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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20

is the maintenance, as a beacon to
light the struggle of the needing with
the hope of attainment, of all that will
fill the needs of the needing"
The President-eleet spoke rather
sneeringly of the suspicious of the ad-
ministration at Washington when ap-
preached by those desirous of rights
in water powers and other natural re-
sources. He was, however, discussing
rights on government lands in the far
west.
The general drift of his Chicago
speech indicatesahat he will favor the
development of all resources of the
country by all for all. 1t seems but
natural. that he will favof dams and
plants along the Coosa, upon which
the state can levy taxes, and which
will afford small factories cheap pow
er, while the improvement will go on
taxing the federal treasury.
The entire plan will pretty certainly
appeal to his sense/of fairness, as well
as his sense Of development by all for
all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
HIS ATCH

From Lippinscott's Magazine
A Richmond darky called upon an old
friend, who received him in a rocking
chair. The visitor at once observed not
only that his host did not rise, but that
he continued to rock himself to and fro in
a most curious way, similar. to that of
a person suffering from collie.
"You amt sick, is yo' Harrison?' asked
the caller anxiously. mo, I amt sick,
Nose" said Harrison.
A moments silence. during which the
caller gazed wide eyed at the rocking
figure.
'Den,' continued Nose. why in good
ness does yo' rock yose'f dat way all de
timer
Harrison paused not in his oscillations
as he explained;
'Yo' know dat good-fur-nothin Bill
Bolts? Well, he done sold me silver
watch 70 So, an eff [ stops moving like
dis dat watch don't go!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
Postmasters of the Fourth Class

By a vote Of 106 to 141 the House
refused to add an amendment to the
postoffice appropriation bill that
would have revoked President Taft's
order placing fourth-class postmasters
under the classified civil service.
About 80 democrats voted with the re-
publicans against the amendment.
This means that $4,000 fourth-class
postmasters will remain in office un-
less the President decides to the
contrary, and he has always been a
pretty good civil service reformer.
The civil service law is now thirty
years old, and step by step the federal
posts have been largely taken out of
politics. The act was not passed un-
til 1888, but the agitation in its favor
reach back to 1867. About four-fifths
of the federal posts can no longer be
filled by politicians. The President
elect will have about II, 900 posts to
fill, 10000 Of which are subject to
approval by the Senate.
Public sentiment upholds the reform
in the civil service, but it does not
wholly approve the order of President
Taft, which handed life appointments
to $4,000 republicans when republican
defeat had become inevitable and all
knew it, including Mr.. Taft. 1t was
piece of smart politics, and the Pres
ident-elect may conclude that it was,
under all the known circumstances,
unwarranted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prominent q,r...,r, osaeia,

Now a few of the government off.
cials in Washington who were appointed
as democrats in cleyelands second adj
miEistration have worked up to high po-
sition on their r1erit and in this fact is
evidence that tie spirit of the civil SER
vice lew has been fairly well carried
out said an old democratic voter who
held office 20 years ago.
1 was glad - see in looking over the
list of treasury department officials the
name of my friend, Christian S. Pearee
of Nashville. lie was a staunch demo-
orat when appointed receiving teller of
the treasury department, and he has been
a good democrat ever since. Should there
be vacancy in the office of treasurer OF
the United STATES, Mr.. Pearce would be
appointed no doubt to that high position.
while the treasurer of the United
States has many responsibilities, his Office
IS in no wise political. But it speaks We'll
for our civil service system, when man
of the opposite party of the administra-
iion is retained through various presiden-
tial terms"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
JENNY LIND,s AMERICAN TOUR

My First Real Celebrity" Joe Mitchell
Chapple, in National Magazine for
January.
Moorish towers and minarets, was en-
graved upon the letterheads of P. T.
Barnum and was the one thing which
attracted Jenny Lind when he wrote
seeking to- engage her for an Ameri-
can tour. In fact, she confessed that
1t was this picture that determined her
coming to America. Jenny Lind con-
tracted to come to America in 1919. the
Swedish nightingale agreeing to sing
at one hundred and fifty concerts for
$4,000, all travelling expenses paid.
After she arrived in America, Jenny
Lind asked Mr.. Barnum when and
where he had heard her sing, and upon
receiving the answer that he had never
had the pleasure of seeing her before
in his life, she asked, How did you
risk so much money on a person whom
you never heard sing?"
II risked it," gallantly answered Mr..
Barnum, ION your angelic character
and reputation. feeling that you would
please the American public" Then be-
gan a campaign of advertising to pre-
pare the people for the appearance of
Jenny Lind. Two hundred dollars was
offered as prize for an ode entitled
"A Greeting to America" to be sung by
Jenny Lind, and the award was won
| by Bayard Taylor. No singer who has
ever appeared in the country has se-
cured more enthusiastic welcome than
Jenny Lind. all because of the genius
| of p. T. Barnum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
LONDON,s VARIED CAREER

George Wharton James in National Mag
azine.
At the beginning of this year d912) Jack
London was S6 years old. In those SO
years he has managed to crowd the ex-
periences of a country lad on a farm, a
street newsboy a schoolboy, a member of
street gang, boy socialist street ora
tor, voracious reader of books from the
public library an oyster bed patrol to
catch oyster pirates, a longshoreman, a
salmon fisher, able to sail any kind of a
rude vessel on the none too smooth
wa tiers of San Francisco bay, sailor be-
fore the mast, a seal hunter in the Bering
sea, a legitimate mutineer on board the
sealing schooner, a member of the Henry
Clay debating club, a strenuous advocate
of the socialist labor party, a student in
the Oakland High school, a freshman in
the state university at Berkeley, a gold
seeker in the nlandike, a driver of wolf
dogs over the SHOWS of the frozen north,
stricken with scurvy, one of three who
embarked in an open boat and rode 1900
miles in 10 days down the Yukon to the
Boring sea, an orphan compelled to sup
port his widowed mother and a 6-year- Old
nephew, short story writer a war corr
respondent, novelist, the owner of a
magnificent estate of more than a thou
sand acres, the builder of the Shark,
which he navigsted through the Pacific
and the South seas to Australia, and
taught himself navigation while in actual
charge of the Shark on the high seas;
the planter of 100000 eucalyptus trees on
his estate; the engineer and constructor
of miles of horse trails bride paths
through the trees, on the hilsdes and
In the canyons of his estate, and now the
builder of one of the most striking indi-
viduaistic, comfortable and endurable
home mansions ever erected on the
American continent. He has a list of Il
books to his credit, and they have been
translated into German, French, Swedish,
Norwegian, Italian, Spanish and Russian
and wherever men think and talk and
read, Jack London and his stories, his
novels, his social theories are talked
about praised, abused, lauded and dis
cussed.
Who, then, shall say that he has not
lived?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
BEER TO run AUTOS

From the New York American.
A great many jokes have been written
about running an automobile with brandy
| in the gasoline tank. but in Yorkshire,
England, the brewers are extracting a
| liquid from beer that serves admirably for
gasoline as a means of operating an au-
tomobiie engine.
| The discovery did not come about by
means of any investigation seeking for
such fluid. Instead an effort was being
made to reduce the amount of alcohol In
| beer. 1t was believed by some experts
that better tasting beer could be pro-
duced by first brewing 1t the usual
strength and then extracting a part oil
| the alcohol than by making an entirely
different brew, such as would result In a
small amount of alcohol.
| The ordinary so-called "2 per cent beer
does not taste like the regulation beer,
but it is claimed by these Yorkshire brew
ers that they can make ordinary beer into
| 2 per cent beer, meaning to contain only
2 per cent of alcohol, that will have the
same taste as the per cent beer. which
is the amount of alcohol the average
beer contains.
To extract this the beer was neated te
12o degrees Fahrenheit and current ol
carbonic acid gas was forced through IT,
The gas, twas found, extracted much 81
the alcohol really reducing 1t by one
half, leaving the same good peer VIII
the same good taste and yet containing
onlys2 2 per cent of alcohol
The alcohol thus extracted comes ou'
in minute bubbles. and three gallons OF II
is extracted from each hogshead OF peer
Il is this extracted alcohol when ma
been found to be so valuable. Instead
OF a waste it forms an excellent liquid 1oi
driving motor cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
True Conservation Defined

In his speech before the Commercial
Club of Chicago the President-elect
not only denounced monopoly, but he
pleaded for a removal of suspicion in
the rank and file through policy of
rendering the resources of the country
equally available. Preservation" he
said, "is not conservation where a ma
tional life grows as rapidly and as
surely as American life grows. For
mere reservation-whichi is a synonym
for delay-and preservation, which is
old-fashionedism in the future, are
not true conservation. Conservation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
Let's Have a Spring Festival

The Birmingham Music Festival as
sociation, of which j. H. Holcombe is
president, is to meet this afternoon to
decide whether or not it will undertake
a festival this spring. The affirmative
side of this question should be and
doubtless will be carried.
Birmingham has had spring mu-
sical event for several years past and
it would be serious reflection on this
city's public spirit and musical en-
thusiasm were the festival to go by
default this season.
Last years festival was artistically
beautiful but it was not successful
financially. The deficit was larger
than usual but that was easily ex-
plained by the fact that one or two
strong counter attractions drew off in
large degree from the attendance.
1t is understood that this year a
splendid orchestra is available for the
week beginning April ID. Dates be-
ginning April Ia would seem to be
very acceptable. In the second week
of April-the week of April 14-the
festival might be held in connection
with the projected civic attractions.
Such an arrangement would be mutu-
ally helpful; moreover, the second
week of April will be week ahead of
the opera festival in Atlanta, which is
always well attended from Birming-
ham. With an earnest effort on the
part of Birmingham's music lovers a
most attractive April festival could be
held here and with reasonable
amount of cooperation on the part of
the business men it would be marked
financial success.
Music festivals do not draw as large
crowds of visitors as many forms of
amusement but still every town within
a radius Of 60 or 70 miles sends few
music lovers. But more important
still, every large community needs a
music festival to elevate its own cul-
tural life.
Let us have a festival some time
during the spring. Birmingham SIM
ply cannot afford to let such an i'm
portant project go by default.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
In the Business World

Henry clews in his Saturday review
says in part:
Trade conditions at large are satisfae-
tory. Occasionally there are symptoms
of slowing down in buslness-much of
which is customary at this season of the
year. SO far as the merchandise markets
are concerned there are few If any signs
Of cverproductiol. The buying power Of
the country has been enormously en-
HANGED by the gerat crops of 1912, and this
stimulant has not by any means exhaust
ed itself Our mills as a rule are still
running full time, and are frequently un-
able to make deliveries promptly enough
to satisfy distributors.
$50 far as the stock market Is con-
cerned, there is nothing to prevent a re-
turn to normal activity, except the uncer-
tainty in political affairs. Confidence has
been disturbed and initiative checked by
recent developments at Washington che
opposition party came into power upon a
pledge not to disturb business-for the
good of all concerned without regard to
political affiliations. 1t is to be hoped
this pledge will not be forgotten. In
ether respects the outlook is encouraging.
Trade conditions are sound. So, too, arc
our general finances. We have had a
period of general liquidation, and there
are no signs of OVERRIDING in any direction.
Such Industrial unrest as exists Is very
largely the outcome of rising prices re-
sulting from continued business activity
and prosperity. Slowly but surely read
Justments are taiOng place Wages Rave
been advanced in many instances, or other
things have been done to ameliorate the
condition of labor Further progress in
this direction will come. There is every
reason to anticipate another year of wide
spread prosperity, provided politicians
hermit +"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20

and decorate the front of the new HIPPO
drome theatre in ST. Louis.
Seven blocks in the business section OF
Enlporia, Kan, are lighted with metal
hlament lamps suspended from trolley
poles.
Much of the experimental apparatus
notes, etc, of Volta, one of the pioneers
IN the electrical field, were recently dis
covered in a small Italian town.
The highest wireless tower in the world
is located at Nauen, Germany. 1t is
nearly 1000 feet high, and it is expected
that the company can send messages as
far as from Berlin 10 Chicago.
The best lighted office building in the
world is said to be the new home of the
Buffalo General Electric company. This
building is 800 feet high. the highest In
the city, and when lighted it is visible
for Is miles.
In transmitting electricity at 10000 volts
on a new record breaking line in Michigan
there has been effected saving in cop
per of almost 80 per cent as compared
with the quantities used in the highest
voltage lines previously built.
All male employees of the General Elec-
TIC company of Schenectady receive
pension on reaching the age OF 70 years,
IL they have been in the service o. the
company for 20 years. Women are PEN
stoned at go II they have completed this
service.
A popular London restaurant has adopt
e1 electric cooking. A simple lunch of
soup, a chop with potato chips, mineral
water, dessert and coffee, costs but a
shilling and nine pence, which is less
than at the regular restaurants where
coal and gas are burned.
The new steel works now being erected
at Sheffield, England, will be equipped
with electric melting furnaces. The initial
installation will consist of Is ton fur
mace, a five ton and a small melting fur
mace for alloys This will be the first all
electric steel works in Great Britain.
In connection with the extensive cleo
tric traction project which is on foot in
Switzerland for equipping the state rail-
road lines, it is proposed to build num-
Der of electric stations in order to make
use of water power such as can be OBJ
tained from the Rhine, Adige, Rhone and
Reuss rivers. Three of the proposed cleo
trie plants are to cost no less than ST.,
100000 each, according to estimates, and
the total expense of this undertaking will
be $140O0,0O0. In this way large amount
of power such as is needed for operat-
ing lines of electric railroad, will be se-
ctred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
THE SUFFRAGE PARADE
by BILL VINES.

/ look good. to look as good as possible,
and when the proper time and man
came to get married and be the light
and comfort of the home and fireside.
Somebody must do this, or 1t is good
night for said home and freside, and
we men have had 10 experience, and
are not otherwise qualified to take
up the burdens of the home and fire.
side business, and We haven't the sense
to do 1t, whatever the woman may have
to take up our jobs. When it comes
to being a light and comfort in the
home, the average man, is indeed a
tough proposition. Besides that, he
does not become the job; he looks out
of place. In every family there should
be unity. There can be no unity, if
the women invade politics unless the
man gets out. There can be no unity,
if the man invades the home only in
his usual casual way as boarder, un-
less the woman gets out The family
should be a unit. Man should repre-
sent that unit in politics. and woman
in the home. This has always worked
well. Why change?
| or course there are worlds of women
who do not set married. IL a woman
wants to loaf along and not get mar
ried, it is no legitimate reason why
she should vote Seme women prefer
to earn their own money and buy their
own clothes, and sometimes the men in
the neighborhood also prefer that they
do so, but it is usually their own fault.
Any woman can get married, whose
personal appearance would not create
riot, and get a perfectly good hus-
band to take care of, if she would only
make her mind up to do so. But there
are many married women in the move
ment for suffrage, SO it cannot be
altogether charged against those who
are not. But it does seem strange
why a married woman should want TO
vote, unless it is that she has lost
confidence in her husband. Somehow,
am forced to believe that the women
do not entertain as high a regard for
us as formerly. l have noticed that in
these later days after woman gets
married and she cannot go through her
husbands panterloons pocket every
night and declare a dividend, she be-
gins to grow suspicious and peevish.
The next thing you know she wants
to vote. A man may select him life
partner and live with her for years
in the greatest affection, borrowing her
pin money, and eating her brand OF
pie, getting up in the dark hours Of
the night and administering paregoric
to her colicky baby while she lays IN
bed breathing through her nose in F mi
nor, and in the end she may turn upon
him and demand the right to vote. The
question is what are we going to do
about it? We must either crush this
invasion, or we must start counter ir-
ritant by demanding recognition in do
mestic affairs The only trouble about
the latter suggestion is that they might
give it to u.s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
xUTAsHINGToN, January 10
M (SpeciaLl-A request from
w eucrraoa 1aala,.~ as1yiro a

N
w Cspeeialo-A request from
suffrage leaders asking
Congress to pass constitutional
amendment letting down the bars
against women voting is to be prepared
in connection with the giant allegorieal
procession and pageant to be held on
Pennsylvania avenue March in con-
nection with the Inauguration of Pres
intellect Wilson or. March 4. At least
5000 men and women from all parts of
the country and particularly from the
10 suffrage states are to take part in
the giant mass meeting to follow.
General Rosalie Jcnes of albany OF
bust" fame. Is to lead a pilgrimage
of suffra gists TO Washington from
New York on foot. and at Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Norfolk, Va, and all inter-
vening points Sather pilgrims have
agreed 10 join her. Mass meetings
will be held along the way to induce
and interest farmers to enter the fight
carry staffs and dress like "marchers
going to shrine
have never seen 'marchers going
to a shrine" and don't know how they
dress, but have 10 doubt that they
will come up to advance NOTICES. There
Is no question but what this demon
stration in force contemplated by the
suffragists on March 3. is going to be
a formidable thing. Somehow or other
have never been able to treat the
proposition of Nroiaen voting seriously,
h a IN tar rtaf, cd nnjpinOS that
women ought to vote. Politicians for
selfish purposes, as everyone knows,
Will favor any proposition that IS
likely to rebound in their favor, how
ever ephemerally--that is-some of
them will-not all. ] have always con-
sidered the suffrage movement kind
of craze from which the ladies Will
ultimately recover, as they recover
from the measles, or other reforms.
But 1t is becoming quite evident in
this country that there is a very firm
underground foundation already estab-
Iished looking toward woman suf-
frage. 1t must be reckoned with.
A campaign in the United States with
women running for Congress, for the
Senate. being appointed judges, and TO
other Offices, is n possibility-a GER
tainty if there is rational suffrage for
them. The question is why do the
women demand suffrage. I'll be the
first to bite; why dc they? You may
search me- They say that they have
as much sense as we have. Far be
it from me to dispute it. In fact, |
agree with them, but why vote? They
say they have as much right to vote
as the alien who comes to this coun-
try from Europe after he is natural
Iyed. or the negro. l agree with them;
they have, but why do they crave to
exercise the right--moral right, of
course? 1 have always had the idea
tbat II was Womans function to grow
I'M and look good-and IL she couldn't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
Few Places 10 he FILLED

"President-elect Wilson is civil service
refcrmer in theory, and being man of
extraordinary grit he will, believe, carry
out practically the civil service law, and
not only that, he will see that the snirit
of the law is Observed said r. NJ Hahn
of Philadelphia. II have been voting the
democratic ticket ever since I was old
enough to vote, AID | used to think that
to the victor belonged the spoils. But
no longer hold TO that doctrine. I have
seen so much abuse of the old spois sS s.
tenn in both parties that I am glad and
hope to welcome the day when no one can
be appointed to minor office except on
a merit examination. That is the way We
get capable men and keep out Of the
public service in efficiency ond graft"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
SHORT CIRCUITS

FROM the Electric News Service.
The new gas-electric railroad cars are
extensively used in Germany.
Contrary to prevailing belief thunder
storms. are not rare in the Arctic regions
Electric street cars are superseding the
old compressed air cars in the streets OF
Paris.
One California electric company sup.
plies light and power to territory 2ot
miles long and from 70 to so miles wide
Automatic telephones will be installed in
the New Zealand cities of Auckland
Wellington. Christchurch and dunedin.
1t requires 5000 electric lamps to light