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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
Tear-falling pity.
Richard Third.
Advancing Educational Work

Few things have contributed so
much to sound educational work in re-
cent years as the summer school.
Many persons can remember when
summer was the season of idleness in
the educational world. When the school
commencement was over in the early
summer neither teacher not student
was expected to look inside of book
until September, when a new schol-
astic year began.
1t is very different now. College
professors and teachers, like other
workers, need rest. But they do not
need three months Of it. Educators
have found that it was desirable to
push the profession of pedagogy and
to fill in the greater part of the sum-
mer with solid endeavor.
The University of Alabama's sum-
mer school, which closed Wednesday,
had most successful season-the.
most successful in its history. The en-
rollment reached a total of 562. This
was 80 in excess of the greatest pre-
vious record. This year there were
177 men and 1856 women and it was
worthy of note and most gratifying
that only three of Alabama's 81 coun-
ties failed to be represented in the
summer student body.
The University of Alabama is at
tracing wide attention throughout
the south. and most of the southern
states-in fact, all but one state of
the southeast enrolled one or more
students.
DR.. George H. Denny, president Of
the university, expressed himself in
very enthusiastic terms over the sue
cess Of the summer school. He was
impressed with "the serious and earn
est spirit" characterizing the student
body. He also stressed the improved
quality of the student body in point
of maturity and preparation for seri-
Gus work"
AS helpful as the university sum-
mer school was this year the enroll
ment next year will be even larger
and the results even better. The Uni
versity of Alabama is now unsur-
passed in point of thoroughness and
cultural atmosphere. 1t is safe to as
sumo that the summer school of 1914
will have almost, if not quite, double
the enrolment of the session just
ended.
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view of Washington officials, is not a
legitimate successor of the Madero
regime, and many students of inter
national law hold that President Will
son, without congressional action,
could put stop to the sale of arms
and ammunition to Huerta and his
followers. It is true that they will still
be able to buy from Europe, but the
transportation system of Mexico is
now SO disarranged, owing to the ac-
tivities of the insurgents, that it
would be almost impossible to convey
the instruments of death to forces op-
Grating in the interior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
Mr.. Rockefeller's Recovery

Were not Charles w. Morse's as
founding restoration to health fresh
in the mind Of the public, all would
marvel at the rejuvenation of William
Rockefeller. A few months ago a sub
committee of House inquitors was
compelled to forego questioning the
noted millionaire. The committees
physician and that of the financier
united in the opinion that any attempt
to obtain information from him would
result in the speedy death of Mr.
Rockefeller. He appeared as man
fastening to the grave. His hand was
palsied; his tongue refused its Of
flee of speech.
Mr.. Rockefeller is recovered. He is
back in the haunts of big business,
and he is taking his part in oiling the
wheels of commerce. A few days ago
meeting Of the executive committee
Of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad was held in New
York, and Mr.. Rockefeller partici-
pated in the three-hour session. AS
the st. Louis Republic remarks, "No
one in the group talked more fluently
than William or pounded the table
more violently. And not one of them
retired from the fray in better con-
dition than William"
1t is cheering to know that Mr..
Rockefeller's sudden and complete
cure is not one open to only those
who are enormously wealthy. Fresh
air and exercise are reported as the
panaceas which have snatched him
from Charon's craft and placed his
| feet firmly upon the land of the liv-
ing. From these facts the poor in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
TragieaI Initiation

'Anent the distressing occurrence in a
local lodge in Birmingham Thursday
night, l recall a fatal accident in a Ma
sonic body in Huntington, W. Va. many
years ago" said a member of Birming
hams Virginia colony.
The candidate upon whom a degres
was being conferred was a Methodist
minister. The ceremony was intended to
be spiritually impressive. But some of the
machinery was out of gear. the candidate
fell some distance, bones were broken and
death ensued in few hours. But the can
didate who was receiving the degree ex-
onerated the officers of the body from all
blame
II am now an old man and belong to
only one secret order. Thirty years ago
| held membership in about dozen.
have seen some rough limitations and l
would now say that most of the physical
ordeal should be done away with"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
FOOD FOR THE WOODS
From Outing.

IoIu OutlHS.
Peas and beans have the disadvantage
of requiring long cooking. But, with a
little forethought the night before, one
can overcome this difficulty by boiling
the beans or by preparing beanhole beans,
or by boiling peas until they crush.
Dried fruits are invaluable. They satis-
fly that woods craving for sweets and
keep the system in excellent condition.
This is especially true of apricots. Woods
men never go without them. and If you
wish to start mutiny in camp; omit the
dish of sauce at the end of the meal.
A few raisins eaten at 4 o'clock make
one feel equal to another two hours
work. Guides will tell you this with an
air of recounting miracle, and would
probably be greatly surprised to learn that
science upholds them. The fruit sugar in
the raisin does not have to be broken
down by cooking before it becomes avail
able as an energy producing food
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
THE sNOB IN BASEBALL
ON the Popular Magazine.

From the Popular Magazine.
The animosities of ball player sare rot
as deadly and lasting as they have been
pictured. Their profession is a sort of
fraternal society, and member of it is
treated with consideration by all other
players even though of a personality gem
orally disliked.
An example of this was given in Wash
Individual of snobbish tendencies breaks
into the majors. None lasts long, for the
baseballic axiom that TT takes a good
fellow to be STAR" is literally true one
of these exceptions, who had run his short,
supercilious career, and retired, thorough
1y disliked, became stranded in Walter
Johnson's town, penniless and i'll. He had
played with New York and Pittsburg, in
the National league, and with Detroit in
the American. He was a Tiger pitcher
when George Mullin came up from the
bushes in 1902 The day the recruit first
appeared at the old Bennett park, Tiger
who had become acquainted with him
steered him up to a group of Jungaleers
to introduce him.
"Mr. Blank, Mr.. Mulln, our new pitch
err" he said.
The veteran sneeringly turned his head
and resumed conversation with another
player without word of welcome, though
he did hold out his hand and let Mullin
clasp it.
That veteran was the star of the Detroit
hurting corps for two seasons, but went
back rapidly. He held his job for while
through the various modes of stalling
known to experienced pitchers, including
blaming his support and lucky" for his
losses, but finally was cut adrift and got
into the National league He lasted there
only until the managers discovered his
weaknesses and wiles, and then was
turned back over the bitter road all ball
players must travel who try to remain in
the select circle after they have passed
their prime.
This former pitcher was not supercilious
when he met Mullin in Washington last
July. He was a suppliant for favor One
dollar would look like opulence to him
just then. Could Mullin help him out?
Big George asked him of his plight and
where he was staying. AT the ball yard
that afternoon, when the Tigers had
gathered. he told them of the matter. took
off his hat, and chucked a dollar into 1t.
Il don't like the lobster, but he's a ball
player" he said.
The others contributed similar amounts
ana similar remarks. after which Mullin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
FLY-FIsHING HINTS

From Outing.
On cold, windy days, leave your feather
weight rod in the rack; select rod with
stiff backbone and strong casting pow
er; use level line, suited to the rod, SO
that you can cast it straight into the very
teeth of the gale-a lightly tapered line is
difficult to cast against wind. For the
same reason use heavy, level leader If
the season is still young, do not accept de-
feat until you have tried your largest flies.
even as large as No. in large streams,
particularly If the stream is in food
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
A Wagner Night

The third week of the band concerts In
Capitol park came to an end last night.
Memoli and his band made a great hit at
the beginning of the open air series and
with constant playing together improve
ment was readily marked. The concerts
will continue until September.
There are 27 men in the band besides the
conductor and the ensemble is now we'll
nigh perfect. Although there has been
much rain since the band concerts began,
not single one has. been omitted on ac-
count of the weather. The ladies of the
Music Study club, under whose auspices
the concerts are being given, are hoping
that they will have such good weather to
the end of the summer
Memoli is preparing Wagner pro-
gramme for night in week after next.
Wagner's centenary occurs this year, and
1t is being celebrated by musical organiza-
tions throughout the world. Among the
numbers that Memoli will give in honor
of the gerat composer are the overture to
"The Flying Dutehman," selections from
''Lohengrin." including the bridal march,
and selections from "Tannhauser.
Sunday afternoons programme IN Capi-
tol park will be exceptionally attractive.
The concert will begin at 4:30 p. m.
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EARLY TRANSFORMING

Playbill, 175s, Quoted in SIMPSONS History
of Advertising.
N. B.-The great yard dog that made
so much noise on Thursday night, during
the last act of King Richard the Third"
will be sent to a neighbor's over the
way, and on account of the prodigious de-
mand for places, part of the stable will
be laid into the boxes on one side and the
granary be open for the same purpose on
the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
LopsIDnD FOLK.


Some people can't completely drop their
work when day Is done;
I've known a baker after hours to go and
get bun"
packer in dry goods house his nights
in boxing spends
Out to the links In his spare time sau-
sage maker wends.
The man who prunes our vines demands
at home his dish of prunes,
A ragman makes his daughter play each
evening ragtime tunes.
An undertaken, holidays, odd jobs will un-
dertake,
A cook who had half day off played
bowls to win a stake.
A tailor's helper presses suits as long as
1t is light,
Then dresses mp and goes to press his own
suit every night.
At home cake-shop girl with puff or roll
her hair will fix,
And rubber salesman stretches the
truth, although tbs after six.
C. H. w in the Boston Transcript.
LOCATED.
To Votes for Women" the ancient Greeks
said nay
And where. we ask, are them there Greeks
today? New York Mail.
They're camping on the Bulgar's trail
And fight IKE fiends where bullets hail
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
The Improving Iron Market

The pig iron market is stronger and
more encouraging in every way to furnace
companies than it was week ago or even
a day or two ago. Every day now marks
an Improvement. Birmingham iron which
sold in large tonnage at SO few weeks
ago, is now in good demand at $10.50 to s11.
Sales were reported yesterday at $1050 on
a No. foundry basis and it is known
that that price is being declined by some
concerns. The representative of one of
the Birmingham iron companies said yes
terday that he was now holding for 81
on No . basis and he seemed to have
no doubt about getting that price.
Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report
just issued says:
''There is no question Of q better feel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
NOT TEAM MATES.
From the New York Mall

From the New York Mail.
AOU have probably seen her a good
many times in this town-the
- slavey mother. She is a meek
woman. sometimes little, sometimes big
to old. She has a daughter, for whose
sake she wears out her life.
That is a good example of her-the
woman in the fiat across the court Evil
IDENTIFY the two women who live In that
fiat are not rich, or they would not be
living in so modest an apartment 1t is
even possible that the daughter has en-
ployment, for she is absent from the
house good deal. But when she is at
home is'there a moment when her plain.
middle aged mother is not engaged in
some service for her?
The girl comes in and puts on a kimono.
Then she lies down on the couch and
fans herself, or reads a magazine Did
you see the mother remove some sewing
from the couch before the girl came in,
and place cushions in comfortable pile
in the corner?
Now that the daughter has come, and
has been made comfortable, the mother
disappears from the room. 1t is easy to
see that she Is preparing a meal, out in
the kitchen. The girl shifts herself on
the couch. She fans herself she takes
up a newspaper. But by and by you can
hear her say, "Yes, mother" rather lam
guidly, and she rises to go out and eat
the meal that her mother has prepared
Afterward, the mother will come in and
perform various little services for the
daughter She washes the girls hair and
when 1t is dry combs and dresses it very
lovingly. The rosy garment which the
older woman has been working on all the
afternoon is perfectly sure to appear on
the girls back in few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
TO MY WIFE

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble dew,
Steel true and blade straight,
The Great Artisan made my mate.
Honor, codrage. valor, fire,
A love that life could never tire,
Death quench nor evil stir,
The Mighty Master gave to her.
Teacher, pupil. comrade, wife,
A fellow farer true through life.
Heart whole and soul free,
The august Father gave to ma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

health and pocket may take courage.
The Pujo committee is charged with
bounding ]. Pierpont Morgan to his
grave. In palliation let it be recorded
that it reiuvenated Rockefeller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
DON'T NEED JINGOEs

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Birmingham wants All armor plate
factory. We are with Birmingham,
heart and soul. but if it gets the fac
tory. we trust the achievement will
not automatically transform Birming-
ham into haven of jingoes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
HIS SUPPLY.

Talk about exaggerated egoi why,
Penhack thinks he's the only man in the
world who has any brains"
aPshaw! He ought to know that the
world contains more than a thimbleful of
brains.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
A SEASIDE TRAGEDY.

There was girl in our town
Who loitered on the beach,
The Willie-boys who sized her up
Declared she was a peach.
One day she tarried there too long
And got caught in the rain.
And when she saw her suit was wet
She never smiled again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

Now if Ben Tillman had announced that
he was going on the lecture platform in
order to make money to live on he would
have the sympathy of the country. Till
mans doctor has put him on a fried
chicken diet. and every one knows how
high chicken is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

The wine crop of southern France this
year threatens to be total failure which
happens as regularly as the annual de-
struction of Georgia peaches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

A wealthy young man of ST. Louis who
finds great difficulty in spending his in
come of 100000 year will soon get him
self talked about as piker..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

New York man, who has just bought
a restaurant says he believes the serving
of good food is. of more Importance than
dancing or eabarets. The financial jour
nails hold their forms open waiting for
news of his failure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
THE ART OF READING LETTERS

From the Atlantic
MY dear old grandfather, who wrote all
his own letters in a hand which, down to
the day of his death, was almost plain
enough for blind man to read, taught
me never to attempt to answer a letter
without placing it before me and review
ing 1t scrupulously. paragraph by para
graph Hundreds of times have l de-
voutely blessed mis- memory for that les
son in the common sense of correspond
ence Whenever, lured by the pell-mel
spirit of the age, | stray from his pre-
cepts L rue 1t; and / can feel the flush
Oh shame overspread my face as | follow
first letter of response with second,
rendered necessary by the belated discov-
cry of point left uncovered. The old
copybook legend, Haste breeds careless
ness is as trVe as it was in the days
When good penrhaRship and good morals
went hand in hand in the training OF
youth. If slam-bang and hurly- -burly
have given its coup. de grace to the once
gentle art of writing letters, is not that
all the more reason why, before it is
too late,a we should rescue the half dead
art of reading them?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
THE WAR CONTINUES

The militant suffragette applied the
torch.
Up leapt the flames. all-devouring
"Ha!' Missed the suffragette. this will
be sad blow to our oppressors!"
The blazing pile was one of the largest
trousers factories in the United Kingdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES.

Tive. One collapsed the night I left
and it was feared the other couldHt last
week longer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

Mexican newspapers venture the predic-
diction that Ambassador Wilson will not
return. Nothing slow about the press
down there, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

''Nr Hearst" says the Columbia state,
lis now severely rapping Secretary Bryan.
brother Hearst. as we understand it,
stands uncompromlsingy for the grand
old Mutt and Jeffersonian simplicity.e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

A magazine publishes an article on how
to make the kitchen attractive. A whiff
of our favorite pie issuing thence used
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

Let the unshackled freemen of Alabama
get out and turn a little dirt on good
roads days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

The Pennsylvania proposes to spend
$500, 10000 ultimately in eliminating all
grade crossings on its system. Birming-
ham SENS TO have about decided to hold
fast to its death traps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

immortality in the middle classes is said
to be a serious problem in Russia. Per-
haps reports to that effect caused it to
be said that a certain dusky pugilist had
set out for those parts. AS a matter of
fact, he turkey trots in Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

The heads of more men than women
have been turned by the slit skirt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

An English visitor says the American
women overdress. And to think that crit
icism in this country takes the other side
of the argument.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

B. B. Conner uncorl1ed himself with a
loud noise, but the Alabama newspapers
managed to survive the shock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

At last it is explained why 1t costs so
much for Mr.. Bryan to live. He owns sew
eral FARMS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

The Ulsterites are arming themselves to
fight against rule from Dublin. Mere mid
summer madness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

A crooked politician faces a serious
problem. He can't afford to burn his
letters and he can't afford to keep them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

Mrs Pankhurst spends great deal of
her time going to and from Jail. She's
a busy woman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

There's one peculiar thing about this
sultry weather-every other town is hot
ter than your own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
TILE LAST oF w. MIRr

A dainty youth was William Wire.
Who fretted so when he'd perspire.
The boss took pity on his case
And put a worker in his place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

Turkey still has hopes of playing the
role of gobbler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
THE CAPABLE MAN IN LOVE

The melon collie days are come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26

took the hat to the Washington clubhouse.
where the Nationals Clipped in. Not a
man on either team had good word for
the old player, for his disposition in his
days of prosperity was well known TO
them' though very of them had seen
contemporaneous service with him.
5ut he was ball player-and that even
ing Mullin hunted him up and handed him
s35 to pay his expenses to his old home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-26
Fun with Traffic Ordinance

"a policeman. may not understand
that travelling the hypothaneuse or a
right angle triangle is much more de-
sirable to those in hurry than walk
ing the other two sides, and putting
this 'pons assinorum up to a mod
ern cop is likely to cost those of a
mathematical and sportive mind a small
fine" said a graduate of the old field
school
81 believe that tabloid put on the
boards of a playhouse, showing the
workings of the new ordinance at the
most popular street crossings would
draw full houses Take a scene of Fri
day morning l was witness to. A
large, black negro woman with very
large, empty clothes basket on her arm
started to bisect the square formed
by the crossings of Twentieth street
and Second avenue. The officer hailed
her and all indignant she stood, while
he tried to explain She rolled the
whites of her eyes in sea of black
ness and looked like a thunder cloud
of Nubian war, ready to open artil-
lery. AS she sullenly turned, the Of
fcer waved to two autos to, hold, sig
nailed a street car to move west, and
then rushed to head two men who were
moving from the apex of the two tri-
angles they sought to make by nigh
cuts from Browns corner and from
Nortons. And then there were other
complications, until the lockers on
burst into uproarous laughter. Can
they do it? Yes, If the policemen are
allowed to take 10 hours sleep and one
day off each week to rest up. other
wise-noti"
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cyea, promise on Farms

"rrhe promise of abundant yield from
farms and gardens has come nearer TO
a realization since the copious rains OF
the past few days. said man. who
keeps in touch with agricultural life
MY farmer friends tell me that haV-
ing laid by they anxiously watched
the heavens for the much needed rain;
that they kept stirring the top SOIL
in the corn rows, thereby winning
some moisture from the dewfalls, and
yet it did seem that the parching
breath of unusually hot days would sap
the life of the later paintings of corn.
Now all is changed. The corn cast
off its yellowed appearance and sud-
denly sprang into new life, with the
waving blades green and the tassels
fiourishing with new life and color.
Cotton had done fairly well. but
there was danger that the drouth, long
continued, would cause heavy shedding
of 'forms'-that tiny little chapeau-
shaped cap that follows in place after
the bloom, which in turn evolves into
the boil with its white staple enclosed.
Then, too, strong, heavy growth OF
weed is essential to good fruitage and
absolutely necessary to the top crop.
In cotton there is the bottom, the mid
die and the top crop; the first is usu-
ally made or none at all; the second
is sometimes restricted by unfavor-
able seasons, and the last is entirely
a question of cultivation and seasons.
If we have another season of dry
weather 1t is likely cotton will con-
tinue to make until late in the fall"