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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Pittsburg and Its smoke

Everybody who has been to Pittsburg
knows that 1t is a very smoky city, much
sootier than Birmingham, said Harry
Jones. I'm the recent discussions about
birmingham's smoke ordinance compari-
sons have been made between this city
ana other Industrial eenters. but I have
iailed to see the fact stated that a great
deal of. anthracite coal is used in Pitts
burg and yet smoke is SO dense there on
rainy days that one cannot see across the
river. But no matter what may be said
OF smoky cities, pay rolls in such cities
are large and prosperity abounds
Birmingham, being far away from the
anthracite region, makes steam with soft
coal mined in this district. The minmiz-
ing of the so-called smoke nuisance is one
thing and abating smoke is another. Like
Pittsburg, the smoker Birmingham is the
more prosperous 1t will be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
bright Outlook for Spring

The real estate business, which has
been comparatively quiet for some time
past, is improving and the outlook for
spring is very bright indeed said w.
G. oliver. president of the oliver
Levert Realty company.
There is a great deal of activity
in industrial operations in this district
and as busy as Industrial concerns are
now the general brislSness will be in
creased by the starting up of the wire
mill at Corey. While no official an
nouncement has been made from Steel
corporation headquarters in New York
something tells me that wire will be
made here during the coming summer.
When operations at the wire mill do
begin real estate values and every in
terest hereabouts will be affected most
advantageously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
SOCIAL WASHINGTON IN 1915

From the Chicago Tribune.
From the letter of a distinguished Eu-
ropean visiting in Washington in August,
1916:
Il requested C to procure for me, if pos
sible, the privilege of paying my respects
to the President. He looked at me in
frank amazement and raised both hands
and eyebrows. Evidently he did not trust
himself to speak on the subject but from
the naval attache | learned in confidence
that the embassy has been unable to adj
just itself to the informality prevailing at
the White House since March 4, 1913. 1t
was suggested that IL | wished to see the
President | should merely drop around
any time and ring the door bell
I'm the morning, my informant said, l
might be certain of catching Mr.. Wilson
in the back yard saving cord wood into
stove lengths, and any evening would be
likely to find him at home in his slippers
with the evening paper.
This may astonish you. but permit me
to assure you that Washington has har-
mcnized simplicity with ideas of demo-
cratic simplicity which 1 am told are
attributed to an early President named
jefferson. If they would strike you with
their oddity they also would hold you by
their charm.
Calling on Mr.. Marshall, the vice pres
ident, l discovered him in his cabbage
field, where he spoke of the considerable
devastation done by cutworms He was
kindly and had me enter the house with
him, where we spent half hour pleas
antly looking over the family album and
at various views of Niagara Falls.
cat the residence of Secretary of State
Bryan last night l was fortunate to be
one at a porch party. Mr. Bryan is a
courteous host and was gracefully passing
the lemonade and pound cake. My only
regret was that we were deprived of his
attractive conversation for a full hour He
was called to the gate by a visitor and
spent the time talking over the fence
earnestly. On returning he apologized,
but said that Earl Haldane. the British
ambassador. had pressing matter to
take up with him, and its Importance
must excuse his incivility
II am looking forward with the utmost
pleasure to a lawn party at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Champ Clark. Mr.. Clark is
moderator of the house of burgesses, or
the lower assembly, and / am informed
that he is quite as Jeffersonian as the de-
lishtful Mr.. Bryan. When you come over
be at no pains with your luggage. A
handbag will carry all you need"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Popular Election of Senators

The seventeenth amendment pro-
tiding for the election of United
States senators by popular vote is to
be ratified apparently without a neg
ative vote except in Utah, which is
queerly governed and does not in very
fact enjoy republican form of gov
ernment. A state governed by a hier-
archy is very properly and naturally
Ieactionary.
No other negative vote has been
reported, and fully 20 states will
soon have ratified the amendment.
This amendment is in fact a revolu-
ton. It is a peaceful revolution, but
it is none the less revolution. From
time out of mind senators repre-
senting interests have been elected by
Legislative cliques in order to carry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
NEW STYLES FOR MEN

From the Philadelphia North American.
If ideas" in the line of evening dress
for men get beyond the idea stage, gor-
geously gowned women will have to look
to their laurels. Enterprising ST. Louis
and New York tailors have evolved a
scheme of decoration that will lift man
from his lowly station and get him AT
least some of the attention that is now
held exclusively by femininity.
Should the dictum of st. Louis be taken
seriously. man will appear at social func-
tions in future in a black dress coat,
white weskit and lavender pants, hand
embroidered down the sides. On the other
hand, if New Yoork has its way, his
raiment viii consist of a coat of Cam
bridge gray cheviot, with plain black sat
IN revers and shiny ivory buttons. vest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
HE THOUGHT IT WAS ALIVE

From Hearsts Magazine
Gilbert Parker, the English author tells
of an English gentleman who recently
came to this country to visit some friends
in California. I'm common with most
travellers he supposed game was plentiful
everywhere in that state, so he carried
with him the necessary guns and ammu-
milton.
las his train neared San Bernardino-
just before making the mountain climb
there was a delay. Several hours passed
and still the train remained stationary;
our traveller friend grew restive, and
sought the porter of the Pullman car to
ascertain the cause of the delay.
ut seems that in mounting the grade
freight train had broken apart. the rear
portion having descended the grade and
blocked the track. The porter informed
him of the accident to the freight train
and said There is a caboose on the
track
Immediately the hunter instinct was
awakened: Fastening to his berth. he pro-
cured his gun and started for the door,
saying:
- Show it to me, Show it to met
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

of black satin with a V-shaped opening
and white buttons and trousers Of Cam
bridge gray cheViot with double rows of
serpentine braid at the side seams.
These and other ideas will be exhih-
tied today as part of the thirty-third an
nual convention of the International Gus
tom Cutters association, in session at the
Hotel Walton. Even. the delegates were
refused admission yesterday to that room
on the tenth floor of the Walton, where
the sartorial ideas of many tailors have
been assembled. But this morning they
will have their peep.
Spring styles for 1913 are shown in pro-
fusion. They include several ideas for
women which were slipped across. One
is the real suffragette thing. with semi
hobble skirt of black and white check
with black braid, and a coat that is built
somewhat on the lines of mans even
ing dress coat, only the cutaway is not so
decided, and the tails are shorter. Half
the lapels are of the black and white
check, being joined to the black with
broad braid. There is a double row of
black buttons down the back, and five
buttons to each sleeve. The sleeves are
braided and cuffed. The other tribute to
fenininity is a mannish coat, neat one
button cutaway, with "half-cut back"
(whatever that Isl, cuffs and pockets.
Dress suits vary somewhat. The roll is
shorter, and there is a tendency to intro
duce black velvet or satin vests and
white buttons in place of white vests.
One tailor shows an evening coat with
three buttons on each side, dwindling in
size from the bottom up. The lapels are
faced with grosgrain, flecked in white,
and the vest is of the same material
There are one-button cutaways. two
and three button cutaways, and all sorts
of sacks. Shoulders will be narrower. and
there will be less padding. Coats will be
built more TO fit the figure than of yore.
Norfolks are plentiful.
From the shop of owen owens, in
Washington, where President Taft got
hear a mile off 1t is described as
large plaid Harris tweed" The heavy
black stripes across a gray background
are about three inches apart, and run
from east to west, as well as from north
to south.
Now that the north and south poles
have been discovered, there is an Arctic
garment shown. 1t is combination coat.
overocat and pants with feet in them.
A fellow has just to crawl into this suit.
button it up, pull the hood over his head
and sleep in the open, with the mercury
so far below zero that you can't find It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
LIVES ON NICKEL A DAY

Columbia (Ndo.) Correspondence Kansas
City Star
There lives within half a mile of Column
bia graduate of two universities who
says that the present agitation against
the high cost of living is all rubbish, be-
cause the people themselves are respon-
sible. e. E. Tyler, A. B., B. S. A. NJ,
Is the man. He himself lives on cents
a day. He says that he does not stint
himself, either. Tyler received his de-
grees from the University of Nebraska
and the College of Emporia.
Tyler lives on a small tract Of land
which he calls his experiment station His
father is graduate of Oberlin college
and all of his relatives as far back as he
can remember, he says. have been college
men. He isn't considered hermit. be-
cause he is sociable, talkative and will
ing to visit his neghbors.
'The high cost of living doesn't worry
me-" said Mr.. Tyler, because | use the
soil. When buy anything cut out the
middleman I make my own lard here,
but my neghbor over there buys his from
the store. When the lard from the farm
er crosses the threshold of the store it
just doubles in value. 1 supply my own
bacon and it doesn't cost me anywhere
near 10 cents pound. Right now they are
charging 40 cents a pound for it in the
stores. can take four ears of corn and
make enough hominy to last me a week
can make bushel of wheat do where
the man in town must spend $50."
Thus Tyler, who by thrift and hard
work, too, has accumulated a fortune of
IL.
high cost of living. but the cost of high
living, as he calls it,
Here" he said, 'is a suit of clothes l
have had 10 years. l have bowed twice to
a college president in that suit and it is
good enough suit for any man to wear.
Tyler came to the University OF Missouri
10 years ago to do some research work in
biology. When he arrived he found that
the professor under which he expected
to study had gone. Tyler says that he
bi ought with him nearly six tons of ma
terial and goods. He could not find a
landlady in Columbia who would keep
him, SO DE bought the small farm The
walls of his little cottage are lined with
books and engineering journals as we'll as
agricultural publications. In addition ~
his farm here he says he owns land in
Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Speak. Of Birmingham,s progress

Frank Clark of Knoxville, of the firm
of Clark & Jones, piano dealers, is in
Birmingham. His concern conducts
three fiourishing houses, one in Knox
vile, one in Chattanooga and one here
I'VE opened our Birmingham house
last fall and I have every reason to
be satisfied with results" said Mr.
Clark. Business in our line is brisk
ut has been just a year since my
last visit to this city and I can see
marked growth. Birmingham goes for
ward by immense strides and it has
unquestionably a great future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Extra Session in This State

The prohibition question in Ala
bama does not and will not hinder the
calling of an extra session of the
legislature. 1t certainly would not be
included in the governors call, and
questions that are not included can
not be lugged in except on a two
thirds vote. The prohibitionists could
not possibly secure anything like a
two-thirds, vote, especially in the
house.
There will never be a time when
two millions and better of people do
not need a legislative session every
two years. The quadrennial PROPOSE
ton in the constitution was simply a
blunder, and the time will come when
it will be undone. No other state is
committed to quadrennial sessions,
and this state sees every second year
an accumulation of business that
needs legislative treatment.
Governor O'Neal need not hesitate
in this important matter. The states
financial condition is only one of
many subjects that needs attention.
The present legislature may contain
some cranks, but freaky legislation
is not likely. An empty treasury is to
be refilled, the state needs reappor-
tionment and jefferson county sorely
needs relief from the fee system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Southern Progress

As great as was the south's prog
ress in the 80 years from 1880 to
| 1909, inclusive, as shown by the
Baltimore Manufacturers Records
exhaustive review, published not long
since, development during the next 80
years cannot be over estimated. 1t is
safe to say that in the present decade
the south will have advanced in agri-
cultural and manufacturing activities
and in wealth more than it did in the
three decades referred to.
Every southern state has done
noteworthy things in agriculture
within the recent years. From Vir-
ginia to Texas there is note of opti-
mism and in most of the cotton states
there has been bounding prosperity
for the past five years. Alabama,
with greater natural resources than
any other southern state, should keep
we'll in the lead. This state is becom-
ing famed for it's corn clubs. With
favorable weather conditions Ala
bama will be sure to make new
high record in corn production this
year and it is only question of a. few
years when corn as well as cotton will
be reckoned an important money
crop.
The south produces as rule about
a tenth of the pig iron of the United
States. In 1906 the south had it's
largest iron output-3,525, ,119 tons in
total production for the entire coun-
try of 25,307 ,191. Last year iron pro-
duction in the United States reached
high water mark-29, ,727,137 tons
but the south is credited with only a
slight increase over 1911 and vol
ume not quite equal to its highest
record of 1906. Alabama is, as every
one knows, the great iron producer
of the south. In 1912 its output was
,S62,909 in a total for the south of
3,054,9S0.
Alabama is increasing steadily in
coal production and the present year
will be its banner year. This states
lumber business is extensive and
flourishing and cement production in
the Birmingham district is rapidly
gaining in Importance.
With all it's natural wealth it would
be surprising indeed if Alabama were
not attracting capital and irl.,aigra-
ton. Homeseekers are now coming
this way in large numbers and the
tide of both immigration and capital
should receive a fresh impetus from
the meeting of the Southern CONNER
cial congress in Mobile next Septem-
ber. This Southern Commercial con-
gress and the Alabama State Land
congress, which will hold its annual
meeting in November, will certainly do
much to exploit the exceptional ad-
vantages of this section and Birming
ham should be, and doubtless will be,
well represented in both of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Hotel Construction

Many tall and imposing buildings have
peen erected in Birmingham since I was
last here in 1909, but I have observed with
particular interest that two skyscraper
hotels, one to cost s1,25o.o00 and the other
something like 100000, are in course of
construction said f. c. Ghiesling of
chicago. "At the corner of Fifth ave-
nue. and Eighteenth street noticed that
steel columns were being erected and that
two blocks away on the same avenue the
ioundation is ready for the steel.
Birmingham has now a number of
hotels, some of them very good, and
When the two new ones are completed
TINS city will DE able to take care of ma
tional GATHERINGS of the larger class"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
BEN-HUR AND THE GLADIATOR

"Quintus Arrius? Yes. he was my pa
ftron."
Tile had a SON."
Yes" said Thord, his battered fea-
lures lighting DULY, Il knew the boy;
he would have made a king gladiator
Caesar offered him his patronage.
taught him the very trick you played
on this one here---a trick impossible
except to hand and arm like mine 1t
has won me many a crown.
Il am that son of Arrius."
Thord drew nearer and viewed him
carefully; then his eyes frightened with
genuine pleasure, and. laughing, he held
out his hand.
"Iia, ha, ha. lie told me | would ind
Jew here--a Jew-a dog of a Jew
Killing whom was serving the gods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
HE CAME BACK.

She had merely wished to put his love
TO the test 1t had not occurred to her
that he might impulsively say goodbye
and go out of her life forever, but appar-
emily she had misjudged him, and now he
was eone-gone, alas, and she was left
alone to nurse a vain regret.
Half swooning, she sank into chair
and covered her face with her hands.
Tears triekled between her fingers and
bitterly she reproached herself
Why" she sobbed, did I let him go?
have lost him. Oh, foolish girl that I was
not to have put my arms around his neck
before it was too late and asked him to
forgive me-
But nisti
Suddenly she raised her head and lis
tened.
Yes, there was some one at the door.
II was he
Hastily dashing the tears from her
eyes, she assumed an uneompromising
look. He had returned to sue for peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Effect of Civn Service Policy

"President-elect Woodrow Wilson'S
well known policy in favor of the civil
service law has had, I understand, the
effect in some states of minimizing the
number of office seekers" said S. s.
Hazleton of Chicago. Il am not a poll
tician and am not, therefore, directly in
terested in the distribution of 'spoils, but
from what read infer that Mr.. Wilson
Will make fewer changes in office than
any of his predecessors.
was in Washington last week and
heard while I was there that the south
would be well represented at the ma
tlonai capital by officeseekers, but in
Chicago none of my democratic acquain-
tanees will be applicants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
THREE GOOD REASONS

From the Boston Traveller.
Rev John X. Sawyer, author of "As
Ye Sow" which ran at the Majestic
theatre in Boston for sometime. was
travelling from this state TO Scotland =
raw and thick log came up, which pene-
trated to the marrow of the passengers
on the deck. An acquaintance of Mr..
Sawyer's spoke to him and asked:
wouldn't you like to join me in little
drink?"
NO" answered Sawyer. I'm sorry.
but there are two good reasons why !
cannot take drink with you. The first
reason is that / don't drink. The second
pledge. A third and most important rea-
son is that l have just had one.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
It's liberal education to get over go
ing through college.
A girls notion of an ideal sweetheart
is if he takes good photographs.
It's just like a man to be able to feel
a. home most any place but home.
Every day the devil marks out new
short cut to save you time in reaching
his place of business.
A man can love girl and show it with
out knowing 1t. and a girl can love man
and know it without showing It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

Roman Llano. a newspaper writer, pre-
sented two $4,000 bills at the foreign ex-
change window of the Third National
bank of st. Louis last week and was
taken in custody by a postoffiee inspec-
tor. The teller noticed that the numbers
on the bills corresponded to the numbers
of two of those stolen in the theft of the
100000 package of currency from the Han
avaNew York mail, October II, 1912. Tho
man is not accused of the theft, but off,
GERS thing that by tracing the history of
the bills they may capture the thief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
HOW NATuRE GOES

From the Children's Magazine.
The lark scars, the horse gallops. tile
kangaroo jumps, the lamb sambols, the
lion springs, the FREELY fits. the fox
skulks, the tiger leaps, the butterfly fiut-
ters, the hawk swoops, the snake darts.
the mole burrows, the frog hops, the
monkey climbs, the duck waddles, the
turkey struts, the albatross gldes, Tie
worm wriggles, the wolf prowls, the bes
hoverS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

To travel something like 10000 miles at
a cost of approximately 100000 merely
for the safe and sure removal of one
human appendix, might be considered a
record in high priced surgery; but that
is one thing that does not in the least
worry Senior and Sonora Tomaso Dor
nella of Lima, Peru. They are on the
formed for appendicitis. The reason they
are going to Paris, Mrs. D'Ornella ex-
planned. is because of the death of her sis
formed in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

Mrs. Charles II. Anthony of Muncie,
Ind, the "human sunburst," as her
friends have nicknamed her on account
of her love and display of diamonds, has
arrived in Washington for the Inaugural
ton. On former visit Mrs. Anthony
created a sensation by wearing diamonds
set in the heels of her shoes. There was
a second sensation when it was reported
in the newspapers that her husband had
said the diamonds were imitation. On
the trip Mrs. Anthony comes with the slo-
gan: American clothes for American
women" and backs up her cry with her
recently completed winter wardrobe that
cost s5o,ooo-every thread of it of Amer
lean make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

Chares d. Hiles, secretary to the Pres
ident. is to take charge of the American
branch of a foreign insurance company
in New York. at double his present SAL
ary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

The Kansas democrat. whose hair has
remained uncut since since 1896. and IIol-
low Horn Bear will be two lions at the
Inauguration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
PICTURES OF MEMORY

BY Alice Cary.
Among the beautiful pictures
That hang on Memory's wall
Is one of dim old forest,
That seemeth best of all;
Not for its gnarled oaks olden.
Dark with the mistletoe;
Not for the violets golden
That sprinkle the vale below;
Not for its milk white lilies,
That lean from the fra grant ledge
Coquetting all day with the sunbeams,
And stealing their golden edge;
Not for the vines on the upland,
Where the bright red berries rest,
Nor the pinks, nor the pale sweet cowshi
1t seemeth to me the best. 4 z>1<s
l once had a little brother.
With eyes that were dark
In the lap of that old, DIM
lie lieth in peace, asleep
L;sht as the down of the TN
Free as the winds that bl
We roved there she beautif fs
The summers of long ago.
But his feet on the hills gr
And, one of the autumn
l made for my little broths
A bed of the yellow leay
Sweet.y his pale arms fol
My neck in meek embrs
AS the light of immortal bs
Silently covered his face
And when the arrows of
Lodged in the tree tops
He fell, in his saint like
Asleep by the gates of lii
Therefore, of all the pictur
That hang on Memory's
The one OF the dim old d4fo1
Geemeth the best Of all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

William Barnes, Jr., rises up to remark
that the republicans and the progressives
are as far apart as the poles, and par
ties could not well be farther apart in
this world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

The National Ladies Tailors' associa-
ton has decided in convention held In
New York to make women's skirts s,;
inches smaller about the bottom than
those worn last year Women's coats will
be shorter and more mannish in cut The
prevailing shades and textures viii pe
bfocades. novelties and charmeuse silks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11
Joyous SPIRIT.

Who hath a rare poetic vein
And MARBLES on, through sun and rain,
Methinks, is favored by the gods,
A wight whom trouble seldom prods.
His eve can see where beauty hides,
His heart IN constancy abides;
Ard every time the sun comes up
He finds more sweetness in lifes cup,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-11

The Southern Pacific is in theory again
an independent road What 1t is in fact
remains TO be seen.