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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
REPORT MADE ON
OIL INVESTIGATION

Washington, February 2s.-A report on
the governments oil investigation to de-
termine whether the decree dissoRing
the Standard Oil company has been vio-
lated, was fmade today to Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham and James A. Fowler,
assistant to the Attorney General by
Charles b. Morrison and Oliver e. Pa
gan, attorneys in charge of the inquiry
The report shows that the investigation
is lincompleted and, it Is regarded as
:. practically impossible for the expiring ad-
Ininistration to settle the question.
The report dealing with the present
status of the inquiry is said to draw in
definite conclusions. which probably will
he turned over to Mr.. Wickersham's suc-
cessor on March 4.
The burden of the complaints to the
department of justice against many OF
the former subsidiaries of Standard oil
is that the companies are not competing
but restricting their operations to the field
in which they always had done bust
ness.\
The governments inquiry, nation wide
in scope, is directed with a view to as
certaining whether this alleged situation
is the result of any understanding. Spe-
cial attention is being given to the soar
ing prices of oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
MIGHT RAISE POINT
IN LANE DECISION
IL Adverse, How Would Sue
cessOr Be Named?
THE OPINIONS DIFFER
Some Contend O'Neal Would Make
Appointment, While Others Hold
That Two Commissioners
Would Elect Successor

Although ii is currently believed that
the supreme court will hold that Judge
Lane Is commissioner on constitutional
grounds. the custer suit which has been
filed has raised very neat legal ques-
ton which few lawyers have expressed a
Willingness to decide off hand.
II Judge Lane should be declared un-
eonstitutionally a commissioners, how
would his successor be chosen? The bill
under which the commission was created
provides that in case of a vacancy, a
commissioner shall be chosen by the two
remaining commissioners But the bill
also declares that the first commission
shall be appointed by the governor.
Certain lawyers have expressed the
opinion that If the appointment of Judge
Lane was not constitutional, there has
meyer been an appointment, and that his
successor would be named by the gov
ernor. Others hold that Judge Lane, even
If it be determined that his appointment
was unconstitutionally made, is a commits
sioner de facto, that what he has accom-
) plished would be held to be legal ON these
grounds, and that for that reason the two
commissioners would be qualified to name
his successor
Commissioner Weatheriy yesterday aft
ernoon when asked for information
scratched his head and then shook his
head.
! ITS a fine point" said he, "and there
seems to be reason in both arguments. !
: would venture the assertion, however,
: that the supreme court would hold that
: the governor had the right to name the
successor of any commissioner whose ap-
: ponunent had been declared to be uneon-
stitutional."
Walker Percy, author of the bill, stated
that he had not studied this point. and
could not give an opinion without looking
carefully in the matter. Other lawyers as
sumed the same attitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
WILSON MAKES NO COMMENT
ON CANAL TOLL QUESTION

cuss the matter of canal tolls until after
he became President and had a chance
TO discuss it with members of the SEN
ate.
Inc possibility that the Senate might
take some action which would ran,e,'s
the grounds for the British nrotast a,d
thus relieve the new administration from
all embarrassment is cited in some omar.
ters as the chief reason for his retioenca
On the other hand, it is said bv those
VINO know in general the President elect,s !
IDEAS ON foreign policies that il the oi,es-
ton IS fatly put up to him. he either
would indicate opposition to the pronosed
method of granting free tolls to American
snips or favor submission of the question
to a court<tof arbitration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
REST SUIT AGAINST
SUGAR COMPANY

New York, February 2S.-The govern
ment rested its case today in the disso-
luton suit against the American Sugar
Refining company and 65 other corporate
and individual defendants. The hearings
have been in progress since last Nav.
During the examination of witnesses IN
this city, Philadelphia. Baltimqre, New
Orleans, Denver Salt Lake City and San
Francisco more than 10000 typewritten
pages of evidence have been brought int
the record by the prosecution. In addt.
tion there are 1000 letters ana other ex.
hibits.
1t probably will be well toward ~.
end OF the year before tho case Il con.
cluded. 1t is expected the defense "a,
need at least six months to present ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

New York. February disqualification to-
day of the statement that the British
government has proposed arbitration of
the canal question in a note to the state
department. coupled with the comment of
the British press on dispatches to London
newspapers purporting to represent Pres
ident-elect Wilson as against free tolls
brought no definite statement form Mr.
Wilson,
The President-elect declined to make
any comment beyond denial that he
had expressed himself on the finality of
the question. Mr.. Wilson said he dil not
feel 1t would be proper for him I'd dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
Wagner Resigns Position

Philadelphia. February @.-Gen. Louis
Wagner. chairman of the Pennsylvania
commission to arrange for observance in
July of the fiftieth anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg today sent his resig-
nation as a member of the commission
to Governor Tener to take effect at once.
While General Wagner did not make
known the reason for severing his con-
nection with the commission, it is known
that there has been friction among the
members.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Christmas In The Country Schools

OF all people who enjoy Christmas,
the child of I or or 8 or 10 has the
best time. To younger children it is an
entirely new experience each year, and
fts bit bewildering, too, but to an
S-year-ol girl or boy Christmas is a
time of unalloyed joy. They nave all
the fun of anticipation and of realiza-
ton. They already have more or less
distinct recollection of one or two past
Christmases and they have an abiding
faith in the enc at hand. The S-year-
old child has neither memories of sad
dened christmases nor forebodings for
the future. 1t is Christmas and he is
a child. Beyond that he questions moth
ing.
If Christmas can hold more for one
child than for another, it Is in favor
of the country child. With him red
letter days are few and Christmas is
the most important Of all of them. He
hasn't the frequent car rides, trips to
parks. ZOOS, downtown. picture shows
and matinees that the city girl and
Roy have. His holidays are less fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
TIC MEMBERS
FORSAKE JUNIOR TURF CLUB

London. December 20.-(Special IA
generation ago the man about town
was one of the most distinct and a
the same time one of the most char
acteristie types of London. Today he
Is practically non-eNistent. And the
latest to bemoan his disappearance is
"Nightie,s the famous attendant at the
Junior Turf club" in Piccadilly, who
has seen the day break there every
morning for more than 20 years. The
Junior Turf club" despite its swagger
name, is not a club at all, merely a
oabmans shelter. but for years it was
the favorlte gathering place of the
London man about town for bacon
and eggs after night of debaueh
One of its best known frequenters
was Sir Robert Peel. whose breakfast
parties at its little counter became fa-
nous 1t was a popular place for an
early morning snack with parliament
tarians who after a long all night sit
ting in the House made their way
across st. James park into Regent
street and Piccadilly. There are no such
things as all-night restaurants in Lon
don and a claimants shelter, or worse
still, a coffee STALL were the only sal
walton of these hungry lawmakers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Dyeing Trees

From the Saturday Evening Post.
Deep blue oak or bright green chestnut
wood may now be grown to furnish new
effect for furniture or decorating, for it
has been found to be entirely possible to
dye tree before it Is chopped down.
An expert on dyeing has found that If
suitable kind of chemical is used the sa
of a tree will take up the dye and dis
tribute it evenly all through the wood Of
the trunk and branches; but a fast color
must be used or the dye will fade in
timber just as 1t would in cloth.
The method is to bore a small hole COM
pletely through a tree, near the ground,
plub up one end of the hole and In the
other side supply the dye from bottle.
or some other reservoir that will feed
as much chemical constantly as the sap
of the tree will take up.
The dyes must be soluble In water and
of kind readily diffusible from cell
to cell of the wood, in order to spread
evenly. Eosine, for instance, he found.
would only give a red-veined effect to the
timber. Malachite green an methylene
blue give very even coloring.
fast yellow Is obtained from a GER
tain aniline dye and salmon red from
another synthetic pigment.
Another Investigator has found that sick
trees can be cured by injecting into their
veins. the cap carrying the remedy to all
parts of the trees and effecting a cure.
His experiments were conducted on APP
pie trees that were apparently dying. One
tree absorbed three quarters of medicine
by intravenous injection in the course
of 20 days, and then began to improve
rapidly. Leaves came out. burs appeared
and in six months time many branches
grew 10 inches in length.
Another tree, which was dried up and
black, took its doses of three quarts in
three days and fully recovered. Peach
trees also yielded to treatment. The med
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Origin of the Plug Hat


Letter to the. Editor of the New York
sun
Jabez Elliott, formerly of Mansfield,
but now of Cincinnati, who synchronizes
the advent of the plug hat in America
with the visit of Kossuth in 1858. has
either a faulty memory or else some New
York halter put one over the old folks
when he sold them plug" hat to take
back to little Jabez on the farm as the
last word in "Kellys."
The plug hat appears to have oriei-
mated in England and there is abundant
evidence in contemporaneous prints and
book Illustrations TO prove that it was
commonly worn both there and in Amer
lea in the last century.
High hats were worn by boys i'm this
country away back in the DOS, and were
copied from the English STYLE which we
recognize in the pictures of the Etonians
of that and probably an earlier period
but they were never called "Kossuthr
AS a matter of fact the Kossuth hat
was a soft felt, lower in crown than the
alpine peasants hat, with which we
are familiar, and was worn with a feath-
er or a plume.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Nv FLORA MINER HARRISON

quent and less elaborate and he makes
he most of each one, enjoying all the
more for their rarity.
Just before the holidays the primary
rooms in country schools are clearing
houses for Christmas plans for the
younger children and the primary
teachers are special confidants in de-
lightful secrets. A first grader tiptoed
to her teacher to eonfide:
Miss Lille. mama's baked 40 cakes
for Christmas" Surely they must have
been cookies.
Miss IL, I'm going to show Santa
Claus my star that l got for being good,
said a little girl who pulled her teacher
town close enough to hear this whis-
rered statement and always the teach
Ter must be told OF he baby, the new
httle brother or sister whose first
Christmas it is.
A Christmas Tree for Grownups
Last year the teachers of the school in
a mining town not far from Birming-
ham talked over Christmas plans with
the children, and 1t was decided that they
would give their parents a Christmas
tree instead of having one for them
selves. All went to work to prepare the
Christmas tree and to present an appro-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
In Chicago, of Course

From the Brooklyn Sunday News.
Louis Francis Brown. manager of the
Burton Holmes trayelogues. is telling a
good one on himself
Mr.. Holmes. upon his return from the
Philippines. brought a few samples Of
Filipino money with him." he says, and
thinking | might make some use of 1t IN
advertising, l had a card lettered: You
can make money In the Philippines Tn
der this line | pasted several Philippine
greenbacks. a $40 BILL a $40, a So and a
", with sundry silver and copper coins
of various denominations, bringing the
amount to about $3S Mexican or $40 in
United States money. Under the money
the sign further read: for further infor-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Will You Spend Two Gents.
To Find Out?

We don't want you to send any money. All we
hsk you to spend is the price of a two-cent stamp
tn writing for our big free book-that viii tell you
Everything you want to know.
1t shows how guaranteed rupture holder-the
Famous cluthe Automatic Massasng TRUSTS SO
utterly different from everything else for rupture
hat 1t has received eighteen separate patents. How
i is made on an absolutely new principle. How 1t
e sef-resuiatIns. seH-adIustinp. How It instantly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Won't Cost You A Cent
If It Doesn't Stand the Test

Here is sonething-a guaranteed rupture holder
which has saved thousands Of people from ever haV
Ing to be operated
1t has thoroughly proved its merits that we
are willing to send II on 60-days trial
Wen make it especially for your case-make 1t
to your measne-and practically lend 1t TO you
Just for test.
II 1t doesn't keep your rupture from coming out
h bothering you in way no matter how hard
you work strain-if 1t doesn't prove every claim
We mahe--then you send it back and 1t won't
cast you a single penny.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
This Free Book Is Full of
Facts Never Before
Put in Print

There are so many mistaken ideas about rupture
and what TO do for 1t that we have taken the time
to sum up In this book all have learned during
forty years Of experience
You'll find 1t full of facts never before put in
print.
1t shows Just why elastic and spring trlisses are
the ruptured mans worst enemies-why they are
almost sure TO shorten your life make operation
neeessary-why the law should put a stop to their
sale.
II exposes the humbug appliances" methods -
"pasters ETC.
1t explains why operation is nearly always a
needless gamble with death--snd why. even IL you
manage to live through it. you may have to keep
wearing a truss.
II shows why sixty days trial is the only way
In the world you make absolutely
anything for rupture and how the Cluthe Truss
Is the only thing you ger on such a long
trial because the only thing good enough to stand
day after-da test
Don't fail to get this book-don't put it off-the
minute a. takes TO write for 1t may free you
from trouble for the rest Of your life. Just use
the coupon or simply say in a letter postal
send your book"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21

nation attend the Burton Holmes trav-
elogues. and so on. giving dates, etc.
This sign, displayed in front of the
hall where our season opened in chi
cago. proved attractive. There was al
ways crowd and | was congratulating
myself that ii was fine ad when ons
morning my phone bell rang wildly and
voice from the box office of the hall
said: Say. you'd better come down here:
your moneys gone
Needless to say, I went: 1t was gone.
but the polite person who took It hal
left this note just where the $50 bill had
been, which read: why go to the Phil
ippines? What's the matter with Chit
carO2' -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Relief For Rupture
Without Operation
No Big Expense Mo Time Lost From Work
No Misery Causing Belts or Leg Straps
60 Days Trial to Prove 1t
go Days Trial to Prove It

Operation for rupture would hardly be heard
of II It weren't for the mischief done by elastic and
lfpnng trusses
Mighty few people ever have to be operated on
when first ruptured
But wearing makeshift trisses year after year is
sooner Or later almost sure to make work for the
tsurgeon.
You know that from your own experienee-you
know you're now than year ago-probably
getting worse all the time.
If you keep that way. how long will It be be-
fore you'll have to undergo a dangerous and
pensive operation9
Aren't you willing to let prove-by sixty
nay Observation-Disclosures you can save yourself from
all that7 tt
without having to risk a penny
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21

and automatically protects you against every strain
so your rupture can't possibly be forced out. And
how in addition 1t provides the only way ever dis
covered for overcoming the weakness which is the
real cause Of rupture-and how 1t does all that en-
tirey automatically.
The book tells how guaranteed rupture hold
er Is so STRENGTHENING and beneficial that physicians
In all parts Of America recommend 1t instead
OF advising operation How 1t has completely cured
thousands Of people whose cases seemed almost
hopeless How il does away with the curse Of belts
eg-straps and springs.s How 1t is water proof and
VIII hold In the bath How 1t is perspiration proof
and easily kept clean. How you try It sixty
days without having TO risk a penny. and how lit
tie il costs If you keep IT,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21

Nowadays the Junior TURF Is given
ever entirely to the cabmen. In the old
days stray roisterer, dropping in for
cup of coffee and a plate of bacon
and eggs, could be certain of meeting
few of the picturesque horse cab
men, with tongues and wits fitted 20
cope with the brightest sallies of the
aristocrat The taxi driver of today, an
entirely different class, is a poor sub
stitute and offers no attraction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21
Comparative Manners

From Judge.
Mrs. Jones-so YOU got seats at Blanks
theatrel How did you find their new
box office man?
Jones.-Be was so rude that he naa4
me feel like a Chesterfield.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-21

icines used were mostly fertilizers, such
as potassium nitrate in a liquid solution
or a solution of manure; but for some
conditions the medicine was simply pure
water or a solution of common salt.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
SPLENDID RESIDENCE
ON COURT STREET
Charles K. spaulding's IS New House One
of the Best Planned of Recent
Years in Salem.

Salem, the Cherry City, will soon be
known as the city beautiful, if a few
more homes such as the one Chas
Spaulding, president of the Chas. X.
Spaulding Logging Company, is erect
ing on Court street, are built.
The plans of this residence were drawn
by George Post, the architect, and it
is of colonial fashion, having a large
reinforced concrete terrace across the
entire front half of which is rooted.
The inside finish of the house is in
beautifully stained wood, with huge
columns here and there to effect the
colonial plan.
The basement is also furnished to
accommodate a billiard room, as well as
a laundry vacuum cleaning apparatus
and several wood elevators or lifts,
which do away with excessive handling
of wood.
Although definite figure has not
been set, it is estimated the dwelling
will cost between 10000 and $4,000
when completed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
BACKYARD BALLAD.
BY Wex Jones.

The bureau of fisheries has issued a
bulletin telling how to keep terrapin
in a back yard.
Used to dine on corned beef hash, pot
roast or Irish stew,
For rent was high, and food was high,
and dollars mighty few;
But now the Fisheries bulletin has
changed all that to me,
And 7 eat the choicest products of the
marshes and the sea.
Ny yard is full of terrapin; I grow
oysters in pail;
And, with bigger bathtub, think I ID
keep a whale"
The laundry tubs hold Holsters; a seal
swims round the sink;
For the missus says a sealskin coat is
twice as good as mink.
We have the best of seafood, and it
costs us nothing now,
But we re waiting for bulletin on
"The Front Porch for a Cow"
And, oh, dear Government, believe a
hungry nation begs
For tips on "How Canaries Can BE
Made to Lay Hen s Eggs"
"How to Raise Hogs in Rolltop Desks"
would slash the cost of hara,-
And "a Way to Feed Sheep on Ashes
would greatly cheaper lamb.
So now we all have terrapin, let us haste
the happy day
When we can eat the best of grub with.
out thought Of pay.
'For welcome. Corsets, you know.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
TO REACH PEOPLE
WHO WANT HOMES.

Talk to substantial, conservative,
well-to-do business and professional
men through the Capital Journal
Many of these have postponed buying
homes in the suburbs for one reason
or another, but the desire is within
them.
They are planning homes in which
they can live to the end of their days.
Bring to their attention the fact that
property in your locality is continually
advancing in value-that the lots you
can buy today will cost considerably
more later on.
Those in position to buy now will
read your words and weigh them fully,
Why delay9 Get in touch with these
people today Write an ad and mail
it or phone it to Main SO.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
THE CRUSADERS.

Clean up, paint upl Move your garbage
canl
Hose the alley, Mistress sally-rout
the germ and bugsl
Out, dust! Out, rustl Earth is made
for man!
There ism t room for lurking death in
crevices and rugsl
What's the use of trembling in the
terror of taint
That will flee from soap and water
elbow grease and paint
Clean up, paint upl Hear the lcgions
shout
Hygienic calisthenic, that s the exer.
else!
Chase them, efface them Put the bugs
to routl
Why should Earth be dreary when the
blue is in the slies7
Why should mortal drag his way
through heaps of garbage
grope
When the world is full Of paint and
scrubbing things and sOapl
Clean up, paint upl Altogether
SWEEP
Sanitation saves a nation; cleanliness
the mani
Out, dustl Out, rustl Out, o garbage
heapl
We might as well be cleanly in this
mortal, fleeting span!
All togetherl Splendid weather.
Let's clean up a rooml
Paint and soap and suds and elbow
grease are on the boomI
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
TALK RANCH LANDS.


The people who live in flats are
the people who appreciate the joy Of
having Groom to breathe" big gar
den, an orchard, fields Of growing
grain--a comfortable income-a cOzy
country home.
Many of these people are thrifty
have saved enough to buy big or lit
tie ranch.
Tell them about those ranches you
have for sale.
Don't hesitate to go into details.
Describe the fields, the possibilities
of ranching, the buildings, the trees,
the creek (if there is one)-everything
that people desire in ranch.
They will read your advertisement
every word of it--and then read it
again; If your appeal is made to the
homeloving readers Of the Capital
Journal. Write an ad today and mail
il or phone Main SO.