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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From The Chicago News.
Satan is on the job twenty-four hours
a day.
Look out for the man who looks out for
himself
Many man is called lucky who merely
has common sense.
A bachelor never knows whether to
call a baby she, he or it,
II you require food for thought, go to
the public library and get free lunch
Don't make fun of religion unless you
are sure Of your audience-and then
don't.
The man who is always blowing his
own horn seldom knows more than one
tune.
Don't think because man has but lit
tie to say that he must have acquired the
habit from saving wood.
People who assert that they never
make mistakes are misguided enough tc
imagine that people believe them.
When the first baby is a boy it's a sign
that the mothey will make plans before
he is out of the cradle for his inaugura-
ton as president
What has become of the old-fashioned
people who used to ask every man they
saw carrying valise If he was travel
tng OF just going some place?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
California's Land Bill

The anti-alien land bill in California
Is still difficult problem. 1t has been
amended so that it prohibits any alien
from owning land more than one year
except upon declaration OF his in
tention to become a. citizen. Thus
amended it has passed the lower house
of the California legislature and it
must now go back to the upper house.
The trouble is the Japanese cannot
become citizens. No native of Japan
can file declaration of an intention
to become a citizen, while German
or Scandinavian, for example, can do
so. This renders the bill as much an
anti-Japanese measure as it was be-
fore it was amended.
The government is confronted by a
difficulty of large proportions. The
treaty obligation with number of
countries conflict with the proposed
California law. Arizona has a SINH
lar law, and altogether it is not easy
to see how the treaties that say an
alien may acquire lands in this coun-
try can be maintained. The govern
ment has no right to dictate to Cal
ifornia or Arizona what it shall or
shall not do in relation to. lands with
in the bounds of either { lte.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
Tuscaloosa to Celebrate

On June Tuscaloosa is to cele-
brate the opening of slackwater navi-
cation to New Orleans, for on. that
day will arrive at Tuscaloosa the first
1000-ton, self-propelled barge of the
Alabama and New Orleans Transpor-
tation company. The bargesw built
in Lake Borgne, and enough more of
similar construction are to be built to
enable the company to establish a
daily line between Tuscaloosa and New
Orleans.
This is a great event in all truth
and reality. The railroads may think
that the Warrior and 'Bigbee cannot
be opened to navigation, but the Ohio
and the Monongahela have been and
so have rivers in West Virginia. What
is done elsewhere can be done in. Ala
bama.
The new line owns the Lake Borgne
canal and this gives it a protected in
side water channel all the way to New
Orleans, and the railroads cannot
starve it out or throttle it. Navigation
is to be inaugurated on June 7, and
it may prove to be the biggest event
of the period in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
The Busy Farmers

Weather conditions in Alabama for
farm work are good and the farmers
are all busy. This time last year the
outlook was extremely bad. There had
been excessive rains and not in many
wears had the agricultural situation
in this part of the country been SO de-
pressing. But in spite of the unfav-
able conditions which made cotton
planting very late Alabama produced
a crop in 1912 of nearly 1,4O0,oo0
bales-the second largest crop ever
made in this state.
The cotton acreage this year will
be about the same as last, and with
anything like normal weather during
the next few weeks this states crop
will be between 1,40O,000 and 1,bO0,-
900 bales.
There has been large planting oil
corn and as greater attention Is be-
ing paid to this crop every year
bumper harvest may be expected.
More alfalfa will be cut this year
than in 1912. No crop pays better
than alfalfa can be made to pay IN
central Alabama. 1t may be two or
three years yet before very high rec
ords are established in alfalfa produc-
ton but James B. Haggin, who has
the largest and most valuable stock
and dairy farm in Kentucky, will soon
set the pace of hay making in Ala
bama. The 1900 acres that he recent
w bought in Greene county for the
purpose of raising alfalfa for his
great dairy near Lexington is being
drained and otherwise improved and
by 1914 he will give practical DEM
onstration on a large scale of what
can be done in alfalfa in this state
All the farmers in Alabama's alfalfa
belt should be on their mettle so as
not to be out-stripped by Mr.. Hag-
gin.
Humanity speaking, it is safe to say
that 1918 will be the banner year for
the farmers of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
LIGHTING THE NEXT GREAT FAIR

from the Electric News Service.
|"HE lighting of the Panama-Pacifie
exposition, to be held in San Fran
i cisco in 1915. will be the greatest
undertaking ever attempted in the art
of illumination The science and pro-
fession of electrical engineering has
made wonderful strides since the last
great exposition Efforts can be pro-
duced today which would have been i'm
possible a few years ago. AS result of
this progress the exposition in 1915 Will
be a triumph in the art of ilumina-
tlon and radically different from any
thing ever seen before.
In the past every exposition was a
white way with dazzling marbles and
glistening, snowy alabaster, with count
less electric lamps outlining buildings
and glaring arc lamps in the open courts.
All this has been done away with. In
1915 there will be no glaring alabasters.
no dazzling colors. The general tone of
the exposition will be an ivory white.
The special colors will be Pompeiian red,
Italian blues, vermillion and orange, with
soft tones so arranged that they will
blend in varied harmonies.
The exposition itself will be a gigan-
tic Oriental bazaar. with roofs of red
dish pink, the walls gay with color, its
cornices supporting warmly tinted fig
|ures, towers and minarets sparkling with
color Thousands of gay flags will be
nightly illuminated. The pools and flow
ers, trees and shrubbery will also be
carefully lighted to bring out their true
color values.
The lighting of this great exposition
has been entrusted to w. D'A Ryan. IL
Illuminating engineer of the General Elec-
tric company. and the coloring of the
exposition buildings will be directed by
Jules Guerln. Imagine a gigantic Per-
sian rug of soft melting tones, with
brilliant splashes here and there, spread
along the ocean side for mile or MORE"
said Guerin, "and you will get some idea
of what the exposition will look like
when viewed from the heights above the
bay"
This color scheme will make the
grounds unique among the expositions of
the world
Buildings will not be outlined with
incandescent lamps. Wherever possible
the lamps will be concealed. In the
courts the mural paintings will be light
ed by concealed lamps set into pillars. A
special tubular lamp has been designed
for this purpose. Wherever direct light
ing is necessary the lamps will be sur
rounded with dense globes to mellow
and soften the illumination and to save
the eyes from glare.
Many of the larger buildings will be
outlined with large cut-glass jewels
which will catch and reflect the light
in thousand differently colored rays.
Large quantities of these Jewels are now
being cut abroad for this purpose These
glass jewels will be hung on little springs
so they will be turned and oscillated with
every passing current of air. A row of
seraphic figures will be fourteen feet high
and crowned with jeweled star.
Beams of light from concealed pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
: x. cHrsrERroN,s PHRASES

From T. P.'s London Weekly.
The pun of Hood is underrated. like the
witt of voltaire, by those who forget
that the words of voltaire were not pins,
but swords.
Dickens was mob-and mob In re-
volt; he fought by the light Of nature;
he had not a theory, but a thirst
Man is merely man only when he isNseen
against the sky.
A pagan is a person who can do what
hardly any person for .ne last 1000 years
could do; person who can take nature
naturally.
Meredith became, at his best, sort of
daintily dressed Walt Whitman, Hardy
became a sort of Village atheist.
brooding and disappearing over the village
IDIOT.
Mr.. Hardy is anthropomorphic ott Of
sheer atheism. He personifies the uni
verse in order to give it piece Of his
mind.
Rosetti was a remarkable man In more
ways than one; he did not succeed in any
art: If he had he would probably never
have been heard of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
GRANDFATHERs CRITICISM

From the Saturday Evening Post.
The christening party consisted OF the
proud father, the baby-a girl-the grand
father and the rest of the folks. The
grandfather stood nearest the priest dur
ing the ceremony.
whats the childs name?" asked the
priest of the grandfather at the appro-
pirate moment.
"I dunno" the grandfather replied. And
he turned to the father and. whispered
hoarsely; Whats It's name?"
Hazel replied the father.
WHAT" asked the grandfather.
''Hazel' repeated the father.
The grandfather threw UP his hands in
disgust.
''What dye think av that?" he asked
the priest. with the calendar av the
saints full av gur-rl names-<an' him
namin his after nut,"f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
rhe sneioloeieal Congress

81 notice." said the Rev. DR.. George
Eaves, THAT in the reports that have
been published about the forthcoming
state sociological congress, which VIII
He held in Birmingham the 22d, 23d and
cath OF this month, no credit is given
to the persons who really commenced
the agitation for such a meeting, such
as Mrs. l. J. Haley, Mrs. Searight and
particularly Mrs. w. L. Murdock who
happen to know worked hard in get
ting the beginnings of a programme ar
ranged for. I say this not because
social workers generally want to get
personal satisfaction out of their serv-
Ices, but to show that the Forthcoming
congress is legitimate revival of the
former conference on charities and
corrections which continued for num-
ler of years in Alabama.
ut is certainly the earnest hope OF
the people who are behind the pres
ent congress that it will coerce into
itself all the forces that work for social
justice and the general welfare. Full
emphasis should be laid on the bust
ress meeting on Tuesday afternoon at
8 o'clock which will precede the con-
ference proper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17

jectors will play upon these jewels, caus-
ing them to sparkle and scntillate with
all the colors of the rainbow; the eff
feet will be one of constant change
and will never grow tiresome or cease
to be a source of attraction.
The outside of the buildings will be light
ed so as to bring out their perspective
and beauty of architecture, and the sta
tuary will not simply show in silhouette
but will be lighted to give form and
life
The main court OF the exposition Will
be lighted for two large luminous foun-
tains. Dense white glass will be used in
the constructions of these fountains. con-
cealing the lighting units inside. In tho
daytime they will give no suggestion of
being sources of light, but at night. when
the lamps inside are lighted, the whole
surface OF the fountain will become ra-
diant with diffused light OF sufficient
quantity to illuminate the entire court
and surrounding buildings with a SOFT
even illumination which is planned to
be very pleasing and effective.
For the great illumination of the
grounds, lamps will be used that will
show the sunken gardens, shrubbery,
flowers, etc, in their daylight color
values, making the grounds as beautiful
by night as by day and bringing out
the beauty which the landscape artist
has created to its fullest extent.
The main feature of the ornamental
lighting will be the electro-color scintIl-
lators which will be mounted on barges
Off shore In the bay. Large searchights
will be used to throw beams of colored
lights into the sky. Sixty trained men
will be required to operate these search
lights, which total thousands of candle-
power The projectors will throw gor-
geous auroras into the Sky which will
be visible for forty or fifty miles. Each
barge will have It's own electric generat-
ing plant so it can be removed about at
will. The nightly fog on the bay will
be utilized as a natural background for
these lighting effects, augmented with
smoke bombs and steam clouds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
Massachusetts Elects a Democrat

Big elections occur occasionally in
this country as well as in England,
and they are significant here although
not to the extent that they are in
the motherland.
The election in the Thirteenth Mas
sachusetts district to fill the seat va
Gated by the promotion of Mr.. Weeks
To the Senate is, however, full of mean
ing. Mr.. Weeks, standpat republi-
can, was elected last year by a plu-
rality of 1851 votes. In the election
of last Tuesday John J. Mitchell, a
democrat, secured plurality Of 4148.
Mr.. Mitchell's vote was 1891,
while Alfred H. Cutting, republi-
can, polled ss43 votes, and Norman
H. White, progressive, received 567S
votes. This is very good evidence that
the progressive party is very much
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
Varied Industries

''While the number of small indus
tries in and around Birmingham is lar
ger than it was two or three years
ego the increase should be more rapid
than it is" said a member of the
Chamber of Commerce.
I'm the census bureaus compilation
of industrial statistics of the Birming-
ham district a fine showing was made
and the pay rolls are much larger at
the present time than they were in
1910, when the census experts collected
their data.
But this is a particularly inviting
field for small industries. and what is
needed is encouragement by local cap
italists to business-like industrial prof.
ects. Men of experience and character
come here from time TO time with
money seeking a little financial aid
from our home people in order to es-
tablish a new local plant. 1t frequent
ly happens that a 100000 industry
could be started here If one-fourth OF
that sum were subscribed to the stock
by Birmingham men.
"All the small industries that are
hcic nov nave pttu outctsslui--So VI
them highly successful-and I know OF
no safer investment than manufac-
turing enterprise established for the
purpose of producing some commodity
for which there is a large and all the
year round demand. In most cities /
have found that a great deal of capital
is wasted in hazardous speculation.
II know certain rich southern city
in which millions of dollars went away
in one year for investment of land in
Duluth-and none of it came back. That
was some years ago, but something
like that is going on year in and year
cut"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17

tion of ice cream show an enormous in
crease since it was first added to soda
water and the soda fountain has not only
been the greatest quantity consumer of
ice cream but its best advertiser with the
advent of the luscious sundae came still
additional increase in the consumption of
both soda and ice cream at fountains.
Everyone knows just what constitutes
sundae, andsho tempting the appearance
of the ice cream with the added syrup,
fruits and nuts-a combination pleasing
alike to eve and palate. The combination
was christened sundae-so the legend goes
because a druggist originated this ''one
best bet" on a Sunday. There are many
claimants to the honor of II did 1t first
as there are to almost all of the COM
binations represented by the modern menu
or dispensers guide, but whoever thought
of the sundae first did a good thing for
which the public as well as the fountain
industry owe a vote of thanks.
In the spring of 1874 Robert NJ Green of
Philadelphia, who at that time was acting
as agent for John Matthews of New York,
at the same time had begun the manu-
facture of smaller types Of fountains of
his own. He secured concession to dis
pense soda water at an exposition held
under the auspices of the Franklin insti-
tute of Philadelphia, and stress Of busi-
ness compelled him to do something to at
tract the patronage of the public. At all
events, such was the nspiration-accord-
ing to Mr.. Green-which prompted him to
put ice cream in soda water. For the
first time he advertised ice cream in soda
water at a soda fountain, and he unques-
tionably is entitled to the honor and
the credit of originating ''ice cream soda,''
which as years have passed has developed
an enormous demand and given unques-
toned impetus to the business of soda
water dispensing
On the other hand the credit for COM
mercializing ice cream as an adjunct to
soda water even though Mr.. Green was
the first to use it, unquestionably belongs
to Fred Sanders of Detroit, prominent
cenfectioner of the Michigan city. The
inspiration to use ice cream with soda
water came TO Mr. Sanders one night when
his plain cream had soured, and without
| the knowledge that 1t had already been
used as component of soda water in the
east, Mr. Sanders used ice cream and
featured it He did more to popuarize
'ice cream soda" than any other fountain
owner in this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
Continuation School Plan

Lovemen, Joseph & Loeb, aided by
DR.. J. H. Phillips, has perfected plan
under which the employees of the de-
partment stores can continue their in
terrupted courses of education without
the High school building, where they
are to spend two hours in room in
the Highschool building, where they
will be instructed in the rudiments of
learning and even in the finer arts.
The plan has been carefully and
thoroughly worked out, and it is be-
lieved hundreds of employees will take
advantage of this opportunity to con-
tinue an education that had been
stopped in order to earn a living.
1t is hoped that the new plan will
be as cordially accepted by the en-
ployes as it, is freely granted by the
employers. 1t means to many course
of instruction that will make better
men and better women, and better cit
liens in the long run. There is moth
ing compulsory about the plan. A re-
cess of two hours once week with
excellent instruction thrown in is Of
fered to all, and it will be strange in
deed if it does not lead to fine results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Thrift Mt culIman

While in washington recently }. X.
Rosson of cullman. who was under con-
sideration for second assistant post
master general. was quoted by the Post
as follows:
"Cullman county is the second rich
est county per capita in the United
States.
"The town of cullman-has a popula-
ton of 2500 and every man in the town
who is the head of family mas a clear
title deed of ownership to his home.
There is not man in the county OF
Cullman who does not own his own
home. This is the reason why Cullman
county people are rich and why the
people are contented. There are 725
heads of families in Cullman and ev-
eryone has a bank account. L do not
think there is another town in the
United States that can hold up like
record -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17

alive t.llu DeeonIlng wen oIgala-
lied. Long before 1916 it will have
become efficient in every congress
sional district.
Mr.. Mitchell was really elected in
textile Massachusetts on an Under
wood tariff platform. The various
tariff schedules were discussed dur
ing the congressional campaign, and
the triumph Of Mr.. Mitchell in Mas
sachusetts district is certainly sig
nificant. 1t not only foretells the
death of the republican party, but it
foreshadows the passage of the I'm
derwood tariff as it stands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
A Tariff Revision

'Mr. Underwoods tariff bill, IL en-
acted into law. will be good thing
for the country at large and I do not
believe that it will hurt very many
manufacturers" said Samuel Lithgow
of Pittsburg.
,"I believe all business men, no mat
ter in what line they are engaged,
will be glad when this tariff revision
matter is settled. I used to be a pro-
tectionist and IL 1 were a manufacturer
OF certain commodities I might, for
selfish reasons, still be a protection
list, but my commercial interests will
certainly not be injured by Mr. I'm
derwood's bill and as a consumer /
think it Is just altogether right.
hope Congress will get through with
it's tariff legislation as speedily as
possible.
"I am satisfied that general trade
will be benefited by a settlement of the
question. 1 cannot but feel that If we
have good crops this summer business
will boom again as 1t did last"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17

Mobile Register: Glad to hear that the
tariff revision cannot hurt steel; also sur
prised, for we have been told all along
that protection was essential to the sue
cess of that industry.
Admission Star and Hot Blast: A Chi
cago woman has paid $4,000 for an i'm
ported puppy, and it is safe bet that
she belongs to the race suicide clan.
Montgomery Journal: The Birmingham
Age Herald says that this country will
have to put up with rich ambassadors
until it is ready to pay better salaSes
But, would 1t be right to make this gov
ernment meet the expenses of social en-
tertainments, which has cost the present
ambassadors many thousands of dollars.
Opp Messenger: Under cubist's por-
trayal of President Wilson Judge re-
marks that the cubist draws the soul and
thought. In our estimation the, only thing
a cubist is capable of drawing is his SAL
ary-and that should be a very small one.
Hartselle Enterprise: AT any rate. the
blackberry crop is reasonably safe. This
item is for newspaper men only.
Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: Oscar seems
able to keep his colors straight. With
woodrow and Oscar in the saddle the
tariff proposition seems in a good way.
Moulton Advertiser: We congratulate
both our correspondents and readers on
the absence Of spring poetry from this
paper True, we have few verses, but
they are of the fall and winter varieties.
Conecuh Record: Nothing sheepish in
the way Underwood handles the wool
tariff.
Talladega Home: Underwood looms big
ger with every day of Congress. He has
kept the faith and his position is secure.
Cordova Herald: AS the baseball season
approaches the average office boy begins
to compile his list of xcuses.-Age-H Her
aid.
We'll, he'll have, a good excuse for MAX
ing excuses.
Ashland Progress: Give the women of
the southland a chance to settle the suf-
fragette question for themselves, and
here's dollars to doughnuts that they'll
settle it right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
4 MIR. UNDERWOOD SAVES rHE DAY

From the New York Herald.
To Representative Oscar w. Under
wood, to whose splendid Judgment and
leadership the Herald called attention
few days ago, is due the fact that the
entire democratic administration was no,
humiliated by the caucus Of democratic
representatives yesterday.
The radicals who would force free sugar
into the tariff bill at once, in obedience te
the teachings of the Bryan school, moved
an amendment to the bill, striking out OF
it the salutary provision that the redue-
tion of duties to zero shall be gradual
covering a period Of three years ana Or
dering free sugar at once.
Mr.. Underwood took the floor and by his
own force defeated the movement, which
was designed to reflect on the President
1t is not the first time the President has
owed a great debt to Mr. Underwood nor
in our opinion, will it be the last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
RAILROAD COURTESY

From the New York Globe.
AS an express train was going through
station one of the passengers leaned too
far out of the window, overbalanced and
fell out. He fortunately landed on a sand
heap, so that he did himself no great in
Jury, but. with torn clothes and not
few bruises, said to a porter. who was
standing by:
What shall I do?"
you're all right. mister said the por-
ter Your ticket allows you to stop off,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
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