widow of DR.. Wilson, and her sister, a
similar joint annuity; TO the widow of
Petty Officer Evans, in addition to the
regular admiralty allowance of about
s175. an annuity of $3.50 and 70 cents a
week for each of her children until they
reach the age Of Is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
BIRMINGHAM FOR LAND coNGREs

From the Mobile Register.
The announcement is made that the
next annual meeting of the Alabama
state Land congress is ordered held in
Birmingham November 4, 5 and 6, of
this year. The meeting will be under
the auspices of the farm movement COM
mittee of the Birmingham Chamber of
Commerce, of which Joseph o. Thomp-
son is chairman. Mr.. Thompson enjoys
the distinction of being the largest farm
operator in Alabama, and is also vice
president of the Alabama State Land
congress From the inception of this
porter of it, and recently expressed
himself as having gained knowledge
from his attendance on the Mobile
meeting that he considered of incalcu-
liable benefit to him in his farm opera
tions.
This being so as to man already
deeply imbued with farming knowledge,
how much more of value would the con-
gress prove to be to the farmer who
has just begun to open his eyes to the
possibilities of his situation,
1t is well for the movement that the
next meeting is to take place in Bir-
mingham. Mobile gave it a good be-
ginning. Birmingham will establish it
in a-career of permanent usefulness.
The Land congress was organized not
Ionly to encourage improved methods in
farming and the diversification of crops,
but also to give wider information
about the marketing of crops and i'm
Iproving living conditions, so that Ala
bama could justly claim and receive
her share of desirable settlers. Rural
Icredits also form subsject of major
interest aroused by this congress The
next meeting will assemble men whoV
will discuss intelligently all these mat
tiers, and 1t can and should be made OF
'4ncalculable benefit to Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
Health on the Isthmus

It was not until 1906 that Colonel
Gorgas was called to the aid of the
department of sanitation at the
isthmus. and he at once began a
campaign of efficiency. He not only
weeded out yellow fever, but he re-
Huced the malaria rate to % OF the
entire force on the pay roll. In 1906 it
stood at 1O.5, and that rate of malaria
would have doubled the cost of the
canal and made it impossible to COM
plete it before 1920. In 1912 the
deaths from malaria numbered but
20 out of 50,893 employees.
The malaria rate of the isthmus is
still twice as high as that of Alabama.
In 1913 the hope is that the isthmus
will have as little malaria as Ala
bama has and that in five years more
it can be put on the Illinois basis. Any
state can rid itself of malaria by try
ing hard and keeping at it.
The death rate among the en-
ployes was in 1912 but 9.18, and there
were only four deaths from typhoid
fever. The natives of Panama and
Colon are profiting from the stand
ards set up among the employees, and
are reducing their death rate. The
isthmus may yet become sanitary re-
sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
A Richmond Visitor

Thomas B. Scott of Richmond arrived In
Birmingham yesterday and will remain
until Monday or Tuesday. He is the guest
of Frank Nelson.
Mr.. Scott represents large Richmond
capital invested in the Birmingham dis
trict. He and his brothers and number
of other moneyed men of the Virginia
metropolis are associated with Mr. Nell
son in the development of the valuable
properties owned by the Bryan Coal cor
poration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
Secretary Bryan at Sacramento

No matter in what form an anti
alien bill in California may be passed
two things are plain, namely, Mr.
Bryan's visit to Sacramento has not
been a failure, and the line between
the states and the federal govern
ment in the matter of treaties remains
to be drawn. Mr. Bryan has presented
at Sacramento the reasons for delay
in enacting bill that transgresses
the terms of treaty with Japan. The
federal government desires an oppor-
tunity to negotiate new treaty with
Japan while maintaining friendly re-
lations with that proud and sensitive
people, and California should in all
reason afford the federal government
a chance to see what it can accom-
plish. No great inroad would be made
by the Japs in the meanwhile in Cali
fornia.
The broader question relates to the
treaty making powers of the general
government. If 4S states are to be
consulted before a treaty can be rati-
fled the general government will be
put pretty nearly out Of the treaty
making business. And yet Congress
alone has the power to declare war
and to regulate commerce with for
eign nations. No state can enter into
a treaty or compact with foreign
power. Each state, however, makes
it's own land laws, and the President
is notfar wrong when he says dras-
tic anti-alien land bill in California
might lead to long litigation in an
effort to draw the line between state
and federal powers in relation to
treaties.
This may be said to be the chief
unsettled constitutional question of
the period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03

New York, Mrs. George Howe, niece Of
President Wilson, will be one of the
prominent characters. The principal or
der of the programme will be the parade
of 10000 supporters of the votes for
women cause. Delegates from every
part of the country will be present. Mrs.
Howe recently took a minor part in a
New York play, doing this. she said, 'as
a profession" She assumed the name of
Miss Margaret Howe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
NOT A BAD IDEA

From the Houston Post
In Birmingham they are getting up
some sort of Indian celebration they call
''potlatch." We believe ''potlcker"
festival would prove the greater drawing
card.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03

The will of ]. p Morgan's father has
just been made public. Junius S. Morgan
died in 1896 at Monte Carlo. He left an
estate valued at $9,211,74o of which ]. p.
Morgan received about s5.ooo,ooo He left
many paintings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
BouQuErs FoR UNDERWOOD

From the Florida Times Union.
I Mr.. Underwood is receiving more
bouquets than any man in the country.
Thus is the Judgment Of the Tines
Union indorsed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03

The official valuation of the Morgan art
collections is s5oOOO,OoO. AL are in the
the Morgan library. A total insurance of
s2500o,OO0 is probable, and American COM
panies will take perhaps $15,O0oO0o OF the
amount.